I for one am thankful that the creator of Spiderman did not make him too spider-like.

Some spiders still don’t spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

On a similar note, when the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021, Facebook was full of people loudly proclaiming that there was no RNA in their bodies and never would be, because they weren’t gonna be “jabbed”.

A trebuchet, but made with modern materials.

Ideally you want to be out in a rural area, far from city lights.

Same in Saskatoon. We seem to miss all the good night sky experiences.

My best aurora experience took place in August, oddly enough. It was a warm night, so I went out on the deck and laid on the chaise lounge, my big cat of the time flopped out on my chest. The moon was about 3/4 full and for some reason a small prop plane was circling overhead (there’s a flight school out at the airport, probably it was from there). Then I saw the ghostly curtain of an aurora to the north. Very poetic experience.

This is only too true.

Something with a bad case of gas.

Definitely not as much as half a cup.

I used to live at 3300 feet. Cooking times increased slightly over what most recipes recommended, sometimes more baking powder was needed, but I don’t remember having to add more water.

The month of Catenary is always a dreary one.

Who is peeling onions in here?

Sometimes I will watch an instruction video on YouTube and say “Nope, that’s worth paying a professional for”. Other times it’s very useful, such as when the flame sensor in my furnace needed to be cleaned. It’s a wonderful resource, really.

The Ordovician period was 485.4 to 443.8 million years ago, so there may have been fossils in that layer that were long dead and turned to stone 400 millions years earlier than the slip, and then another 50 million years after that, there are modern humans speculating about the cause of this slippage.

I sort of get why some people are attracted to creationist beliefs about earth being only 6000 years old. Those time spans are dizzying to think about.

Oh, I don’t know. Waterbeds had a certain reputation back in the day, nudge nudge, wink wink. That’s probably why my oldest brother kept his so long, and why he and his wife had so many kids.

Hey, give me some wasabi paste and soy sauce and I will quite happily eat raw fish. 🙂

You can do a ketogenic diet with no meat at all. Children with epilepsy that didn’t respond to medication used to be put on a high fat ketogenic diet. The fat can be vegetable based.

Oddly enough, that diet can also be used to treat menopausal hot flashes. I had a bad reaction to HRT, so I tried the high fat keto diet for a couple of months and went from having about 12 flashes a day down to 2 or 3.

The Inuit avoided scurvy by eating some of their fish and meat raw during long Arctic winters. Apparently there is some vitamin C in raw flesh which is destroyed by cooking.

The risk of parasite infestation increases, but they probably learned what to watch out for, just as they learned to avoid eating polar bear livers.

I have seen photographs of this, but have never seen it in person. I wonder what special conditions are necessary for this to happen?