Mrs. 4444, the great teacher from Wisconsin has given me reason to use a favorite word of mine, “serendipity”. Finding her Friday Fragments was serendipity for me. Because of FF I have a regular post writing idea every week and I meet more bloggers. You should join in.
I had two shout-outs on other blogs this week (very cool - thanks).
- The Original Bean mentioned my International Women’s Day post that featured the 007 promotion clip made to increase awareness.
- Eternal Lizdom included my avatar in her funny (slightly odd IMHO) post about the Lizdom way of eating M&M’s.
I mentioned listening to old Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention stuff found on youtube in a recent post. That had me thinking of alternate names for a band today, like Mothers of Detention.
Out of nowhere, days after the post, the best name pops up in my head:
Mothers of Intervention
My Irish friend emailed the following picture to me. Don’t you love it when random stuff lines up. Once I intentionally took a picture of my wife with the Washington Monument sticking up from her head. She didn’t find it that hilarious.
He also sent an email about a somewhat strange characteristic of water.
Hey want to learn an interesting physics fact? Oh c’mon it’s quick and could even prevent an accident.
Pure water in a very clean or no container will in the right conditions become either supercooled or superheated. The “super” part just means that the temperature is below freezing or above boiling. The water molecule needs some impurities to form the ice crystals or to form the vapor bubbles.
Accident prevention - it is possible to superheat water in a microwave and if that happens you don’t want to be near it because it will violently erupt and splash boiling water into the air. Don’t heat pure water into the microware. Add the tea bag first or just heat it on the stove.
Now the supercooled water is much safer to play around with but it is believed to be one of the causes of an Air France crash over the mid-Atlantic.
Oh, I was contacted by CSN. You know the blogland superstore. Do you think I should do a giveaway?
I need to create a superblog. As soon as a reader opens its page, it would instantly start writing a good comment about the post. For now, you will have to do that. Thanks.
