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books


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Books I am reading. I have trouble reading just one book at a time. Literary ADD.

Books


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Taking my PADI inspiration today from Grac’s picture, here’s the teetering pile of books next to my bed, the titles of which seem to describe my interests pretty comprehensively. Looking at this in isolation from the rest of my bedroom is weird.

Top book recommendation from this lot – the one on the top right: "On food and cooking" by Harold McGee.

Books


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Books what I did find down the side of my bed.

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Question by : Boiling…?
The water is now boiling (See my last question COMING TO A BOIL, if you wish). To cook the potatoes using the least amount of energy you should:

a) keep the heat on full force.

b) turn the heat way down so the water just barely keeps boiling.
The answer is: b. The temperature of the water is 100 degrees C if it is boiling vigorously or barely boiling, and all the potato cares about is the temperature of the bath. But it takes more energy to keep the heat on full force, so turn it down. Doesn’t all that extra heat going into a full force boil make the water a little hotter? Not a bit! Put a thermometer into vigorously boiling and not boiling water and see which is hotter. If you don’t have a thermometer run a potato cooking race between a vigorously boiling and barely boiling pot. If the extra energy put into the vigorously boiling water does not go to cook the potato, where does it go? It goes out of the pot as steam. Now if you put a cover on the pot will you reduce the energy needed or the time needed to cook the potato? You will reduce both. You will reduce the time and energy required to boil the cold water, and save energy but not time while the water is boiling.

Best answer:

Answer by stratoframe
cover the taters,,efficient heat

Give your answer to this question below!

Boiling


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Boiling water in a pan. Note the nice distortions from waves due to breaking bubbles.

Boiled Beets


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Sometimes a bro’s got to just boil some beets.

2011-03-26 Bank with shell midden and old human bones? – Comox BC


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I was taking photos of the many bald eagles at the Comox estuary and noticed shell middens exposed in a bank. I stopped to look around and found what I think are some old human bones.

I presume they are native, the site is on a reserve, so I didn’t dig away at the bank.

The bones were about 2 feet below the top of the bank (6 or 7 foot tall bank), just beneath a shell layer.

There were a few shell layers interbedded with soil and sand, my guess is that the site was probably used as a trash heap at different times as the natives came and went and as the shore line rose and dropped as it does with the big earthquakes that happen here every few hundred years.

The shell layer above the bones was intact so I’m guessing that someone died there or was placed there but not buried, later the natives resumed piling shells on the site.

The bones are pretty weathered. Ends of the humerus and radius are missing as well as a portion of the scapula … who knows what other bits may be a few inches deeper in the bank.

I took some photos, then covered the bones with driftwood. I took the photos to the RCMP but they didn’t seem very interested. The officer didn’t know what to do about it but discussed it with a forensics person.

It’s been a few days and I haven’t heard back from the RCMP, so I intend to notify the Comox first nation so they can take care of their ancestor.

… then again, what if it’s a long lost member of an early Spanish or British explorer’s crew? At a friend’s recommendation I might also notify an archeologist.

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Updates
2011-04-02
An archeologist for the K’omoks First Nation has been notified

2011-04-07
The RCMP got ahold of me. An officer and a coroner went to the site and found the bones. The coroner confirmed that the bones are ‘ancient’ native remains and not part of any recent criminal incident. The officer told me that there is an old native buriel ground on that reserve, but not specifically right there, and that the coroner figured that the bones were transported to their current position from there.

He seemed to be saying that the transport happened naturally long ago by erosion. He intended to contact the Komox band and was happy to hear that we had already passed on our information to the band’s archeologist … whom I haven’t actually heard anything from.

So there may not be anything else to learn about the bones from this avenue but it got me to do a little reading from Google.

- I think there is some confusion in the officer’s story. I’m not certain that he understood that the bones were poking out of the bank when i found them. If the bones were naturally transported to that site, it happened long ago as there was a shell midden layer above it that appeared undisturbed.

- I’ve learned that the band’s ancient buriel ground was actually at Goose Spit, at Comox Indian Reserve #3 before the land was expropriated for the Quadra naval base in the 1870′s, and that at some point remains were moved from Goose Spit and re-buried at Comox Indian Reserve #1, the land I was on.

