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.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[NicknamedBob]

‘Face says to tell you that her freezer and all its contents made it through the trip with no problems.

I'm familiar with how an icebox works. In fact I still have one.

[Tax-chick]

Physics is great.

[Darksheare]

True.
The little imperial felines do need walkways and bridges.

[Tax-chick]

Ours have to walk on the floor most of the time.

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome. She looks very soft.

[NicknamedBob]

"Physics is great."

Yep. As is chemistry, literature, astronomy, geology, and biology. And most of this stuff is freely available to study for anyone who's interested.

People like Adam Smith, who wrote "The Wealth of Nations", had to commit and spend years of study to just gain an understanding of even one subject.

We live in interesting times, but nobody's interested.

[Tax-chick]

I’m watching lectures about the Etruscans today.

[NicknamedBob]

That information can be a little jarring.

[Tax-chick]

Heh.

We would have almost no examples of classical Greek pottery if the Etruscans hadn’t put it in their tombs. The lecturer suggests that Athenian potters were working almost entirely for the export market.

[Tax-chick]

‘Face sent me some snaps of the Walmart parking lot in Hurricane, which has mountain views, and of her new apartment, which will be cute when she has her stuff put away.

I was having a lie-down, but the fire alarm went off over and over because someone was baking without having previously cleaned up a mess.

[Tax-chick]

‘Face says, “Let ArGee know the GLK has been found alive!”

[NicknamedBob]

"I was having a lie-down, but the fire alarm went off over and over because someone was baking without having previously cleaned up a mess."

Someone needs an apron that says, "Dinner will be ready when the smoke alarm goes off".

[Covenantor]

I was having a lie-down, but the fire alarm went off over and over because someone was baking without having previously cleaned up a mess.

Alexa: Fire Alarm active Tax chick, should I tell Atlas to drop the bomb?

[NoCmpromiz]

the fire alarm went off over and over because someone was baking without having previously cleaned up a mess.

I solved that problem by removing the smoke detector from the kitchen..

I left the one alone that is just outside the kitchen door in the hallway. It doesn't seem to get affected by smokey particulates produced from using the broiler..

(And I'm willing to bet that the mess you had in your oven that no one cleaned up was produced by the ever present family member I Don't Know..)

[Tax-chick]

“Sounds like another sponge is ready!”

[Tax-chick]

I believe the mess was left by Not Me.

[Tax-chick]

Kewl.

The lecturer about Etruscans says they had excellent armor and weapons and were no doubt as brave as anyone else kicking around the greater Mediterranean basin ... but they had no units larger than a clan chief and his retainers, so they fought like Germans or Celts and got trounced by a Greek phalanx or a Roman legion.

[Tax-chick]

[ArGee]

I’m glad to know that it’s hard to keep a good GLK down.

[ArGee]

Happy Monday.

A friend texted me on Saturday with a project in the Department of Social Services that needs a rescue. I’ll be talking to someone about whether I’m the right EMT around noon today.

It may be that the folks here in Education have already messed up my mind too far.