Published on 30 June 2009 at 5:44 pm .
If you’ve ever had a can of coke you may wonder why there’s an outline of the Great State of West Virginia engraved on the top of most aluminum can lids.
Here’s why:
Soft Drink Excise Taxes
Currently only West Virginia levies an excise tax on soft drinks and requires that soft drink packaging visibly indicate that the tax has been paid by the distributor. West Virginia law requires that an outline of the state be inscribed in a 1/4 inch circle on the can end. The State of West Virginia now allows soft drink distributors who are bonded in the state to ink-jet the tax information on the bottoms of cans. The product is in compliance if “WV1″ is ink-jetted on the bottom regardless of the inscribed outline of the state.”
[mystery solved!]
Published on 30 June 2009 at 10:13 am .
I like this guy’s attitude.
Published on 18 June 2009 at 12:30 pm .
Published on 5 June 2009 at 10:49 pm .
Today was kinda crappy. Ki left town, so no more of that. But my car is paid off.
If you think you had a bad day, check out this guy.
Daghlian was violating “official” safety regulations by working on it late at night in the lab. Since the assembly was nearly in the critical state, the accidental addition of the last brick caused the reaction to go immediately into the prompt critical region of supercritical behavior.
The radiation event that accompanied prompt criticality was accompanied by a blue glow of ionization. Daghlian panicked immediately after dropping the brick and attempted to knock off the brick without success; he was forced to partially disassemble the tungsten-carbide pile to halt the reaction. Daghlian was irradiated with 510 rems (5.1 Sv) of neutron radiation and died twenty-one days later, from acute radiation sickness. He was 24-years old.
Published on 3 June 2009 at 1:33 am .
Also, I think there will be a general update to this site soon… as well as a TON of photos (like 2 jiggabytes) that I need to update to flickr. I’ve been pretty lax with my blogging lately, but honestly not much is going on. All I do it seems is work and lament my loneliness and pennilessness and that kinda drags me down. But with GM entering government-sponsored bankruptcy protection I don’t feel so bad about the paltry sum I have in the red. I’ll be in the black soon enough.
Also, I eat too much fucking chocolate, but it makes me happy. I shouldn’t have a pint of chocolate milk and a king-sized snickers with almond, like ever. Life’s too short I guess, but still. I need to lose another 20 pounds this year, somehow, and the snickers bars aren’t helping. But fuck me if they’re not delicious!
Also, that 93 gram package of peanut m&ms I like to eat is probably a no-no as well.
Here’s a long, drawn-out sigh for all the things I shouldn’t eat if I wanna be skinny…
Published on 3 June 2009 at 1:25 am .
I’m getting kinda pissed about ipower & their lax security…
Does anyone have any suggestions on how someone can make their website rock-solid secure? This is privately hosted but somehow it still gets fucked with from time to time. Of course I can’t afford my own private server, so that’s out of the picture, but regardless the holes in this thing are bothersome.
