November 2011

How to cook a turkey

by 53X11 on November 23, 2011

For those who wait for the last minute and then have to rush to cook the family bird tommorrow, I offer the following solution. Cooking a Turkey with Thermite

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Dying to Shoplift

by 53X11 on November 17, 2011

Local Knoxvilleians probably already know about the shooting of a shoplifter at the South Knoxville Wal Mart two nights ago – (updated story here). It seems that Zachary Blaine Russell was shopping lifting light bulbs and that cost him his life. I must admit my first question was what type of lamps – incandscent, LED, [...]

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Worthless Careers

by 53X11 on November 17, 2011

Bnet has a very interesting story about 10 careers which pay well, but which do NOT benefit society. I agree with most of them, with cavets like the author includes – Chriropractors do give some benefit, some self help books are ok, some health experts can help you, etc. I have a dream that someday [...]

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Pizza as Vegtables

by 53X11 on November 17, 2011

Fox has a story up about how the government is considering counting pizza as a vegtable. REALLY…THAT IS CRAZY EVEN BY FED STANDARDS. Of course ketchup became a vegetable in schools in the 90′s. Full story here

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Hitler’s Argentine Home ? … For Sale

by 53X11 on November 16, 2011

Gizmodo has a very interesting story up today about the sell of a “potential” home of Adolph Hitler in Argentina. The basis of the idea is that Hitler escaped Germany and lived out his days in this remote Argentinian home – leaving two daughters as his legaacy. Interesting story, though I don’t personally believe it. [...]

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Knoxville Mayor’s Race

by 53X11 on November 15, 2011

I know the Knoxville mayoral race ended a week ago, but … well I was busy … so here is my two cents. I was not surprised Madeline won, I was surprised she won so handedly. I thought the combination of Haslem money, a down job market looking for business leadership, a push back from [...]

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Silence is not golden, but it is still silence

by 53X11 on November 15, 2011

Over the last few months the Being Frank team has desired to start regular posting again. Life, work, and some lingering family health issues, have interfered with these plans. That said, we will push on and hopefully get to regular blogging over the next few weeks and months. Readers from way back will either be [...]

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Solar Light Bulbs and Global Aid

by 53X11 on November 15, 2011

Several months ago I found a interesting story at CNN.com about how an American inventor of solor powered bulbs was attempting to both help build third world economies, via building village based businesses, and also change how social aid is handled / viewed world wide. Full post here. The two most interesting quotes in this [...]

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