Special K: My new favorite baseball trivium: "4 pitchers, and 4 pitchers only, have played in the majors after attending Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton CA, and now all 4 have thrown an MLB no-hitter. "
10.8.23
Observation class 099
The Dear Hunter: Find the butter fly
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6.8.23
4.8.23
Look! An aonyx bracelet!!
b1-66er: !!
Dear Hunter: Angry Otter.... yeah... I bet their business end could hurt.
b1-67er: That's got to be like fighting a greased pig.
29.7.23
Shallow K analysis
b1-66er: "Sick of Drinking? More People Are Replacing Booze with Ketamine."
b1-67er: Ketamine does not seem like a smart play.
28.7.23
All you observatory
Suttonhoo: One cold winter in Wisconsin a window cracked at the Yerkes Observatory so they replaced it with a glass plate dupe of a solar eclipse captured through the world's largest refraction telescope. No biggy
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b1-66er: Looks great.
(the ornamentation visible out the other window is interesting.)
S: This place is absolutely brilliant -- y'all should consider a drive by on your next tren adventure
<Observatory through trees>
b1: That's a great shot too.
What takes you there?
S: Curiosity. The cat with the big schnoze is John D Rockefeller. Originally there was a wasp in the cartouche (replicated many times) to allude to how JD got stung bankrolling the construction of the University of Chicago. UofC officials got wise to the joke and had the wasps chiseled out
I like the phases of the moon best
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