Wow. A lot of cool stories on here from highschool chem classes.:)
Although, one of my my highschool chemistry teachers never did anything crazy with cesium, but he played around with liquid methane for a week. (Submerging methane in a testtube into a liquid nitrogen bath, he'd get some liquid methane.) He would douse his hand with it (the methane, not the nitrogen) and light it on fire... He'd dump it on the floor of the classroom and ignite it so we could watch little balls of fire rolling around under everyone's desk. Cool guy.:) He definitely made chemistry fun. (although, ended up panicing a few students in the process... hehehehe)
Chemistry classes back in the mid-1960's were much more dangerous than kids are exposed to these days. No doubt. Even when I was in highschool (early 1990's) we were allowed to play with some dangerous stuff. One year we had to do some sort of "end of the year chem project".
A friend and I wanted to do fireworks, but the prof/teacher said it was too dangerous. So he still gave us full access to basically every chemical in the lab so we could do a presentation on sparklers instead. Basically, we made mini-fireworks: made our own shells out of papertowels doused in shelac (sp?), we had to mix and grind our own powders (containing different elements for different colors: copper, magnesium, sodium...), packed them in, added fuses (again, papertowels but this time coated in superglue I think)... when the fuses actually worked they lit up fairly well. Got some good videotape of them. I just can believe that they'd give kids nowadays access to that kind of stuff. (especially after hearing about kids shooting down their own classmates...)
I agree with you on the point that UC can set rules as to what can and cannot be posted on their servers... but why do you see it as "trouble" for student organizations to have their sites listed under the campus domain? As far as I know, all schools do this.
For example, if your school has a chess club, why should someone that is interested in the club have to go looking for myschool-chessclub.com when it would be much easier for them to head to chessclub.myschool.edu? It also would save the school BOATLOADS of $$ in not having to register all of those names over and over again every few years.
My school ( http://www.cwru.edu ) has places where any _student_ can have their own web-presence [site] stored on their servers, not just organizations/clubs/sports-teams.
It's not "asking for trouble". It's a perk for going to the school and participating in campus life.
... and now that I finally installed it last night, I can start downloading more.
Sorry for dropping the amount of illegal downloads from me, guys! It won't happen again. (Well, at least until I fill this 80 Gig puppy... It should only take a couple weeks.)
When they discovered that the idea of midichlorians was frowned upon by the majority of sci-fi fanatics, they decided to give up on religion altogether to prevent further public embarassment.
oh wait... midichlorians... that's Star Wars, not $cientology. oh well. So much for me being able to keep track of religions based on science fiction.
...I thought that said "SELF-CLEANING CLASS", as if you Slashdot editors were trying to inform us that we (generally) don't have very good hygene and we may even need to go to school to learn to bathe properly.
2.... Cost for being master of his domain: $102 million.
Why pay $102 million when you can just take some advise from the Geek and get a mail-order-Russian bride to take care of that obsession for you? (It'll only cost ya $5,000 per lady!)
1) You have got to learn that if you want to find out ANYTHING from a FOX special (or any FOX news broadcast) you don't watch it until the LAST 5 minutes. Honestly, I didn't even turn it on until the last 20 and I saw both the opening of the coffin and the camera going into the shaft.
2) About the British-accent babe... ooooooh yeah.:-)
But you've got nerds debating automotive design and mechanics. Talk about armchair quarterbacking. It's right up there with a blind guy trying to describe the color Teal.
um. This topic isn't really any different from any other: lots of people of different occupations and educational levels contributing their thoughts on a subject. Do you think a "nerd" can't be a mechanical engineer? You don't think any design specialists visit this site? As if only "computer programmer geeks" are allowed here or something. sheesh.
Solutions to get rid of that pesky silence: 1) Use that nifty invention called "the radio" 2) Talk more on your car phone (If you're lucky, you may get to hear the distinguishing sound of your vehicle hitting another vehicle on the road too!) 3) Roll down the windows and listen to that wonderful "whoosh" sound of the wind flying by 4) Randomly (and frequently) shout obscentities at other vehicles because "their engines make too much D@!# noise" 5) Practice your singing (hey, with all of that extra room in there, you may get a cool "shower" effect as well!) 6) Kids
Aren't there other ways of finding out if there is actually another room beyond the doorway or not? Can't they like... ultrasound the pyramid or x-ray it or something to at least see if it's solid stone or an actual room?
I got one the other day telling me that my girlfriend thought my willy was small... otherwise they are really making sure I get the right adverts and my girlfriend is just being nice, or they are talking complete shit.
Ah, if you don't know the answer to that one, then it's probably the former.
But the problem with this is that some of my favorite shows (Farscape, SG1, WitchBlade) could take years to get the [currently] new episodes onto DVD and onto store shelves. I'm not willing to wait a few years to find out if Crighton comes out of a wormhole in an alternate reality. . . but I guess that's my fault for watching the show in the first place huh?... hmm... and I guess there's always Kazaa...
Yeah, I can just imagine: I'm sitting there watching a football game with my family/friends and during one of the commercial breaks a few porn advertisements come on. The box figures: hey! I watch a lot of porn! Lets show more ads for the specials this month!!
and this morning, when I pointed this article out to my students, some of them said that they had already read this article a few weeks ago.:-/
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How dare you post a short story first thing in the morning. And a FRIDAY at that too! I might as well just go home now; I'm not getting anything worthwhile done at work today.
