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Picturing contentedness
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Factor in how Google searches have changed and recent years?
Old school Google brought potemtially interesting results, and details.
AI googling brings vague summaries, non-answers and red-herring trails off into unrelated marketing "trends" and "recommended for you".
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Oh, forgot, poke potate with fork or knife prior to Micro, to avoid explode.
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Microwave whole potatoe for 8 minutes.
Have a piece of aluminum foil ready-sized for after-wrap.
Why? To even out the possible hotspots/uncooked spots in a microwave potatoe, wrap in the foil asap once removed from Micro.
Leave wrapped in foil for few minutes. Enjoy!
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"B4"
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"Aft"
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
5] Decades of using Auto-pen gadgets of various types, but only now is it cast as some nefarious plot.
No one ever believed that so many letters of appreciation, awards, invitations, and stacks official docs were had Actual Signatures of a Cabinet level Secretary, or the President.
Distraction.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
4] Point of this long story, is that "Auto-pen" has been utilized forever because the Boss just gives the "nod" or edit changes, then the "go ahead" then leaves the Minions behind to finalize the paperwork. The Boss waltzes off to glamorous photo ops, while Staffers stay behind affixing signatures.
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
3] This particular Assistant had been a loyal employee for over 3 decades, through many Administration changes. She knew Protocol and when to question any tiny detail amiss. Nothing slipped passed her. Only she could activate the auto-pen gadget. Again, this was 1999. Now, even more sophisticated.
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
2] This big auto-pen gadget was not some secretive method. The Assistant's work area was an open vestibule for oversight by Staffers. At the end of long days, Staffers carried in to SecState inner office stacks of papers and docs for her to approve. Only then were they handed to the Assistant.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
1] In 1999, I happened to be assigned to a work area just outside of office the US SecState Albright. Her long-suffering assistant had a nearby desk with an auto-pen gadget on a big table. A bit computerized, but more manual, as the gadget guided a pen in a replica of SecState signature.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As I try to shop small biz, an avoid buying from big box and the 'zon, still felt I deserved a treat for myself after the marathon cooking of the T-day feast.
So, I saw your creative designs, and rewarded myself.
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM