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Keeping the speed limit

Here is a video about a group of people who decided to keep the speed limit, by going 55 down the highway. They got interesting results. Well, as you could guess, they saw many angry drivers. One driver in the experiment commented, "I was glad nobody got hurt... it was potentially dangerous" And that was exactly the point of the experiment. Driving the speed limit got angry drivers and it was dangerous. Obeying the law was dangerous. Kinda weird.

In Acapulco

So, I was watching the Lawrence Welk Show a few weeks ago, and this song came on. I thought it was so cool, that I went and looked up the lyrics. Unfortunately, just reading the words isn't as fun as listening to them being sung. I will have to find a recording of it somewhere... In Acapulco Chorus: If you're romantic, chum, Pack up your duds and come To Acapulco. You put your cares in hock And throw away your clock In Acapulco. Where you can be as lazy as a daisy drifting in a blue lagoon, You're wide awake at night, because you do your dreaming in the afternoon. You'll get a Latin glow Way down in Mehico, Below the border. And in a spot like this, If you refuse a kiss You're out of order. And when the moon is new, It's like a honeydew, Come on and get yourself a slice; And if you can't say Acapulco, Then you can call it Paradise. Patter: When you meet someone you like, You like to have a conversation, When you do not understand, It's such a touchy s

Why Engineers Don't Write Recipes

Why Engineers Don't Write Recipes Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients: 1. 532.35 cm3 gluten 2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3 3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite 4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride 5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11 6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11 7. 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde 8. Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein 9. 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao 10. 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10) To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous. To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, w

I think I'm a clone now

I had this song in my head this morning so, let me share a part of it. It is a parody by Weird Al Yankovic of the song "I think we're alone now" sung by Tiffany. I think I'm a clone now There's always two of me just a-hangin' around I think I'm a clone now 'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down Look at the way We go out walking close together I guess you could say I'm really beside myself I still remember how it began (gan-gan-gan) They produced a carbon copy man (man-man-man) Born in a science lab late one night Without a mother or a father, just a test tube and a womb with a view