Random Thought Thread

Lorien said:
you guys should read this
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Fascinating. I've been using a Panasonic Electric shaver for years. I clean it regularly, (but not like that) and replace the foil and cutters when I start noticing an increase in razor bumps (generally about 2-3 years lol).

The article makes sense, and here's a consideration for folks using disposable razors: if you don't have time to follow the procedure in the article, consider filling a glass with either distilled water or water from a Zerowater filter pitcher. After washing the razor, swish it in the glass of pure water before shaking off the excess water and leaving it to dry. No dissolved solids in the rinse water = no deposits left on the blades when drying.

You can test the theory yourself by letting tap water dry on a black piece of porcelain (coffee mug or plate etc.). Tap water will usually leave white calcium carbonate deposits when it evaporates. Distilled water and water from a Zerowater filter should leave no deposits.
 
My technique works great. I haven't had to buy a new razor blade in almost 20 years. When you're done shaving with it, set it on the vanity top. And slide it over to the side. Position a trash can beside it. Then push the blade off the side and into the trash can. And then don't replace it. And then wear scrubble on your face because you're a man
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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I just bought a pine board at Lowe's that came with a California proposition 65 "every single thing in the world might can give you cancer" warning on it.

What purpose is served by this?
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It facilitates jury decisions for plaintiffs in class action lawsuits.

A lawyer told me that.

Who am I kidding :oops: . . . I am that lawyer {ducks}.
 
TRfromMT said:
And why is that coming from New Zealand? How is that cost effective?!
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I dunno, but practically every bag of fireplace wood outside our local grocers is filled with wood from . . . Europe! One of the big deals when the Europeans discovered the New World was all the virgin forests . . . Europe had chopped down all their forests over the previous millenium to build churches, and castles, and bridges, and hovels, and who knows what else. A zillion tons of wood from the New World was shipped back to Europe.

And now we are actually importing word from Europe for our fireplaces?!? Why? I have been wondering this for years. There are a TON of trees where I live . . . my development even has "Woods" in its name. I have had to chop down a few of the dozens of trees on my own property for various reasons, and these trees supply plenty of good firewood. Why are we actually putting firewood of all things on ships in Europe and sailing those ships across the Atlantic Ocean to Virginia???


And, OK, so I'm weird . . . but I also wonder the same thing about cream puffs. I go to Costco and I see these huge containers of frozen cream puffs. From Belgium. Belgium!

We can't get anyone in the US to make cream puffs? We have to go all the way to Belgium to get the cream puffs, and then load them into freezers to keep them frozen, and then ship them all the way across the Atlantic Ocean - using electricity to keep them frozen the whole time - and then load them into frozen-food-container-bearing trucks and haul them to Costco stores all over the USA?

Really?

OK, for the record, those cream puffs actually are delicious. Maybe we can't make them in the USA?
 
There is a massive tree industry in europe.

In fact, Germany pioneered pretty much all forest management tecniques, and NZ grows a bunch of fast growing pine species intended for market.

It is likely that they had a large cohort reach the desired DBH for sawtimber, yet not high enough quality for structural uses, or they had enough excess to make firewood.

US forestry is eons behind european practices, but we're also letting nature dictate outcomes AFTER we screwed up the natural processes that kept forests healthy (like excuding fire).

We in the USA need far more intensive management to deal with the excess fuels OR we need to let them burn. Doing nothing will only make the problem worse.

It would be very good for our forests if we vastly reduced desities in some species like ponderosa pines and mixed connifer forests, while clearcutting lodgepole stands that are around 200 years old or older.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
My technique works great. I haven't had to buy a new razor blade in almost 20 years. When you're done shaving with it, set it on the vanity top. And slide it over to the side. Position a trash can beside it. Then push the blade off the side and into the trash can. And then don't replace it. And then wear scrubble on your face because you're a man
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I read this to my wife. She said “oh that’s funny!”
But if you knew her you’d know she was being facetious. She hates beards. She hates my beard.
 
co556guy said:
There is a massive tree industry in europe.

In fact, Germany pioneered pretty much all forest management tecniques, and NZ grows a bunch of fast growing pine species intended for market.

It is likely that they had a large cohort reach the desired DBH for sawtimber, yet not high enough quality for structural uses, or they had enough excess to make firewood.

US forestry is eons behind european practices, but we're also letting nature dictate outcomes AFTER we screwed up the natural processes that kept forests healthy (like excuding fire).

We in the USA need far more intensive management to deal with the excess fuels OR we need to let them burn. Doing nothing will only make the problem worse.

It would be very good for our forests if we vastly reduced desities in some species like ponderosa pines and mixed connifer forests, while clearcutting lodgepole stands that are around 200 years old or older.
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Interesting.

FWIW, the majority of firewood I'm seeing here is white birch from places like Estonia. Seems to me that "vastly reducing" some of our own trees would be cheaper than using fossil fuels to ship firewood all the way from Estonia. But I guess not.
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
I dunno, but practically every bag of fireplace wood outside our local grocers is filled with wood from . . . Europe! One of the big deals when the Europeans discovered the New World was all the virgin forests . . . Europe had chopped down all their forests over the previous millenium to build churches, and castles, and bridges, and hovels, and who knows what else. A zillion tons of wood from the New World was shipped back to Europe.

And now we are actually importing word from Europe for our fireplaces?!? Why? I have been wondering this for years. There are a TON of trees where I live . . . my development even has "Woods" in its name. I have had to chop down a few of the dozens of trees on my own property for various reasons, and these trees supply plenty of good firewood. Why are we actually putting firewood of all things on ships in Europe and sailing those ships across the Atlantic Ocean to Virginia???


And, OK, so I'm weird . . . but I also wonder the same thing about cream puffs. I go to Costco and I see these huge containers of frozen cream puffs. From Belgium. Belgium!

We can't get anyone in the US to make cream puffs? We have to go all the way to Belgium to get the cream puffs, and then load them into freezers to keep them frozen, and then ship them all the way across the Atlantic Ocean - using electricity to keep them frozen the whole time - and then load them into frozen-food-container-bearing trucks and haul them to Costco stores all over the USA?

Really?

OK, for the record, those cream puffs actually are delicious. Maybe we can't make them in the USA?
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How else are we supposed to get all the new and interesting funguses and beetles? :rolleyes:
 
BC hardly processes any wood, we basically nuke the forests with mighty machines and as few workers as possible, put the wood on barges, send it someplace else to get turned into whatever, and then buy it back with no value added to our workers and communities, and often paying tariffs to get it back. It's fucked.
 
Lorien said:
been rinsing and drying my mach3 for the past couple years and it makes a huge difference wrt blade working life
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Get back to DE razor and you stop worrying about life of one razor, because they are cheap as dirt. I bought 100 Astra SP for like 10 Euros, and one blade is fine for 4 shaves.
Cartridge were ok, I used them for majority of my shaving career, but DE is far cheaper. Its not even funny how cheaper is traditional wet-shaving. But that is my opinion only.
 
gunslinger387 said:
Please feel free to hit me up as well if you are in San Diego.
Casino, that loss takes awhile to heal.
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You and I must make a very serious effort to get together one of these moons once some semblance of normalcy is restored to our lives to share a beer or two (or three and more :D) to both salute and cheer our beloved Nathan/Jo/CPK and those brethren from afar. I'm not going to be going as far as NC but who knows, I have a 4Runner and I'm willing to travel. I also thank you for your (plus everyone else's) kind words and sympathies in my loss and my pain.

Nathan, thank you for speaking up and putting your weight behind a legitimate cause which I believe will make the entire Site a more enjoyable experience for knife enthusiasts. You're a great guy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise :D
 
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