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Because it beats working, that’s why.

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I recently read this book.

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It was a little too Jurassic Park adjacent for me, but the scientific basis for the novel is valid and quite terrifying.

The Colossal Biosciences https://colossal.com/ company really is five years away from de-extincting a wooly mammoth and the ethical can of worms that opens will be epic. When that process is nailed down? It would theoretically be possible to resurrect Neanderthals as well. A race of hominid that was taller and stronger than us, with a larger brain, better hearing, better sight, an inability to feel empathy and a propensity for violence. Forget the AI robots destroying us, the Neanderthals will do it for then.

On that cheerful note, my last Google search was for the Indricotherium.

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A giant hornless rhino that lived in the Eocene Epoch, 56 to 33 million years ago.

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He weighed 15 to 20 tons and stood 24 foot tall.

Yes, once a dinosaur geek, always a dinosaur geek.

So what’s the last thing you were searching for?

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42 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  2. I googled “how to recycle your Nespresso pods.” Our main coffee machine finally bit the dust after 14 years, so we hauled out the Nespresso (which we save for camping in the Bobbie) until we could get a new one.

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      3. Wait. They’re even better than I thought. 100% aluminum, so as easily recyclable (and made into new products) as pop cans. Not having anything to recycle (like our new machine) is best of all, but plastic (as in Keurigs) is the real villain.

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    1. Oops, hit the submit too soon. That search was to get the address of where I am currently staying so I can get some mail sent here. If you were hoping for some juicy search history, you’re out of luck. Should have asked for my third one down!

      It’s funny you should talk about Extinction, I was searching for an auidobook to listen to last night and almost got that one. Like you said, I thought it was too close to Jurassic Park so I passed. However, now that I know it is the Neanderthals that are the danger I might reconsider.

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      1. The science behind the de-extinction is interesting but if you’ve read Jurassic Park, you’ve read this. Just add reanimated Neanderthals run amok.

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  4. Couldn’t tell ya – I clear my browser history every day…(also I’m back to using Duck, Duck Go instead of Google) and I have no human memory of ‘Googling’ anything recently.

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      1. I sometimes have to use Google – to double check DDG – Google now has something called SGE – and it’s even more invasive.

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      1. Yes they are, but I have so many that my mom has given me. Some as far back as the early sixties that I just can’t part with. But none of them have a mocha-chino recipe 😉

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  6. aka.ms/linkpc. My twelve year old laptop bit the dust the other day so now I have the questionable pleasure of setting up a new one. Fortunately my itty bitty computer hung in tight so I didn’t have to cast a resurrection spell to get my data.

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      3. Yes. But so far, to my knowledge, they have only used rubber bullets. Ouch!
        The question is, why do adult Americans have so little respect for the generation that will be in power when they are seniors? Maybe they can’t think that far ahead?

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      5. Meanwhile, we are polutting our world faster and faster, and relatively speaking, hardly anyone is talking about it anymore. I say this not to belittle the current conflicts going on in our world, but to try to increase the discussion about how we are going to save out planet — if we still can!

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