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The Navy? Really? Yep, the SeaBees

August 15, 2009

This week I received an e-mail from a gentleman who said he was with the Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering, and that they wanted to request our permission for the Department of the Navy to use one of our copyrighted articles. Specifically, he wanted to reprint the article Tom wrote for Tropical Boating on [...]

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Lazy Photo Thieves? eBay Is Like A Marriage?

August 12, 2009

I was browsing through the listings of Wusthof knives on eBay, and I ran across this little gem. (Yes, the seller was shouting in all caps, just like you see it.)
TODAY UP FOR AUCTION IS A BRAND NEW NEVER BEFORE USED 15 PIECE WUSTHOF BLACKWOOD IKON SET. ALL MY PHOTOS ARE 100% FROM MY SET [...]

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Hello world!

July 31, 2009

This is my personal blog. I have a few other blogs and web sites, but I frequently find myself wanting to write about something that just doesn’t quite fit anywhere else. So….. this blog is for everything that just doesn’t quite fit anywhere else. Like me. That’s why I live in a swamp.
A little about [...]

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Even Swamp Critters Get to Vote

November 4, 2008

I voted. Had to hold my nose on some of my choices, but I did it.
Unbeknownst to me, my precinct moved since the last time I voted. I went to where I used to vote, but there was nothing there. Then I drove around aimlessly for a bit until I spotted the blue “Precinct 30″ [...]

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Daylight Throwing-Away Time

November 2, 2008

Every year at this time of year, I’m reminded of how much I hate the switch back to “standard time.” That might make sense in the rest of the country, but I live in Florida, and things are different here.
I’ve always thought that we here in Florida should be on a Daylight Saving Time/Standard Time [...]

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Judge Orders Seizure of Domain Names to Protect Horseracing

September 22, 2008

The headline in the KYPost.com reads:
Ky. Seizes Domain Names Of Web Gambling Sites
The KYPost.com reports, “A Franklin County Circuit judge last week ordered the transfer of the domain names of 141 illegal Internet gambling sites to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in an effort to stop illegal and unregulated online gaming.”
The article quotes Gov. Steve Beshear [...]

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When Is A Con Not A Con? When It’s a Boggs Con

July 29, 2008

I once had the opportunity to play a friendly penny-ante game of poker with the currency artist JSG Boggs. Boggs had been trying all afternoon to get up a poker game, but the only people who wanted to play were Boggs, myself, my brother-in-law Jim, and our friend Al. This was during a party at [...]

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Selling Affordable Boats

February 18, 2008

My husband works for a yacht brokerage in Punta Gorda. He gets at least one call or visit every week from someone who wants to sell a boat that’s simply too low-cost for the brokerage to list it. The brokerage, like most yacht brokerages, charges a commission based on a percentage of the boat’s sale [...]

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Amazon vs. France

January 15, 2008

Amazon.com has decided to pay fines worth $1,500 day rather than comply with a court order prohibiting the company from offering free shipping to its customers in France.
According to the article at the International Herald Tribune, the French law prohibits discounting books by more than 5 percent (and Amazon’s free shipment counts as a discount). [...]

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Boaters in January

January 12, 2008

My husband and I are lucky enough to live in sunny southwest Florida, where we can go out in our kayaks, our Boston Whaler, or our sailboat year-round, including January. We were just out sailing in Charlotte Harbor in the Corsair F-27 last Sunday. In shorts and shirt sleeves. It can get cold here, sometimes [...]

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