VACATION TIME
Alright, that’s it folks. All the orders for the production window ending 5/17 have now shipped, including a restock case for the BBotE Ambassador of Chicago. I opened the next production window for...
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And Back Again – A Phil’s Journey.
Approximately 3300 miles, many people visited, things seen, and cocktails drank later, we’re back and the coffee engines are running again. Fresh order slots are up for the production window closing...
View ArticleA Reactor Accident Cocktail
Once upon a time, there was a nuclear reactor in England that was air cooled like a 60’s Volkswagen Beetle, called Windscale. It worked about as well as the average 60’s Beetle too. One day, oops, the...
View ArticlePLEASE Don’t Open That – A Rant on Generally Licensed Materials
Let’s start this out right by terrifying people. If your home hasn’t had any major renovation since 2001, I can almost guarantee you have radioactive materials in it. I’m not talking natural occurring...
View ArticleA New Ambassador and Another Rant: Art Safety
GOOD NEWS, ALBUQUERQUE! The people of the Atomic City (not to impugn the honor of Arco, ID and Los Alamos, NM of course) now have a BBotE Ambassador of their own. When not evangelizing ultracoffee, Lee...
View ArticleAn April Fools Cautionary Tale
TL;DR moral of the story: do not prank emergency responders. We will play it straight and you won’t like it. Once upon a time, several years ago, a grad student decided to call the spill response line...
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Advice to a Young Scientist/Engineer
When you are insane with genius, time management skills are the first thing to go. (Dr. Dinosaur courtesy of Scott Wegener & Brian Clevinger) I am starting to build a backlog of incomplete posts,...
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New Things, Departures, & Fun
Alright, I’ve good news, better news, great news, and a small bummer for you all. The bummer: my roaster of choice for my Panama declares end of season. Accordingly, it has been removed as a selection...
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Carbon Dating Primer
That Feeling Of Relief Which Comes With Really Good Rant This was originally written on June 16th, 2012 after my family’s Father’s Day viewing of “Prometheus”. It was then published in the final issue...
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Welcome to the Wasteland
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a piece of Nevada that America decided was expendable. It had eaten countless settlements, boomed and busted so many times with the precious metal of...
View ArticleRegarding Breathalyzers in Antarctica
As I have been asked by a number of people about the latest Office of Inspector General’s report, and in the case of Wired they interviewed me and generated a very cherry picked set of quotes designed...
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Apologies For The Weird Production Windows
The production window closing on January 23rd, which was a long one due to CES 2016, has pretty much sold out and shipped. The next production window will be completely open on Saturday (some slots are...
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More Volcano & Coffee Contemplation
As mentioned in the previous post, I fled the mainland for a week to escape Super Bowl madness in the SF Bay Area to the lovely Big Island of Hawaii. As my Lovely Assistant had never been to that...
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Klingon Scrabble and Odd Units of Measure
The other day I was trading tales with the former BBotE Ambassador of NYC, @EditrixW, and after sharing my new favorite Beatles cover song from Mongolia we drifted by COMPLETELY REASONABLE CONNECTIONS...
View ArticleNo Pants-Bear Bad
Adding this slice of life from almost a decade ago at LLNL to the permanent record of Funranium Labs as a reference point for Test Subject Vision Scientist (subcategory: Male) [SCENE: Early April 2008,...
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The Picric Acid Tale or “Why I Can’t Have Four Day Weekends Anymore”
Once upon a time, the radiation safety officer (RSO), let’s call him Bob, had been out performing the inventory of source material* and ran across a bit of excitement. In this particular lab, they had...
View ArticleGreat Moments In Teaching – Fecal Samples
PLEASE NOTE: there is a very good reason there are no pictures associated with this story. As some of you may know, I teach radiation safety course at a local community college. A while back, we were...
View ArticleAntarctic Medical Evacuation 2003
I’m putting this here to, potentially, stop questions. I, honestly, remember near to nothing about the medevac we had in late 2003. Hypothyrodism due to protracted exposure to cold and dark takes a lot...
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Recent Improvements, New BBotEs, and Vacations
Let’s begin with the improvement you can’t see or, rather, won’t see anymore. At some point a “helpful upgrade” was done by BigCommerce who provide the architecture and servers for the store side of...
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BBotE Vacation Alert, Big Trees, Bad Air, and Camping Theory
Scheduling information first: the short ordering window that closes on September 19th, before I get on a plane to Boston, is now open for most items. After the 19th, another ordering window will open...
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