That's a good point. I think that chemical engineering is a good field for the next 10+ years since oil is going to keep going up. A lot of processes are going to need to be modified to work from non-petroleum feedstock. I think it'd be exciting to help develop cellulose-based plastics or plant oil-based lubricants. Incidentally, I am a software engineer although my girlfriend is a chemical engineer.
I like Red vs. Blue way too much. Sometimes I laugh so hard I have to watch it several times to hear everything. I'm sad it's ending, but at least it didn't start to suck before they moved on.
You'd make good money as a chemical engineer or petroleum engineer. This claims $55-$100k depending on experience. Petroleum engineers also make good money.
One nice thing about the job is you get to work with huge cool dangerous equipment. If you work for the right company in the right capacity you might even contribute to solving some important problems, like petroleum dependency.
Good links, thank you. I'm not diabetic but I am overweight and had somewhat high blood sugar a few years back. I've been exercising and avoiding sugar & refined flour as much as possible. I mix my gin with grapefruit juice, preferably fresh. I'm a heavy drinker, and it seems that all the health benefits are for moderate drinkers. Oh well.
Pot would be better for a lot of people, and their liver.
Agreed. It does make the conversation more interesting when people bitch about 70 degree Fahrenheit weather in january to say "we broke the record high low by 20 degrees last night"
I've noticed a lot of record high temps (both high and low) where I live, sometimes by double digits. If we're breaking records 30 or more days a year it does seem odd.
You can get mexican coke (cane sugar, sweeter, less carbonated) easily at any mexican grocery. If you live somewhere without mexican grocery stores, you can buy it online. I've only seen it in small (355ml), tall glass bottles.
It is pretty quick. You'd absorb radiation mainly at the surface, and in hot spots. Check this out, a baby needed skin grafts after 10-20 seconds on "cook."
I live in a city, and it has absolutely nothing to do with information arrival times.
Most of the jobs are in the city, so I rarely have to drive. There are more bars, restaurants, theaters, museums, and interesting people in the city. I'm willing to pay a premium for that, although sometimes it seems the suburbs are pretty damn expensive.
I performed an experiment when I first got my Chemex, back in high school. I ran some distilled water through the lab's coffemaker, with a Mr. Coffee filter. I ran some through without a filter. I boiled some in a percolator for the usual amount of time. I ran some through my chemex. At high temperature, the difference was remarkable. At low temperature, most of the water was undrinkable. I could barely tell the difference with the Chemex + filter water.
OK, you're right. I meant to say hot water never touches metal or plastic.
Try this experiment: pour a glass of cold water and a glass of hot water from your tap. Taste them when temperature equalizes. That's the taste of hot water on metal and plastic. Or just drink some water you've cranked through a clean percolator or coffeemaker. Ew!
Yes, but you can filter several liters of coffee in a second flat. It's visually quite impressive, and tasted better to me than coffee made with a plastic autodrip unit.
You are shamefully uninformed. Gasoline taxes have not been raised in many years and contribute a minority of the funding for roads at this time in most states. Here is an example from Minnesota, where property taxes pay the MAJORITY of road funding. Every property owner pays for roads whether or not they use them.
I don't know what state you live in, but I will bet you a gallon of hi-test that your state pays a large share if not a majority for roads using non-fuel/license/registration tax dollars.
I think the fuel tax should be indexed against construction costs, which have been skyrocketing in most areas for 20 years. The fuel tax has not been raised nearly as much in this time, leading to the current budget crunch and funding from inappropriate sources. I also think developers (which effectively means the buyers in the development) should pay the entire cost of new roads and road expansion instead of burdening people who don't use the new development.
I use a Chemex coffeemaker, which is every chemistry geek's dream. It is a very simple all-glass vessel that accommodates a lab-grade folded square filter. You pour hot water through the grounds and end up with a very nice cup o' joe. It looks elegantly labware-like.
I like it because the water never touches metal or plastic, which impart a flavor. I like it because the lab-grade filters make for a very mild flavor even with lumberjack-strength brew. People marvel at how good my coffee tastes "for how strong it is."
I suppose if you want to be truly geeked-out you could use a vacuum pump and extraction funnel. I've done that myself to show off, but it is a lot of work to do before I've had me coffee!
Bicyclists pay federal, state, and local tax money for your roads and freeways and can't ride on them. Fuel/license/registration taxes don't begin to cover road construction and maintenance. Why are you happy to use others tax money but gripe about others using yours?
