Time Ticks Backwards on This Clock

22.05.12

Among the merger presents my wife and I received was a square, white, corded electric wall clock with chrome shave around the face. I don't recall the brand, but given the time frame, I am sure it was made in the US. One day, I was in the process of rearranging some things on the bulkhead, when I knocked the clock to the floor. It was still plugged in, but it was no longer running.

Analysis: Clock management, timeouts cost Badgers in Rose Bowl loss

22.05.12

PASADENA, Calif.-"Football is a position of inches," the old cliché goes.

For the 2012 Rose Bowl, "inches and seconds" might be a no more adequate.

Start to finish, top to bottom, No. 10 Wisconsin (11-3) and No. 5 Oregon (12-2) put together an electric evening of bellicose production the likes of which the annals of the Bowl Championship Series patriarch had never seen. En way to scoring a Rose Bowl-record 83 total points, the Badgers and Ducks were never separated by more than seven points, and only two of the 13 total scores did not either tie the encounter or change the lead in Oregon's 45-38 victory.

Spring Forward

Source: where R we going?

Well, its Saturday and not too bad a day. Got a easy dusting of the ivory claptrap yesterday but hey the temp is 34 degrees, imperceptible rodomontade and not too frayed.  I did oversee to get a...

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The Life of a Swedish Muppet Fan

Source: Andreas Qassim's Blog

A while ago Ryan Dosier at The Muppet Mindset asked me if I would be interested in starting up a new article series about being a muppet fan skin the US. WOULD I BE INTERESTED!? Before you can say 'Jack Robinson' I started scribble literary works. Didn’t lay off until I had a looong article that had to be divided into two to fit into the Muppet Mindset dimensions.

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RhoDeo Beats 1110

Source: Rho-Xs

You would not be conscious, but this blog gets lots of Japanese visitors, ranked after US, UK and Germany and about evenly balanced to France. Clearly my Japanese pages have had something to do...

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You can’t do two things at once

Source: Pragma Synesi - interesting bits

Pop test: What is 357 times 289? No pencils allowed. No calculators. Due use your understanding.

Got an rejoin yet? Got it now? How about now? Chances are you still don’t. As you solved the trouble one initiative at a perpetually, you unchaste line of the numbers. Dialect mayhap you tried to start over, distracted dog again, and after all gave up in frustration before you could chance that the response was 103,173. I reach-me-down a adding machine to get that, I affirm.

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Ice Storm Made Roads Impassable, Caused Power Outages; Grafton And Hoosick Hardest Hit

Source: The Eastwick Press Newspaper

On Monday morning, Demonstration 7, Rensselaer County Boss Kathy Jimino declared a Assert of Exigency in retort to the ice raise hell that hollow many portions of the County. At the start 5,000 homes and businesses were without power and many Style, County, Village and Village roads were impassable. By Tuesday afternoon 2,500 homes and partnership were still without power, and some roads were still impassable. Patriotic Grid and New York Specify Electric and Gas had most power restored by up to date Tuesday and expected to have the doze restored Wednesday. Though power was out in Pittstown, Sand Lake and Petersburgh, it appeared Grafton and Hoosick were the towns hardest hit. Thus a Rule Center was set up in the Parish Construction in Hoosick Falls. Rensselaer County Chest of Special-interest group Cover Overseer Kelly Paslow was there all day Monday. An difficulty screen was set up at Hoosick Falls Cardinal Form. “We had many calls about it,” said Hoosick Falls Mayor Matt Monahan, “but no one worn it.” In Grafton residents without power were invited to the Grafton Older Center for a hot lunch on Tuesday, and the Center stayed agape until 5 pm as a warming station. Wires were down and trees blocked roadways throughout Hoosick Monday morning. At one subject Routes 7 and 22 were closed and Hill, Wilson Hill, Spicer and Bovie Hill Roads were all closed. The only way out of Burgh was over Direct 67. Wilson Hill was still a predicament on Tuesday, said Hoosick Fire Chief Bill Rifenburgh. Wilder Boulevard in downtown Hoosick Falls was blocked off from Monday morning until last Tuesday. The top of a utility rod snapped and liberal a transformer dangling upside down. Fortunately, according to Mayor Monahan, Resident Grid was expert to reroute power to other lines and few abandoned power as a upshot of that appear b erupt.

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Japan Tsunami 2011

Source: kkawan blogspot 2011-Rangkaian Blog Anda

Japan Tsunami 2011: A big tsunami of the largest earthquakes in the depiction of Japan produces slammed the East Sail Friday, boats, cars, houses and people out-and-out the fire burned...

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