I spent 14 years working in a lab, mostly by myself, and I had time to play now and again....
I once experimented with Hot Ice. It is when you super-saturate a solution of baking soda and vinegar (I was able to use more exotic ingredients to make it super fun). Basically mix them, then heat it over the stove to reach super-saturation point, then put it in the fridge and get it cold.... once cold, drop a single crystal into the mixture and it immediately freezes AND gives off heat, which is wicked cool and makes a crystal formation, though not as awesome as the one in the video.
I was watching a video earlier this morning about how spiders survive winter, which mentioned supercooling and thus took a detour into supercooled water demos: https://youtu.be/mzzfJLQGV8A
When I first worked in parents BAKERY watching the dough rising fascinated me. The dough required a couple of PUNCHING which produced bubbles of yeast gasses. SO being young and curious I had to check it out. DAMN! I almost passed out when it hit me. But that is what YOUTH is for! LEARN NEW THINGS!
HuffPost: "In response to statements from Rep. Gerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who criticized the Justice Department for mishandling the Epstein files, U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi pointed out the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just surpassed a 50,000-point milestone:
"He is the most transparent president in the nation's history, and none of them, none of them asked Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump -- the Dow. The Dow right now is over -- the Dow is over 50,000," she said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee's top Democrat, laughed from the dais. "I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear, Raskin," Bondi said. "The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7000, and the Nasdaq smashing records, Americans' 401(k)s and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about." [At the moment of Bondi's statement, the Dow had actually dipped back below 50,000.]"
Then I remembered that this was a major plot point in Robert Heinlein's 1996 novel, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", where freedom fighters on the moon used a catapult to "throw rocks" at Earth in their bid for independence.
One wonders if Musk wants the power to do this....
I am infuriated that it took a 9 year old victim for Lummis to care about the Epstein files. Oh, 12 and 16 year-olds are fine to get raped and trafficked? FUCK OFF!
So what the hell happened, and then unhappened, in El Paso this morning?
Obviously whatever Sean Duffy says is a lie.
Meanwhile, yesterday in Minneapolis, ICE thugs (apparently, they wouldn't identify themselves) disrupted the operations of the Hennepin County Government Center, including the courts, to take down an 18 year-old drug mule appearing on very serious charges. The kid is in the US unlawfully, and got pulled over driving a car with 57 pounds of meth in the trunk. He was facing a long spell in prison, followed by deportation.
ICE spent the afternoon running around making a spectacle of themselves, and then finally made a hash of arresting him.
So they'll fly him to, umm, El Paso? Or maybe Tucson and rent a car and drive 5 hours? Whatever, now he doesn't stand trial for the meth, does he. So he goes home, apologizes to his cartel boss, and he's back here with maybe 100 pounds of meth next week?
But the ICE guys might get a bonus, just in time for Valentine's Day.
It's like the jewel thief who was looking at huge time, and maybe bargaining down if he told the court where he stashed the jewels he stole, whom ICE grabbed and deported. Getting the jewel thief completely off the hook. Now the insurance companies fight over whether it's $80,000,000 or $20,000,000 they have to pay out.
After hearing what great friends the founder of Victoria's Secret and Jeffery Epstein were I've wonder which came first, their friendship or VS? Meaning was VS Epstein's idea, or did did he glom on to the guy who made sexy clothes for young women?
Let me add. I would not believe a damn thing coming from the FBI at this point. The release of the ring camera evidence sure looks like an ICE person and I wouldn't put it past them to have kidnapped her and then will blame it on "an illegal" just to take the heat off what they are doing.
It's so bad that my mind is now making up conspiracy theories. THAT'S how much faith I have in this FBI.
Also, they used the work "informed" yesterday to say that Rump "informed" the police. Didn't they try the "informant" excuse before. Is there a box of lies they just pull from. Oh this has been used before. .Yeah well that was awhile ago. No one will "remember".
Nutlick went out of his way to claim he cut off all contact with Epstein. The released files have shown that to be complete bullshit. He must have really thought his bullshit would be exposed in the files.
LA Times, today: "An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
The National Governors Assn. said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.
[Snippy] White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Trump has “discretion to invite anyone he wants to the White House.” “It’s the People’s House,” she said. “It’s also the president’s home, so he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events here at the White House.”"
My friend who is recovering from breast surgery after cancer (partial breast removal) also must use binders. The efforts to worm their way into every facet of lives is like the rantings of old men at clouds. Now they're apparently gonna shoot at the clouds.
