RichC | June 7, 2024
I’ve been using Twitter, which is now X.com after Elon Musk purchase $TWTR and renamed it, since the early days of the 240 character social network. Shockingly, it has now been over 17 years since I joined in February of 2007 … and I decided it was finally time to eliminate the ads and gain […]
Category: History, Millitary, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: anniversary, brilliantmaps.com, d-day, social media, subscription, tech friday, techfriday, twitter, ww2, x.com
RichC | May 31, 2024
It is Tech Friday, but because I’ve already prepared and posted, I still wanted to highlight the newsworthy headline story regarding the politically motivated trial against former president and the likely Republican candidate for president, Donald J. Trump. So opted to test the relatively “new to me” AI client (Perplexity.AI) by asking: Can you summarize […]
Category: AI, News, Politics, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: ai, court, donald trump, jury, newspaper, nyc, perpexity.ai, president, summary, tech friday, trial, wsj, x.com
RichC | May 27, 2024
Each year Memorial Day holiday often brings out the best in Americans. Those I know, at least give “thought” to the service men and women who fought and died to protect and preserve our country, our freedom and way of life. It is of course, will never be enough appreciation from those of us who […]
Category: Holiday, Millitary, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: flag, Memorial Day, mp4, Remember the fallen, remembrance, scrolling, x.com
RichC | May 23, 2024
Upstairs in the Western NY Farmhouse Barn’s workshop in 2013 In keeping with the occasional ThrowBack Thursday #TBT, the above was a pano photo of DadH’s workshop after he passed away. I mentioned to Brenda that I wondered how he was able to climb the stairs of the barn and work on such a large […]
Category: Memories, Personal, Photos, Social Networking, TBT, Video |
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Tags: barn, bees, buttercups, dadh, family, farmhouse, flowers, momh, mp4, sister, TBT, workshop
RichC | May 11, 2024
On Friday May 10, 2024, I started noticing the beautiful northern lights (aurora borealis) photos showing up on my X.com social media feed. They were so impressive that I told Brenda that we would need to go outside in the evening. While glancing at my skywatching info, I also notice that the International Space Station […]
Category: Archive, Cellphone, Diesel, Environment, Photography, Photos, Repairs, Social Networking, Space |
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Tags: aurora borealis, backyard, diesel, gx8, international space station, iphone14, iphone7plus, iss, kubota, lumix, northern lights, skywatching
RichC | May 9, 2024
Being a great parent isn’t always expensive … it just takes a little time and attention to your children. Here’s someone spotted on social media being a great mom … and a pretty cute little girl enjoying the ride!
Category: Human Interest, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: mom, mp4, parenting, twitter, x.com
RichC | May 6, 2024
If you’ve followed Music Monday entries in the past, you might have noticed a post or two have been generated by Fox Business segment breaks. On Friday, Stu Varney’s producers slipped in “The Saga Begins” a parody song by Weird Al Yankovic from 1999. I thought to myself, the short 15 second audio-only segment does […]
Category: Entertainment, Humor, Music, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: al yankovic, american pie, don mclean, foxbusiness, music monday, music video, musicmonday, Star Wars, the saga begins, varneyco
RichC | May 5, 2024
With the lawn growing like crazy, this is definitely not the time for a mower to need service. The local Kubota dealer is backed up 2 weeks for service and I’m struggling to diagnose the exact problem. So far I’ve only taken things apart, broken a “fuel return pipe” and ordered parts. Nothing like breaking […]
Category: Diesel, Photos, Repairs, Shopping, Social Networking |
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Tags: diesel, engine, injectors, kubota, mower, twitter, x.com
RichC | May 2, 2024
Every once in a while there is a doppelgänger photo, person, sculpture or something that reminds me of someone else (software isn’t always accurate). 😉 Also a few years back, there was a person who reminded me of my brother Ron, so I posted about it. Back October 2011 at my nephew’s wedding, there was […]
Category: Human Interest, Photos, Social Networking, TBT, Tidbits |
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Tags: doppelgänger, family, look-alike, photo, sculpture
RichC | April 23, 2024
As a “non-artist,” I’ve always admired (or had someone on the CPP payroll) who have had the ability and training to create art. Here’s a social media video tip for those of us who would just like to draw a car. 😊
