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Yeah, but most of that SHOULD have disappeared anyway. Unless you NEED a physical copy of what is being sent, email is both quicker (since it's basically instantaneous), cheaper (since it doesn't cost you anything beyond what you are already paying for your internet service) and more...

I can get worse. My mom said that, for a while when she worked in Manhattan, if they wanted to send something to the building NEXT DOOR, it had to go through Fedex and go to MEMPHIS before it got back to them. We've had a similar idea proposed a few time. The big problem I can see with that...

It's not as hard as it sounds. Fact is, if I had been paying attention, I'd have recognized them when I was in the store (it doesn't help that, since I haven't been to Manhattan in several years, I haven't been to Kalyustan's where I would be buying properly labeled cubebs) They really only look...

Probably the dumbest candy idea since Chilly Chilly Bang Bang ! (a sugared drink packaged in a gun shaped container where you stuck the end of the barrel in your mouth and pushed the trigger to "shoot" the fluid into your mouth).

This reminds me of a slightly different holiday memory. During all of High School, by tradition, I would come in with a tin of King Leo peppermint sticks to share with everyone. Besides being my favorite in terms of flavor, one of the things I loved about them was that, due to their length and...

Only remotely interesting story I have is that, yesterday at the Indian grocery store, I saw a bag of what was marked as allspice but looked darker and smaller than any allspice I know. So I bought it, thinking it might be an alternate species. When I got it home opened it and looked at it, it...

a tiny bit, but they tend to be a lot sweeter (at least, the kind you get in a jar from IKEA, which is what he uses, are) I can only say I like them and I DON'T like cranberries. And I am very glad he does not also get cloudberries (a pale yellow raspberry species). For some reason, those make...

Pity there's no legal way to send home brew in the mail or between states. Those who drink it say my stuff beats anything the commercial meaderies make (and these are not people to give flattery.) Ofg course, no commercial meadery could AFFORD to make any of mine. In general, most places, to...

In my supply of mead making honey, there are a couple of large jars I don't dare use, because they are manuka honey (they were marked Tea Tree honey, and, at the time I didn't know those two things were the same), and my view is that, if it has all of those extra medical properties, consuming a...

Well, the rice (well most of it) has been hulled to get rid of broken kernels, and, hopefully, my fingers will heal in a week or so (pulling the hulls off of rice does about as much damage to the skin as pulling corn kernels off of ears, with the added complication that you can't use gloves...

Thanksgiving is covered by one of our cousins, so the menu will be up to him. He tends to go for a large heritage breed turkey, and most of the traditional side (though, being of Scandinavian descent, we get lingonberry sauce instead of cranberry, which is fine with me.) Generally, my only...

"Little birdy in the sky, does his thing as he goes by. Angry farmer wipes his eye, Very glad that cows don't fly."

Looks like some sort of bromeliad to me. I don't know the species name, but it's the one that makes the pink and purple flower spike.

Speak for yourself! I'd be back to that Pho bucket with some 20 gallon containers and drain it as soon as it got dark enough for me not to be seen. I don't care HOW many people slurped it before I got there; it's nothing a quick re-boil won't cure. Into a deep freeze, and I'm set for the winter...

That's one of the few there are (though I tend to hear the word sporangium more often than sporange.) The only known other one is Dorange, which is an uncommon surname in some parts of Southern England (I think there may also be a town in the area called Borange.)

The word you are looking for is "winnowing".

Not impossible, but it looks awfully clean for a fossil (i.e. it's still the right color for a fresh one, and the opening is free of stone. The latter could be taken care of by cleaning, but this was dug up from the ground.

An online check seems to indicate three line mud snail. Though what one is doing that far inland is beyond me (maybe someone brought it back from a trip to the Atlantic ocean). Or maybe it can take fresh or brackish water as well and came from one of the larger rivers.

Oh yeah I forgot quahog clams were the material used to make wampum. Cowries were also used extensively as money (in both Africa an Asia) but not much in North America (as we don't have all that many species, still fewer that are small.

It works like this. White rice WON'T grow, since it's been polished (had all of the germ stripped off of it) and is basically now just the starchy endosperm. But non polished rices, like brown rice still have all of their germ, and so are viable. You don't actually NEED the hull to be there to...