So last night Diana and I cruised over to check out the 4th Annual LCC Chemistry and Physics Show thing. It was a series of visual chemistry and physics demonstrations, all produced, performed, and narrated by the students. It was a lot of fun. They did stuff like laying on a board of nails, dry ice and iodine sublimation, fun with liquid nitrogen, used a series of pulley's to have a little 4 year old guy lift one of the students, stuff like that. All of it was done to music chosen for the experiment (ie, "Smoke on the Water" for the dry ice stuff, etc).

The most visual presentations was burning stuff. They burned different chemicals to produce different colored flames. Lithium burns in a really deep, blood-red flame, which was beautiful. They filled balloons with different gasses, and held a candle to 'em to see how they reacted (the teacher, of course, did all the flame-work). One of the balloons had hydrogen and oxygen mixed in a 2:1 ratio. The teacher stopped the show at that point, and very seriously instructed us on how to cover our ears properly, warning us that it was going to be really loud, and that we'd actually feel the shockwave. And he wasn't kidding. The explosion was very fast and very loud, even with ears covered, and you really could feel it as much as hear it.

It was a good time. Made me nostalgic for my high school years.

In other news, the idea has been casually tossed around that our landscaper would be willing to draw up design plans for us in trade for me designing a webpage for his company. I was a little reluctant at first, since I have no webpage experience, but I figured it couldn't be that hard. So I've been spending some time in Macromedia Contribute as well as Photoshop, playing around and getting used to 'em. I'm going to try to put some sort of demo together before we meet again. The actual construction of a webpage doesn't look that difficult. The hard part, it appears at this point, is going to be doing graphics work. Maybe I'll hit up my boy Baditude if I need some help.

Anyways, we haven't even discussed it yet, so it might not pan out, but it might work out really well! And if not, I'm excited to learn more webstuff anyways.

That's all I got.