Mandarin oranges are underrated.
They are popular in the canned-fruit section of the supermarket, but nowhere else.
Why is nothing else mandarin orange flavored?
No popsicles.
No yogurt.
No candy.
No drinks.
I suppose they don’t need to sell juice with the flavor of mandarin oranges, because everyone drinks the syrup that comes with the fruit. The syrup was great, and the new stuff – the fruit juice that they use instead of sugary syrup – tastes just as great. But it’s inconvenient and dangerous to drink from a tin can.
If I were ever to start selling energy drinks – or any sort of drink at all – my first flavor would be mandarin orange.
My second flavor would be cantonese orange.
Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.
Jeremiah 48:11
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Transcript:
Female: How do I look?
Male: Stunning!
They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But he was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Genesis 45:26
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What is wrong with using words?
I know that international companies can save on printed material by making instructions and warnings in drawings and symbols only, to be language-independent.
But, at some point, the symbols become too cryptic or not detailed enough to communicate to the general public.
Here is what prompted that thought:
I have a guess as to what it might mean, but instructions and warnings should not have the user guessing as to their meanings.
Any idea what this means, other than “be sure to brush your teeth”?
Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.
Daniel 5:8
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There are some places in the United States that do not have much water of their own. These places have become popular with people, and people in general require water, so those places have tried to get extra water from other places.
In the past, we here in Michigan have resisted attempts by others to take our water. All they wanted to give us was money in exchange for our water. I’m not saying it’s as easy as I make it sound, but we can get money from anywhere. Our water is not worth just money.
I have a counter-proposal: You can take our Great Lakes water, for a fee of course, but you also have to take our mosquitoes and some of our humidity.
I don’t want all of our humidity gone, because completely dry air is bad. We would have to buy a lot more lotion and swamp coolers. But we’ll pipe some humidity and as many mosquitoes as we can over to you. You can’t take all the benefits of water without also taking some of the problems.
Maybe I should add Asian Carp as something you must also take, just as a bargaining chip.
Anything else we should try to trade?
There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “ If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
Why then have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here?
Numbers 20:2-4
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No real post today – it’s too hot.
And there was a holiday this week.
And we’ve been busy at home.
But if you want to read something, go read The Eliot Papers.
Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.
Daniel 3:21
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This is what the grocery store sells as American cheese:
But it’s not, really. It’s ORANGE. When you think of things that are American, how far down the list does anything orange appear?
Still thinking?
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Some of you may be wondering, as I was last week, “Can I stack Trofast?” or “Can you flip the stair-step storage things from IKEA?”
If you are trying to do what we were trying to do, then the answer is this: you can stack them as long as you do not flip them.
TROFAST is a series of organizational furniture from IKEA. There are tall shelves and wide shelves and shelves that resemble a piece from Tetris:
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
