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What I Learned in 2021 Week 10
We have been lied to by all our health classes in High School. The Great Sperm Race is…a bit over-masculinized. The new iOS update, or maybe my new phone, now forces the volume down when it detects that the headphone … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 9
When you have a cat who gets a perineal urethostomy he might just decide to pee on anything everything. Casualties so far: Bean bag. various piles of clothes. How to backup your iPhone using iTunes to a place not on … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 8
It’s week 8 already. Time flies. I learned some methods for getting these stupid felt feet to stick to the bottom of my wooden chair in my home office. Here’s one. Here’s another that honestly looks dumb so I’m not … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 7
I still have not learned how to switch the new fancy-schmancy WordPress Block Editor into an HTML mode so I can see the code. It literally took me weeks to be able to list things using list numbers in a … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 6
I randomly capitalize “Learned” in my titling of these posts. See the What I Learned posts 1-5. There is a new Blue pigment out there. This week (last week by the time this is published) was not a good week … Continue reading
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What I learned in 2021 Week 5
1: Elon Musk continues to be a crybaby billionaire. We need less of those. Billionaires, not crybabys. 2: Tim Hartford, who I know about through the Cautionary Tales podcast has a book coming out, The Data Detective. I know about … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 4
The White House animals have a Twitter account. Cloth measuring tapes can be wrong out of the package. Like, vastly wrong. Off by an 1/8″ per inch. Better measure them against a known ruler when you open them up. You … Continue reading
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 3
If you use a magnetic locator to find your property pins in the woods where someone in the past erected barbed wire fence but now it’s mostly buried…you spend a lot of time digging up barbed wire. Nevertheless, success. Griffin … Continue reading
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What I learned in 2021 Week 2
Goat rental is both effective and very entertaining. We’re probably paying a 10-20% premium over what we’d have paid for people to rip out our English ivy, but this is way more entertaining. It’s worth the extra. Bret Deveraux (A … Continue reading
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What I learned in 2021 Week 1
Griffin calls the examination table at his Dr. the “healing table.” I is ded of cute. I can’t go one day in the new year without screwing up the date. There’s such a thing as self-healing concrete, and that titanium … Continue reading
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