08:10 – We’re now halfway through season seven of Heartland, watching three episodes per evening. In addition to binge-watching Heartland, I’m binge-reading the works of R. Austin Freeman in publication order. I haven’t read them since I was a young teenager, and they’re as good as I remembered them. If you enjoy Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, give R. Austin Freeman’s Thorndyke stories a try. Freeman is a better writer than Doyle, and Thorndyke is a better detective than Holmes. Freeman was prolific, but his works are available in e-book form, many or most of them free.
I just bought a $0.99 collection of his short stories, The Singing Bone, on Amazon.com last night. I was surprised to find that this ebook is DRM’d. So I installed Calibre on my main system and downloaded the plug-ins needed to strip DRM from Kindle ebooks. I do wish that Amazon would stop offering DRM as an option and that authors and publishers would stop using it. All it does is annoy the paying customers.
11:45 – We have one of these steel shelving units in the basement that we use to store kit components. I think I’m going to add another of these for food storage. Right now, our kitchen cabinets are crammed with canned goods and dry goods. The only real problem with that is that it makes it inconvenient to rotate stock, keeping the older stuff toward the front. Using one of these shelving units that is accessible from both sides would make it easy to add new stuff to one side and remove older stuff from the other side. It would also help to unclutter Barbara’s kitchen cabinets.
One of these shelving units provides 50 square feet (5 square meters) of shelf space in about 2.4 cubic yards (2 cubic meters). It’s rated to hold 5,000 pounds (2,272 kilos), which is more than sufficient. That part of our basement isn’t climate-controlled but it stays pretty cool in summer and reasonably warm in winter, so it’s fine for long-term food storage.
Costco has a real good shelf system for storing long term food in cans, takes care of the rotation problem.
Here is a link to what they have online: http://www.costco.com/Shelf-Reliance-Harvest-Food-Rotation-System.product.11233458.html
Occasionally Shelf Reliance has a traveling road show that visits most, if not all, Costcos. If you get Costco’s monthly magazine (The Costco Connection; hardcopy or digital) the road shows are listed in the back.
We have one of these steel shelving units in the basement that we use to store kit components.
Are the angle iron side legs continuous or are they in two pieces? I would prefer the side legs to be one piece and for the shelves to be bolted to the side legs. I guess that I am a little wary about shelves collapsing on me.
Here comes the Secret Service:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/04/secret-service-requests-software-to-track-social-media-trends-detect-sarcasm/
Did you know that I think that President Obama is the finest President that we have ever had?
Did you know that I think that President Obama is the finest President that we have ever had?
Let me run that through my sarcasm software app that I am developing and see the results.
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No sarcasm detected. However my app did forward your comment to the NSA (not really as the NSA intercepts everything anyway).
They’re two pieces with a friction fit sleeve to connect them. I’m not too concerned about it collapsing. The unit is rated at 5,000 pounds total, or 1,000 pounds per shelf, and there’s no way we’d have anything near that. Maybe a quarter of that total, and the really heavy stuff would go in the bottom part, below the sleeves.
I looked at the Shelf Reliance shelves, but I’d need two of those (at $300/each) to match the capacity of one $139 unit from Home Depot. With two-sided access, rotating stuff isn’t a major problem.
Hey OFD, you might want to read this, “The Decline and Fall of IBM”:
http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
My Wing Chun book is DRMd on the Amazon site. I’m not sure if I screwed up when creating the book or if they ignored my selections when they generated it. I tried to recreate it without DRM, but I’d have had to unpublish and republish, which would have lost its reviews and ratings (all favorable and 5-star at the time, though I’ve since gotten a 2-star by a guy who thought the images were too small).
Are you the bald dude in the pictures?
Yah. Shaven-headed, not totally bald.
(I joke, except that it’s not really a joke, that my first wife was so bad she killed my hair. Lucky me, I smarted up and filed for divorce before all of the hair died. Nevertheless, my hairline receded enough that I just shave it all off.)
Just watched “300: Rise of Empire,” based on the Frank Miller comics like its predecessor; jolly good blood and gore but a pretty loose depiction of events, for, of course, the sake of the jolly good story. Then what do I hear for the music at the very end? Black Sabbath and Ozzie. Pretty funny.
And the Bergdahl fiasco continues; evidently CID is looking into it further, or at least that’s what we’re told. They’re setting up for the disappearance down the memory hole by some means, I bet, and here in the United States of Amnesia, the next big story is about to break that will cause us all to forget whatever that last one was.
Like this one:
http://bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/2014/06/now_application_inconsistencies_vex_health_law
Guess what? Your healthcare data may be “incorrect” or “may not match” what the government allegedly has on file already and you may, guess what? Owe more money to the IRS next year, haha, joke’s on you! ObummerCARE not only won’t fix public health care, it will work to render your ass penniless in the bargain! Pretty funny!
Soon they’ll trot out HILLARY! or Rice again to tell us the Bergdahl story is old nooz and “what does it matter?” Meanwhile Jay Carney is working on a book outline and arranging speeches, no doubt, and ditto Shinseki. They’ll nail down millions, like the Clintons have, and eventually the Obamas, while you and I eat shit, per usual.