What's for Dinner? v.7.18 Nuts to You!
Nuts have been used as food by animals and humans since prehistory. What we often call nuts are not actually nuts at all botanically, because a true nut has an internal seed surrounded by a woody...
View ArticlePique the Geek 20121202: Emulsification
Before we begin tonight, please join me in paying my respects to my mum, who would have been 91 years old today. The season beginning with Thanksgiving and lasting through New Year's Day was her...
View ArticleMy Little Town 20121219: Christmas Trees
I apologize for not being around the past couple of weeks. I have been busy with Christmas goodie baking and some personal matters. I shipped off a box of treats to the former Mrs. Translator on...
View ArticlePopular Culture 20121221: Christmas Songs
I apologize for not being around much lately, but I have been busy doing Christmas baking and sorting out some personal issues. Monday I shipped off two boxes of goodies, one to the former Mrs....
View ArticleThe New Doctor 20121223: Fiction
This is total fiction, a fantasy story. The only real names are my own and my ancestors, all dead except me. Of course I can use the names of the fictional characters from my favorite fantasy series,...
View ArticleCreative Complaining 20130102: Keep Complaining
I am a customer of Kentucky Utilities, a fairly large electricity provider. They have a program, like many utilities, that rewards folks for trying to conserve energy. I signed up for the one that...
View ArticlePopular Culture 20130104: The Electric Light Orchestra -- ELO 2
It has been a while since I started this series. My contributions here, and at my other regular blogs, have been quite spotty for a number of reasons. Part of it has to do with it having been the...
View ArticlePique the Geek 20130106: Magnesium -- Common and Essential
Magnesium, with a Z = 12, is an extremely common element in the crust of the earth, but it is never found in nature in the elemental state. It is the second member, after beryllium, in the alkaline...
View ArticleMy Little Town 20130109: Not on Sunday!
Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a rural sort...
View ArticlePopular Culture 20130111 -- The Electric Light Orchestra: On the Third Day
On the Third Day was the third album released by the band, issued 197311 in the US on United Artists and 197312 in the UK on Warner Brothers (they had previously been contracted to Harvest). It made...
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