This afternoon I’ve been reading complaints about the Dirt Devil Featherlite upright vacuum, the make and model of the vacuum cleaner we own, and as of 35 minutes ago, I can confidently say that our Dirt Devil Featherlite doesn’t suck. Not at all. Not one wisp of dust, not one stray cat hair, not...
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Archive for May, 2003
Need a New Vacuum. Please Advise.
The Long Way to a Short Payoff
The meter was originally (in 1799) measured as one ten-millionith of the distance from the equator to the north pole. There’s an official meter of this length, in the form of a platinum rod, the “Meter of the Archives,” stored at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris. Later they made...
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Happy May Day
Listen to the Internationale and follow along:
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let...
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