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Doubt...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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...And this is where it starts...
I'm pretty sure that in my countless expeditions and miles I've found a few stones of interest. Not gold, or platinum, but maybe a few diamonds...
It's hard to tell. They look like, well, any other rocks...small, quartz shards, they lack the obvious diamond structure and crystal matrix...but the rest is just fine...
So I waited and eventually my diamond tester showed up and ... later, without the daughter, I read the instructions and ...
It seemed I had.
This was/is a little unbelievable. I've grown so used to disappointment, too small, minute, flakes of gold in the pan, this can't be the case...
But I test them with the diamond tester, again and again, visually inspect them, compare them to images I've found on the web, and always there's the "maybe..."
It's a simple thing, to bring them into a jewelers and confirm/deny that they are what I think, even if they are, they're too small to be valuable...but still I hesitate...
It's time, really, the car is done, done, done, a diamond injection would save the vacation, give us an (undisclosed) purpose, but still I hesitate...
...doubt...
Unused Car Names
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Was considering, given the state of my wheels, possibly new names for the next generation of cars that will be filling the roads. Some inspirations:
- Crasher
- Basher
- Beater
- Bumper
- Nudger
- The Bomb (this I picture with a fancy French ad campaign, “LE Bomb” should sell well in the Middle East)
- Fireball
- Hit’N’Run
- The Guzzler
- Getaway
Kinda got the rhythm of Santa's reindeer to them all, buy the rights to the whole lot off me and watch your Christmas promotions write themselves...
Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
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Which is good, insomuch as I like the ideas of Joseph Campbell, and bad, as in the dialogue with Bill Moyers is a poor vehicle for expressing his ideas. A good book, possibly, that could have benefited greatly from a removal of the interview format and a whole lot of editing and proofreading. Not surprisingly it's an abbreviated adaptation of a documentary on Campbell by the same name. Overall, OK, not great. But inspiration in some of the quotes, for example the famous speech by Chief Seattle, which upon further research proved to be in itself a myth written by Chief Seattle's fans and admirers, fitting, perhaps.
Homme Less
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Looks good. Clearly he's got the panache and style to pull it off, me, people just try and give me money...
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