https://davidhardiman.com A safe and legal literary drug. Now available in prescription strength. Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:28:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://davidhardiman.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Header-32x32.jpg https://davidhardiman.com 32 32 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/i-just-want-to-stop-the-world-here-for-a-moment-to-say-wait-did-that-really-happen/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 03:49:53 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=5779 And I’m neither referring to NASA landing and operating 5 rovers on Mars (not to mention a helicopter), nor am I referring to the fact that an Airbus 350 weighing 620,000 lbs. at takeoff can stay airborne for 19 hours and fly 9700 miles. While I marvel at these stellar (and interstellar) achievements, what I […]

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