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    Mik
    wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 12:38 last edited by
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    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        @Copper

        Interesting.

        Something else mildly interesting, I met her and her husband when they were selling some homegrown software to a client I had in the early 90s.

        Only non-witches get due process.

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              Horace
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              Marsupial pouches are like the redneck ingenuity of evolution.

              Education is extremely important.

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                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                    George K
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                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      LuFins Dad
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                      @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                      I was waiting for them to attack each other…

                      The Brad

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                        George K
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                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          Copper
                          wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 02:28 last edited by
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                          We have a couple of Great Blue Herons on the golf course.

                          If you walk close to one and startle it sitting at the edge of a pond, it will really get your attention when those wings unfold.

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                            Axtremus
                            wrote on 8 Oct 2022, 12:30 last edited by
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                            History of PDF:

                            https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/

                            Radio interview of two PDF veteran technologists on how PDF has evolved in the last 30 years. You can download the audio for offline listening, I believe.

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                George K
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                                The brain pathologist, Edward Charles Spitzka, who did the autopsy on Garfield's assassin (Charles Guiteau) found that Guiteau's brain was structurally abnormal, perhaps predisposing him to insanity.

                                The man who examined the brain of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was Edward Anthony Spitzka, the son of the other Spitzka.

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    Klaus
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                                    @kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

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                                      @kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

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                                      @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

                                      @kluurs Is that photo real? Why would somebody make a very expensive photo of two dirty kids in 1904? At that time, taking a photo was an event for which people dressed specifically.

                                      Retraction - No, apparently not. It is shown as Al Capone and his brother on a few sites which is why I thought it legit - but up on further sleuthing it appears to be a photograph of Vivian Maier's who wasn't born till 1926. Thus, you're right, not Al Capone.

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                                        Mik
                                        wrote on 11 Oct 2022, 16:06 last edited by
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                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          Horace
                                          wrote on 11 Oct 2022, 16:09 last edited by
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                                          Before computers, you could look at a piece of technology and gain some insight into how it worked.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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