Apparently the Internet has discovered the result of mixing Mentos candies and diet soda (hint -- it's rather explosive). A cursory search of YouTube or Google Video will give you dozens of videos of amateurs in their backyard or on their driveway creating soda geysers. But the fellow at Eepybird truly have this down to an art form.
The technical explanation is that the rough surface of Mentos offers numerous "sites of nucleation" for dissolved carbon dioxide to come out of solution very quickly, creating high pressure. But that's boring. Who wants to try this at home?
Our trip to Indianapolis last weekend was lots of fun. The Children's Museum was, as advertised, totally awesome. We also received Cranium as a belated wedding gift from Leili and Helle, which meant we had to play it, of course, at our gathering at Brian's house afterwards. But not before our 15 minute Nerf war. Aaahh, to be young and goofy...
I have a couple of appointments to see apartments in LA, and I'm planning on making a bunch more before I fly out there on Saturday. Apparently most apartments don't come with refrigerators in the Valley? What's up with this?
Movies we've seen recently:
- Nanny McPhee. We watched this with Samantha's mom before she left town. Pretty fun, very cute, and excellent Emma Thompson in horrible makeup.
- Brick. At Bear's with Jon last night. Meh. I think I would have enjoyed it more if 1) the sound was better -- I missed about half of the dialogue and 2) I was more familiar with the film noir genre that the film clearly owed a lot to.
- The next AFI movie. Ha, just kidding. No, seriously, we'll get to it soon... it's just not that appetizing a selection.
Blah. Back to my 9-hour shift in the labs. Woot indeed.