A wonderful box of delights from Marcus Ranum has been picked up. Handmade soap (more importantly, bloody soap!), handmade cream, handmade incense, which I’m burning now – it’s intoxicating, everything beautifully wrapped with tags. Going by my experience, pestering Marcus for delicious and fun things is seriously worth it. Thank you so very much, Marcus!
Now if we could only get Marcus to write for freethoughtblogs instead of his usual brilliant comments…
That would indeed be wonderful. I expect Marcus has more than enough to keep him busy, but FTB is actively seeking applications right now. I’m supposed to do a post about that. Right, I will work on that tomorrow. My thanks for being a timely reminder!
The soap! I’m pretty sure I can smell that fudge from here. Lucky you!
It hadn’t even occurred to me to ask for a home at FTB. Interesting idea! I’ve been meaning to re-host all my stuff from its scattered homes on the web, but forklifting everything over to wordpress is daunting -- suspiciously like make work.
@rq -- the fudge soap is ridiculous. I need to publish the recipe for that one someday. The only problem with it is that, until you rinse it off, you look like you have rubbed yourself with a chocolate brownie. I have a friend who has kids that is the reason I made the cookie molds (not pictured)
The donut was made using the ancient “lost donut” process. You hot glue a donut to a piece of cardboard, build a mold box around it, pour silicone. Wait, wash the remains of the donut out and trim the mold with scissors. The bit about attaching the donut to the bottom of the mold box is crucial. I, uh, had a “floater” and it was gross and wasted a bunch of silicone. I make a small batch of “soap frosting” (a beeswax and coconut oil soap) that I cast in the mold first, allow to cure overnight, then follow with the full batch. Before it sets, the fudge soap smells and looks distressingly like brownie batter. And my house-mice agree.
PS -- now that I have the donut molds, I’ve been known to give people bonded stainless steel donuts for their desks. Because, if you’ve got to have a murder weapon, make it something the cops will have to think about! Seriously a quarter cup of powdered stainless steel mixed into epoxy resin: that’s some heavy duty throw it against the wall rage-proof toy.
Marcus:
Well, WP does have stuff to help import/export and all that crap, but the ‘ware is a tad problematic. (I used it once, transfers posts and all that fine. It doesn’t move comments, likes, and all that very well.) Anyway, you wouldn’t have to move everything at once, and you could take your time to set up blogkeeping, as it were. It would be fabulous to have you on board, and personally, I’d quite like posts on security now and then, from someone I trust.
If your mice are anything like my rats, they aren’t the least bit averse to having a nice soap nosh.
If your mice are anything like my rats, they aren’t the least bit averse to having a nice soap nosh.
One of my early batches of Fight Club soap was clove/cinammon with lots of red gel for bloody drain effect. Housemouse ate a bunch of it and pooped little bright red assburning poops all over my library.