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  Related to the previous toot on drones and Cox model airplanes, as a child, I also built Estes model rocket kits. Once the rocket was built, ignitable engines were inserted in the bottom and fired for takeoff by a car battery. The rocket would go up then pop a parachute to return to ground for retrieval. The last flight, I put in an engine that greatly exceeded the recommended size and never saw my model again. I think my parents hoped that it all would lead to some career with NASA.

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  In the dead of the night where the zombies prowl The werewolves howl and the witches scowl -- song - Halloween Halloween

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  Sugar, ah honey honey You are my candy boy And you got me wanting you -- Archies reworded

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  Oh, my, an over forty-long-paragraph political screed on social media (FB). TL;DR 🤣 Nobody reads those on social media. Get to the point or narrow the focus.

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  An NC history group on Facebook and all the "historical" pics are AI. 😬 Premium access for $1.99/month. 🤣

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  RE: https://tech.intersects.art/@roadside/117509598880599213 We still go sometimes.

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  Part of why my mind is so damaged is that I grew up with a shortwave radio in my bedroom. I overexposed as a child. 🤣 That radio would pull in the world for me. Stations would give a mailing address on the air. I could write and tell the date / time / and frequency of what I heard. The station would send a nice card back confirming. A QSL. Radio Moscow sent good swag. I wrote one time and asked for a city map, "just a cheap one." They sent it! Hilversum, Holland, had a fun...

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  RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/117514302504510966 Delta is now our preferred and best liked communicator. Mobile and desktop. 😀

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  1976, as a teenager, I fought my way into being a member of the local amateur radio club to use their old, but fine, Collins rigs and rotatable beam high in the sky. The old guys there were not keen on letting a teenager become a member until that teenager brought two dozen donuts to a meeting. I was voted in that night. 🍩 👍 #HamRadio #AmateurRadio

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  I was looking for some excuse to grab a bittle lottle at the liquor store today. This was it! "I need to get it before the GHOE's really start rolling into town and slurping it down." GHOE = Greatest Homecoming on Earth. N.C. A&T State University has the world's largest homecoming (GHOE) which will peak this weekend. It's the 100th one, so it will be even larger than usual. In the 80's, we always made time to go gay clubbin'...

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  I was looking at something today that was advertised as being "backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government." Is that supposed to be good? 😬 🤷

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  I just scored 2️⃣8️⃣ points in Sqword! https://www.sqword.com #sqword

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  As soon as Halloween is over, be ready to move the selector to "War on Christmas." It's OK to practice saying "happy holidays" a few times right now. #WarOnChristmas

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  Abracadabra, amor-ooh-na-na

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  The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will probably be banned in Florida for this. My spouse is a musician and plays gigs in churches. We find these Presbyterian ones to be pretty good, United Methodist, too, some Baptist. - At the denomination’s 227th General Assembly in Milwaukee in June, commissioners voted in favor of a churchwide call to action supporting the people of Cuba and the PC(USA)’s sister-denomination, the Presbyterian-Reformed Church in Cuba. https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/ne...

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  Looking at a holiday food business order form, I keep seeing the word "housemade" instead of "homemade." Both are dictionary words but housemade hits me funny. I probably won't fly into a rage about it. 😁

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  We just cleaned and refilled the birdbaths. A huge crow flies in with an entire slice of bread in its beak, drops it in the water, eats half, then leaves the rest in there. Rude! 🐦‍⬛

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  Driving tonic. Iced cold brew. #coffee #ColdBrew #dunkin

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  I'm also Javen at Dunkin 🍩

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  I like that name Javen almost enough to legally change my name to it, but I don't want to throw off my parents like that, and it's a lot of trouble to do a name change. It was a Starbucks in Mexico City gave me that name. ❤️

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  I'm trying out a new (to me) Android keyboard. My main demands are 100% fast accurate swiping (glide typing) and voice input, plus, I want something privacy oriented this time. FUTO is great. Everything happens on board, including the voice typing, which is rare. Most pull Google for it. Previously to get swiping that I could tolerate, it required using Gboard or Yandex. Neither one of those has a good privacy reputation. So far FUTO is a keeper. 👍 #FUTO #keyboard https://keyboard....

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  I was walking through the hotel lobby this morning on the way to work. The TV there was tuned to NBC. As I quickly passed by, I heard the words, "Iran, nuclear bomb, steps to war." Everything is normal in the United States. 😬🤷 Too bad the entire GD world is at stake.

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  Used to, on my long drives for work, if I got drowsy, I could put a radio evangelist on the FM. Then I could yell stuff back at the radio and be awake again. Now the BBC World Service on Public Radio serves the purpose. I can still yell stuff back at the radio to wake up, but I can also count up how much bullshit can be packed into every single minute. It's a fine art and well practiced.

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  I just had a Dunkin' Boston Kreme donut. 🍩 It was reasonably convincing. The cream was thick and rich, and there was a lot of it, but I did not gag. 😁

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  Sometimes a web designer is a web designer and sometimes it means "I can install WordPress pretty good if the host has click to install." That org I used to help, I spent 30 hours of my own time, unpaid, repairing the WordPress and server getting blown to bits because the "designer" left a WP security vulnerability a mile wide in it. I should have gotten a big lunch and a chugger cocktail for it. 🍹 One day I might let it go. I'll think it over. 😁

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  My 20's in Guadalajara 😱 tu muñeca, si señor tu juguete cuando juegas al amor tu muñeca, nada más la que usas y que tiras y ya esta.

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  You must have meant Geocoties, not Geocities.

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  "Do you know any families that might be a good match for this exchange student from Germany?" Me: "well, yeah, but you know." 😁

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  akimbo They were sitting with their legs akimbo. #akimbo https://www.wordnik.com/words/akimbo

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  werewolf syndrome