Pennsylvania’s Poisonous Wild Pt.1: Northern Copperhead

Posted on October 29th, 2008 in future reference , , , , , , ,

According to Yahoo Answers, there are a few poisonous animals in my neck of the woods.
The northern copperhead, timber rattlesnakes and the eastern massasauga rattlesnakes are the poisonous snakes that inhabit Pennsylvania.
Today, I’ll inject my blog with some of the basic, important information to get you for the Northern Copperhead in your back yard. Don’t [...]

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Polishing Silver

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in future reference, life , , ,

For future reference:
if you have something that looks silver (tarnish usually is a good give-away), and has a hallmark of a crown with “1883 F.B. Rogers” on the bottom, it is more than likely to be:

silver-plated rather than sterling silver, and
pre-1955, rather than exactly 1883.

F.B. Rogers Silver Company was founded in 1883, and they used [...]

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Fryingpan

Posted on October 26th, 2008 in life

So we went to Ikea to buy a fryingpan, and ended up leaving with $350 worth of furniture…. only having to return for the fryingpan we forgot.
Nice.

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Stiff Upper Lip

Posted on October 8th, 2008 in life, observations , , ,

During the presidential candidate debate, I realized one ginormous fact that paled everything else by comparison. John McCain has no ability in foreign relations, and less ability in the economy. In fact, the only thing he brings to the position – it seems to me, and I’m trying to be as dispassionate and unbias on [...]

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Mango Worm

Posted on October 7th, 2008 in life , , ,

You may or may not have heard of this pest. Its actually a fly, prevalent in tropical countries and places like Africa and South America. In Malawi they are apparently called Putsi flies. And its why people don’t walk barefoot in the grass, hang their laundry out to dry (near mango groves at least) or [...]

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Toe-Biters?

Posted on October 6th, 2008 in life , , ,

When I lived at my grandmother’s house in NYC, I’d sometimes remember that I forgot to do the dishes and would have to run down into the kitchen to do them at night. I hated this more than anything else when living there. 
The kitchen was infested with what we called waterbugs. I was explained that [...]

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Cake…

Posted on October 4th, 2008 in life

Its my wife’s birthday today. It means I get to eat cake too

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