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| [White House Correspondents’ Dinner] Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, How did you enjoy the play? |
 The new incarnation of Marathon’s Kmart is a Kmart for the beach. Men’s real nice shirts are $109, all of them are $109. I guess Marathon is up and coming. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt faced the most assassination attempts, with at least five known attempts on his life. Link |
 [Spying On You] YIKES! Do not buy a new Ford pickup truck. Their newest patents not only hear you, inside your vehicle, they read your lips. if the “system” disagrees with you, your truck will not start. Video |
| What does simply leaning on a propane tank have to do with anything? Enlightening us. (Editor: Sorry, I did it again, I only copied and pasted part of the email I received and missed the whole point. Correction: the employee was “leaning against the propane tank smoking a cigarette”.) |
 This lousy critter is eating the bird’s food and the next morning there was an opossum under the feeder. Bummer. We hadn’t seen either in over a year. I shot her with a pellet pistol about a dozen times, but I had the gun only pumped half way so the raccoon thought it was a bug and never moved. I was forced to use the old broom trick: a big crazy man running while wildly swing a broom. She’ll be back. |
| [“The person who thinks the post about an ICE raid in a Marathon hotel and the legal immigrants staying home.”] It’s not easy to try to think like an immigrant but the post read “These were all legal workers and citizens, terrified of being ‘disappeared’.” You don’t know the fear and paranoia persecuted and abused people have of the police and government. You can’t imagine it and you’ll never know what it’s like being white and secure. The ICE raid at the Marathon hotel was real. I’m friendly with a legal immigrant (who doesn’t work there) who told me he and his wife both have stayed home after reading about impending ICE raids on Facebook. That’s not just staying home from work, but staying home and not leaving the house. |
 [No Apple Help] As well-meaning and helpful as the members who make up the informal gathering presently known as the Big Pine Key Computer Club are, no one there is familiar with iMac Computers. |
| [Billionaire Buddy] Sanctioned Russian billionaire’s yacht passes through blockaded Strait of Hormuz. Link |
   [Chrysler Crossfire] This old car was designed in Germany by Mercedes designers during the disastrous merger with Chrysler. This was probably the only cool car built by them during that toxic union. My friend found this old Chrysler Crossfire in a family member’s garage under a cover. I think it’s the coolest of cars. |
| [“Pangy -Corpse Flower”] They really stink, more than you can imagine. I visited the beautiful glass conservatory in Los Angeles and when I walked into the room with the stinky flower I almost fell over from the unexpected smell. It was giant! I’ve never smelled a corpse, but I don’t have to now that I’ve smelled the giant pangy. |
 Our final Full Moon Kayak Excursion of the season is happening on the 30th and Thursday’s weather will be great! The Florida Keys Wildlife Society is hosting this trip, departing at 6:15 p.m. Please call Bill 305-872-7474, our sponsor from Big Pine Kayak Adventures, Inc., for information and then go on-line to floridakeyswildlifesociety.org to sign up. This fundraiser benefits all the refuges in the Florida Keys. Please arrive at the Old Wooden Bridge Marina, 1791 Bogie Dr on Big Pine Key, 30 minutes before departure (5:45 p.m.) so we can get you signed in and set up with all the necessary gear. Cost is $30 per person. For photos of previous trips, visit our Facebook page: Full Moon Kayak Excursion – Florida Keys |
| Donate blood this month and receive an e-Gift Card/Publix Card depending on the drive location plus a sunshade. Thank you to those who donate life-saving blood. Link |
 [Ghosts Sounds] Every day, you encounter sounds that you can’t technically hear. Some of these are produced at incredibly high pitches, but many others occur as infrasound. This range of ultra-low frequencies below 20 Hertz (Hz) are found everywhere—during thunderstorms, inside factories, and even amid rush hour traffic. But a growing body of evidence suggests that infrasound is regularly detectable in spookier situations. More specifically, the seemingly imperceptible tones may frequently show up in “haunted” hotspots. |
| For the camera question person: Amazon. Blink cameras. Battery powered. Wireless. Put them anywhere and everywhere. They are inexpensive, simply wirelessly connect to your house WiFi and you can monitor and turn on or off everything even if you are in Katmandu. No one else is involved. Have you not been paying attention to technology? |
 First photo of the backside of the Moon. |
| The World’s most complicated machine. Link |
 [Chinese Own American Brand] KFC isn’t just about chicken anymore. The fast-food chain is partnering with BYD, China’s electric vehicle company, to place car chargers at its locations across the country, CNBC reported on April 9. The ultra-fast (9-minute) chargers will provide just enough time for drivers to fill up on finger-lickin’ chicken and all the fixings. BYD will facilitate the visits with onboard ordering and location displays. KFC is, according to an industry report, China’s leading fast-food chain, with 13,000 outlets in 2,500 cities. |
| Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage Video |
 [eBooks] More old people are reading eBooks now that they discovered they don’t need a Kindle and can read just as well on their phones and carry hundreds of eBooks with them where ever they travel. |
| [Pixel Phones] Relief could be coming soon for Google Pixel users suffering from bricked Pixel 6 phones. Google put out an official response on what users can do to avoid their phones getting bricked while the company works on a fix.
The original fault occurred when users tried to factory rest their Google Pixel 6, Google Pixel 6a and Google Pixel 6 Pro. The phones would display an error message that it was unable to load Android. “Your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message, you may need to perform a factory data reset and erase all user data stored on this device,” the message continued. Google has since released some advice on how to avoid the issue, adding that it’s looking into a permanent fix for the problem. Google recommends leaving devices powered on and idle for 15 minutes after the reboot following a system update. Once that time has passed, you can then run a factory reset the phone. Alternatively, Google recommends factory resetting the phone before downloading the recent system update. |
 Nedra Talley Ross (left), the last surviving member of the Grammy-winning sixties girl group The Ronettes, peacefully died on Sunday morning at age 80. The Spanish Harlem singer outlived her cousins Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Spector and Estelle Bennett, who died in 2022 and 2009, respectively. Link
The Ronettes – Be My Baby |
| Nobody sees the 4 a.m. workouts. Nobody sees the quiet charity work. Nobody sees the hours of meal prep. Nobody sees the deep meditation of my self-reflection. Because I don’t do any of those things. |
 Awesome ecology of locustberry with Orchid Biologist Dr. Jason Downing. Video |
| The best way to sleep on a plane, according to science. An eye mask, earplugs, and a same-day workout can all increase your odds. Link |
 Frank Yowonske passed away March 10, 2026. We are having his celebration of life at the swimming hole on Summerland Key, Pruitt Road at 5:00pm. May 2. If you knew Frank, you are welcome to join us. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 4/28/26 at 10:01 am. |
