Alex's Stupid Blog - Comments

Quirk: Hotlinking

nospam@example.com (Quirk) — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:52:04 -0700

Hey,

Sorry for the hotlink, I found your pix cool and as I couldn't upload any files to the server, I linked it.

The new pix is quite funny and didn't notice your change til now. Anyway, I just removed hotlink.

Cya

Anonymous: Hotlinking

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:18:34 -0700

haha nice

Alex Rock: Holy crap I don't know what's going on

nospam@example.com (Alex Rock) — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:52:54 -0800

What's this? What's this?
There's color everywhere
What's this?
There's white things in the air
What's this?
I can't believe my eyes
I must be dreaming

Keith: Internal Organs vs Pipe Organs

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:23:47 -0800

It's like reading the Cliff's Notes of Finnegan's Wake.

Keith: Milk in the washbin

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:01:20 -0800

When Rock walks by, you can smell the burning insulation.

Keith: A room with a view

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:53:10 -0700

This is a man with an oscilloscope on his shelf. He has "mad scientist" written all over him.

Jared: Frozen Jello

nospam@example.com (Jared) — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:12:01 -0800

College has apparently tought you a great many things. Unfortunatly, none of them useful.

Keith: Station Wagon Bandwidth

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:17:32 -0800

I defy anyone to come up with in intelligent sounding comment for this one. I sure as hell couldn't.

Keith: socks, books, and work

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:07:40 -0800

A magnet filled ball of socks would:

a. Stick to the inside of the dryer.

b. Once stuck, potentially act as a magnito and generate a considerable electric charge.

c. Be easy to steal, provided that one had a larger magnet.

keith: Frozen Pudding

nospam@example.com (keith) — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:13:13 -0800

There's always plain old milk. They used to sell "milk-pops", which were just as disgusting as they sound.

Another option would be iced beer, another commercially marketed product. By waiting for the water to start to freeze, and siphoning off the still-liquid alcohol, you get something between ordinary beer and straight grain alcohol.

Chicken broth would be something else, though you would have to find someone dumb enough to eat it. Tomato soup might be better.

If you've got some liquid nitrogen lying around, you could always try vodka pops -- they make dandy additions to any cool drink, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend eating one straight. That would make for an interesting trip to the hospital.

It's lewis!: Frozen Jello

nospam@example.com (It's lewis!) — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:17:41 -0800

Oh, in case someone didn't know, N/K stads for "Not Known" and N/P stands for "Not Posted".

It's lewis!: Frozen Jello

nospam@example.com (It's lewis!) — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:06:33 -0800

Just for future reference, I gleaned this information from various websites which I will link to below.

Studies of the freezing point depression showed that the presence of as much as 50% of native proteins had no effect on the freezing point of water while inclusion of gelatin, PEO, etc., caused concentration-dependent lowering of the freezing temperature. (1)

Section 9 - Physical & Chemical Properties
137 6375 GELATIN
HCC:
NRC/State License Number:
Net Property Weight for Ammo:
Boiling Point: Boiling Point Text: N/K
Melting/Freezing Point: Melting/Freezing Text: N/K
Decomposition Point: Decomposition Text: N/K
Vapor Pressure: NEGLIGIBLE Vapor Density: N/K
Percent Volatile Organic Content:
Specific Gravity: N/K
Volatile Organic Content Pounds per Gallon:
pH: N/K
Volatile Organic Content Grams per Liter:
Viscosity: N/P
Evaporation Weight and Reference: (N-BU AC = 1): NEGLIGIBLE
Solubility in Water: APPRECIABLE
Appearance and Odor: OFF-WHITE CRYSTALLINE SOLID.
Percent Volatiles by Volume: N/K
Corrosion Rate: N/K (2)

In understanding Freezing point:
freezing point is a function only of
the molality of the solution (moles of solute per kilogram of solvent)
multiplied by a constant (called the freezing point depression constant) that
is dependent only on the solvent. (3)

Finally, according to an online quiz I found (it's javascript based so you can find out the answer to the question without having to submit anything {it's question 35}):
The presence of a nonvolatile solute will cause the freezing point of a solvent to decrease. (4)

(1)http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3041574&dopt=Abstract
(2)http://msds.ehs.cornell.edu/msds/msdsdod/a258/m128976.htm
(3)http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03462.htm
(4)http://scnc.tps.k12.mi.us/~eferwer/AP_quiz/mc-11-34-56c.htm

keith: Frozen Jello

nospam@example.com (keith) — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:04:30 -0800

I would have written "your", if only I had had the presence of mind to watch what I was writing.

keith: Frozen Jello

nospam@example.com (keith) — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:02:17 -0800

Rock, pudding pops are a commercially marketed product, and have been for years. Sorry to burst yor bubble.

Keith: Things to do with a time machine

nospam@example.com (Keith) — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:48:10 -0700

I thought of another one: To kidnap people from the past and put them to work on the problems of today.

We could, for example, have Harry Truman or Theodore Roosevelt as president right now. Almost anyone but John Kerry would be more effective than the guy that's in there now, and what could the likes of Jacques Chirac say to Abraham Lincoln?

We could put historical figures in lesser posts, too. L. Paul Bremer III might be the best Proconsul of Iraq that's alive today, but I coubt that he could hold a candle to Julius Caesar or Huey Long.