Daily Archives: March 17, 2009

Jeepers, It's Patches O'Houlihan!

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A/V Geeks: Our Films Online

Have over 22,000 films. Will travel. For more than a decade, we’ve been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.

Among the must-see-tee-vee, er, film:

Alcohol Is Dynamite (1958)
Am I Trustworthy? (1950)
Destruction: Fun or Dumb? (ca. 1970s)
Duck and Cover (Archer, 1951)
Getting Along With Others (1965)
How Quiet Helps At School (1953)
Living with the Atom (1957)
More Dates For Kay (Coronet, 1952)
Respect for Property (1959)
So I Took It… (1975)
VD is for Everybody (1969)
Why Doesn’t Cathy Eat Breakfast? (1972)

Oh, gosh dangit. How to Play Dodgeball (Über-American Instructional films) isn’t there. Yet.

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Don't Flatter Yourself, Otter. It Wasn't That Great.

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$35,000 NitroCream Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Maker

Sure, it’s designed for restaurants, but there’s nothing stopping you from getting one. Other than the price tag, of course.

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I’ve had liquid-nitrogen ice cream — we did it in grad school. It’s good. The fast freezing means you get small ice crystals, so it’s smooth, and the nitrogen just boils away. But it cost several orders of magnitude less to do it by hand.

New Ultra Toy

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A UV LED flashlight. Just checking on what fluoresces. Among the more interesting, we have the security stripe of a $20 bill

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A Mr. Clean bottle shows both the label and the cleaner fluorescing

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and some vitamin B complex (I think the B-12 is the main culprit here), dissolved in some vinegar, and spilled on the counter in the shape of a guitar. Worship the fluorescent guitar!

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(I’ve previously noticed that vitamin B gives the appearance of remaining fluorescent even after digestion. Not that I’ve checked this with the flashlight. )