Thursday, October 30, 2008

NaCl^3.CODFISH

the celts and their codfish.<3awh



in all seriousness, i had never really heard of the celts before this chapter. well possibly in conversation once or twice, but really had no idea who they were.



first connection to salt and the celts, bodys of celts who had been mining salt were found preserved, which i think is very neat. the salt had preserved the bodies, somewhat like it preserved the vegetables and such. anyway the men were most likely trapped by a collapse, somewhat like those that have happened in our area in the past few years. i think finding these bodies would be cool, yet very discusting at the same time. perhaps i will look into a career of looking for preserved bodies.



they salted pigs! i love the celts. their specialty was actually salted meats, which is great because i love ham. the celts were very smart for being considered barbaric. they mined salt at very steep angles. this was a good idea because the salt was closer to get to this way. good thinking guys. i didn't learn about measuring angles til about the third grade so they at least had the eduaction of a third grader to be able to do this. just kidding celts.



because they were big salt miners, many of their tools seemed to keep getting rusty, unlike salad fingers they did not like their tools rusty. [RUSTY SPOONS!] they discovered that bronze did not rust, so they began making their mining tools out of this. they were also great iron workers, on runescape my iron working skill was always quite high, perhaps i was always meant to be a celt, which is depressing i was hoping for a spartan.



basically the celts had many great inventions, which i am glad they get credit for, because one of the great roman emporers decided to attack the celts take their land and ideas. i still love you celts.





this chapter was surprisingly interesting. salt<3

1 comment:

Irish said...

We looked at Celts briefly during the video in class, and maybe mentioned them in passing, but there just wasn't time to go into specifics about them.

Pretty cool observations in this post about the "salt men". Perhaps a career in Anthropology or some such might be looked into? One neat thing about those jobs is that you would get to travel.

Not sure if you are praising the Celts or not? 3rd grader comment. lol. Anyway it seems you got some good info out of that part of the chapter.

I forgot about the part with rusty tools vs bronze work. Runescape??? Sounds like you really enjoy video games. I always hear you talk about them in class.

Nice entry. Solid observations and comments, albeit a bit silly at times. (which is good)

Mr. Farrell