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How does my pet look? Lol~

Anyway, I been doing some research yesterday about yeasts.  I discovered that there are many different types of yeasts that exists.  The type you use in cooking is Saccharomyces cerevisiae (how do you pronounce that?), it doesn’t survive in human bodies.  It reproduces by budding, a word for splitting itself into two identical cells.  It is in the Fungi kingdom.

According to the information I found on some website, when yeast, mold, or fungus is allowed to grow, it will produce anti-bacterial chemicals that kills bacterias that tries to take the food it is eating.  If someone is going to take your food, would you defend it?  Of course you will, and a type of the chemicals are ethyl acetate.  Which means that vinegar, contains a large quantity of ethyl acetate, will promote yeast growth.

The only question I have now is how long can the yeast cell survive in a normal life cycle?

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Yes, I’m growing a yeast culture that I will call Jake, lol~.  I have found 2 bags of instant dry yeast in the kitchen cabinet and I was just bored out of my mind when I found it, so I decided to grow it and see how long I can keep it alive.  For now, it is sitting in warm water with some flour and sugar in it.

Date of Birth: 6/7/2010

Time of Birth: 18:00

Name: Jake

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Burning my left hand, lol

Burning my right hand, lol

Ok, this is definitely stupid to do, just don’t try this yourself unless you like lighting your hand on fire.  There are more cool tricks to do than just burning your hand like holding a fireball in your hand.  Anyway, it doesn’t feel as bad as I thought it would be.  Its like holding on to a slice of pizza that just came out of the oven, but it if stays on too long (like a few seconds), it burns.  Some hairs on my right hand was burnt, I can smell it lol.~

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I believe many people had seen the money burning trick and was amazed that the money itself has no burnt mark on it.  For a typical unbeliever in magic, he/she/it has probably googled how you can burn money without actually burning the money itself.  Well if you are that person, please just ignore this post completely.

I’m thinking about imitating the money burning trick by myself, but of course, I’m broke.  So I won’t be using real money, instead I would just use a piece of paper.  Anyway, I made my purchase me a bottle of 70% Isopropyl Alcohol, with a chemical formula of C3H8O.  Although I have a 99% bottle at home, I could’ve just mix the water in with the alcohol itself, but I’m just too lazy, let’s hope that 70% doesn’t burn too hot that will set the paper on fire, or I’ll have to mix in water myself (which completely undermine the purpose of getting a 70% Isopropyl Alcohol).

Anyway, since my mom took my glass container to germinate some seeds, I would have to wait till tomorrow to do this experiment.

Heres what you’ll need:

95-99% Isopropyl Alcohol, I’ll post a follow up post to this one about the 70%

Water

Salt, for a visible yellow flame

And some kind of ignition source, lighter, torch, bond fire, flame thrower, you get the idea

For the water part, mix the water with the alcohol with a 50:50 ratio (add more alcohol if the mixture won’t ignite), maybe mix the water with the salt first (a few shake should be enough).  Then dip the dollar bill in it, but first test it with a piece of paper first, since defacing US Currency is illegal.  Then impress your friends, if they don’t know about it…….

Since the water has a very high specific heat, which insulates the paper form the heat of the burning alcohol and it also prevents you from cooking during a hot day.  I’ll actually put my hand into the flame and see how hot it is, if I can bear it, you’ll see my hand on fire in the video in the follow up post.

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Yep, you guessed it, I did get the inspiration from the Axe Deodorant Flame Thrower.  But the thing is, the Lysol make a more sexy flame than the Axe.  Although the Axe flame have more energy, but the Lysol flame gave off more light which lit up my whole garage.  By the way, I should tell you that Lysol contains 58% ethanol, which is also found in normal alcoholic beverages, but don’t spray it in your mouth thinking you can get drunk off of it, you probably die before you get drunk.  Since its 58% ethanol, it means that you can spray it on the door handle and ignite the handle on fire, or spraying it on your hand so that you have a flaming hand and show it off to your friends (I personally wouldn’t do the flaming hand trick, there are better ways of doing it, there are plenty of videos on how to make a fire ball that won’t burn your hand on YouTube).

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This time I wrap a piece of wet paper towel on the match that was sprinkled with cornstarch, and I also applied a coat of corn oil on the match stick itself, but I don’t think it did anything though.  And I also sprinkled the outside of the wet paper towel with corn starch.

How the thing look after it was burned, yes I used the clamp as a holder.

A close up shot of the match.

The match went out before the corn starch part was on fire, I figure its because I had the match held straight up, if I had it sideways, I believe I don’t have to reignite the match.

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You know when they say don’t apply near fire, I think this is why.

Here is a cheesy one I did indoor, stupidity.

Why?  Because it uses SD Alcohol 40-B, isobutane and propane as propellants for the fragrance.

Do try this at home(not inside) at night, it looks awesome, better with a full can of AXE, the one I used is like 1/3 full.

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