At work:
1. Dogs look to their owners to react. If you feel guilty about leaving your dog behind for the day, and you are uneasy while you apologetically say goodbye, the unexpected gift to your dog is a day of anxiety! Better to let your dog think a day to himself is a positive thing- Emily Fraser-Thomson (Canine Behaviorist)
2. The local bread industry: bread, unlike any other product -meat, produce, processed foodstuff - is sold to grocery stores on no risk (for the store) consignment, meaning what is not purchased has to be bought back at the expense of the producer.
Also, watch the Loleta Bakery drama unfold here: http://lostcoastoutpost.com/
From Uwe
3. Farthest object visible to the naked eye: Find Jupiter (the brightest object in tonight's sky) and look to the fuzzy mass near it (better with binoculars). You're looking at the andromeda galaxy, although what you're seeing is technically 2 million years old, since that's how long it took the light to travel here at 186,000 miles per second.
4. Anachronisms:
a. Modern Homo sapiens migrating from Africa existed alongside neanderthals in Europe for tens of thousands of years! until the last neanderthal died out 30,000 years ago. Uwe speculates the origin of stories of trolls under bridges. Wonders if I am related to ghengis khan.
b. The bank along Big Creek, NJ never managed to harden to rock after THE LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD, or 72 million year old fossils can just be found in the creek!
Various local hiking:
5. Burning man is a refuge of the rich who "think the wildest thing they can possibly do is ride a bicycle naked through the desert, whereas the rest of us are like 'I can ride a bicycle naked any day I want. Nbd.' " -Two Humboldt Honeys at Strawberry Rock, wondering why 50,000 people converge annually in a place where one could not even survive by his own means.
6. The forest leading to Strawberry Rock is threatened for clear cutting by the the owners of the property, Green Diamond Timber, but is being defended vigilantly by some dudes sitting in trees. Blog: http://
7. Bacon spliff: rub a spliff with bacon grease so that the contents become visible and the product smells like bacon! Untested by me and potentially extra-combustible.
Stuff I read at the gym:
8. Marines and yogis don't lift weights: Lifting weights artificially isolates muscles and can cause injury. Full body weight-exercises (pull ups, lunges, eg) are longer lasting and more beneficial, since they use a lot of muscle groups. My New Year's resolution: one armed pushups.
9. How to perform an emergency tracheotomy to allow breathing through an obstructed through passage: Find the space between the Adams Apple and the lump below it (the cricoid cartilage) and make a 1/2 inch incision with a razor blade or very sharp knife. Pinch the incision or stick your finger in there, and insert a plastic drinking straw.
10. Gonorrhea is now the second highest reported infectious disease in the United States and it's quickly becoming resistant to the last known treatment. It's already untreatable by several classes of antibiotics. AHHH http://www.webmd.com/
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