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Though I had hoped to more completely finish roof work before the wet season started, the critical sealing operations were conducted in time. Can't say I'm unhappy with an early wet season though. For those who live with rain all the time it probably sounds odd, but for people who's water conservation needs are only exceeded by the Fremen, it's ( Read more... )

A corporate buzzword still commonly used is "Lessons Learned", generally indicating things that went wrong or could have gone better, that "we'll do better at next time." In practice I find the term should really be "Lessons Observed". All too often the same problem is repeated down the road. Hindsight being 20/20, pointing out how something ( Read more... )

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Couldn't forebear to laugh: Clinton-Zod ticket


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In case you hadn't seen anything that hurt your brain recently:
A rather disturbing remix of some McDonald's Japan commercials (starts slow, hang in there for the full horror)

American Airlines pilot continued flight after crew reported explosive noise, vibration

If the pilots had known, "they obviously would have returned" to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport," Jim Kaiser, American's manager of flight operations quality control and Chuck Harman, American's 757/767 fleet captain, wrote in an e-mail to American's ( Read more... )

What is your Perfect Major?
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You scored as Mathematics
You should be a Math major! Like Pythagoras, you are analytical, rational, and when are always ready to tackle the problem head-on!

Engineering

100%
Mathematics

100%
Linguistics

83%
Philosophy

83%
Chemistry

75%
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Sooo...
Anything I might have said about Obama seeming like a decent fellow, or being someone that seemed willing to build consensus...
Expunge all of it.
"I said something that everybody knows is true," Obama told the Muncie crowd.
What did he say about "small towns":
"... they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration ( Read more... )

Random entertaining music video for no real reason other than it had a catchy tune and looked cool:

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