Aaaand there’s video.
Bamf.
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You have piqued my curiosity. The oil in a citrus peel isn’t very soluble in water, which is why punches are best made with an oleo-saccharum (muddle peels with sugar and let rest, and the sugar extracts the oil for you). Now I want to A-B test this.
Is the concern that the simple syrup won’t bond to the infused alcohol properly? Or is the concern that the alcohol won’t accept the citrus oils in the lime peels?
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No, I’m not drinking Everclear. Today was dicey, but, not that dicey.
No, instead, I peeled a bag of limes (bought by my friend Don), and put the peels in everclear in a sealed bottle to steep for a week. Then we’ll strain off the peels and mix it 1:1 with simple syrup.
With lemons, this is Limoncello. With limes, Limeoncello.
Secret Message for @sfuss and @phearlez (Taken with instagram)
Some days, you need more than Bourbon. (Taken with instagram)
Favorite Part. (Taken with Instagram at 9:30 Club)
I’d quote from this a fine description of this delicious bread, but Tumblr won’t let me pull a quote from her site.
Anyway. This is Welsh Rarebit in loaf form. Expensive, calorie-wise, but worth it.
“One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.”
If I Were President… | Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a BAMF.
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Packed House today. (Taken with Instagram at DC Brau Brewing Co)
I’ll admit curiosity. And confusion. But definitely curiosity.
mdt:
In Ryan Jensen I trust.
Can’t wait to try this at Peregrine Espresso.
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i want it all
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s unbelievably important. You should eat breakfast at least three times a day.”
~ BtVS
Tomorrow is the first post-Capital City Diner breakfast.
I’m not sure I’m ready for this.
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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Clara Lazen is the discoverer of tetranitratoxycarbon, a molecule constructed of, obviously, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. It’s got some interesting possible properties, ranging from use as an explosive to energy storage. Lazen is listed as the co-author of a recent paper on the molecule. But that’s not what’s so interesting and inspiring about this story. What’s so unusual here is that Clara Lazen is a ten-year-old fifth-grader in Kansas City, MO.
Kenneth Boehr, Clara’s science teacher, handed out the usual ball-and-stick models used to visualize simple molecules to his fifth-grade class. But Clara put the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms together in a particular complex way and asked Boehr if she’d made a real molecule. Boehr, to his surprise, wasn’t sure. So he photographed the model and sent it over to a chemist friend at Humboldt State University who identified it as a wholly new but also wholly viable chemical.
» via Popular Science
And the next Sheldon Cooper is born?
File under: computational chemists not really understanding synthesis. This thing is damn near impossible to make; it would hydrolyze right away.
And just like that, Denny broke my nifty tumblr fact of the day.
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“And so, two years later, the Nationals are finally attempting to say sorry to their fans for the Opening Day 2010 debacle engineered by Stan Kasten and a fleet of Phillies Party Buses (whereby tickets to Opening Day at Nationals park were made available to Phillies fans via group sales long before Nationals fans here at home had any chance to purchase their own tickets individually.”
Nats Enquirer: “Let’s Go Phillies!” chant at Nationals Park: Opening Day 2010
I spent way too much money on tickets today.
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“With the tent rental, the trust paid more money to the Kentucky special-events company than it paid in annual rent for its own office space. What’s more, most of the dozens of community groups that have received funding from the trust to provide tutoring, employment training and summer programs throughout the District have received nowhere near the $404,729 paid to the company.”
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Oh my sweet leopardy jesus, I want to have their babies.
