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That was my point, When those pre-agricultural societies came across an agricultural society and saw what they were eating, it must have blown their minds ... something you didn't have to eat right away before it rotted.Oh! Now I am surprised; I had no idea pre-agricultural societies had access to bread. (These early breads were likely simple, flat, and unleavened, but they existed.)
They were still not sliced bread, though.
My Dudes and Dudettes, I have achieved success! I thought I was struggling my way through my first novel, but it turns out it's at least my 132nd!
(and I looked up that "How to Write a Sleazy Male" and it's a Reddit post, not a book, and I'm not in it. But so much for making up a last name out of whole cloth to make myself searchable on the net...)
(and I looked up that "How to Write a Sleazy Male" and it's a Reddit post, not a book, and I'm not in it. But so much for making up a last name out of whole cloth to make myself searchable on the net...)
Could be worse: you could be Iain Aschendale, author of "How to Be a Sleazy Male."
I checked out a blog that reviewed my book. The blogger included a photo reputed to be from my website. I checked the mirror. Definitely not me in that photo. Definitely not from my website. Other than that, it was a pretty decent review.
I checked out a blog that reviewed my book. The blogger included a photo reputed to be from my website. I checked the mirror. Definitely not me in that photo. Definitely not from my website. Other than that, it was a pretty decent review.
Well, kudos, I guess.
I had a dream last night where I used AI to reject an order of churros.
Two things are wrong with that picture - I wouldn't use AI like that, and I wouldn't reject churros.
Two things are wrong with that picture - I wouldn't use AI like that, and I wouldn't reject churros.
We actually stopped selling them at one of my Mexican spots. Too long of a pickup and we didn't have the right mixer for them. Well, we did, and then it broke. A stand up Hobart from the 70s. It weighed like 600#, I think. They were delicious but didn't sell well.
Wonder what @Homer Potvin thinks of the Cracker Barrel brouhaha.
All corporate chains can burn in hell (unless someone wants to pay me a few mil to be a CEO). Other than that, no real opinion, other than if branding and marketing where the end all be all, I wouldn't have a job. We don't have Cracker Barrel in our area that I've ever see, so I can't speak on their jam.
Hobart! I remember the cheese grinder from Taco Bell in the late 80s! That and the deep fryer were the only things you had to be 18 to operate. Some of our shift managers were still 17...
Those machines are nearly indestructible. Can't find parts for a lot of the motors anymore, but even those will last 30 years.
On another note, I went to AAA to get my license renewed. They asked if I had an eye exam in the last five years and when I said yes, they said, great, we don't need to give you one then. I mean, what if my eye doctor told me I shouldn't get behind the wheel anymore? Think we might want to verify that I can see more than 3 feet in front of face?
I dunno. Many gears get a lot of wear, and are under a lot of stress. So they have to be made of a hardened metal that is machines, or subjected to a hardening process at a later time. I'm not sure a 3D printed metal would suffice.
Yeah, most spur gears are standard and used across the industry. The same goes for bearing and seals. I was able to obtain a 1939 BSA M20 once because the owner said there were no parts for it. I replaced every bearing and seal from a bearing catalog. In fact it was so clean when I finished ti was in the showroom window of Century Motorcycles for almost a year.
I had a similar experience rebuilding a single-wheel trailer that was built in the 1960s. When I took out the bearings and took them to a supplier here in Sacramento, I found that they had the bearings off-the-shelf. The seals, too. The Ideal Trailer Company (long out of business) designers used industry-standard parts, which made life a lot easer for me
Random thought of the day: when people say "life is stranger than fiction", they don't pause to consider that of course it does, because fiction has to make sense.
(Good-quality fiction does, anyway. We don't bother about the other kind).
(Good-quality fiction does, anyway. We don't bother about the other kind).
A good way of looking at it. But Mark Twain beat you by over a hundred years ago when he wrote:Random thought of the day: when people say "life is stranger than fiction", they don't pause to consider that of course it does, because fiction has to make sense.
(Good-quality fiction does, anyway. We don't bother about the other kind).
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t."
And over two centuries ago, Lord Byron wrote: "‘Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange,/Stranger than fiction." It seems that he was the one that coined the phrase, according to the Quote Investigator:
The other day I dropped my electric razon and then it it worked better than it had in years, like maybe something stuck got jarred loose. I wonder whether if I hit my head with a hammer it would start working as well as it used to.
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