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This is kinda like my victory song.

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The red and white stripes of the barber pole symbolize the bandage used during bloodletting, which in addition to cutting hair, was a service used to be performed by medieval barbers!

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St. Elmo’s Fire is an electrical weather phenomenon in which visible plasma is created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object in an atmospheric electric field (such as those generated by thunderstorms or thunderstorms created by a volcanic explosion).

St. Elmo’s fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae (also called St. Elmo), the patron saint of sailors (who sometimes held its appearance to be auspicious). Alternatively, Peter Gonzalez is said to be the St. Elmo after whom St. Elmo’s fire has its name.

Hit the video below for a glimpse of St. Elmo’s fire lighting up an airplane as it is flying through a bad thunderstorm over Iraq.

If you never knew this was anything but a movie until today, how bout you reminisce to John Parr’s music video for “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” which is one of my personal favorite cheesy 80’s songs.

Or if you are sappier, you can try the “Love Theme”…

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The ballot text reads “Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Empire that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?,” the large circle is labelled “Yes,” the smaller “No.”

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Just in case you were wondering and actually cared I have been taking Configuring Juniper Networks Routers on the M/T Series Routers that we operate. I haven’t been doing very much here other than classwork and a little sight seeing as my classmates this time are fairly mellow and I will most likely be taking the Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate Certification Exam shortly after I get back. The class is very cool. The only thing is that it crams so much in at once that you start to get afraid that that knowledge is just going to evaporate as soon as you leave.

I always feel better when I learn this much and it empowers me in my career so that I don’t feel like I am stagnating.
I wish I could do one of these every few months. Unfortunately our work training budget is only so big and I certainly don’t make enough to pay for these myself. I really wish I could.

Maybe I will post a list of training events, certifications, and books that I am working on to further my knowledge in my field but I wonder how many of you out there will be interested in it. If you are… let me know.

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This type of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus, has a unique way of escaping from predators. When threatened, the octopus unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The webbing breaks apart rather easily when attacked — much like a lizard’s tail — and it gets wrapped around the predator’s face, giving the octopus a chance to flee.

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