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Apparently it was recently added to some mainland China “easy mark” list and was being probed with a new, non-human registration attempt every few minutes.

My Small Part
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September 11, 2013

Today I am, hopefully, boosting the knowledge and abilities of engineers at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. If you’re not familiar with them, you can Google-up their web-sites to see what kinds of things they make.

Revised 03/17/2014

Wet cleaning with stainless steel media is better than the dry, vibratory method and takes no additional time – when adjusted for my needs. Obviously, your needs may be different but the approach I took should work for you, too.

Here is a sampling from the first batch, all “many times fired” shells, tumbled according to the vendor’s recipe.

Time to do some planning.

ASCII Rhythm Box
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August 22, 2013

For example, the number sign or pound character ("#") is pronounced “crunch” and the exclamation point ("!") is a “bang” so “#!/bin/sh” would be read aloud as “crunch bang slash bin slash s h”.

Free Money!
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August 22, 2013
323RMB, People’s Republic of China
45Euros
82Canadian dollars
20British pounds
25,000South Korean Won

The currency exchange service at the airport will charge a fee for each different currency (I think) but even so, that should net over $200.

Where’s My Bag?
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August 20, 2013

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