Archive for June, 2007

Science is Fun.

Follow these steps if you would like to duplicate my science experiment from yesterday.

Dry Ice Slabs

1. Go buy some dry ice. We got ours from Pain Enterprises in Fort Wayne.

2. Load the dry ice in the back of an SUV.

3. Close the windows, and leave the SUV sit in 95 degree weather for 15 minutes while you go shopping at Wal-Mart.

4. Get in the SUV and drive.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS OR YOU WILL RUIN THE EXPERIMENT!

5. If you have followed all of these steps correctly, you should notice you have an elevated heart rate and rapid breathing or panting after about 10 to 15 minutes of driving. Ignore this.

6. After another minute or so, you should start feeling a sort of constricting feeling in your throat.

7. At this point, yell loudly “SHIT! I HAVE DRY ICE IN THE BACK SEAT!!” and then pound your finger into the automatic window button to open your window.

8. With one quick motion thrust your head outside and breathe deeply.

9. Once back in your office visit this link “Dry Ice Info - Safe Handling” and read the section on VENTILATION.

10. Share your story with the entire world so they can call you an idiot.

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Should I Be Suspicious?

The owner of one of my favorite Chinese restaurants asked me if I had dogs, and where I got them.

Odd. I told him that we had a couple of Shepherd / Rottweiler mixes that we picked up from a farm just south of town. We had found them through the newspaper.

He started talking in Chinese to his wife standing beside him, and then told me that they were interested in getting a pure breed. I swear he said it was because they had better tenderness. Maybe he said temperament.

Chinese Dog

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