I'm still geeking out about it!
I heart the discovery channel. I perhaps would consider getting cable solely so I could watch discovery channel goodies. We're at Eric's parents in Maple Grove, and we watched an episode of a show called "Some Assembly Required" about how stuff gets made. This episode had the assembly of "bounce houses" (aka those bouncy things kids go in at carnivals), a Zamboni, and hurricane glass. The exciting part for me was when they made the vinyl that the bouncy things are made out of, because I had to reproduce the chemical structure for a couple of similar polymers on my chem test yesterday! I know how that shit works on a molecular level, and I could make you a recipe to do it! Score!
Plus, making glass is an awesomely excellent chemical process that I also just learned all about in chem class. Then they put a fun stretchy (unbreakable) plastic polymer between two panes of glass and heat them together to make hurricane glass - windows that don't break out when stuff moving up to 50 feet per second crashes into it. The glass on the outside rained all over, but the window remained intact. Yay for polymer chemistry! So delicious! Also about a zillion times more exciting and interesting than how somebody wrote some poem that can have a zillion different meanings, depending on how you interpret it, again and again endlessly until you've filled a fucking library with all the bullshit. I'll take making bouncy things any day, thanks.
Plus, making glass is an awesomely excellent chemical process that I also just learned all about in chem class. Then they put a fun stretchy (unbreakable) plastic polymer between two panes of glass and heat them together to make hurricane glass - windows that don't break out when stuff moving up to 50 feet per second crashes into it. The glass on the outside rained all over, but the window remained intact. Yay for polymer chemistry! So delicious! Also about a zillion times more exciting and interesting than how somebody wrote some poem that can have a zillion different meanings, depending on how you interpret it, again and again endlessly until you've filled a fucking library with all the bullshit. I'll take making bouncy things any day, thanks.