*Gasp*

OH MY, I HAVE SHOCKINGLY PLACED A PICTURE ON MY PROFILE! HOW SHOCKING!

It makes me sad that the text is too small to read, but the picture is titled 'motivation' and says 'If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon' Robots FTW

This comes from http://www.despair.com which is my all time favorite website of the day. I'm only sad that I can't get a t-shirt with the aforementioned slogan.

kk

I sleepy now.

Nicolas Clément

Nicolas Clément (1779, Dijon - 1842) was a French physicist and chemist. He was a colleague of Charles Desormes, with whom he conducted the Clément-Desormes experiment[[1]]. The two chemists are also credited with determining an accurate value of gamma in the gas law that relates the heat capacity of air when expanded at constant pressure vs. constant temperature. They also conducted research on iodine and played a role in determining that it was an element. This research eventually led others to invent the process of photography, and Clément-Desormes is recognized as a contributor in the early history of that industry. Among their accomplishments was establishing a value for absolute zero.

Clément married Desormes' daughter and adopted the family surname as Clément-Desormes. Clément himself spelled his first name Nicolas, not Nicholas.

Professor Clément held one of the first chairs in chemistry at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris. He taught a course in industrial chemistry that emphasized the thermodynamics of steam in relation to powering steam engines. In about 1819, he befriended Sadi Carnot[[2]], and the two men developed methods for calculating the maximum amount of energy that could be obtained from a kg of coal. Clément and Carnot clearly understood the concept of a mechanical equivalent of heat, and developed formulae for calculating energy efficiency almost 20 years before Mayer [[3]] and Joule's [[4]] work on this subject in the 1840's[[5]]. Evidence concerning the connection between Clément and Carnot is summarized in a book by the historian, Robert Fox, "Reflexions on the Motive Power of Fire, A Critical Edition..." - 1986 - Manchester University Press.

Clément was the first man known to define and utilize the calorie as a unit of heat. The definition was published in the journal, Le Producteur, in 1824. His calorie was a kg-calorie (modern kcal), and his definition entered French dictionaries as early as 1842. One of his lasting influences was to help the calorie enter the international lexicon. It was defined as heating a kg of water by 1 degree C until about 1929, but was superseded when a committee of the British Academy of Sciences proposed the g-calorie as an alternate unit of energy (with the newly defined joule taking precedence). This marked the beginning of "calorie confusion" because the kilocalorie had to be introduced as a unit in the m-kg-s system. Thus, the reason that U.S. food labels describe food energy in calories can be traced to Nicolas Clément-Desormes' lectures of 1819-1824.

Clément-Desormes was a successful industrialist who was owner or partner in several chemical companies, including one that made sugar from beets. He was sought after as an industrial consultant. Some speculate that his sudden death was brought on by a business disgreement concerning payments that were owed to him for successful introduction of a profitable process.

Babies...Delicious babies...

So... I'm listening to somebody's vlog right now, and I want to post something, except I don't have anything to say. Maybe I'll talk about my life.

Well, I'm becoming more and more certain that the existence of a deity is incredibly improbably. I've been looking around the internet/youtube for arguments supporting theism, although at this point it isn't even fun anymore because I'm just coming up against the same arguments again and again. The intellectual challenge is gone. So I think I might actually do something with my life now. Probably not. I'm a die-hard procrastinator, so I won't do anything with my life until I absolutely have to.

The only other thing I can think to say is that I've been running a lot recently. I'm doing about 3 miles a day. I guess I'm kind of trying to get in shape for cross country next year, but really running just feels good, so I do it. If it feels good do it. Right?

Well... this crappy mess of pointless babble is finished up, and the vlog is only about half over. So... guess I'll eat some babies. Babies are good just because of their culinary versatility. They're good raw, or cooked in just about any way you can imagine. Try one today!

I wanted a massacre!

Darn you prayer effort! I wish more people had died. Then the faithful would have gone 'boo-hoo'!

well...Ok... less crime is good, I just wish people wouldn't attribute it to an invisible sky daddy who enjoys burning people forever. It seems much more like that the decrease in crime was caused by chance or even some sort of super primitive form of mental telepathy inherent in humans.

Whats you think?

Summer!...school )=

Everybody said signing up for summer school was a good idea. The people who said that obviously never spent a perfect afternoon for the pool stuck upstairs writing a speech about things they hate. Speech class would be an example...

I wonder if Kyle has the same feeling about APS. Maybe he'll finally break the bloggers vow of silence he took and tell me.

Money Man

Here's a freaking sweet idea. The idea is for a super hero who's real name is Georges McBarnes and one day while he is doing his job as a tax collector, he is bitten by a radioactive Chihuahua causing him to trip and fall into a vat of poisonous materials. Then he is bombarded by radiation from a passing meteorite. The combined effect of this is that he gains awesome ninja-kungfu-superhero skills which are physically impossible but cool anyway.

So, naturally this guy decides to become a superhero, but being the shrewd tax collector that he is, he decides not to be like any old superhero saving people for free. He saves people and then charger them money. This is actually better for everybody, because the superhero doesn't have to waste time with his job and can spend all his time saving peoples lives.

Later this poorly thought out idea might have some actually stories come out of it. stay tuned.

Where's my Cheese!

Where's my cheese!?!?!

Please find it for me.