Canadians and Australians hate me!

Visitors from countries who have visited Frog Blog in the last 24 hours. (They must be seeking out the old posts because I just started posting again a few hours ago. No one from Iceland or Australia and only one Canadian?!) Hmm.

 

Koteka

Men from several of New Guinea’s ethnic groups, cover and protect their genitals with the koteka, or penis gourd. West Papua. Indonesia.

2010

Sebastião Salgado

Fluorescent Minerals

To lift my spirits (during  and after my radiation treatments) Dr. Randy (randy_b) sent me all these beautiful minerals. Included were special goggles and a special flashlight. I will update this post later with more information. I just wanted to post this horribly delayed public thank you. Randy also sent me (months before) some butterflies that burst out of a container like snakes from a peanut can. More info to come!

Over the years, I have received so many kind gifts... many of them made by readers with amazing skills. One was a necklace with a clay crow. (I'm not describing it well, but I love it.) Coloring books made by a reader. 

Please! Please! I don't require gifts. I love your emails, your blog suggestions (photos, odd info). Don't think that I love anyone any less or more based on sending me gifts. The only thing I regret not receiving are all those postcards mailed to John Glynn when GoComics had cancelled "Frog Applause". Those postcards helped to bring me back. Some of them might appear here under a label POSTCARDS. I have to re-familiarize myself with this blog. Good thing I recorded my password somewhere... because I forgot it. Please be patient while I get my bearings. In other words, I need to "recalibrate".

 

Palindromic zip codes

There are 900 possible 5-digit palindromic zip codes in the United States, as the first digit (1-9), second digit (0-9), and middle digit (0-9) determine the entire code (e.g., 12321). 

Notable 5-Digit Palindromic Zip Codes
Specific examples of active palindromic 5-digit zip codes include:

• 10301: Staten Island, NY

• 10501: Amawalk, NY

• 10601: White Plains, NY

• 11411: Cambria Heights, NY

• 12421: Denver, NY

• 12721: Bloomingburg, NY

• 12821: Comstock, NY

• 13331: Eagle Bay, NY

• 14741: Great Valley, NY

• 15451: Lake Lynn, PA

• 15551: Markleton, PA

• 16061: West Sunbury, PA

• 16361: Tylersburg, PA

• 16661: Madera, PA

• 19891: Wilmington, DE

• 30103: Adairsville, GA

• 30703: Calhoun, GA

• 30803: Avera, GA

• 31013: Clinchfield, GA

• 31513: Baxley, GA

• 32323: Lanark Village, FL

• 32423: Bascom, FL

• 35053: Crane Hill, AL

• 36263: Graham, AL

• 38083: Millington, TN

• 38183: Germantown, TN

• 38583: Sparta, TN

• 46164: Nineveh, IN

• 70507: Lafayette, LA

• 70607: Lake Charles, LA

• 72227: Little Rock, AR

• 72727: Elkins, AR

• 74047: Mounds, OK

• 74747: Kemp, OK

• 76367: Iowa Park, TX

• 76667: Mexia, TX

• 77377: Tomball, TX

• 77477: Stafford, TX

• 77977: Placedo, TX

• 79697: Abilene, TX

• 79997: El Paso, TX

• 93239: Kettleman City, CA

• 94649: Oakland, CA

• 94949: Novato, CA

• 95959: Nevada City, CA

• 96269: FPO AP

• 96769: Makaweli, HI

Palindromic Prime Zip Codes
Less than 50 of the 100,000 possible 5-digit zip codes are palindromic primes.

Lost Children

c.2008 Victoria Gewirz
 

Misc videos

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f4wwIULWuOQ

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Zjs9qT9xmY

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INSTANT Meals Ancient Chinese Merchants Ate on the Silk Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_SH2h0KI

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