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Memorial Service
There will be a full military honor service for Tom (readitsomeplace) on
Jully 23rd at the National Memorial Cemetary in Bushnell, Fl. 10:00AM
Logiistics prevent most of his followers and friends from attending but if you are able you are more than welcome to attend.
Sincerely
Readitsomeplace’s Wife
End of Life
I am Readitsomeplace wife. I am sorry to inform his friends and followers That he passed away on May 27th. He truly enjoyed this venue of communication. My email is [email protected] if you care to write. I will be clearing out his accounts later in coming weeks. Sorry, Rebecca Kendall
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Elevate the dining experience with a floating deck. For a DIYer with intermediate to expert skills, this is a project you can tackle at home and we have the step-by-step instructions.
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IKEA’s new mobile shelters are a game-changer for tens of thousands of refugees
There were 51 million people around the world displaced and forced to leave their homes in 2013, the first time that number surpassed 50 million since World War II.
IKEA has a pretty brilliant plan to help: easy-to-construct mobile shelters that fit five people, and serve as a safer, more durable and more comfortable alternative to makeshift shelters.
Our past can help us to better understand our present. The ills of the present didn’t just appear, and often can be seen more clearly in the past. Such as our penchant for believing fables. This post has it all: a great story about Robert Heinlein’s astonishing prescience, the Evil Empire, demographic collapse, gross errors by experts, a spectacular save at the end, and insights to help us tomorrow.
Our past can help us to better understand our present. The ills of the present didn’t just appear, and often can be seen more clearly in the past. Such as our penchant for believing fables. This post has it all: a great story about Robert Heinlein’s astonishing prescience, the Evil Empire, demographic collapse, gross errors by experts, a spectacular save at the end, and insights to help us tomorrow.
Is this really asking too much?
US Court Says it’s Okay for Police Departments to Refuse to Hire Someone who is Too Smart: http://goo.gl/WUTYMU
The Cold War ended with communist Russia. We buy communist Chinese goods by the trillions. Let’s be real about Cuba.
Everything That’s Wrong With Wealth Inequality, Summed Up In One Image
Everything That’s Wrong With Wealth Inequality, Summed Up In One Image
Image-sharing site Imgur.com has been lit up since a user under the handle NeverBob posted a meme that resonated with nearly 3 million people – and moved it to the number one spot on Reddit with thousands of upvotes in a few hours. That’s because it’s the epitome of wealth inequality in America, in just one little handy image:
NeverBob captioned the image with: “Poor people have all your money.…
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“Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.
To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. It’s an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this once. For the next many years (we hope) these tiny particles will uncomplainingly engage in all the billions of deft, cooperative efforts necessary to keep you intact and let you experience the supremely agreeable but generally under appreciated state known as existence.
Why atoms take this trouble is a bit of a puzzle. Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level. For all their devoted attention, your atoms don’t actually care about you-indeed, don’t even know that you are there. They don’t even know that they are there. They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. (It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.) Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single overarching impulse: to keep you… you.
The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting-fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. And that’s it for you.Still, you may rejoice that it happens at all. Generally speaking in the universe it doesn’t, so far as we can tell. This is decidedly odd because the atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere. Whatever else it may be, at the level of chemistry life is curiously mundane: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, a little calcium, a dash of sulfur, a light dusting of other very ordinary elements-nothing you wouldn’t find in any ordinary drugstore-and that’s all you need. The only thing special about the atoms that make you is that they make you. That is of course the miracle of life. … So thank goodness for atoms. But the fact that you have atoms and that they assemble in such a willing manner is only part of what got you here. To be here now, alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to be the beneficiary of an extraordinary string of biological good fortune. Survival on Earth is a surprisingly tricky business. Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most-99.99 percent-are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. You must be prepared to change everything about yourself-shape, size, color, species, affiliation, everything-and to do so repeatedly. That’s much easier said than done, because the process of change is random. To get from “protoplasmal primordial atomic globule” (as the Gilbert and Sullivan song put it) to sentient upright modern human has required you to mutate new traits over and over in a precisely timely manner for an exceedingly long while. So at various periods over the last 3.8 billion years you have abhorred oxygen and then doted on it, grown fins and limbs and jaunty sails, laid eggs, flicked the air with a forked tongue, been sleek, been furry, lived underground, lived in trees, been as big as a deer and as small as a mouse, and a million things more. The tiniest deviation from any of these evolutionary shifts, and you might now be licking algae from cave walls or lolling walrus-like on some stony shore or disgorging air through a blowhole in the top of your head before diving sixty feet for a mouthful of delicious sandworms.
Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely-make that miraculously-fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result-eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly-in you.
”From the introduction to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything.
