Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 864161 times)

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #5775 on:** 23 December, 2021, 03:29:20 pm »

That attempting to carry an 8ft Christmas tree nearly 3 miles on foot isn't a terrible sensible idea (I should never have sold my bike trailer!

). Just as well I don't have a sore arm from my booster yesterday!

On the plus side, because I left it so late to clear enough space to actually have a tree, it was free. And it *just* fits, with the bottom of the trunk lopped off (it was the smallest one I could find).

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5776 on:** 23 December, 2021, 04:21:54 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2021, 01:04:27 pm

Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife

Different Pingos.

T42 · « **Reply #5777 on:** 24 December, 2021, 01:11:27 pm »

Nature: Explore the world with Lief Penguinson

(a.k.a. find the penguin)

Efrogwr · « **Reply #5778 on:** 24 December, 2021, 02:29:38 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 23 December, 2021, 04:21:54 pm

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2021, 01:04:27 pm
Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife

Different Pingos.

The NWT seems to have mis-named kettleholes, which can be regarded as antipingos.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5779 on:** 24 December, 2021, 04:41:06 pm »

About half speed remastering of vinyl.

Efrogwr · « **Reply #5780 on:** 24 December, 2021, 07:11:22 pm »

Quote from: Efrogwr on 24 December, 2021, 02:29:38 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 23 December, 2021, 04:21:54 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2021, 01:04:27 pm
Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife

Different Pingos.

The NWT seems to have mis-named kettleholes, which can be regarded as antipingos.

After a little more thought, I think that they are more antidrumlins.,

FWIW, pingos result from frost heave; kettleholes and drumlins are left behind after glacier retreat.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5781 on:** 26 December, 2021, 04:14:53 pm »

Today I are learn that Happy Bunny Spaz Juice is Actually A Thing

Pingu · « **Reply #5782 on:** 26 December, 2021, 06:08:47 pm »

That shilfa is Scots for chaffinch.

De Sisti · « **Reply #5783 on:** 26 December, 2021, 10:20:00 pm »

When you have lent money to someone and they deny/forget it ever happened, then just write it off (especially when they've bought expensive stuff in the interim period).

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5784 on:** 29 December, 2021, 03:08:23 pm »

There is such a thing as a proving basket cleaning machine.

T42 · « **Reply #5785 on:** 29 December, 2021, 03:41:42 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2021, 03:08:23 pm

There is such a thing as a proving basket cleaning machine.

One of these?

MattH · « **Reply #5786 on:** 29 December, 2021, 03:49:11 pm »

Coffin Doors (or Death Door)
https://eastwindsorhistory.com/about-2/osborn-house-museum/coffin-door/

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #5787 on:** 29 December, 2021, 05:43:52 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 29 December, 2021, 03:41:42 pm

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2021, 03:08:23 pm
There is such a thing as a proving basket cleaning machine.

One of these?

Gosh no, nowhere near expensive enough.
https://www.bakerybits.co.uk/basket-cleaning-machine

rafletcher · « **Reply #5788 on:** 29 December, 2021, 06:34:29 pm »

Of the existence of a lead-tin alloy called Terne.

campagman · « **Reply #5789 on:** 29 December, 2021, 08:57:53 pm »

that Iran has crocodiles, which surprised me.

Pingu · « **Reply #5790 on:** 29 December, 2021, 11:20:57 pm »

Quote from: campagman on 29 December, 2021, 08:57:53 pm

that Iran has crocodiles, which surprised me.

ITYM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59571711

rafletcher · « **Reply #5791 on:** 30 December, 2021, 10:09:36 am »

That what we might call the “verge”, that area ‘twixt the foot way and carriage way, is (in St Paul, Minnesota at least) known as the “boulevard”, and is where plowed (sic) snow is to be stored.

TheLurker · « **Reply #5792 on:** 30 December, 2021, 07:33:22 pm »

Toss up between the 'div thread and here. It is possible to cut one's finger to a surprising (and painful) depth on the edge of a steel rule.

Canardly · « **Reply #5793 on:** 02 January, 2022, 12:53:56 pm »

That the English expression 'Dutch courage' comes from British troops fighting alongside Dutch troops during their wars of independence and drinking Juniper Gin, developed in the Netherlands.

Zipperhead · « **Reply #5794 on:** 04 January, 2022, 08:57:32 pm »

Approximately half of Japan (the Eastern half) has electricity at 50Hz, the other half (you guess) has 60Hz. All of it at 100V.

Kim · « **Reply #5795 on:** 05 January, 2022, 12:02:59 am »

Quote from: Zipperhead on 04 January, 2022, 08:57:32 pm

Approximately half of Japan (the Eastern half) has electricity at 50Hz, the other half (you guess) has 60Hz. All of it at 100V.

Bet it's still better interconnected than Texas, thobut.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5796 on:** 05 January, 2022, 01:46:36 am »

Today I are learning that “calculus”, in addition to being a variety of Hard Sums, is also another word for tartar. The kind that afflicts teefs, not the Natives of Tartary.

T42 · « **Reply #5797 on:** 05 January, 2022, 08:46:09 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 05 January, 2022, 01:46:36 am

Today I are learning that “calculus”, in addition to being a variety of Hard Sums, is also another word for tartar. The kind that afflicts teefs, not the Natives of Tartary.

Also a kidney-stone.

orienteer · « **Reply #5798 on:** 05 January, 2022, 09:09:43 am »

Quote from: Kim on 05 January, 2022, 12:02:59 am

Quote from: Zipperhead on 04 January, 2022, 08:57:32 pm
Approximately half of Japan (the Eastern half) has electricity at 50Hz, the other half (you guess) has 60Hz. All of it at 100V.

Bet it's still better interconnected than Texas, thobut.

There are a few conversion plants between the two networks.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5799 on:** 06 January, 2022, 08:03:38 pm »

That as much as 10% of all plant species, including every single one of the 25,000 orchids, are mycoheterotrophs. Rather than making their own carbon and fuels, they obtain them through mycorrhizal partnerships; basically, from funghi. At least two genera, Monotropa and Voyria, have completely lost the ability to photosynthesize and produce no chlorophyll.