The main ingredient in soap is tallow products. For those who don't know what tallow is, here's the definition: Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle, sheep, or horses, and used in foodstuffs or to make candles, leather dressing, soap, and lubricants. Hmmm, sounds kind of disgusting. So basically we wash ourselves in animal fat. Yuk. Who thought of this? Ok, I use soap too, but this does sound pretty nasty.

Today I dug out my old double edged Weck safety razor. I know the razor is old and was made in Germany, but beyond that I don't know much about it. I know there are some folks out there who collect vintage razors and I'm hoping maybe someone can fill me in a little on it. It has "WECK" engraved on the top, "Germany" on the under side, and on the bottom of the handle is the profile of a man (kinda looks Roman or something). No idea how old it actually is so I'm hoping someone will know a bi...

This morning, after showering for work, I noticed the bathroom floor was soaking wet. I mopped it up and went on about the business of getting ready for work. When I returned home this eveving, I found yet more water on the floor. What the? After some investigating, I discovered that my bathtub is cracked underneath the rubber bath mat. How did this happen? Oh great. So tomorrow after work I will be visiting Lowes to see what is available to repair a cracked fiberglass bathtub. What a p...

Ok, I admit it. I hate to shave. It's painful. Shaving causes my neck to break out in a painful rash. It always has. After my car wreck I was told to use an electric razor for a while because I was on heavy doses of anti-coagulants to prevent blot clots resulting from the surgery on my hip/pelvis. The electric was ok, didn't rash my neck much, but also just didn't give nearly as as close a shave either. The other day I decided to go back to a blade. I was looking around for some good pr...

This is for those who ride bicycles. DO NOT RIDE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD!!! You're on a vehicle. You are required by law to follow the traffic laws. That includes riding with traffic , not against it. I just took a short 6 mile ride, and saw three different cyclists riding against traffic. Not only is it illegal, it's just plain stupid. Anyone turning onto the roadway or crossing the roadway is looking for approaching traffic in the correct lane. Riding on the wrong side of the ...

This information is taken from various sources including state laws, state driver's handbooks, and bicycle safety advocacy sites. A bicycle is a vehicle. Any person riding a bicycle has all of the same rights and responsibilities as a driver of any other vehicle. In most states, bicycles are required to ride as far to the right of the roadway as is safely possible. There are however certain conditions which allow bicycles to use the main part of the roadway. FOLLOWING A CYCLIST ...

You've heard of speed traps, but what about bicycle traps? Five Utah police agencies will be participating in a state-sponsored crackdown on motorists who aren't safely sharing the roads with bicycles. Plainclothes officers will ride bicycles to catch motorists who aren't sharing the road. Utah averages about 900 bicyclists a year who are injured and often killed by motorists. While this is sadly not an unusually high number in relation to other states, Utah has decided to do something...

The Washington Post reports that a surprising number of scientists engage in questionable research practices. According to a large-scale survey of scientific practices, more than 15% admit to changing a study under pressure from a funding source. Others admit to altering data including dropping data from a study based on a "gut feeling" and failing to include data that contradicts one's own research among other less than honest study methods. If this percentage actually admits to these...

Great researchers throughout history (Tesla, etc.) agree that the LAW of COSMIC STABILITY is the governing law of all creation and yet it is virtually unknown. How can that be? This is because it has been RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED throughout history. They have suppressed the facts about UFOs to hide the truth about the principle of ELECTRO-TIME-VOLUMETRIC CONDUCTION. The true value of pi is 3.7965491. ONLY from this value can one calculate the codes for unlocking the truths suppressed throu...

Ok, I've decided to make a spot for anyone and everyone to make the silliest comments they can make. Rules: 1. Nothing hateful or derogatory about other bloggers. We already ahve enough of that. 2. No soapbox 3. Funny is GOOD. The more Monty Pythonesque the better. SO , have at it.

It makes it difficult for bystanders to tell who is who.

This is the content of an email I just sent to television station WTBS: Dear TBS; Who does your movie editing, a chimpanzee? You people butchered The Matrix, cutting out key scenes and dialog which are very important to the movie. For example the entire "there is no spoon" scene was cut. This scene was very important to the premise of the movie and was casually discarded! This sort of movie butchering for the sake of making commercial time is inexcusable as it completely ruins the fi...

What if you were presented the opportunity to know the real, unadultered Truth about the universe and everything in it? If you take the blue pill, the entire truth of everything will be revealed to you. If you take the red pill, you continue on as you are now. Which would you choose? Would you take the blue pill even if it would possibly reveal that everything that you believe is totally wrong? Or would you rather not know?

Asshat. It has become a fairly common insult these days. Did you ever wonder where the hell this particularly fun word came from? Well, I did some checking, and found the answer. Well, ok, one answer anyway. An excerpt from the Asshat website: ass·hat n. slang 1. A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person. 2. Tight fitting underwear From what I can trace back from archived IRC chats, the term 'asshat' was first used in the large European country of Sweden as an alternative for ...

University of Michican Scientists have developed a new type of fiber reinforced flexible concrete which is supposedly 500 times more resistant to cracking and lighter in weight than traditional concrete making it ideal for road construction. Maybe we will eventually see roads that actually last longer than the time it takes to build them? You can find the story here: Link