Miscellaneous

The Dance Neareth We're not a big TV family so we have only two, but the NCAA Tournament requires maximum screens, so Max and I used the first night of our bachelor weekend to do a dry run. By placing the screens an inverse distance from the couch

This week in England, a worker at a factory that makes Coca-Cola cans was caught urinating into the cans. But Coke quickly dealt with the situation by putting a Mountain Dew label on it.

Brews You Can Use I wrote last year that red wine is a good Lenten drink, but I can't get away from the gin and tonic. I'm going dry for the next eight days, so it doesn't really matter right now, but I need

Miscellaneous Rambling Some fun-read stuff by Mark Steyn on the Oscars [https://www.steynonline.com/8510/inclusion-riders-showbiz-apocalypse]. The point I particularly liked: Hollywood has always been political; the Oscars have always been political. But now, it's just preening and virtue-signaling. It used to take a little bit of

Midweek Rambling Why does Diet X work for some people and not for others? Why does that worker get an occupational disease but his co-worker doesn't? The answer: Genetics. DNA. Now, regular TDE readers know I claim no expertise--or even an average amount of knowledge--when it comes to

More Miscellaneous Rambling Can someone help explain to me the efficacy of group discussions? To me, unless there is an acknowledged group leader with a better grasp of the subject matter than the participants, group discussions are merely the blind leading the blind. I didn't like them in

Miscellaneous Rambling I've started to experiment with the plastic cloches [https://www.maximumgreens.com/products/batawa-protective-plant-bell-10-pack]. I planted bush peas, mache, radicchio, mizuna, kohlrabi, and other cold-hardy crops in containers yesterday, watered, then covered with the cloches. We'll see. I only used old seeds, taken from

> This list of reаsons for аdmission to a lunatic asylum in the 1800s reads like a list of potential metal band names. pic.twitter.com/HFJlr4HTzr [https://t.co/HFJlr4HTzr] > — History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 4, 2018 [https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/970262837691023361?ref_src=twsrc%

Weekend Rambler The first bed gets planted today or tomorrow: radishes. I plan on planting a bed every week for the next ten weeks. The first three will in cold frames or short low tunnels, at which point, I'll run out of covered space until the first week&