TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."
30 June 2026
Chipmunks
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I first noticed the rodent activity last week (image above) at the place where the driveway meets the garage, so I replaced the gravel in th...
11 stars on this eagle
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" President Donald Trump has posted what appears to be a doctored image of a large, golden eagle attached to the White House's Trum...
29 June 2026
"The Life of Chuck"
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Using the Siskel/Ebert grading system, this movie gets two "thumbs up" from me. I've embedded the official trailer above, but...
28 June 2026
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Found the above on Facebook but lost the source. Below is a thematically related screencap from the movie Interstellar in which Michael Ca...
26 June 2026
A link for lovers of movies: The Criterion Closet
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For much of my adult life I have been a fan of the Criterion Collection . About fifteen years ago I did subscribe to the Criterion Channel ...
Goat tower
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If I had goats, I'd want to have a goat tower. You can read about the (unexciting) history of such towers at Wikipedia .
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24 June 2026
A reflecting pool cocktail
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There are a seemingly endless number of memes on the reflecting pool disaster. Readers are welcome to provide links to their favorites in t...
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22 June 2026
Interesting library chair
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Via Architecture Hub .
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Two videos about techniques for filming movies
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Via Kottke .
New technology for warfare: gyrocopters and paragliders
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"They appear after midnight, slowly crossing Myanmar’s skies. The motorised paragliders are improvised aircraft, suspending small metal...
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21 June 2026
A cure for anthropocentrism
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If you have friends who believe that human beings are the center of everything and humans are the reason for the existence of the universe, ...
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Italian word for the day: coglione
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Here is the definition, from the Wikipedia entry on Italian profanity : Lots of interesting material at that link.
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15 June 2026
Prefix of the day: "pene"
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This rock was identified at the whatsthisrock subreddit as a " penecontemporaneous deformation structure ." It apparently is suc...
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The etymology of "soccer"
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This will be my only post relevant to this year's World Cup. "... in its early days, football was a very "posh" sport. ...
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Postal history of the Telemark coast of Norway
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The video is a full-length recording of an hour-long presentation at the Boston 2026 World Exposition of Philately. The Telemark postal dis...
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