I did not know this was possible. It's certainly intuitively incomprehensible.

You can stack bricks (or anything with a rectangular cross-section) so that they form a staircase that never falls over, no matter how far it reaches.


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Today, watching the marathon Worst Jobs in History on the Histroy channel, I learned the origin of two common words/phrases.

The Saxons learned how to make their ships from sawn planks, but cutting them was hard work. It took two people and a long saw. The handles of the saw are called dogs. Being on top was back-breaking work, but still way better ( Read more... )

Put up our tree today. Alas, I do not have a camera, so


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Gilligan's Island has been put on the map, and is a great cruise liner destination. This has attracted entrepreneurs from around the world to exploit it. A small village of businesses has sprung up to sell to cruise vacationers.

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This came to me last night as I was falling asleep, and I just had to see how it looked - so I PhotoChopped it.


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A few months ago I posted sketches from my Tobermory Dive Trip. I didn't have a camera, and I wanted to capture and share the experience I had.

This is one of my sketches, based on my memory of the dive (and a tiny bit of artistic license).

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