February 27, 2002

All Hail Liquid Nitrogen

I did it! I compiled the Dada Engine! So far I only have it working on the commandline on my webhost's server. I haven't gotten a chance to do much much than run the default scripts. But I have a new toy to play with... oh boy oh boy oh boy...

From the Yeah, what I said department: Michael Lewis asks, "Are Enron Workers Owed Anything?"

For the most part, workers held shares voluntarily and could have sold them, and diversified their portfolios, at any time. The reason they didn't is that they were greedy: They had seen Enron's stock rocket and decided the smart thing to do was bet that it would keep rocketing. It's sad for them that it didn't, but should the rest of us be responsible for them, any more than we feel responsible for people who sunk their life savings into TheStreet.com Inc.?

Finally, what no science major should be without: 1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen. Boy do I miss liquid nitrogen.

My favorite item on the list is the first one, making ice cream -- although fer crissakes, you can use better ingredients than yogurt (as the site suggests). Here's a more sensible recipe... should you just happen to have a dewar lying around.