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    Polaris is a triple-star variable 433 light years away in Ursa Minor. The primary star, Alpha Ursae Minoris Aa is a F7Ib Cepheid variable. Alpha Ursae Minoris Ab is a F6b. Alpha Ursae Minoris B is a F3V.
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    Jamin Jimi Hendrix
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    Cats are known for perforating people who annoy them.
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    @MrM this reminds me a lot of the glam rock of the 70s by Bowie and Alice Cooper
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    My 96-year-old mom often doesn’t recognize common foods like pot roast. However, if I can get her to try it, she gets over her agnosia quickly.
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    Main stream media reporting on damned near everything sounds like a continuous obnoxious whine.
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    Today the 98 degree (38.7 C) heat and humidity left me a little muddleheaded. That's not unusual for Mississippi in July, but it is brutal. You have to watch out for old folks, kids and pets.
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    Welcome to Da Hood.
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    Yikes.
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    Lock In Friday

    JamesSavik commented on JamesSavik's story chapter in Lock In Friday

    Their Foundation eventually used both properties If I ever write a sequel.
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    India-Romeo Lt. Rivers watched the clock slowly count down the interval it would take for the electromagnetic pulse to clear from the Starfish drone’s fusion bombs. His pilot’s voice crackled over the intercom, “I’ve got the ship’s auto-eject system armed. If the systems detect a lock on, we’ll be ejected away in microseconds.” Rivers watched the seconds ticking down. Combat at the speed of the incoming missiles would be essentially instantaneous. He answered with a terse, “Roger
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    Back in the eighties, I made some people angry [I have a singular talent for doing that] when I said someday we may be grateful for the AIDS virus. Not grateful for the suffering and death it caused, but grateful for the research and discovery along the way to a cure. It's astonishing how much we have learned about viruses, their life cycles, how they work and finally, how to break them. We have never had drugs that work against viruses. Now there are scores of them and the vast majority of them came directly from AIDS research. Maybe, just maybe, the long nightmare of HIV/AIDS is soon to end. The true legacy of the epidemic will be a greater understanding of viruses and drugs that work against them
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    Sometimes it takes something like this to give you some closure. Closure doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore. It just allows the pain to fade into the background. Some people are good at closure. I'm not. I'm bad about blaming myself and poking old wounds.
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    Yikes!
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    July Mississippi heat + humidity ==> ☠️
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    It's pretty obvious there's a lot of plugola going on across the whole spectrum from radio to TV. There's product placement in the damn commercials at this point.
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    Lotus 123. I'm that old. 🙀 I did do Quattro Pro for a while. I liked Borland Software until they merged themselves into oblivion.
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    I'm putting this in a spoiler because it's going to piss some people off. If you want to skip it, fine. You've been warned. Wear a helmet. There are people who will never like us. We're different. Adopting their norms and social behaviors isn't going to make them like us any more. Judging anyone for their scorecard is mental masturbation, sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. If you don't know what that is, it is adopting the norms and mores of your oppressors. We are judged for our sexuality. It self-defeating to judge each other for our sexuality.
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    Of course, there is The Prodigy - an English electronic dance music group.
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    I find spreadsheets help me to keep track. Maybe some enterprising soul might invent an app for your cell phone.
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    Please let us know what you think would be a good summer read on GA. I have a couple that people seem to like: The Summer Job In the Shadow of the Dragon Tell us about your favorites!
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    Why is school cafeteria food almost always swill?
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    Wait for it... (best at high volume)
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