Categories Online Idiots

Gerber recalling banana baby food because of glass—FALSE

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Must be that time of year again…..I’m not sure why my Facebook friends insist on posting these things, since 99% of the time I’m posting Snopes back at them…..anyway:

 

 

Not true, not really.  Seems last year Nestle’s France office recalled ONE lot of Banana baby food after one piece of glass was found.  The recall was confined to France only, and the batch code was different than those in the various email and Facebook forwards going around (according to Snopes theres at least one other version ending in 6).  No American batches were included at all. 

Please please please check your facts before reposting/forwarding such things people.

Categories Nothing Much

Reposted: Blogger not doing paragraph breaks–Solution

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Re-posting this one temporarily for the folks still struggling with Blogger.

Edit 09/2020: I’m being told that the most recent changes to Blogger mean that this option is no longer there.  Sorry.

For those of you who are struggling with the new Blogger format and trying to figure out why you no longer have paragraphs here’s how to fix it.

Apparently the good folks at Google believe that EVERYONE codes their posts in HTML cause the default setting is to require HTML code to create a paragraph break.  Nice huh?

Anyway, go to the screen where you type in new posts.  On the right hand side is a list of menus for various settings, click on the one that says Options and has a gear icon.  At the bottom of the menu is the option for Line Breaks.  Default (when they forced you to change) is “Use <br> tag”, change it to “Press Enter for line breaks”.  Click “done”.  Presto, paragraph breaks where you want them.

Categories Dog

Latest Diamond Pet Foods recall comes from a different plant?

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Truth About Pet Food is reporting that the latest recalled foods have come from a different plant than the original recall.

Now I haven’t quite figured out how they can tell that, I’m not sure if I’m blind, or if they have information I don’t, BUT what is clear is that this new recall includes states that were NOT part of the original recall:

The product was distributed in the following states, further distribution through other pet food channels may have occurred:

  • Colorado
  • Illinois
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Oklahoma
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Wisconsin

 

 

Note is also made that two of the recalled foods where MADE in Augest of 2011, and not bagged for one or two months later.  And yet the “expire date” goes with the bagged date and not the manufacture date.

 

Production Code & Best Before Dates:

DSL0801, 26-Aug-2012

DSL0801, 26-Aug-2012

DSL0801, 27-Sept- 2012 (Product manufactured on Aug. 26, 2011 and packaged on Sept. 27, 2011)

DSL0801, 18-Oct- 2012 (Product manufactured on Aug. 26, 2011 and packaged on Oct. 18, 2011)

DSL0801, (Samples)

(bolding done by me)

 

Makes me wonder if we’re about to get a whole NOTHER list of recalled foods….

Categories Apollo, Artemis, Dog

We got a counter surfer…

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Friday evening Husband brought home a dozen donuts for us to split over the weekend.  No we don’t need them, but we don’t do that sort of thing very often either.  As of last night there were still 4 left in the box.  As of this morning when I got up, the box was on the kitchen floor and the donuts where no where to be seen (don’t worry, the chocolate ones were long gone).

Pretty sure its Arty who’s the problem, Apollo is certinally capable of stealing stuff off the counter, but he knows better.  Arty on the other hand has JUST reached a size where he can stretch up and grab something, and we haven’t been successfull yet in teaching him not to.   And of course although Apollo might not START it, but he’s more than willing to “help” once Arty starts it.  Sigh

Categories Nothing Much

I feel like a redneck

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Over at The Adventures of Roberta X, there was discussion of the validity of combat boots as dress wear.   I typed my comment/response.  Hit post.  And then re-read what I’d typed*.  Oh well.

 

 

 

*I really did though, along with black jeans and a new blouse I’d bought for the occasion.  Course, my “wedding” was standing in front of a judge in her home office.  I refuse to spend thousands to notify the government of a promise between myself and my husband.  My mother managed to restrain her opinion of my mode of dress, which is good, because my backup wear was a Tshirt that read “I’m out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?”.

Categories Online Idiots

Reverse PIN panic code….False

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This is making the rounds again, I saw it a couple years ago as an email forward, now its on Facebook:

 

Unfortunately, as cool an idea as it is, its false.

Although the concept appears to catch peoples’ attention the attempts to make it happen never manage to get anywhere.  All that putting your PIN in backwards will get you is an “incorrect PIN” message.

Categories Bleg, Gardening

Rhubarb in containers? Bleg

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So, my rhubarb isn’t happy.  The stalks are barely 6 inches tall.  I know what rhubarb is supposed to look like when its happy and this isn’t it.  I suspect that its because the area where its planted tends towards being either REALLY wet or REALLY dry (yah, it wasn’t a good choice of spots, unfortunetly there isn’t much of a better one the way my yard is set up, there’s a reason I set up this year’s garden in containers).

I was considering transplanting it to a container, the (fake) half barrels I’m using for the rest of the garden this year are 25″ in diamater and about that tall…..so I hit Google.  It looks like the big concern would be keeping it from freezing solid in the winter while still getting cold enough to go dormant.  But I’m going to be looking at the same thing with the herbs I just planted, so thats ok…..I think I’ve come up with a solution for them, so whats one more container?

Any one out there have any experience trying it?