Weekly Twitter Digest
This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-04-13 to 2013-04-19
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Sometimes I just stumble across fun little facts and/or tidbits. When that happens, they will wind up duly noted in this category.
Weekly Twitter Digest
This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-04-06 to 2013-04-12
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-03-30 to 2013-04-05
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-03-23 to 2013-03-29
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-03-16 to 2013-03-22
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-03-09 to 2013-03-15
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-03-02 to 2013-03-08
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-02-23 to 2013-03-01
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This is a weekly digest of my posts on Twitter. This is for the week starting 2013-02-16 to 2013-02-22
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Pictures From Washington
I was in Washington most of last week on business. Lay flew in Friday afternoon, and we spent the weekend touring. We did most of touristy things including the Air and Space Museum out near Dulles that Friday afternoon. Saturday and Sunday were spent mostly downtown around the Mall. I’d not been to the Air and Space Museum so that was cool. This was Lay’s first trip at all.
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One Big Step
OK, this is one of those WOW! kind of things. Austrian Felix Baumgartner used a ballon to climb to over 128,000 feet, stepped out of a capsule, and jumped. Because he was in the very thin air of the stratosphere, during his 4 minute free fall, he reached a speed of 834.4 miles per hour (that’s Mach 1.24)…faster than the speed of sound. This on the same day 65 years ago when Chuck Yeagar became the first human to go faster than the speed of sound. Yeager used a rocket plane. Yeager was able to do it this year using just a space suit.
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