{"id":1730,"date":"2014-03-27T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2014-03-27T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:55:05","slug":"thursday-27-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/03\/27\/thursday-27-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 27 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:54 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Spring may finally have arrived. March came in like a rabid weasel on meth, but according to the forecasts March will go out like a soft, cute, fuzzy panda, with highs in the upper 60&#8217;s (~20C) and lows well above freezing. I blame it on global climate change.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Speaking of which, the climate-change nutters are at it again. I actually saw one story that blamed that enormous mudslide in Washington on global climate change. Geez. Science is supposed to be predictive, not postdictive.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Science kit sales remain slow. We&#8217;ll be lucky to do 130% of the revenue this month that we did last March. Still, 2014Q1 revenues will be close to double those of 2013Q1, so I can&#8217;t really complain. If the past is any indication, sales will remain slow on a relative basis through April and start to pick up again in May.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;m still accumulating items for our car emergency kits. I&#8217;d considered adding a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0017T2LQY\/\">Zippo lighter<\/a> to each kit, but on second thought I decided not to. The Zippo lighters are extraordinarily reliable and can burn ordinary gasoline but they&#8217;re not sealed, so the fuel evaporates over just a week or so. That means I&#8217;d also have to include cans of fuel for them. Instead, I&#8217;m just going to include a three-pack of filled Ronson Comet refillable butane lighters in each kit, and perhaps a small can of butane. The Comets will hold gas indefinitely even at the high temperatures reached in a vehicle during summer. I&#8217;ll also include a 35mm film can of strike-anywhere matches and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0010O748Q\/\">magnesium\/flint firestarter<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:54 &#8211; Spring may finally have arrived. March came in like a rabid weasel on meth, but according to the forecasts March will go out like a soft, cute, fuzzy panda, with highs in the upper 60&#8217;s (~20C) and lows well above freezing. I blame it on global climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, the climate-change nutters are at it again. I actually saw one story that blamed that enormous mudslide in Washington on global climate change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/03\/27\/thursday-27-march-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 27 March 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}