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The Digital Indoor-Outdoor Thermometer From Area 51
It’s common knowledge that various agencies under the umbrella of the “Federal Government” have been conducting TOP SECRET experiments in highly secure location inside an Air Force Base in California (or Nevada or some such forgotten region of the Great American Desert). This place has been known by many “in the know” people as “Area…
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,100 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
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Floccinaucinihilipilification Or Not
On a day last week when the sky took on a strange hue of Cerulean Frost mixed with patches of Brandeis Blue that hung, ever so delicately, over hills of Bulgarian Rose and Caput Mortuum, I happened to be having a chat with my octogenarian friend…a retired oceanographer. “I am full of vicissitudes today,” she…
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Along a Footpath in Devonshire, England
This is the eastern edge of Dartmoor National Park in Devonshire, England. The mossy stone walls and pastures will soon give way to the high moors.
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Stourhead
The grounds of Stourhead in Wiltshire, England. This landscaped park includes a small village, a church, graveyard, numerous scrubs and trees of varied species and an Inn. At the far end of the lake is a “gothic” ruin, specially designed to looked many centuries old. You could sit among the ruins and contemplate the brevity…
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The Night They Pulled The Plug in Louisiana
Originally posted on patrickjegan: It was a long time ago–perhaps the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. It was the wrong time, the wrong place and the wrong evening to be holding a pair of tickets to a Steppenwolf concert. I attended college in the deep south in the mid-1960’s. In itself, there’s nothing strange about…
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The Maltese Stylus
I looked out of the port-hole and saw the contrails of 757’s heading east, toward LA or Frisco, most likely. So, good for them, I thought, let them get somewhere fast. Me? I’m happy right here, in the small cabin of a tramp steamer heading straight into Nowheresvilleport. Once I get there, I’m heading for…
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Alternate Endings II
Sometimes life is like a box of chocolates, You just never know what you’re gonna get. –Forrest Gump ACT 1–Mary arrived in Chicago and settled in with her sister, Gladys. Gladys had never married but she was often in the company of a girlfriend, Monica. Very few men were present in the world of Gladys. This…
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Disconnected
The late afternoon was growing warmer and more humid with each passing hour. But it was the nature of late July in Saratoga Springs. The south winds blew and with it came the heat and the dampness from the far off ocean. The summer was waning but not giving up yet to the crisp autumn…
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