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ISO Pods!

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Don’t worry- I’m not going to eat them! Last winter my car was in the shop for a few weeks and I was without my SiriusXM radio.  During that time I discovered a couple podcasts that I’m still enjoying now. One of them is called Ear Biscuits – the podcast from the makers of the YouTube show Good Mythical Moring,… Read more »

Why Are You Still Here?

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Do you ever look at something and wonder why they still exist?  Meaning, why haven’t we come up with a better mousetrap, or even worse- we HAVE but people are still using the older, worse version?   I do.  And here are a few of what I find to be the worst offenders. #1 Fax machines.  Seriously, why?  There isn’t any… Read more »

Periodic Table of the Elements Day

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In this era where science and facts just don’t matter to some, it’s important to remember that they DO in fact matter here in what we call reality. Today we celebrate one of the most well known and basic elements of science- the periodic table of the elements.   We’ve all seen them in classrooms.  Some of us even had to… Read more »