One Of My Very Own
EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com
NEWSY BITS
Do you think these two things are connected?
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"Amid a wide gap between modest teacher salaries and Miami’s high housing prices, the county has a new plan: build apartments on school property and let faculty live there."
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"...they describe a prison where the prisoners routinely break out of their cells to visit terrible violence on other prisoners, without any intervention from guards; where guards turned and ran when the shackled, helpless man they were dragging to his cell was set upon by an armed gang; where guards are paid less than $12/hour and received three weeks' training; where facilities devoted to people with mental illness have virtually no trained psychiatric staff; where prisoners whose bones have been broken during assaults are thrown in their cells for days before they receive any medical attention." This is in Mississippi.
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"...states are enacting laws to ban the sale of fake urine, which retails for about $17 to $40 in head shops, truck stops and on the Internet."
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Sleep is my body's best safety mechanism. It keeps me from screwing things up for 8 hours.
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HUMAN STUPIDITY DOES SEEM TO BE BOUNDLESS
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Aboriginal prisoners in Australia in 1889.
What always happens when a more advanced society moves onto the land of a more primitive group.
Their lack of sophistication somehow makes them less human. Case in point...
A Filipino baby and her family inside a human zoo in NYC in 1906.
Are the child's hands tied to the post or is that an optical illusion?
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Criminals Trying To Stop A Car In Pakistan.
Not only lawless but inept.
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Putting your life in a situation where everything has to go right or you die...for the mere thrill.
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Hmmmmmm.
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That should be impossible to happen. What I mean is having checks on top of checks to detect any such potential for disaster.
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"Oh, let's keep a savage predator right in our house....because it's cute.
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I'm thinking the headline is misleading since it was probably consensual.
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THE STAND?! The book that convinced me I should write because it was so stupid. A handyman builds an atomic bomb? Yeah, right. And a guy siphons gas from a tank underground. Jesus, a child would know better, or at least I did by age 10.
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How are otherwise intelligent people convinced that they know more than a million years of evolution? Did they like read a pamphlet?
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This is me at every staff meeting ever.
Study after study has shown that staff meetings are the least efficient activity in any office, yet they are still common.
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Earth and Moon between the rings of Saturn.
People who think that one primitive tribe living in one tiny corner on that tiny dot were selected by the creator of the whole universe as his chosen people are pretty fucking delusional.
And why do they believe it? Because their parents told them to. Sad really.
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Boobytrap backward is Partyboob. Carry on.
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PEOPLE WHO DO SHIT REALLY, REALLY WELL
A PE teacher at my school taught that.
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Can you imagine having the power to change a life like that?
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It's called a pig-pickin' cause you pick the meat right off the skeleton.
And you don't just "cook" the meat, you carefully nurse it through to perfection in an all-night ritual.
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I don't know what he's doing, but he seems pretty damn good at it.
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Daniel Vogelbach hit a towering shot into the 3rd deck above the iconic 'Hit It Here' sign at Safeco Field.
That look on his face.
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Even for the hardest to impress...
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Finally found a gif of this to load.
I'm not sure if I love this or hate it.
I'm not sure if I love this or hate it.
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How does he do this without outlines?
Probably projects it down onto the paper; turning on the flash washes it out. And how do you get an image to project down? You get yourself one of these.
It's a 90-degree deflector that fits on the front of a slide projector.
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South African safari guide stops charging 7-ton elephant with his hand.
They must know each other.
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Quick! Count the white chickens...
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A 12-year-old boy from China solves three Rubik’s cubes while juggling them.
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You don't realize how powerful your jaws are until you try to break an M&M with your fingers.
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HISTORY 101
A Maori family standing alongside a carved figure of the Maori chief Tu-Kai-Taua and each person holding a carved wooden Maori weapon in New Zealand in 1915.
The figure is holding a cross. I don't get it.
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This is the actual flag raised on Iwo Jima.
And no, those are not bullet holes, they are reflections of the ceiling lighting.
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The Waseda University baseball team in Japan in 1925.
Baseball was active in Japan well before US occupation after WWII.
[RH: I did not know that.]
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I remember hearing that you only had to score 80% to pass the pharmacy exam to become a pharmacist. I'm thinking "Damn, you can get 2 out of ten prescriptions wrong!" But that's not how that works, of course.
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Raising a kid is like programming AI. They will do and believe whatever you want until they start to become self-aware.
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ITEMS THAT CAPTURED MY ATTENTION
Bitch ran in just the right place. How do it know?
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Why haven' these caught on?
And one tree can power a house with very little wind...as low as 4kph...in any direction, of course.
Maybe because they look like buttplug trees?
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New Lost in Space Series
And modern graffiti artists do it for the same reason. To show people they exist. I just wish they would show people how smart or profound they are.
This is how I want the US's immigration policy to work.
I think of the tests to be given to anyone allowed to board an Ark spaceship to a distant planet. Everyone on board would have to have a skill that would benefit the whole. Criminals would not be allowed or the mentally handicapped. Why can't we choose our immigrants under the same protocol?
I wonder how many people looked this up afterwards?
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Holding pieces of the moon and mars at the same time. The black one is martian and the grey one is lunar.
You have GOT to be impressed by that!
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High voltage on a turned wodden vase.
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1 comment:
D. Bonhoeffer was deeply religios btw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
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