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January 2001, Week 4

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Richard Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]>
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Only problem was they also burned up the BBQ pit as well.   It was pretty cool
though,  I think it took about 3 seconds to light the charcoal.

Richard

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> Now, if I could just remember that web site.... These guys had a contest
> about the most spectacular way to ignite a barbeque full of charcoal.  The
> winner saturated it in liquid oxygen....
>
> BTW - Mr. McVeigh's methods were well documented decades earlier in the
> DuPont Blaster's Handbook.
>
> -d
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Boyd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:32 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: OT: rotating blackouts ordered for NorthernCalifor nia
> >
> >
> > ...so figuring out how to make things go "BOOM" using no/lo-tech isn't
> > considered hi-tech?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Becker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:23 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: rotating blackouts ordered for
> > NorthernCalifornia
> >
> > Joseph Rosenblatt wrote:
> >
> > >Idaho surely conjures up names of great hi-tech innovation like Ted
> > Kaczynski.
> >
> > I thought that too, until I expressed that opinion, and was told in no
> > uncertain terms that the bombs that Ted Kaczynski used to
> > protest Hi-tech
> > were made using Lo-tech, available to anyone with a Doctorate
> > in Chemistry
> > and an IQ over 170.
> >

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Richard Hoffmann                                 http://www.blinncol.edu
Systems Analyst/Programmer                 979-830-4213  (Work)
Blinn College                                         979-830-4049  (Fax)
Brenham, Texas

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