im get out of LA for a few days! im heading up north to san jose. woot woot! kinda. going to get away from school and homework for a few days is a good and bad thing. and i just had a great new idea that i want to work on. so im probably be drawing and writing in my sketch book all weekend long, trying to figure out the store so i can have a script to turn in next week in class. but i cant wait to hang out with some of my high school friends that i havent seen over two months or so. shit im going have a lot of work to do when i get back.
i finally got my triplets of belleville back from my exs sister and brother-in-law. how i missed it so much. its sad that i miss material things like a DvD. but then again i didnt think i would get it back.
DiD you know... that in 1675 a german named Henning Brand became convinced that gold could somehow be distilled from human urine. he assembled fifty buckets of human urine, which he kept for months in his cellar. by various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent waxy substance. none of it yielded gold, but a strange and interesting thing did happen. after a time, the substance began to glow. moreover, when exposed to air, it often spontaneously burst into flames. the commercial potential for the stuff (known now as phosphorus) was not lost on eager businesspeople, but the difficulties of manufacture made it too costly to exploit. an ounce of phosphorus retailed for six guineas- perhaps five hundred dollars in todays money- or more than gold. at first, soldiers where called on to provide the raw material, but such an arrangement was hardly conducive to industrial-scale production. in the 1750s a swedish chemist named karl scheele devised a way to manufacture phosphorus in bulk without the slop or smell of urine. it was largely because of this mastery of phosphorus that sweden became, and remains, a leading producer of matches.
i finally got my triplets of belleville back from my exs sister and brother-in-law. how i missed it so much. its sad that i miss material things like a DvD. but then again i didnt think i would get it back.
DiD you know... that in 1675 a german named Henning Brand became convinced that gold could somehow be distilled from human urine. he assembled fifty buckets of human urine, which he kept for months in his cellar. by various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent waxy substance. none of it yielded gold, but a strange and interesting thing did happen. after a time, the substance began to glow. moreover, when exposed to air, it often spontaneously burst into flames. the commercial potential for the stuff (known now as phosphorus) was not lost on eager businesspeople, but the difficulties of manufacture made it too costly to exploit. an ounce of phosphorus retailed for six guineas- perhaps five hundred dollars in todays money- or more than gold. at first, soldiers where called on to provide the raw material, but such an arrangement was hardly conducive to industrial-scale production. in the 1750s a swedish chemist named karl scheele devised a way to manufacture phosphorus in bulk without the slop or smell of urine. it was largely because of this mastery of phosphorus that sweden became, and remains, a leading producer of matches.