Swamp Musings

Well, didn't get back to the 'puter after supper. It's not Vidalia onion season yet so after slicing up a couple of the thermonuclear orbs sold presently and getting them started (slowly steamed in the skillet to cut them down!), made my weekly green martini. Eversogood. After the onions were tamed, raised the heat and sauteed them till golden, then added the lightly floured and herbed slices of liver for a few minutes, then turned them. For the first time, they did not stick. Had all to do with a super Ultrex pan that UPS left outside of my gate. Gee, wonder where that came from? ;o)

Fork-tender, totally delicious. Made enough for 2, ate it all, then followed it with a Georgia fried pie. Life is good! No wonder I didn't make it back to the keyboard.

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I really enjoy old commercial art. Don't ask me why, don't have the foggiest idea unless it helps recall a pleasant previous life! James Lileks has a bunch of neat stuff under his flotsam project heading but be prepared to get lost navigating.

Last week I stumbled on to this commercial art of mid-century America and had to click through most of it. Very good images but most are quite large, ~150 K or so. It's hard to keep text readable in most cases with much less. I hadn't gone far before coming across this one:



For 1935: General Electric refrigerators with the "ageless" Monitor Top mechanism

I happen to have one but the serial plate indicates it was built in 1934. The old gal worked just fine until 1999 when she developed a refrigerant leak. One small difficulty with that type of failure, the refrigerant used was sulfur dioxide. Kinda rendered this place uninhabitable for a while! She's repairable and I understand with only a relatively minor modification, Freon-22 will serve instead of SO2. Unfortunately, if you live in the United States, F-22 is banned. It causes tsunamis or somthin'. (you don't want to get me going on the banning of efficient refrigerants in favor of lousy, poisonous, fuel-hog replacements unless you've got your beneficiaries named.)

This morning I scanned a few pages of my Grandad's Popular Science, August, 1944 magazine.


This magazine has been in the same drawer of the same desk I built in 1970. The article on the P-51 is excellent and is probably why I wound up with the mag in the first place. The back page cover art is, well, see for yourself!



Carole Landis probably smoked Camels.

The Table of Contents was worth scanning and was just about all I could scan without danger of breaking the spine. To save bandwidth, they are just linked.

TOC page 1

TOC page 2

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Q: What is the ideal weight of a lawyer?
A: About three pounds, including the urn.