quotidian

Jun 19, 2006 23:59

I now have internet at home! I can spam livejournal with hundreds of trivial "what I did today" posts! Mwahaha!
What I did:
fire )

mad science, fire, goofy

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insomniac_tales June 20 2006, 08:30:50 UTC
Wow.

I'd tell my brother about the geyser of doom, knowing he'd do it, but I don't want to get yelled at when our front yard gets covered in soda and ants.

PS- I'm ecstatic to see more random posts from you!

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signsoflife June 20 2006, 12:53:10 UTC
It's usually done with diet soda, which, not being food, does not attract ants.

(Though now I want to experiment on the difference in height of geyser acheived by sugar v. diet soda.)

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thewronghands June 20 2006, 08:47:01 UTC
By "doesn't chip right", do you mean that it does chip, but differently?

Also, fwoom! [grin]

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corivax June 20 2006, 15:54:06 UTC
Well, you can kinda scrape some off and get scary newspaper-flavored snowcones. :) But it doesn't seem to chip in the sense of "hit it and a large piece flies off intact."

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wordweaverlynn June 20 2006, 11:01:53 UTC
Wow. I had no idea you did such amazingly cool things. How did you learn to blow glass?

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corivax June 20 2006, 16:25:04 UTC
The Seattle area is a huge glass-art mecca. You can take a weekend seminar or two in glassblowing for $20 and hour or so, and rent a studio to use the equipment you need. Most of us can't manage a gas-fired furnace with a hundred pounds of molten glass in our basements, alas.

For tiny little things like the turtle (he's a bit under half an inch long), I just bought a plumber's torch, a head for it, and some glass rods. It's something I can do in my apartment, and I find it calming and meditative. Should you find yourself in my area, I would be honored to introduce you to the joys of small-scale glassworking. It's the sort of thing everyone should do at least once. It's very difficult to make an ugly piece of swirly multicolored glass. :)

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iridium June 20 2006, 17:46:52 UTC
ack! one more thing on the list of reasons to maybe move to seattle. d'you know anything about access to glass/metalworking studios in portland, by chance?

(i'm sorry i didn't manage to catch you on my way down the west coast. hopefully i'll make it up that way again before long, since i've got friends around there and it's a neat area...)

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gurdonark June 20 2006, 12:14:13 UTC
All very cool. I must finally be getting older, when the turtle seems cooler than the explosion.

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rollick June 20 2006, 14:21:42 UTC
You DO realize that you paint life in Seattle as one big, unending mad-science/art party. Very jealousy-inducing.

Also, the soda-fountain picture is particularly awesome, but this entire post is excellent with the neatness.

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