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Sun, Sep. 9th, 2012 03:38 am
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Back from Taiwan. I wasn't keeping up with LJ because the days were very long. If you want a sample of my excitement about being there (and back here)... http://youtu.be/b3my3aScBeA  
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Tue, Feb. 7th, 2012 05:06 pm
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So...I had a wonderful time at the wedding, it was a day well spent at EPCOT...or so I thought. Somewhere along the line I ate something...something terrible...it wasn't any of the wedding food, as no one else was iincapacitated as far as I can tell...I suspect it was the Udon noodles at the Japanese pavilion. Anyway ( hidden for the weak of stomachCollapse ), explosions, funny, shenanigans, sick, travel Current Location: orlando, fl
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Sat, Nov. 12th, 2011 11:27 am
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It's a book written in the early 70's by a rocket propellant scientist. While it's full of technical chemistry and basic rocket physics, it's written in a funny, personal style that makes the chemistry unimportant. It's very funny if you find stories of really smart people doing things that could almost kill them funny.
A quote from the book (and these sort of asides are on every other page):
The highly volatile trimethylamine sticks tenaciously to the skin and clothes, and smells like the Fulton Street fish market on a hot Saturday morning (although some of us used a more earthy comparison) and poor Roger Machinist, who had the job of making the salt, was saluted, for some weeks, by people who held their noses with one hand, pointed at him with the other, and shouted, "Unclean, unclean!" We called that propellant "Minnie," for reasons which now escape me.
Another one I liked:
Burning it with ozone in a laboratory expirement, Professor Grosse of Temple University (who always liked living dangerously) attained a stead state temperature of some 6000 K, equal to that of the surface of the sun.
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