Wednesday Open Thread: It's Samhain, damnit!
It's Day 304 of the Year 2018 CE So, October 31, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else. And, because it is Samhain, also Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 12, 3184 YOLDI don't know how it happened, but...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: November 5 is Bank Transfer Day
November 5 is the 309th day of the year It is also Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 17, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And 13.0.5.17.9 by the Mayan Long Count Bank Transfer Day was a call for everybody to move...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Deja Vu, Vu, vu, vu
It's Day 311 of the Year 2018 CE So, November 7, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.Monday I gave Bank Transfer Day sort of short shrift. Not because it was a bad idea but because the execution...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: November 12 is World Pneumonia Day, so, uh ...
November 12 is the 316th day of the year It is also Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 24, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.5.17.12 by the Mayan Long Count Well, it's 11 - 12. Dunno whee that...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: It's International Girls Day
It's Day 318 of the Year 2018 CE So, November 14, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else. With Girls Day for a theme or topic, I got nuthin. I was taught to respect females, and have tried to always...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: November 19 is Women's Entrepreneurship Day
November 19 is the 323rd day of the year It is also Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 31, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.5.17.19 by the Mayan Long CountWell, it's 11 - 19. Twenty years of...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: The Mayflower Compact
It's Day 325 of the Year 2018 CE So, November 21, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else. OK, I profoundly dislike tomorrows holiday and the myth it is based on. Briefly, innumerable "days of...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: November 26 is for celebrating navigable aqueducts
November 26 is the 330th day of the year It is also Setting Orange, The Aftermath 38, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.0.6 by the Mayan Long CountWell, it's 11 - 26. Twenty years of...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: First Do No Harm
It's Day 332 of the Year 2018 CE So, November 28, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.It widely believed that doctors swear an oath that begins with "First do no harm." That's very possibly why the...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3 is the 337th day of the year It is also Boomtime, The Aftermath 45, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.0.13 by the Mayan Long Count How many birds ya got?Well, it's 12 - 03...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Problem Solving in Real Time (with free example)
It's Day 339 of the Year 2018 CE So, December 5, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.By some quirk of fate it is Repeal Day celebrating the solution of a host of self-inflicted problems and...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: December 10 is International Human Rights Day
December 10 is the 345th day of the year It is also Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 52, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.1.0 by the Mayan Long Count It's 12-10 and though I've dealt...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Tempus is fugiting, or is it?
It's Day 346 of the Year 2018 CE So, December 12, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else. Perhaps we'll never know. This is the great question of our time and perhaps of all time. It is no doubt from...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: December 17 is International Day to End Violence Against...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year It is also Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 59, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.1.7 by the Mayan Long Count It's 12-17 and though I've dealt with...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Existentialism?
It's Day 353 of the Year 2018 CE So, December 19, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else. ex·is·ten·tial·ism /?egz?'sten(t)SH??liz?m/Submit noun a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the...
View ArticleAnother pipeline bites the dust, Woot!
It appears that the US is finally going to concede that only the Syrian government is entitled to decide what foreign powers and corporations do and do not run pipelines across its territory and cease...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: December 24 is the last shopping day before Xmas.
December 24 is the 358th day of the year It is also Pungenday, The Aftermath 66, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.1.14 by the Mayan Long CountFor some it is Christmas Eve. W00t, I...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Combatting Homelessness
It's Day 360 of the Year 2018 CE, the 52nd and last Wednesday of the year So, December 26, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.strong>First, some History for the History buffs Forty-six years...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - December 2018 Yard Report
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: December 31 is the first day of Hogmany
December 31 is the 365th day of the year It is also Setting Orange, The Aftermath 73, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.1 by the Mayan Long CountFor many of us, Hogmany is foreign...
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