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Seen at mechaieh's and also fairmer's and crossposted to my main blog:

Ten Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't

• Hiked through a rainforest to get to a glacier.


• Slept outside on the continent of Antarctica.


• Traveled on a ship through the Drake Passage


• Kayaked in fjords on three continents. (Well, technically New Zealand isn't a continent but I suppose you could call it the Asian Pacific.)


• Stood at the bottom of a Titan missile silo and looked up.


• Flown in F-16, A-10, Space Shuttle, C-130, and A340 simulators (the high-level ones real pilots and astronauts use to train).


• Gotten married in Valley Forge


• Sung at the lighting of the City Hall Christmas tree in Philadelphia.


• Visited the Demilitarized Zone in Korea


• Eaten alligator, kangaroo, and rattlesnake.

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Talking to someone at work about how disappointed I was with last week's seminar, it occurred to me (too late to tell her) that as far as teaching values that came from his religion, without inflicting the religion itself on other people without their consent, there's still no one who ever did it better than Mr. Rogers.