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2013-08-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Frosty Wooldridge: Don't cry for me Detroit.

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Detroit has less than 750,000 people today, not 912,000.

Posted by Beldar Snins8381 2013-08-14 13:51|| 2013-08-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

#2 In the name of all that is history do visit Harrolds blog and feel the very essence of the world wide web in its proto-state. It's like the Hubble Long Exposure.

Posted by Shipman 2013-08-14 17:13|| 2013-08-14 17:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Like a mastadon in Siberia, it were.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-14 17:22|| 2013-08-14 17:22|| Front Page Top

#4 "In the name of all that is history do visit Harrolds blog and feel the very essence of the world wide web in its proto-state. It's like the Hubble Long Exposure."

Except my computer's APU doesn't have any support for the 'blink' command in its graphics coprocessor.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-14 17:34|| 2013-08-14 17:34|| Front Page Top

#5 APU is auxiliary power unit.

Do you mean CPU or GPU?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-08-14 18:29|| 2013-08-14 18:29|| Front Page Top

#6 APU - as in, little dude from India, "Apu", from the SImpsons.

Actually, this: Accelerated Processing Unit

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-14 20:03|| 2013-08-14 20:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Please do not offer my computer a peanut.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-14 22:11|| 2013-08-14 22:11|| Front Page Top

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