Category Archives: Because I Can

Forensics Experts Recreate Tragic Beirut Explosion

Posted on November 21, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Forensics Experts Recreate Tragic Beirut Explosion

Read more on Gizmodo here.

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Foundation: Fall and Rise of the Galactic Empires

Posted on November 21, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Foundation: Fall and Rise of the Galactic Empires

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Happy Birthday, ISS

Posted on November 20, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, ISS

On November 20, 1998, the first segment of the ISS, the Zarya FGB, was launched into orbit on a Russian Proton rocket, and was followed two weeks later by the first of three ‘node’ modules, Unity, launched aboard STS-88.

Wikipedia Link

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Gingerbread Chicken Coop

Posted on November 13, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Gingerbread Chicken Coop

Tractor Supply is selling these! Free standard shipping to your store!

Gingerbread Chicken Coop Cookie Kit:

  • Build and decorate your own Gingerbread Chicken Coop with cookie chickens to decorate.

Update 12/19/23: New kit!

Posted in Because I Can, Food, Gadgets, Humor

Veteran’s Day

Posted on November 11, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Veteran’s Day

Veteran's Day

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Veteran

Posted on November 11, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Veteran

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to his country for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.’

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Posted on November 10, 2020 by James| Comments Off on The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Edmund FitzgeraldThe SS Edmund Fitzgerald, May 1975.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a cargo ship that sank suddenly during a gale storm on November 10, 1975, while on Lake Superior. The ship went down without a distress signal in 530 feet (162 m) of water at 46°59.9′N 85°6.6′W, in Canadian waters about 17 miles (15 nm; 27 km) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. All 29 members of the crew perished. Gordon Lightfoot‘s hit song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, helped make the incident the most famous marine disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping.

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Is that a baby helicopter?

Posted on November 9, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Is that a baby helicopter?

Posted in Because I Can, Critters, Humor

RIP Alex Trebek

Posted on November 8, 2020 by James| Comments Off on RIP Alex Trebek

What is, “That’s all folks.”

George Alexander Trebek, July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020)

Best know as the host of Jeopardy! since its comeback in 1984, Alex Trebek passed away today at age 80.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series ‘Deadwood.’ It was Shakespeare in the Old West. – Alex Trebek

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Fred Astaire Cuts Loose on the 1970 Oscars

Posted on November 8, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Fred Astaire Cuts Loose on the 1970 Oscars

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The Flying Train – 1902 / 2015 Side by Side

Posted on November 8, 2020 by James| Comments Off on The Flying Train – 1902 / 2015 Side by Side

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Cryptic Auto-Calendar

Posted on November 7, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Cryptic Auto-Calendar

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Charles Bridge – Construction of a pillar and vaulted field in the 14th century

Posted on November 4, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Charles Bridge – Construction of a pillar and vaulted field in the 14th century

How the iconic Charles Bridge over the Vltava (Moldau) river in Prague, Czech Republic was constructed in 1357.

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Volcano

Posted on November 3, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Volcano
https://youtu.be/cbzIVR1OaAY

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Building Goes For a Walk

Posted on November 2, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Building Goes For a Walk

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A Pirate Looks at Forty

Posted on November 1, 2020 by James| Comments Off on A Pirate Looks at Forty
https://youtu.be/i40DDI7Hplc

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Daylight Savings Time Ends

Posted on November 1, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Daylight Savings Time Ends

Daylight Savings Time Graph

Clocks turn back an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, marking the beginning of standard time for the next few months.

This means that this weekend will be an hour longer than normal, but it will get dark an hour earlier in the evenings.

Standard time will be used through March 8, when clocks will “spring” forward an hour to begin Daylight Saving Time.

Ironically, standard time is no longer the norm. About two-thirds of the days during the year now operate on Daylight Saving Time.

Daylight Saving Time now begins on the second Sunday of March each year and ends on the first Sunday of November.

DST has roots tracing to 1918 in the United States, though not all places always observed it. Currently, it is not used in Hawaii and most of Arizona.

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“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die”

Posted on October 31, 2020 by James| Comments Off on “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die”

Goldfinger finally got what he wanted. Mr. Bond, Sean Connery, has passed at age 90.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He was best known as the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again) between 1962 and 1983.

Wikipedia Article

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Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Happy Halloween

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Josh Sundquist 2020

Posted on October 30, 2020 by James| Comments Off on Josh Sundquist 2020

Josh is back for 2020! Read his whole story here!

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