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We share 80% of our genes. Now laugh at me!
Greetings!
Well, this is some of the news I’ve been waiting for. Keep in mind, that the sample could have contaminated or mishandled, this is nevertheless major news. They’re saying it’s less than 86% similar to anything known, meaning likely a new species or maybe even a new family. To give a somewhat apples to oranges comparison, cows are 80% similar to humans, so this is as different from EVERYTHING we know as we are from cows.
Words fail me. Well, no they don’t but I suppress most of them because they’re not nice words. That crap has been pouring into the pacific since the meltdowns, probably with much higher radiation. I’m still unaware of any independent sampling within Japan’s waters, but this data is from 40km out. Now they want to add more because they’re running out of places to store it and for some reason the abandoned land that surrounds the plant isn’t good enough to erect tanks. Oh, yeah, did I mention that the WSJ is speculating that molten fuel “Could” be outside the reactor? I suppose they have to pretend it’s news to them.
Al Gore is fat. Global warming is shifting conditions by seven degrees of latitude. For comparison, that moves Cincinnati Ohio on top of Savannah Georgia. Tropical forests are showing some resillance to the effects according to this study. 2/3 of Americans believe global warming is real, alas few of them are in positions of power. And the data is getting worse.
We could never really study atomic collapse before, because you needed a superheavy nucleus and those tend not to stay together very long. We achieved it with graphene.
These things live by oxydizing AMMONIA!!! Titan has an ammonia component in it’s atmosphere. The moons are getting more and more interesting. A reminder that something exists that can live in almost anything.
Pan-Starrs is going to be good, maybe great comet. I know this because we’ve been overcast during the only time it’s above the horizon here.
Yet another step forward for cheap solar. I don’t think coal could compete if there was a pollution tax. And it may not be long before coal can’t compete anyway. Fracking sucks, but the natural gas it produces burns cleaner. But we may use more dirty energy to get to the clean gas.
The more we learn about the Higgs boson, the more we realize it’s exactly what we expected and boring.
Obligatory Squid Link. Now they’re engineering them to catch cars.
Boxturtle (This is great recipe)
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Good morning, BoxTurtle. On the exercise bike, just starting to read. That photo….ewwww. ;^D
It’s been cloudy and rainy here, too. I went out March 8 to try to see Pan STARRS, but I think I went too early. Sun was setting, and I saw a nice big jet trail, but the comet is visible later, after the sun has set and the sky is just darkening.
Thanks, BT, can we have unicorns instead of cows? The figures are probably about the same anyway.
And I’m reading about resistance to antibiotics, getting pretty scary what we get by eating herds injected with stuff.
‘The number of tests coming back with resistance to carbapenems, one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics, has soared from a handful of cases in 2003 to more than 300 cases by 2010.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21702647
That photo called to me. I was trying to figure out a way to illustrate that difference, it’s a really key discovery. It’s really difficult to get good data of genetic differences from the web, cow was the closest I could come to 86%.
Boxturtle (I could have posted a photo of the Higgs, but that would be boring too)
Good morning, Boxturtle, great stuff. I don’t know what to say about the TEPCO thing either. Once we ruin the water though, it’s over.
Fracking brings that home to us. Once the water is not potable, we’re dead meat, if even 86% of it.
My understanding is that the antibiotics in animals are used mainly in small doses to stimulate growth and not even used initially to treat any bacterial infections in the animals. Makes it insanely more maddening, cow(wise).
Morning Ruth,
Thanks for the nice round up Box T.
The Unicorns are all busy with the austerity debate. As are most of the fairies.
What scare me is what will we do when those drugs simply stop working? Assume we go back to pre-drug operations, those folks will now lose a few more percent of their herds. Most ranchers (except factory farms) work on very low margins and this could be enough to kill some of those ranches.
I suspect the low level background of antibiotics we’re exposed to every day has a lot to do with the explosion of allergies we’re seeing in children.
Boxturtle (Vancomyicin is losing it’s kick and that’s very bad indeed)
True, it’s a side effect that antibiotics are being rendered useless.
As promised, here’s a picture of the tiller that turned over the soil yesterday;
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3LRMvAYSBjotrCjiWcP__w8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
I heard over the weekend that the promised gajillion (that’s a technical term I just made up) jobs that were supposed to result from the XL pipeline are now just a few, very few. So we ruin the planet and the environment so we can ship oil overseas.
