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 I am hostess to a beautiful lady spider in her web. Closest I can find to an ID is an Argiope. She is one of those who stretches her legs out into a huge X. The recent rain did a number on her home. This morning, I watched as she rebuilt. I saw her deal with a load of “bricks and lumber”. I went away and when I came back a little while later, she was stretched out in her beautiful new home. Where did she learn to do that? She must have had classes in geometry, physics, engineering. Why do we think we’re so smart? |
| [Friday Joke] “Why did the politician bring a ladder to the debate? To make sure he could reach new heights with his promises!” Ask Al (Artificial Intelligence) to write a political joke, and the above is an example of what you can get. |
 [Big Pine Book Club] This Saturday, August 17, 10 am. This month the club is discussing Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson:In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves. Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. |
| [Friday Joke] Police report that a man barricaded himself in his home today. He is unarmed and nobody is paying any attention to him. ~George Carlin |
 [US Mobile’s Give Away] Dark Star is our third mobile network, launched earlier this month. Now, our customers can access all the major American networks. Most of our competitors offer one network. A rare few offer two. We have them all.And with our TelePortal tool, you can switch networks anytime you want. Maybe Warp has the fastest speeds at home, and Dark Star has the best coverage at your vacation spot. Switch when you get there and switch back when you get home. It’s all about giving you an unprecedented choice. This month marks US Mobile’s 10th Anniversary. To celebrate, we’re giving away a Tesla Cyber Truck. Video |
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| [Changing Attitudes] Is just me? or is China participating in sports that a decade ago would have sent the participants to a hard labor camp for 30 years. For this Olympics they had Chinese skateboarding, surfing and breakdancing. These new disciplines will test the boundaries of tradition and talent in sports scarcely older than the athletes themselves. Link |
 [Young Blood] Has the fountain of youth been in our blood all along? Studies published over the last 15 years have found that young blood can reinvigorate aging mice. Now, scientists are trying to crack the code—or codes—swimming through our veins. Link |
| [Medical Translated] I have a sort of Rosetta stone. One sentence translated in 25 languages. This could be so helpful in 5000 years. Actually, it is from Amazon Pharmacy. It tells how to call for information in your language. Should I keep it in a safe place for 5000 years? |
 [Cockroaches] Roach sprays don’t work! If you want to stop a cockroach infestation, most consumer products offer ‘absolutely no benefit.’ Research has repeatedly demonstrated that the vast majority of free-living German roach populations have evolved resistance to pyrethroids, the class of insecticides most commonly found in consumer pest control products. Link |
| [Friday Joke] I called my local fish market and asked the clerk if she had crabs. She slammed the phone down without saying one word. I guess she doesn’t – maybe? |
 If Gazans want peace, they should return the hostages and stop supporting Hamas. They say the regular people don’t support Hamas, but they all do. When Israel takes a hit, the residents, the people living in mud huts, cheer of give their approval. That hate must stop or the Gazans should be wiped off the map. Israel has an obligation to destroy Hamas before Hamas destroys Israel. What’s wrong with that thinking? Yes, Israel stole their land ¾ of a century ago and that was wrong, but there’s nothing anyone can do about that unless they have a bigger and better equipped army, and no one does. |
| [Good Living] The fact that Keith Richards has outlived Richard Simmons really makes me question the whole healthy eating and exercise thing. |
 [Aliens] Scientists estimate that there could be at many as 50 sextillion planets in the universe that could support life, with 60 billion of them in the Milky Way alone. So where are they? You’d think that at least one would have a space ship that could reach Earth |
| Hate is a nutritious emotion; one can live off it for years. |
 [Erratic Tapping] To the paranoid it sounded like thieves picking through my stuff downstairs. I finally got up, walked around the porches, and after careful investigation concluded it was sea grapes dropping to the ground. Tap, tap, tap… |
| [Facts to Remember as You Grow Older] Death is the number one killer in the world. Life is sexually transmitted. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks. months. Maybe even years. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday. Lying in the hospital, dying of nothing. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. In the 60’s. people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird. and people take Prozac to make it normal. Don’t won)’ about old age: it doesn’t last that long. |
  I see that Chevrolet is phasing out their old logo. To me, when I see the old logo, I think “cheap.” I like the new look on the tailgates. |
| [First Air Force One] One man’s quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again. Link |
Islam vs Christian in their volleyball uniforms. |
| [Friday Joke] Checkout Law: The other checkout queue always moves faster! |
 AI tongue scanner can diagnose illnesses with 96 percent accuracy. The new machine learning system builds on 2,000-year-old traditional Chinese medicine techniques. Link |
| [Deadly Jetski Crash] Witness details personal watercraft crashing in Florida Keys. A witness eating lunch at a Florida Keys restaurant said the impact of the personal watercraft that killed a 9-year-old boy and his father early Tuesday night made “a sound like a bomb exploding.” Link |
 Even Vikings had to pay fines. A new look at the 250 runes etched into the Forsa Ring show a flexible and practical money system. Link |
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| [Friday Joke] A newlywed couple moves into their new house. One day the husband comes home from work and his wife says, “Honey, you know, in the upstairs bathroom one of the pipes is leaking, could you fix it?” The husband says, “What do I look like, Mr. Plumber?” A few days go by, and he comes home from work and his wife says, “Honey, the car won’t start. I think it needs a new battery. Could you change it for me?” He says: “What do I look like, Mr. Goodwrench?” Another few days go by, and it’s raining pretty hard. The wife finds a leak in the roof. She says, “Honey, there’s a leak on the roof! Can you please fix it?” He says, “What do I look like, Bob Vila?” The next day the husband comes home, and the roof is fixed. So is the plumbing. So is the car. He asks his wife what happened. “Oh, I had a handyman come in and fix them,” she says. “Great! How much is that going to cost me?” he snarls. Wife says, “Nothing. He said he’d do it for free if I either baked him a cake or slept with him.” “Uh, well, what kind of cake did you make?” asks the husband. “What do I look like,” she says, “Betty Crocker?” |
I used to be stressed a lot until I discovered Yoga. I’m feeling much better now. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 8/16/24 at 9:03 am. |