Category: Art, Social Networking, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: car, drawing, mp4, tips
RichC | March 23, 2024
This should probably should have been a Tech Friday blog update post (or not at all?), but was something I noticed after cleaning up about 13 older posts with “issues.” Also I am hoping to test a “featured image” add-on to see if it work with social media alerts. Since 2005, I’ve been posting daily and […]
Category: Blogs, Movies, Social Networking |
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Tags: american graffiti, blog, movie, my desultory blog, posts, toad, twitter, x.com
RichC | March 20, 2024
I’m of the opinion that there are three basic issues we Americans need to address when discussing what should be done with TikTok — be it a ban, divested ownership or continue under Chinese ownership and control. The Chinese Communist Party (government) uses the social media platform to collect data on U.S. citizens/user and feeds […]
Category: News, Politics, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: ccp, china, divest, opinion, tiktok, video, wsj
RichC | March 17, 2024
Going to college after high school has always seemed expensive, but by working, borrowing and getting help from parents … it was do-able, and by today’s standards, seemed affordable. I can’t help but smile noticing that when I finally paid off my student loan that I could start saving to put my kids through college. […]
Category: Education, Human Interest, Social Networking |
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Tags: economy, Education, healthcare, housing, inflation, life, milton friedman, twitter, warren davidson, wikipedia, x.com
RichC | February 23, 2024
Love to read a positive story or tidbit on social media … and this one about Kenton Lee and “The Shoe That Grows” caught my eye. In 2007, our founder Kenton Lee traveled to Nairobi, Kenya after graduating college. He lived and worked at a small orphanage with some incredible kids. One day, he was […]
Category: Human Interest, Innovation, Social Networking |
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Tags: africa, because international, children, kenton lee, kenya, shoes
RichC | February 9, 2024
As an Apple advocate and device user from the 1980s and someone who as been begging for a foldable iPhone flip phone (or even slider) since using and retiring a foldable Samsung SPH i500 PalmOS device years ago, “I can’t wait”… as I mentioned to tech influencer Evan Kirsten. We seem to be getting closer, […]
Category: Apple, Cellphone, Financial, Innovation, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: $AAPL, apple, evan kirsten, flipphone, foldable, iphone, palmos, samsung, slider, sph-i500, stock
RichC | February 5, 2024
Call today’s Music Monday post from X.com a lazy one … but I still like it (what a great dad)! Doesn't look like a lot of money here, not a lot of 'stuff'. There's one thing present that's far more valuable, can you see? pic.twitter.com/wOU6U9ak0F — Dane (@UltraDane) February 4, 2024
Category: Music, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: families, fathers, kids, music monday, musicmonday, twitter, x.com
RichC | February 1, 2024
Contemplating classic cars after seeing a good looking late 1960’s Pontiac Firebird 400 while filling up at Costco. I posted a comment on X.com and it gave me a ThrowBack Thursday #TBT excuse to repost a couple old black and while of photos of my first junkyard rebuildable … my 1974 Capri (it was pea […]
Category: Automotive, Memories, Photos, Social Networking, TBT |
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Tags: capri, costco, firebird, honda, mercury, odeyssey, pontiac, rebuildables, twitter, x.com
RichC | January 29, 2024
Often the bumper music on business television shows catches my ear and triggers a Music Monday idea. That was the case with the 1996 song “Follow You Down” by Gin Blossoms on The Big Money Show with hosts Jackie DeAngelis, Taylor Riggs and a personal favorite personality, Brian Brenberg. Here’s a YouTube Official Video of […]
Category: Business, Music, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: follow you down, fox business, gin blossoms, music monday, musicmonday, twitter, x.com
RichC | January 14, 2024
Aviation has been a hobby of mine for a long time, even though I no longer fly airplanes or spend time homebuilding an airplane or being active in my local EAA Chapter (Hm, I’m missing our chapter meeting today). I do still enjoy the social connection with aviation friends on Twitter/X.com … one that posts […]
Category: Aviation, Social Networking |
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Tags: airplane, bellanca, cruisemaster, eaa, john rowe, triple tail thursday
RichC | January 7, 2024
Just a bit of Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday cleaning up humor found on X.com.
