It seems the factor was the amount of pressure between the fry and the oil. You could probably accomplish the same thing by submerging the fry in 2 ft of cooking oil rather than floating them on the surface. Not as much fun though.

I concur about not cooking with olive oil - that's for cold dishes since heat destroys it. Cook with natural peanut or coconut oil, or lard for bacon flavor fries. Avoid the chemically refined and stripped vegetable oils.

If they're displacing regular employees or they derive immediate advantage from the activities of the intern...

6 Legal Requirements For Unpaid Internship Programs

I've lived in places where there is primarily a wet and dry season. The rains of the monsoon bring welcome relief to the heat.

Anyone using a wireless broadband modem is on a dial up. Ok, so the speeds are higher than they used to be in the pre 56KB land line days.

For the record, I first programmed used a 300 baud acoustic coupler from a teletype to a PDP-8 circia 1971 and last used a dial up in about 2003 using NetZero/Juno dial-up from a hotel.

It will likely start with the city bus system funded by taxpayers. Just move the overhead power lines underground on selected routes to test the concept. The encrypted signal is so other users can't steal the power without a subscription. Quick, someone patent storing energy in a capacitor so you can get the car/truck/bus the next 100 yards down the road.

If the problem to solve is trivial, then perhaps offer a solution. If its hard enough that you'd worry about doing free consulting, then switch tactics and ask questions, deep probing questions to make sure you understand the whole picture. The interviewer should be able to determine from the questions you ask that you know what your are doing, or at least you know what you don't know which is also valuable to solving a problem. If they keep pressing for a solution, then they're either unethical or incompetent so you should either walk away or raise your rates. We run into this periodically where during a bid tender and proposal process the customer is asking for the solution pre-sales. Then it becomes a game of chess - to demonstrate that you know what you are doing without giving away the cash-cow vs. winning the business/job.

The BSA has a lot of of great learning materials for all ages. For 9 year olds, check the Wolf and Bear book electives - all sorts of stuff in there. Also the Sports and Academics programs - belt loops and pins. For older kids, the Merit Badge pamphlets are terrific resources. Boy Scout Chemistry MB
Cub Scout Science Some great chemistry experiments for young ones are:

• Electricity from salt water
• Non-Newtonian liquids (corn starch)
• Slime (polymers)
• Menthos + coke bottle rockets
• Vinegar and baking soda bottle rockets
• Strawberry DNA extraction
• litmus tests using dyes from garden veggies
• sugar crystal growing
• magic rocks
• surface tension (soap, oil, water, etc)
• states of matter (ice, butter, dry ice)

Keep it simple and stuff they can relate to. Be sure to talk about safety on dangerous reactions, acid and alkaloid burns, etc. Check out also the Khan Academy online - lots of good stuff in there. www.khanacademy.org/

You used to be able to get a free subscription from Lego Club. You can probably pick up collections on Amazon or eBay. These are good to get now for when he's about 6. http://bionicle.lego.com/en-US/dtv/default.aspx

I recall some discussion that Sun put IP protections on Java to prevent companies (hello Microsoft) from creating a non-compliant product and calling it Java, rather than using that IP to profit. It looks like Oracle is twisting the original intent. Besides, Java is hardly original, having drawn heavily on prior art from C++ and Ada. If Oracle succeeds in this, it would seem to open the door to claim copyright on entire natural languages like English and Chinese.

In the 70's they cried Ice Age, in the 90's and early 2000's it was Global Warming, now its Climate change (can't they make up their minds?) Someone could probably trace this political climate crisis cycle back even further. Sure, the climate and atmosphere is changing, always has and always will. Humans contribute to some of the variables, but I think our importance is over emphasized.

Yet, we are the stewards of this planet and taking reasonable steps toward producing cleaner energy and reducing waste and pollution are good things. But we need to be especially vigilant and resist those who would hijack a good idea to create chaos and crisis so they can demand greater control over our shrinking freedoms.

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Perhaps, get a job building web site editing software. It seems to be a never ending source of new challenges.

--- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

For class notes, the shoebox is the perfect bucket sort container for paper you'll probably never reference again. Works especially well for utility bills, bank statements. Mark it by year and possibly by broad topic so you know if you have to shred the contents or just toss it.

Save yourself - go on a date.

I don't get it. A government court can order you (or a company) to purchase a commercial product you don't want to buy and its not even health insurance?

Anyone who is serious about computing should watch this Connections episode by James Burke that takes you from the water wheel and jacquard loom to modern day computing. Its simply amazing.

Connections - Episode 4 - "Faith in Numbers"