Toasting Marshmallows on a Corn Chip Grease-Fire

// November 23rd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Misc

Neat, isn’t it? Tortilla chips, apparently, burn quite well if you put a match to them. If you take 2 to 3 of them and (taking the proper safety precautions) set them on fire, they will burn brilliantly for several minutes, giving you ample time to toast a marshmallow or two.

Corn chips (the Medallion brand available at Sams Club is what we used) contain a bit of oil, which you can see bubbling on the surface of the chip as the chip is consumed by the flames. Oil, as you surely know, is a great fuel source. When you set the chips alight, you’re creating a small grease fire, which will burn until the fuel source is used up, or until the fire is manually extinguished.

Safety note: If you attempt this, do not pour water on the fire in attempt to extinguish the flames. Grease fires can not be doused with water, and any attempts to do so will result in a very dangerous fireball. If the fire gets out of hand and needs to be put out, either pour baking soda on the flames, or use a fire extinguisher. Also, the fire pictured above was inside an aluminum tray resting in a stainless steel kitchen sink. It is recommended that you have a similar setup, as the flames can grow to a fairly large height.

Attempt this at your own risk. I assume no responsibility for your stupidity if you decide to play with grease fires. Unless you are a responsible adult (i.e. not Reddit/Digg users), or are operating under the supervision of a responsible adult, do not try this.

Apparently Bill Gates Still Wants to Give You Money

// November 19th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Misc

The “Bill Gates wants to give you $10,000,000″ email scam still isn’t dead. How many years has it been? I just got this spam email today:

Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise
but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over
your success in the following official publication of results of the
E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in
conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software
products, (F.P.S.) held on 18th November 2008,in London UK.

Where in your email address emerged as one of the online Winning
emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of
Ј350.000.00 (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds sterling) Our
winners are arranged into four categories with different winning
prizes accordingly in each category. They are arranged in this format
below:

These are your identification numbers:MCS-26799/097

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 2 Ј 500,000.00 pounds each
2nd. 8 Ј 350.000.00 pounds each
3rd. 13 Ј 250,000.00 pounds each
4th. 27 Ј 170,000.00 pounds each

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to
contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message
for more information concerning the verification, processing and
eventual payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released with
the following particulars attached to it.

(1) Award numbers: NL 56/7766
(2) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877
(3) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS
{5} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560

For verification purpose be sure to include:
(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
{4} Your Full Names.
(5) Occupation.
(6) Your Preffered Method Of Receiving Your Price(From Below)

Mode Of Price Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to Uk Personally to Pick Your Price).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other
Winning Documents safely to you.

To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for
VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this
winning notification. Winnings that are not validated within
Twenty-nine working days of winning notification are termed void and
invalid. You are required to mention the above particulars of your
award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your
winning.

CONTACT:
******************************

*************************************
FOREIGN CLAIMS MANAGER
SIR.RICHARD SCHOLES.
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
Phone:+44704 570 5664
FAX: +44 701 113 4155
E-mail:sir.richardscholes@live.co.uk
************************************************************

The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our
CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion
companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other
International Companies. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held
periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and
promote computer literacy worldwide.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yeah, and I’m Bill Gates. *Delete all spam messages*

Mobile Food

// January 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Misc

I was contemplating the little cardboard cartons that you heat Hot Pockets in. The packages say that you should eat the food out of the carton while you’re on the go. So that means it’s “mobile food.”

So… You put your mobile phone in one pocket, and the mobile food in the other, right?

Welcome

// January 18th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Misc

I’m Matt, or redwall_hp if you prefer.

I stopped updating my old personal blog last July. Part of the reason was I was trying to write something there every day, and most of it was web-related content. When I started Webmaster-Source, and NTugo as well, I just didn’t have the time (or the post ideas) anymore. I was spending a lot of time working on the sites, and using up all of my web-related post ideas on Webmaster-Source.

This is my new personal blog. Here I will post rants, ideas, links, and whatever else I can think of. I’m not going to commit to a regular posting schedule, but will post things whenever I can.

I’m also planning on bringing back the Weekly WTH (Weekly What The Heck) from my old blog as well.