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02 May 2009 ~ Comments

Engineering details

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Check this out:
The US standard railroad distance between the rails is 4 feet, 8.5 inches which is a strange number. Why this distance? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them [...]

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04 February 2009 ~ Comments

25 Random Things About Me

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I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists.  I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together.
The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, [...]

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22 September 2008 ~ Comments

Session Beer

Got a good piece of knowledge dropped on me this weekend by Modogg.  Check out what he said:
Now, you are probably aware that beers can be grouped by the type of fermentation that produces them (ale vs. lager), their flavor (porter vs. IPA vs. amber ale), and even their strength (dubbel vs. trippel vs. imperial). [...]

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20 April 2008 ~ Comments

Be careful out there

Keep in mind that 15% of all female chickens have penises.  That’s right, they look like males but aren’t.  If you’re a professional chicken sex-finder, you get paid $700 buck a day and have to have keen sight and a steady hand.
I thought the bar scene was rough – imagine being a chicken

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27 August 2007 ~ Comments

Pearl Jam Revisted

Today in 1991, Pearl Jam released their first album, called Ten, which was the number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock. The album sold over 10 million copies. That’s a lot. To compare, the top album of 2006 was Carrie Underwood’s which sold 3.7 million.
The band was orginally called Mookie Blaylock, but Eddie [...]

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20 July 2007 ~ Comments

Utterly Useless is Utterly Awesome

Is it wrong that i can relate to this guy? I didn’t know the trivia about Hudsucker Proxy, and i dig his little game about finding something that happened each year when making change.  (click on the image to watch his video)

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04 July 2007 ~ Comments

Happy 4th

The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 4, 1776. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously, but secretly, for independence from Britain on July 2. The Congress reworked the text of the Declaration until July 4, when the 12 colonies voted for adoption and released a copy signed only [...]

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22 June 2007 ~ Comments

What's Going On this Weekend? Let's Talk About What Going In!

Why go out tonight? How about 25 reasons why….

If you don’t drink that booze, someone else will – now get off your ass
Bad ass nicknames like “Chuggybear,” “The Alabama Hamma,” “Pukey McPukerson” are not awarded to people who stay home to do laundry (ahem: kmr)
This is the one and only night your soul mate [...]

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14 March 2007 ~ Comments

Albert's Relative Love

This is a reminder that today is Albert Einstein’s birthday. If he were still alive in 2007, he would turn 128.
Few people realize that the Nobel Prize winner married his cousin, Elsa Einstein Lowenthal, after his first marriage dissolved in 1919. Elsa was Albert’s first cousin (maternally) and his second [...]

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13 February 2007 ~ Comments

Hitler's Name

Before World War II, only 2% of all people in Germany were named Adolf, and during Hitler’s reign, he forbade Germans to name children after him.  So, you are almost guaranteed to never meet anyone with the name Adolf Hitler.

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