Monday, July 11, 2022

Lunchboxes (at the Toy Museum)


 

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  1. I remember one lunchbox I had with pictures of rocket ships on the moon and suchlike places.

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    1. Y'know, I don't remember ever having an actual lunchbox. I think I was given paper bags.

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  2. Guardian Exclusive: Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals [Click]

    More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian
    Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
    Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal
    Company used ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data
    Former Uber CEO told executives ‘violence guarantees success’

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    1. The way they rip off the drivers is plenty ugly all by itself. A client called one for me once, so I took it; but otherwise I always use taxis.

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  3. The news reports say that smoke from the fire in Yosemite is flowing down into the Central Valley, but I see no sign of it here, and the reported air quality index is good.

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    1. Hoping that smoke stays away! We've had smoke here before and it sure makes life crummy.

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  4. Yesterday we washed the kumquats, cut them in half, and picked out some of the seeds (for pectin). This morning I sliced them with the food processor, in preparation for cooking. I remain VERY pleased with our current food processor from Hamilton Beach; definitely the easiest to use, disassemble, clean, and reassemble that we have ever had.

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  5. The Cruise of the Black Terror [Click] A Civil War story I had not encountered before; it really ought to be in the history books!

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  6. One source of news about Putin's War that I follow is a YouTube channel by a Ukrainian commercial airline pilot; he seems very honest and his reports are detailed, showing daily changes in the front lines. His maps also use satellite data intended to detect forest fires. The detectors are sensitive enough to detect detonations of individual howitzer shells, and over the past two or maybe three days there has been a very noticeable change. Where there would have been ten or twenty Russian shells detonating in a day, now there may be two, or one, or none.

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