My step-grandmother made it in a 10 gallon barrel and used the end of a baseball bat to pound it down. Then put an ancient plate with bricks on it to keep it compressed while it cured. Sadly that seems to be all I remember.
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I’ll chain on: This is why the english language calls the citrus fruit “Orange,” in a round-about way.
The Persians named them Narangs when they acquired them from Asia, which the Spanish turned into “naranja.” But when they crossed the channel “a naranja” became “an aranja” which eventually became “an orange.”
I used their mapping and geocoding APIs for years, back when I was negotiating contracts. They're good (at least in N. America) and 1/5th the price of google.
I don't have a portable running SteamOS, but I still benefit. In the last few years support has gotten to the point that I forget to check ProtonDB before buying a game and, at least so far, it hasn't bitten me in the butt.
Helps that I don't play anything that runs anticheat, though.
There was a car dealer in my home town (in the mid-90s) who would sell his employees the trade-ins that were otherwise bound for the autowrecker for $100. A couple of those employees would buy the ones with a little life left in them as a favor for HS kids, so half the parking lot of my school was $100 junkers.
For close to 20 years now my wife and I have bought twin sized flat sheets and blankets for our king bed. We're both blanket hogs and now we get to be by not sharing. People used to look at us like we were crazy when we mentioned it, but I hear more and more people doing it and even saw and article calling it the "Scandinavian method" or something else pretentious sounding.
We've been doing it so long I feel like we invented it, even though that's a silly idea. But I am half Scandi so, you know, maybe it was named after me.
That's actually the area I currently work in, though not banking specifically. We do financial software for small governments. All the software was written in the 80s and 90s and we're babying it along well into the 2030s in all likelihood. Those old systems require very specific environments which we're now trying to emulate in the cloud. It's fairly specific at the end of the day. And because this small government segment is currently undergoing consolidation I know what we see is the norm.
Thankfully I just have to maintain the cloud infrastructure and making it as reliable and secure as possible.
My step-grandmother made it in a 10 gallon barrel and used the end of a baseball bat to pound it down. Then put an ancient plate with bricks on it to keep it compressed while it cured. Sadly that seems to be all I remember.