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A lot of dogs end up with a smell not entire unlike corn chips. I thought it was just our dogs. It turns out to come from a bacteria that grows between their foot pads.
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Mark Bittman provides a simple recipe for asparagus pesto. Sounds tasty, and a good use for asparagus for those of us who are looking for something different to do with it after a month of sauteed spears.
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At least ten inmates down at Greensville have been in solitary confinement for over a decade because they refuse to cut their hair. Rastafarians, they share Sikhs' belief that to cut one's hair is to dishonor God. (Numbers 6:5: "There shall no razor come upon his head.") Given a choice between eternal salvation and being able to live with the general population, they spend 23 hours a day in a closet-sized cell.
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This is a really interesting theory—and it's only a theory—about what caused the BP oil platform in the Gulf to blow out. That area has frozen methane under the sea floor which, when it thaws, expands to 168 times its size. It can result in a huge bubble of explosive methane rising to the surface, large enough to swallow a ship. Just such an explosive bubble of gas hit the platform in March, shutting down the platform, leading Halliburton to pump foamy cement into the well to avoid igniting it. If this is actually what happened, it has huge ramifications for where and how we drill in the ocean.
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Re: Frito Feet.
A lot of humans I know get the same smell from their socked feet. Can’t imagine that it’s an entirely canine phenomenon
The “oil” that Gov. Haircut and the Drill Baby Drill Chorus are coveting are in fact gas hydrates in the deep waters of the Continental slope. Hydrates are known to be unstable and the technology for dealing with their extraction is poorly developed. Just saying.
There may be oil under the methane hydrates, but they’ll have to deal with the unstable hydrates to get at it. Reminds me a meth addict – knows making the stuff is terribly dangerous, but too addicted to care.
I’m suddenly inspired to try creating some sort of guacamole from asparagus.