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  • Cozy holiday fireplace powered by NASA Artemis I moon rockets
    Uncategorical Weirdness

    NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace – NASA+

    December 7, 2024 - By ginny

    Make the holidays warm, bright, and straight to the moon, Alice! ”Just what you need for the holidays… the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket engine!”   Link: NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace – NASA+

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    Where Gratitude Gets You | #HiddenBrain #Podcast

    December 25, 2022 - By ginny

    Many of us struggle with self-control.  And we assume willpower is the key to achieving our goals. But there’s a simple and often overlooked mental habit — Read on hiddenbrain.org/podcast/where-gratitude-gets-you/ I am totally a grasshopper. But a good thing to practice in the coming year is gratitude, rather than trying to guilt myself into a goal. Posting to my #Wordpress blog this via the #Tooot #sharesheet in #iOS as a “publish immediately” post. The “draft” option in the #iPhone app didn’t trigger the #Mastodon plugin. It works from the desktop version but there’s a little checkbox that should always be…

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  • Music - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Tom Lehrer Songs And Lyrics Released to the Public Domain

    December 18, 2022 - By ginny

    In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs. So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money. TOM LEHRER

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  • Hot Off The Presses - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Workers think less creatively in Zoom meetings, study finds | Psychology | The Guardian

    April 27, 2022 - By ginny

    Must share with spousal unit. Face-to-face gatherings produce more ideas – and more inventive ones – than videoconferencing, say researchers — Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/27/workers-think-less-creatively-in-zoom-meetings-study-finds

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  • The Never-Ending Bloga - Uncategorical Weirdness

    More Blogging, Less Tweeting

    April 26, 2022 - By ginny

    I’m going to revive my boring blog YET AGAIN, because I have thoughts to think before they go thunk and disappear. Topics in no particular order to include: Current events Politics Cats Bikes, riding and watching others ride Sewing and quilting Entertainment I find entertaining Sourdough bread; or how to revive neglected starter Travel – my own and the biz Whatever rando thing strikes me.

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  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Review: Why do these shoes have such high ratings? Bagivy “Beans” Slip-On Shoes

    January 1, 2020 - By ginny

    I just can't understand, though, why these shoes have such high 4 and 5 star ratings at various sites. I found numerous different sellers on Amazon offering the identical shoes, and most of them had 5 star reviews.

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  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Cold-Weather Cycling Has Its Moments

    November 26, 2016 - By ginny

    We rode, we ate lunch, we rode back, and then we went to Thanksgiving dinner.

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  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Trying To Order Reelight

    May 8, 2016 - By ginny

    Well, this is frustrating – I cannot seem to order these bike lights, no matter what browser or credit card I use. I’ve been in contact with them and they see my attempts on their logs, but I can’t seem to get it to work on their site no matter how carefully I check the information. One of the latest and most innovative safety equipment for cyclists if the patented battery-free bike lights from Reelight. With Reelight cyclist always have light on their bicycles – day and night. The light is based on the electrodynamic induction principle and generates its…

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  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    9 Things Cyclists Wish Anti-Bicycle Politicians Understood

    April 7, 2016 - By ginny

    This article on The Chainlink hits all the points. THIS is what anti-bike civic planners need to read. Most of All, Cyclists Want a Safe Place to Ride Rest assured we don’t like cars barreling down on us any more than drivers want cyclists slowing them down. All we ask for is a situation where motorists and cyclists can peacefully coexist, and arrive at our respective destinations without getting in each other’s way. Bike Paths Don’t Cut It for Practical Transportation Imagine if your roads went like two miles and then just abruptly ended at some random grassy field. It…

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  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Donald Drumpf Throws Tantrum, Film At Eleven

    March 1, 2016 - By ginny

    First of all, just because of the best damn Chrome extension since ever, I’m using Chrome. Second of all, Drumpf threw another tantrum. Again? But because of that extension, I am pleased to quote: Donald Drumpf is throwing a tantrum and threatening to run as a third-party candidate for president because the Republican Party and Marco Rubio are being mean to him. I’m more and more convinced that he’s tapped Christie as his most likely VP choice and exit strategy. He shakes things up, gets bored or mad, and quits after being nominated (or God help us, elected) and Christie…

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