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TIL (was reminded) of the beginning of it all 40 years ago today

 

TRS-80 Tandy Radio Shack computer was one of the first mass-market home computers. It features 4K of RAM and was an 8-bit computer. It launched in 1977
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In some circles it was called the Trash 80
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Unbeknownst to me this was common knowledge, but if you throw a frog in boiling water hell try to escape, but if you put him in a potbof water and slowly turn it up he'll sit in there until he croaks.....pun intended

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Unbeknownst to me this was common knowledge, but if you throw a frog in boiling water hell try to escape, but if you put him in a potbof water and slowly turn it up he'll sit in there until he croaks.....pun intended

 

Always put a lobster in the pot claws first. Same reason.

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Unbeknownst to me this was common knowledge, but if you throw a frog in boiling water hell try to escape, but if you put him in a potbof water and slowly turn it up he'll sit in there until he croaks.....pun intended

You ever have a job like that? It's true for people too sometimes....

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_(anatomy)

 

as i learn more about chickens i go back to things i know or loosely know to learn more. this is part of it. i probably knew at one point the purpose of the wattle but forgot.

 

 

A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. A caruncle is defined as 'A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy'.[1] Within this definition, caruncles in birds include wattles, dewlaps, snoods and earlobes. Wattles are generally paired structures but may occur as a single structure when it is sometimes known as a dewlap. Wattles are frequently organs of sexual dimorphism. In some birds, caruncles are erectile tissue and may or may not have a feather covering.[1][2]

Wattles are often such a striking morphological characteristic of animals that it features in their common name. For example, the southern and northern cassowary are known as the double-wattled and single-wattled cassowary respectively, and there is a breed of domestic pig known as the red wattle.

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In birds, wattles are often an ornament for courting potential mates. Large wattles are correlated with high testosterone levels, good nutrition and the ability to evade predators, which in turn indicates a potentially successful mate. It has also been proposed that ornamental organs such as wattles are associated with genes coding for disease resistance.[3]

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I have family up in Watertown. Eons ago they had a farm in which my dad bought a cow for butchering when it was full grown.

 

I guess he didn't like toe other cows in my cousins fields because the damn thing kept escaping the fields and wandering over to a neighbors farm. We started calling him Jessie James.

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