Circa 1978 – Press Photo, Atlantic Sun
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#ThrowBackThursday – R. Michael Brown of BrownieBytes.net Surfing Lake Worth Pier
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We Paid $4 Million For A Cabin On A Cruise Ship That Will Sail The World Year-Round. We Want To Travel In Total Comfort, Without The ‘Bag Drag’ From Place To Place. | Digg
Myle Hammond splurges on nice vacations, but even the best hotel mattresses don’t rival the comfort of his own bed. Now, his bed will travel with him.
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Bicycle Racing #ThrowBackThursday
Throw Back Thursday #BicycleRacing during the Lions Clubs International Ride for the Blind race in Boca Raton. Circa 1977 at Florida Atlantic University.
I won it by completing 115 laps (about 103.5 miles) in 4 hours, setting a course record. I was racing for Florida Freewheelers Club out of Orlando at the time.
I got folks to pledge donations per mile before the event. Most said a dime or a nickel per mile. One of my professors told me a $1 per mile thinking I would go maybe 20 miles or so. When I told him I did 103 miles, he backed out of the deal and gave me $40…. and grumbled about it.
Grew the beard because I had started working as an ocean lifeguard for the City of Boca Raton Beach Patrol and the constant wind, salt, and sun was tough on your face.
Vinyl Overtakes CD Sales for the First Time Since 1987
No longer just a niche hobby for dads and hipsters, vinyl is experiencing a major resurgence in mainstream music. According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) annual revenue report, vinyl records outsold CDs in the US last year for the first time since 1987, selling 41 million units against 33 million for CD.
Vinyl record sales have consistently increased over the last 16 years according to the RIAA report published on Thursday, now accounting for 71 percent of all physical music format revenue. The growth margins here aren’t trivial, either — while physical formats as a whole increased by 4 percent, earning $1.7 billion between 2021 and 2022, vinyl sales alone accounted for $1.2 billion, experiencing a 17 percent increase in sales compared to the previous year. Comparatively, CD sales plummeted by 18 percent in 2022.
Brownie Bytes asks why? Why do you think this music format is making a comeback? Doesn’t the digital version sound better?
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Daytona 500 Coming up in 2 Weeks
Fun day touring #DaytonaSpeedway. #NASCAR. #racinglife #carracing #stockcar Ben’s birthday weekend!
What It Takes To Be A Top 1% Earner In Your State, Mapped
SmartAsset scanned IRS data from 2019 to see what each state’s biggest earners had in common, and what made them stand out from everyone else. They adjusted their 2019 findings to 2022 figures using the data from the BLS’s CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers.
Key Takeaways
• Being one of America’s top earners is the hardest thing to do in Connecticut, where you’d have to rake in more $955,300 to join the one percent club. If you’re looking for a compromise, earning more than $336,900 would put you in the top five percent.
• Earning upwards of $275,000 would make you among the top five percent in New Hampshire, Maryland, New York, Colorado, Virginia, Washington, California, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
• The top one percent earners have an average tax rate of 25 percent in the top 15 states.
See More [Digg]:
https://digg.com/data-viz/link/what-it-takes-to-be-in-the-top-1-by-usa-state-mapped-WW04bDD5jC
Library waives $52,400 fee on book overdue for 58 years
They finally closed the book on this case.
A British library waived a $52,400 fee for a book that had been overdue — for 58 years.
In 1964, then-17-year-old David Hickman checked out “The Law for Motorists” from the Dudley Library before a court visit over a minor traffic violation, the Express & Star reported.
When the former Dudley resident moved to London in 1970, he brought the book with him.
See More:
nypost.com/2023/01/21/library-waives-52400-fee-on-book-overdue-for-58-years/
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