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Coffee thievery, North Pole style

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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:laugh:

Found that doubly interesting because I used to live there. Yup. Worked at the local North Pole newspaper called, interestingly enough, the North Pole Paper.

And then when the News-Miner bought it out and closed it down, went to work at Santa's Travel World, 333 Santa Claus Lane, North Pole, Alaska.

For reals.

And you're right -- they ARE a wacky lot.

So how did you happen to be perusing the Fairbanks News-Miner?

I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

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So how did you happen to be perusing the Fairbanks News-Miner?

The Obscure Store & Reading Room. (Scroll down to the articles for April 22.)

In 1987, I came within a hairsbreath of moving to Homer. I still occasionally have a small twinge of regret for not having done so.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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In 1987, I came within a hairsbreath of moving to Homer. I still occasionally have a small twinge of regret for not having done so.

Homer. Watching the sun set over Kachemak Bay and the volcanoes beyond. Sigh.

It's not too late, Alex. Certainly you must move there. And be sure to get a place with a lovely guest room, okay?

Of course I'm just thinking of you, you understand.

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I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

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My, my, Jaymes, you certainly make your signature come true :grin:

My aunt used to live on the Cook Inlet. The sunsets were amazing, even by Nebraska standards.

But, even non-rehabilitable criminals should get several weeks of hard labor scooping snow for their efforts of attempting to steal bad coffee. If it were good coffee I would be much less charitable :raz:

I always attempt to have the ratio of my intelligence to weight ratio be greater than one. But, I am from the midwest. I am sure you can now understand my life's conundrum.

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In 1987, I came within a hairsbreath of moving to Homer. I still occasionally have a small twinge of regret for not having done so.

Homer. Watching the sun set over Kachemak Bay and the volcanoes beyond. Sigh.

It's not too late, Alex. Certainly you must move there. And be sure to get a place with a lovely guest room, okay?

Of course I'm just thinking of you, you understand.

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Of course. I understand completely. For years I've encouraged friends to move to really great places.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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