Public Service Announcement (I)
In the interests of serving the public at large… well… and amusing myself… and to see if it boosts search engine results… quickie answers to common search requests that found a post here:
* Fresh juice might last a couple hours or a couple days. It probably depends on what you mean by “lasts”… the more delicate vitamins might start to break down within an hour of juicing. Other juices might be fine for a week or more. I vaguely remember a lab experiment some undergrads did when I taught one semester that tried to measure the amount of Vitamin C in orange juice over time; I don’t remember the results. (In general, if you want fresh stuff to last: Keep it covered (so oxygen can’t get in) and keep it in the dark (some vitamins are light sensitive).)
* You can’t download music here. Sorry.
* “Twisted Whiskers” cards/etc. are vaguely eerie; I don’t sell them, I don’t like them, you won’t find them here. Try Hallmark or someplace if you must get your distorted-animal fix right this instant. (Better the cards than bonsai kittens, I guess.)
* “Ineffective communication” is communication that somehow isn’t effective. Apparently this has been studied; try professional advice instead of mine.
* Wild ferrets are carnivorous, but they also may eat fruit, nuts, and vegetables. Or they may not; opinions differ. If you have a ferret, let me know what works.
* If you’re going to experiment on mold in fruit juice, make sure you design the experiment carefully, with proper controls, and that you pick the parameters (temperature, type of juice, type of mold, source of mold, amount of mold in the inoculation, whatever) carefully. If you come up with interesting results that the scientific journals don’t want, submit them here and I’ll publish them. I’ll even review them by peering at them first. “Yep, that’s data,” I’ll say. “And there’s a conclusion, and behold! a graph. Immediately accepted.”
* Finally, I have no help at all for the people looking for Kinkade pictures with fluorescent paint on them, juice from the eyes, corn ballers, or mono lab results. Just remember, Google doesn’t know everything, and some stuff you probably don’t want to find anyway.
In other, happier news, I’m no longer getting hundreds of requests a day from scripts trying to advertise porn websites in my logs. After a month or so of trying to deflect them (with diminishing success), suddenly all is quiet.
EDIT: More attempts, but all foiled by the marvelous new plugin Referer-Karma. Like Spam Karma (same author), but to allow/block referers using the same blacklists and checks. *Very* nice.