Category: Holiday, Humor, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: christmas, funny, mp4, twitter, x.com
RichC | December 31, 2023
After commenting back in 2022 on a favorite Babylon Bee parody video (added from YouTube below the break), this 2023 year year end New Year’s Eve favorite is another California oriented music video. Both parody clips highlight memorable songs as well as destructive policies from progressive Democrats governing a once idyllic state. It does seems […]
Category: Humor, Music, Politics, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: babylon bee, california, california fleein', parody, video, youtube
RichC | December 12, 2023
As someone who enjoys birds and birdwatching, I found this Red-Tail Hawk (left) vs Bald Eagle (right) X.com video worth sharing. Did you know? The iconic sound of the bald eagle you always hear in movies and TV shows is the one of a red-tailed hawk. Why? This is the red-tailed hawk's vocalization vs a […]
Category: Nature, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: eagle, hawk, twitter, video, x.com
RichC | December 2, 2023
Loved this @Rainmaker1973 X.com post about digital storage and in particular USB flash drives (also enjoyed the photo): Nope. Paradoxically (and theoretically), the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets. USB drives use Flash memory, which means the the ones and zeros of the data are stored on transistors. When you […]
Category: Social Networking, Technology, Tidbits |
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Tags: digital, flashdrive, ssd, storage, thumbdrive, twitter, usbdrive, x.com
RichC | November 30, 2023
An automotive filler for this afternoon: Pretty impressive. #automotive #Cybertruck $TSLA https://t.co/0agJNMn2Or — Rich Corbett (@RichC) November 30, 2023
Category: Automotive, Social Networking |
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Tags: $TSLA, cybertruck, tesla, twitter, x.com
RichC | November 24, 2023
A week or so ago, I went looking for an image of a Killer Whale (Orca) … and wanted one that had the happy look of a smiling Shamu, etc. It didn’t need to be a “real photo” so thought it would be a simple task for one of the artificial intelligence assistance. Microsoft’s Bing […]
Category: Art, Computer, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, bing, image, killer whale, orca, smiling, tech friday, techfriday
RichC | November 17, 2023
Really just testing a new X.com (Twitter) setup after the MyDesultoryBlog account stopped updating several months ago. An API change has made it more difficult for automated accounts to send out tweets. Adding a photo to keep Apple aware that I still would really like an iPhone Flip! 😉
Category: Apple, Cellphone, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: api, flip, iphone, testing, x.com
RichC | November 16, 2023
Of course this was found on social media: X.com … so take it with a grain of salt 😊 (also tinkering with columns for WordPress)
Category: Blogs, Social Networking, Tidbits |
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Tags: column, english, language, tidbit, twitter, x.com
RichC | November 11, 2023
Yesterday was the 248th birthday for the USMC (my X or tweet below). They have an amazing history and those who serve or served (once a Marine always a Marine) have a good reason to be proud. Their bravery and sacrifice was cemented for me earlier this year after listening to the audiobook by Eugene […]
Category: History, Holiday, Millitary, Social Networking |
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Tags: eugene sledge, marine corps, marines, twitter, usmc, veteran, veterans day, x.com
RichC | November 3, 2023
Simple test for my automated MyDesultoryBlog’s X.com account after an API update. This WordPress plug-in using a newly updated service should start to work again. This post will probably be deleted although since I like the Elon Musk ani-gif, I might just keep it. Will this feature work again?
Category: Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: api, elon musk, tech friday, techfriday, twitter, wordpress, x.com, xposter
RichC | September 25, 2023
How to hang a picture on a nail with a fork social media household tip (short video below).
Category: How-To, Social Networking, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: fork, frame, home, mp4, picture, tips, twitter, x.com
RichC | September 22, 2023
It is time to start cleaning up my older WordPress blog install and preparing for an eventual update … once again. I’m beginning to realize that part of the problem is that I hang onto old themes that are no longer updated and I continue to tweak them myself. As the components that run WordPress […]
Category: Blogs, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: ai, bing, bot, chat, tech friday, techfriday, testing, twitter, x.com
RichC | September 20, 2023
What do you remember from Physics class? How about Bernoulli’s principle (something mentioned before). Physics teacher shows Bernoulli's principle pic.twitter.com/AUKpechMKA — Mind Blowing (@blowingfactz) September 17, 2023
Category: Science, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: bernoulli, physics, science, twitter, x.com
RichC | September 14, 2023
A week or so ago, a tweet (or is it X?) appeared on an automotive publication’s social media account … and it caught my eye (see below). It triggered a memory of a well loved plastic 1957 Ford Ranchero that my brother and I had in our large collection of toy cars and trucks; some […]
Category: Automotive, Memories, Photos, Social Networking, TBT |
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Tags: beach, cars, collectible auto, ford, playing, Ranchero, sand, toys, trucks, twitter, x.com
RichC | September 5, 2023
There was an interesting tidbit shared on X.com (formerly Twitter) that highlighted in graphical color where a states population was born. It highlights movements from different areas of the country to other areas, populations who were not transient … as well as what state people born outside the US made home.
