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The Warped Wood Turner

Fully funded by stimulus money, TWW (The Depraw Renrutdoow who is a practicing calamitologist predicting global climate disruption) lives on Garbin Moraine located at 45.93°N 91.61°W where normal is only a setting on the washing machine. His motto is "Exacerbation through iteration". His business model is to create wooden bowls for people to donate to Salvation Army stores. In his spare time he creates computer models of nonexistent phenomena.

Mrs TWW toasting the latest member of the President's Circle

for donations above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks to MJGR. (the R stands for Robbindale)

TWW thought Wikileaks had something to do with going to the bathroom

so decided to find out how much leaking Wikis caused global warming.  He learned from Wiki

"The contribution to the greenhouse effect by a gas is affected by both the characteristics of the gas and its abundance. For example, on a molecule-for-molecule basis methane is about eighty times stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide ,^[6] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total contribution is smaller. When these gases are ranked by their contribution to the greenhouse effect, the most important are:^[7]

Gas	Formula	Contribution (%)
Water Vapor	H2O	36 – 72 %
Carbon Dioxide	CO2	9 – 26 %
Methane	CH4	4 – 9 %
Ozone	O3	3 – 7 %

It is not possible to state that a certain gas causes an exact percentage of the greenhouse effect. This is because some of the gases absorb and emit radiation at the same frequencies as others, so that the total greenhouse effect is not simply the sum of the influence of each gas. The higher ends of the ranges quoted are for each gas alone; the lower ends account for overlaps with the other gases.^[7][8] The major non-gas contributor to the Earth's greenhouse effect, clouds, also absorb and emit infrared radiation and thus have an effect on radiative properties of the greenhouse gases.^[7][8]


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas

Since human leakage releases water which vaporizes and is destroying the planet more than CO2 why isn't the Al Gore crowd telling people to hold it as long as they can? 

Holiday red cabbage

As requested by Delighted in Douglas: 

When nothing is happening borrow something

Happy Black Friday

Thanksgiving 2010

Is the sky half full or half empty?

Policy Idea for the Touch Sensitive Area (TSA) Officials

IT is obvious where the real threat is coming from and it has nothing to do with religion. It is the white male computer programmers whom we need to fear.  See this link 

Rare sighting on Garbin Moraine

Sky watchers may be clamoring to visit GM to get life enrichment by viewing what is shown the lower left portion of this picture in person. 

Question for the day

Why aren't any  people blaming President Obama for all of the TSA invasions of privacy like would have been sure to have happened when Bush and Cheney were running roughshod with our rights when they were in charge? 


Be wary of thinking this is true: 

Bad lewdbrot dough makes mediocre potato pancakes

The Norske-in-chief rejected one of TWW's attempts to make lewdbrot dough mix so the question became what is bad lewdbrot dough good for. The answer is potato pancakes. 

TWW tried to make potato pancakes with so-so results. 

Next time they will be thinner. TWW also might get a dog. 

Annual Lewdabrot Making Day

 Touche!

 Lewdabrot baking away

 Dougboy #1

 Doughboy #2 (a self-portrait) 

 Mrs TWW packs the lewdabrot

 TWW models safety glasses needed in case the lewdabrot splattered.

FYI:  Bob Hope lived from May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003  

Last day of gray November

Orange November begins at sunrise tomorrow if there is one.

Still thawing but not for long

November thaw continues

A National Philanthropy Day surprise

No sooner had National Philantropy Day (see post below)  begun than the doorbell rang on Garbin Moraine Manor. TWW usually gets out the shotgun before he answers the door in cases like this but this time forgot and answered the door. It turned out to be a neighbor making a donation of venison to our cause.  TWW thanks the man in camo. 

National Philanthropy Day

Taken from an e-mail From Guidestar:

We at GuideStar want to wish you a very happy National Philanthropy Day. Celebrated every November 15 for the past 25 years, this day recognizes the great contributions that people active in the philanthropic community—like you—have made to the world.

This year, there are events and celebrations being held in 125 communities involving 50,000 people around the world. You can find out more about these events on the official site of this day

TWW says "Guidestar does not endorse you using the donate button above but you are welcome to do so at your own risk". 

More Minnesnowing :)

In summer we get their tourists and winter their snow?

Watching to see what Minnesota dumps on us

Warm fall night's sky

A conspiracy?

TWW finally fixed his wife's computer.  A few days back Mrs. TWW turned on the computer and got a screen saying the computer could not turn on and there was a Windows program trying to fix things but promised not to change any personal data. After many minutes TWW finally cancelled the program and then turned the computer back on and it worked.  He later noticed the computer could not get at the Internet.  After many false starts working with redoing the router with no luck TWW decided to see if the security software (not a Microsoft product) could be to blame. Somehow the security software was blocking access to the Internet for Chrome (made by Google).  Is there a connection with the mysterious Microsoft product and Google's Chrome not working??  You decide. 

For life unenrichment try to fix your wife's laptop wireless connection

If you run short of life enrichments go up on the roof

end is near

Build it and they will come - Day 4

Since Juan Williams got in trouble saying something about not letting political correctness getting in the way of reality, TWW decided not to put out a "no coons" sign while trying to catch a homeless cat so he could take it to the animal shelter for disposal. Well, guess who came to dinner last night. 

Sleeping coon after tipping over the cage trap

Unhappy visitor who ate the food but does not want to pay for its meal

Not even a 'thank you' as it ambles away

Photo shoot

TWW urinating using a spray can to attract bucks 

It worked

Ditto

Does worrying they will get what is left over if they don't get a buck soon

Renew, Reuse, Recycle

The pictures above are of the stand for an Aussie grill that rusted out. It now saves TWW's back by carrying wood to the masonry stove leading to more life enrichment.