07:57 – We got a fair amount of science kit stuff done yesterday. More today, along with laundry and other normal Saturday tasks. I also spent some time yesterday working on the prepping book, and plan to do more today.
One thing on my to-do list is to contact one of the freelance layout/design people that O’Reilly has used on our books to take the raw manuscript of this book and turn it into something professional looking. As Dirty Harry said, “a man’s go to know his limitations,” and I know that I’m not a layout/design person.
11:00 – Embarrassing prepper moment. I just emptied a 2 L bottle of Coke and ran downstairs to bring up another 4-pack. We’re out. Not a single bottle of Coke in the house. I thought I had a case of #10 cans of dehydrated Coke in stock, but apparently not. Oh, well. I’ll just make it up right here in the sink. I prefer my own blend, anyway, because it uses sucrose instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
That’s the beauty of being a chemist; ran outta sumthin? Whip it up in a jiffy in the kitchen sink!
In other nooz:
“It was churlish for western leaders to boycott this week’s Victory Parade in Moscow that commemorated the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago.”
Stupid, stupid, stupid. WTF is wrong with our dumbkopf “leadership?” They wouldn’t know a history book if it was slammed across their slack-jawed faces.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/05/eric-margolis/who-really-won-world-war-ii-2/
When you make up the Coke, make sure that you use instant water.
You think you’re kidding, but I actually have a #10 can of dehydrated water around here somewhere. It weighs next to nothing. You can rehydrate the water just by filling the can to the rim with ordinary tap water.
And I actually do have what I need to make Coca-Cola Classic or a very close equivalent. It’s just a PITA to carbonate the stuff.
If I ran out of Coke (Zero) that would be a medical emergency.
Ok, don’t remember who recently linked to this, maybe even here, but if so it needs repeating!
http://www.basiccarpentrytechniques.com/
This is an awesome resource. Scroll down past the first page or so of carpentry and find SO MUCH other stuff.
I’m wondering how to slurp down all the titles without hammering this guy’s bandwidth, and what tool to use. I’m thinking “Down them all” but maybe there is a better choice?
nick
and it’s hard to read the pdf of scans on some devices. Still, this is awesome.
If you do grab them all, do me a favor and zip them up and send me a copy I’ll include it on the supplemental disc for the book.
I’m looking at it. Hmmm, his page source is really yucky. Technical term. I’m gonna guess that most of these books are available from google’s free library, which is easy enough to search. I’m hoping for a good way to extract a list from his page. Not looking easy. Lots of white space and formating with :amp and &20’s everywhere.
The main problem with pulling them from him, Ronald Hunter, is that many are broken into sections and chapters. I think getting the originals whole from google would be better, and more polite. Unfortunately, some of them have been uploaded more than once, and of varying quality scan and conversion. One I spot checked was missing all the illustrations. My hat’s off to Ronald, it looks like a LOT of work.
Have to do some more looking…..
nick