I've had limited success with that. I think it depends on what the smell came from in the first place.

Cedar shavings work very well for musty suitcases, too.

So how are we carting this all around? I see the drafting table and grindstone being an issue.

Gorgeous.

I saw that! Also seriously awesome.

I was only there briefly, over ten years ago now, but it has continued to fascinate me. And, apropos of this article, I actually did base a city on it in my own writing, albeit without the awesome quicksand and racing tides.

I was going to post this one, too! It's just so ridiculously defensible. For people who are not V and have not heard of it, it's a tidal island. At low tide, it's essentially surrounded by quicksand and the tides can come in at 12mph. Add in heavy fogs which caused people to lose their way, it's not someplace I'd…

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I'm a really big fan of the Mayan Haab' (solar year) calendar for the most part*. Five day weeks, four weeks a month, eighteen months and one extra week that doesn't belong to any month in a year. You could easily add a leap day every four years to that extra week, though they didn't.

"Do you know what that sound is, highness? Those are the howling rodents of more-or-less usual size."

I feel the need to sit this kid down and make him watch Real Genius.

#corrections

Oh god, what a terrifying thought. (My family's full of engineers.) My brother would run a fantastically organized government that just happened to make The Prince look like something written by Doctor Seuss. My sister would be the second coming of Stalin. Dad, who's got seven patents, doesn't handle his own…

Well, I'd probably disagree on the portrayal of them all as slaveowners and mention that it mostly consisted of tweaking earlier systems of government that looked kind of cool. But mostly, yes.

Ha. You could say we agreed to disagree?

This reminds me a little of the whole "elect a businessman" debacle that's been played out a lot recently. The skill set scientists need for their job is not quite the same as the one they'd need to be good political leaders.

For me, it's a space-saver. There's an advantage to having an all-in-one setup. My tv, computer and blue-ray player are all hooked in together on top of a converted old chest of drawers in the living room. (My desk is kept computer-free.) The work I do on the computer is generally limited to writing, reading and…

I've been running my PC through my HDTV for a couple of years now. Love it. Blind as I am, I can still read just fine on it.

Partial remission is extremely common for MM. It typically runs for 18 months to five years between relapses. So, while I am glad your grandmother is doing better, that's not really a recovery outside the norm that we can attribute to a miracle diet.