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Think it was time for a new pocket comb?

As far as I can recall, my family hadn’t bought any since the mid 1980s or the late 1970s, or something like that. It’s been too many decades to remember well where hand me down combs come from 8-). But needless to say, it was time.

Over the last year most of the teeth wore out, and it’s been increasingly difficult to clean without expediting the process. For something like $3.25, I can’t complain about the replacement as long as its endurance is measured in months or years, and not at all if it’s measured in decades, lol.

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The one thing about Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatness everyone keeps missing

If such a thing could be true of most people’s skills as a listener, it might be a better world overall.

Calling King a great listener isn’t the typical praise that people shower on him as the country celebrates the holiday in his honor. Instead, commentators invoke images of King as a solitary hero behind a podium, delivering speech after speech that changed history.
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Next U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to be named after African American Pearl Harbor hero
https://flip.it/6Dlhwg

That is pretty damn cool. Didn’t think we would see a carrier not named after a president, shy of experiencing another conflict on the scale of the war in the Pacific.

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Upsides of Friday: being able to have a cup of coffee at 2000, and not feel guilty.
Downsides of Friday: being ready to snore loudly by 2200, despite coffee.

On a mostly positive side, having had pretty daily visits to the vet thanks to blistering, Misty’s next appointment is Monday. For what will probably be a very trying day for all of us. But for her, I expect it’s been least fun.

Also on the positive side, the side with the blisters, aside, she’s been doing pretty well from her dental surgery.

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Human: “Donut!”
Dogs: “Give me!”

It goes without saying, how this exchange worked out. Omnimnom!

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Convenience in race conditions: when the power blips in and out, after you save the game–not before.

On the flip side, most serious file system’s developed since circa 2000 tend to handle “Opps, power pull” pretty well, or had already grown things like journaling support by the end of the ’90s.

Which is why I expect my game save to actually load instead of shouting crap, crap, crashola.

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Somedays, I feel inclined to ride, boldy ride in search of El Dorado and get things done.
Somedays, I feel inclined as much as a sea slug feels to get up and dance the the hula on the beach.

Today is definitely one of the latter.

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Positives:

  1. Misty’s feeling better, now that the knock out juice is out of her system.
  2. Willow’s sleepy, and not complaining about rained out walks.
Negatives:
  1. I’m pretty sure I could fall asleep right here.
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Random curiosity, but it looks like more than a few pages about Pathfinder and the Sojourner rover are still online more than twenty years later, and probably last updated in ’97 or ’98 on average.

Here’s a neat one: https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/roverctrlnav/rovercntrlnav.html

Many are also good examples of what the Internet looked like two decades ago :^o.