Take a picture once a day, whether you need to or not

[Brogarn]

It does look like some kind of dessert. Or I'm just hungry.

[Lantyssa]

Snow!  In HOUSTON.  That doesn't happen.  I've got a better one from a few hours after, but I can't be bothered to update it right now.

[MrHat]

Snow!  In HOUSTON.  That doesn't happen.  I've got a better one from a few hours after, but I can't be bothered to update it right now.

Awesome.  Crazy.  But awesome.

[Draegan]

Working on a nitrogen generator.

[bhodi]

Woah, kick ass. I always wanted one of those. (Seriously.) I considered the cost of getting one, but was too expensive to even consider buying the parts and making one myself. I was actually wanting to just make liquid air to play around with, something using the "Hampson-Linde cycle", but again beyond my reach.

[Draegan]

My generators create Nitrogen from compressed air.  Wanna help my quota and buy one? 

[Nebu]

My generators create Nitrogen from compressed air.  Wanna help my quota and buy one? 

If you sold liquid nitrogen generators, I'd buy.  I need one for my lab!

[Draegan]

My generators create Nitrogen from compressed air.  Wanna help my quota and buy one? 

If you sold liquid nitrogen generators, I'd buy.  I need one for my lab!

What are you running in your lab?

[Lantyssa]

What are the costs and how much do they generate?  We go through a lot of liquid nitrogen in the department.

[Nebu]

What are you running in your lab?

NMR, Cell culture storage, Schlenk lines, and freezedriers.  My FTIR also has an MCT detector that requires cooling. 

[Draegan]

What are the costs and how much do they generate?  We go through a lot of liquid nitrogen in the department.

As long as you don't need the N2 for cryo stuff, we can generate as much as you need from purities of 95% up to 99.99% and all we need is compressed air.  Costs/how much depend on what you need.

Nebu:  We do have a line of FTIR purge gas generators.
http://www.parker.com/parkerimages/balston/ags/cat/english/AGScatalogcomplete.pdf
Page 16. 

If you need -100degF dry compressed air for your NMR I have equipment for that as well.

Enough whoring myself out now.  I feel dirty.

[apocrypha]

Are your liquid nitrogen costs really that high? BOC used to charge us such a small amount per litre that the costs of the dewars were always the largest part of it. We looked into generators at one of the labs I worked in and there was no way it was going to pay for itself in anything under 20 years. I think we were using about 50-100 litres a month, so I suppose that's fairly small scale.

[Lantyssa]

Probably not, and with having to sort it out between thirty labs, it's likely not practical.  We would need a billing system set up like the NMR and x-ray labs, which would require a person to handle it, which means more work for someone or a new hire...

Still, it seems more practical for a chemistry department to have one than to be sending a truck 'round every other day.

[Viin]

Just finished bottling three different meads: a dry blackberry, cinnamon and cloves, and a traditional. We now have many many bottles of mead and my wife is the only one that drinks it!

[schild]

Just finished bottling three different meads: a dry blackberry, cinnamon and cloves, and a traditional. We now have many many bottles of mead and my wife is the only one that drinks it!

I like mead. But something about prohibition homemade mead scares me.

[FatuousTwat]

I doubt they made it in an old radiator.

[voodoolily]

Behold, Totchos.



Yes, it is nachos made with tater tots. If being white trash tastes this good, then I don't want to be right.

[schild]

Yes, it is nachos made with tater tots. If being white trash tastes this good, then I don't want to be right.

Olives.

Nature's asshole.

[stray]

I'd say mushrooms are. Way to ruin a meal. 


Not that you'd ever find them in nachos though.

[JWIV]

Behold, Totchos.



Yes, it is nachos made with tater tots. If being white trash tastes this good, then I don't want to be right.

DAMN YOU AND YOUR TASTY CARBOHYDRATES

[voodoolily]

Boo-ya.

[Viin]

I doubt they made it in an old radiator.

We used a rusted out oil barrel for the raspberry one, and an old toilet tank (we found it on the side of the road last year) for the middle one. Plain ol' glass carboy for the nice clear one.

