Friday Fun: MSDS

Found - In packaging information of a Fisher order:

Folks today might call this "meta," but I'm sure the warehouse guys called it "fun with fax machines."

Happy Friday,
SAO

Friday Fun: [Title Goes Here]

Catchy caption!
Source I 'borrowed' from so I could
avoid drawing it

Wonky offbeat lede!

So, did you hear about Publication X / News Article Y*? Superlative, exclamation! (attempted witty aside). Reminds me of [mostly unrelated event], which I'll support with links. (Jump-backs to Chemjobber or Derek here.)

But wait, there's also [theoretically novel wrinkle] that I'll compare to the first thing, with more links. Boring support text nobody reads gets stuffed in the middle. Tangential relation to Study Z, which I'll forget to link later. [Self-referential in-joke]

Thesis re-hash, leading to BOLD STATEMENT** with overpunctuation‽‽‽ Italicized background option in case I need an out. More filler text. More filler text. A few soon-to-be-broken links for posterity. [Inspirational shout-out to Ash, Carmen, or Paul]. Pop culture reference to obscure band/movie/book for random chuckles.

One-sentence wrap-up.

Readers: Desperate comment solicitation to validate blog's existence.

*Asterisks are bad! Didn't my Editors teach me anything?
**Apparently the lessons didn't stick.

Happy [Day], Everyone!
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Egg Block Copolymer

Sifting through the detritus left behind after another Easter weekend, I came upon a few empty, abandoned plastic Easter eggs. Just for fun, I thought it might be fun to make an "oligomer" out of the polymeric ova.


This random block copolymer shows a low polydispersity index (PDI): exactly one, since there's just one strand! Manufacture should be trivial, since the component blocks literally snap together. Sadly, previous force testing (with my foot) indicates that we probably need to increase the shatter resistance.


Theoretically, to spiral one more "meta" layer downward, one could recycle eggshell-derived plastics into next year's Easter eggs!


What would a post about Easter eggs be without an Easter egg?