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"We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school." -Thucydides
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
I was trying to order some basketball shoes online tonight and encountered this little gem:
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
Why does the water in the toilet always gently slosh back and forth when it's really windy outside?
I actually read this a few months back on Mental Floss. By the way, if anyone's looking for a good Twitter feed with odd and interesting tidbits, check out Mental Floss.
In many homes (at least in the U.S.), part of the plumbing system is a pipe that runs up and out to the roof. This outlet, called a “vent stack,” allows sewage gases to vent outside instead of through the toilet, sink or tub—which would make the house reek. The stack also allows air to move through the pipes, which makes wastewater drain smoothly and keeps obnoxious gurgling to a minimum.
When the wind blows over the vent stack outlet on the roof, the air pressure in the pipe is lowered. This is Bernoulli’s principle (“as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases”), the same thing that gives airplanes their lift, in action in your bathroom. The lowered pressure in the pipes creates a slight suction effect throughout the plumbing system, pulling on water in the toilet below. As the wind kicks up and dies down, the suction gets stronger and weaker, and the water in the bowl sloshes around accordingly.
I had the fine fortune of running into our very own Clark Addison at the grocery store tonight and found out that, like me, he too was in charge of the family meal today.
His cart contained egg nog, milk, some kind of dessert I'm sure, and the ingredients to prepare sushi from scratch. In my hands I held a bag of Hot Pocket Snackers, a box of Hot Pocket Sliders, frozen french fries and two frozen chimichangas.
(I hadn't had Hot Pockets in years, saw them in the freezer and decided to take the easy route.)
"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon
buffalo wild wings opening up in lehi, near the Costco. It opens on Monday. Apparently the store is giving away free wings for a year for the first 100 people that show up on Monday.
There are around 20 people that started camping out yesterday.
buffalo wild wings opening up in lehi, near the Costco. It opens on Monday. Apparently the store is giving away free wings for a year for the first 100 people that show up on Monday.
There are around 20 people that started camping out yesterday.
Opportunism is a tenet of the Mormon culture.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader
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