Good thing we still have Leprechauns.
Seems antibiotics are being cut back in treatments for sinus and the like, where they’re totally a frill – but hospital infections are killing patients who had successful treatments, but were exposed to the bugs they had no resistance to.
My suspicion is that the rejection of land titles giving a right to your own land – and keeping out invading interests – is about to be the major violation of XL pipeline construction.
Then it’s already over. There is absolutely no way I can think of that Fukushima hasn’t been nuking the ocean since the third day of the crisis at the latest. There’s a reason the JG won’t let sampling happen in their waters and it has nothing to do with national sovereignty.
Those melts are out of containment. Some corium certainly remains in the buildings, but not all. The melts aren’t single blobs anymore and pieces parts of them are likely sitting wherever they cooled.
Boxturtle (And I’m sure the thyroid problems showing up are just statistical blips)
Now that’s it’s approved, they’re going to have to walk back a number of claims about jobs, oil prices, safety and so forth.
Which they’ve been prepared to do all along.
Boxturtle (Kerry is just a tool, I really do blame Obama for this one)
Got my own little science project this morning. I’ve got fully mature culture after working on it last week, and I’m about to embark on baking sourdough bread. My kitchen counter looked like a science lab over the weekend! Glass jars, spoons, measuring cups, a cooler with a light in it as a proofing box. Such fun!
Thanks Ruth,
Spuds will likely be thrilled to know there are other humans who recognize a front-mounted rotary plow when they see one. Nice looking dirt, also. Newer machines with rear mounted rotary implements are great for building raised beds, I hear.
We have at least 14 inches of solidly frozen soil if not more. We’d have to get the Lake Vostok equipment over here to begin gardening this early.
Hospitals in this area go right to vancomycin after surgery, don’t even mess with the lesser stuff anymore. Too many resistant bugs in the area.
Boxturtle (So now VRSA is on the rise here)
Here’s a link:
Keystone XL pipeline will create 35 permanent jobs
Hmmm…wonder what that equipment would find 14″ down in your garden bed. A new species maybe.
Quote from a friend of mine who lives near the proposed path: “They’d better hope they route that thing through treehugger property, because there are patriots around here who will shoot trespassers. Twice. Each”
Boxturtle (And when they find out that the jobs are myths, I’d bet more people lock and load)
Patience. It will thaw, then you will have 14″ of mud to move around.
Look like my area IS going to be sending water to the Mississippi this year, contrary to my gloomy prediction of a month or so ago. Our water table is full and the area is starting to worry about flooding.
Boxturtle (I don’t worry. If I flood, somebody better be building an ark)
Here’s what will grow enough for the family for the year;
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JRp-u6tyt7-2XmeuyfemJQ8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
Waiting for snow later in the week, for the nitrogen fix, too.
Lovely, you’re inspiring me to do that number again.
Maybe so, the garlic is only about 4 inches, but they would hit bedrock at about 9 feet, ancient seafloor to be sure. Fossils all over the place around here (stealing this one from Ruth), living humans and others.
Good Morning msmolly.
A family member had successful surgery for cancer, but didn’t survive the VRSA. I am ever more thankful for the doctor who would not treat my kids with drugs if he could find any way to avoid it.
From that link:
Which means that the report is a fairy tale, IMO. I wonder how many of those 35 jobs will be outsourced to a call center in India? And is it just me, or does 35 people seem like a remarkably small number just considering the amount of pipeline that will need to be regularly inspected?
Boxturtle (Why, one might suspect they’re not going to inspect as often as promised)
The landowners may just be in for a shock. The coathangers already shut down their right to say no.
I have a family member who lost a leg due to MSRA infection and was lucky to survive at all. It’s a real conversation starter when he says “I lost my leg to thyroid cancer”.
Boxturtle (Stories like ours are becoming distressingly common)
Remains of ancient civilizations, if you go deep enough.
I’ve been baking bread, first a doctored-up no-knead bread from Cook’s Illustrated, then several loaves of honey cracked wheat in my bread machine, but this sourdough will be a true experiment.
Good morning to you, nonq. I used to love finding fossils in rocks in streams when I was a kid.
Well, in all fairness, it could also have something to do with the explosion of fast food and, possibly, ambient environmental pollution.
‘ far less than many have feared’
Wonderful wording, indicating to me that the fears of most of us will be realized, pretty scary enough.
