The REO Lounge - Part II

[garyinco]

gary or anyone good @ diy, do you know if they make any idiotproof nicotine test kits so I can see how much nic is in the juices I order from vendors, along with the older juices sitting around my place (you know, to see how much nic may have degraded)..

Look in the stickys in the DIY in the DIY forum. Here is one thread, don't know if anyone has put together a kit. On my first order of nic base I ordered 50mg for safety reasons. The bottles showed up with labels saying 100mg! The nic vendor is respected and sells, or at least used to, to one of the higher end juice vendors here. He volunteered to immediately replace the product and was sure he had mixed me at 50mg, but I was curious and wanted to try out pre-made juices like you mention. MY base did turn out at 50mg - it was just a mis-labeling.

I bought the Bromthymol Blue at the ScienceCompany (should be available somewhere local to you), and the diluted sulphuric acid at a pool supply company for dirt cheap.

 

[bushmaster]

That is why I choose not to eat Bear where I live so many of them dine at local garbage dumps and that's just icky.

I beleive the movie/book was called Alive.

Alive! Yes, it was a.........soccer team? Can't remember and it'd be cheating to look it up.
The older cannibalism Alice referred to was probably the Donner party. That was somewhere down in Jack's neck-of-the-woods.

 

[sashwa]

Roger, the Donner Pass is around Tahoe and I believe that is where it happened on the eastern side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Pass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

 

[garyinco]

That Alive book was a great read. I'd eat my own foot if it meant surviving. Weren't they stranded in the Andes mountains after their plane crash?

 

[FeistyAlice]

That is why I choose not to eat Bear where I live so many of them dine at local garbage dumps and that's just icky.

I beleive the movie/book was called Alive.

Stay away from looking at what company produce farms feed stock. Will most totally gross most people out. We like to do as much free range, vegetarian fed meat/fowl as possible. My chef Son in Law once spent a great deal of time explaining to me the differences in the same species of fish, for instance, taste/texture, etc., that was caught different areas of HI islands. I was totally fascinated but a lot of info to digest (sic) in one sitting.

Although I don't feed organic foods to my pack of large/Giant dogs, I do look pretty closely at the meat sources. Now that we've reduced in numbers and sizes we still go through 60 lbs of food stuffs a week. (The smaller, less energy conserving dogs eat as much as the laid back, but active, GIANTS.) Really can't afford the all organic, free range meats foods any more. (never did actually but we used to go through over 100 lbs a week), but we do mostly no grains or only a few good grains like rice and barley. They get duck, salmon, chicken, alternated every week.

For you Escargot fans..... some common american snails are very similar to the imported snails from Europe and can be consumed safely; many of them.

I love Escargot and virtually all organ meats from most animal products I've eaten. Had some pretty good fried bugs, too. Had my first chocolate covered grass hoppers back in 60's. Which reminds me I need to take picture of the red grasshopper that flew in my car last week. I thought it was a red wasp (not allergic but hurts like hell and good to not be driving when they sting).... Just saw a red flash, in peripheral vision, and buzz going past my face, going out the drive. Stopped and couldn't find it. Later found it in doggie water bowl, in car, that still had some water in it. It survived 24 hours, in water, and I had to clasp it firmly to keep it from springing out of my hand.Neither DH nor I have ever seen a red grasshopper out here. Remember, we are the folks who keep a dissecting microscope handy, just feet from kitchen, to look at bugs.

Feisty Alice

 

[boilednuts]

Alive! Yes, it was a.........soccer team? Can't remember and it'd be cheating to look it up.
The older cannibalism Alice referred to was probably the Donner party. That was somewhere down in Jack's neck-of-the-woods.

There was a movie made from I think an Argentinian soccer team who crashed in the Andes

 

[Northernshrink]

That Alive book was a great read. I'd eat my own foot if it meant surviving. Weren't they stranded in the Andes mountains after their plane crash?

Yes I do beleive it was the Andes I want to say the team was From Argentina ? Book was good movie was terrible.

 

[FeistyAlice]

I haven't heard of an idiotproof one yet, just one where you mix some chemicals, gauge some colors, and do some math. I haven't tried it because I've always had a problem with colors.
Like I said, if you're not hung up on precision. There are plenty of factors like the size of the dropper and the viscosity of the liquid and the humidity in the air and and and. I cut corners when I DIY.

