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samuraiplumber

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Military brat born in Bremerhaven, Germany in '55. Retired supervisor from Lee County DOT in Fort Myers, Fl. I've lived in Germany, Baltimore, Hawaii, Louisiana, Guam, California, and Italy. Graduated from V.A.H.S IN '73. Just after I retired I learned that now, I never get a day off. I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders so I might be a Democratic Socialist.

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Luigi Colani 1977 Volkswagen Prototype - Developed as a successor to the Beetle for VW – positioned between Polo and Golf.

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My favorite faucet ever. Very 'Buck Rogers' design.

samuraiplumber,
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@Theblueone
Very cool. I didn't think it was a Gerber.

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pallenberg, to tesla
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First interior-image of the upcoming Robotaxi leaked online!

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@pallenberg
This reminds me of a scene from 'The Six Thatchers', Sherlock. Of course that car was RHD.

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GayOldTime, to Vintage
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Know your signals: the Tilted OK, the Double Fonzie and the Single Finger Gun

samuraiplumber,
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@GayOldTime Was this from National Lampoons' Gay Issue? Seems rather familiar.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218717250 Syphilis cases surging in Florida

samuraiplumber,
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@LindaCollins11 Once again, The Villages are front and center.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Jury finds liable for mismanagement, says Wayne violated duties

The verdict follows a six-week trial in New York.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-finds-nra-liable-mismanagement-wayne-lapierre-violated/story?cid=social_twitter_abcn&id=107269909

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@GottaLaff Not Really Americans

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Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.

The music of the spheres : A nature lover's astronomy by Grondal discusses Pluto as well as many other planets:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70382

More about Pluto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Pluto&submit_search=Go%21

Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera image of Pluto in enhanced color to bring out differences in surface composition. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers).

samuraiplumber,
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@gutenberg_org "Dear little frozen Pluto
I really think you’re cute-o
And though you are no longer Planet Nine
You orbit all around this heart of mine,
You’re really really freezing, but divine,
Please be my Valentine!" From Ready, Jet, Go! PBS Kids My daughter and I are fans.

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French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died in 1650.

He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia

Books by René Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44

Title page in a 1656 copy of René Descartes' "Principia philosophiae." Copy located in the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, in College Park, Maryland.

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@gutenberg_org Apologies in advance...And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am." Having just re-watched Python live at the Hollywood Bowl, I was given to this.

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Is there any way to get Firefox to explain why it believes this kicad file contains a virus

This file contains a virus or malware. This file contains a virus or other malware that will harm your computer. You can search for an alternate download source or try again later. * Allow download * Remove file

samuraiplumber,
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@mcc I run fox with the duck and I had a similar occurrence but it was my malware bites that raised the flag.

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samuraiplumber,
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@LindaCollins11 I've envisioned a better solution...

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"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft was written in the summer of 1926 and it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.

The first seed of the story's first chapter The Horror in Clay came from one of Lovecraft's own dreams he had in 1919 when he was visiting an antiquity museum in Providence, attempting to convince the aged curator there to buy an odd bas-relief Lovecraft himself had sculpted. via @wikipedia

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68283

Title page of The call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

samuraiplumber,
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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia I'm a fan of Mr. Lovecrafts' work and now a bigger fan of your posts. Not been here long but I do enjoy reading about all of the great books and illustrations that you present. Thank you!

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Meep

samuraiplumber,
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@mcc Nice Phineas and Ferb mention there.

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mcc, to random
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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

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@mcc When you have some time, check out Quatermass, a Prog rock band from the U.K. on youtube. They were around from '69 to '71.

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