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IAN: January 22, 2023 - This month has been flying by [1]
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Date: 2023-01-21
Winter can be so much fun.
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A student at Princeton has designed an app to counter AI-based cheating.
A new theory about the Nazca lines.
Winter scenes from Finland.
A new study finds violence was widespread in early farming societies — 10% of skeletons studied show weapon damage.
Five things your GPS can do besides telly you how to get where you want to go.
Ground-penetrating radar and the finding of unmarked graves.
A kindergarten class in Melbourne Australia got stuffed toys from their teacher based on their drawings of monsters.
A study has finally succeeded in duplicating Roman cement.
Mapping the world’s river basins.
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Amazon dropped the Kindle release of the new Ilona Andrews book several hours ahead of schedule on Monday — they usually wait till midnight Central time. Good story. Nice to see some old friends (so to speak) again.
The really big thing for me this past week was on Wednesday, the mailman dropped my across-the-driveway neighbor’s mail in my slot and I had to give it back to him. I thought he knocked on my door because he left a package until he knocked again and yelled my name. We aren’t friends, but we’ve been cordial acquaintances for years. I know his name, too. He did have a package for me, actually.
Tax filing can start tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll do it then — considering I don’t have all my 1099s — but soon.
I had a chiropractic appointment yesterday. I was thinking of stopping somewhere for a late breakfast or doing some other errand afterward. When I got out to the lobby, it was snowing. It was still snowing when I got back into Portland, so I came home instead. It spent several more hours trying to snow; but it was too warm (barely) to stick, and eventually the cloud cover broke.
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Love you guys!
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