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Rick
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When we visit San Francisco,
Read more: When we visit San Francisco,…these are the two restaurants at which we always try to eat. Pacific Cafe on Geary St near Land’s End for seafood. House of Nanking on Kearney near Columbus for Chinese. We first visited…
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Time to end “Above Top Secret” ?
Read more: Time to end “Above Top Secret” ?No one discusses or questions the intelligence community’s value proposition.
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More Thanksgiving Rhyme
Read more: More Thanksgiving RhymeMy friend Tim provided me with some additional Thanksgiving items: Because you and your family fully appreciates “My turkey, ’tis of thee,” I thought you and they might also enjoy two additional celebratory Thanksgiving…
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Candidate Roads not Taken
Read more: Candidate Roads not TakenThe first Clinton-Trump debate was last night. I think both candidates did about as well as I expected. Here are two arguments the candidates could have made but didn’t: Clinton: when Trump said “we…
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Tech-choking Image of History
Read more: Tech-choking Image of HistoryThere’s something charming about Adam’s Synchronological Chart or Map of History, even if I am a secular scientific type. It shows the history of the world following (more or less) Ussher’s chronology which famously…
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Ecobee Air Conditioning Update
Read more: Ecobee Air Conditioning UpdateIn honor of the bouncing seasons, I turned on my air conditioner a couple of weeks ago. In Minnesota that means you remove the wintertime weather covers from outdoor compressors and then turn on…
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My favorite meme from 2015
Read more: My favorite meme from 2015A neighbor has a variant of the Gadsden Flag flying under his American Flag. Instead of yellow, it’s black, but it has the snake and the “Don’t Tread On Me.” I haven’t found anyone…
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