Candlepin bowling is not as easy as it looks but then I've never seen so many 7-10 splits made. It's great for children due to the small size of the balls. You can make reservations and have gutter guards on the lanes so the kiddies never miss hitting something. My score is much better with them too! Great post. Rob Caldwell is a Maine institution and 207 is a highly regarded nightly show.
I found them pretty quick. But I frequently put my glasses on a bed and I was betting that for anyone who does that, the general "put down" area would be similar. Maybe we need of those useless research studies.
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools.
From The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. Very good read.
Thanks Miss C! You learn something new every day. The majority of my twatter thread reading had always been for general levity and I didn't miss it that much. Now I have that time suck back.
Well, I can't read the thread because Mr. Musk now denies that to everyone who doesn't subscribe to his content and that's never going to happen. I did look at the Justice Tech site and the Securebook 5 has been replaced by the '6'. That comes with a hard drive controlled directly by the system BIOS. It also allows USB access, but only if attached to a docking port. I'm sure that just like most computers used in sensitive environments, the hard drive was removed before it was released to the general public.
There's nothing better than a well done steak with ketchup. Preferably Heinz. And McDonald's most definitely has acceptable food. I mean they have to since they have Michelin prices.
Memories. And a great read. Count me in the group saying it was the funniest movie ever. But I was only 17 so what did I know? Might not be that today but it's right up there.
Not mentioned in the Atlas Obscura article but included in a story in the Portland Press Herald:
During his research, Chan found that in the 1888 Signal Corps annual report there was a listing of several volunteer weather observers, including Mary C. Bennett, of Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois.
Let me just tuck that one away. . . .