Kearned or Kqwerned, from Arabic meaning "to have knowledge of..."

Did you know that prior to the arrival of European explorers to the Pacific coast of North America, 28 foot Manatees (also called Stellar Sea Cows), swam abundantly?  They were then hunted to extinction in less than 50 years.

18th Century European diving equipment was ahead of it's time.



An early explorer noted in his travel log that the beasts "tasted delicious".

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I have this horrible paranoid feeling that the office receptionist keeps mental notes on how frequent people, specifically me, use the restrooms and even more importantly how much time we, I, spend in there.  It's not something she does , I've felt that way about every receptionist.  I think it's odd that even though I consider that she possibly/probably keeps tabs on toilet time, I still push conventional and understandable rest room time frames to unheard of multiples.

I don't smoke and it's too cold to take long unwinding walks during the day, so I really enjoy some free time sitting in there playing Sudoku on my Blackberry.  I've never compared Sudoku scores with anyone but I am completing the "genius" level puzzles sub 10 minutes, 8 minutes 15 seconds I believe is my best.  I'll play two, so we're looking at about 20 minute trips...

Sorry, 8:11 is my fastest time










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