I just had another "You are officially a dinosaur" moment. I was looking for a combination drawing tool (I have one somewhere) online and discovered it here [Click] IN THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY! It's probably right around the corner from the cork rollers [Click] and the black crinkle finish Klett-Summerson Photoelectric Colorimeters! [Click] ARGHHHHH!
I envision softening up an iPhone X with my cork roller....
--Alan [grin]
First you have to soften the corks in the cork roller, then bore them and slip the glass tubing through (add a bit of glycerine for lubricant if needed), and then you can assemble your stills, water dispensers, etc. Glassware with ground glass joints was just beginning to come into use in college chemistry labs when I was in junior college; we had to be able to assemble and use the old-fashioned glassware put together with corks. Hotplates were too expensive for teaching labs; we had to use Bunsen and Meeker or Fisher burners; we had to learn how to boil off ether from an organic extract--you boiled it VERY gently, touching the ether off with the flame frequently. If it boiled over and caught fire, then it would quickly boil and burn ever faster, which was, ahem, a problem. Real fancy organic chemistry labs (like at the state college I later attended) had steam baths at each work station. Safety glasses were a rarity. We would have been pretty much at home in a chemistry lab of the 1890's; the only difference would have been gas lights instead of electric lights, but that would have been no big deal. I can remember my father lighting the gas lights in our store when the electricity went out. It was a rather dim, yellow, unsteady light--but it did the job.
Somehow my server has been super slow tonight. How slow? The little beach ball that spins around was showing one colour at a time. Not kidding. It's fine with my phone, as that grabs from the tower.
I was able to upgrade the Moon photo on the last thread, as later on the sky cleared for a few minutes, so I went outside in my slippers to get it. My morning photos got obscured by tree branches as the Moon was setting about the time the eclipse was happening.
"The lawyers for former Trump aide Rick Gates, who was indicted alongside Paul Manafort, have asked for permission to withdraw from the case “effective immediately,” USA Today reports.
The reasons aren’t stated in the public filing but are included in an exhibit “which is the subject of a motion to be filed under seal.”
This suggests Gates may have flipped and is now cooperating with the special counsel. If true, that’s very bad news for Manafort."
I know more about the case than I can ethically say in public, and I have also not heard all the evidence the jury has. But based on what I can see, the just decision may not be among the alternatives set before the jury. It is a very unusually complicated case. The prosecutor seemed a very nice young man in my limited dealings with him, and the defense attorney was a delight to work with. Both their adrenalin levels must have been stratospheric.
I just had another "You are officially a dinosaur" moment. I was looking for a combination drawing tool (I have one somewhere) online and discovered it here [Click] IN THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY! It's probably right around the corner from the cork rollers [Click] and the black crinkle finish Klett-Summerson Photoelectric Colorimeters! [Click] ARGHHHHH!
ReplyDelete--Alan
Gosh! Who decided it was an old item? Young whippersnappers, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteI envision softening up an iPhone X with my cork roller....
Delete--Alan [grin]
First you have to soften the corks in the cork roller, then bore them and slip the glass tubing through (add a bit of glycerine for lubricant if needed), and then you can assemble your stills, water dispensers, etc. Glassware with ground glass joints was just beginning to come into use in college chemistry labs when I was in junior college; we had to be able to assemble and use the old-fashioned glassware put together with corks. Hotplates were too expensive for teaching labs; we had to use Bunsen and Meeker or Fisher burners; we had to learn how to boil off ether from an organic extract--you boiled it VERY gently, touching the ether off with the flame frequently. If it boiled over and caught fire, then it would quickly boil and burn ever faster, which was, ahem, a problem. Real fancy organic chemistry labs (like at the state college I later attended) had steam baths at each work station. Safety glasses were a rarity. We would have been pretty much at home in a chemistry lab of the 1890's; the only difference would have been gas lights instead of electric lights, but that would have been no big deal. I can remember my father lighting the gas lights in our store when the electricity went out. It was a rather dim, yellow, unsteady light--but it did the job.
--Alan
Somehow my server has been super slow tonight. How slow? The little beach ball that spins around was showing one colour at a time. Not kidding. It's fine with my phone, as that grabs from the tower.
ReplyDeleteGee--I've never seen that.
DeleteAlan
I was able to upgrade the Moon photo on the last thread, as later on the sky cleared for a few minutes, so I went outside in my slippers to get it. My morning photos got obscured by tree branches as the Moon was setting about the time the eclipse was happening.
ReplyDeleteThe trial in which I testified last week has gone to the jurors; [Click] I am very glad not to be among them.
ReplyDelete--Alan
The defendant's last name is an excellent adjective for the trial.
DeleteWho knew that Republican rabbits played video games?[Click] Reminds me of duck houses and moat cleaning, it does.
ReplyDelete—Alan
DT: "Orrin Hatch said I am the greatest President in American History, including Lincoln and Washington."
ReplyDeleteOH: Actually said "can be" not "is".
(I suspect that was a long way back in the year.)
Delusional.
Trump: Orrin Hatch Said I Am Best President in History.
ReplyDeleteOrrin Hatch: Um, Not Quite.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/trump-says-orrin-hatch-told-him-he-was-the-best-president-in-history-but-the-senator-denies-it.html
In case you haven't seen this...
ReplyDelete--Alan
"The lawyers for former Trump aide Rick Gates, who was indicted alongside Paul Manafort, have asked for permission to withdraw from the case “effective immediately,” USA Today reports.
The reasons aren’t stated in the public filing but are included in an exhibit “which is the subject of a motion to be filed under seal.”
This suggests Gates may have flipped and is now cooperating with the special counsel. If true, that’s very bad news for Manafort."
And probably not just for Manafort...
--Alan
Alan, do let us know how that trial turns out. Feels more like Alabama than California, lol!
ReplyDeleteI know more about the case than I can ethically say in public, and I have also not heard all the evidence the jury has. But based on what I can see, the just decision may not be among the alternatives set before the jury. It is a very unusually complicated case. The prosecutor seemed a very nice young man in my limited dealings with him, and the defense attorney was a delight to work with. Both their adrenalin levels must have been stratospheric.
DeleteAlan
Second degree murder [Click]
Delete--Alan