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     Aesquire |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man_and_Little _Boy The best fictional version I've seen. Good movie, overall. | ||
| Ourdee |
 "Louis Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bombs. He participated in criticality testing of plutonium cores, often referred to as “tickling the dragon’s tail”. On May 21, 1946 Slotin and seven other colleagues performed an experiment that involved the creation of one of the first steps of a fission reaction by placing two half-spheres of beryllium around a plutonium core. Slotin was stabilizing the upper beryllium sphere with his left hand using the blade of a screwdriver to maintain the separation between the two half-spheres in violation of experimental protocol. At 3:20pm the screwdriver slipped causing the upper beryllium sphere to fall creating a prompt critical reaction and a burst of radiation. Scientists in the room observed a blue glow around the spheres and felt a heat wave. Slotin instinctively jerked his left hand upward, lifting the upper beryllium hemisphere and dropping it to the floor, ending the reaction. However, Slotin had already been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, equivalent to the amount that he would have received had he been 1500m away from an atomic bomb detonation. He was rushed to the hospital immediately, but the damage was irreversible and he died nine days later on May 30, 1946. The core he dropped was the very same core dropped by Daghnian the year before – causing it to be named the Demon Core.",http://listverse.com/2010/03/25/10-famous-incidences-of-death-by-radiation/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/31/ariana-g rande-fixes-botched-tattoo-to-japanese-barbecue-fi nger/ Follow up on tattoo hilarity. Small Japanese barbecue finger? Let us just assume a long winded rant on stupid kanji tattoos. Assume it's hilarious. Personally, I would have had it lasered off, or laughed at my mistake. Otoh, I'm not stupid enough to get a tattoo in a foreign language without researching it first. Otherwise I'd have a menu on my arm. | ||
| Crusty |
I always wonder if it's saying, "I'm a Yankee Pig Dog" in Chinese. | ||
| Aesquire |
It turns out "Happy Family" isn't a wish for domestic bliss. Or is it? | ||
| Ebutch |
Atomic Nightmare (What to do when it comes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RrmeJbGQqk  | ||
| Airbozo |
My old roommate worked at Rocky Flats in Colorado, programming the welder that sealed the nuclear triggers. He had some very interesting stories. It's gonna be a superfund site for a very long time... Massive contamination, US Justice department coverups, the list goes on... | ||
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| Aesquire |
Follow up on the Aroma rice cooker... A buddy who loves to cook, and is solidly in the "Rice cooker, We don't need no Stinking Rice Cooker!" camp, commented to me that the Aroma is what they use in Chinese Restaurants. The bigger size, but same model. And I've been on a rice binge, what seems like all week, as I doctored up a double batch of Pasta sauce with hot sausage, and I'll do cross cultural food blasphemy without guilt. ( also I had run out of garden Rotini, and the remaining pasta shapes didn't get any votes for some reason. ) | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Know what other "Wrong" type of food goes well with pasta sauce? Run a potato in the microwave, cut it open and fill-er-up. | ||
| Zac4mac |
I cook my rice in the microwave in a glass casserole dish with cover. one cup of rice 2 cups water. 2 tbsp butter 1/2-1 tsp salt For a 1kW oven - uncovered, high for 7 minutes or to boil. Cover, medium 15-17 minutes depending elevation(17 for Denver) When the bell dings, wait a couple of minutes for PERFECT rice every time. I like mine sometimes with a couple more tbsp of butter and some Kikkoman soy sauce. Z | ||
| Fast1075 |
I bought an Aroma cooker this weekend based on Asquire's review. I bought the small one, and it works a treat!. Dinner last night was brown rice with steamed veggies and chicken. Two ounces of prepared chicken cut in strips. | ||
| Airbozo |
I mostly stay away from rice. Too much of it in the Navy and it does not sit well. If I do have rice, it needs to have a bunch of ingredients added to give it some flavor and texture. | ||
| Crusty |
Just For The Record I just did a little checking and Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon are supposed to get a lot of rain. HA! Cincinnati has them beat by a bunch. Seattle gets 37.49 Inches per year and Portland (Oregon) gets 37.5. Here in Cincinnati, we average 42.24 inches. Also, while we get 132 days per year of rain, Seattle gets 20 more at 152. So; we get more rain while Seattle gets less over a longer period of time. I guess that’s why last year, 236 people fell off their bicycles in Cincinnati… and drowned. | ||
| Aesquire |
