My baby brother is 63 as of yesterday. I can remember him in diapers, though I admit he was two and a half at the time.
The grandkids are in Los Angeles, and my daughter will be home sometime today. She’ll drive down to pick them up, leaving the morning of the day I get home from Netroots Nation, and they’ll probably be back a week later. Something about a couple days in San Francisco….
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There’s a rather large office building there now (and for about the last 35 years), but this seepage is roughly half a block from where we were living when my second was born.
It has been believed that stone tools were originally invented by hominids living in a small section of what is now Ethiopia and spread from there. Apparently not.
A Dutch seed developer has won this year’s World Food Prize. He did it to make the lives of people in southeast Asia better, since he was irritated by the poor seed quality the farmers had to deal with; but I’d say it has also made him an excellent living for the past forty years.
“Mysterious” fingerprints found in 3000 year old bricks at a dig in the United Arab Emirates. The archaeologists involved don’t seem particularly puzzled.
Care to place a bet about how soon the rush is on to mine this area of the moon?
Proof has been found on Cyprus that Neolithic mountain dwellers were as civilized as anybody else on the island.
I have more than one friend who finds fascinating stuff on Facebook. More power to this man!
The Saudis are selling antiquities looted from Yemen.
The heat wave situation in India is horrible.
This story about finding an ancient brewery is from last year, and I think I posted something at the time. The story here has more detail than I recall from what I saw in 2018.
We’ve been hearing about vat-grown meat and vegetable-based “meats” that taste like the real thing for years. The reality comes closer.
Speleologists and spelunkers have been exploring the cave system on Corfu. The latest group went through 186 “caves and chasms” and found evidence of 78 more. The island itself is roughly 230 square miles, with a few others in the same municipal governance adding another 5 or 6 square miles. That’s better than one cave per square mile, no matter how you look at it.
This guy has really come up with a good thing in these translation gloves. Thank ramara for spotting it.
This is on a holistic health site, but the story and recipes for Thieves’ Oil are interesting.
Apparently, adding a bit of seaweed to cattle feed cuts down on their methane emissions.
Friends of mine in Pennsylvania posted pictures and a movie of the bear that’s been destroying their backyard bird feeder.
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My grandson is appalled that I have neither read the A Series of Unfortunate Events nor seen the show. I have been informed that he will read the books to me. He does not know that I have bought the first three of them for him — and he won’t know till he’s back from L.A. We will see how long his determination to be the one reading them lasts. Not that I would mind doing some of the reading. My ex (his grandfather) and I used to trade off reading chapters of Robert Asprin’s Mythadventures to each other.
The reading of those to each other started the day I heard that a third was coming out soon. I had the first two (Another Fine Myth and Myth Conceptions), so I got them out that evening and started reading the first. A few minutes later, my husband (across the room on his computer) asked me what I was laughing at and since I had only just started the third page, I turned back to the beginning and started reading aloud. When I looked up at the end of the chapter, he was sitting right in front of me; he stuck out his hand, said “Gimme that” and read the second chapter. We did the first seven or eight books like that (though our firstborn helped with the last) then he decided I was no fun and he wasn’t going to waste his time any more.
I read them aloud to the kids on the bus home from school for a few years. In that time, only one person complained — but if you call me a bitch, don’t expect any cooperation from me. Everybody else who heard me wanted to know where they could get those books.
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When I was on Facebook last Thursday, an ad showed up in the feed for a solar-powered generator. I went to the site expecting a survivalist rant before being allowed any information on the generator itself and got about 20 minutes worth (at least 15 minutes longer than threatened) — half of which is already known to anybody who followed Jerome a Paris when he was a regular here, and the other half the standard survivalist stuff (and made me think that if you tried to buy one while black, they probably wouldn’t sell it to you). Not that I paid that close of attention to anything but the passing of time, since “Patriot” was a huge part of the company line (4Patriots — the product is the Patriot Power Generator 1500). If the actual spiel about the generator is accurate, it’s probably well worth the ~$4000 they claim is the true cost, and they’re selling for $1997 as a favor to first-time buyers. However, ….
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My daughter’s ex decided he wanted to be the one to take them to the airport. I got a text from my daughter at about 1:15 AM on Friday saying he’d showed up. So I texted back that I was turning my alarm off and went back to bed. At about 7:35 AM, I got another text from her saying “Landed”. When I was checking my email about 10 minutes later, there was a Facebook notice that she had posted something. It was a notice that they were flying between PDX and LAX with “Almost missed our flight” that she’d posted just before she texted me.
She’ll be home today, early enough to not require being picked up. Happy happy joy joy! Three days of not having to worry about her needing the car.
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After cheering over not having to share the car for a couple of days, I realized I don’t actually have the money to go anywhere until after my daughter is back. I’m not using my credit card till Philadelphia and the last trip to the grocery store blew through what was remaining in my bank account. On the other hand, my next deposit is this coming Wednesday and my daughter does work ….
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There’s a post up about Nancy Pelosi being weak. I did read it, but my response didn’t change from just looking at the headline: “Why didn’t you just blow this one out your ass?”