Category: Social Networking, Tidbits |
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Tags: america, chart, graph, states, twitter, x.com
RichC | August 23, 2023
Just filling up some space and using these photos as excuses to post a cicada “live photo” (saved as anigif) AND a cute “smiling dogs” photo from the social network “X” … formerly known as Twitter. I’m enjoying the nice warm weather as long as it lasts — August is disappearing fast.
Category: Misc, Photos, Social Networking |
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Tags: anigif, cicada, filler post, smiling dogs
RichC | August 11, 2023
As My Desultory Blog approaches 8000 posts, it has become increasingly clear that tags and categories are becoming worthless. Besides having too many, they are all too full and do little for me to find anything (or anyone else). The search feature has always been a problem and makes it difficult for even me to […]
Category: Blogs, Social Networking, Software |
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Tags: api, blog, categories, change, php, plugins, tags, tech friday, techfriday, themes, twitter, updates, wordpress
RichC | August 2, 2023
Not my photo, but I’m not sure how comfortable the average passenger flying this “budget” airline (???) are when seeing the tape on the wing? Also while sitting on the back porch a little Praying Mantis came to visit (video below).
Category: Aviation, Photos, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: aircraft, airlines, airplane, insect, mantis, mp4, praying, tape, twitter, wings
RichC | July 28, 2023
Things continue to change over at Twitter, at least as the old is removed and the new is implemented. I’m not sure the switch from the Twitter “bird” to the symbol “X” is all that big of a deal, but it does at least keep people in the tech world talking. Who knows if Elon […]
Category: Business, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: elon musk, social media, tech friday, techfriday, twitter, x.com
RichC | July 25, 2023
The API is not accepting updates to MyDesultoryBlog Twitter account. Reset new “keys and tokens” to see if it updates? This will be deleted as it is only a test.
Category: Productivity, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: amazon, api, hooks, twitter
RichC | July 22, 2023
The week was abnormally filled with charts and graphs while chiming in to news stories and posts on Twitter this past week, but I’ll start with an animated GIF graphic and link to a story regarding offshore wind farm leases opening up in the Gulf of Mexico. As for the graphs and charts, here’s one […]
Category: Automotive, Energy, Environment, Misc, Social Networking |
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Tags: anigif, bidenomics, charts, climate change, graphs, id buzz, microbus, twitter, wind farms
RichC | July 20, 2023
An automotive journalist friend of mine regularly promotes his radio appearances on Chicago’s talk radio, which often leads to discussions regarding radio in general. Often the thoughts are to broadcast radio, both AM and FM, verses streaming via an Internet signal (or perhaps satellite)? One thing lead to another and I reflect on my amateur […]
Category: Automotive, Friends, Humor, Radio, Social Networking, TBT, Video |
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Tags: cars, chicago, comedy, gas, john pinette, mp4, radio, shortwave, TBT, transoceanic, video, zenith
RichC | July 16, 2023
Perhaps I’m just being sensitive in having a couple granddaughters I want to protect, but started to read a human interest story last week that started me off irritated. Thankfully by the end, it gave a ray of hope for the next generation. Dear teenage boy at the skate park… You’re probably about 15 years-old, […]
Category: Human Interest, Social Networking |
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Tags: generation, granddaughters, skateboard, skatepark, teenagers
RichC | June 28, 2023
Saw this image on Twitter with the tagline “Humanity is Doomed” the other day … and although I smiled … it is unfortunately the appropriate comment.
