Quirky habits...
I have these quirky habits that turn people off.
I can't seem to avoid salt shakers when dining out. It's nasty habit I learned in my physics class in highschool. Safer with salt shakers than glass of water (found out the hard way). With a minimal amount of salt (or sugar), you can balance just about anything. In school, we used a flask to demonstrate that an object's stability is dependent on location of its center of mass.
I balanced a bottle of Eberle's Viognier at home to show Tianna. She was really interested in learning why this worked. (A few grains of salt (less than shown) are actually needed to hold the bottle in place). Great way to get kids interested in science.
Didn't you just love Science in school?? I loved being in school and in an academic environment. I'd like to return and get my PhD some day soon. I know, I'm just a geek at heart. :(
I can't seem to avoid salt shakers when dining out. It's nasty habit I learned in my physics class in highschool. Safer with salt shakers than glass of water (found out the hard way). With a minimal amount of salt (or sugar), you can balance just about anything. In school, we used a flask to demonstrate that an object's stability is dependent on location of its center of mass.
I balanced a bottle of Eberle's Viognier at home to show Tianna. She was really interested in learning why this worked. (A few grains of salt (less than shown) are actually needed to hold the bottle in place). Great way to get kids interested in science.
Didn't you just love Science in school?? I loved being in school and in an academic environment. I'd like to return and get my PhD some day soon. I know, I'm just a geek at heart. :(
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10:51 AM
9 Comments:
But you're the kind of geek teachers love! You must have had some outstanding teachers to get you that into it. Love a teacher, girl.
at 5:25 AM
Many moons ago when I was in junior high, we had a rocking eighth grade science teacher--Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller had a sense of humor and really understood the minds of eight graders. He always told us he was at least 100 years old and that he married a young wife so she could care for him in his old age.
He'd also do this special class to initiate new students. It was the rock lecture. He had a big, foam rock that looked sort of like a real rock. If you were new, he'd start doing the rock lecture....about all different rocks. he'd then, at some point, throw the foam rock at the student saying--why don't you look at it up close?
OK, so maybe it was a bit cruel and sadistic now that I think about it.
And maybe this is why I have that unparalled fear of flying rocks...
at 5:40 AM
That's too funny, Aymiee. My last BF used to do the same thing and sometimes it drove me nuts b/c he wuldn't stop at the salt shaker. He'd then add toothpicks, spoons and forks, and before I knew it, there was this creepy thing on our table.
At least you know when to "stop." Cool on the wine bottle, though.
at 9:57 AM
Bud - my first crush was my science teacher and so was everyone else. He was just soo smart!!
Michael - hahahaha... my gosh, what a teacher. Teachers like that really help motivate the love for science. My favorite teacher of all used to make us run laps around the school if we yawned w/o covering our mouths, eating with our mouths open. He taught us simple etiquette stuff like that.
Becky - that is totally me. Salt shakers are not immune from me. I have to remember to stop myself.
at 12:36 PM
You may be a geek, but you make being a geek look so COOL!
at 5:42 PM
TVS - awwwe.. thanks.. :)
at 6:43 PM
I agree that this is a great way to gets kids interested in this type of thing.
With my luck, the vinegar would have been wine and it would have been broken in the first 2 attempts. LOL
at 2:16 PM
I'm sure there could be worse habits far more annoying than your salt balancing act. ;)
at 9:44 AM
That's a really good bottle of wine. I've got a bunch of bottles of it from various years at home.
at 7:08 PM
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