Ethyl ( Denatured - it said you could substitute ethyl for methyl alcohol )
Vegetable oil ( soybean oil )
I mixed the lye and alcohol shaking it up till it felt nice and warm.
Then I poured the alcohol into the soda bottle with the veggie oil and shook it up.
I waited about four hours for it to seperate
There were three layers:
A white foamy layer
A yellow cloudy oily layer
A white cloudy alcohol/lye/glycerine layer
I drained out the middle layer by poking a hole in the soda bottle. The stuff was oily but smelled like alcohol. I put it in a bottle to wash
The top foamy white layer was not water soluable. I had thought it was soap but upon washing melting and tasting plus burning and smelling I am pretty confident that it was wax - a little harder than shoe polish. I tried to make a candle but the wax itself burned without a wick.
I dumpped the glycering + other junk layer.
I added about a tablespoon of white vinegar plus about 300 ml water to my 100 ml of oily 'diesel' and shook it up real good. Leaving it overnight till it re-seperated, the oily stuff was still cloudy and still smelled like alcohol or maybe paint thinner. Maybe esters are supposed to smell that way. It certainly was not a good smell.
I then read about the 'two-step process' that is supposed to yeild purer fuel. According to that guy, removing the glycerine and re-reacting the mixture again causes the reaction to proceed all the way. Thinking that I must still have some unreacted veggie oil which was making my fuel cloudy, I mixed up some more lye+alcohol ( the first batch ate through my soda bottle overnight! ) and poured it into my test tube.
The stuff briefly turned clear yellow and you'll never guess what happened next - The whole thing turned to WAX! There was only a small amount of liquid left which I could not pour out of my test, er, cigar tube.
I dunno if maybe this could be a replacement for caranuba wax used in shoe polish, but it is definately a bad fuel... I added no water at all and used neat unused soybean oil. My only theory is that I - who does not own a scale and did all measurements by eye used way too much lye.
Does anyone know if having too high a PH could cause the fuel to be converted to wax? Any other ideas to explain the wax formation?
Refresh my memory, wasn't factoring primes proved to be NP Complete? If so, then if as you say proving that the riemann hypotheseis is true would confirm that factoring primes was difficult ( er than polynomial time? ) wouldn't that also prove P != NP and qualify them for another Clay Prize?
I didn't understand the article but if this *WOULD* make factoring large primes easier and it appears to work for all primes up to 1,500,000,000 why not assume that it is true with out proof and use it to factor large primes anyway.
Basically:
1.) Assume unproven riemann hypothesis
2.)Write fast large prime factorizer program
3.)Use it to crack into bank transactions.
4.)Profit
5.)Go to jail for tax evasion or whatever else they can pin on you when they come for you - and they will.
They should dig through their old military warehouses and get the ark of the covernant that Indiana Jones got for em back in the 1930s. As long as the US troops didn't look at it, legions of tormented ghosts would melt the Iraqi's eyeballs without damaging any artifacts at all.
Remember clipping the terminals of lots of 9V batteries together in series.
That gave a VERY noticable shock. I doubt these would have thrown a spark though but it would be feelable with sweaty fingers if they connected them in series..
'Writing a script' to do something sounds quicker and easier than writing a 'full blown program'. But programming and scripting are synonymous. The first thing I did in IT out of college was babysitting a large expensive canned software package which sometimes involved writing cron jobs in Korn shell ( the big dumb company wouldn't use perl because there was nobody to sue if there were ever a bug )
My next that I kept for a couple of years was C++ programming for a large client/server program that would have been easier and better as a web application. I was one of the best if not the best C++ programmers they had but soon I quit because I didn't like working for them.
