Sunday, September 27, 2009

Still afloat

The egg is still floating:
It's floating on a layer of saltwater at the bottom of the jar. The water on top is fresh. The egg is denser than the fresh water, but less dense than the saltwater.

Some of the excess salt that was suspended but not dissolved has settled to the bottom, so the picture is a little clearer than the ones from the first day.

In less (more?) eggciting news, here is a sunset from our living room window:


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Friday, September 25, 2009

Eggfloat

I made a magical floating egg!

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Amazing discovery

Occasionally upon looking at our old stove (a Tappan Holiday, in fact), I have had the following thoughts:

"It'd sure be nice if we had a light over the stove."

"You know, it almost looks like that back panel is supposed to light up."

"Nah, it couldn't be that fancy, could it?"

Well, yesterday I decided to look a little bit closer and found a button on the right side of the stove, between it and the wall. I pushed it and, after several suspenseful seconds of clunking and buzzing from a fluorescent starter that probably hasn't been used in 15 years:

Ta-da!

Such excitement to be had without even leaving home!
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

For getting the bugs off?


It's a "Software Squeegee"! (from CVS)
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