Comments on: Damn Distractions

By: sulkykid

sulkykid — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:27:33 +0000

Charlene said: ""In the North American fur-trading days"? Pemmican dates from at least 7,000 years before the white man showed up. Archaeological evidence at various buffalo jumps (including Head-Smashed-In) show that pemmican making may have begun as early as 5,000 BC."

I would wager that food preservation methods like pemmican date back to the dawn of human history.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:58:06 +0000

"In the North American fur-trading days"? Pemmican dates from at least 7,000 years before the white man showed up. Archaeological evidence at various buffalo jumps (including Head-Smashed-In) show that pemmican making may have begun as early as 5,000 BC.

By: emilyelle

emilyelle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:28:52 +0000

The only things I remembered from middle school history were what Martin Luther did, and also pemmican.

By: Farley_Llewellyn

Farley_Llewellyn — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:51:20 +0000

I'd argue that Pemmican is anything but primitive...

By: rev.felix

rev.felix — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:29:23 +0000

Ohhh... Masticating. I thought you said, um, well, never mind.

By: Alan Bellows

Alan Bellows — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:09:57 +0000

CptPicard said: "I had a lot of fun reading through all your prior material..."

Thanks!

"...and I'm more than willing to wait until you have new stuff up… the RSS feed is there to tell me when I should be visiting."

True enough... but there are many readers who have not yet explored our entire archive, so for some it may be preferable to see reanimated classics rather than extended silence. In any case, I hope to resume normality very soon; the book-related side tasks are now mere centimeters from completion.

By: Tink

Tink — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:49:01 +0000

A quick note, tonight Satuday March 10 is the start of daylight savings time.

Yeah it is early this year, they have to fix that small rift in the date/time continuem that we messed up in the time machine...So, dont forget to move those clocks up. You know spring forward into the future! 8:)=

By: CptPicard

CptPicard — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:56:15 +0000

I love the site so please take this piece of criticism as constructive... reheating old stuff as classics just makes it seem like you're desperate to get something on top of the list on the front page. You're doing a whole lot of it recently, too. I'd understand such behaviour if you were interested in not losing regular readership due to needing to keep ad impressions up, but this motivation doesn't exist here as far as I can tell. You're just increasing your bandwidth bill by generating pseudo-activity. :-)

If you want to give people something to do while waiting for the next article, you can point them to the archives -- that's what they're there for, and I suspect people are able to make use of them. I had a lot of fun reading through all your prior material, and I'm more than willing to wait until you have new stuff up... the RSS feed is there to tell me when I should be visiting.

By: Tink

Tink — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:38:16 +0000

Too Cool! Am sitting on pins and needles!

(OUCH! Oh damn, I meant to put that thing back in the sewing box! :)

By: ke4roh

ke4roh — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:36:10 +0000

Fifth!

Here’s another related and interesting link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican