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In light of recent local, national, and global events, we have considered discontinuing certain products that shoot, hurl, fling, toss, chuck, or otherwise propel various objects, such as miniature cats, pigs, ducks, and supervisors, in addition to rubber bands and other common projectiles. However we believe that workplace stress is reduced by playing with these kinds of devices, as well as other cubicle toys we sell, The Cubes miniature office sets allow the user to act out various workplace scenarios, and the positive messages smiley 8 ball, financial advisor ball, and other 8-ball toys serve to unstick the mind. Not to mention the obvious benefits of our Martian Squeeze Toy. All in all, we believe the products we sell tend to improve morale and bring a little sunshine into the dark corners of the massive institutions where we work and learn. There was some discussion about these events at the warehouse I moonlight at in the evenings, and we concluded that it demonstrated the ...

Several months ago, I picked up two books from the "Time Life Old West" series, probably the most common ones, "The Loggers" and "The Gunfighters". I just today got around to reading bits of them, The Logger book is interesting so far, as it focuses on the Northwest, where I live. Those early explorers seemed intent on naming stuff after themselves; Cap't Vancouver sailed around and presumably charted the coast of what is now called Vancouver island; which I'm sure the local tribes appreciated, so they didn't have to refer to it as "That island we don't know what the name of is yet" anymore. Later Cap't Vancouver explored up and down in the sound, which he opted to name after a guy on his crew, Peter Puget. (Hence it's Puget Sound. I'm not making this up.) Later a guy with the last name Douglas found a new species of tree, the Douglas Fir. Fortunately he got there before botanist Henry Hooglemeyersteinski. The part I r...