Water
One cubic metre of water (at the correct temperature) weighs one metric tonne. Cool, huh?
Shame to waste a car, though. (Thanks, Geoff, again.)
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About the Author
Danny Fekete is studying education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, appropriately.
His interests include Open Education, metrical poetry, science (philosophy, history, and methodology of), amateur astronomy and astrophysics, solitary rambles, language and composition, democratic citizenship, concert music, pens, tea, and the colour brown.
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3 Responses so far
Kirsten
August 21st, 2009
9:21 am
You know, Mr. Fekete, It just suddenly occurred to me that you have absolutely no idea of what I have been up to for the past few years of my life. Since the much regretted demise of “The Stairwell” I have been quite active on LiveJournal and posted much about quite a lot.
While most of it is mindless rambling of my overactive mind, there are a few gems and wild stories of my past “achievements” etc… which you may not be aware!
At least, it would make for a few hours of interesting reading, if you (or anyone else reading this, whom I know,) would be interested, go to
http://www.livejournal.com and register for a free account and then go to my user name: freekofnature (note the spelling, also thanks to YOU for the moniker, yes, I took it from your suggestion many years ago… (http://freekofnature.livejournal.com) will only allow you to see my public postings which are a tiny fraction of the “really good stuff” You must get a user-id, login, to see the really amazing stuff. If you do register on Livejournal, send me an e-mail or a comment on any of my public postings with your username and we will mutually “friend” each other and then you have full access to ALL my postings. I guarantee you will me amazed at what you read… and have a jolly good time, and a good laugh, as well…
Danny
August 21st, 2009
1:55 pm
Remind me, Kirsten, what was that suggestion? I can’t imagine having called you a freak of nature, much less having misspelled it.
Kirsten
September 21st, 2009
4:13 pm
Ah, many many moons ago (approx 4 years or so…) we were conversing about some of the very strange things I had been up to, and you, in all jocularity and in reference to my commenting something silly about peoples reaction to seeing me in person and having difficulty accepting a connection between my visage, with the scientific output of my rather fertile scientific mind, remarked in jest that I am truly a freak of nature. Well, I responded that yes, in fact I AM a real freak of nature, combining both rather remarkable looks ( I was at the time a part time fashion and cosmetic model in New York after all) and graduating Summa from University with a dual major in Biochemistry and Physics, and pursuing a Masters in Theoretical Physics! Well, I was so impressed with this moniker that I immediately applied for this as my username on LiveJournal, but it was already taken (by some suicidally depressed geek in Colorado, so I modified the spelling (from FreakOfNature to FreekOfNature) and voila, a new and very descriptive livejournal username! I owe it all to you!