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One of my favorite moments was his dramatic reading of "Green Eggs and Ham" on Saturday Night Live. Looking it up, apparently 1984.

I found myself earlier today wondering where they were and did not have the time to check. May they live long and prosper.

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

Screenshot of a weather map taken at 2:02 PM U.S. Eastern Time. The map shows portions of Georgia and Alabama and is color coded for different weather warnings. In purple is an Ice Storm Warning region and in Yellow is a Tornado Watch region.

Less than 50 miles separates the southern edge of the Ice Storm Warning area and the norther edge of the Tornado Watch area. #weather #icestorm #winter #nws Thanks @nws.noaa.gov

No. The forecast is for the frozen precipitation to start tonight. Looking at their online map, looks like they are staying in a private home tonight. Hopefully they can shelter and rest tomorrow, dnf if necessary, Monday

Brings a different context to "wrong side of the tracks."

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Musicians on stage in a church at a Christmas Eve service. The photo is a composite mask, rendered mostly in black and white, but poinsettia leaves along the front of the stage are rendered in red. #musicians #singers #ChristmasEve #Christmas #church

A little "clean-up" from 2025. Our church has a Christmas Eve candlelight service. I took the photo in color, did a black & white output, then put the color mask in, and "unmasked" the poinsettia leaves. I did this in GIMP www.gimp.org. #musicians #ChristmasEve #Christmas #church #gimp

Self-care is as vital as any resistance. Sometimes self-care is necessary to be able to resist.🖖

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After seeing my ASVAB scores, the navy tried very hard to get me to enlist for reactor operator.

Two people standing on a paved concrete trail. Their backs are to the camera. They are dressed in cold-weather clothing, and they are holding cameras up the tier eye level. In the background is a field, with a grove of threes to the left and another grove of trees farther away to the right. In the mid-range to the right is a white barn. They sky is light, but the sun has not yet broken over the horizon behind them.

A white barn in a grass field. The barn and the trees behind it are in full sunlight, but the grass in front of the barn is still in shade, as the sun rises behind the viewer

Friday, November 28 ("Black Friday") morning, my daughter and I went to the PATH Arabia Mountain Trail (www.pathfoundation.org/arabia-mount...) at Vaughters' Farm (arabiaalliance.org/landmarks/va...) to take some daybreak/sunrise photos. #photography #pathfoundation #trails #arabiamountain

Agreed.

We'll have to see if the Gov. and/or General Assembly try to do something when the Legislature convenes in January. I haven't heard any rumblings in that direction. GA is more purple than its neighbors. We have a former GOP Lt. Gov. (Duncan) running for Gov. as a Democrat.

I've posted before: Blue shifts in 157 of 159 Georgia counties, compared to the 2024 Presidential ballot. 22 counties flipped to blue.

When a Harvard team lost its research funding into the axolotl, a 6-year-old girl came to their rescue Earlier this year, a Harvard research team studying the axolotl, a salamander with the superpower to regrow body parts, lost almost all its government funding.

@muellershewrote.com What's the model of this axolotl? www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard... #goodnews #axolotl

a group of people are standing in a line wearing space suits with a circle on the front Alt: a group of people are standing in a line wearing space suits with a circle on the front. These are the Thermians from the movie Galaxy Quest. They are dropping their heads in sadness and one says "oh, those poor people." They are reacting to a question about the 1960s sitcom "Gilligan's Island."

And they fed the jury sandwiches

I finally was able to get the Georgia Secretary of State data into a spreadsheet and compared the 2024 Presidential race to Echols' 2025 PSC race. 157 of 159 counties had a"blue shift" even if the GOP incumbent Echols won the county. 22 counties flipped to Democratic for this race.

It might not be that significant for 2026. These were statewide special elections after a lawsuit over PSC elections was decided. Coincided with off-year municipal and county elections for mayors, city councils, etc. Need to look tomorrow at where the votes came from.

Utility regulatory commission. In other states it's called a "Public Utilities Commission."

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 University of California faculty UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara professor John M. Martinis were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics for their contribu...

I had to dig around, I think he's talking about John Clarke: "Clarke, who has been on the UC Berkeley faculty since 1969 and retired as a faculty scientist from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in 2010..."
During the Obama Administration. Source: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/nobel-p...

Brought me back to the Hitchhikers' Guide and Arthur Dent trying to get tea:
“So that’s it, is it?” said the Nutro-Matic when he had finished.
“Yes,” said Arthur. “That is what I want."
“You want the taste of dried leaves boiled in water?”
...
“I’m going to need some help with this one.”

Photo of a Zebra. The black and white striped animal resembles a horse. The photo is head-on, the animal looking in the direction of the camera, walking toward the camera in a grass field

Photo of a Greater Kudu. The photo is looking at the animal from its right side. This is a large African antelope. The coat is gray with thin vertical white stripes. The antlers are large and in a loose spiral.

Been a while since I posted. Recently took a trip with extended family to the Georgia Safari Conservation Park (georgiasafari.com), a private animal preserve east of Atlanta. #photography #zebra #kudu #animals

CompuServe (or as we all called it, Compu$erve / CI$) was my online home for many years. I wish Google allowed all numeric user IDs. I'd like to have "XXXXXX.YYYY[at]gmail.com" as homage to my CIS user ID.

NPR reported it this morning.

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Screen capture of God from the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." The animation God is depicted as a male, wearing a crown, with a graying beard. He is surrounded by clouds and more immediately surrounded by a glow of orange/yellow light

Great photo. But I have to say, my next thought was this:

I've had to travel for work for a long time. It's tiring and fun at the same time. My now adult daughter was able to go with me this summer on a long work road trip to an industry event. We're well past horsey days, but you have that kind of thing to look forward to.

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