Comments on: If You Give The Press A Cookie, Will You Find A Cockroach? http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:17:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772639 Phoenix Woman Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:24:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772639 <blockquote><p>Pool stopped eating the cookies and dispersed of the remnants immediately.</p></blockquote> <p>“Dispersed of”? How about “disposed of”?</p> <p>Our wonderful TradMed, once again earning its keep. Or not.</p>

Pool stopped eating the cookies and dispersed of the remnants immediately.

“Dispersed of”? How about “disposed of”?

Our wonderful TradMed, once again earning its keep. Or not.

]]> By: JClausen http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772619 JClausen Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:57:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772619 <p>EPU land, but I love to tell my cockroach story:</p> <p>Living in Tripoli, Libya in 1978, my Canadian roomate and I bottled 120 liters of homebrew a little early as we headed off for two weeks to Morocco. Our landlords heard machine gun like popping as 1/3 of our bottles blew up from the fermentation pressure.When we got home we discovered hundreds of drunken cockroaches in our brewing room. It looked like they had a ball!*g*</p> EPU land, but I love to tell my cockroach story:

Living in Tripoli, Libya in 1978, my Canadian roomate and I bottled 120 liters of homebrew a little early as we headed off for two weeks to Morocco. Our landlords heard machine gun like popping as 1/3 of our bottles blew up from the fermentation pressure.When we got home we discovered hundreds of drunken cockroaches in our brewing room. It looked like they had a ball!*g*

]]> By: BruceWebb http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772618 BruceWebb Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:53:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772618 <p>A Palmetto Bug is just a cockroach with a better press agent.</p> <p>After a few years of spending Christmas in Hawaii I suspect the Press Corps will get a lot more blase about bugs in general. That or restrict themselves to high end hotel dining rooms. Heat plus moisture gives you the conditions for life. And sometimes that life comes equiped with six plus legs. I lived in Hawaii and Key West until I was eight, trust me neither is a good place for the ‘Eek it is a bug!’ crowd.</p> A Palmetto Bug is just a cockroach with a better press agent.

After a few years of spending Christmas in Hawaii I suspect the Press Corps will get a lot more blase about bugs in general. That or restrict themselves to high end hotel dining rooms. Heat plus moisture gives you the conditions for life. And sometimes that life comes equiped with six plus legs. I lived in Hawaii and Key West until I was eight, trust me neither is a good place for the ‘Eek it is a bug!’ crowd.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772616 selise Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:22:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772616 <p>have never lived in LA, but in dallas i also had very hard clay soil. here is my surefire method, if you are patient and don’t want to have to take a pick axe to it (which i have done). cover area with 1 sheet thickness of newspaper (i don’t think this is necessary if you don’t have weeds or grass you are trying to get rid of too). cover with 4+ inches of good organic compost. add soil amendments (i used a special kind of rock sand for some missing trace elements - it will be different depending on your soil). add some slow release organic fertilizer. cover with 4+ inches of shredded bark mulch. wait one year. (you may have to water very occasionally during drought).</p> <p>the microorganisms and earthworms will do all the work for you (the fertilizer is necessary to add nitrogen to replace what is used when the carbon rich mulch decomposes).</p> <p>no experience with vegetable gardening, but did do flower and native type thing.</p> have never lived in LA, but in dallas i also had very hard clay soil. here is my surefire method, if you are patient and don’t want to have to take a pick axe to it (which i have done). cover area with 1 sheet thickness of newspaper (i don’t think this is necessary if you don’t have weeds or grass you are trying to get rid of too). cover with 4+ inches of good organic compost. add soil amendments (i used a special kind of rock sand for some missing trace elements – it will be different depending on your soil). add some slow release organic fertilizer. cover with 4+ inches of shredded bark mulch. wait one year. (you may have to water very occasionally during drought).

the microorganisms and earthworms will do all the work for you (the fertilizer is necessary to add nitrogen to replace what is used when the carbon rich mulch decomposes).

no experience with vegetable gardening, but did do flower and native type thing.

]]> By: Millineryman http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772615 Millineryman Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:19:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772615 <p>Have a great day. Off to see Doubt. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, a trio not to be missed.</p> Have a great day. Off to see Doubt. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, a trio not to be missed.

]]> By: Millineryman http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772614 Millineryman Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:17:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772614 <p>Sounds good, either of those would be great. After the layoff I might take a long weekend and visit some friends in LA.</p> Sounds good, either of those would be great. After the layoff I might take a long weekend and visit some friends in LA.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772613 Waccamaw Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:14:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772613 <p>Sounds much like the soil in SW NC.</p> <p>Suggestion the first: invest in a pickaxe….and I wish that were a joke.</p> Sounds much like the soil in SW NC.

Suggestion the first: invest in a pickaxe….and I wish that were a joke.

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772612 demi Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:14:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772612 <p>Oh, please do let me know by FB. I would love to have a meet up. East meets West. We could meet at the beach! Venice, Malibu, or ?</p> Oh, please do let me know by FB. I would love to have a meet up. East meets West. We could meet at the beach! Venice, Malibu, or ?

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772611 Waccamaw Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772611 <p>Food or flowers……oh, what a choice. :-)</p> <p>Friend of mine says she has sowed seeds in flats and then put them on top of the fridge or freeze to speed germination; definitely gonna give that a try this year. Free warmth without the expense of those heating coil thingies.</p> Food or flowers……oh, what a choice. :-)

Friend of mine says she has sowed seeds in flats and then put them on top of the fridge or freeze to speed germination; definitely gonna give that a try this year. Free warmth without the expense of those heating coil thingies.

]]> By: Millineryman http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772610 Millineryman Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:11:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/26/if-you-give-the-press-a-cookie-will-you-find-a-cockroach/#comment-1772610 <p>Good morning demi. When I was considering a move to the pacific northwest I was excited about the prospect of learning about the particulars of gardening in that area. Since I’ve been in this area my whole life, and both parents were gardening, I know what works really well here.</p> <p>I maybe visitng LA soon, I’ll let you know. It would be nice to get some coffee.</p> Good morning demi. When I was considering a move to the pacific northwest I was excited about the prospect of learning about the particulars of gardening in that area. Since I’ve been in this area my whole life, and both parents were gardening, I know what works really well here.

I maybe visitng LA soon, I’ll let you know. It would be nice to get some coffee.

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