Archive for May, 2003

Need a New Vacuum. Please Advise.

May 12, 2003
By LHP

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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The Long Way to a Short Payoff

May 5, 2003
By LHP

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 a...
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Happy May Day

May 1, 2003
By LHP

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...
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