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SEVEN DAYS OF HEROIN
Cincinnati, Ohio. This is what an epidemic looks like. This is raw stuff, it will move you. And make you realize what many communities are experiencing. My biggest fear is my kids get into this stuff. I can not imagine the pain so many families are going through. I lost my dearest cousin to this shit, he was like my little brother I never had. It’s been almost eighteen years and the pain is still there. I would pay higher taxes to help fight this damn it!
Warning you that this is a devastating read ok?
Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps
This will blow your mind, probably one of the coolest things I ever posted in the history of the TBB blog!
Start typing the name of your city in the top left corner. Click on it. Sit back and look at the winds over you. Pretty awesome, isn’t it? Ready for more? Okay then.
On the bottom left corner, click on the down arrow next to “Wind speed” and you can check the following:
Temperature
Precipitation
Clouds
Wind Speed
Wind Gusts
Air Pressure
Thunderstorms
Waves
Snow Cover
Freezing Level
Not done yet! In the box above (still in the bottom left corner) you can change the height overlooking the map. Wow!!!
Hover anywhere over the map and it gives you information, such as the wind speed in miles per hour, the height of the waves and a LOT more.
Definitely a keeper. You should tell your mother AND your mother in law you saw this first in my blog, gracias!
Hey dude
I am sure you always wondered where “dude” came from. Especially after seeing the movie “The Big Lebowski”, one of my all time favorites. Jeff Bridges had one of the classic lines with:
I am not “Mr Lebowski”. You’re Mr Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
Anyways, we learn the history of this slang word. It first appeared in the American magazine in 1883! We learn how it moved through the decades to today where it is mainstream.
As the author, I was called “dude” by my daughter years ago. And I was darn proud of it 🙂
The Quartz Guide to Artificial Intelligence
What is it, why is it important, and should we be afraid?
If you are interested in the subject, and you should be, this is an ideal read. It comes with a glossary of all the terms you keep hearing about in the media. And we are moving along fast!
From Prison to Ph. D at Harvard
What an incredible redemption story this is, wow! She spent 20 years in jail for brutally killing her four year old child but she turned her life around in a remarkable way inside prison. If you prove you have changed I am all for second chances. Just a few short excerpts:
In a breathtaking feat of rehabilitation, Jones, now 45, became a published scholar of American history while behind bars, and presented her work by videoconference to historians’ conclaves and the Indiana General Assembly. With no internet access and a prison library that skewed toward romance novels, she led a team of inmates that pored through reams of photocopied documents from the state archives to produce the Indiana Historical Society’s best research project last year. As prisoner No. 970554, Jones also wrote several dance compositions and historical plays, one of which is slated to open at an Indianapolis theater in December.
“People don’t survive 20 years of incarceration with any kind of grace unless they have the discipline to do their reading and writing in the chaos of that place,” Jones said. “Forget Harvard. I’ve already graduated from the toughest school there is.”
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I found another trip report that I think you would be interested in reading. It is not finished yet, but the OP has been keeping up with it, so I think that we will get the full report.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1866593-three-nights-train-into-wild-romanian-mountains.html
Will check it out, thank you.
What good links today!
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I was so excited by the Detroit Lions win last night I got up at 4.30 am and was FIRST at my local Starbucks and started TBBing 🙂
Oh dear God…
Hit and Run: My Car Was Damaged in Hotel Parking Lot – Live and Let’s Fly
Guess it’s better than yet another post on his stupid Ethiopian mistake fare crap. Worst was a couple weeks ago “I Win!…” where apparently he thinks the airline letting him use the ticket to fly another route months later….after he wasted10x the time and money coming back from BKK….constitutes a win. How arrogant. #sosad #fail
Great links George. Sorry to hear about what happened to your cousin. Still amazed by the fact nobody from the pharmaceuticals peddling those pills is in jail yet.
Yeah…still waiting for the CEOs involved in the financial crisis to go to jail too…
George as someone who enjoys Social Extremism……………….. ARE YOU OFFENDED BY COTTON?
Complaint to Hobby Lobby over ‘insensitive’ cotton plant fall decor goes viral
http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Complaint-to-Hobby-Lobby-over-insensitive-cotton-plant-fall-decor-goes-viral-445679263.html
MCGA!
Make Cotton Great Again!
🙂
Heroin is soo 90s…. people have moved on to Oxy and other stuff. Paying more taxes won’t help it, the folks in the midwest need to be offered perspectives in life, they lost out in the transformation of the US economy and no one is doing anything for them.
Most of the oxyheads are older White blue-collar males who don’t have the same strength of character to deal with the crappy choices that minorities of all shades have had to deal with for generations.
The absolute nerve of such people blaming all their (self-made) problems on minority immigrants!
In this case the medical doctor was the drug dealer. To treat your physical pain with a regulated substance. I don’t see how this has anything to do with “transformation of the US economy”.
Good stuff here as always.
Do you get this interaction at Rene’s blog? 🙂
Sorry about your cousin, that sucks. I don’t know what the answer is to problems like this…I guess there isn’t any one easy answer…just as there isn’t just one reason why people get sucked into it.
And hell no, Rene’s craphole blog wishes it were half this cool!
Excellent story on Michelle Jones, thank you for posting that!
Yes it was amazing 🙂
Thank you.
Did Trump listen to Elton John before that UN speech?
I think that guy is on drugs.
Not the rocket man…
I am out of WTFs!
Oxycodone consumption is 50x higher in the US compared to Japan (per capita). Maybe medical doctors are part of the problem.
This is why I support weed full legalization…
Well, not really. But I told my son if you are going to do drugs do some weed but NEVER get into that harder shit!
I just pretty much got in an argument with an Amex rep b/c she continued to tell me that Amex doesn’t have a “retention department”. I mentioned that I’ve talked to them before, received retention offers, and called a few weeks ago when the only office that handles retentions in Florida had been evacuated. Eventually she said “I’ll see who I can transfer you to, to get you a free card. Thanks Cindy…
PS The department that can offer retentions is called Membership consulting services
The Amex reps used to be the absolute best years ago. But in this decade they have gone WAY downhill!
You should not be honoring that child murderer in any way. Read the details of her crime. Redemption is for a thief or drug dealer she is irredeemable.
I am not “honoring” anyone.
I read the details of the crime. My stomach turned.
I stand by what I wrote.
We disagree. That’s cool.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.