People tell me when I give a book as a gift I'm supposed to write a little blurb inside. Fuck that, what if they want to sell it and my scribbles knocked half the value off? They'd be pissed at me. Here, I got you this first edition Gutenberg Bible, let me just scribble a little note in here first. :rolleyes:

Cool, I downloaded Discworld 3 to my i phone for sleeping bag reading, I wonder what that's worth? ;)

you already did!

Not being a skier and never having lived where there's feets and feets of snowpack, I'd never heard of tree wells, nor how dangerous they are.

we have regular seasonal PSAs and news-you-can-use segments on tree wells every year.

I've seen the story poles to measure the depth of the snow around Mt Rainier, they're taller than a damn telephone pole. :eek3:

When I got back into skiing I was surprised that glade skiing, skiing through the trees, has become an approved activity. They used to rip our tickets for that.

Today I learned about the tanuki, or, Japanese Raccoon Dog, a close relative of the dog.

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This Twitterer has one in their home. (And lots of interesting photos, not just of tanukis tanukae[/strike] tanukum Japanese Raccoon Dogs.)

Today I learned about the Omni Processor.

It takes human waste and produces electricity, clean drinking water (that passes FDA WHO standards), and money.

How The Omni Processor Works <---Good infographic. Better/quicker than the Wiki link above.

Do not poke around in da cellar while ya have corn bread in the oven.

That sounds dirty

Nah, that smell is burned cornbread.

:-(

Today I learned there is a growing conspiracy theory around vote fraud in the Clinton campaign.

Burned cornbread bad.

Gotta love her handle "Sane Progressive." I have no idea about her allegations, but she goes right past passionate and into nuts territory pretty quickly.

I wonder why the Sanders campaign hasn't gotten back to her. ;)

Today I learned about the Bahrain World Trade Center. It's the second-tallest building in Bahrain, and the first skyscraper in the world to include wind turbines in the structure of the building.

The towers are shaped like sails and were wind-tunnel designed so that wind coming from as much as a 45 degree angle (to the face of the building and blades) is caught by the building and funneled so that it remains straight-on to the turbine blades.

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Those turbines were brought online on this date in 2008.

Today I learned there's a place in NY called Hector Falls at the bottom of the Finger Lakes and it's beautiful. There's a National Forest Campsite nearby called Bluepabbery Patch because it's right next to a ...... The town of Hector is just a little north of there........ we're going and..... it's three hours due north of Hebe, PA. Haven't found a town called Thor yet, tho'

Pete and I cycled all over that area in our young hip days. Turns out those names are a remnant of the Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...Military_Tract

That's pretty cool.

Ask, and ye shall receive...

Thor, Iowa

Also:

Thor (places)

There are 2 towns in West Virginia Called Spencer and Ripley. Connected by the same road.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...faac769c5b.jpg

And the town of Gay between.

"Bout tahm fuh a good ol' fashion feudin', I reckon."

"Butt stahl."

:lol2:Sorry, the liquor's starting to take hold.:)

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I notice Harmony is a little distant..... ;)

But Looneyville aint far

True for me, where ever I go. . .

Amma let ya finish, but Elizabeth had the BEST TOWN EVER!

Just don't go sticking your Peewee in Burning Springs...:worried:

I would think that's a Given, though you know Ravenswood.

But, will Owdale?

Today (last night, actually) I learned about P-factor.

Today I learned why they're called the Dry Tortugas.

No fresh water.

Wiki quote:

No springs? Must be a rough ride.

I think the song "Relax" (lyrics), by Frankie Goes To Hollywood might just be about giving head, or getting head, or something.

Or am I completely off base? Is my Slip showing?

Today I learned that this thing --> ÷ is called an obelus.

I also learned that this thing --> ¶ is called a pilcrow.

Because Nat'l Punctuation Day.

Obelus. Got it. Thx

I learned that tie-dying is just one type of Shibori

Today I learned that the individual "balls" on raspberries and blackberries are called drupelets

And yet they are not drupaceous fruits (aka stonefruit), those being comprised instead of one single drupe.

so true ......but drupaceous is infinitely less useful in Scrabble and WWF ;)

Today I learned about the knockout mouse.

It's not what you think. It's not what I thought, anyway.

If God had wanted us to knock out the genes of mice to fuck with them on the genetic level, he would have given us the intelligence to eventually develop the techniques to do that.

*chuckle*

:D

grin

San Francisco Edition
 

Today, I learned what this is (the ring of bricks, they're all over San Fran):

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And, if you read this, you'll know what it is, too.;)

not at all what I expected

I was thinking it had to do with the cables running in the roads for the cable cars, but this is much cooler. It's knowledge that will be handy in the zombie apocalypse.

I thought maybe it marked where one of those things that turned streetcars around used to be.

But, I couldn't figure why they'd be marked that way.

Plus, do streetcars have to turn around? They just stop and then go the other way don't they?

No, they have a turntable at the ends of each line. The car is turned by human power.

Today I learned about Operation: London Bridge.

Yeah, I read that. It's not if, but when, so have a plan.

Today I learned about The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.

Today I learned that Ben & Jerry's has graveyard for discontinued flavors.