Dan Poynter

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What prime number changed your life?

It was an odd question to be sure, even more so because I am not employed in the arithmetic industry nor am I a math nerd. Also, this was a dream. I remember years ago watching an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. They said that you couldn’t read in your dreams, but I found …

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Halloween Hangover

n. That miserable feeling you have November 1 from eating too much candy the night before.

Overheard: 35 yr old woman

“She did a summer at Oxford. In England!”

Staycation

n., a vacation during which you just stay home, either by choice or dictated by finances. Speaking of which, I’m on it for the next two weeks! See ya.

Overheard: 30 yr old women

WOMAN1: Why don’t you use mascara? WOMAN2: Because I poke myself in the eye.

Slutoween

n. A word coined to describe the recent trend in women’s and girls’ Halloween costumes to be increasingly immodest and/or trashy.

William Tyndale

On this (traditional) date in 1536 William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake for the crime of heresy, heresy which included translating the Bible into English from the Hebrew and Greek source texts. “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause …

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Bunto

So I learned another word in my sleep. Quite some time ago I posted how I had learned a word in my sleep–pickle-faced–and it was a word I hadn’t ever heard until my dream. Two nights ago it happened again. In my dream the word wasn’t explained. “I killed three buntos,” the guy said. When …

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A fix for ‘no SIM card detected’ on iPhone

A couple of months ago I picked up a second-hand iPhone 3G and jailbroke it so I could run it on T-Mobile. The thing is amazing. It replaced my iPod Classic, Palm m515, and Motorola Razr, and does more than all three devices did. The only real issue I have had with it is that …

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Review: Mel’s Diner in Tipton, Missouri

I stopped at Mel’s Diner on 50 Highway on my way back from Rolla last week. Mel’s is a little steel building with a ketchup and mustard interior. Service was decent, despite the large party they had in the back. I ordered the Kosher Corn Beef sandwich. The sandwich was fine , but when you …

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