The nice thing about mead is that it takes approx 2 hrs to get the brew ready, then it sits for 6 months, do a transfer, let it sit for 6 months and bottle. If you do a new batch every 6 months, then after a year you get a new set of mead every 6 months. Just one of those batches you see in the picture would fill 15 wine bottles, these are from half-filled (after transfers) 6 gallon carboys. For alcohol content, think port.

[Sky]

We were playing Scrabble with HGTV on in the background and there was some show where hosts from different HGTV shows show you their homes for xmas. I had my back to the tv when I heard the magic words. Cookie Party. Bring a plate of cookies, take a bag home. In between eat a bajillion cookies with some hot chocolate.

I'm firmly behind the cookie party. I wish I had thought of that one when I was a stoner. I'm about to go cookie crazy for the three xmas parties in three days this weekend, also going to make another pan of triple chocolate fudge brownies.

[Draegan]

Lisa G on Howard Stern just had her cookie party.

[Sky]

Oh, we had plenty of that kind of cookie party.

[FatuousTwat]

I doubt they made it in an old radiator.

We used a rusted out oil barrel for the raspberry one, and an old toilet tank (we found it on the side of the road last year) for the middle one. Plain ol' glass carboy for the nice clear one.

The nice thing about mead is that it takes approx 2 hrs to get the brew ready, then it sits for 6 months, do a transfer, let it sit for 6 months and bottle. If you do a new batch every 6 months, then after a year you get a new set of mead every 6 months. Just one of those batches you see in the picture would fill 15 wine bottles, these are from half-filled (after transfers) 6 gallon carboys. For alcohol content, think port.

My father had a bunch of those old carboys he used to make wierd booze in. Like elderberry wine and plum wine...

[Bunk]

Yes, it is nachos made with tater tots. If being white trash tastes this good, then I don't want to be right.

Olives.

Nature's asshole.

I put olives in to just about anything I can get away with - omlettes, pasta sauce, whatever...

That looks really yummy.

[stray]

This looked Fall Out-ish to me.

[Brogarn]

Heh. Ya, the font on the regulator does make it look like something from Fallout.

[Merusk]

I miss the dials.  They went through here 3 years ago and replaced all the dial meters with electronic ones that they just have to drive into the neighborhood to read. I don't trust the fuckers at all.

[NiX]

Crazy snowstorm. Actually, it's nothing we haven't seen before up here in Canadia, but news outlets and even Environment Canada have decided to call it... Snowmageddon.

[Sky]

Yeah, people are getting stupid here, too. As if we've never had a foot of snow drop on us in a few hours before.

Got out in the FJ, I am so loving my snow beast (no relation to Snow Beast).

[murdoc]

Crazy snowstorm. Actually, it's nothing we haven't seen before up here in Canadia, but news outlets and even Environment Canada have decided to call it... Snowmageddon.

Probably surprising to everyone here not Canadian, but this is the first year since the early 70's that they are saying it'll be a country-wide white Christmas, meaning that there is at least 2 inches of snow in all areas of Canada.

Snow I can handle, 2 weeks of -40 temperatures, not so much.

[voodoolily]

This is "lolwtf, the most snow Portland has seen in 40 years!!" according to the news. It's a lot of fucking snow for December. Sauced and I are pretty much trapped here unless we want to shuffle through a foot for half a mile to the nearest grocery store. We're out of eggs and milk, and may have to gnaw on our legs to survive. Or steak and chanterelle pasties.



Apologies for shitteh quality, this is from my kitchen window.

[Sky]

Borrowing a co-worker's Avalanche roof rake thingy today or tomorrow. I was out last night clearing my roof of the foot-and-a-half of snow on it with the cheap rake the kid who previously owned the house had probably got on clearance from walmart, then spent fifteen minutes shovelling out the 4ft high pile of compressed snow from the front of the house. I love the exercise, but a few more nights of that and I'd be hurting (I only got about 1/4 the roof cleared in an hour and a half).

And it's still snowing, woohoo!

VL: That's why I love the FJ. City was slow with the plows on Sunday, but I just popped out in the FJ and life went on as normal, travelled about 30 miles to enjoy family xmas. My fiancee got tired of rolling her eyes when I kept intentionally running into large snowdrifts, though. And I like to park in snowbanks. The party I was at Saturday had a long driveway packed with cars, so I just drove into their yard, which was covered with a couple feet of snow.

I love winter.