From: Morgan Stanley Fidelity <basilanih3@virgilio.it>
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Date: Sep 24, 2006 6:07 PM
Subject: MAKING A REQUESTMy Dear,
I am Morgan Stanley,Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment
International.
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Add comment September 24th, 2006
I did an experiment today! I also made a video of it in iMovie, which was a bit of an experiment in itself. Making videos is surprisingly hard, especially if your camera isn’t exactly designed for it and the thing you’re shooting is really small.
I decided to make a video of this as a warm-up for making an instructional video on soapmaking. I might still do that, but I might also just write a longer blog post about it with video annotations. Anyway, please enjoy learning Why Lye and Aluminum Do Not Mix:
Add comment September 23rd, 2006
So I took this picture of one of the BNE stickers and blogged it a while ago, but apparently it’s caught someone’s attention: ABC used it in a report. I Metblogged it here–kinda cool, huh?
1 comment September 23rd, 2006
It was a bit late, but I wanted to get done with the soapmaking so I could start concentrating on posting this story. Only three oils remained. The first was jojoba:
4 comments September 22nd, 2006
I decided to fix the blender with epoxy resin. Epoxy is really interesting stuff, almost like a plastic analog of concrete (which is my nominee for Most Underappreciated Material, but that’s another story). This page has a nice explanation of how they work.
4 comments September 10th, 2006
I went to the hardware store today to pick up some more science stuff, and I saw a three-ring binder on a shelf behind the counter labeled "The Archivist’s Cookbook". I thought that was pretty funny.
More soap this weekend, I think.
Add comment September 8th, 2006
First: thanks for the link, MOTD! I hope your readers enjoy the soapy adventures.
Anyway. Now for peanut oil! George Washington Carver and all that.
3 comments September 7th, 2006
We haven’t made an animal-fat soap yet. Let’s try lard.
When the Black Table kids made soap, they started from bacon, and rendered the fat themselves, but cautioned readers that the procedure "smell[s] like a short-order cook after a triple shift." It is uncertain whether bacon bits have the same problem. Anyway, I decided to skip the whole bacon thing and use lard.
If you want to get lard in San Francisco, you have three options:
6 comments September 5th, 2006
Just two videos at this point: one of the mixed-oil soap in the blender, and one of it being poured into the trays.
Add comment September 5th, 2006
I thought I was just going to make single-oil soaps, but coconut and olive oil soaps have interestingly complementary properties, so perhaps half-and-half . . .
1 comment September 5th, 2006
Adam Engelhart is a 2008 graduate of UC Hastings. He lives in San Francisco. More
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