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AnTiFreeze3 said:All this talk of apple juice, and the guy who's had an apple juice box as his avatar since he created an account here has nothing to add to the discussion. Quite a shame.
DiracPool said:Mmmm, yumm, apple juice. I saw a show, I think it was on the "how it's made" series on the science channel, where they talked about making apple cider. There's basically two ways it's done, the first is that they harvest the apples, then produce the juice and let it freeze it by leaving it in a big, plexiglass looking structure the size of a small swimming pool out in some arctic-like region. The other option was to let the apples freeze on the tree, and then harvest them that way. I guess each way impressed a different property on the taste of the final product. I'd love to do a blind taste test with those.
AnTiFreeze3 said:I would then suck the juice from the apple like a vampire, and repeat this process until the apple was either dry, or was so far devolved into a pulp that I couldn't get a decent grip on it.
You won't see that on How It's Made.
Borg said:My job requires that I test with older versions of browsers.
Never heard of it. I'll check it out later when it comes back online. Might be useful for the testers at work.Borek said:I assume you know browsershots.org and its clones?
DiracPool said:There's basically two ways it's done, the first is that they harvest the apples, then produce the juice and let it freeze it by leaving it in a big, plexiglass looking structure the size of a small swimming pool out in some arctic-like region. The other option was to let the apples freeze on the tree, and then harvest them that way. I guess each way impressed a different property on the taste of the final product.
jim hardy said:Microsoft went from infancy to senility without ever passing through maturity.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/papers/Bounds For Sorting By Prefix Reversal.pdfThe chef in our place is sloppy, and when he prepares a stack of pancakes they come out all different sizes. Therefore, when I deliver them to a customer, on the way to the table I rearrange them (so that the smallest winds up on top, and so on, down to the largest at the bottom) by grabbing several from the top and flipping them over, repeating this (varying the number I flip) as many times as necessary. If there are n pancakes, what is the maximum number of flips (as a function f(n) of n) that I will ever have to use to rearrange them?
dlgoff said:I'd probably just put it on display.
No. Scratch that. I like stuff to work. You got one?
dlgoff said:No. Scratch that. I like stuff to work. You got one?
AlephZero said:First crush your apples...
lisab said:This is what we use - for small batches, of course:
dkotschessaa said:I started to post it here, but the epic love story of my wife and I was just too much for this thread. Married four years today, friends much longer..
Astronuc said:Watch out for elephants.
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/itch-scratching-elephant-terrifies-occupants-car/
Congratulations!edward said:That is a wonderful story.
I gave my wife her engagement ring 51 years ago today. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on March 21. The reason I remember that it was 51 years ago today is because this morning at breakfast she ask me if I knew what happened on an August 7?
I pretended not to remember for a few seconds and then I said: "I found a diamond ring under a rock".
dkotschessaa said:I started to post it here, but the epic love story of my wife and I was just too much for this thread. Married four years today, friends much longer..
Borek said:Birth certificate of my grandgrandmother, Janina Marcjanna Anders (born Wnorowska on February 22nd, 1893):
lisab said:Janina - what a beautiful name!
Polish birth certificates are *much* longer than ones here in the US that were issued at about that time! And much longer than ones issued in modern times, too.
What does it say?
Borek said:Birth certificate of my grandgrandmother
DiracPool said:I'm just curoius, is a grandgrandmother the same as a greatgrandmother? And, if so or if not, do we rephrase grandgrandmother as Grand^2 mother? Or as grandmother^2? Hmmm?
lisab said:Janina - what a beautiful name!
Polish birth certificates are *much* longer than ones here in the US that were issued at about that time! And much longer than ones issued in modern times, too.AnTiFreeze3 said:Reminds me of a documentary about Shakespeare I saw in an english class. The "birth certificate" back then was your name and date of birth written on a single line in a notebook.
I would not call it "Polish" - at the time Warsaw was part of the Russian Empire, the document is in Russian.
What does it say?
Something like
It happened in Wola parish, on March 22nd (April 3rd*) 1893, at 4 p.m. To us came Stanisław Wnorowski from Wola, 26 years from birth**, together with Aleksander Kowalik (?) and Łukasz Zieliński, lathe operator from Wola, and they have shown us an infant [STRIKE]kid[/STRIKE] of female sex, saying it was born in Wola on February 22nd (March 6th) this year at 10 p.m., from his legal wife Helena, born Leczkowska, 30 years from birth. Infant [STRIKE]Kid[/STRIKE] was christened Janina Marcjanna and godparents were Aleksander Kowalik and Marianna Zielińska. This act was read, checked and signed by me.***
All dates and numbers are given in words, which makes the text slightly longer than it is really is. There are parts of the text I have problems deciphering as my Russian is not always good enough.
*Dates are given both styles - they used both calendars (Julian and Gregorian) in parallel.
**It just means "26 years old", but I tried to copy the wording verbatim - it sounds funny in Polish as well.
***Actually I made this phrase - it says something similar, but my Russian failed me so far, I plan to attack the text with a dictionary when I have more time.
edward said:That is a wonderful story.
I gave my wife her engagement ring 51 years ago today. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on March 21. The reason I remember that it was 51 years ago today is because this morning at breakfast she ask me if I knew what happened on an August 7?
I pretended not to remember for a few seconds and then I said: "I found a diamond ring under a rock".
It says "kid"?!?RussianBureaucrat said:It happened in Wola parish, on March 22nd (April 3rd*) 1893, at 4 p.m. To us came Stanisław Wnorowski from Wola, 26 years from birth**, together with Aleksander Kowalik (?) and Łukasz Zieliński, lathe operator from Wola, and they have shown us a kid of female sex, saying it was born in Wola on February 22nd (March 6th) this year at 10 p.m., from his legal wife Helena, born Leczkowska, 30 years from birth. Kid was christened Janina Marcjanna and godparents were Aleksander Kowalik and Marianna Zielińska. This act was read, checked and signed by me.***
zoobyshoe said:It says "kid"?!?