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Tsavo maneaters →
“In March 1898, during the building of the Kenya-Uganda Railway, Engr. Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson led the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. During the construction period, many Indian railway workers were killed by two maneless male lions, which dragged men from their tents at night and devoured them. The workers built bomas (thorn fences) around their camp...
April 2008
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Ken Burns Effect →
Gone
Last night the IRS sauntered into my checking account, looked around and calmly picked up the stack of cash I’d recently left for it. For me, it was a lot of cash. I suppose it wasn’t really mine to begin with. But it just makes me think about storing these transient piles of cash. I probably could have made a few hundred off of it if I placed it in a CD or something. Then I think; do...
“D. B. Cooper (aka Dan Cooper) is an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on...”
– D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 2008
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Windows® via C/C++, Fifth Edition comments and... →
I submitted every single one of these. They got a few of them wrong even in the corrections. They didn’t credit me! Argh!
Ronald Wayne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Wayne worked with Jobs at Atari before co-founding Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. He was given a 10% stake in Apple, but relinquished his stock for $800 only two weeks later because legally all members of a partnership are personally responsible for any debts incurred by any of the other partners. Later that same year, venture capitalist Mike Markkula helped develop a business plan and convert...
Words of Vast Annoyance
Bistro Curated
February 2008
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I’m really looking forward to SXSW this year. I saw the lineup last month and wasn’t really too excited. But I started drilling in a little deeper and seeing which bands are on which labels, and started to make note of the acts I wanted to check out. Then MySpace would fill in the gaps of all the groups that aren’t playing official shows. Been picking up albums here and there....
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