They know that. That’s why there’s talk of shooting. I hope it’s just talk, the only people likely to be shot are working stiffs. The Execs will stay safe behind walls and bodyguards in Canada.
Boxturtle (When people feel they can’t even get justice from the courts, bad things happen)
Doing rye today, finally got the culture or sponge going yesterday about noon. Just replaced the starter I used to get this batch inoculated and am going to step two. Adding flour, oil, and salt and form into loaves, let rise and bake.
So, I am going to sign off for the moment, kitchen science is fun.
Thanks for the science updates, BT.
When I saw the photo, I thought of Bart Simpson. :)
Have a cow, man.
And, a big good Monday morning to all.
I keep seeing studies showing that kids with pets develop resistance to allergies, and remember when exposure to a little dirt was rumored to be good for us.
Yup. I’ve also read studies linking the allergy explosion to a too clean childhood, cat ownership, background hormones, exhaust gases, and Captain Crunch.
I wonder what we’d see if we broke the data down by area and pollutant within area. Bet we’d see that ALL of the above are causes, depending on where you live.
Boxturtle (I think I’m allergic to Mondays. I blame the MIC)
Trash angels to follow. Next can we work in panties in a wad? No, I didn’t think so.
Morning, Ruth.
Yes, and that is precisely why I slack off on the housework. I’m just helping my family have better immunities to bugs.
I think George Carlin did a bit on this.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, today is the two year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.
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Not that I want to imply that the disaster part of the disaster is over.
Panties in a wad, ha!
I just watched Calendar Girls. The only way we can assure that no panties will be wadded is if we just take them off altogether. :)
Hey there, greenwarrior. I surely did enjoy chatting with you Saturday morning. Real nice.
Oops, well that must have been short. They tweeted 17 minutes ago, and the link leads to general news. Sorry about that.
Yeah, the dirt theory is interesting. Try to find some dirt to play in in Brooklyn. Or any other major city, for that matter.
You’ve seen studies where pets help. I’ve seen ‘em where pets (cats, specifically) hurt. That makes me think we’re not looking at the data properly or some researcher is studying a statistical anomaly.
Boxturtle (but then public parks cost tax dollars, while I suppose sick kids do not)
Captain Crunch is a carrier? Maybe should introduce him to a Typhoid Mary.
Yeah, me too, and now I’ve got a new project to think about/plan.
Reminds me that we were just rearranging the dust, anyway, as long as the windows and doors were closed up.
I had a friend, who at 90 survived surgery for a broken leg but died after she got pneumonia at the hospital (that’s the on topic part of this comment) who encouraged folks to make short, medium and long term goals. So, projects are fun and keep us going.
Not exactly celebration material.
As far as I know, all the resistance so far, to the current construction in the US of the southern part of the pipeline, in Canada, and to fracking, has been by the tree hugger brand of patriot. I hope those talking about shooting are just talking when it comes to shooting, but there are peaceful protests, civil disobedience, and boycott/divest initiatives that they should at least not disparage, if they are unable to join.
Has Obama actually officially approved it and I missed the event?
No, indeed, not hardly.
Perhaps that’s because somebody realized they haven’t accomplished much.
My take:
1) They’ve got quite a tank farm to store water, though it needs to get WAY bigger.
2) The #4 SPF is as stable as the building. Unless the building goes (and it might), the SPF should stay in place.
3) They’ve started on a working structure to safely unload the #4 spf, hopefully starting late this year.
4) They’ve cemented over the worst part of the contamination on the bottom of the bay.
Boxturtle (the list of what they HAVEN’T done but should would be a post of its own)
The theory was that cereals heavily processed and high in sugar are having an impact. Captain Crunch was singled out as being the worst of the worst.
Boxturtle (I’d bet the Crunchberry cereal is worse, they just didn’t check it)
2/3 of Americans believe in climate change. Guess what, The average American watches 34 hours of live Television per week. There is a direct correlation.
“There are few subjects like weather or climate about which people have such definitive opinions with so little understanding. Indeed, most don’t know the difference between weather and climate”- Dr. Tim Ball,
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Future generations will wonder why we let politicians undermine progress and development. Why we “believed” that politicians could reduce the severity of storms.
Exactly. Even just addressing their representatives with opposition is a help. Staying quiet and at home is not getting any point across except that we’re ignorant and unconcerned.
Kerry (state) has moved it along. Obama’s hands are clean, it was entirely Kerry’s decision.
