Random thoughts

[1695814]

Originally Posted by justkay

Not really. It's pretty dead around here...

it may be dead, but it's open...sometimes you need to make your own fun...

[Abused Student]

Originally Posted by 1695814

it may be dead, but it's open...sometimes you need to make your own fun...

kind of like when you were a kid during summer break. You may have been bored but at least you weren't in school, do something that you dreamt about doing all those times you were in school dreaming about summer break.

[1695814]

Every now & then I still have use for liquid paper. As a matter of fact, I have two bottles of the stuff at my desk right now.

[Klaymen]

Originally Posted by LoneGirl

Yesterday my aunt told me a story about someone we both know who reads while driving. I thought that was odd (not to mention dangerous!). So today I'm driving down the interstate, and I pass a guy reading a paperback book while driving! Is this actually a more common practice than I realize???

i've never noticed it while I'm driving down the highway, probably cause I'm reading myself.

Whenever someone abbreviates the interim assessment as IA, the first thing I always think is that they are talking about Iowa.

[1695814]

In a perfect world we wouldn't have to ponder what things would be like in a perfect world.

[procrastinator]

Originally Posted by 1695814

Every now & then I still have use for liquid paper. As a matter of fact, I have two bottles of the stuff at my desk right now.

What is liquid paper?

[QMO]

Originally Posted by procrastinator

What is liquid paper?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Any Ray Bradbury fan knows that "Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns."

What most people don't know is:
If you heat paper to that temperature in a pure hydrogen enviroment, the hydrogen will combine with the oxygen in the paper and become water, which will disolve the remaining paper components. If this liquid is cooled quickly enough, it becomes stable at room temperature, but quickly hardens again if re-exposed to oxygen.

Technology has progressed to make this process fairly inexpensive and the result is sold commercially under various names (Liquid Paper, White-Out, etc.) as something to correct errors made with ink on paper, since ink doesn't erase too well. It has become less popular as typewriters (and insurance departments that like non-electronic filings) have become more scarce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid

[JMO]

Originally Posted by 1695814

In a perfect world we wouldn't have to ponder what things would be like in a perfect world.

Reminds me of another take on perfect worlds.

The optimist believes that this world really is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that the optimist is right.

[QMO]

Originally Posted by QMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid

it's changed already