So the officer may have meant that these bones were part of what was reburied from the ancient burial grounds at Goose Spit, although he was only aware that there was a burial ground somewhere at reserve #1, not specifically where I found the bones, but this sounds like a reasonable conclusion. Or these bones were transported naturally from a second old burial grounds near my location. … Or someone was left or buried there long ago under some other circumstances.

I’m hoping the archeologist gets back to me, maybe he can clarify it. Regardless I assume the bones are now in the right hands … no wait, I think it was a left arm …

Lazy Bone 1.0 IDE Xmas + Winter Edition


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Lazy Bone 1.0 IDE Xmas + Winter Edition

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- Hardware Supports
– 1 Laptop placeholder as well as writing and dining places
– Upto 2 Cup placeholders – Extends your working session
– 1 Tablet placeholder – Perfectly for graphical designer
– 1 Documentation Stack
- Software Support
– Kat 0.1prealpha plugin (See below)
– Powerful Co-worker 0.1 plugin (See below)
- Better suspending of hibernation support for both user and hardware – User now allow to direct suspending of hibernation
- Self-heating quilt – Also get support from Kat plugin
- CrytoBlanket – Allows you to keep confidential information from public

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Dial 1-800-LAZ-BONE one day before Xmas! For international order, dial +COLD NORTH-POLE. (Both are Free! But be patient, you will probably get "this number is not available", because of line busy)
You will get a real copy of precompiled package of Lazy Bone 1.0 for free shipping!
(Notice: The package does not include Kat and Powerful Co-worker plugins. These two plugin have to be complied by your self.)

Source tarball
Click "ALL SIZES" above the screenshot, and there you go!

Notes
Suspending or Hibernation
If these are not working on hardware, please consult manufacturer; or your co-worker if happens on you.

Kat 0.1prealpha plugin
- Supports self-heating
- 99% time as a sleep process underneath Self-heating quilt or CrytoBlanket
- Random time reminders for breaks

Warnings
- It could interrupt your works if you don’t upload FOOD (Need purchase) to it
- It could interfere the communications between you and Co-worker.
- In 10% chance of 1% time, it become crazy process. Make sure you have firewall and/or antivirus software

Powerful Co-worker 0.1 plugin
It has 2 models, F or M, and 3 modes, Normal, Faster, Realtime. At first install, you have to start with "Normal". In this stage, everything works smoothly. Then, it could switch to "Faster" by unexpected cause, that might be a unsolved bug. In this mode, the efficiency will increase up to 30%. However, it crashes sometimes, it could make BEdOS slightly unresponsive, but you can try to restart it. At last stage, the efficiency will increase up to 70%. But, it will hardly be stable. You have to force a poweroff.
Except "Normal", the other two modes will damage your system, and you might not be able to uninstall it. You can try to use it with "chroot". Even it crashes, you can have minimal damage from it.

Warnings
It you use Co-worker Pillow for the base of Documentation Stack, you will not be able to get into suspending or hibernation.

Museum Bones 2


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Bones seen through windows of Bergen Natur Historiske museum.

Twitter: tehaha Portfolio: www.ahaphotography.net

Box junction gone bad!


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Doesn’t look like this Yellow Box junction will conform with Chapter 5 of the Department of Transport Traffic Signs Manual – pages 76-79.

www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tss/tsmanual/trafficsignsmanualc…

UPDATE – Transport for London (TfL) are responsible for this junction.

Yamaha Pocketrak CX box contents


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Box contents for the Yamaha Pocketrak CX audio recorder. Now discontinued.

Writing boxes


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Two of the writing boxes I have to restore , these are in my view the nicest ones at present.

The top one has rose wood veneers, the lower has mahogany veneer, with details of ebony near the brass corners.

They were little more than shell when they came in, so new boards had to be made for the writing surfaces inside.

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Message in a bottle.


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Stranded on a desert island, I scribble a note saying, "Help I’m lost" and chuck it into the sea." 6 months later the same bottle came back and had a new message that said, "I’m lost as well, but lets pass the time away. I spy with my little eye, something beginning with S". So I wrote "sausages" and threw it back in! This bottle was on the beach in Dubai with waves crashing over it.

more bar bottles


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I don’t know why prop bottles fascinate me. I don’t even drink. But they look great.

Cat PET Bottles 02


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PET plastic bottles filled with water, on a wall in Tokyo. The bottles supposedly keep cats away.