On this day
October 6
12 items, across every year
2022 4 years ago
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- Pause and sit on a bench
Five reasons to adopt this simple lifetime habit of sitting on a newly encountered bench.
2015 11 years ago
1 post
- Six lessons learned from wrapping the Carina Nebula around a parking pole
I had a feeling something was going to happen while I was carrying around a eight-foot long print of the Carina Nebula.
2011 15 years ago
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- Lion, sunshine, flower, popcorn?
What do you think this is? Lion Sunshine Flower Jelly donut splashing into a bowl of milk Popcorn Foliage around Spongebob’s house Please leave what you…
2010 16 years ago
1 post
- 3000 favorites on flickr
Faving photos on flickr is fun. Giving appreciation to other people’s photos. Making a collection of your favorite photos. I recently faved my 3,000th photo on…
2008 18 years ago
2 posts
- IDEA: Tubes, slides, mazes, level–all at McDonalds!
A random snail mail letter was sent to me from a six-year-old thinking I work at the corporate headquarters of McDonalds. He has some incredible ideas…
- Joe Biden now playing for the Chicago Cubs
While Joe Biden was smacking down Sarah Palin on the Vice-Presidential Debates, the Chicago Cubs were suffering their second playoff loss to the Dodgers. Since Biden…
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- Why does rain dissolve a sidewalk chalk drawing?
A chalk drawing on a sidewalk will dissolve when it rains. So if you leave a piece of chalk outside in the rain, will the chalk…
2005 21 years ago
2 posts
- Trump and Nakheel’s tulip-shaped hotel in Dubai
Does this thing have any windows? Or are the tulip shapes clear windows?
- Why do all American coins have the portraits in profile?
United States coins have always featured protraits from the side. The new 2006 Jefferson nickel will be the first to have a front-facing portrait. Why have…
2004 22 years ago
2 posts
- doubling “so” to get half the effect
In the sentence, “I feel so bad,” the word “so” expresses the bad feeling to a greater extent. “So” is making what you say so much…
- to remind is to re-mind
I have a notepad with a monthly updated to do list. This page gets looked at very frequently. It would be a good idea to put…
2001 25 years ago
1 post
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