There will always be madmen with guns . . .

Oh well. I guess I’d have to go over it with an iron, and then it is just too complicated to be worthwhile.

(Note: I’ve posted this comment elsewhere on Kinja sites)

If I have a bowl of leftovers, I can lay down a bead of wax on it, and then press a sheet of waxed paper (or plastic, or aluminum foil) over it, to create a heat-seal. Perhaps there are other ‘wax sealing’ applications that this can be applied to.

Um, no. That’s retrophrenology.

Chickens have the Vidiian Phage disease?

Yes, I see your point. I was being unnecessarily picky.

Bayo’s technique is essentially how an inkjet printer produces images, except your Epson creates millions of dots smaller than the human eye can perceive . . .

Some of them will be 18 by November. They should be sure to vote.

Sounds like that joke about the true meaning of ‘gun control’

I have some wheat berries that I got for my garden (I planted a small bed of wheat in the Fall), so I’ll have to give this a try.

. . . mass murder was a horrible way to kick off the holiday

Well, we’re starting to get to that kind of service life with the B-52 Stratofortress. I mean, in another 50 years, they may get enough upgrades to fly next to Space Battleship Yamato.

Human Thelazia eye infections are definitely rare, but cattle fall victim to these worms pretty regularly. Some research has shown that up to a third of cows in the Northern U.S. are jam-packed with eye worm larvae during the summer months. The summer also happens to be when all known human infections have…

Yeah.

I remember watching a piece on “60 Minutes” in which Hepburn was interviewed. She complained that it cost too much to go out to eat, saying that she could prepare a great steak dinner for $20, and it would be better than any restaurant.

At most, use pecans. Preferably pre-toasted.

We can only imagine that a force of nature like Katharine Hepburn—fond of brisk, miles-long walks in the woods, never slowing down for an instant—did not have a ton of time to mess around in the kitchen. Subsequently, her brownies are simple, no-nonsense, and can be thrown together in about 15 minutes.

I like to listen to the podcast “Lexicon Valley”. There was one episode in which they were discussing the origins of the word “seersucker”. It turns out that there are databases of old business records and shipping manifests that can be searched by historians, but the linguists had the problem that “Seersucker” was…

I *love* that recording! I have it on CD.