People tell me when I give a book as a gift I'm supposed to write a little blurb inside. Fuck that, what if they want to sell it and my scribbles knocked half the value off? They'd be pissed at me. Here, I got you this first edition Gutenberg Bible, let me just scribble a little note in here first. :rolleyes:

Cool, I downloaded Discworld 3 to my i phone for sleeping bag reading, I wonder what that's worth? ;)

you already did!

Not being a skier and never having lived where there's feets and feets of snowpack, I'd never heard of tree wells, nor how dangerous they are.

we have regular seasonal PSAs and news-you-can-use segments on tree wells every year.

I've seen the story poles to measure the depth of the snow around Mt Rainier, they're taller than a damn telephone pole. :eek3:

When I got back into skiing I was surprised that glade skiing, skiing through the trees, has become an approved activity. They used to rip our tickets for that.

Today I learned about the tanuki, or, Japanese Raccoon Dog, a close relative of the dog.

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This Twitterer has one in their home. (And lots of interesting photos, not just of tanukis tanukae[/strike] tanukum Japanese Raccoon Dogs.)

Today I learned about the Omni Processor.

It takes human waste and produces electricity, clean drinking water (that passes FDA WHO standards), and money.

How The Omni Processor Works <---Good infographic. Better/quicker than the Wiki link above.

Do not poke around in da cellar while ya have corn bread in the oven.

That sounds dirty

Nah, that smell is burned cornbread.

:-(

Today I learned there is a growing conspiracy theory around vote fraud in the Clinton campaign.

Burned cornbread bad.

Gotta love her handle "Sane Progressive." I have no idea about her allegations, but she goes right past passionate and into nuts territory pretty quickly.