Boxturtle (It doesn’t read like it’s final approval. I THOUGHT it was.)
I have a friend (former coworker) who is diabetic and was delighted to discover that Kashi GoLean has much less sugar than most cereals. I hated to inform him that it’s full of GMOs and pesticide residues.
(He said, “Wait, I didn’t see pesticides on the ingredients list!”)
True, too much watching without taking in the facts, but here Current TV is supplying quite a lot of those. The ‘we’ who did nothing happen not to be present company.
Nope, not yet. But I wonder if Obama would have the guts to stop it. Rhetorical question, I guess.
Sad. But I’ve had to adjust when I see ‘sugar free’ to the knowledge that what is thrown in to make it taste right to most buyers is often a lot worse than the sugar anyway.
I knew the State Dept had given it a pass.
I’ve been quite sure since Obama delayed it until after his election that he would ultimately approve it. His golfing with oil executives in Florida during the recent DC protests against it didn’t change my mind. In fact, it was a giant F… Y.. to the protestors, the environment, the water aquifer and landowners.
Yes, I cringe when I see people adding poisonous chemical concoctions to their coffee or drinking diet soda. Not that sugar is good for you, but it’s sooo much safer.
If it’s in HIS best interest to stop it, he has the guts to stop it. I think we’re going to see total transparency on this, the WH will refer ALL questions to State and let Kerry take the heat.
Boxturtle (And State won’t comment on an “ongoing process”)
Aspartame is really awful as a friend who reacts to it discovered when all gum was switched over from sugar sweeteners. Luckily, I can’t do that to my fillings, anyway.
There’s a 45-day period for public comment between the publication of the EIS and final approval.
Interesting study of foreign interests. Canada wants it processed in the U.S. and not there because…
China wants it shipped there after that processing because …
And so forth.
My son-in-law gets migraines, and his doctor told him to give up ALL diet sodas, or anything else with artificial sweetener.
I confess I use (Costco branded) Splenda in my tea. There are a couple of sugar substitutes that aren’t harmful, but most are.
I think everyone around here was sure he approve it after the election, we could all see THAT backstab coming.
Civil disobedience is simply going to have to raise to price of the pipeline to an unprofitable level.
I wonder how many of those 35 jobs will be security to keep the pipeline from being sabotaged.
Boxturtle (Obama should be required to retire to a spot within sight of the pipeline. Downwind)
Good Morning Box Turtle and Firedogs,
talk of Fukushima two years on and a list of what they haven’t done has me thinking of our beloved Scarecrow
Ruth – it has been shown Aspartame retards growth and development in the neural tubes in children – at least once a week, this old waitress has to bite her tongue when parents order Diet Coke for their kid – oh and by all means, ignore that week’s worth of sodium in every 20 oz serving :/
The Canadian Government wanted it for the same reason the US government wanted it: Moneyed interests with high level connections. This was all about both governments taking care of their contributors.
Boxturtle (Knew we were dead when I realized it was a STATE decision, not EPA)
Artificial sweeteners were known to be a problem when I was bringing up hyperactive kids, so I had an advantage in learning early to avoid additives of all sorts.
I try to include a paragraph about Fukushima in every Monday Science in honor of Scarecrow.
The idiots still haven’t located the corium. How in the world can you talk about cold shutdown when you don’t even know where your cores are?
Boxturtle (Wonder if Heaven has also disconnected their radiation monitors)
Where’s the deer fence ?
I have some extra deers I could herd your way if you’re out ….
I was horrified (but bit my tongue firmly like a good mother-in-law) when my DIL offered diet Coke to the kids at her son’s 10th birthday party. She also had Sprite and regular Coke, and most of the kids chose those, I think.
Big problem with sabotaging the pipeline is that it would spill tar sand effluent onto the countryside.
Ruth ,
Where’s the deer fence ?
I have some extra deers, if you’re out, I can herd some your way :)
Sad sight and the worst of it is that the parents think they’re behaving responsibly. Needed; vast amount of re-education of those saturated with commercial advertising data.
Good morning firedogs.
Thanks for the post and host BT.
Life in Lake Vostok. Simply marvelous!
Sorry for the double post, Safari said it couldn’t open the page…..computers
I very rarely drink soda. I live on water and coffee for the most part. When I do drink soda, I drink micro-brews that are rather expensive, but are all natural. While they’re not exactly healthy, they’re not packed with artificial carcinogens either.