With 'full blown programming' credentials on my resume, I got a job programming web/cgi pages in perl - a scripting language. The company was a small linux/perl shop. I learned more about programming there in a month than I learned the entire time I was a C++ programmer. Perl is full of nifty things that make 'real programmers' happy like regular expressions ( HA! finally that class in finite automata/grammars/turing church et al is USEFUL for something. Glad too because the math geek in me loved that class ) Perl is imperative or functional as you desire ( kewl! learning scheme was useful ). It is tied well to unix. Though I had used only AIX for my entire term of employment after college I was actually a unix newbie. It's been said that if unix is War and Piece, then perl is the cliffnotes - so true. That is the place where I really cut my teeth as a programmer - using perl a 'scripting language'.
Only idiots see this with prejudice. Because it is possible to write quick and dirty perl 'scripts' to do small tasks doesn't mean it isn't possible to write large software with it as well. Those convenient tricks that perl provides are a strength not a weakness. You can follow all the rules of large scale OO project design or you can write a one time use only data migration script. It's a swiss army knife with all the tools you could want built in or in modules but unlike a swiss army knife which becomes bulky and cumbersome when more features are added perl has a very 'ergonomic' grip that is easy and comfortable to use.
Scheme used to be my favorite language then Java, then C++ but now I like Perl best of all. It's almost everything one could want in a programming language.
I want the vinegar droplets to bespeckle my tongue with sour and the oil to sheild it I want to taste the crisp raw taste of undrenched lettuce and also the taste of oil soaked and vinegar soaked veggies. If you homogenize the dressing then it'll all be one taste/texture
I never knew about it so just mentioning it helped me. Now I don't have to buy ReflectionX to use my linux apps from my windows box at work. Nice. I never knew about --rootless
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They are SOOOOOOO gay.
Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend was better. At least it had a 1000 foot tall purple penis monster destroy Tokyo.
Bar-boo-ra, Bar-boo-ra...
It is true that on a big enough scale, everything is meaningless.
Though I was born and raised an athiest and still am one, the above statement is true even if there is a . Even if you and your diety(s) are in love with each other the fact remains: NOBODY ELSE CARES. The existances of you and your God are equally meaningless.
But people don't live on an Infinite Cosmic scale. They live on earth a rather small and homely place.
The grandparent post says that you should make a Pascal's Wager that the universe has some unseen properties that give your life meaning and have faith in that arbitrary selection of religion. The problem with that is that it supposes that people need the Entire Cosmos to be constructed so a to justify their actions or they are somehow worthless. Why follow some random faith to it's illogical logical conclusions or feel guilty to have sinned against such ideals just to have an answer to why you do something?
If something is important to you and you want to do it, that should be enough reason to persue it even if you do not have an answer to 'Why is that important to you?'. That you feel joy/satisfaction/humor/whatever from it is justification enough. Why do you feel happy/sad/whatever about something? Who cares? You are wired to feel that way, so you do. Sure events may have helped wire you but now you are wired that way. Because they are arbitrary, you also have the freedom to change your mind if you see your habits/ideals as the cause of your unhappiness. You are not bound to them, because they are not derived from some religion's version of the supposed 'Unchangable and Eternal Fabric of Reality'.
Everybody has a fate no matter how they try to avoid it. Some fate will eventually be the story of your life. This is a self evident truth that requires no faith. Your actions are motivated by motives that come from inside you. This is also self evident. The seeds that grow into your actions come from inside you. Duh. Instead of making a Pascal's wager on having faith in an external arbitrary and not very convincing religion to be true, why not make a different wager. Why not bet on yourself? Have faith in yourself to be a worthwhile person you are glad to be.
They could launch a mirror into outer space. Send it off into the edge of the solar system. Then calculate where it 'SHOULD' be. They can do their lazer experiment by shooting a lazer at it from a sattelite and timing how long it takes to get back. They could shoot another sattelite off at 90 degrees to get their L shape and have as many of the sattelites as they need to get rid of noise ( which should be much less in space )
Real life is full of sounds too low for you to hear. They probably cause sensations on the back of your neck and wierd feelings in your stomach all day. Adding infrasound to a concert made it seem more 'real' by adding these wierd sensations. Those that were going to hate the concert anyway REALLY hated it and those that were going to like it REALLY liked it.
