A quick peek of my office, taken with my phone’s camera this morning – not seen, the bright moon and Venus, first thing upon leaving the house this morning. Brilliant. Wave hi to DC!
Lunch of leftover Chinese food was almost as good as lunch of leftover BHK casserole… but not quite. Dang tasty, anyhow.
Strange… we had trick or treaters the day after Halloween, and were only too happy to give our crusty old candies that didn’t make the grade the night prior. I thought it was a fairly unique situation, but it seems that it’s not an isolated incident. Note – we gave cute little kids the good stuff – chocolate, and smarties for Daniel (as he’s lactose intolerant), but any teens that came by without costumes got nasty stale necco wafers and clove candies that we hadn’t eaten in about a year.
Side note… do I really have to link to what trick or treaters or Halloween is? I doubt it.
We don’t have much candy left at the house, but gals at work still have huge bowls set out. It’s a real challenge not to grab a kit-kat when it’s right in my flight path.
I wonder how old is the “right” age to stop trick or treating… I always figured the cutoff was age 12, but maybe that was just me.
BHK had a meeting with the city, and afterward, we met at Thursday’s with the in-laws for a late supper.
Zombie Picture taken on the metro a few days back… good ol’ Halloween.
Considering that a Ford Model-T got as good or better mileage than most of today’s U.S. automobiles, I guess it’s not suprising that Henry Ford was, according to this 1934 profile, well ahead of the game in biofuels and bioplastics:
Science is discovering means of transforming products of the farm into materials for manufacture. Through his experimental farms, Henry Ford now successfully converts the common soy bean into automobile parts and an oil which makes up 30 per cent of the Ford car finish.
Mr. Ford declares that this plastic industry, this evolution of industrial agriculture, still is in its infancy and that its possibilities and opportunities are limitless. As an example, he points out that his laboratories have produced from the soy bean a tough, hard, yet inexpensive material which stands a pressure of 9,000 pounds without breaking… Ford and his chemists envision the time when automobile bodies, houses, skyscrapers and even great monuments may be fabricated from the soy bean.
Then again: maybe biofuels aren’t such a good idea, anyway.
via treehugger / kottke
1 year ago – butterfly world, swensons, pix
- Pictures taken (and more )- giant lobster with a smile, butterfly world, one-legged day of the dead guy, iguanas
2 years ago – lithgow soup, hot in apt, STUKA!! memory, lonliness %, bus riverwalk pic, sasha/magda, bro, chicken little, tiki pic
- Pictures taken – riverwalk tiki and sunset
3 years ago – ft laud pix, incredibles, win security hole, MUDD, 68th recovery
4 years ago – stream of thought, sports clix first view, first use of hr-dividers regularly?, Daler Mehndi!, interaction
5 years ago – Singing horses, SPEAR LANCASTER!, Newtie Pic, Vote For DUKES!, cutup poetry, heroclix
6 years ago – superhero dream, evil news, Daler Mehndi, vote poll, felon poll,Q&A poll, sleep ramble, FE-co the wonder dog, posting ~6 entries aday, Entry #3152
7 years ago – dead links, real change, and a trip to see Charlie’s Angels
