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If today were actually a replay of tomorrow, such that when tomorrow became the next day, at that time called today, then, when it all seemed eerily familiar people would think that this new today was a replay of yesterday, which is in reality completely inverted from the truth. Not one person in 100 would ever trick to what was really going on. So watch yourself. Some days really are replays of tomorrow, and not yesterday, as is commonly assumed. To most people it doesn't matter. To some it doe… Continue

...I'm applying for a work visa, hoping to sit out this US recession up in the wild 'n' woolly Canadian north woods. So my Internet access may be iffy for a bit until I can get that biz squared away.

See, there's a sale at a nearby outlet on Wolverine Boots. It wasn't hard to picture what these were about (or, as they say in the Cdn vernacular, "aboot"-- which really works well in this case!), and what kind of edge (three of them! of course) said boots would give me in a certain syrup in… Continue

--and poor Grendel's had an accident!--
(he ran out of ketchup and mustard at the picnic)
--so mayo all.

But never mind Grendel. It's his mom to watch out for anyway. But never mind her either.

Tortuga's gone, and Google did it.

I'm not making this up. Go here
http://maps.google.com/
and zoom in on the north coast of Haiti, just north of Port de Paix.
(...shheeeeessshhh, "Port of Peace", who are they kidding...)
There's no Tortuga.
No more haven fo… Continue

Have you ever seen four bald guys do a barbershop quartet? Wouldn't that be like a diabetic running a candy store?

Who could you get to pose for Kim Jong-Il's "After" picture...

I'm not saying you COULDN'T run a bucket of Col. Sanders' Original Recipe through a juicer, but--
--aaaah, you know where this is going.

Whistling J. S. Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" is not something people do much. Whistling it transposed to a major key-- I don't think anybody (else) has EVER tried that. But… Continue

--or any other genus 0 solid, in terms of lines of magnetic force, for instance if you need a containment bottle for plasma or anything else that would melt a normal bottle, like if you're trying for a controlled fusion reaction, is that there's always at least one "bald spot" in the field. It's like a head, which is roughly a spheroid; the hair has to start at a point and likely bunches up antipodally as well, which in a magnetic field would be a disruption and might as well be a bald spot. Tha… Continue