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MikeWrites' Blog

by Writer_Mike

Rated: 18+ · Book · Opinion · #1916946

A collection of thoughts and comments on various topics.

This is a place for me to capture thoughts, ideas, snippets of this and bits of that, that don't seem to lend themselves to one of the more traditional item types.

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MirandaCookies COLLEGE SOON

Mar 30, 2023 at 1:56am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

This was a delightful post of new information. I had to look that up and hear it said to know the word, though. Nice 😌

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MirandaCookies COLLEGE SOON

Mar 30, 2023 at 1:55am
In response to "Today's stuff"

Ooh, fun!

Sum1

Dec 10, 2022 at 9:42pm
In response to "Today's stuff"

No Comment.

🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

Dec 10, 2022 at 3:21pm
In response to "Today's stuff"

Lol, I think you need more open tabs. I hope Army does beat Navy!

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Writer_Mike

Aug 23, 2022 at 10:49am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

When I read the word in the book, I got the basic meaning from context, but looked it up anyway. Concurrently, there was that nagging feeling that I'd just seen the word here on WDC, so a writing-time-killing search ensued. I kind of hope I remember / run across the site source, or that whole precognition thing that swept the Newsfeed a while back could present itself as an option...and that's just a bit spooky.

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Lilli 🧿 ☕

Aug 23, 2022 at 8:40am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

A quick Google search produced this (which is pretty much what Kåre Enga in Montana said):

"Lahar is an Indonesian word describing a mudflow or debris flow that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Small debris flows are common in the Cascades, where they form during periods of heavy rainfall, rapid snow melt, and by shallow landsliding."

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Jayne

Aug 23, 2022 at 8:31am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

I'm with Robert Waltz

. I don't have to learn anything else today

.

Kare is probably correct. But if it was a newer post, it's possible someone was reading the same book, and decided to use their fancy new word.

Not gonna lie, I do it fairly regularly to reinforce how to use the word. This may shock some readers to their very core, but I do learn new words outside of the 'awesome swears they make up in Quebec' vocabulary.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Aug 23, 2022 at 1:26am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

Lahar... a word remembered from my college course in vulcanolgy. But I looked it up anyways: A pyroclastic flow is an avalanche-like cloud that is a mixture of air, hot ash, and pumice lapilli. A lahar is a very wet, ash-rich debris flow that moves in a relatively fast-moving slurry. If I remember right there were areas of the west side of Cartago in Costa Rica destroyed by lahars. Ash and tropical rains = problems.

As for here... no clue. I checked my two old blogs and elsewhere. Nothing.

You didn't 'think/see' Kalahari by any chance... it has lahar in it and comes up on searches.

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Robert Waltz

Aug 23, 2022 at 12:29am
In response to "Word search (no, not that kind)"

Huh. One I wasn't aware of. It's 12:30 here and I've already learned my something new for the day, so I can knock myself out for the next 23.5 hours.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

Mar 4, 2022 at 5:25pm
In response to "Long weekend travel"

Praying for safe travel and good fellowship for you and your daughter.

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January 27, 2022 at 2:39pm

#1025490

Octopus from space!

There's an actual scientific article in an actual scientific journal that claims octopi came from outer space. The publication is Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology and the article is titled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic? They're just now figuring this out? Hel-lo-o! Didn't they see Finding Dory? If an octopus named Hank - okay, a septopus, if Dory's tentacle count is correct - can pilot a spaceship, driving that truck would've been child's play. They just made it look hard for the movie.

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