My wife is a diet Coke junkie :(
There’s a corn field growing silage just about a quarter mile down the hill. And dogs that go out periodically.
Drones my friend, drones pipeline inspectors.
Yep, and the aforementioned grandson, who has Autism, is also slightly ADHD and doesn’t need the artificial sweeteners for that reason as well. I didn’t notice which soda he chose.
For the most part, I don’t have any taste for sodas left. This is extremely good fortune. As a kid, I had huge cravings for candy and soda, so must have overdosed then, but for late life health it’s worked out well.
Yeah, and so DIFFERENT. I can’t find where they’ve actually found an organism, these are just PCR DNA amplifications. Nevertheless, it’s tough to figure out how contamination of the samples could have produced that in error.
I want a Microphoto of that organism. I want the lousy so-and-so’s sitting on the full 20+ minute Giant Squid video to release it.
Boxturtle (I also want peace on earth and a pony)
My daughter-in-law is also. I rarely drink sodas of any kind, but when I do (a rare bowl of popcorn REQUIRES soda) it’s usually Diet Coke. But it’s not my beverage of choice.
I’m actually starting to see the NRA’s viewpoint: Citizens SHOULD be allowed to own anti-aircraft guns.
Boxturtle (I suppose you’d need a special permit if you were in an airport flight path)
Maybe you could put him onto some incredibly good juice, like the V8 smoothies? I know, they’ve probably got all the wrong stuff too.
God. Watching ‘Breakfast Tech’ on History Channel’s Modern Marvels.
They’re currently discussing industrialized chicken egg production. The way these hens are treated is terrible.
anti-drone equipment;
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/67u3FtW-x_SuJvRj8wrGqA8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
66% of daily recommended cholesterol in a single egg.
I ate 3 eggs for dinner last night.
Fuck recommendations.
You’ve got something against unicorns?
Unicorns.
am 100% we’d ALL be vegan if we had the stomach to spend 5 minutes at ANY factory farm
then again, look how ‘they’ are treating ‘us’ . . .parasite meet host
Factory farms are NOT good neighbors. Here in Ohio, we actually chased the owner of a factory farm out of the state and out of the country. He just abandoned it rather than obey the EPA or continue to fight. Leaving the state with the mess.
Chicken manure has a unique smell. And biting flies love it.
Boxturtle (It sometimes shocks me how different things would be if I were Governor)
Nothing wrong with Unicorn if properly cooked. And don’t play leapfrog.
Boxturtle (How many people here are old enough to have actually played leapfrog?)
Gee, I sleep in cuz we got another snowstorm last night and I can score comment 100.
Good morning everyone.
Lovely. It’s about how the possible origin of the unicorn myth is that cave drawings and early art showed only one side, and one horn, of the creatures drawn, so people seeing ancient sites thought there had been magical one-horned original creatures. Love archaeology!
Driving out west, the feedlots announce themselves well in advance, and the sight is miserable. Not what you want to feed the family from.
You absconded with #100! and leapfrog requires all the folks be about the same size, you prefer little guys who don’t bruise so easily.
I had never heard that. Very interesting!
Absconded?!? I won it by accident, fair and square!
I know what leapfrog is, but we never played it. That was a game from my fathers time.
Boxturtle (Will tag or hide and seek meet the same fate?)
They’re in Indianapolis, so I don’t have much control over his diet. My DIL is pretty sharp, watches what the kids eat — I rarely see them have soda of any kind — so this surprised me a bit.
Take the comment #100 and run, I saw you! Time to return the maypole, too.
Morning anarcritees,
Pleased to see a new participant at the morning show, here. Thanks for stopping by.
I think that cow and I have a lot in common. That’s how I feel waking up after the time change.
Since Minnesota placed a moratorium on huge pork production,
We Iowegians have alot on Minnesota shit pork factories polluting our pristine waterways and polluting our air.
Being in the driftless zone means our trout streams and limestone aquifers are periodically filled with toxic manure that receives about a $10,000 fine.(A minor cost of doing business) :(
Ya know, if we locked up even ONE CEO for dumping crap rather than fining them, we might see a real change in attitude.
$10G isn’t the cost of doing business, it’s a rounding error. You’d have to add two zeros to get to that level.
Boxturtle (They should also be required to eat fish from the rivers they trash. Daily)
That will do it if you can find one before it’s launched. Is that a museum piece or a household object?