Fast, glad you are happy. ( and that someone agrees with me..... And America's Test Kitchen, and Chinese restaurants.....) For a change, try chicken broth/stock instead of water. The low salt version by preference. I haven't tried vegetable broth, since, I haven't tried any that tasted better than dish water. But I remember when Mom used hot dog water to make Kraft dinner to squeeze every gram of protein out of her dollar. Growing up in the Depression and War, and cooking for a large family taught her to optimize. She still uses coupons like a professional, and stockpiles against the famine. ( Rant on FDR deleted. Except that War didn't end the Depression, it masked it with a high fever, and drained the labor force with the draft. ) | ||
| Aesquire |
Crusty, are you sure that's not a weather problem, but instead a people problem? | ||
| Aesquire |
Commercial Bowl!!!! Solid defence on both sides. Well fought. I'll let true Sportsball fans decide the entertainment value. Speaking of entertainment, https://spectator.us/maroon-5-america-0/ Wedding band? Close enough. Commercials! That's what it's all about! Winners. Weathertech for most dogs. Bud light for best series. Extra points for the GOT cross over! Shocking! Meh! Bud gave me the dog and big horses ad I asked for, then made it a dystopian landscape. I expected a Mortal Engines city to sweep them up. Audi and their Heimlich ad. Losers. Washington Post. Murdering Democracy with Darkness. Handmaiden's tale. Canadian anti Christian/America goes full triggered. I expected a bonfire with red hats. Pepsi, ok? No! Give me a Dew! ( I suppose the Polar bears were rejected because of Global Whatever ) https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/mon day-morning-in-pictures-super-bowl-mini-edition.ph p Feel free to disagree. I'm sure I missed some. I remember being annoyed by a few I don't remember the company. | ||
| Sifo |
I didn't waste my time. | ||
| Aesquire |
Oh, come On! It's The biggest Sporting event In the World!!!! Oh, it's only what position? There are multiple soccer games every year with more spectators? With wider TV coverage? The Olympic what? Ok, it's a shrinking Sportsball market that people are abandoning because rich, spoiled brat athletes have made it a political mess, and the owners pretending to "give" big money to what are probably other rich guy's fraud factories and calling it all "Socially Approved Charity", ( which annoys real citizens even more ) and actually won't cost them a penny, since they'll take it off in taxes. All true. But the Commercial is the highest example of literature today, except for that Into the Spiderverse Movie, since the Twilight saga and a series of bad S&M romance novels began to dominate the best seller lists. And there, the Commercial Bowl is supposed to be the shining beacon on the hill of crass commercialism! The Guiding light of selling bad beer! There have even been entire years of people making mouth noises learned in one of these finest moments of literary writing! Wazzzuuup! ( and for months, having missed the Superbowl that year, I had no freaking clue what brain parasite had infected so many men ) And, truth be told. I just want to see a puppy and a War Horse nose to nose in a heart string plucking micro movie. Didn't get it this year. Someday, this is what they will remember us for. | ||
| Fast1075 |
Last night for dinner I made brown rice. In the steamer bowl was a skin on steelhead filet and carrots!. Man, was that good!. I'll try the low sodium broth, I'm on a low sodium diet now anyway. I asked the nephrologist to define low sodium. He asked if I like potato chips. Yes I said. He said portion size is 3 chips. So I am learning what food tastes like without salt. | ||
| Aesquire |
Salsa! The low salt saviour. Flavor substitutes for salt. I also highly recommend the America's Test Kitchen publications. The "how we messed it up" style of recipe development and mini science lessons, "why & when to crush garlic" are great for mechanical oriented minds. https://topatoco.com/collections/jeph-jacques/prod ucts/qc-baking | ||
| Aesquire |
https://shop.americastestkitchen.com/shop-cookbook s/complete-diabetes-cookbook.html | ||
| 86129squids |
Yay me! FINALLY got out for the first time this year on the Beemer, made it halfway up the new Foothills Parkway section, just got back in. Bike needed a new battery, got it in about mid-afternoon, peeled out shortly after that. Dang but it's good to get my knees in da breeze... February 5... won't be too long before May rolls around!!  | ||
| Hootowl |
77 here in Houston. I’ve got blossoms on my peach tree. | ||
| Aesquire |
64 yesterday. Rain today. Winter has just begun. Seriously. We are just getting started here. The thermal inertia of the Great lakes delays the seasons here about a month, and spring, well, May usually qualifies. April will have snow & typically a nice ice storm. I couldn't get the bike out of the shed and over the swamp that is my yard without laying duckboards down. For months... except when it's frozen. | ||
| Mhpalin |
- 40C this morning come on up for a ride  | ||
| Aesquire |
You mean -40 F.  | ||
| Gregtonn |
You mean -40 F Same thing. Do the conversion. G | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
He was making a joke based upon that little fun fact. See the little winking smiley? |
