the best sentence in a scientific paper ever

in reading papers in preparation of this morning's meeting with tom, i came across an experimental procedure description that just cracked me up. "experiments were terminated by removing the vessel from the furnace, inverting it and rapping on the hot portion of the vessel with a wrench." awesome. very high-tech method they've got there. beating on it with a wrench. chris suggested i should write the authors and ask what size wrench they used so that i may replicate their procedure in my experiments. hehe

so my thesis project is awesome. it looks like no one's done any kind of high pressure experimentation looking at the effects of water in a martian mantle composition. so cool. got john holloway on board. just need to talk to michelle minitti and see about collaboration with her. i'm so excited!

lots of website work to do this weekend. additions to diversdepot.com and then i really need to get started on the minorplanetresearch.org website for james. should be fun.

( today's pretty full. )

because i keep forgetting, here are most of the superbowl commercials online, almost a week after the game. my favorites are the fedex commercial and the two ameriquest commercials at the bottom of this page (not listed on google videos). good times.

time to go eat woo!

recap: scientists are funny, my thesis project rocks, lots to do, woo superbowl commercials, food time.