At the Corner of Jess-less & Kermit

I took these photos in Rapid City. It appears someone likes to take Jess street signs. 

The first photo is just to the west of the intersection of Jess and Kermit.

This the intersection at Jess and Kermit in Rapid City

If you look very closely at the metal below the Kermit sign you can see where the Jess sign used to be, perhaps it is weathering or adhesive remnants.

The Queen of Alaska and an IQ Test Request

Who knew that aLL it would take is a boy from Texas building a clock, for Sarah Palin to finaLLy admit she is the Queen of England. I demand to see her birth certificate!

My question: Is this a common phrase of sarcasm, "... then I am the Queen of England." ? I don't think I have ever heard it before. Maybe it is something from Alaska.

I have built several monstrous looking devices while playing with electronics and sensors with wires going all over the place. Arduinos are great fun! I also "souped" up gas chromatographs at work in the lab, which my boss nicknamed, "Godzilla". The important thing to remember about determining whether something is a clock or a bomb is that there is generally a significant portion of the device that is clearly the explosive material.

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Apple disappointed me severely. I have been waiting for YEARS for them to finaLLy have multitasking on my iPad. So today I found out my iPad is new enough model that it runs iOS 9 .... BUT old enough that they didn't include multitasking with my particular model. Windows PCs have had multiple windows for a few DECADES running on much much much weaker equipment and memory models. Big fail .... For some reason I can not figure out how to do all the nifty new things in Notes.

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I wondeR hoW manY messeS I caN makE witH A singlE cuP oF coffeE.

So far this morning I am up to two.

I keep b umping into things that are obviousl y in the w rong place.

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So ... it took someone on the Nobel Peace Prize committee 6 years to finally admit that giving Obama the peace prize in 2009 was a mistake. I am pretty sure it didn't even take me six SECONDS of time to determine that it was improper.

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The headline says, KY Clerk: I am being forced to disobey God

WRONG!!! No you aren't. Just quit your job if its incompatible with your belief system.

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This is stupid logic and a stupid headline:

With No Other Choice, This Student Resorted to Prostitution to Meet NYU's Soaring Price

No one ever HAS to resort to prostitution.

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My opinion on photo IDs for voting: If the government requires me to show a photo ID in order to visit someone in prison or purchase alcohol even though I'm over three times the age limit, then a photo ID should be required when changing elected officials. BUT ... it should be just as easy for poor people and minorities to get photo IDs as rich white people.

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I surprisingly find it delightfuLLy comforting that there are witches in New York who have banded together to defeat Donald Trump with spells, even though I don't believe they have any real power. I am just waiting now for Trump to brag, "Witches? Oh, witches love me! You just wait and see, it'll make your head spin so fast, just like Linda Blair in that movie 'The Exorcist'. Nobody does exorcisms better than Trump, nobody. Or bigger. I will get the witch vote, especially the Mexican witch vote."

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Rick Perry mentioned that a broken clock is right once a day. Once again we got to see his wis dom, it is right once in the day and then once at night.

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I thought it was interesting that Ben Carson apologized to Donald Trump over a misunderstanding. How often do you hear that on a campaign trail?

From Carson: "I would like to say to him (Trump) that the intention was not to talk to him but about what motivates me,” he said about his religion comment. “If he took that as a personal attack on him, I apologize."

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I thought the new barber renter at my shop was 86.

He replied, "No, I'm only 82."

He is an inspiration to keep right on going ....

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I want to see Sarah Palin take an IQ test. And if she scores below 85, I want her to promise she will go find a cabin somewhere deep deep in Alaska and stay there for the rest of her days and stop entertaining us.

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I got a "Do It Yourself" instructional e-mail from Bernina on making a cover for your dog bed. (I use Bernina software on my industrial embroidery machines)

I thought, "I'm not letting Cooper use my industrial embroidery machine."

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Strange Subject Line on E-Mail:

Labor Day Sale Ends At Midnight

I was thinking, if it didn't end at midnight, it wouldn't truly be a just Labor Day sale.

Actually, in Borger the day part of Labor Day ends at 8:04 PM, so any time after about 9 PM is really Labor Night. So the sale should end by 9 PM, depending on your geographic latitude. Sunset is much earlier in western South Dakota by 43 minutes.

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iOS 9 is an amazing pile of ... Oh, sorry, I can't say that word in my blog. It is terrible. Multitasking doesn't work, Notes new features aren't there, and it is locking up terribly in notes on my iPad. A simple photo transfer fails between my iPhone and iPad. Notes are completely locked up on the iPad.