Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
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In 1884, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow created the first television. It only transmitted still pictures and no sound. Experts believe it is the earliest example of what is today called “public television”. ☻ In 1906, Russian inventor Boris Rosing combined Nipkow’s television with a cathode ray tube. To this day, humans are the only animals to […]
Read More I Channel Facts About Television (1979)Donkeys were domesticated three to five thousand years ago, although you wouldn’t know it by looking at them. They are members of the foul-tempered little horse family of mammals, along with the kiang and the Irish Setter. Donkeys are mentioned in the Bible, Koran, and the Buddhist Sutras; although, they had very little input into […]
Read More Book Excerpt: Part FiveI was listening to a Beatles album in my filthy debris-filled bedroom and it told me to “picture [myself] in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies” and the best I could do was to picture myself on a boat in a filthy debris-filled bedroom. ☼ I was late for my […]
Read More How I Know I Don’t Have any Imagination“…and I am happy to present this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Marjorie Taylor Greene” ֎ “I can’t decide between spending the long weekend at that church retreat and seminar or watching seventy-two hours of pornography” ֎ “Oops, your gum fell into my hair. Let me get you another piece” ֎ “Your nasty sarcastic […]
Read More Things that No One Will Ever Ever SayA lot of people think that daylight savings time was created to keep farmers happy; but, that is a myth because farmers are incapable of happiness. Ѳ Time slows next to heavy objects so, if you marry a guy fat enough, you could live almost forever. Ѳ Julius Caesar called upon Greek astronomer Sosigenes to […]
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Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 