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...that the people with the loudest mufflers are the same people who think they have to warm up their car for five minutes before driving?
I just had one of those outside my window. It brought back memories of a neighbor who didn't just have the loudest muffler, he had the stinkiest exhaust. That's pretty much his car up there. Same color, too.
I didn't go to look at this car, but I didn't have to. God saw it. God remembers.
Recently, I made a road trip from here in Rockville to South Dakota and back. (Lessons learned: Indiana is beautiful, Illinois is very flat except near rivers, and people West of the Mississippi River are just too friendly.)
I also relearned a lesson I should have remembered:
avoid driving in Pennsylvania. However, I wanted to see Wheeling, WV on the way back, so I planned a route that took me through a bit of Southwestern PA along Interstate 70, then South on US 219 back to Maryland. It looked easy enough on the map.
Then I encountered this interchange near Greensburg.
Your mission is to enter the map on 70 at the lower left and exit on 70 at the lower right. That's all you have to do. I still can't figure it out. At the time, I wound up taking US 119 South and justified it as "the scenic route".
(image from Google Maps, click for bigger)
"Commandos mop up last of Mumbai militants"
Ouch.
Another "always bring your camera" moment. I found this one just as the tow truck was arriving.
The driver was a teenage boy who appeared unharmed. I overheard him talking to someone, saying he'd had "a lot of problems lately".
All I could think was, "I hope you like bicycles."
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Aubrey: The crew will take it badly. Wally was popular. Have they expressed any feelings on the matter to you?
Maturin: Jack, before answering I'm compelled to ask: Am I speaking with my old friend, or to the ship's Captain? You see, to the ship's Captain I'd say there's little I detest more than an informant.
Aubrey: Now you're talking like an Irishman.
Maturin: Well, I am an Irishman.
There must be a word to describe this sort of "journalism".
Asinine comes to mind.
Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma"Craniopharyngiomas are thought to arise from ectopic nests of stomadeal epithelium left during the embryonic development of the adenohypophysis. Craniopharyngiomas are often designated as “adamantinomatous” when stellate cells and keratin pearls are prominent."
(Image of cholesterol crystals in adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma cyst fluid)
Cover the children's eyes.
This is
Lydia Fixel. She's a "plus size"
model.
The fact that she's
plus size is proof that today's models are way too skinny-- but you already knew that.
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Reading List
- Man Is Wolf to Man, by Janusz Bardach
- Don't Swallow Your Gum! by Aaron Carroll & Rachel Vreeman
- Instant Replay, by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap
- New York, by Edward Rutherford
- The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson
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