The natural yeasties are hard at work with an infusion of fresh food and I need to move on to a couple other activities.
Thanks again, Box Turtle
WPR is about to begin a one hour show discussing space and science misconceptions. BT they must be adopting the OE format already. Nice to be a trend setter. 10:00 AM Program 03/11E, listening online link, at top of page.
The United States is the only country in the world that prefers iced tea.
80% of the tea consumed in the US is iced.
I am struggling a bit with the bread mixing. Hoped to have it mixed and rising when I have to leave for a lunch appointment, but not enough time now.
People who are accustomed to baking bread can usually wing it. I have to read…and read…and read. Two different books, each says something slightly different. I may be up in the wee hours baking tonight.
Took 45 minutes on the phone, but got the cable company to knock my rate down from $220 a month to $145 a month.
Just gotta threaten to cancel :)
Confession: I cannot make bread. Or anything that requires me to make dough. Combining flour and water, all I can make is a mess.
Boxturtle (But it’s an EPIC mess, one you can be proud of)
Good morning, all. I just want to respond here and in another comment. I’ve been complaining all along about this exact thing for the pipeline. Also, did you see that one of the protesters crawled inside of the pipe, saw cracks that were going to allow leaks, and took pictures before she was dragged out. The pictures (and she) were ignored and the pipe buried.
Exactly right, the garbage oil will be sent out of the country, our water and soil will be ruined, and all for the enrichment of people too rich to need the money. They feel that this will not affect them or their families. In addition, the fracking will destroy more of our soil and WATER (above and below ground) so that we will have a country only fit for various bugs. Evolution will begin again because the rest of the world will go down with us.
How is that Sodastream device working for you? I’m still sitting on the fence with that one.
Boxturtle (betting I could make my own syrup that’s better than anything else out there)
Waste water is somebody’s well water if it goes downstream. Good principle.
The celt in the picture is in an exhibit at Spiro Mounds in OK, from around 1000 to 1400 A.D.
Good going. My entire plan was $80 a month, and when you’ve got it all going in and out one cable, that’s all it should be for one person. Now in PA and about the same, in rural area with disk.
Kristen likes it. Uses it every morning to take a 1 liter bottle to work.
At the book salon OmAli said I should catch up to the good people here. I have been SO busy over the past few weeks that I pretty much only made a few comments on things that didn’t take too much time. I would read the post and a few comments. Often I felt that I didn’t have anything to contribute that was more than saying I agree with the comments.
Young BearCountry chose to go away to boarding school in St. Louis and I went out to visit him, it was time to place my mother in an assisted living facility, and my positions on the BOE and the library board take time. Fortunately my brother and his wife have been living with our mother, but we needed to work together in FL to put her where she would be happy. So far she seems satisfied.
I hope that my life will slow down a little now. I miss being part of the community, but I do have to participate in my life away from the innertoobz. Anyway, I’m late here, as usual, and now I have run. I’ll come back to read through the thread later.
Right now a big hug to all. {{{FDL}}}
I’m a picky little spoiled brat when it comes to my cable/internet service. I won’t use a dish, it has to be cable. My internet has to be at least 30 megs down and 2 up, and I need DVR service and ALL of the movie channels.
Gets pricey, but if you call every 6 months or so and threaten to cancel, they give you new promotional rates for another 6 months :)
Glad you stopped in, the quality of the pipe is being reported by interested parties, reminiscent of the plan for spillage in Gulf drilling, and cannot be relied on. When the war criminals came into office, the rule of voluntary compliance with safety measures was instituted in the U.S. federal government, and the public lost its protection from all forms of abuse.
I like that method. I suppose changing names could have the same effect… thinking, thinking.
I was interested in getting one until I learned they are made, if I am remembering correctly, by an Israeli company on land stolen from Palestinians. I couldn’t support that.
I ended up (mostly) giving up sodas and now instead I pop a seltzer (just water and carbonation) and add a syrup of some Kool-Aid and a NuStevia. I get a fantastic drink with zero everything. My 10 year old son lost all interest in sodas once he started drinking these, too. He likes that he can pick different flavors. (And he likes that I don’t limit those the way I limited his regular soda consumption to one per week and it had to be caffeine free). My 13 yr old daughter won’t go near a soda of any kind. I’m thrilled with that! I only wish I didn’t like them!