WRT the Irish guy detained for zero reasons and then them lying about willingness to self deport. If they did not lie they'd have zero cases and they know it.
Of course Rump let out the bad guys. We've seen that on white collar crime on an ongoing basis.
Everything about this admin is a lie. Hopefully, seeing the polls, people are starting to wake up. When White people get killed or wrongly incarcerated it starts to hit home that maybe they aren't going after the bad guys and they could be next.
Here's a guest link from WAPO. An Irish woman with a green card who has been in the USA for decades (brought here as a child) was locked up for months because she had a misdemeanor charge about 10-15 years ago. She was locked in a cell with shit on the walls. Literally shit.
Jamison Foser is usually good, and he's far from the only one guilty of this, as five minutes any day on Bluesky will attest, but I'm beyond sick of people flipping out about HEADLINES. Especially when they don't even link to the article itself.
Your gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/crystal-creation
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/04154870-15e8-499d-9465-4a95b76bd9d7?utm_source=share
Having watched "The Andromeda Strain" over the weekend, this hits VERY differently.
Still beautiful, though.
This world is a singularly beautiful one. I appreciate more and more as I get older.
About time we heard from the mineral realm, instead of the animal or vegetable!
Nucleation,
Nucleation,
It's making me wait...
I spent 14 years working in a lab, mostly by myself, and I had time to play now and again....
I once experimented with Hot Ice. It is when you super-saturate a solution of baking soda and vinegar (I was able to use more exotic ingredients to make it super fun). Basically mix them, then heat it over the stove to reach super-saturation point, then put it in the fridge and get it cold.... once cold, drop a single crystal into the mixture and it immediately freezes AND gives off heat, which is wicked cool and makes a crystal formation, though not as awesome as the one in the video.
YAY FOR CHEMISTRICIANS!!!!!
I was watching a video earlier this morning about how spiders survive winter, which mentioned supercooling and thus took a detour into supercooled water demos: https://youtu.be/mzzfJLQGV8A
Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know what I was looking at 🤣time for more coffee ☕
When I first worked in parents BAKERY watching the dough rising fascinated me. The dough required a couple of PUNCHING which produced bubbles of yeast gasses. SO being young and curious I had to check it out. DAMN! I almost passed out when it hit me. But that is what YOUTH is for! LEARN NEW THINGS!
Nucleation.
An Ode To Glammy's Eyes :
Once one looks quite closely
It's really plain to see
That universal structures
Compose reality
The forms we take for granted
Are present nonetheless
From macro size to micro
There's true orderliness.
And those who have good fortune
Will see this world anew
Though the eyes of someone
Who brings the unique view.
Thanks, sister!
Tiny mighty moes! That photo if the coral looks like it could be one of our “paintings of the day”.
It's all starting to come together!
Right now!
Over you?
Now comes the Fender Rhodes solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo
It's a babby crystalline entity!
If anyone sees Lore hanging around, we may be fucked.
Look out, you ugly bags of mostly water!
This is a pet name my partner and I share.
https://youtu.be/XDl8ZPm3GrU?si=A6VjkP7fC6cxlZQn
Crystal B̵l̵u̵e̵ Yellow Persuasion
☝️☝️☝️
GMTA 👍👍👍
Walter White's latest business creation.
Or maybe Walter Bishop. It's irresponsible not to speculate.
But not Walter Brennan.
I'm sure some real McCoys cooked meth.
Crystal yellow creation. I looked at the linked article, fascinating. But I prefer to photograph stuff that's a little bigger!
🎼Crystal yellow persuasion🎵
I was about to do that one too....
Exactly!
It's the good shit.
I should've read the non-comments already posted before posting mine.🤔
We all do this from time to time. It reflects the excellent quality of the talent here.
At the Bondi hearing:
HuffPost: "In response to statements from Rep. Gerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who criticized the Justice Department for mishandling the Epstein files, U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi pointed out the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just surpassed a 50,000-point milestone:
"He is the most transparent president in the nation's history, and none of them, none of them asked Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump -- the Dow. The Dow right now is over -- the Dow is over 50,000," she said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee's top Democrat, laughed from the dais. "I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear, Raskin," Bondi said. "The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7000, and the Nasdaq smashing records, Americans' 401(k)s and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about." [At the moment of Bondi's statement, the Dow had actually dipped back below 50,000.]"
