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The comet Swift-Tuttle left an enormous trail of debris in our solar system, and each August our little spacecraft Earth flies through this trail again. The meteors are beginning to be visible, and will peak between August 8 and 12.

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Cohen: I have no quarrels with my wife! In the case of BIG issues I am the decision-maker, in SMALL ones my wife is. This was our arrangement from the first minute on.
Gruen: Does it work? Can it work? Really?
Cohen: Yes. There were no big issues in our marriage in the last forty years.

Most memorable scene of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight": The Disappearing Pencil Trick. Not a doubt in my mind. One of the most memorable and subtly gruesome scenes ever.

Seen the movie yet?

This morning I dropped my oldest child off for Oakcrest summer camp at a LDS "stake center". There were hordes of 12 and 13-year-old girls about. My daughter had some trouble locating her stake leader, but eventually figured it all out and settled down on the lawn to chat with her fellow camp-goers. It looks like she's going to have a fun week.

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What's something you could do, would be within your current means and time, but you just haven't gotten around to it?

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I cringe to look at these pictures (not explicit, not gross, just the implications):
http://basia.blog-city.com/tykes_on_bikes.htm

Entire families riding on a single motorcycle. Life is cheap in India, I guess.

Sample photo:

I ran across a piece that gives a concise description of why we are currently withdrawing from Iraq (according to the President's news conference yesterday) and the motivations for this move. Although some of my more liberal friends, I am sure, will take issue with the reasons for withdrawal and positive emphasis on the timing, it's a useful description of the motivations for the move.

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Yeah, you read that right, NASA is in need of more urine in order to test their Orion space capsule.

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And sings.. and makes music..and.. oh its gonna be fun..

"DR HORRIBLE'S SING ALONG BLOG"

A NEW musical by Joss Whedon is now available to watch for free at drhorrible.com - but its crashing a lot and it will go down in a few days.

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Two weekends ago, I had an opportunity to ride my father-in-law's four-wheeler around the ruins of the Teton Dam. It was an incredibly good time, and now I realize the appeal that these types of tiny vehicles provide. It's a totally different experience from riding a car.

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I've been struck over the past few days with the scope of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts. I mean, we're talking about the taxpayers footing the bill for the difference between US house values and the borrowed price for a $5 trillion portfolio.

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My yard has a terrible gopher problem. I'm not talking just a few burrows... I'm talking DOZENS of holes. The gophers are eating the roots of our plants, we can't grow a garden because they literally pull the plants down the hole -- much like in Caddyshack -- and then devour them.

Frustrating!

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Man gets filled with the holy ghost, falls, gets hurt, sues:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0605081spirit1.html

So we finished the basement recently. One big family room, a gym, a bedroom, and a bathroom. Carpet in all but the bathroom and half the big family room, where we had linoleum and laminate, respectively.

In the family room, we put a kitchenette, replete with granite countertops, refrigerator, sink, cabinets, etc. Everything but a range.

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Wife Unit and I just got back from our annual vacation during which, this year, we biked through two Southern Utah national parks on a guided active tour. If you haven't visited Bryce or Zion National Park then I would immediately put them on your family's 'desirable' vacation list. Zion alone does two things. First, it reaffirms the jaw-dropping power of nature's beauty.

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Just had this sent to me by a friend and it is too good not to share.

Bad Day

I have a samsung i-760, and I hate it, it has windows mobile 6 on it with all the vzw lockouts, I was wondering if it is possible to put a linux o/s on it and strip windows off? I figured if anyone knew one of you guys would

thanks

I am alternately roasting and freezing in this building today. The air conditioning to the network operating center is on the fritz, causing the temperature to alternately rise to over ninety degrees, then fall to a frigid fifty a few minutes later. This just exacerbates my mood, already pensive and tight-lipped, just barely restraining the rant I want to cut loose.

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OK, the first rant is that I can't type today. I mis-spelled "rant" as "ranr", "rand", and "ranf" before I finally got it right.

Rant #35,636: Why do people believe other people so much?

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1818197,00.html

I'm not big on churches, but as far as churches go, that's pretty darn cool.