Interesterified Fat and Prenatal Urination

February 24, 2008

What do interesterified fat and prenatal urination have in common? Nothing, except I learned something new about both of them recently. It would be very interesting if they had something more in common than that. As it is, I found what I learned about both to be both educational and interesting. Perhaps you will also [...]

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Photos Round 2

February 10, 2008

Long time readers of this website will perhaps remember my previous attempt to add a photo section to this website. I called it an experiment. As such, it failed. It failed primarily from lack of time. If I had been willing, or able, to take more time to upload random (or selected) photos from my [...]

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Jacques Barzun on Teaching

January 10, 2008

A quote on learning, and teaching: “The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.” –Jacques Barzun “Reasons to De-Test the Schools,” New York Times (1988-10-11), later published in Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991) One can [...]

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Exploding Whales

January 6, 2008

Apparently, in some places explosives are used to dispose of dead whales. If explosive charges will be used, the most common procedure today is to tow the whale out to see and then use whatever charges necessary to sink or disintegrate the whale. But back in November 1970 the Oregon Department of Transportation had a [...]

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Banana Polish

January 3, 2008

Need to polish your shoes? Use a banana peel. They say it works. http://www.wikihow.com/Polish-Shoes-With-a-Banana I think it is funny, but I’m not sure I believe a banana peel is really equivalent to shoe polish. Whatever properties a banana peel shares with shoe polish, a banana doesn’t have everything that shoe polish does. If you give [...]

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A Coin, A Ring

December 27, 2007

How to make a ring from a quarter: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Ring-from-a-Silver-Coin One can get very technical and make rings by smelting metal, pouring it into molds, and all sorts of other highly technical stuff. Which is all very neat, but requires a lot of effort, skill, and tools. The advantage, and coolness, of using a quarter is [...]

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Digital History: Presenting The Past on The Web

December 9, 2007

A while ago I stumbled across this website: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/ It is a book presented as a website. As they say, This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon [...]

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Old Autumn Essay

November 23, 2007

I had meant to write an essay this autumn titled “Fall Cometh” or something like that. It was to be a descriptive essay about the fall weather, much like I have written essays about the Spring. But I haven’t written it yet. Maybe I will still write it, even though it would be late. In [...]

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Early Autumn, Late Afternoon

November 23, 2007

[Note: This week I was doing cleanup and going through my old pads of note paper. On one pad, stuck in among some other writing, I found this short descriptive essay. It had no date attached and I can't recall exactly what year I wrote it. It was probably about four years ago, and I [...]

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The Price of Milk and More

November 10, 2007

The price of milk has gone up dramatically. It has risen by $1.00 in the last few months, and nearly half a dollar in the last week. What is going on? Also, sundry strange and weird things happened to me. Read all about it here.

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