My day job for the last few months as a freelance content and copywriter has turned me into the font of all knowledge. I now clutter my brain with information. I have always talked like a bit of a know-all, but unless it is an obscure fact that nobody cares about regarding a film or a band that I like, I am very often wrong. However, the ability to quickly research a topic and to be able to talk about it with conviction and authority is slowly becoming second nature now. I write a lot, and the words I put on a page end up on blogs and business websites the whole world over. Thankfully though, my brain is only good for holding a certain amount of information. That means that I am getting very good at forgetting all of the unnecessary information,
So far this year, I have learnt all about how the pressure used in making espresso is the equivalent of being 300 foot under the sea, or 4 times the level of your car tyre. I’ve learnt the extraction process for producing zero-THC CBD. Then I’ve also found about dozens of different cosmetic surgery and dental procedures. I’ve written about numerous American cities, as well as the Maldives, Indonesia, and Bali.
The Best Surfing Spots In California
It has never really crossed my mind to ever want to go to California. But, now I know that Malibu is a short drive from the centre of LA and surfrider beach is where pretty much every surfing movie was ever shot. The biggest waves on the Californian coast are to be found north of Santa Cruz in Mavericks (which got its name from a guys dog). The waves are 25ft high there, which is 19 foot taller than me. I learnt that waves can be right-handed or left-handed.
I did learn more. But I have slept since then. Just like Homer Simpson, something new always comes along and pushes my brain clutter information out of my head.
Before this adventure in surf research, everything that I knew about surfing was from California Games on the SEGA Mega Drive. Hands up if you played that!?
To Make Kombucha You Need A SCOBY
SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast. Sounds delightful. I love a nice kombucha. If you have not had it, it’s a fermented green tea drink. It’s basically made mixing bacteria, yeast, sugar, and green tea and leaving it all to ferment for a couple of weeks. It then produces a mushroom-like film on the top or a SCOBY. This is also known as a Mother SCOBY and it can be used again to create more Kombucha. This perpetual circle of life is clearly what Elton John was thinking about when he wrote the Lion King soundtrack.
Hum, National Library of Medicine’s Illustrations on a flayed penis, Salem Witch Trial Registries, Abe Lincolns private journal with a surprising entry of a unnamed male lover, Library of Congress Music Collection of the 1800’s featuring a Song Titled “Let’s watch darkie sway from the tree all day” to name a few weird bits of history working in preservation the last 20 years.
History was a dark and strange place.
Injecting street heroin having used lemon juice as an acidifier can make you go blind – that’s probably up there.
That and the medical term for the yellow/white material that forms in an infecting wound bed is called ‘slough’. A brilliant word 🖤🖤
Wow. No citrus blasts in the skag then.
Sadly not, no 😬🖤
I learned that elephants appreciate classical music played on the piano. I still like that fact and I watch youtube videos about it. Not through work but I seem to find weird knowledge that I remember.
I knew about the scooby, I find it spooky! Can you buy the scooby in the uk? Here they are not sold, so you need to find a facebook group and obtain them that way. It is too weird for me, no kombucha is worth that in my opinion.
I believe you can buy it. You can get scoby starter kits. Though it’s much easier to ask a friend if you can scoop their scoby.
Wouldn’t that be a great poem or a short story? About the spooky scoby that was scooped by your friend 😂
Did Scooby doo ate my scoby too? The hippy-dippy-doggy drank my kombucha, donchya -know that was meant to ferment. Now scooby’s scoby is breeding and feeding a mellow-yellow green-tea freaky beverage inside the jelly-belly of the hound.
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Great read, thanks. I had to research DIY tattoos for a magazine article, ended up buy Indian ink and a needle and doing it!
that’s some devotion to the research. How did the results come out?
Quite good actually, I did it on my ankle though just in case it looked awful!