Sorry to hear that, msmolly. I just turned on the oven for the pre-heat. These were 1.5 lbs each, put them into smaller loaf pans and they have more than doubled in volume in the rise. Whatever you’d like for a sammich for the lunch special today. We have vegans, three cheeses or deli meats and two lettuces, mustard or mayo.
I think I’ll get one. At the least, even if the wife doesn’t like it, I can use it for experimentation.
Boxturtle (Carbonate ALL the liquids!!!)
You’re allowed to just say hello. :-)
Boxturtle (or you can change the subject. I didn’t post anything uptop about antibiotic resistance)
I once tried to do ethical purchasing. I had a list of evil companies and the products from which they profited. I discovered I couldn’t even drink tap water without throwing money at some scumbag.
Boxturtle (Heck, just having Monsanto on the list eliminates a SCARY large number of products)
Heheheh. Mr. does that too. Gotta game the system since cable companies are criminal enterprises.
I missed most of Pull Up Your Cat yesterday, and I wonder what’s going on with Jihad kitty?
They’re pretty damn terrible, amiright?
Here! Have this triple play package for $89.99! Your total bill with the channels you want and useable internet speeds will be $220!
Sad to say, even bearing the Made in USA label does not mean that parts are made here, they can come from the lowest sweat shop anywhere – and an aircraft upholsterer I became familiar with employs undocumented immigrants tho located in TX, and working conditions are dangerous and miserable.
I wish I knew more but they were gone for a week and then returned. Small bit from PUYC, yesterday.
Black on closer inspection, is a dark pewter, just awesome with the big yellowish eyes.
Now that I’m back from doing stuff..
Re the happy bull pic. This is what bulls do after they find out they are about to get lucky. How does he know this? Cows don’t have thumbs so….to spare the details, just trust me.
/ old bull
Oh, I’m really not complaining…it is kinda fun, actually. Can I have a ham with Swiss, lettuce, mustard and mayo, please?
The dough is now mixed and resting, then I have to mix in salt and a little more water, turn it several times, and put it into a bowl for its bulk rise. I can shape the loaves (there will be two) and put them in the fridge overnight and bake in the morning, according to the book.
The procedure in the Tartine Bread book is very detailed, and good explanation of every step. And a LOT of recipes!
Grumpy Cat visits SXSW.
Too funny!!
Oh, I’ve just skipped to the bottom, and there’s Grumpy Cat, just 80 miles up the road from me! Hmmmmmm…Bbut, nah, I wouldn’t stand in line for 90 minutes to see her. I have a grumpy cat right here beside me, because he isn’t outdoors. (He’s staring at me, but, without quite the same expression). Smokey does have coloring similar to Grumpy’s.
I wonder if there is something wrong with her teeth or jaws? Well, since she’s bringing in income, they can afford to correct it. Hope they have had her checked out.
Gotta go back to work. Glad I popped in at this point…saw the “fat gray unicorns” page, too.
Good work today Box Turtle (tho’ the squid page wouldn’t load for me)
waiting on a callback, so popping in again – re the bread baking:
when looking at nonq’s lovely picture of a very relaxed Mcat, I noticed bread in the next photo, on clicking saw very handsome loaves, and a video of a yelloware bowl with risen sponge, then a hand mixing it, accompanied by music.
Just wanted to say to nonquixote, very nice!
And one pic showed the bowl (or another) in the background – looks just like mine! Is yours 40+ yrs old, too? I luuuurve my mixing bowl, though I wish I could get a bigger one…they’re too expensive now. If to be found.
Hi, tejana! Finally caught up to you in real time, or almost. I felt a little sad for Grumpy Cat, being on display like that and doing that sort of face plant. Of course if she was really unhappy she could have taken someone’s nose off and she didn’t, so there’s that :)
I keep inching up on trying to make sourdough, but haven’t gotten up enough nerve yet. Have you ever done it?
(((BearCountry))). I am so sorry I missed you today, but it was great seeing your fonts at the salon yesterday. Glad you are still on the library and education boards. Hope your library hasn’t had to cut hours or eliminate days like ours has.
The house must feel pretty empty with Young BearCountry at boarding school, but you have had your hands full with your mom’s move. I hope she is able to slip into a comfortable routine and make friends quickly.
Good to see you here, and look forward to more stories from BearCountry.
Can’t get paragraphs to format probably in tomorrow’s post.
Fuckin’ WordPress.
Can’t type either.
