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Post by MawkHawk on Jul 17, 2008 12:31:37 GMT -5
Heh, oh yeah! And you can fold it into a hat for when you go outside: A good AFRB (Aluminum Foil Reflector Beanie) site: zapatopi.net/afdb/
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 17, 2008 15:16:04 GMT -5
I've always thought I just might enjoy an alien probe...
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Post by sammyqc on Jul 17, 2008 22:45:37 GMT -5
Canadian Harrowsmith Magazine used to be a great magazine too. I have many copies from the '70's and '80's, that an aunt gave me years ago. I took a chance on ordering again this year, and was very dissapointed in the fluff it's become so I cancelled it. I think on the whole the magazine industry has gone completely dowhill. I also used to get Canadian Gardening, but it's shite too, so I don't anymore.
All that Alien stuff, well, not gonna touch it. Watching Apollo13 tonight, to close to home!
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Post by PapaVic on Jul 18, 2008 7:11:50 GMT -5
Taping aluminum foil to your window panes also confuses flower thrips and keeps them off the herbs growing in your window boxes.
Hey ... this thread is turning into a honest to golly household tips column!
pv
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 18, 2008 7:48:02 GMT -5
As long as no virgins suggest that radio static is good for getting a baby to sleep, not that that would be a 'gardening' tip.....
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Post by winter unfazed on Jul 18, 2008 9:08:13 GMT -5
If anyone else has thought of using venetian blinds as markers, I never knew about it. Gardeners think alike, I guess!
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 18, 2008 10:10:52 GMT -5
Jeffrey, you probably read it somewhere and just don't remember it. That tip has been around for decades. I know I've seen it bandied about on idig, and other gardening sites, as well as in numerous books and magazines. I think it was even mentioned in the Tightwad Gazette.
No matter... we all do that. Say we thought of something when really we got the idea elsewhere. It's why we see so many songs and stories unintentionally plagarized. Just a few years ago, cowboy poet Baxter Black got into a world of hurt about a humor piece he wrote, which turned out to be lifted almost word forword from a Douglas Adams essay.
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Post by winter unfazed on Jul 18, 2008 11:43:29 GMT -5
Yeah, it's called cryptomnesia and it happens a lot to writers and researchers. I have done it a number of times.
Lewis Libby did too.
And the thing about putting babies to sleep with static came from an NSF sleep expert, so he ought to know.
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Post by landarc on Jul 18, 2008 12:41:48 GMT -5
Radio static is good for putting babies to sleep. As a chased individual, I have no kids, but, I heard this is true.
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Post by MawkHawk on Jul 18, 2008 13:13:27 GMT -5
Gardeners think alike, I guess! Now you're scaring me....
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Post by MawkHawk on Jul 18, 2008 13:14:16 GMT -5
Yeah, it's called cryptomnesia and it happens a lot to writers and researchers. I have done it a number of times.
Lewis Libby did too.
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Post by MawkHawk on Jul 18, 2008 13:14:47 GMT -5
(Hey, he's right!)
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Post by PapaVic on Jul 18, 2008 15:57:54 GMT -5
I'm currently working on a new mode of transportation where you take two big stones like millstones and put a straight rod between them ... I'm thinking of calling the rod an axel because it reminds me of a tall, skinny guy I know by that name ... and then mounting the rolling mechanism to the bottom of a sled and having two oxen or a couple of horses pull it along. I think it'll move more easily than a sled on runners. I guess I'll find out when I get everything assembled.
At first I thought I would call the rolling millstones "meals" but that was already taken, so maybe I'll turn the "M" upside down and call them "weals." What do y'all think?
Right now though, I'm afraid a sled on weals will move too fast and possibly get away from me and roll downhill and break apart. So, I'm also working on some sort of mechanism to slow the whole contraption down as it moves along a steep downhill grade. I'm thinking of calling the anti-breakage mechanism a "brake."
Any help with my new invention would be greatly appreciated. Also, does anyone know a magazine that might be interested in an article about my new invention?
pv
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 18, 2008 21:38:25 GMT -5
Sorry, PV, you'll get no input from me. I was trying to make a meal using some bread and some meat, but I had a hard time mashing the two together, and now I am frustrated. I am considering sectioning the bread into uniform pieces, so that they will be easier to work with. This thought process, of course, takes up a lot of my time, although it is not science involving jet propulsed projectiles. Now that's a thought... shooting the bread into outer space! Yay! Hmmm... what to call it.... Tang?
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Post by landarc on Jul 18, 2008 22:13:14 GMT -5
Sort of a mix of meat and a loaf of bread. Interesting...oh hey, I got an idea, call it cow patties, that has a ring to it.
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