I've tried to rent a small towing vehicle for a long road trip and ran into problems. Hopefully you know of something, I'm getting too old to break my rental agreement so much. In the past I've rented a vehicle, bought a hitch, installed it (drilling holes in the frame) and removed it when I'm done. The rental agreement always states that I am FORBIDDEN from towing anything ever. I've never gotten in trouble. Who'd check for holes in the frame anyway?
The only legal options I found were u-haul and equivalents, that charge by the mile. I'm putting 2000 miles on it and the difference in cost is extreme. My install-a-hitch method cost $500 for a week, including the hitch. The legal methods started at $2k, which makes buying a vehicle and selling it afterwards cheaper.
Any suggestions? This is a yearly trip, 1k miles each way, and I need to drag a trailer. My primary vehicle is a Toyota Echo, which cannot be safely made to tow. I wish the cheap rental places (dollar, budget, etc) would have a hitch available but absolutely none of them do.
According to your link the Josephus passages aren't very reliable:
Current state of the debate
Judging from Alice Whealey's 2003 survey of the historiography,[citation needed] it seems that the majority of modern scholars consider that Josephus really did write something here about Jesus, but that the text that has reached us is corrupt to a perhaps quite substantial extent. In the words of the Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Flavius Josephus, "The passage seems to suffer from repeated interpolations."[citation needed] There has been no consensus on which portions are corrupt, or to what degree.
When I'm backpacking and don't want to bring my percolator I make "cowboy coffee." I just boil water in my metal cup over the fire, throw in some grounds (coarse works best for this) trickle a bit of cold water in to help settle the grounds and drink it. I have to spit out a few grounds, but most of them end up sinking to the bottom. I avoid the last bit of coffee unless I want a crunchy treat.
Some people throw eggshells in and claim that it absorbs bitter oils and makes the grounds sink. That is repulsive.
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Wreak is a real word, it just isn't the right one. Homophones are a bitch.
I don't know if you did this on purpose, but this is a spambait "search" page.
That's a good point. I think that chemical engineering is a good field for the next 10+ years since oil is going to keep going up. A lot of processes are going to need to be modified to work from non-petroleum feedstock. I think it'd be exciting to help develop cellulose-based plastics or plant oil-based lubricants. Incidentally, I am a software engineer although my girlfriend is a chemical engineer.
I like Red vs. Blue way too much. Sometimes I laugh so hard I have to watch it several times to hear everything. I'm sad it's ending, but at least it didn't start to suck before they moved on.
You'd make good money as a chemical engineer or petroleum engineer. This claims $55-$100k depending on experience. Petroleum engineers also make good money.
One nice thing about the job is you get to work with huge cool dangerous equipment. If you work for the right company in the right capacity you might even contribute to solving some important problems, like petroleum dependency.
Serves me right for posting before coffee. I wondered what that light red line was about and why it was so familiar!
Sorry about the confusion. I was quoting the popular comic webseries Red vs. Blue, you can see the episode here
Good links, thank you. I'm not diabetic but I am overweight and had somewhat high blood sugar a few years back. I've been exercising and avoiding sugar & refined flour as much as possible. I mix my gin with grapefruit juice, preferably fresh. I'm a heavy drinker, and it seems that all the health benefits are for moderate drinkers. Oh well.
Pot would be better for a lot of people, and their liver.
Wow, is that 16oz glass bottles?! I guess what they say about texas is true.
I don't drink soda either. I'm probably pre-diabetic and prefer gin anyway.
Agreed. It does make the conversation more interesting when people bitch about 70 degree Fahrenheit weather in january to say "we broke the record high low by 20 degrees last night"
I've noticed a lot of record high temps (both high and low) where I live, sometimes by double digits. If we're breaking records 30 or more days a year it does seem odd.
You can get mexican coke (cane sugar, sweeter, less carbonated) easily at any mexican grocery. If you live somewhere without mexican grocery stores, you can buy it online. I've only seen it in small (355ml), tall glass bottles.
HD-DVD doesn't have enough repetitive letters in its name to be successful. I'm going to wait for HHD-DVVDD-BVD. Or Red-ray.
It is pretty quick. You'd absorb radiation mainly at the surface, and in hot spots. Check this out, a baby needed skin grafts after 10-20 seconds on "cook."
