Are you ready party people!
Let's play Gross-Up!
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I finally found out what happened to the sign at Campbell and Roger, the sign I showed in the post called
Mysterious Damage.
I called the number on their website and the guy there told me that somebody hit it with a car.
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It's time again for Fun With Search Keyphrases!
I had a whole string of amusing search keyphrases lately. Some of them I have reason to believe came from the same person who might be deliberately trying to get an entry in this feature, but I have no idea where some of the others came from:
- william shatner face painted white
- scott boyan has a stick
- scott boyan has two richards
- great monkey baby figures
- dead raccoon decomposing -- This was from Japan. Hello Japan!
- when are you due -- This was also from Japan.
- purple shatner baby wound
- mysterious old wounded purple monkey enemy brain damage
- what is that smell sniffed around got stronger -- Another one from the U.K.
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I like to eat bagels. Salt bagels are my favorite. In Tucson we are lucky to have a few different bagel places. In El Paso we just had the one. It was a good place, but it was the only place in town which made me nervous. Also, they weren't open on Sundays, which is kind of ironic.
Anyway, we've got at least one independent place here, and we have two chains. There are two
Einstein Brothers and ten or so
Bruegger's Bagels. Of all of those,
Bruegger's is my favorite mostly for two reasons:
- The bagels taste the best to me.
- They have salt bagels.
A few weeks ago, all of a sudden the Bruegger's on
Sunrise and Swan started using the wrong salt on their bagels. Instead of using pretzel salt, they were using kosher salt. That disgusted me.
I ate it like that for maybe two weeks, and then one day I was in the Bruegger's on
River and Stone and I saw a guy working there wearing a tie. He looked like a high-ranking official of some sort, so I figured it might just be the time to say something, even though the problem I was having wasn't with the River and Stone Bruegger's at all.
I told the tie-wearing guy about my problem. He said they didn't use kosher salt, even at Sunrise and Swan. He said they always use pretzel salt. I said I knew for a fact they weren't using pretzel salt at Sunrise and Swan. I just ate a bagel there, and it didn't have the right kind of salt on it. He said maybe they ran out for that one day and used the wrong salt. I told him the problem had been going on for two weeks.
The official's attitude was kind of annoying. His communication to me was more trying to convince me that they weren't doing what I said they were, even though I knew they were.
It was a while before I went to Bruegger's again after that. Not because of the marginally unhelpful official, just because I didn't go for a week. When I went again, I went to the Sunrise and Swan location. When I got my bagel, I noticed that they started using the right kind of salt again. At least for the most part. There was actually a mixture of the right kind of salt and the wrong kind.
Figure 1: In this photo you can see that Bruegger's has started using the right kind of salt again on their salt bagel. The larger white opaque granules are the pretzel salt. The smaller translucent amorphous granules are the kosher salt. For about two weeks, the salt bagels were covered with the translucent kosher salt rather than with the pretzel salt.
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Figure 2: Can you see the clusters of kosher salt mixed in?
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Figure 3: In this photo I've tagged the pretzel salt with green, since it's what's supposed to be there, and the kosher salt with red because it is not supposed be there. I wondered if the translucent salt was maybe an artifact of some salt dissolving on the surface of the bagel and then re-crystallizing. I though that was unlikely, and a more likely explanation was that the person who salts the bagels does so from a large shaker. I imagined that he filled the large shaker from an even larger box of salt. My theory was that for two weeks the bagel maker had kosher salt in his shaker, and then when he got the regular pretzel salt in, he just poured the pretzel salt into the shaker on top of the kosher salt, and so the two became mixed. If the translucent salt is an artifact of dissolving and re-crystallizing, the ratio of red dots to green dots in the photo above should stay relatively constant from day to day. If the issue is that there was still some kosher salt kicking around in the shaker, then the ratio of red dots to green dots should diminish over time.
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Figure 4: More examples of inappropriate salt on my bagel. The black sphere is nothing. It's just a poppy seed. Not a mouse turd or anything like that.
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Figure 5: By now you should be able to pick out for yourself which are the good salts and which are the bad.
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Day 6: The sutures are out.
Figure 1: It doesn't look like there will be much of a scar at all.
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This is Day 5 after the wound was sustained. Data for Day 4 was lost due to a dead battery.
This is the last day for the sutures. The next time you see this cut, it'll be held together all on its own.
Figure 1: This is a running suture. A running suture doesn't have knots on each stitch. It's one continuous thread of suture material from beginning to end. Some of these sutures are completely embedded at this point.
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