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OK, this is going to be a fine line. The “link” included at the end of this post is to a publicly retrievable photograph on someone else’s web page, on Facebook to be precise. The photographer states (read it at the link) that the picture may not be posted so, therefore, I’m not posting it. Instead, I’m posting only the link to the otherwise downloadable image.

I’ve been using an app called “Reeder” by Readability on my iPad for some time to alert me to new posts on my favorite blogs via their RSS updates but since this app a merely a “client” (user) of Google Reader, it will cease to be of use when the Google service on which it relies goes away.

After reading what the author had to say, I must confess the simplicity of his presentation makes for a very strong argument.

This year’s flu, in spite of the preventative shots, has completed its round through our family.

With the demise of Hostess, will all the Twinkies leave America?

Did you get yours?

WTF? The Social Security Administration is buying 174,000 rounds of .357 hollow point ammunition? Social Security? ???

Curiosity, the biggest, heaviest and most complex rover, landed successfully on Mars this evening.