Kiddie Kart Ice Cream Co. I drove several summers for them long, long ago. Most fun job ever, got to hang out with kids, teen girls and housewives every day. Business was better in lower class neighborhoods--rich kids were behind closed doors with the AC on. Noon to sunset six days a week. Had a heckuva tan except for the back of my legs. The original owner had an amazing collection of retired jeeps going back to Willys days. Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding, ding ding... little ship's bell mounted on the left side of the windshield frame, rang it with a pull cord. Drove the route at idle in first gear, ding ding, ding ding, ding ding, ding ding... I made change in my head, worked out of a change apron. No calculators or such.

Might have been paregoric. Doc prescribed it for me once when I was a little kid. It knocked me on my butt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric

We have it easy in the northern hemisphere--Earth is closest to the Sun on January 3, farthest from the Sun in July. The southern hemisphere gets the worst of it in both months (hotter summers and colder winters), though it's mediated somewhat by more ocean in the southern part of the planet.

I saw a pic of a young George Foreman training for a fight back in the day. He chopped firewood. He chopped a pile of firewood as big as a large house.

Meteoroid, not meteorite--it's only a meteorite if it reaches the ground. It's only a meteor if it's burning up in the atmosphere. If it's out in space it's a meteoroid.

Try lightly tapping/jiggling the flush handle. If that works you probably just need to adjust the length of the chain connecting the flush handle to the flapper valve a touch longer.

You also have the Running Man nebula on the left.

But that's a morning moon, at least as seen from the northern hemisphere. Evening crescent moons always face to the lower right as seen from the northern part of the world. Morning moons face lower left. If you consider the arc of the crescent as an archery bow, then string an arrow on the bow, bisecting it, the arrow will point toward the sun below the horizon.

It's called a mercury switch, used to be pretty common.

"Where your darkest dreams end, Willard begins"--old movie.

It's not just professional astronomy--it's ruining the night sky for everybody.

Give his Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee a listen, it's sheer poetry. It's from his Doc At The Radar Station album, which rocks. Beefheart was the musical guest on SNL off the strength of the album.

Looks like a movie star.

Mars has about as much surface area as all the dry land on Earth. That's a lot.

Your employer should be providing eye and ear protection. Use both. Take some disposable ear plugs home for use while mowing.

Asimov's Three Rules of Robotics seem naive nowadays:

First Law

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Zeroth Law

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

The zeroth law was an addition.

Finally, somebody else with a 31 Nagler! LOL I call mine the hand grenade, it's huge and heavy.

There are three galaxies visible in the image--Messier 31 is the big one, M110 to the upper left, M32 just to the right. They're satellite galaxies of M31, rather like the Magellanic Clouds are to our Milky Way. See the bluish regions such as at the lower left and upper right of the galaxy's disk? Those are areas of star formation, lots of bright and massive class O and B stars.

A guy got eaten by a bear near Cotopaxi some years ago.

A batman was an English officer's personal servant back in the day.

A microburst at the air force academy airfield some years ago, tow planes and gliders getting tossed around:

https://youtu.be/b_WmjWAGkLI

Cassandra Peterson is a natural redhead.

The term is "Hear, hear". The saying used to be "Hear him! Hear him!"

Dryer lint works too. Put it in one of those net bags and hang it in a tree.

Henry the Eighth was injured during a joust, some say his behavior and health changed afterwards, never the same.