I live in a city, and it has absolutely nothing to do with information arrival times.
Most of the jobs are in the city, so I rarely have to drive. There are more bars, restaurants, theaters, museums, and interesting people in the city. I'm willing to pay a premium for that, although sometimes it seems the suburbs are pretty damn expensive.
I performed an experiment when I first got my Chemex, back in high school. I ran some distilled water through the lab's coffemaker, with a Mr. Coffee filter. I ran some through without a filter. I boiled some in a percolator for the usual amount of time. I ran some through my chemex. At high temperature, the difference was remarkable. At low temperature, most of the water was undrinkable. I could barely tell the difference with the Chemex + filter water.
OK, you're right. I meant to say hot water never touches metal or plastic.
Try this experiment: pour a glass of cold water and a glass of hot water from your tap. Taste them when temperature equalizes. That's the taste of hot water on metal and plastic. Or just drink some water you've cranked through a clean percolator or coffeemaker. Ew!
That's a lot of work. Here's a better plan if simplicity is your goal:
1. pour hot water from your tap into a cup.
2. add a teaspoon of instant coffee.
You should try enjoying things in life. Efficiency is not always the best solution. OTOH, if efficiency is your goal at least be good at attaining it.
Yes, but you can filter several liters of coffee in a second flat. It's visually quite impressive, and tasted better to me than coffee made with a plastic autodrip unit.
You are shamefully uninformed. Gasoline taxes have not been raised in many years and contribute a minority of the funding for roads at this time in most states. Here is an example from Minnesota, where property taxes pay the MAJORITY of road funding. Every property owner pays for roads whether or not they use them.
I don't know what state you live in, but I will bet you a gallon of hi-test that your state pays a large share if not a majority for roads using non-fuel/license/registration tax dollars.
I think the fuel tax should be indexed against construction costs, which have been skyrocketing in most areas for 20 years. The fuel tax has not been raised nearly as much in this time, leading to the current budget crunch and funding from inappropriate sources. I also think developers (which effectively means the buyers in the development) should pay the entire cost of new roads and road expansion instead of burdening people who don't use the new development.
I like your style, but I am a bit more cautious.
I use a Chemex coffeemaker, which is every chemistry geek's dream. It is a very simple all-glass vessel that accommodates a lab-grade folded square filter. You pour hot water through the grounds and end up with a very nice cup o' joe. It looks elegantly labware-like.
I like it because the water never touches metal or plastic, which impart a flavor. I like it because the lab-grade filters make for a very mild flavor even with lumberjack-strength brew. People marvel at how good my coffee tastes "for how strong it is."
I suppose if you want to be truly geeked-out you could use a vacuum pump and extraction funnel. I've done that myself to show off, but it is a lot of work to do before I've had me coffee!
Bicyclists pay federal, state, and local tax money for your roads and freeways and can't ride on them. Fuel/license/registration taxes don't begin to cover road construction and maintenance. Why are you happy to use others tax money but gripe about others using yours?
I've tried to rent a small towing vehicle for a long road trip and ran into problems. Hopefully you know of something, I'm getting too old to break my rental agreement so much. In the past I've rented a vehicle, bought a hitch, installed it (drilling holes in the frame) and removed it when I'm done. The rental agreement always states that I am FORBIDDEN from towing anything ever. I've never gotten in trouble. Who'd check for holes in the frame anyway?
The only legal options I found were u-haul and equivalents, that charge by the mile. I'm putting 2000 miles on it and the difference in cost is extreme. My install-a-hitch method cost $500 for a week, including the hitch. The legal methods started at $2k, which makes buying a vehicle and selling it afterwards cheaper.
Any suggestions? This is a yearly trip, 1k miles each way, and I need to drag a trailer. My primary vehicle is a Toyota Echo, which cannot be safely made to tow. I wish the cheap rental places (dollar, budget, etc) would have a hitch available but absolutely none of them do.
When I'm backpacking and don't want to bring my percolator I make "cowboy coffee." I just boil water in my metal cup over the fire, throw in some grounds (coarse works best for this) trickle a bit of cold water in to help settle the grounds and drink it. I have to spit out a few grounds, but most of them end up sinking to the bottom. I avoid the last bit of coffee unless I want a crunchy treat.
Some people throw eggshells in and claim that it absorbs bitter oils and makes the grounds sink. That is repulsive.