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Microwave Oven

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The Litton Minutemaster is straight from 1981! 2 ft across by 18 in high by an amazing 18 in deep, it weighs only 50 lbs! Set the inaccurate dials and sliders to take up to 10 min to REHEAT your food. Remember, even abhorantly slow by today's standards, you'd still choose it over actually cooking with a stove! Buy it now!

Google Celebrates Les Paul's 96th Birthday

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Les Paul died in 2009, but the musician and inventor is not forgotten.  Credited as the man behind the Gibson solid-body electric guitar, he was a skilled player in his own right.  To celebrate his musical life, Google has created a playable logo! Click on the picture above to start playing.  For those who don't know who Les Paul was, I've included a couple of YouTube videos below.

Deer in my Yard!?

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I haven't felt like I've had anything good to say lately ... or nothing of any significance to anyone other than me.  I tend to like my life that way.  However, while catching up on the news, I heard some angry dogs and the fierce clacking of something hammering the pavement of the street in front of my house.  It was this: A deer turns past my car (pictured below) and runs up the alley. Well, actually, that is what I saw once I got my camera up to the door.  I was amazed!  It took me a bit to get my shoes, my phone, and my camera lens cap and ran off like a track star.  2 blocks up and 2 blocks over, I caught up with the panting deer.  It had gotten trapped in the backyard of 1004 S. 16th St.  Several neighbors had gathered by the time I got to the driveway around front to take more photos.  I then alerted the homeowner and called the police.  Their advice was to leave it alone but no one was coming.  I suppose it would have been different had it been a bear.  Here's