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Here’s how all the stuff in your garage, shed, and on the truck got their names. CHISEL Along with the gentle or aggressive tapping of a hammer, a chisel is used to chip away into very hard surfaces like stone or bricks. In a very slow, even indirect way, chisel cuts into stone, so it […]

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I wanted this blog to be about writing, so I thought I would share how I came to write my first book.

In July I left work after being made redundant. I had wanted to write a book since I can remember, and I finally had some spare time, I thought, to have a go.

I have notes on a novel I have been wo...

A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara Rachel recently moved to Huntsville to be closer to graduate school. After she left I discovered she had left some things – like the incubator.  That made sense because her research was …

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“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thou...

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The other day I was really freaked out that a computer could generate faces of people who DON'T REALLY EXIST, only to later realize painters have been doing this for several millenia.

It’s been a busy week in things that I think suck, from Trump’s racist rallies to this summer’s persistent annoying cloudiness, it’s time for Things I Can Do Without…*

1. Cloudiness.

Yes, I know. We’ve all seen the damn meme.

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And I will thank you not to refer to me as “old man”.

At an...

We’re skipping our regular Mews and Nips feature this week because we feel that today is a pretty momentous day: the 50th anniversary of the first man walking on the moon. What does this have to do with cats? Absolutely nothing. Or does it? It appears that my two intrepid explorers think that m...

It’s super hot and the peak of summer. We may be wilting, but tomatoes are thriving! A garden-ripe, fresh tomato is the absolute ultimate in summer produce. Out of season tomatoes are flavorless rock-hard orbs shipped from some ot...

(Recorded here for when I inevitably forget the clarity afforded by this particular flickering lightbulb.)

Though I’ve practiced meditation for 20 years, give or take, my capacity for non-attachment has always been wanting. Perhaps it’s a byproduct of playing at being a writer, the constant strea...

Orlando Bloom in #carnivalrow

#sdcc19

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Have you ever wondered what’s behind the left’s undisguised and unrestrained hatred of the founding documents of our nation (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence)? I mean, we’re talking genuine hostility toward the nation’s origins. We’re talking about politicians blatantly a...

[image error]So, you want to know the secret?

Here it is: simply do the right things (and avoid doing the wrong things) day after day, week after week, year after year. 

Yeah, I know this sounds like state-the-obvious for beginners, but just bear with me for a few more lines.

We all know right from...

‘Strange Treasure: Another Tale from the Exclusion Zone’ is done, now it’s time to circle back to the Clar1ty Wars.

It seems Cyberpunk is making a comeback, what with CD Projekt Red’s upcoming game causing a huge nerd buzz in the PC and console gaming worlds. On the table top, the ve...

Summer is officially here, and I’m not just talking about a date on the calendar. It’s getting hot! Last week, we went to visit my mom and the afternoon high was around 100F. To help Talya cool off, I bought her a frozen fruit juice popsicle. It got me thinking about healthy frozen treats. I w...

Infrared saunas have begun to turn out to be progressively pervasive lately. Numerous individuals, from the outset, don’t recognize what these sorts of saunas are. These sauna rooms utilize a one of a kind strategy to heat you up, and they really don’t heat the room up by any means. Amazing infra...

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Garage sales help children learn about making change! I am an advocate of taking children to garage sales as there are few places in our lives where making change is used. Think about shopping with children and discussing the price of toys or other items...

The beginnings of a gate erected in Jadah 5 camp intended to enclose a section of the camp to prevent free movement. 

(Erbil) – A local Iraqi organization managing a camp for displaced people is making preparations to unlawfully confine fa...

I’m excited to share the cover reveal of “The Knight of Her Heart”. This sweet and funny romance will be coming soon! It’s the first book in The Journal Series. #timetravel #sweetromance #series

As always, great writing and May God Bless You…

Free Roulette The thrill with watching often the spinning reddish colored and dark Roulette wheel has prolonged served to help grip countless avid players around the globe since way back when. It’s a game which is not solely adored by some of the to-days high rollers, but also by far less experie...

The Mets and Giants played a marathon game that was impressive for the sheer cruelty of its ending.

Server storage is now normally tiered and Toshiba is talking about their new line of NVMe storage devices, Google is livid at a contractor for leaking confidential Dutch user audio from Google Home and there is a Linux worm out looking for IoT devices.

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