Category Archives: trivia

Hybrid Car Owners Face Higher Gas Prices

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Dave

The federal government announced today that hybrid cards will be assessed a social investment tax of five percent at the gas pumps, starting on June 1st. By effectively raising the price of gas for hybrid cars, the government seeks to help owners of traditional gasoline cars.

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This Is How a REAL American Follows Johnny Paycheck’s Advice: Take This Job and Slide It!

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dave

We have all had the experience of wanting to tell our customers were to get off, but few of us ever get the chance to vent our frustrations to anyone other than a coworker or family member. Steven Slater, a former airline flight attendant stood up for all Americans who have had it with unreasonable customers.

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Amazon Kindle2: A First Review

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Dave

I received my Amazon Kindle2 on the day that it was released, and in less than a month, I have changed the way that I read.

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International Linux Foundation Announces Distributed Network For All Users

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Dave

In an announcement that will likely have long term implications for users of personal computers, the International Linux Foundation today reported that it will release a version of its operating system that will include a link to a distributed network.

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Proton-Based Network Offers Free Cellular and Internet Services

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Dave

Free voice and data services will be available through an international consortium’s program that deploys a proton-based global network. The telecommunications network’s potential was confirmed last week following research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

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Knowledge is Power

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Dave

I challenge us to consider the common phrase, knowledge is power.

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Blogosphere Grows to 50 Million

Posted on August 13, 2006 by Dave

Technorati, the recognized blog tracking service, reported that there are fifty-one million blogs were in publication as of today. This is one hundred times more blogs than were in existence when the tracking service started, three years ago.

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CAP Cadets Solo

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Dave

I received word today that all of the cadets at the solo school in Hagerstown, Maryland had completd their first solo flights.

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CAP Student Pilots Prepare to Solo in Hagerstown

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Dave

I flew from Fort Meade to Hagerstown, today, to catch lunch with my friend at the Civil Air Patrol cadet solo school. The weather was perfect for VFR flying, and the cadets are progressing well, in both their academic and flying skills.

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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know is Wrong

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Dave

John Stossel kept me in rapt attention, this afternoon.

 
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Chesapeake Invader

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Dave

C. Wylie Poag, a scientiest with the United States Geological Survey, describes a meteorite that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.

 
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It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Dave

Jerry Dennis has written an excellent science book that is approriate for family reading.

 
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Krakatoa

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Dave

Simon Winchester has again authored a thoroughly enjoyable book.

 
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Teleportation Takes Quantum Leap Forward

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Dave

The United States Department of Defense and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence today issued a joint news release announcing a electronic urban battlefield personnel and weapons transportation system, codenamed EUBPAWT (pronounced EUW-paw). The EUBPAWT system utilizes a high-energy quantum mechanical electrical field to quantify the quantum molecular structure of living tissue, which is then spatially transported and interstitially reconstituted.

 
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Two Great and Different Thinkers Born on this Day in 1809

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Dave

Two great and, in at least one way, antithetic men were born on this day in 1809. One advocated man’s natural evolvement; the other, God’s greater involvement.

 
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Find Great Maryland Crab Soup in York, Pennsylvania

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Dave

I returned to Orville’s Restaurant at York Airport for more of its great Maryland crab soup. The restaurant respects the Old Line State’s most famous export by calling it red crab soup. However named, it is the best crab soup that I can recall ever having.

 
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Reset Your Digital Watch, Saturday Night

Posted on December 27, 2005 by Dave

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) will move time backward one second on December 31, 2005. An extra second will be added at the end of the year to to account for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation. The IERRSS recognizes that our planet’s pace of rotation is unpredictable, and will institute the first leap second in seven years. Normally the leap second is a nearly annual event.

 
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First Marketable Quantum Computer Chip

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Dave

University of Michigan researchers have developed the first scalable quantum computer chip using principally the same semiconductor manufacturing process as integrated semiconductor chips. The researchers have been able to trap and control a single atom within a processor chip.

 
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Excuse me pal, do you mind if I take the window seat?

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Dave

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on its front page that passenger aircraft around the world are often delayed because of unticketed and unwanted passengers.

 
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Ruminant Methane Can Be Reduced 70 Percent

Posted on December 4, 2005 by Dave

French scientists reported it, and British scientists are working to develop an alternative. This is one of the continuing multinational efforts to reduce harmful greenhouse gases that are a major contributor to global warming. What are the two nations’ scientists working to reduce? Read on…

 
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