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Man, I don't know why you haven't been modded up yet, but I thought that comment was hillarious. hehehe :D
shoot. looks like there site is gettings slashdotted. Here is a mirror of the picture
/.ed. So here's another picture of the mirror
yeah the site has been
Wow. A lot of cool stories on here from highschool chem classes. :)
:) He definitely made chemistry fun. (although, ended up panicing a few students in the process... hehehehe)
Although, one of my my highschool chemistry teachers never did anything crazy with cesium, but he played around with liquid methane for a week. (Submerging methane in a testtube into a liquid nitrogen bath, he'd get some liquid methane.) He would douse his hand with it (the methane, not the nitrogen) and light it on fire... He'd dump it on the floor of the classroom and ignite it so we could watch little balls of fire rolling around under everyone's desk. Cool guy.
Chemistry classes back in the mid-1960's were much more dangerous than kids are exposed to these days.
No doubt. Even when I was in highschool (early 1990's) we were allowed to play with some dangerous stuff. One year we had to do some sort of "end of the year chem project".
A friend and I wanted to do fireworks, but the prof/teacher said it was too dangerous. So he still gave us full access to basically every chemical in the lab so we could do a presentation on sparklers instead. Basically, we made mini-fireworks: made our own shells out of papertowels doused in shelac (sp?), we had to mix and grind our own powders (containing different elements for different colors: copper, magnesium, sodium...), packed them in, added fuses (again, papertowels but this time coated in superglue I think)... when the fuses actually worked they lit up fairly well. Got some good videotape of them. I just can believe that they'd give kids nowadays access to that kind of stuff. (especially after hearing about kids shooting down their own classmates...)
And Linus help you if you open the windows! ;)
You guys keep bashing Micro$oft every chance you get...
hm... perhaps picking up speed going down?
I agree with you on the point that UC can set rules as to what can and cannot be posted on their servers... but why do you see it as "trouble" for student organizations to have their sites listed under the campus domain? As far as I know, all schools do this.
For example, if your school has a chess club, why should someone that is interested in the club have to go looking for myschool-chessclub.com when it would be much easier for them to head to chessclub.myschool.edu? It also would save the school BOATLOADS of $$ in not having to register all of those names over and over again every few years.
My school ( http://www.cwru.edu ) has places where any _student_ can have their own web-presence [site] stored on their servers, not just organizations/clubs/sports-teams.
It's not "asking for trouble". It's a perk for going to the school and participating in campus life.
... and now that I finally installed it last night, I can start downloading more.
Sorry for dropping the amount of illegal downloads from me, guys! It won't happen again. (Well, at least until I fill this 80 Gig puppy... It should only take a couple weeks.)
When they discovered that the idea of midichlorians was frowned upon by the majority of sci-fi fanatics, they decided to give up on religion altogether to prevent further public embarassment.
oh wait... midichlorians... that's Star Wars, not $cientology. oh well. So much for me being able to keep track of religions based on science fiction.
...I thought that said "SELF-CLEANING CLASS", as if you Slashdot editors were trying to inform us that we (generally) don't have very good hygene and we may even need to go to school to learn to bathe properly.
Exactly! Spending it on anything other than booze and whores IS a waste of money!
Why pay $102 million when you can just take some advise from the Geek and get a mail-order-Russian bride to take care of that obsession for you? (It'll only cost ya $5,000 per lady!)
hillarious. :-D
I was saying the same thing last night when the show was on. "You stooooopid!!!! So stoooopid!!! HA HA HA!!!!"
1) You have got to learn that if you want to find out ANYTHING from a FOX special (or any FOX news broadcast) you don't watch it until the LAST 5 minutes. Honestly, I didn't even turn it on until the last 20 and I saw both the opening of the coffin and the camera going into the shaft.
:-)
2) About the British-accent babe... ooooooh yeah.
But you've got nerds debating automotive design and mechanics. Talk about armchair quarterbacking. It's right up there with a blind guy trying to describe the color Teal.
um. This topic isn't really any different from any other: lots of people of different occupations and educational levels contributing their thoughts on a subject. Do you think a "nerd" can't be a mechanical engineer? You don't think any design specialists visit this site? As if only "computer programmer geeks" are allowed here or something. sheesh.
Solutions to get rid of that pesky silence:
1) Use that nifty invention called "the radio"
2) Talk more on your car phone (If you're lucky, you may get to hear the distinguishing sound of your vehicle hitting another vehicle on the road too!)
3) Roll down the windows and listen to that wonderful "whoosh" sound of the wind flying by
4) Randomly (and frequently) shout obscentities at other vehicles because "their engines make too much D@!# noise"
5) Practice your singing (hey, with all of that extra room in there, you may get a cool "shower" effect as well!)
6) Kids
Aren't there other ways of finding out if there is actually another room beyond the doorway or not? Can't they like... ultrasound the pyramid or x-ray it or something to at least see if it's solid stone or an actual room?
Here's a mirror.
I got one the other day telling me that my girlfriend thought my willy was small... otherwise they are really making sure I get the right adverts and my girlfriend is just being nice, or they are talking complete shit.
Ah, if you don't know the answer to that one, then it's probably the former.
But the problem with this is that some of my favorite shows (Farscape, SG1, WitchBlade) could take years to get the [currently] new episodes onto DVD and onto store shelves. I'm not willing to wait a few years to find out if Crighton comes out of a wormhole in an alternate reality. . . but I guess that's my fault for watching the show in the first place huh? ... hmm... and I guess there's always Kazaa...
Yeah, I can just imagine: I'm sitting there watching a football game with my family/friends and during one of the commercial breaks a few porn advertisements come on. The box figures: hey! I watch a lot of porn! Lets show more ads for the specials this month!!
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
I don't even WANT to know how those sicko scientists are trying to infect those chimps with AIDS...
and this morning, when I pointed this article out to my students, some of them said that they had already read this article a few weeks ago. :-/
How dare you post a short story first thing in the morning. And a FRIDAY at that too! I might as well just go home now; I'm not getting anything worthwhile done at work today.