Made turkey stock last night, so the house smells like roast turkey. But there's no turkey to eat; there's just a quart of rich brown stock, cooling in the fridge. Curses.
But, at least I'll get to make real 100% turkey gravy this year, instead of my usual turkey-flavored but really-mostly-chicken gravy!
“I don’t think it’s necessary for us to challenge the police,” Occupier Ryan Mosgrove said. “I don’t think it’s even necessary to get arrested in this situation to get our point across.”
“I was just happy to see the demonstration,” said Mosgrove, 22. “Just all the people coming out there for one specific goal that we need jobs, we don’t need cuts. That we need to rebuild the Charlestown Bridge.”
Boston police Superintendent-In-Chief Daniel Linskey, who along with several bicycle and motorcycle police officers blocked traffic along the route, said union organizers coordinated with police in planning the march, and contained unruly elements inside of it.
“The anarchists tried to take it over, but the union organizers wouldn’t let them,” Linskey said, referring to a small group that he said attempted to challenge cops at the bridge. “They actually stopped them before they reached the (police line).”
...that Victoria Jackson is the dumbest person in the world?
Even the utterly astoundingly stupid people around her can't seem to believe how stupid Victoria Jackson is. They can barely believe how stupid everyone else there is, but Jackson - who sounds an awful lot like a caffeinated 8 year old trying to get all the adults' attention by shouting-out random half-remembered sentences from Free Republic comments - generally just leaves them stunned.
But, I learned some things.
Have you noticed that prices for hard drives have tripled in the last few weeks? Know why?
This past August, rain started falling in northern Thailand. The rains were heavy and didn’t stop for weeks. By Oct. 12, the town of Ayutthaya was under water, but with the help of 1,000 Thai troops, the dikes around the industrial estate were holding. Then, on Oct. 14, after days of relentless runoff, the dikes ruptured and water poured into the industrial estate.
A few companies with relatively light production equipment had the presence of mind to move out of the estate — or onto the upper floors of their buildings. Unfortunately, Western Digital was not one of them; its extremely heavy hard-drive manufacturing equipment was firmly anchored to the ground floor. By Oct. 15, that floor was swimming in four feet of water, sludge, chemicals, and sewage.
That was catastrophic. Western Digital makes about 30 percent of all hard drives in the world, and 60 percent of its drive-manufacturing capacity was now under water. (According to news reports, the main Western Digital plant in Bang Pa-in made mostly 2.5-inch hard drives — primarily for laptops.)
Western Digital was not alone. Toshiba makes more than 10 percent of the world’s hard drives, and the flood shut down half of its total manufacturing capacity. The flood had now taken down roughly 25 percent of the world’s hard-drive production.
