Mush!
March 4, 2021
The 49th running of the Iditarod Dogsled Race will begin on March 8, 2021. The race commemorates (at least around here) the 1925 serum run from Anchorage to Nome, when teams of mushers faced blizzard conditions to bring life-saving serum to victims of a diphtheria epidemic. Balto was the lead dog of the team that reached Nome. Balto is enshrined at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in a display the tells the story of this heroic run. I believe every Cleveland kid learned about Balto in elementary school. At least they did when I was in school.
Play spooky music here . . .
March 2, 2021
I looked out of my second floor window to other day and saw this fleet of flying saucers coming over the football field at the high school. The truth is out there.
I want one
March 1, 2021
Nathie Katzoff has a background in shipbuilding and restoring. He has turned his expertise to designing custom wooden bathtubs which are beautiful, durable and created from sustainable wood. Unfortunately for me they come with a price tag of ~$30,000, so I will just dream of sailing away in one of these in my bathroom.
Smoke me a salmon . . .
February 27, 2021
I had a Japanese bagel with everything sushi roll yesterday (delish) and this morning I came across a story which I find fascinating in a geeky linquistic way:
“One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than a lox bagel—a century-old popular appetizing store, Russ & Daughters, calls it “The Classic.” But Guy, who has lived in the city for the past 17 years, is passionate about lox for a different reason. “The pronunciation in the Proto-Indo-European was probably ‘lox,’ and that’s exactly how it is pronounced in modern English,” he says. “Then, it meant salmon, and now it specifically means ‘smoked salmon.’ It’s really cool that that word hasn’t changed its pronunciation at all in 8,000 years and still refers to a particular fish.”
Made me giggle
February 24, 2021
A little clothesline humor from Helga Stentzel. More at Colossal.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 