If there’s anyone at all reading this webcommiec besides Alpieghty God and Mechlord, I apologise for the standstill Jeff’s Pie Shop is in now. It’s just that my university studies are taking up much of my time. I should theoretically still have time to do the comic, but that would only be if I was reasonably organised, which I’m not. :-[
As for PieGod - thank you for not pestering me. I aim to have comic 13 up by the weekend after the next.
On Tuesday, I had my last chemistry prac for this semester. Do you know what that means?
That means I had to make a polyiodide salt, crystallise it (pretty metallic-bluey-green flakes) and analytically determine the number of iodine atoms in the molecular formula. We did the redox titration with sodium thiosulfate and starch as the indicator. Sounds like fun? Well, it was more like a delirium - I overshot the mark on the 50mL volumetric flask and had to do the weighing of the crystals again - with half an hour left. I managed to get only 3 titrations done - luckily, two of them were 0.1mL apart (concordant). And then we had to do the washing up and the calculations - on a sheet stained all over with brown iodine solution. Yuck.
Good thing I finished. The formula of my compound turned out to be N(CH3)4I(I2)2. Smashing.
And we got to use methanol. Exciting.
Me and God of Pie have reached an almost telepathic consensus that this here website needs some serious improvements, which will take place over the next sqwumpteen weeks or so. I will handle comic-related issues, while God of Pie will poke Mechlord until he does something about an update to Wordpress 2.7.1. Expect eventual changes to the website design as well.
Meanwhile, don’t expect anything much comic-wise in the next ~3 weeks, because I’ll be studying for me end-of-semester exams, and then doing them. It’s not easy, you know.
See ya nincompoops around,
azarov98
