TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

01 April 2021

A book lover has a dream

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Via the Book Porn tumblr.
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Lucrative crop

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Not the trees.  The needles. The longleaf pine’s most obvious attribute is its strong, straight timber — perfect for utility poles. But the ...
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Here's something you don't see every day

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"A 54-year-old woman presented with palpitations that were relieved when she passed gas or had a bowel movement. Computed tomography r...
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Another fatal gender reveal

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"The small plane arced over a blue lagoon near the Caribbean Sea, flying low above a family in a boat on Tuesday afternoon. As they cla...
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31 March 2021

Flaying as judicial punishment

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"This, then, is what Darius said, and after appointing Artaphrenes, his father's son, to be viceroy of Sardis, he rode away to Susa...
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Triptych of shadows

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Not sure whether you want Venus de Milo , David , or Michaelangelo's Risen Christ on your wall?  With this creation you can have all th...

Interesting wardrobe

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Via the Secret Compartments subreddit.  Does any reader know if the ?constellations on the back of the door are part of the Narnia story (I...
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28 March 2021

A girl and a tuba

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"A little girl peeks inside a tuba during the National Festival of bands, Crystal Palace, London, October 1923 (Topical Press Agency / ...

This tool measures piano key "up-weight" and "down-weight"

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  Informed discussion in the thread at the Specialized Tools subreddit (and a clarification that speaker Christian Bolduc has a specificall...
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"We all have the right to do what we want to do as Americans"

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Thus tweeted the owners of a New Jersey gym that is offering free memberships to people who DON'T get the Covid-19 vaccine .  This actio...
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Like a birthday every day

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Interesting bookshelves

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Minimizing color clashes in a color-neutral room, hiding reading preferences from curious visitors, or perhaps just a whim?  Via the like-fa...
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Immigrant groups in Minnesota, 1900 - 2019

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The graphic above was compiled and published in 2001.  In 1900 new immigrants (born elsewhere) constituted a full quarter of the state's...
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26 March 2021

Better than augmented reality...

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Via Neatorama .
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I wasn't born in a state

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I was born in the District of Columbia when my father was stationed at a naval base nearby in the post-war period.  Endless arguments still...
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