Originally Posted by Scrodzilla (Post 13863748)

Originally Posted by xavier853 (Post 13863739)

Today, taking my gravity reading for my homebrew (a little later). I took one yesterday and was spot on where I wanted to be. If it is consistant today, secondary fermentation!!!! (then bottles for 3 weeks)

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13863266)

u be at ontario on the 26? If so i'll say hi. I know what u look like from bf. Sho-air?

Also I doubt that I am going to drop you. Not only because we will likely be in diff races (im cat3), but because I r sprinter and aren't as strong as you might think over long efforts.

Unless we're talking about a 200m 1v1 race. I'll drop your ass hard.

Originally Posted by Scrodzilla (Post 13863892)

I can see it. Clear your cache.

Originally Posted by zoltani (Post 13863917)

Sweet! Do you take readings often? I don't, too lazy I guess, and seems like you risk contamination each time you open the fermentation vessel.

Originally Posted by hank0604 (Post 13863492)

How's the weather in Chicago today?

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13863628)

why not do that everyday? around here a couple of the hallways are so crammed with bikes it's hard to walk through.

mayb not the best idea considering people walk through with expensive or hazardous samples, but me move them when the fire marshall rolls through :D.

Originally Posted by muckymucky (Post 13863725)

^tall apartment living is one of my life dreams =<
+1

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13863855)

its cool, no feelings hurt. someone very close to me is going through this (hopefully done now) and so it stuck close to home.

RE: cancer research, that **** is going on ever where, including at my work. clearly there are alot of research dollars out there right now.
a couple guys at my work at working an an Fe magnetite nanoparticle for cancer therapy, funded by JHU (John Hopkins).

Originally Posted by zoltani (Post 13864252)

It's my understanding however, that you do not want fermentation to be completely done when you go to secondary, you want the initial stage of fermentation to be completed, which usually is 3-5 days. The extra CO2 created in the final stage of fermentation fills the head space of the secondary ferementer which reduces exposure to oxygen. At least that's how i read it in the brew book i've got.

Originally Posted by Nagrom_ (Post 13865629)

Today I had a Chem exam.... the weather is gorgeous btw.

Originally Posted by misskaz (Post 13864871)

In exactly four weeks, I'm having my head shaved (my hair is currently super long) to raise money for St. Baldrick's Foundation, which supports research into curing childhood cancers.

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13865639)

I think u said ur in plant bio or something....

so was it orgo or gen chem? howd it go?

Originally Posted by Nagrom_ (Post 13865647)

I'm a Physics major/ Chem minor.
Gen Chem. second semester.

Aced that sh*t conceptually, I assume I will have made a computational error or two.

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13865667)

sry i think i mixed u up w someone else.

P.S. nice major. I have a BS in chemistry (Dec 2010) and earned my best grades in Calc III, PDE's and (gasp) Electronics :lol:

best chem grades major were Pchem and Inorganic.

Originally Posted by TMonk (Post 13863855)

its cool, no feelings hurt. someone very close to me is going through this (hopefully done now) and so it stuck close to home.

RE: cancer research, that **** is going on ever where, including at my work. clearly there are alot of research dollars out there right now.
a couple guys at my work at working an an Fe magnetite nanoparticle for cancer therapy, funded by JHU (John Hopkins).

I don't know the dirty details as I am not working on this project, but the concept is pretty simple:
The Fe nanoparticles are prepared in house (proprietary method :D), and the surface is coordinated with branched polyethylene glycol molecules.
The PEG is conjugated to an antibody that bonds with some sort of enzyme present in certain types of cancerous cells, the details of which I am ignorant.

The nano particles are introduced intravenously (i think?) and accumulate at the cancer site due to the Fe/PEG/Antibody/Cancer interactions.
The patient is placed in a strong magnetic field which causes the Fe to vibrate and heat up due to it's high magnetic moment, killing nearby cells.

pretty cool.