Category: Human Interest, Humor, Social Networking |
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Tags: helmet, humanity, Humor, twitter
RichC | June 24, 2023
Most of us know from Geography class that the country of Chile in South America is a narrrow but l-o-n-g country … but may not have a perspective as to it’s entire length. A “map website,” BrilliantMaps, that I follow on Twitter posted a couple photos illustrating just how long (or tall) it is. It […]
Category: Social Networking, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: brilliantmaps.com, chile, geography, maps, twitter
RichC | June 21, 2023
Who doesn’t enjoy mind benders … especially when it comes to well know art such as Vincent Gogh‘s “Starry Night“ … mentioned in a previous Meniere’s post. Look at the center dot in the top image and press play until the short video ends. Then look at the Vincent van Gogh artwork below it. Mind […]
Category: Art, Social Networking, Tidbits, Video |
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Tags: artwork, brainteaser, menieres, mindbender, starry night, twitter, van Gogh
RichC | June 16, 2023
Technology advancements and AI photo and video editing has been around a few years (FaceApp photos) … but some of the newer fakes or clones are a bit “too” convincing (link to a “human generated” one, but not necessarily convincing). 😉 As a society, there’s no turning back once artificial intelligence abilities are here, but […]
Category: Art, Computer, Social Networking, Technology, Video |
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Tags: ai, all in the family, blackmail, mash, mp4, tech friday, techfriday, television, tiktok, youtube
RichC | June 2, 2023
It seems like a shorter than usual week (it was with Memorial Day), so I’m tossing in a Friday Filler video and a #DDJ below the break that is sure to make most of us smile.
Category: Entertainment, Humor, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: animation, cute, ddj, father-son, filler friday, friday filler, mp4, social media
RichC | May 20, 2023
An opinion article by Faith Bottum in the Wall Street Journal about ink on paper books, ebook readers and bookshelves spoke to me last week … so I tweeted about it in agreement; I love having books in the home. Perhaps being in printing and publishing established my love for ink on paper, but for […]
Category: Books, Gadget, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: bookshelf, bookshelves, ebooks, ereader, faith bottum, ink, library, opinion, paper, reading, twitter, wsj
RichC | May 19, 2023
As a long time fan of the long running television series “M*A*S*H,” I could help but be impressed by a photo making its way around social media (probably something to do with my age). This is an impressive group of young look-alikes posing for an eerily similar photo (I’m keeping my eyes open for the […]
Category: Entertainment, Misc, Photos, Social Networking |
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Tags: friday filler, look-alike, mash, series, social media, television, tv
RichC | May 12, 2023
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has announced that he will be handing over the reins of Twitter to a new female CEO. The move comes after Musk acquired the social media platform for $44 billion in April 2022. In a tweet on Thursday, Musk said: Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO […]
Category: Business, Social Networking |
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Tags: ceo, elon musk, tech friday, techfriday, twitter
RichC | May 11, 2023
Saw this double-tortilla inspired grilled Mexican sandwich on Twitter the other day and wanted to save to my food and recipe categories with the thought … I might try this!
Category: Food, Ideas, Recipe, Social Networking |
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Tags: food, idea, mexican, mp4, sandwich
RichC | April 30, 2023
Some animals “kids” are just like human kids. Who doesn’t see the similarity between goat kids and human kids when it comes to playground excitement.
Category: Humor, Nature, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: goats, Humor, kids, mp4
RichC | April 20, 2023
When it comes to fast aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the one most of us know about. In a social media Twitter mention last week, Massimo posted this photo and link. The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast that, if attacked by surface-to-air missiles, it simply flew higher, faster, and in a slightly different direction […]
Category: Aviation, Photos, Social Networking, TBT |
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Tags: aircraft, lockheed, massimo, sr-71 blackbird, TBT, twitter
RichC | April 19, 2023
On Twitter this past week, Elon Musk retweeted an image of a bunch of different outlets around the world. Wow, do we really need that many different electrical outlets and plugs?
Category: Social Networking, Tidbits |
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Tags: countries, electric, engineering, plugs, twitter
RichC | April 13, 2023
There is part of me that can’t help but smile when seeing the new label that Elon Musk’s Twitter put on NPR’s feed. The left-leaning taxpayer-funded media title is partially accurate since tax dollars are used to support public radio and television. At this point with the variety of media news and programming available in […]
Category: Humor, News, Radio, Social Networking |
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Tags: Feed, funded, journalism, media, newfeed, npr, social, taxpayer, twitter
RichC | April 12, 2023
Just a short video filler test from Twitter after receiving a message that MyDesultoryBlog was inaccessible (suspect it is because previous post was personal and only for registered readers?)
Category: Nature, Social Networking, Video |
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Tags: beautiful, birds, eagles, mp4, testing
RichC | April 8, 2023
I’m not really sure where the data for this map came from or if it is accurate (??) … but it is something to think about.
Category: Health, Human Interest, Social Networking, Tidbits |
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Tags: america, expectancy, life, map