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Methane cometh from pig shit.
Mixed:
I mixed the lye and alcohol shaking it up till it felt nice and warm.
Then I poured the alcohol into the soda bottle with the veggie oil and shook it up.
I waited about four hours for it to seperate
There were three layers:
I drained out the middle layer by poking a hole in the soda bottle. The stuff was oily but smelled like alcohol. I put it in a bottle to wash
The top foamy white layer was not water soluable. I had thought it was soap but upon washing melting and tasting plus burning and smelling I am pretty confident that it was wax - a little harder than shoe polish. I tried to make a candle but the wax itself burned without a wick.
I dumpped the glycering + other junk layer.
I added about a tablespoon of white vinegar plus about 300 ml water to my 100 ml of oily 'diesel' and shook it up real good. Leaving it overnight till it re-seperated, the oily stuff was still cloudy and still smelled like alcohol or maybe paint thinner. Maybe esters are supposed to smell that way. It certainly was not a good smell.
I then read about the 'two-step process' that is supposed to yeild purer fuel. According to that guy, removing the glycerine and re-reacting the mixture again causes the reaction to proceed all the way. Thinking that I must still have some unreacted veggie oil which was making my fuel cloudy, I mixed up some more lye+alcohol ( the first batch ate through my soda bottle overnight! ) and poured it into my test tube.
The stuff briefly turned clear yellow and you'll never guess what happened next - The whole thing turned to WAX! There was only a small amount of liquid left which I could not pour out of my test, er, cigar tube.
I dunno if maybe this could be a replacement for caranuba wax used in shoe polish, but it is definately a bad fuel... I added no water at all and used neat unused soybean oil. My only theory is that I - who does not own a scale and did all measurements by eye used way too much lye.
Does anyone know if having too high a PH could cause the fuel to be converted to wax? Any other ideas to explain the wax formation?
Refresh my memory, wasn't factoring primes proved to be NP Complete? If so, then if as you say proving that the riemann hypotheseis is true would confirm that factoring primes was difficult ( er than polynomial time? ) wouldn't that also prove P != NP and qualify them for another Clay Prize?
Basically:
1.) Assume unproven riemann hypothesis
2.)Write fast large prime factorizer program
3.)Use it to crack into bank transactions.
4.)Profit
5.)Go to jail for tax evasion or whatever else they can pin on you when they come for you - and they will.
I want a filesystem where I can resize and rename/add/delete the partitions on the fly. It would be nice if it was similar to ext3 in all other ways.
They should dig through their old military warehouses and get the ark of the covernant that Indiana Jones got for em back in the 1930s. As long as the US troops didn't look at it, legions of tormented ghosts would melt the Iraqi's eyeballs without damaging any artifacts at all.
Remember clipping the terminals of lots of 9V batteries together in series. That gave a VERY noticable shock. I doubt these would have thrown a spark though but it would be feelable with sweaty fingers if they connected them in series..
My next that I kept for a couple of years was C++ programming for a large client/server program that would have been easier and better as a web application. I was one of the best if not the best C++ programmers they had but soon I quit because I didn't like working for them.
With 'full blown programming' credentials on my resume, I got a job programming web/cgi pages in perl - a scripting language. The company was a small linux/perl shop. I learned more about programming there in a month than I learned the entire time I was a C++ programmer. Perl is full of nifty things that make 'real programmers' happy like regular expressions ( HA! finally that class in finite automata/grammars/turing church et al is USEFUL for something. Glad too because the math geek in me loved that class ) Perl is imperative or functional as you desire ( kewl! learning scheme was useful ). It is tied well to unix. Though I had used only AIX for my entire term of employment after college I was actually a unix newbie. It's been said that if unix is War and Piece, then perl is the cliffnotes - so true. That is the place where I really cut my teeth as a programmer - using perl a 'scripting language'.
