Thanks. I am hoping for positive outcomes.

I tried the chili pepper flavored Ramen noodles yesterday. A friend told me they were really good, but, to start off with just half the seasoning packet, which I did. It is by far the most flavorful I've tried yet.

I told you that, so I could tell you this:

Today I learned that the rest of that seasoning packet made for some of the best scrambled eggs I've ever eaten.

It wakes up the tongue, that's for sure.

Nothing like a little MSG to start the day.

Today I learned rerealized how little I mean to the people that mean something to me.

I really don't know why they mean anything to me.

Damn, Grav - sounds like a verybad day. *hug*

Nah, just another day.

Today (just now) I learned about The Elephant's Foot.

very interesting!

Today, I learned there's been another nuclear power plant problem in the Ukraine
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0JH12M20141203

Anything that happens at a Nuke will be blown out of proportion by the press until they get to the point where they start intimating a cover-up prevents us from finding out the truth.

In Boston, over the last couple days, a man was admitted to Mass General with a fever and as a precaution was put in isolation as a precaution. Stop the presses!! EBOLA!! Man sick!! Ebola!! In isolation!! EBOLA!!.

So Mass General releases a statement after a day or two, saying the guy has Malaria. But the fucking TV news still have EBOLA!! as every other word out of their yaps. After all, we can't let the truth stand in the way of a good story.:rolleyes:

...and into smithereens as well. :)

I learned that Ryan Leaf, the OTHER QB drafted right after Peyton Manning was just released from jail. He had apparently broken into people's houses to steal their pain pills.

pretty fucking crazy

I learned that Oz's Tin Man has a name - Nick Chopper

I suspect by the time someone has earned the chance to even be considered for the NFL draft, they've accumulated a slew of hurt. If they make the cut, along with trainer's help, they can afford to control the pain. If they have to go work for a living it's a problem, because pain control is expensive and addictive.

Today I learned that, despite looking ridiculous, smushing several spoonfuls of ice cream against your nasal passages will, in fact, ease the unbelievably intense burning sensation if you absentmindedly rub your nose while cutting up a poblano pepper.

It still fucking burns, but at least I'm not crying anymore.

Whoops.

Should have stuck to the mint pesto. :comfort:

Oh I did! The poblano was just being chopped and frozen for later in the week. The mint pesto came out pretty good, although Minifobette thought it "smelled like skunk." I don't think she's ever smelled a skunk.

Got one in the neighborhood, for the last few days.

Smell it at night when I come home.

I learned I was wrong.
I've been adamant I saw Genesis with Peter Gabriel at the Walnut Street Theater in 1972.
Well I talked to someone who I know was there because his group shared.... uh, sat with our group.
He says it was scheduled/advertised for the Walnut, but the tight butts in Philly whined this would draw hippies, beatniks, and ne'er-do-wells to their posh neighborhood.
So Midnight Sun scrambled to move the show to the Tower Theater.

From the Tower's Wiki entry

Was that the one?

Yes, saw Ziggy too.

Nice.

Yeah. That would be fun.

I've seen a few unknown bands, but they stayed unknown. So I can't brag.

We had a huge advantage living close to the Tower Theater. It was sometimes called the Fillmore East because it was a must play for the groups on the verge of breaking into the bigtime. I saw so many acts there who were playing to crowds of 20,000 up, the next time they were in town. Saw a few like the Moody Blues, and Jethro Tull, playing the Tower after their arena days were over.

As a matter of fact Yusuf Islam(Cat Stevens) played there last week on his attempted comeback tour.

... that this date and time isn't going to happen again till the next century:

12/13/14 :15:16;17

I missed it. I'll have to catch the next one.

That can't happen in Britain :P

Although 11/12/13 14.15.16 did.

True!

I'm surprised I was wide awake enough to work that out!

That's me done for the rest of the day, I suspect. :eyebrow:

Cleveland baby born at 10:11, 12/13/14

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Hey look, it's Opie Cunningham!

Today I [re]learned about an animal I'd become unaware of...

The fossa.

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From the first link:

Looks like the kind of critter you'd find out in a cold rain, bring home to a warm dry hearth, then it rips your throat out while you sleep. You know, like a cat. :p:

I know this is a strange post, but today I learned how far a continent can move in 16.6 million years !

After our family moved to Oregon in 1975, I did a bit of reading about Oregon’s geology.
Back then, geologists were argueing about the origins of two main flows of lava
in eastern Oregon at the Idaho border (now the Snake River).

Lately, I’ve been reading “ In Search of Ancient Oregon ” by Helen Morris Bishop,
and learned that back in 2002, Peter Hooper of Washington State University showed
that the “hot spot” of Yellowstone National Park actually originated with the formation
of Steens Mountain in south-east Oregon.

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And the North American continent has moved westward while the hot spot stayed in place.

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The answer is about 550 miles… thanks to Google Maps !

!!!!!!!!

I wonder if that means the Atlantic Rift has widened by that same amount during the same time period, or is Europe moving west also?

How long did that move take?

lamplighter said 16.6 million years.

Today I learned that the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is not connected to a sewage system. They use trucks to collect all the sewage each day and truck it across town to a treatment facility.

They are doing it old school.
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Ok, not really like that.

The truth is more shocking. Dubai has no real sewage system, so trucks haul it all to a treatment facility and wait in a very long line for hours and hours and hours to drop the kids off at the pool.

Wow. I guess that's what happens when the private money explodes and no one invests in infrastructure for everyone...

Maybe they shouldn't have built on the shifting sands.

Man! what a load of shit.

That looks like a job for The Shit-men!

Today, I learned about Times Beach, Missouri.

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Way to go, Russell Martin Bliss, you fool. This is why we can't have nice things. And why the EPA is keeps looking for the next thing on the list to ban.

Today I learned that there is a theory that William Shakespeare was involved in the production of the King James Version of The Bible and left a "signature". iThe translation started when he was 46, and apparently the 46th word from the beginning of psalm 46 is "Shake" and the 46th word from the end of psalm 46 is "Spear"

It was a random factoid spouted by a character in a book I am reading, so I googled it.

Is Dan Brown a hero to you?

Today I learned that if FIOS TV is out, I can't even watch recorded shows on my DVR.

What crap. It really wrecks the normal expectation of what a DVR should deliver.

I wonder what Verizon is monitoring when you employ the DVR. You're not getting commercials, right? Maybe it's like the Kindle where you have a local copy of the work, but only a revocable license to watch, listen, read it.

No, it's recording them locally. It's just that if the box can't connect to the server, you can't even get to the DVR menu. It just has an error message, and doesn't respond to the remote.

Today I learned about The Cornfield Bomber.

Cool. Embarrassing maybe for the pilot...

Well, he just stepped out to pee and it slipped out of park. :o

I wish commercial jets would do that.

Today I learned about Zion curtains.



ETA: And then, I read up on the Alcohol Laws of Utah. Interesting read.

Quelle deception ! :eyebrow:

I was expecting something at least related to underwear. ;)

I can see where you might make that mistake...Especially in one of my posts.

:D

Today, Tuesday, August 25th, is the US National Park Service's 99th birthday. All National Parks had free admission today. Only 20 minutes left here, but you western time zones might get in a quickie. :haha:

Today I learned about the Kalinin K-7.

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Liver, fava beans, and red wine are three things that interact with a class of drugs known as MAOIs, early antidepressants that were sometimes used for personality disorders. If you eat those things and are on a MAOI it can kill you.

So the famous line from Silence of the Lambs,

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

...could have signaled that the patient was off his meds.