Joseph LeConte, 1823-1901: Instructions for the Manufacture of Saltpetre. (Columbia, S.C.: Charles P. Pelham, State Printer, 1862.) At the UNC Chapel Hill online library. Very cool, and if you’ve ready much time travel fiction, you’ll know exactly why this is so handy if you ever get trapped in the pre-industrial past. I love the internet.
Day: April 25, 2005
Mmmm… gourmet lunch meat
French forest wanderer finds 20 tonnes of gourmet meats A man walking in a forest near here reportedly found 20 tonnes of gourmet meats wrapped in plastic and still edible. The salami and cured hams, found Saturday morning, may have been dumped by thieves…
After a week at the new job…
…all is cool, though I’m trying to do more work and procrastinate less than I was doing at Panta. So far I’m succeeding, so no updates here in a while. I’m annoyingly behind on my political blogs, although my sense of things is that a lot of the big moves are in wait-and-see mode anyway.… Continue reading After a week at the new job…