July 2011
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Blade Runner Whiskey Bottle Label Sets →
Yeah. This exists. Link clickage above.
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The Fleet: London’s Underground River →
The click through link above will take you to an article which includes some amazing images. Wikipedia provided the following brief description (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Fleet):
“The River Fleet is the largest of London’s subterranean rivers. Its two headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath; each is now dammed into a series of ponds made in the 18th century, the...
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EUReKA →
Now I get it… “The eureka effect (Greek: heurēka, “I have found”) is any sudden unexpected discovery, or the sudden realization of the solution to a problem, resulting in a eureka moment (the moment of unexpected discovery), also dubbed as “breakthrough thinking”. The eureka effect is also known as the aha phenomenon, and it is similar to an epiphany.”
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How many words do you know? →
This test estimated the number of entries in a standard dictionary for which I know at least one definition. My total vocabulary size is estimated to be 36,300 words. My results place me between the 90th and 95th percentile. Needless to say, I’m feeling pretty good about my self-education; growing up, I read dictionaries and encyclopedias for fun. Yes, I was that kid.
“Man, when I was...
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Twin Peaks Props →
Link clickage above.
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The seeds are planted...again?
When I was growing up, I could only express my film fandom within very few outlets. The two most significant shortcomings of the time, compared to today, was that the Internet, the World Wide Web and PC computing did not exist as an outlet for my passions, and that there was no such thing as affordable consumer-level video recording technology; reasonably priced in-home VCRs and videotapes were...
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Will people never stop asking me?
My ex-wife’s very personal revelation never affected me adversely. I didn’t internalize it, because it was never about me. Her sexuality had nothing to do with me, or my manhood, so I never let it get inside my head. In many ways, T. coming out of the closet was a huge relief for me, because it actually shed some light on a great many baffling mysteries about our marriage. After she...
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