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Ever wonder what @Rangers Ballpark looks like with the lights out? on Flickr.
Just before the post-game fireworks display the night of July 4th.
Former orphanage roommates meet again. on Flickr.
Tonight we met some Facebook friends for dinner. They were in town and wanted to meet up. Their little gal was adopted two months before we got our little guy.
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Slow days, slower words.
I learned to type on a non-electric typewriter, in the days before Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing apps were available, so there’s a wee bit of nostalgia here.
But just a little.
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Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most fun people around the NBA to spend any time around, mainly because with Shaq, the impossible quickly become a reality.
Visit the police force, show off your skills on a shooting range and leave behind a humorous message? Totally Shaq.
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Let’s take a moment of reflection and embrace this truth…
I want to hang this in my cube.
Any questions?
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Mike Richard, left, and his wife, Dawn, watch a Fourth of July fireworks display over the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge.
July the 4th in South Louisiana - The Advocate
Advocate staff photo by Heather McClelland
Fond memories of the Kidd. Many a visit there, including one for the Social Studies Fair in middle school. My partner and I netted second place in the history category.
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westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)
“I eat the hate of nonbelievers for breakfast” is my new favorite reaction GIF.
My only problem with this is we all know Theon would suck just about anything to stop what he’s currently enduring on the show.
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I heard about this Nasa ScienceCast on the Marketplace Tech Report this morning.
Makes me wonder how many people actually saw the impact.
Nice that they put some perspective on what this might mean for permanent/semi-permanent living structures on the lunar surface. Though I think right now we can’t build anything capable of sustaining a 5-tons-of-TNT equivalent strike.
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I have three of these cameras, this is one of the dead ones so I took it apart to discover the mechanical watch like components buried inside. Really quite amazing considering the direction cameras have taken full of circuit boards and sensors.
I enjoy well composed photos of cameras. And there’s also something so meta about that kind of shot.
[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
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Vader’s Little Princess: In this irresistibly funny follow-up to the breakout bestseller Darth Vader™ and Son, Vader—Sith Lord and leader of the Galactic Empire—now faces the trials, joys, and mood swings of raising his daughter Leia as she grows from a sweet little girl into a rebellious teenager.
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We have all boys, but I’m still buying this book.
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general – in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keen sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments.
–Noah Webster, On Education of Youth in America, 1790
We have lost our knowledge of our rights and how our government is supposed to work. We have fallen asleep.
