TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

17 April 2026

A Brief History of Kinetic Sculpture Racing

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Found by reader smittypap, who posted the link in a comment at my previous post about art cars . Another example of people having fun.  No w...
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Removing a facade from an old building

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There is informed discussion scattered through the comments at the oddlysatisfying subreddit post.  Huge windows used to be assets re light...
16 April 2026

Some elevators have "Yes" and "No" buttons

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I probably should travel more, because I've never seen an elevator panel like this.  The rationale is explained in a lucid and fairly co...
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The Roman emperor Commodus

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Interesting.  You learn something every day.
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15 April 2026

An "art car" parade (Houston, 2025)

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The video is almost two hours long - a thorough documentation of the parade, apparently without any commentary, best approached for casual v...
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Good news for home distillers of alcohol

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As reported this week in The Guardian : A US appeals court on Friday declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling to be unc...
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Autonomous weapons are not just science fiction

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Autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots") were the basis for the Terminator movies and uncounted spinoffs and copycats.  But th...
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14 April 2026

America needs another New Deal

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An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's April 13 " Letters from an American " - Just as there is a blueprint for destroying d...
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13 April 2026

The world's oldest gorilla

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Details from Deutsche Welle : At 69 years old , Lady Fatou on Monday became not only the Berlin Zoo's longest-residing tenant but also m...
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12 April 2026

Breaking news

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Screencap this afternoon from the France 24 site.  Putin's ally Orban loses despite Trump's support: “My Administration stands ready...
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Daddy, what is a "late night rage tweet"?

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Here you go, sweetheart.  Read this and weep.  This is a spontaneous public rant by a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the...
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American negotiators arrive in Pakistan for peace talks

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I can't imagine anyone had serious hopes that peace could be negotiated during the recent summit in Pakistan, when the U.S. positions in...
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09 April 2026

"Relapsing into individuality"

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I came across an interesting quote from one of my favorite authors : “ As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invent...
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Reinstituting U.S. military draft registration

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A very interesting headline in The Hill this morning.  Details re the implementation at the link. I came of age during the 1960s, when the ...
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08 April 2026

Worldwide toilet paper consumption

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I'm not particularly surprised that the U.S. leads the world in this metric, but the numbers are unexpected.  Per capita usage of 141 r...
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