Today is World Whisky Day, which is an excellent excuse to sip drop or two. A Hot Toddy, by the way, is hot whisky with honey in it — a purely medicinal version of the liquor, I’m assured! Whisky was invented by the Scots, and if it is produced in Scotland, it becomes scotch. There are […]
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I think this is the first year I have been blogging frequently enough to be able to do May the Fourth Be With You and Revenge of the Fifth on the next day, too. My geeky heart is all aflutter! Today is the Revenge of the Fifth Day, just in case you missed the news. I
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If you answered five, you may not be right. The BBC recently posted an article that outlines the possibility of many more senses we have that go uncredited. If everyone has these extra senses, does that mean everyone has ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)? You may go ahead and groan now.
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Roy C. Sullivan must be the unluckiest man alive. He’s been hit seven times by lightning. On the other hand, he’s one of the luckiest men. He lived. There are hundreds of people struck by lightning every year, and the effects of being struck are never the same. From a lightning strike support group, the
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If the image didn’t give it away for you, let me surprise you: Lego® creates more tires every year than any other company in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records says so. Did that just make your day? 🙂 Cheers, Get the news that no one else does. Sign up for my newsletter.
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Seven years ago today, on March 11, 2011, I “relaunched” my blog, to mark the release of my very first indie book, Blood Knot. I’ve been writing blog posts ever since, with just the odd short break here and there to give myself some downtime. But that wasn’t the first day this site was launched. In actual
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We’re all used to seeing typos and grammar mistakes in published work. Although, we tend to trust dictionaries completely. They’re the ultimate authority for publishers, authors, and Scrabble players. Yet, even Websters has been known to oops. On this day in 1939, it was discovered that the Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition, did have
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