Only idiots see this with prejudice. Because it is possible to write quick and dirty perl 'scripts' to do small tasks doesn't mean it isn't possible to write large software with it as well. Those convenient tricks that perl provides are a strength not a weakness. You can follow all the rules of large scale OO project design or you can write a one time use only data migration script. It's a swiss army knife with all the tools you could want built in or in modules but unlike a swiss army knife which becomes bulky and cumbersome when more features are added perl has a very 'ergonomic' grip that is easy and comfortable to use.
Scheme used to be my favorite language then Java, then C++ but now I like Perl best of all. It's almost everything one could want in a programming language.
The world will end in 2038 when the seconds past the epoch take more than 32 bits.
No big deal. Just use sugar + kno3 fuel.
Pyromainia, Pyromania, Pyromania!! YEAH!!!
Boohakka
And of decievers, I am Gambling
-- Hairy Krishna
I sure never heard of him so he can't be a real person..
I never knew about it so just mentioning it helped me. Now I don't have to buy ReflectionX to use my linux apps from my windows box at work. Nice. I never knew about --rootless
And don't you eat that yellow snow!
They are SOOOOOOO gay. Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend was better. At least it had a 1000 foot tall purple penis monster destroy Tokyo. Bar-boo-ra, Bar-boo-ra...
How cold is it with WIND CHILL factored in?
Ha Ha.
Why not that principal off Ferris Beuler's day off?
Ooooh sentence me baby! Sentence me all night long
NOW!!
Though I was born and raised an athiest and still am one, the above statement is true even if there is a . Even if you and your diety(s) are in love with each other the fact remains: NOBODY ELSE CARES. The existances of you and your God are equally meaningless.
But people don't live on an Infinite Cosmic scale. They live on earth a rather small and homely place.
The grandparent post says that you should make a Pascal's Wager that the universe has some unseen properties that give your life meaning and have faith in that arbitrary selection of religion. The problem with that is that it supposes that people need the Entire Cosmos to be constructed so a to justify their actions or they are somehow worthless. Why follow some random faith to it's illogical logical conclusions or feel guilty to have sinned against such ideals just to have an answer to why you do something?
If something is important to you and you want to do it, that should be enough reason to persue it even if you do not have an answer to 'Why is that important to you?'. That you feel joy/satisfaction/humor/whatever from it is justification enough. Why do you feel happy/sad/whatever about something? Who cares? You are wired to feel that way, so you do. Sure events may have helped wire you but now you are wired that way. Because they are arbitrary, you also have the freedom to change your mind if you see your habits/ideals as the cause of your unhappiness. You are not bound to them, because they are not derived from some religion's version of the supposed 'Unchangable and Eternal Fabric of Reality'.
Everybody has a fate no matter how they try to avoid it. Some fate will eventually be the story of your life. This is a self evident truth that requires no faith. Your actions are motivated by motives that come from inside you. This is also self evident. The seeds that grow into your actions come from inside you. Duh. Instead of making a Pascal's wager on having faith in an external arbitrary and not very convincing religion to be true, why not make a different wager. Why not bet on yourself? Have faith in yourself to be a worthwhile person you are glad to be.
They could launch a mirror into outer space. Send it off into the edge of the solar system. Then calculate where it 'SHOULD' be. They can do their lazer experiment by shooting a lazer at it from a sattelite and timing how long it takes to get back. They could shoot another sattelite off at 90 degrees to get their L shape and have as many of the sattelites as they need to get rid of noise ( which should be much less in space )
Real life is full of sounds too low for you to hear. They probably cause sensations on the back of your neck and wierd feelings in your stomach all day. Adding infrasound to a concert made it seem more 'real' by adding these wierd sensations. Those that were going to hate the concert anyway REALLY hated it and those that were going to like it REALLY liked it.