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Will Iowans Get the Whole Enchilada with The Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse?
So, are Iowans going to get “the whole enchilada” when it comes to seeing the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024? No, but we’ll see a partial eclipse. The T-shirt Sena got for me says “Total Eclipse” on it—but it also has extraterrestrials on it, which I really like. The paths of these total…
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Getting Ready for the Solar Eclipse!
Sena has placed the order for our eclipse glasses and eclipse T-shirts. They should get here in plenty of time for the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. And if the weather is really crappy that day—we have 30 days to return them. There is an interesting history of eclipses on the NASA website. It…
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Solar Eclipse in April!
We just found out there’s going to be a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. We hope to get some solar eclipse glasses before then if they don’t run out of stock everywhere. They’re selling fast. We’ve seen a couple of lunar eclipses and those were fun. The most recent one was during cold…
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The SD Card Caper
I have an SD card (more commonly called just a “memory card”) for my camera and the other day I couldn’t download the videos to my computer using the SD card reader in the tower. The card reader is just a slot-shaped port in the tower, above the USB ports. SD stands for Secure Digital.…
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Svengoolie and The Comedy of Terrors
Last Saturday on Svengoolie, I watched for the second time the 1963 movie “Comedy of Terrors,” a slapstick horror spinoff of Shakespeare’s farce, “Comedy of Errors”—which I’ve never seen. I didn’t see the whole movie the first time around, and I can’t remember exactly where I saw it. Most likely it was on Svengoolie. The…
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Please Return to Sender
We get a lot of mail meant for somebody else. What’s up with the United States Postal Service (USPS)? It has been happening for years. What we do is identify that the mail is not for us and put it back in the mailbox for the postal delivery person to pick up. We write “Person…
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The Svengoolie Phenomenon
I wrote about Svengoolie a couple of years ago and just for old times’ sake, I watched the 1960 horror film 13 Ghosts on the Svengoolie broadcast by MeTV a few days ago. It had been a while since I watched Svengoolie and I thought I would have the usual experience of being able to…
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Mouse in Your Engine Not the Same as Tiger in Your Tank
The other day, Sena was out at the auto dealership getting our lease car serviced and had an interesting conversation with the service guy and another customer. The other customer was discussing his vehicles issues with the service guy and mentioned that rodents were probably snacking on his engine wires and hoses. The bill for…
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Ready for Another Step Counting Recommendation?
Remember my post about the step counter and my workout update pointing out the possibly bogus 10,000 step recommendation? Well, get ready for another recommendation which lowers the bar somewhat, based on your sedentary index. There’s a new study which says, essentially: “Conclusions: Any amount of daily steps above the referent 2200 steps/day was associated…
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New Compound MM-120 Related to LSD Gets FDA Nod
I saw the story in Psychiatric Times about the compound MM-120, which the FDA recently granted breakthrough designation. MM-120 is related to LSD. Breakthrough designation is defined by the FDA as, “…a process designed to expedite the development and review of drugs that are intended to treat a serious condition and preliminary clinical evidence indicates…
