I want a lunch box.

Anyone know where someone can get a cool lunchbox? It needs to be able to fit a lot of food.

I eat a lot.

The Acclaim is slowly coming together. Last night I successfully installed the new fuel pump… so now comes the super difficult task of putting the car back together. The problem lies in the fact that as I was removing the gas tank, the studs that hold the gas tank on snapped off.

tonight I will attempt to drill out or extract the busted studs and tap new holes for some fresh hardware. Then tomorrow I’ll reassemble the beast, lower her to the ground, get a friend or two to stand ready with a couple fire extinguishers, and I will start the car.

That’s the plan. we’ll see what really happens.

In other news…. Jon did some magical stuff with the website to speed it up. And i’ve made a new Acclaim to Fame catagory, as I suspect many more adventures in the future.

I love my car.

The Question

Meghan asks:

Just out of pure curiosity, what exactly would have to be different about a person’s body chemistry to allow them to alter the color of a bath towel simply by drying themselves with it? This is a purely objective question, mind you. I CERTAINLY don’t know ANYONE who has EVER done this…*coughshauncough*

The Answer

Well, that person would need to be very special indeed.

There is one easy way to affect the color of a towel - you can bleach it! That will change the color of it. However, I think we can assume that the person in question does not exude bleach. So how could this have happened?

Well, think about bleach, for a moment. What is the defining trait of bleach? Why, that it’s extremely alkaline, that’s what! So perhaps the person in question also was very alkaline (like a human battery, perhaps). That would definitely affect the color of a towel.

Or, perhaps they had something that was very alkaline on them - like soap! Unless they were using Dove (which is PH balanced, of course), the soap might have been very basic, and said person might not have rinsed themselves off completely.

Or perhaps, the water in the shower had some strange trait. Perhaps it was softened? This, in combination with a slightly alkaline body chemistry, could potentially change fabric colors.

I think the most likely solution is a combination of all three items. So we have softened water, an incomplete rinse cycle, and a human battery. No wonder the towel changed color in the presence of so much POWER!