One of the weirder items purchased recently in a drugstore: bandages with real silver pads:
Live at the Palladium
Hmm, this is interesting. Turns out that during WWII a lot of jewelry was made from palladium because platinum was unavailable. Check out a picture of Tiffany and Co ring in that article. Much better than most of the crap they are making now.
Some pretty palladium jewelry can be found on eBay too.
One Ring To Bind Them All
After I lost $30 pounds on Atkins diet my wedding ring started to slip off my finger. Of course, I am not Frodo, and wearing it on a piece of string was not an option. I used to leave it on the dressing table a lot, and finally it disappeared. Who stole Precious is not clear, but Tilde the cat is a likely suspect. So my wedding band is hopelessly lost.
It was a titanium ring. It looked like this:
Interestingly enough, the company that makes these rings is located in Canada. I wonder if they were inspired by the Engineer’s Ring.
I have a somewhat unhealthy fascination with titanium. I love that metal. SR71 Blackbird planes, Akula class subs, and if you are a Star Wars geek, TIE fighters are made mostly of titanium. I own a titanium watch and eyeglasses frame. I used to have a titanium pda case, but I lost it too :( Titanium is almost indestructible, but easily lost.
Well, now I need to replace the ring. I am thinking of choosing a different, fancier design. Probably one of these.
I was also thinking about a more exotic material for the ring, like iridium, but nobody makes them.
By the way, titanium rings are machined out of a single block of titanium. You can’t really smelt titanium, so resizing the rings is out of the question. Imagine how much skill is needed to machine interlocking rings out of a single block:
