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08/17/2026

During World War II, Britain's clandestine Special Operations Executive, led by Major General Colin Gubbins, developed custom rubber overshoes for operatives landing behind enemy lines in Asia and the Pacific.

Invented by camouflage specialist Hugh Vandeleur, these soles were molded to replicate human bare feet. When operative Spencer Chapman and covert teams came ashore from submarines, their bootprints mimicked local barefoot coastal residents, successfully deceiving Japanese coastal patrols.

08/16/2026

08/09/2026

Looks like I'm doing Livingstonville flea market tomorrow.

08/02/2026

Loaded up for Livingstnville flea market tomorrow.

07/21/2026

In 2018, tech giant Microsoft embarked on an extraordinary logistical experiment called Project Natick. Seeking a more efficient way to cool massive digital infrastructures, engineers packed a collection of servers into a specialized container.

They lowered the entire structure 117 feet down to the freezing seabed off the coast of Scotland. The results completely defied expectations, proving that the ocean floor might be the safest home for modern technology.

07/19/2026

An elderly woman was pulled over by police with five passengers in her car. They weren't dogs. They were coyotes.
Officers responded after multiple drivers called in reports of loose dogs riding inside a moving vehicle. When they approached the car, they expected a quirky pet situation. What they found was five wild coyotes sitting inside like they had been invited.
Because they had been.
Neighbors told officers the woman had been feeding the same animals nearly every evening for two weeks. She thought they were stray dogs. Hungry. Homeless. Needing someone to care about them.
The coyotes thought they had found the greatest deal in the animal kingdom.
Free dinner every night from a kind woman who never once questioned why her new dogs had pointy faces and didn't bark. They became so comfortable around her that one evening, they simply climbed into her car. One by one. Like passengers boarding a bus.
And she let them. Because in her mind, she was just giving some hungry puppies a ride.
When officers explained that her five rescued strays were actually wild coyotes, the confused look on her face reportedly had everyone on scene trying not to laugh.
Wildlife officials safely removed all five animals without injury. The woman was not charged. But she reportedly insisted until the very end that she was "just trying to help some hungry puppies."
She saw five wild predators and thought they were friends who needed dinner. And the wildest part is that the coyotes apparently agreed with her.
Sometimes the most dangerous animals in the neighborhood just need someone who doesn't know they're supposed to be afraid.

07/11/2026

I'll be at Caroga Lake tomorrow at the museum for their craft fair and I'm looking at doing Creekside Flea Market in Livingstonville.

06/27/2026

Franz Reichelt believed he was about to prove the world wrong. In 1912, he climbed the Eiffel Tower carrying what he thought was the future of human survival.

He was a tailor, not a famous engineer, but he had invented a wearable parachute suit. To him, it was not madness. It was genius waiting for one brave test.

People below understood the danger immediately. Crowds begged, police hesitated, and the height of the tower turned the whole scene into public horror.

But Reichelt was convinced. Standing above Paris, wrapped in his own invention, he prepared to jump into history.