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 [Helene] Another hurricane has slipped by us, thank the weather gods. |
| [Friday Joke] I wanted to get my pants hemmed quickly so I called Taylor Swift. |
 [Daylight Saving Time Ends] Why does the U.S. Use Daylight Saving Time? Daylight Saving Time has been legally enforced in the U.S. on-and-off since 1918, when congress passed the Standard Time Act. The law set the boundaries for the various time zones in the U.S. The purpose of Daylight Saving Time is to maximize use of sunlight hours in the Northern hemisphere during the summer months, when the sun typically rises earlier.
Daylight Saving Time ends on the first Sunday of November every year. This year, it will end on Sunday, Nov. 3—meaning we will gain an hour of sleep. It will restart on Mar. 9 when the clocks spring forward. Daylight Saving Time is implemented in all U.S. states except Arizona and Hawaii. Versions of Daylight Saving are also observed, or partially observed, in many other countries—including most of Europe, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Israel, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, French Guiana, Cuba, and Haiti. Multiple legislators have attempted to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and halt the biannual practice of adjusting clocks back and forth. Researchers have observed an increase in traffic accidents, medical errors, heart attacks, and strokes on the days when either of the clocks settings change. Senator Marco Rubio introduced the Sunshine Protection Act in 2022, which would make Daylight Saving permanent, even throughout the winter months. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate, but it has yet to be voted on in the House of Representatives. |
 [Scroll Addict] You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop scrolling on her phone while we’re watching TV? Edward finds it annoying. Fran says it’s because of her ADHD. You decide who gets shut down. Link |
| Damm, I turn on the “weather” and they go on and on about what Helene will be doing in 3 or 4 days in Asheville N. C. but nothing about what is projected NOW in the Keys! That’s annoying as hell. |
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| [Kharma] Miami Beach car thief trapped in Corvette begs its owner for help. Video |
 The price of oysters could potentially go up if hurricane Helene impacts Apalachicola and the surrounding Big Bend area, which is a major oyster-producing region in Florida. |
| [Windows OS] When you log in to your xxxxxx.com account between September 26, 2024, and October 10, 2024, you’ll see a message prompting you to proactively enable security defaults. If you haven’t logged in or enabled this setting when that timeframe ends, we’ll enable it for you automatically. |
 A whole herd of Ibis showed up this morning. I guess the rain made some bugs easier to get to. |
| [Sick-o Girl] Woman in a sexual relationship with an AEROPLANE for nine years says she has finally broken up with it ‘but we’re still friends’. (I wonder if she had to pay for drinks and inflight entertainment? I wonder if this is phony and she’s just trying to get hits on her social media accounts. That’s what I think.) Link |
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| [Rocket] Drone captures Chinese reusable test rocket’s fiery end. Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1 just barely missed its landing, but still exploded. Video |
 [The Economy] The stock market is the highest it’s ever been. And unemployment is at 4.2%. Inflation is down to 2.5% from 7%. Who is the one saying the economy is bad? The people who didn’t have anything to begin with? |
| [Kayak Training] Our training class for the full moon kayak guides will be 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 2nd at the Old Wooden Bridge Marina at the picnic table next to the pool. Please let me know whether or not you will be attending. mariannef@mail.com. Our first guided tour will be October 16th beginning at 5:15 p.m. followed by one each month through May 11th. Please volunteer and help the refuges of the Florida Keys. |
 [Seaweed] Marine scientists want you to eat more seaweed. The ocean vegetable is the most sustainable ingredient not on your plate. Link |
| [Big Pine Computer Club] Saturday, Sept 28, 10:30 a.m. BP Community Center, Winn Dixie Plaza. We will attempt to communicate via Skype. I hope we get it right this time. Full Menu > Ongoing Events |
 [McDonald’s Fish Sandwich Review] This afternoon on my way to the hospital I stopped off at McDonald’s for Donald J Trump’s favorite sandwich, the filet of Fish and was I disappointed. Sad to say that I have been eating at McDonald’s since Ray Krock opened the First McDonalds in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1954 and I’ve never been so disappointed in my life. The Filet of Fish was at least 1/2 as thick as what I remember, dry and not juicy, and had no flavor whatsoever. I won’t be eating at McDonalds again any time soon. Like that old lady once decried, “Where’s the fish!” |
 [Petty Annoyance] Do you want to know what annoys me every day? No? I’ll tell you anyway. On a Windows computer, sometimes you have to click twice to open the next window and sometimes you only have to click once. I find that stupid. I don’t know if Apple computers have this anomaly. |
| [Local Weather] I wish there were some place we could go to see how much wind and rain to expect on a Key at a certain time. It’s easy to see the hurricane’s worst hit, but no way to find what to expect from the various bands passing by. There’s always Alan Archer, but I don’t know when the next time he’ll be on the radio. |
 [Sell Used Books] Sell used books online: a step-by-step guide. Get them for free at the library. Link |
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 Voodu Sol, the Keys blues rock, funk band will be playing the Looe Key Tiki Bar this Saturday, September 28 from 7-11. Come on out and celebrate not having to deal with a hurricane and dance and get your funk out. |
| [Scary Weapon] Ukraine shows off capabilities of new drone-dropped, flamethrowing robotic war dogs. This guy is an ass-kicking robot dog fitted with a flamethrower which has been airdropped into a combat zone. I’ll bet the Russian conscripts that were sent into the Ukraine are soiling themselves after running into them. I know that I wouldn’t be too happy to run into something like that! Video |
 Your recycled pee may be better for crops than synthetic fertilizer. New research further supports the benefits of swapping out artificial additives for human urine. Link |
| [Friday Joke] While passing a house on the road, two salesmen spotted a ‘very peculiar chimney’. They asked a flaxen-haired urchin standing near the house if it “drawed well,” whereupon the aforementioned urchin gave them the stinging retort: “Yes, it draws all the attention of all the damned fools that pass this road.” (A joke from 1870, when people were interested in chimneys.) |
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| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 9/27/24 at 9:29 am. |