cavey1732

Real Name:	Rick Kleinosky
Location:	Corvallis, OR
Joined:	4-14-2008

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About me I retired from my professional career in 1990. I was a lab technician when I earned my bachelors degree and entered industry as a research chemist. My major projects were the measurement of thermodynamic properties of rare compounds of interest to electric discharge lamp (street light) technology and the automation of gas chromatographic techniques for the characterization of coal-derived synthetic fuels. Although successful by many standards, I was still missing the vital essence of the meaning of my life. I gave up my material possessions to embark on a journey to see America and find myself. I explored National Parks and small towns. I labored alongside migrant farm workers. I was a carnival ride foreman for one season. I camped in the desert one winter. I rode freight trains. I became homeless. Upon arriving in Oregon I realized that my travels had brought me home. Accustomed now to simple out-door living, I found pleasure in writing about my time and life. Over the years I have integrated myself into my community. Virtually independent financially, I am free to devote my time to my artistic endeavors; writing rhymes, illustrating them with colored drawings, and exploring the world via the internet from the comfort of my home.
Why I use Clipmarks I am insatiably curious. I love art. And from years of frugal living I can recognize a great bargain.
Where to find me on the web Website/Blog: http://www.kleinosky.com/rick Photos: http://www.picasaweb.google.com/cavey1732

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POPS How to Tie common Knots

by cavey1732 8-28-2009

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POPS Creative Shopping

by cavey1732 8-27-2009

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POPS Prehistoric American Die-off

by cavey1732 7-23-2009

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POPS Prehistoric Global Warming

by cavey1732 7-19-2009

Nothing's new under the sun.

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POPS Make a Statement

by cavey1732 4-10-2009

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POPS Why Men Should Rethink Drinking Beer

by cavey1732 3-6-2009

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POPS Coffee Break Musings

by cavey1732 3-3-2009

I wonder how many calories it has.

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POPS Marijauna renaissance

by cavey1732 2-9-2009

One of the well-known people who made it big and admit to smoking pot.

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POPS Star of Bethlehem

by cavey1732 12-12-2008

Venus, Jupiter and the moon appeared together again this month.

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POPS More Word Trivia: Supercala...

by cavey1732 11-8-2008

I remember this one but I still don't know what it means.

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POPS Word Trivia: Antiestablish...

by cavey1732 11-8-2008

I learned this word in grade school. Now I know what it means.

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POPS Mars Update

by cavey1732 10-2-2008

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POPS Mysterious Ailment

by cavey1732 9-6-2008

A dear friend of mine is manic-depressive. Sometimes she in incredibly full of energy. I just do my best to keep up with her. Bipolar disorder could have some advantages at times.

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POPS Why wolves howl at rhe moon.

by cavey1732 8-30-2008

Another romantic piece of folk-lore gets blown away.

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POPS Sleep on it.

by cavey1732 8-13-2008

I've been taking Korean ginseng for about a week. It seems to be enhancing my creativity. I'm going to try this.

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POPS Insight

by cavey1732 8-7-2008

This is a quote from Carl Sandburg

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POPS Copper War Cent

by cavey1732 8-6-2008

Found to be genuine and bought for $75,000.

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POPS Bush Montage

by cavey1732 8-5-2008

This montage was composed with photos of soldiers killed in Iraq, an unusual if not bizarre political statement.

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POPS Spellcheck

by cavey1732 7-24-2008

Slef-epantaxroly

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POPS Da Vinci's Model Car

by cavey1732 7-17-2008

Although most historians agree the birth of the modern car came about in the late 19th century when two Germans, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, designed real, working internal combustion engines, experiments with moving vehicles weren't uncommon beforehand. As far back as 1770, a Frenchman named Nicolas Cugnot developed a steam-powered machine, the Fardier, which could crawl through the streets of Paris at about two miles per hour. It was more than 500 years ago, however -- sometime around the year 1478 to be more or less specific -- when Leonardo drew out his plans for the world's first self-propelled vehicle. A working model of Leonardo Da Vinci's car on display at the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy.

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POPS Exercise in Futility

by cavey1732 7-11-2008

I sumbledupon this message. I tried it of course.

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POPS Poor Little Pluto

by cavey1732 7-8-2008

Pluto is mostly brown. This picture captures the true colors of Pluto as well as the highest surface resolution so far recovered. No spacecraft has yet visited this most distant dwarf planet in our Solar System. The above map was created by tracking brightness changes from Earth of Pluto during times when it was being partially eclipsed by its moon Charon. The map therefore shows the hemisphere of Pluto that faces Charon. Pluto's brown color is thought dominated by frozen methane deposits metamorphosed by faint but energetic sunlight. The dark band below Pluto's equator is seen to have rather complex coloring, however, indicating that some unknown mechanisms may have affected Pluto's surface.

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POPS The Eye of God

by cavey1732 7-7-2008

This is an actual photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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POPS Firefox or Microsoft?

by cavey1732 7-5-2008

I'm glad I chose Firefox.

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POPS Lake Vostok, Antarctica

by cavey1732 7-5-2008

This is just one of an enormous selection of scenic photos from this site.

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POPS Hot Summer

by cavey1732 7-4-2008

Who will be the first to sail to the North Pole?

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POPS Twentieth Century War Death Toll

by cavey1732 6-30-2008

During the second quarter the death toll increased exponentially. Notice the dramatic change coinciding with dropping of the first atomic weapons! I thought this was very interesting when I heard the fact on the History Channel. I went right to Google to see it for myself.

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POPS Summer on Mars

by cavey1732 6-29-2008

This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) in the late afternoon of the 30th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 30 (June 25, 2008). This is hours after the beginning of Martian northern summer. SSI used its natural-color filters, therefore the color is the color you would see on Mars. The image shows shadows from the SSI (left) and from the meteorological station mast (right) stretching toward the east as the sun dropped low in the west.

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POPS Color Wheel

by cavey1732 6-26-2008

A tool for artists to match pigments.

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POPS Ever hear this word?

by cavey1732 6-25-2008

It sounds more like a tribe of aborigines to me.

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POPS Test your brain-eye coordination

by cavey1732 6-24-2008

I tried more than once but I can't do it.

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POPS Water Found on Mars

by cavey1732 6-21-2008

In mid-June images from Mars settled that argument.