Probably = properly. Jeebus.
Sounds like a royal pain and I’m sorry. The first sentence is funny, though, and could be true :).
Kit is on the case, bless him. He’s busy as hell with SXSW, but taking time out to help.
The bowl is 41 years old. I deleted a few pictures and flicker is saying too busy right now to reload it. I purchased it a Sears, says, “OVENWARE, Made in USA,” on the bottom. I imagine a former US manufacturing product that went out of production, who knows when? The three loaves are just before putting them in the oven.
Good to hear you are busy with work.
Thanks, Kit! And thanks in advance, Kris. See ya in the mornin’.
And they had to go to Australia to find slime living in the dark independent of others in the ecosystem? Should have tried DC.
If they had not spent all the research grant money it would have been tough getting another research grant. ;)
It’s a wired.com link. It loads VEEERRRYYY slowly for me, but it eventually succeeds.
Boxturtle (It wasn’t like that last night)
The DC ones oxydize money, not ammonia. Different species.
Boxturtle (In both cases, all they leave is the stench)
Believe it or not, that’s how almost all environmental microbiology is done these days. They amplify whatever DNA they can find and examine the sequences. Not only has it become cheap and easy to do it that way, but it also turns out that we simply can’t culture most microbes in the lab no matter how closely we try to replicate their natural habitat. A great many researchers don’t even try anymore.
*Inset ‘That’s what she said’ joke here*
I am really going to be anxious to bake these first loaves of sourdough. Having to work around choir practice and will put the shaped loaves in the fridge overight (bread book says it’s OK) and bake in the morning, so if they are superb I’ll probably never be able to duplicate them. My kitchen smells really good of the raw bread dough.
OmAli, there’s an easier process. Get the Classic Sourdough Bread book, it’s a much less fussy process.
{{OmAli}} Things seem to be going well on all fronts.
What do you do with all the cups of starter that need to be discarded during the feeding process?
I’ll need a checklist on the refrigerator door to keep up with the feeding schedule. I think there might be a comedy routine hidden here, just waiting to be written. Sort of like ‘who’s on first?’
Hi there! Any interesting critters showing up at the back door?
Inset = insert. I really can’t type today.
Do you remember the Hall by Westinghouse refrigerator and baking dishes?
There’s a beer for that :)
No I don’t, sorry, a big sturdy bowl to make my own bread and cast iron pans, a spun steel wok plus accessories and range and refrigerator that worked, were the extent of my kitchen domesticity leanings at age 18 when I started house keeping on my own. Those big-W pieces are cute and look eminently functional though.
I’ll tell you how domestic I was at age … what, 22, when my new MIL gave me a beautiful cast iron skillet. I stuck it in the dishwasher and totally wrecked it!
Dayum, lotsa funny comments here at the end and I ‘m stuck on the Kindle. Too hard to type to respond to all of ‘em.
I have never done sourrdough; have rarely even eaten it. When I have; reaction is mostly…meh. no point going to the ttrouble unless you really, treally want the result.
My yellowsre bowl came from a tiny neighborhood hsrdware store in Brookline, Mass that was literally just around the corner from my apt there when I was 21 and learning to cook.
Om…so funny about the cast iron pan. Did you dare tell your MIL? And feeding schedule for stsrters…hilarious image.
Oh yes…Grumpy Cat…yes, surely she would make displeasure known, if such she felt.
Instead of grumpy, it appears she ‘s quite placid. ;)
Just saw this so you might not see it. You just dump half of the jar and then feed with more flour and water. No big deal, you’re just dumping out some flour and water. And when you get a mature starter, stick it in the fridge and you can activate it by feeding whenever you’re in the mood to make more bread.
I love the sourdough bread I get when I visit my sis in SanFran. Rich, earthy bread, a bit sourish, slathered with a vice I rarely indulge in, REAL butter.
I am hoping this bread is nice and sour, or that I can tweak the process until it is sour. What’s labeled “sourdough” outside of CA is decent but not sour.
Thanks, you make it sound a lot less complicated than the King Arthur website, by a longshot. I’m gonna have to try it…
Nothing better than buttered sourdough put under the broiler until crisp. Sourdough pancakes sound awfully good, too.
I believe at KA site they sell “sour salt” that increases the tang. Don’t know if that’s what gives the SF sourdough its distinctive taste, but might be worth trying if your bread doesn’t have quite the taste you want.