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From the This Is True newsletter.

Tomorrow (as I write this), it’ll be 6 June 2006, which some have been shorthanding as 6/6/6 (except of course in Europe, where they put the dates in different order, in which case it’ll instead read 6/6/6).

It’s nice to see my discovery being used for good…

Oh, and this is kind of neat too:

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

Updated – linking to the folks who actually created the video…

It’s the first sunny day in ages, so I’m going to be joining umpteen of my neighbors and mowing my lawn.

Wait. That’s not terribly clear.

I don’t have umpteen neighbors all doing my yardwork. We’re all working on our own lawns, we’re just doing it at the same time. Or will be, as soon as I put this thing down and head back out there.

I don’t know why the error message says, “Microsoft Word Has Unexpectedly Quit.”

I mean… It’s a Microsoft product. There’s always the expectation that it’s going to quit.

I had occasion to look up some fairly simple, but extremely important, information over the weekend. Basically, I thought it would be a good idea to double-check the correct way to add an outlet to a household circuit before actually performing said wiring task.
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