I want Gregorian chants or Baroque mandolin music.

They’d be the best compromise for me. I usually drive short distances in the city, but maybe once or twice a year I want to do the 800km journey back to my home city in the next province. Train travel isn’t an option.

Well… there are things like tires, tubes and components that would be hard to create.

Well, yes.

There’s a mineral called jasper that is often reddish brown, but it can also appear in a lot of other colours. So unlike malachite, ruby, or emerald, it’s not a great name for a colour.

No loss. I got talked into joining a Discord group and hated everything about it.

I for one am thankful that the creator of Spiderman did not make him too spider-like.

Some spiders still don’t spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

On a similar note, when the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021, Facebook was full of people loudly proclaiming that there was no RNA in their bodies and never would be, because they weren’t gonna be “jabbed”.

A trebuchet, but made with modern materials.

Ideally you want to be out in a rural area, far from city lights.

Same in Saskatoon. We seem to miss all the good night sky experiences.

My best aurora experience took place in August, oddly enough. It was a warm night, so I went out on the deck and laid on the chaise lounge, my big cat of the time flopped out on my chest. The moon was about 3/4 full and for some reason a small prop plane was circling overhead (there’s a flight school out at the airport, probably it was from there). Then I saw the ghostly curtain of an aurora to the north. Very poetic experience.

This is only too true.

Something with a bad case of gas.

Definitely not as much as half a cup.

I used to live at 3300 feet. Cooking times increased slightly over what most recipes recommended, sometimes more baking powder was needed, but I don’t remember having to add more water.

The month of Catenary is always a dreary one.

Who is peeling onions in here?

They buy fake diplomas from overseas?