{"id":482,"date":"2009-10-31T20:10:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:10:24","slug":"you-dang-kids-get-offa-my-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"YOU DANG KIDS GET OFFA MY LAWN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like the truckloads of candy-seeking larvae are done finally. Wretched little urchins now get driven from block to block rather than walking the neighborhood like we<\/em> did.<\/p>\n

(It doesn’t actually bother me as much as that makes it sound, I just like having an excuse to say “wretched little urchins”…which reminds me – I have only about a month to get a cheerful flashing “Bah! Humbug!” sign built…)<\/p>\n

The only thing that really annoyed me is the fact that having to be ready to be interrupted by another horde of costumed consumers meant I couldn’t really spend any of the evening getting into anything requiring any real attention…which means the 113g of CaCl2<\/sub>.2H2<\/sub>O I’ve got sitting here now to go with my Xanthan Gum has been left neglected, and I still don’t know if I can make Xanthan Gum gel into beads the way you can with sodium alginate<\/a>. I figure it must be possible, given that both Xanthan gum and Alginate (among others) were all formed into little “bio-booger” beads using the same kind of process in the paper I discussed in Episode 2 of my little audio oggcast<\/a>. Perhaps I’ll have time to find out tomorrow.<\/p>\n

For now, it’s time for bed. Daylight Losings Time starts tonight, so if the critters allow me to actually sleep, I ought to be well rested to attempt some serious lake-spanking in the morning – there’s supposedly a resort on the shore of the lake that has a sushi bar, and the idea of being able to paddle out for sushi amuses me. It looks like it’s at least 9-10 miles away, though, so it’ll be a long trip if I attempt it. Hopefully I’ll have time left after that.<\/p>\n

Also, the developer of the libdmtx<\/a> datamatrix barcode encoder and decoder software posted a recent comment on my previous post about the software and its potential uses<\/a> – looks like some interesting projects going on there, including one intended to generate ID cards that only legitimate authorities could read (so as to prevent identity theft).<\/p>\n

P.S. Anybody know how to build a really good (but simple) ozone generator for sanitization purposes? Or the effective pore sizes of commonly available materials like plastic wrap? Or if a corporate entity can be a shareholder\/partner in a Limited Liability Company?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like the truckloads of candy-seeking larvae are done finally. Wretched little urchins now get driven from block to block rather than walking the neighborhood like we did. (It doesn’t actually bother me as much as that makes it sound, I just like having an excuse to say “wretched little urchins”…which reminds me – I … Continue reading YOU DANG KIDS GET OFFA MY LAWN!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,25,328,4,9,18,13,15,6,29,30,21],"tags":[516,517,567,511,513,515,507,243,275,514,512,406],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-computer-nerdity","category-eat-it","category-feedback-solicitation","category-food-science","category-hillbilly-biotech","category-me-me-me","category-methods","category-microbiology","category-netcasts","category-people-are-lazy","category-play-with-it","tag-calcium-chloride","tag-corporate-law","tag-food-science","tag-halloween","tag-larvae","tag-molecular-gastronomy","tag-oggcast","tag-paddling","tag-podcast","tag-scrooge","tag-wretched-little-urchins","tag-xanthan-gum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}