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Here’s an article about McBee Keysort!

“Believing that we just reached the peak of our personal evolution makes us feel good,” Dr. Quoidbach said. “The ‘I wish that I knew then what I know now’ experience might give us a sense of satisfaction and meaning, whereas realizing how transient our preferences and values are might lead us to doubt every decision [...]

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So I’m poking around my favourite joints on the internet, and run across a Eurekalert reference to erectile dysfunction research.  Everybody knows that nitric oxide is what triggers the onset of an erection, but nobody had nailed down – sorry for the choice of words – what sustains an erection, which is the other half [...]

…. this is what I want my mother to knit me for Christmas.   And no, she doesn’t have to, and I’ll be fine if she doesn’t.   Just remember folks, I wrote a song once in which I said, “And my heart’s an 88″ and I WAS referring to the forward cannon on a Panzer.  [...]

You know, my mOm raised me to not really give a shit about cosmetics.  She quit wearing her one concession to patriarchal culture, lipstick, the instant she retired.  Over the course of my life I’ve probably saved fifty grand not buying them. I have powder, probably time-expired, and one jar of nail polish, in my [...]

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/motion-e.html

And now, “That is a strange method of locomotion” comes to mind.  Easter Island statues ‘go for a little walk’.  Scroll down til you get to the movie.

Man’s cat dies, he stuffs it and turns it into a helicopter.

His name is Smoky, and he’s an electric-acoustic cutaway with a built in tuner, made by Seagull.  I put desperately needed new strings on him, and he sounds lovely.  Got him for approximately half price, and there’s not a mark or fretwear on him. Also, I solved an extremely irksome problem in Finale Songwriter this [...]

I will have been kicking homiletics ASS!  BOOYAH!  Boy Howdy!  Awright!  Right on! Good one! I’ll say!  Yeehaw! Yoicks! Tally-Ho!  Andale! By Your Command! Hip Hip Hooray! Good Show! Commendable!  Most Impressive! Indeed! Life, Health, Strength!  Blessed Be! Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Oh, yeah, I haven’t finished it yet.  Children’s story is done and thumbs [...]

She sits with her knees apart, the II of Swords her eyes bound, her mouth seeming both stern and sad She is the querent; she is myself caught in the act being torn between equal things swords crossed on her shoulder, crescent moon in a mocking pose the beach and rocks poking through a tranquil [...]

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