Long day.. Very busy at work, then a talk this evening at UVM. I spoke ot the CS Students Association about the whole Maker Movement in Vermont. I had to leave at 8PM to get home in time to intercept the tail end of Gabe’s Lacrosse team dinner. There was the whole team sans pads and helmets.. I’m so used to knowing them by their numbers that it was kind of fun trying to figure out which face went with which number.

My part of the dinner was to make liquid nitrogen ice cream.. it was a special request from Gabe. Diane made the chocolate soup, then Gabe and I poured it into a large pan, added the very gold nitrogen and started stirring.. In less than 5 minutes we had 2 gallons of very delicious ice cream !!!

After ice cream we did some other cool stuff with the LN2..   we froze flowers, scallions, lacrosse balls, whipped cream, even balloons.. which shrink down in the nitrogen, then re-inflate magically as they warm

 

very cool, no ?

 

ok.. gotta sleep, more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me