Google clears the tab’s history if you go to google from another page - it effing pisses me off - the back button ‘greys’ out.

The original King the county was named after was an incredible bigot - I suppose changing who the county was named after was easier than changing the county’s name, sigh

There was a report on Seattle’s KUOW where some of the black women interviewed said that sometimes they can go weeks without seeing another black woman - possibly as a result of gentrification since the Central District was bought out.

OT: I use one of my microwaves to melt glass into molds - there is a special kiln to do this in. The kiln is coated with iron particles that are agitated by the microwaves until the kiln reaches 1550 F

I used to ask the bartender for the bitterest ale they have then I discovered IBUs (any ale exported to the EU has to have an International Bitterness Unit rating). I used to go for the extremes - I once had an IPA worth 103 IBUs (it was like sucking on a lemon) I am trying to break my bitterness habit and have…

I am really lazy and unable to spend all the time necessary to caramelize onions the ‘normal’ way so I slice the onions into a cast iron pot w/lid and stick it in the oven at 450 F. After 2 hours, I stir and add some oil then after another hour repeat every hour until your onions are caramelized. I just do not have…

The really interesting thing about polishing glass is that what is happening is the polish is creating scratches but so fine that they appear to disappear.

What happened to Fahrenheit 451?

Seattle composts most of its food waste which is a good thing. I remember back in the day when restaurants would save up their grease and food waste to sell to pig farms.

“I haaaaaaaaaate strip clubs (Sorry! Paying women to disrobe has never been my ministry)”

I met people like that when I was in Texas - they were just nasty and got nastier when they drank their rotgut whiskey from a paper bag

Oghmalnutrition - I am a really, really white guy and I could see that they are 2 different people. Wrong glasses, wrong hair, wrong face - just wrongety, wrong, wrong - maybe you should get your eyes checked

NumberMan - so close! try a Corruption of Cops

Owens could not have been dishonorably discharged - the worst would have been bad conduct but that would be highly unlikely since it usually includes 10 or so years hard time. The most likely discharge would have been undesirable but they fired him instead. From worst to best, discharges are dishonorable, bad conduct,…

She is so effing amazing! Every time I see her do her magic, my jaw drops

There is an easy way to set the correct angle for knife honing: with the blade straight up (90 deg), rotate it to half way between perpendicular and horizontal (45 deg) then half again (22.5 deg) which is close enough for honing.

Felltree, that is the recipe I worked with - I filled the dutch oven with a variety of onions. It was almost effort free, pack ‘em into the oven and roasted for 2 hours, stirred them, roasted for another hour or 2 (gotta keep an eye on them in this phase) - it was 4 hours of non-interference and some minutes of…

Also, too, I signed up for FireFox’ VPN. I like to set it to weird international locations but keep getting ‘out of country’ (or whatever it is called) blockage so I stick with US locations.

I remember when I was in San Antonio in 1968 we would go out barefoot in shorts and then have to crunch our way home - cicadas would warm themselves on the pavement. It was icky and walking on screaming bugs were an annoyance. I swear the humidity there was 110% - I ran my sheets through a dryer and by the time I…

Another trick (?) is to ask for an abatement of the penalties - the abatement is automatic as long as you have no penalties for the last 3 years. There are some complexities in the abatement process but the main thing is to ask for it. Things may have changed since I retired but it used to *wrong* for the IRS employee…