Many more people can be accommodated on our planet than headlines would have us believe. For starters, there are now six billion people on earth.
The island of Japan has about 143,000 square miles of area. One square mile has 27.9 million square feet. Japan has a total of about 4 trillion square feet, enough to give each person of the earth 670 square feet.
For comparison, if we used the American average of 8,000 square feet to four people, the entire population of the planet would fit into a space as the size of Texas and Nevada combined. That would leave the rest of the world's land for food production, entertainment, and vacations. These calculations do not include the oceans.
Jan 27, 2012
Jan 24, 2012
Seven More Uses for Rice
Put it to work doing dishes. You can use rice to get at those hard-to-reach bottoms of narrow-necked milk bottles and flower vases. Add rice, soap, water, and then shake-shake-swirl.
Get your coffee grinder squeaky clean by wiping grinder clear of debris and add enough rice to cover the blades and grind. The rice will absorb all the lingering oils that carry the coffee aroma.
Use rice water as a facial serum by saving the water from rinsing your cooking rice. Let it cool and use a wash cloth to rub the liquid into your face and rinse clean. Rice is high in vitamin E.
Make an easy heating pad by filling a sock with a couple cups of rice, and then tie the open end. Pop it in the microwave for a few minutes, and you have an instant heating pad.
When finished with that heating pad, let the kids or pets play with it like a bean bag.
Bury wet electronic devices in a bowl of rice. It extracts moisture like silica gel.
Make DIY glue by boiling down rice until it degrades and releases the starch.
Get your coffee grinder squeaky clean by wiping grinder clear of debris and add enough rice to cover the blades and grind. The rice will absorb all the lingering oils that carry the coffee aroma.
Use rice water as a facial serum by saving the water from rinsing your cooking rice. Let it cool and use a wash cloth to rub the liquid into your face and rinse clean. Rice is high in vitamin E.
Make an easy heating pad by filling a sock with a couple cups of rice, and then tie the open end. Pop it in the microwave for a few minutes, and you have an instant heating pad.
When finished with that heating pad, let the kids or pets play with it like a bean bag.
Bury wet electronic devices in a bowl of rice. It extracts moisture like silica gel.
Make DIY glue by boiling down rice until it degrades and releases the starch.
Of Internets and Webs
The Internet had been around for years before the world wide web and is the set of technologies beneath the web which enable the web to exist. The web cannot function without the internet, but the internet can function without the web.
The Internet technically began to exist the way we know it in 1983 when its predecessor, ARPANET began using TCP/IP. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the framework for the internet system of network communication still used today.
Other programs that use the Internet, but have nothing to do with the web are email, Internet Relay Chat, internet messaging programs, newsgroups, BitTorrent, telnet, FTP, etc.
The web was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 after years of effort. It did not come into wide-spread use for a few years after that. The World Wide Web is made up of servers, which serve the pages and clients, like Firefox, Chrome, and IE which display the pages. Hey man, I'm on the web tweet me.
The Internet technically began to exist the way we know it in 1983 when its predecessor, ARPANET began using TCP/IP. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the framework for the internet system of network communication still used today.
Other programs that use the Internet, but have nothing to do with the web are email, Internet Relay Chat, internet messaging programs, newsgroups, BitTorrent, telnet, FTP, etc.
The web was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 after years of effort. It did not come into wide-spread use for a few years after that. The World Wide Web is made up of servers, which serve the pages and clients, like Firefox, Chrome, and IE which display the pages. Hey man, I'm on the web tweet me.
Garlic Feet
Garlic is a great food enhancer, but is also a potent natural antifungal, making it ideal for treating fungal infections like athlete’s foot. Add a few cloves of crushed garlic to warm water in a foot bath and soak the affected feet for 30 minutes. I swear it is not trading one smell for another.
Jan 21, 2012
Bloginalia 2011
As I promised last month, Bloginalia 2011 is now available on Amazon.
A full year of Friday Thoughts in one convenient place. If you forgot any of the tidbits from last year or just want to impress your friends, pick up a copy. This rounds out the trio of Bloginalia 2009 and 2010. Great for Kindle or iPad or Nook reading and they look great on a coffee table. Thanks.
Bloginalia 2011
A full year of Friday Thoughts in one convenient place. If you forgot any of the tidbits from last year or just want to impress your friends, pick up a copy. This rounds out the trio of Bloginalia 2009 and 2010. Great for Kindle or iPad or Nook reading and they look great on a coffee table. Thanks.
Bloginalia 2011
Happy Friday
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we will need.
Right now I have a need for a Happy Friday!
Right now I have a need for a Happy Friday!
St. Agnes Eve
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes' Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
Celebrations
Thursday was National Popcorn Day, today is National Cheese Day and tomorrow is National Hug Day. In my house, we celebrate them all together and we have 'hug some cheese popcorn day'. It is much easier.
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