Salt was an important commodity throughout the world and at one time in some locations, salt was more valuable than gold. The book Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky is a fascinating look at how important salt was to the world and how the trade of salt linked some far areas. A great read.

As an actual piece of advice and non-plumbing related, the front turn signal lights of a ‘67 VW do not have a separate part number seal. It uses the equivalent of plumbers putty instead.

I am almost surprised that a molotov wasn’t hurled from the women’s college in the direction of the catcallers.

A while ago my email address was farmed out and I received a bunch of apparently spam emails. Looking closer, they were from actual companies with actual websites. They were the ones who were taken for $ for buying my address.

I still need to change my voicemail outgoing message to, “Don’t bother, I don’t look for VMs, and even when I know I have one, it may take many days to actually listen to it, so, no.”

I wonder if the ability of fungi to grow microscopically is how some cancers spread.

In our area we have Scotch Broom, Tree of Heaven, and maybe that wisteria. We have a wisteria that was planted decades ago. It is on a trellis near the house, and will grow up onto the roof. I will check to see if it has fuzzy seed pods. We don’t get many flowers at all.

Jersey Mikes provided sandwiches for our local Rocklin Mini Maker Faire a couple of times. I was not impressed at all. Free is good, but the sandwiches were dull and boring. I have had one full-priced sandwich and was still not impressed.

Since my instructions indicated dishwasherable, I do. I don’t use it often, so not likely to damage it soon.

Cereal boxes, thick paper, just about any material can work as a shim instead of buying an expensive piece of stuff.

Isn’t that what a dishwasher is for? Washing dishes and anything else that can go in there, like the basket components? The base walls just need to be wiped down.

This is a really cool use of technology vis robotics. Nice!

And it is big engough to have it’s open weather system inside. It can rain from clouds -inside- the building apparently.

The complete lack of self-awareness of the 45** cult is amazing.
“Never bow or apologize to the mob,” Lahren wrote “ completely oblivious that they ARE the mob. If you make the tiny leap that a mob is likely violent.

I recently went through some boxes of stuff and found a few hundred floppies. There is a company in the US that will pay $ for large quantities. In addition to Japan, the US government still has systems that require floppies to function.

Yet another instance of mysoginists not listening to people who truly understand the consequenses and finding out later that they were right. Idiots.

Oh yeah! Can’t wait for the smuggled out footage and audio from this debacle. It should be popcorn time!

We’re always the last folks to leave a theater as we watch the credits. The attendants are usually cleaning while we are still seated. And of course are super-annoyed when credits are either skipped or overwritten with ads or other crap. Thanks for this.

Don’t forget the old leave-it-on-the-sidewalk-with-a-free-sign gambit. Of course, it depends on where you live, but sometimes a great option.

Have any of them been at the top of their sport for over 20 years? I didn’t think so.