Just FYI, a 747 costs around $30,000 per hour to operate. Happy travels.
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When I am King coconut will be banned, stopped at the border as the noxious weed it is. If my life depended on it I could choke down raw coconut, but I’d die before eating toasted coconut. Really. Just looking at this picture makes me woozy.
Indeed. Cryptonomicon is one of my most favorite novels. I’ve read it cover to cover eleven times.
Fun fact: during WWII the US and Britain set up a secure radio circuit between the White House and the bunker in London from which Churchill prosecuted the war. Churchill had a private telephone booth built outside his office.
I agree completely. If you’re just going for a walk in the woods then fine. But if you’re going into really remote areas where you’re days away from help you need more. There are legions of stalwart men and women just waiting to come rescue you, chomping at the bit really. But they have to know you need help, and they…
Great stuff. Fun facts to share with your kids:
This is great! Back in the ‘50s Space Age™ we had a commercial version of this same thing. Called the Alpha 1, it ran on it’s own “fuel and oxidizer”, which they wanted you to buy, but we all found out that water and baking soda worked just fine. You mixed it, shook it up, then pulled a string to pop it off. It flew…
Moviepass is simply chaotic now. They list the movies they will cover for the coming week on their web site, and it’s different every day. Today the movies they cover do not line up correctly with the movies that are actually showing at the theater. My wife and I are hanging on for another month to see if they can…
That picture is very disturbing from a sociological standpoint. Bicycle guy seems to have a woman stored in the back of his truck along with his other athletic equipment. It seems clear she won’t be participating in his bicycle adventure; her passive demeanor makes her seem like just another piece of sporting goods…
Fun fact: this little inner pocket is a “watch pocket”. It was originally included on men’s trousers to hold a pocket watch, but over time simply became a design feature of jeans. It’s still here long after pocket watches became a thing of the past. The one on my jeans comfortably holds my iPhone 6.
Fun facts: only 32 of these remarkable aircraft were built, the last in 1967. 12 were destroyed in accidents; the remainder were retired by 1999, and some were given to museums. Overall each plane could fly one mission per week, although in special circumstances the turnaround time could be considerably reduced. It…
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“According to author Harvey Black of the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal, in San Jose, California “it costs $28 per ton to landfill waste compared with $147 a ton to recycle” (Black 1006). In Atlantic County, New Jersey, selling recyclable goods brings in $2.45 million. However, the cost of collecting and…
That’s not a lunch box. This is a lunch box. It was the first ever character lunch box; I had one back in the ‘50s.
Yeah, here you go.
Rule Zero: debt is bad. Any kind of debt is bad, but especially unsecured debt like credit card balances and personal loans. Sometimes debt is unavoidable, like home mortgages, car loans and student loans. However, you should keep your debt to an absolute minimum, live within your means, and strive to become debt free…
That word referred to a balloon that could be guided in a desired direction.
In 1955 the Ford Motor Co. approached Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) to come up with some model names for their cars. This is her list. My favorites by far are “Thunderblender” and “Utopian Turtletop”.