Offensive bumper sticker of the day:
Gas, ass, or grass: No one rides for free
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Offensive bumper sticker of the day:
Gas, ass, or grass: No one rides for free
Offensive bumper sticker of the day:
That one's very old. (Dates back to the early '70s?)
Awesome collection of mid-20th century science art: [link]
What the surface of Venus might look like
Children being attacked by giant grasshoppers!
Dragonflies. Kenneth Heurer was on crack.
So where is our science fiction art these days? Does anyone even bother anymore?
Make. The. Day. Stop.
Also, my neighbors made dinner reservations for me. I'm exhausted. I don't want to go to dinner. I want to get a movie and takeout and chill. If I were going to celebrate, I'd be with the LAistas. I'm not celebratey.
I feel like it's a birthday hijacking. And oddly, I don't feel ungrateful. Mad. But not ungrateful. I sat in a meeting for 6 hours straight on intellectual property, and am now picking nits on the reactivity of hydrofluoric acid 48%.
Seriously. I don't have the energy to be magnanimous.
Can you ask them to postpone, Allyson? Sounds like you've had a long-assed day.
Chemistry question. In the compound shown here, why is the nitrogen bit drawn like that? Shouldn't it be 1 link from the carbon atom to the nitrogen atom and then 2 separate links to hydrogen instead of one bent line?
Also, while I'm reliving high school (please let this stop short of maths), it would seem to me that an online simulator of the electronics kits that seemed so cool when I was a young teen would be pretty simple to put together. I'd love to play with one, and see if I can grasp concepts now I never got then.
Happier birthday?!
One of my physics professors used to do paintings (and troubleshoot the science) for scifi writers, as a consultant.
In the compound shown here, why is the nitrogen bit drawn like that? Shouldn't it be 1 link from the carbon atom to the nitrogen atom and then 2 separate links to hydrogen instead of one bent line?
Because that's an amino group. The bent line means that there are more carbon atoms (two more, one at each kink).
Thanks, PC. I should have looked at this which is clearer.