In my big pool/spa test kit there is one regent that you have to wipe the bottle after every drop or it will throw the results off drastically due to drops being inconsistent.

 

[Northernshrink]

Did someone say snails Giant Snails Invading Florida, "Major Threat" to Crops

 

[FeistyAlice]

There was a movie made from I think an Argentinian soccer team who crashed in the Andes

Yeah, I think that was them and the Donner part.

 

[bushmaster]

Roger, the Donner Pass is around Tahoe and I believe that is where it happened on the eastern side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Pass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Okay Sashie, I stand corrected.
I confess I remember Wendy Torrence in Stephen King's book "The Shining" on their way to the ominous Overlook Hotel in Colorado telling her husband Jack (Here's Johnny!!) that she thought the Donner party was stranded somewhere around there. Just goes to show how our intelligence is stunted by the big screen.

 

[Gioajack]

The Colorado case of cannibalism is Alferd, (that's the way he spelled his first name), Packer. He was a prospector in the southwest part of the state back in the 1870's. He and several other prospectors got snowbound during a severe winter. No one knows exactly what happened but he made his way back to civilization 4 months later, fat and happy. Although he didn't deny eating his good buddies he did deny that he killed them.

They made an independent movie about it back in the early 80's but apparently the only one to actually see it was the projectionist.


Jack

 

[davelog]

Yes I do beleive it was the Andes I want to say the team was From Argentina ? Book was good movie was terrible.

On the whole, not a great movie. It had, however, the most spectacular plane crash sequence I had ever seen up to that point. Knowing took that title away from Alive, though.

 

[supertrunker]

Take comfort that the older you get, the tougher you are to cook and the less likely to get eaten! (or get anything to eat, i suppose.)

T

 

[vsummer1]

gary or anyone good @ diy, do you know if they make any idiotproof nicotine test kits so I can see how much nic is in the juices I order from vendors, along with the older juices sitting around my place (you know, to see how much nic may have degraded)..

Yes, I have one. When I first made my base, I tested to make sure it was correct since I was using 100 mg/ml and even though I am well versed in measuring into syringes and calculating that stuff, I wanted to make sure.

Nicotine Test Kit

 

[supertrunker]

I am looking for RY4 and double RY4 in bottles of about 120 ml; RTS is out of that size, and Wizard seems only to sell flavours in 10 ml bottles, which are becoming annoying. Any ideas?

T

 

[bushmaster]

I think another tale of canniblism in the old west is that of Jeremiah Johnson--also known as liver-eatin Johnson who ate the livers of his enemies. There are various versions of his story but none of them are quite as ......palatable as Robert Redford's version.

 

[garyinco]

For my online OK vaping buddies, from an ex-pat:

 

[FeistyAlice]

Putting in yet another new flap in Doggie Door. Damn things cost $60 and only last about six months. I calculate there are at least 100 flying leaps through it on an average day. Open hole right now. So I have some aluminum strips and longer screws. Was going to superglue the strips onto top of new one to see if that would help a little but had these safety strips so trying them. Just have to punch out the holes instead of doing oval (for adjustments) openings, through aluminum with drill; just hate to get all the tools out. Have to let them set up for 24 hours so have a nice open hole till tomorrow night. So glad not on N or W side where wind is howling.

Kaypers, I'm putting these strips in the bathtub and both showers. Been meaning to do it for a while but with real company coming I thought it was a good time to get rid of the suction mats that get grody in a matter of months no matter how many times you wash them in washer.

Secret to making these work in showers and tubs is super cleaning surface and finish removing all residue of any cleaning products, then scrub with alcohol. Strips have to be pressed down firmly using something like a wallpaper seam roller. Couldn't find mine for a couple of days, but did stumble on it so a tennis ball worked quite well for first few but stressful on hand. You can't get enough force with fingers alone.

I have a spare Industrial metal doggie door in garage but it makes so much noise. And I'd have to recut the 2" thick door again which I'm not up to now.

I guess this is an okay design if you have one or two dogs going through it a few times a day. My wildlings have 24/7/365 access and they are in and out, flying through it round the clock.

 

[Justice]

I am looking for RY4 and double RY4 in bottles of about 120 ml; RTS is out of that size, and Wizard seems only to sell flavours in 10 ml bottles, which are becoming annoying. Any ideas?

T

Perfumer's Apprentice

good evening everyone hope all is are well