Everybody reboot: A magnitude 2.8 quake rattled Redmond, the home of Microsoft. One man at a winery told a TV station that it felt like a big truck rumbling by.
The man knew it was an earthquake, and not a truck, because the biggest vehicle in Redmond is a Toyota Prius V. With a bike rack.
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: On tonight’s episode of “Grimm,” a shocking homicide is investigated in Portland.
“Shocking” in Portland means that the murder victim wasn’t bearded or drinking a craft brew and the suspect left the scene in a car, rather than on a unicycle.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1815, Congress voted to buy the book collection of former President Thomas Jefferson to replace books lost when the British burned the congressional library during the War of 1812.
Among Jefferson’s books were “Thin Thighs in 30 Days” by Ben Franklin, “Declaration of Independence Writing for Dummies,” and “The Louisiana Purchase Through the Back Door” by the great-great-great-grandfather of Rick Steves.
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