Daily Archives: June 23, 2024

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  • Pig Truck!

    Pinewood Derby had come and gone. The Paynter boys had received jack knives with their derby kits, and we all sat together carving our entries from the Cub Scout issue rectilinear wood blocks contained in the kits. Meanwhile, in upscale garages across Marin County, fathers were powering up their lathes, their planers, their radial arm [...]

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    Digby, Digby, Digby…

    Digby cites an LA Times story that ranks the US sixth in overall quality of health care compared to six other “industrialized countries.”  Sixth doesn’t sound that bad when you consider the 2024 WHO report that ranked us 24th for life expectancy and 39th for overall quality of health care out of 190 countries. [tags]lying [...]

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    f8 worse than blog

    Anyone can be a facebook developer.  Who knew?  Seems logical to me that heavy WordPress/facebook integration is about to happen… or perhaps already happened and I’m just slow getting the news.  Twitter already feeds your facebook.  Why shouldn’t facebook feed your blog?   Here are a couple of photo plug-ins that seem to  make this real.   [...]

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