TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

21 December 2025

Today I learned I should poke the eyes out of dead fish

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I encountered the above image on the interestingasfuck subreddit, apparently a sign at a fish-cleaning station at a resort or motel.   I th...
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This is a "timeout box" in an elementary school

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As reported in The New York Times : It has ignited an uproar in the school system, the Salmon River Central School District, a small distric...
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Planning a collective holiday greeting card

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Reposted to remind readers there is still time to offer greetings and pix to fellow readers.  I'll plan to post the submissions sometime...
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19 December 2025

Listening to auroras

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Well done and quite interesting.  Amazing that in the Sami region of northern Finland there are auroras 150 nights per year.
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18 December 2025

People having fun singing "Creep"

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I've posted multiple versions of Creep in the past, so this might be a duplicate, but if so it's worth redoing because of the joy v...
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Children having fun with music

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"El Cumbanchero" is a classic (1943) piece of Latin music whose title roughly translates as "party animal."  Lots of pre...

Monteggia fracture

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A 26-year-old woman with elbow pain after falling on her outstretched hand while ice skating .  The radiograph shows a dislocated radial hea...

Valuable dollar bill

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Potential value discussed in the currency subreddit thread.  I've never paid much attention to the serial numbers of bills that pass th...
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13 December 2025

Marked playing cards

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If you look carefully, it's pretty obvious what the card on the left is.   Some relevant comments and a couple additional photos in the ...
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Is the semicolon an endangered symbol?

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According to the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves [an excellent book, by the way, which I recommend to all who love the English language], the ...
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10 December 2025

Train Dreams

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I watched this movie last night and thought it was excellent.  It depicts the life of one man living in the Pacific Northwest from young adu...
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09 December 2025

Re-evaluating the Roman road system

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Comparisons to the durability of modern roads at Reddit . Reposted from 2016 to add this interesting video on how the Romans constructed...
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05 December 2025

How to escape from a frog

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Apparently the key is to tickle open the cloacal sphincter. After getting swallowed by a frog, [a water scavenger beetle] can scuttle down t...
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02 December 2025

Carved conch shell

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Image cropped for size; from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art : This shell from the 11th century, which was probab...
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"Brumation" illustrated

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" Brumation is a term used to refer to dormancy of reptiles, which is metabolically somewhat different from mammalian hibernation. ...
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