At first I laughed at this:
"𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤'𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝑇ℎ𝑒 "𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟" 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒"
Then I remembered that this was a major plot point in Robert Heinlein's 1996 novel, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", where freedom fighters on the moon used a catapult to "throw rocks" at Earth in their bid for independence.
One wonders if Musk wants the power to do this....
I am infuriated that it took a 9 year old victim for Lummis to care about the Epstein files. Oh, 12 and 16 year-olds are fine to get raped and trafficked? FUCK OFF!
WHAT?? No Real Housewives tab??
So what the hell happened, and then unhappened, in El Paso this morning?
Obviously whatever Sean Duffy says is a lie.
Meanwhile, yesterday in Minneapolis, ICE thugs (apparently, they wouldn't identify themselves) disrupted the operations of the Hennepin County Government Center, including the courts, to take down an 18 year-old drug mule appearing on very serious charges. The kid is in the US unlawfully, and got pulled over driving a car with 57 pounds of meth in the trunk. He was facing a long spell in prison, followed by deportation.
ICE spent the afternoon running around making a spectacle of themselves, and then finally made a hash of arresting him.
So they'll fly him to, umm, El Paso? Or maybe Tucson and rent a car and drive 5 hours? Whatever, now he doesn't stand trial for the meth, does he. So he goes home, apologizes to his cartel boss, and he's back here with maybe 100 pounds of meth next week?
But the ICE guys might get a bonus, just in time for Valentine's Day.
It's like the jewel thief who was looking at huge time, and maybe bargaining down if he told the court where he stashed the jewels he stole, whom ICE grabbed and deported. Getting the jewel thief completely off the hook. Now the insurance companies fight over whether it's $80,000,000 or $20,000,000 they have to pay out.
Good work, boys.
After hearing what great friends the founder of Victoria's Secret and Jeffery Epstein were I've wonder which came first, their friendship or VS? Meaning was VS Epstein's idea, or did did he glom on to the guy who made sexy clothes for young women?
Let me add. I would not believe a damn thing coming from the FBI at this point. The release of the ring camera evidence sure looks like an ICE person and I wouldn't put it past them to have kidnapped her and then will blame it on "an illegal" just to take the heat off what they are doing.
It's so bad that my mind is now making up conspiracy theories. THAT'S how much faith I have in this FBI.
Also, they used the work "informed" yesterday to say that Rump "informed" the police. Didn't they try the "informant" excuse before. Is there a box of lies they just pull from. Oh this has been used before. .Yeah well that was awhile ago. No one will "remember".
A strong argument for changing the way we vote. It doesn't require a constitutional change.
https://theconversation.com/proportional-representation-could-reduce-polarization-in-congress-and-help-more-people-feel-like-their-voices-are-being-heard-270411
Nutlick went out of his way to claim he cut off all contact with Epstein. The released files have shown that to be complete bullshit. He must have really thought his bullshit would be exposed in the files.
Bline-ded by the lighhhht...
Made up by a dude, another bummer to delight.
LA Times, today: "An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
The National Governors Assn. said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.
[Snippy] White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Trump has “discretion to invite anyone he wants to the White House.” “It’s the People’s House,” she said. “It’s also the president’s home, so he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events here at the White House.”"
She said it, and yet she doesn't get the contradiction of what she said.
This is where we are at, now...
https://bsky.app/profile/tristancall.bsky.social/post/3melbmn2xac2b
My friend who is recovering from breast surgery after cancer (partial breast removal) also must use binders. The efforts to worm their way into every facet of lives is like the rantings of old men at clouds. Now they're apparently gonna shoot at the clouds.
WRT the Irish guy detained for zero reasons and then them lying about willingness to self deport. If they did not lie they'd have zero cases and they know it.
Of course Rump let out the bad guys. We've seen that on white collar crime on an ongoing basis.
Everything about this admin is a lie. Hopefully, seeing the polls, people are starting to wake up. When White people get killed or wrongly incarcerated it starts to hit home that maybe they aren't going after the bad guys and they could be next.
Here's a guest link from WAPO. An Irish woman with a green card who has been in the USA for decades (brought here as a child) was locked up for months because she had a misdemeanor charge about 10-15 years ago. She was locked in a cell with shit on the walls. Literally shit.
https://wapo.st/4aK3iC4
Jamison Foser is usually good, and he's far from the only one guilty of this, as five minutes any day on Bluesky will attest, but I'm beyond sick of people flipping out about HEADLINES. Especially when they don't even link to the article itself.
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