short takes

[cellio]

Fun hack (but stay out of my house, you hear?): Man's apartment (and all its contents) covered in foil (link courtesy of siderea).

Today's winning entry in the "sad/true but at least funny" sweepstakes comes from grifyn.

"I so hope the people who run that site don't read their referer logs, or I am so going to hell" (q_skud_, owner of a domain the religious site owner probably wouldn't approve of).

It's discouraging to see the word "above" in a temperature forecast -- it reminds me that there was another possibility. This might be the best argument for Farenheit over Celsius. :-) (We haven't seen sub-zero temperatures yet this winter, but there's still time. Mind, I'd be happy to leave it as a theoretical construct.)

When the vet told me Baldur needs some dental work, she said they'd send me an estimate. The vet's office has never before sent me a written estimate for anything. They always just say "it'll cost $($amount)", and that's that. So this made me wonder just how hefty the price tag was going to be on this, if they were suddenly getting all formal on me. It came yesterday and is less than I plunked down for two cats' exams, vacines, and blood tests. That's a relief, but I'm still mystified by the process.

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[goljerp]

This isn't really a response to this, but I can't find where you were orginally talking about thermometers, and the making thereof:

I found a book in the Library, How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers, by Sharon Rose and Neil Schlager, and they talk about Thermometers! On page 241, they have a diagram which shows how glass ones are made: you start with a glass blank, with a narrow hole down the middle. One end is pinched closed under heat, and the resevoir formed. In a vaccum, air is removed and the mercury/fluid is added, then eventually the other end is sealed shut.

[cellio]

Cool! Thanks for the information.

(I don't remember where that entry was either. I hope someday LJ offers search.)

[goljerp]

The client I use occasionally, xJournal, offers search... but only on my entries. And I'm not totally convinced that it searches every entry. (It's an OS X-only client, so probably doesn't help you much.)

[cellio]

Yeah, an OSX client is of academic interest only for me. :-)

Being able to search any journal, not just your own, would be really handy. (So would "search my friends' journals", for those cases where you remember that somebody recently wrote about such-and-such.)