I will be in town from December 28th through around the 3rd or the 4th. irish_prncss will be coming in on the 29th, and be around until I leave. There's also a chance that I will be making a surprise appearance some time before the 28th, but if I told you it wouldn't be a surprise any more. I also got tickets to see the Huskies basketball team play Houston ( Read more... )

my sample turned out to be no good. I actually would have been surprised if it had turned out allright. I know what I need to fix. Anyways, I have this bottle full of soapy water left over from it. I think I am going to stay in town this weekend and try to hunt down some stuff for making my reactors...

I found a sweet smelling yellow fluid in the lab today. I will take it home to perform further testing. And then the next step is tracking down a local source of waste oil, and then trying to make biodiesel from it ( Read more... )

I guess my biodiesel was a bit more successful than I gave it credit for. When I investigated yesterday, I actually did see some separation in one of the samples (after it had sat idly for a few days). I went ahead and started a third sample anyways, which I will continue with today.

No surprise here,
cthullu likes global warming.

this article comes very close to expressing the same things I would have said in my political rant had I decided to write it out.

And this article from the same site has some interesting information for people like atomic_roses who are fascinated with the behavior of voting machines.

What better way to start the day than by spilling a pitcher full of Orange Juice all over myself, the inside of the refrigerator, and the kitchen floor.

So I had that meeting with the baptist pastor this week about finding out about his church. Turns out that I can't become a "member" of the church because I took a bath once in a building with a different name on the front of it than the name on the front of his building. Anyways, I don't have a terrible problem with that. If I'm not a member I ( Read more... )

in other news

There seems to be a disturbing symmetry here. At least from our vantage point.

Maybe I should have moved there instead of Missouri...

important election news from the Onion.

Some of you who are quite fond of my infamous former neighbor might be interested in
thisRather dated information, I know, but I stumbled upon it while surfing the internet last night, and I knew it involved someone you all cared a lot about ( Read more... )