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I knew an Airedale who insisted that the $18 hunk of Stilton had leaped from the table and made a dash for the door. So obviously, it was his duty to stop it.

He did feel bad about barfing it all over the rug afterward. But who could have foreseen that? Certainly no Airedale.

Something odd that I noticed on this job: Just north of Pine Bluff, within the Pine Bluff metropolitan area, is a town called White Hall. This town is home to the Pine Bluff Arsenal, where for a while a lot of chemical weapons were stockpiled, and later destroyed. That isn't the weird part, by the ...

I read a lot about Edison when I was a kid. He liked to set traps to electrocute rats and mice.

Even though my grandfather was an electrician, I was strongly discouraged from trying that at home.

In this county, there are roads with the same name in different townships that are not the same road. I think the dispatchers have a better handle on it now, but it used to cause all kinds of confusion for emergency responders.

There's also the unquantified risk (because there are not enough data yet) of permanent lung scarring in younger patients who have apparently recovered. Emphysema is no fun. And treating a generation of people forced into early disability is going to be hellaciously expensive down the road. Unless, ...

Hope you catch a break here.

There business closures are grim, but that's part of the general grimness. There's not much help for it but to maintain general income support. We're in the middle of a pandemic, and facing a worldwide recession, or worse.

Warrl wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:53 pm Wild guess: Deerwood Para High is in England, and the move to the US has pulled the rugby out from under her.

Takes leather balls to make that joke.

Yeah. Plenty of herd mentality, all right. I've been reading an 1893 edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys in the john since March. I'm up to August 1664. The plague's in Amsterdam. Not sure if Sam knows it's coming for London. (Say what? Why, yes. The old folks were from Ireland. :twisted: ) History...

Very cool.

I used to tape my LPs so as not to wear them out. Still have the LPs, but the receivers and speakers died.

Never yet figured out what's supposed to replace the old component systems. Seems like everything is geared for video or MP3 singles.

Atomic wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:18 pm

Ummm, yes you can.

Damn. You're right.

You can't ever have too much liquid xenon!

In particle physics, every experiment for the past 10 or 12 decades has proven that they need a bigger accelerator.

That Daily Mail article is hard to read through all the ads and popups, but the actual content is a deal more nuanced than the clickbait headlines. The actual discussion is whether a PCR test is useful for determining whether a person is infectious at the time of testing. PCR absolutely determines w...

Here in Pennsylvania, reporting methods differ between counties and the Department of Health, but total deaths are north of 7700, and about 430 for the county where I live.

neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

(Tinitus background tone in my head )

You know that about half the regular gang here is 65 or over, right?

Mere 40% chance of premature horrid death from a virus as contagious as the common cold? Why would that worry anyone ?

Concentrating cider by freezing is traditional, but I've heard that it's risky because it also concentrates the congeners that are discarded with the heads and tails in distillation.

I think Dave is generally right. It's a matter of process. And apple brandy (applejack here; calvados in Europe) can be very good. The U.S. had a great tradition of cider up till Prohibition. Cider orchards grew mixes of apples that were not particularly good for baking or eating out of hand. (You w...

Well, I was thinking of this one.