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A snowflake is formed when water molecules in the air freeze and bind together forming a six-sided shape that can look like six feathers attached in a pinwheel or like a plate with six sides to its rim. A snowflake is a delicate and beautiful thing. A driveway full of 1 billion-gazillion flakes is a menace. And a nation inundated with countless flakes during the holiday season is a nightmare at best — a nuisance to the degree of the eighth level of hell actually. As if getting around outside bound in layer upon layer of c...
Note To: Self From: Me I know Halloween just got over last night and you haven't quite recovered from the sugar buzz hangover, but I'm giving you the heads up to start getting your Christmas gifts made or purchased. A present or two a week starting now will save you from a mad flurry of work just before the big holiday. XXOO, from Me. ——— Quick note to Self: Hey, Self, did you notice that the mid-November, pre-Turkey Day sales are going on? If you went downtown to shop now, you'd get some decent buys then have six weeks...
I am a cold-blooded killer. Just thought I'd put that out there before telling this joke: A group of researchers decided to study the effects of culture on ingenuity. To conduct their study, they gave two Russian military specialists a couple of metal bars and locked them in a room for one week. When the Russians were let out, they emerged with a missile that they'd made out of the metal bars. Amazed, the scientists then gave two metal bars to two engineers from Japan and locked them in the room. After a week, the Japanese...
You can eat words if you put sugar on them Pam Bauer You can live 45 years on this Earth, learning something new every day, and still get the same old things wrong. Well, at least I seem to have a knack for it anyway. One of the handful of cardinal rules I try to live by is: Pam shall not brag. Not a boast, nor a self-praise, nor a minor, pick-me-up touting. Not even an eensie, little, innocent atta-girl. Nope, non, nyet, nein, no. Don't do it — because the odds are frightfully high that the thing I bragged about will s...
North 40: Everybody wins, except for the losers Craigslist, arguably the Internet's largest online classified advertising site, has been pressured into shutting down one of its most popular advertising sections: adult services. Yes, as in services of the oldest profession kind. Wink. Wink. Seventeen state attorneys general, including Montana's Steve Bullock, signed a letter to Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and chief executive Jim Buckmaster strongly suggesting that the company shut down the adult hi-jinks or suffer...
