There’s nothing wrong with Cajun seasoning! I used to use either Tony’s or Cavender’s on stuff for years because I had a busy lifestyle, didn’t always have the give a shit to mix my own spices, and early on I didn’t really have the knowledge to know what was good yet. I’m just in a place where it makes sense for me and I’m very happy with it.

By the way, if you’re looking for something pretty good that isn’t Cajun seasoning, check out Kinder “The Blend”. It’s a legit SPG.

I’ve been making an SPG blend for a while on and off based on proportions my buddy used for his brisket rub. Sometime last year he started keeping a whole jar of it on hand and seasoning everything savory with it rather than just using salt when it’s called for. The biggest difference between his and mine is that he uses sea salt and I use regular table salt. The flavor is slightly different and I don’t get the big crystals, but it’s still pretty great.

He turned me into a believer. I’ve started keeping my own jar and that’s my base spice for everything. Chicken, fish, beef, pork, veggies, whatever. Most things get extra like paprika, chili powder, oregano, parsley, or whatever the meat calls for, but everything gets at least those three. Even my homemade mayo gets it, which means it goes on all my sandwiches as well.

Hollow and semi hollow body electric guitars do as well.

Mine is the chain style. I cannot compare as I have never used the braided wire and I don’t have to think about weight savings that much. I don’t generally hike far to a camping spot.

Instead of a curved folding saw I prefer a rope saw. I’ve always been able to take down limbs and trees faster.

For those that don’t know what that is, imagine a chainsaw chain with handles on either end.

My reaction was “not my dick, not my problem”.

Been using Thunderbird for almost 20 years. It was good enough that long ago and it’s pretty awesome these days.

I did this briefly years ago for a hotel chain (the booking, not the stealing). We got an extra quarter for everyone we transferred to another department for deals or some shit. We were supposed to ask people if they would like to hear about it but I found out that as long as it transferred they could immediately hang up and I still got my bonus. After that every caller I had got transferred to the other department for the rest of the time I worked there.

I made an extra few hundred bucks and got canned about the same time I found a job in my field. No FBI involved, though.

I always wondered about FtM DIY because of that. I know there are bodybuilder sites and overseas sites for it and generally people aren’t getting prosecuted for having it. It just seems like something they’ll start prosecuting in order to get to trans folks.

it’s late December 1938

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

What a lady, what a night.

Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.

White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.

These are my favorites because of their common name. Destroying Angel.

Fun fact: the survival rate without treatment is about half, but that goes up to ~90% if you get treated quickly. However, it can still destroy your liver. The toxin is thermostable so cooking doesn’t break it down. It is excreted in urine so a lot of the treatment consists of pumping you full of fluids and making you pee a lot. There is no actual antidote to the toxin.

I already voted so I can’t vote for him either.

I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.

When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That’s it for me.

Do you really think someone would just put something on the Internet that isn’t true? Is that even legal?

After the first three he doesn’t write them as pastiches of other authors and I think they get better.

It’s that in black. That Colt is going to feel much better, though.

Northeast Texas. I’ve got a buddy up there with some land and we have to go clear them out a couple of times a year. They tear up everything. He lost a dog to them a few years ago and now we go out there like clockwork instead of waiting for them to get closer to the house.

I have a Hi-Point .45 pistol and that pretty accurately describes it (the weight is fine but the balance is weird and makes it feel terrible).

I use it as a close range backup when I’m hog hunting. I’ve only had to use it once and it worked just fine. It literally saved me from being at least maimed and possibly dead but I still hate it. And I’ll keep using it until it stops working, which may be the apocalypse.

If you enjoyed this fun fact, start reading The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Once you get to book 4 come back here and thank me. Tongue eating isopods from beyond the stars play a role there, and appear briefly later in one of his New Management books, although I don’t have the page handy so I’m not sure which one.

Their nastier cousins make an appearance later in the Laundry Files, but I’ll leave what they do a mystery.

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.