The Castanet Gab-O-Rama

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OT, you looking for love in all the wrong places. Here is your goldmine
https://www.trucker.dating/signup?aff_p ... _BwE#step1
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Driving back from airport yesterday i noticed we don't have a "welcome to Kelowna" sign, or did I miss it? Is there one coming in from the west side?
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There is one coming in from the west side.
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How does a city rid itself of 440,000 tons of waste that it produces annually?

Copenhill.
You built a waste to energy power plant and convert that waste into enough clean energy to deliver electricity and district heating for 150,000 homes.

https://www.archdaily.com/925966/copenh ... ergy-plant
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I don't know if anyone is interested in this but I thought it was kind of cool.

Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984

https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/fre ... -1984.html
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If you'd like to take a little trip and not leave your comfy chair:

Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution

https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/exp ... ution.html
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Kool!
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ferri wrote: Jan 31st, 2024, 7:47 am If you'd like to take a little trip and not leave your comfy chair:

Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution

https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/exp ... ution.html
I'll check it out on the big TV.

Bsuds, in the meantime let us know if you find anything.
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Found a big rock!
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Watching it right now in 4K. Amazing pictures, I keep looking for something out of the ordinary but no, nothing.
Mars is dead. We need to find life out there.
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Surprised there isn't a Spirit of Halloween store there
Narrator sounded pretty scary at the start
Maybe Martians live underground

But when someone says Mars
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Another reason I'm glad I don't live in LA:

https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/mill ... s%20Alerts
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Babba_not_Gump wrote: Jan 31st, 2024, 9:04 pm Watching it right now in 4K. Amazing pictures, I keep looking for something out of the ordinary but no, nothing.
Mars is dead. We need to find life out there.
We need to find intelligent life here first... :biggrin:
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Bsuds wrote: Feb 7th, 2024, 1:21 pm
Babba_not_Gump wrote: Jan 31st, 2024, 9:04 pm Watching it right now in 4K. Amazing pictures, I keep looking for something out of the ordinary but no, nothing.
Mars is dead. We need to find life out there.
We need to find intelligent life here first... :biggrin:
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Happy Valentine's Day, folks!

I stopped at my local liquor store last night so I don't have to go out today. Grabbed an 8pk of Kokanee for my hubby.
This is what our Valentine's usually looks like:
Valentines day - Hedger Humour.jpg
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