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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, for your delectation, here are Chilliwack performing There’s
Something I Like About That ¤ in 1974 (2:40).

Tonight’s SDA Late Nite Radio Cheese Selection is the classic (indeed,
medieval) Münster, which is a brevibacterium linens favourite of ours.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

     

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23 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. My colleague and I were discussing some of the (purported) new information that has been reported today in the case of the Deepwater Horizon incident, and some other data we’ve received via email, and, hey, we decided to try using the software our company develops to calculate some idea of some of the kinds of things that might have been going on at the time of the incident. Now, I don’t guarantee these results: I do software that does thermodynamics, and therefore know something about thermodynamics, but my field is software, not thermodynamics. Consider this, please, simply food for thought, in round numbers.

    At 5,000 feet below sea level, the pressure is roughly 2,200 pounds per square inch. At that pressure, and assuming that it’s about 40 °F down there, the specific volume of methane is 0.114 cubic feet per pound mass. But at sea level, at 14.7 pounds per square inch (absolute), methane’s specific volume is 22.67 cubic feet per pound mass.

    So then we did a piping flow computation. Assuming an 8 inch API schedule 40 pipe, the pipe’s maximum relieving capacilty calculation flows 300 pounds mass per second ~ it begins at 2,200 pounds per square inch, and exits at 194 pounds per square inch (sonic flow conditions). The specific volume at exit is 1.112 cubic feet per pound mass.

    This gives us some idea of what was happening on the rig. We have a shockwave at the end of the pipe as 300 pound mass per second of methane gas is exiting (that is, 330 cubic feet per second), and on exit the gas immediately expands to 20 times this volume (6,800 cubic feet per second). That’s probably about the volume of your house, of methane, dischared every second or three (depending on how big your house is). And then there was a spark.

  2. I think we have a bit of difference between electronic trading and programmed, high frequency trading. One can push the other, and did, last Thursday.
    And, my story hasn’t changed a lot in a week.
    I used to code, but have traded for the last 27 years. When something smells in a transaction, it reeks to a trader. I feel comfortable in your understanding of programming statistics, just from your ease of the topic. And the fact I was a physics major in college and post studies, it’s pretty much the language of physics.
    More to come. And I’ll donate some more West Coast Cool.

  6. Vit mentioned cheese, one of my favourite foods bar none.
    If you live in BC, one of the very best places to get superb quality cheese is Les Amis du Fromage in Vancouver. They ship anywhere in BC, and they don’t just sell French cheese either.
    Their website if you are interested:
    http://www.buycheese.com/
    I don’t work for them or are affiliated with them in any way. But they have an outstanding array of cheese and I can’t resist mentioning them. A lot of what they sell you will never ever find in the grocery store, and they are never snooty or rude toward the novice.
    To quote Mark Steyn “As a neocon warmonger, I yield to no one in my contempt for the French, but that said, cheese-wise I feel they have the edge.”
    If anyone else knows of cheese retailers worthy of mention please do tell.

  7. I know this is going to upset a lot of people. But Kraft Cheez Wiz on a Ritz cracker with an olive in the center, and Motts Clamato to wash it down is king!! And I’m sure someday, someone will patent tne recipe as a cure for hangover!!
    PS: Don’t like olives? Try a slice of Heinz “polski” pickle!

  8. Paddy’s International Cheese Market in Edmonton is my cheese monger, TJ, as we discussed here at SDA on 2010-04-04. I would mention that I do tend to prefer British cheeses to the French, not to take anything away from the Münster, which I do enjoy, but de gustibus non disputandum est prevents me from disputing that šŸ˜‰ And, Joe, don’t forget Cheez Whiz on cauliflower and broccoli, and Kraft Singles on white fried in butter (now that’s a grilled cheese), and, needless to say, the inimitable Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese. And try some sour cream on Nabisco Vegetable Thins with your Heinz Polski Orgorki. Awesome. I love great classic cheeses. I also love modern highly engineered food. I don’t see why one has to choose one over the other: each has their strengths and weaknesses. And don’t forget this!

  9. David Suzuki (The Nature of Things) on tonight’s CBC show claims that the Tibetan Monks had discovered the secret to long life over 1200 years ago. It has to do with “mind over the body” type of thing.
    Average life span in Tibet: 65 years
    Average life span in Canada: 80 years.
    Thank God for boring sermons, irate doctors, Cheez Wiz and Clamato!

  11. JMHO:
    Boxer vs. Carly is a key to destroying the progressive Democrats.
    We have to keep California front and Centerā€¦The Poster child of progressive Socialismā€¦Pelosi with her den of Idiotsā€¦The impact on the ā€œnationalā€ electorate canā€™t be ā€œoverā€ estimatedā€¦ (In 08 they hid Pelosi)
    A) Bankruptcy & illegal Aliens, Drugs & Gangsā€¦
    All the Parties (Including American Hispanic Activists) have similar Solutions ; Except California!
    B) Cap & Tradeā€¦ Who wins & whyā€¦
    C) Demā€™s will resort to Class warfare, CEO vs. Union (Boxers husband is Teamsters Lawyer) The contrast will be (Carly) Jobs vs. (Boxer) Welfareā€¦
    Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina race would be headlines 24/7, all the way to Nov
    http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/lets-shake-it-up-in-california/386510153434
    http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/05/07/l-a-times-fails-to-endorse-barbara-call-me-senator-boxer-on-grounds-of-stupidity/

  12. Vit: Enlighten me here SVP!
    I’m reading your calculations with regards to the methane blowout. When they drill on the ocean floor, and sink the bit down say 2000 feet below the ocean floor, don’t thay isolate the casing and the bit from the 2500 pounds of pressure that is created from the sea water? Now I’m talking PRIOR too the actual explosion.

  13. Shawn – thank-you for the link to the vedio showing how hay can soak up the oil mess – one handfull of hay soaked up a cupful of oil in a bowl of water! Amazing.
    The two gentlemen doing the demonstration said that the hay or straw would prevent the sand from absorbing the oil because the hay would attach itself to the oil before the oil had time to sink into the sand. Looks like a very sensible solution, IMO.

  14. Hello:
    1.Early CCR meets early Beatlesā€¦.bootleg. ??? Thatā€™s sort of what I hear.
    2.If you canā€™t brush your teethā€¦ eat cheese before bed. It apparently limits the bacteria/sugar/acid cycle famous for tooth decay. In the A.M. you will have SDA breathā€¦ and the whole bed to yourself.
    3.Ecological doom now assured for the gulf,ā€¦Choo asks for help. Interestingly, one of the brainy fellows predicts failure for the smaller top-hat as it is too light (only 2 tons).
    4.They pulled the heavy mud out despite the early indications of a blowout valve failureā€¦..doh!
    (Now thatā€™s just stupid.)
    5. There is no confidence in the market.
    Lots of blogs mention your blogā€¦ how cool is that!!!!

  15. Things have suddenly gotten serious
    “Goldman Sachs, Chess, and the Godfather”
    “So unfortunately the government vs. Goldman Sachs story has nothing to do with reforming Wall Street in the interest of average Americans.
    Rather, it is a strategic move to further the endgame of consolidating Wall Street power, focusing public rage on Goldman to protect JP Morgan Chase, fueling new regulations to clamp down on the smaller banks that we so desperately need, and creating a global structure even bigger than the already ā€œtoo big to failā€ banking system. This may be setting up one of the biggest, most successful queen sacrifices in history. We should take the queen by all meansā€”Goldman is a predator. But heed the lesson from 13-year-old Bobby Fischer. Be wary of checkmate.” Full Article:
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22663
    Canada Free Press is an ultra Conservative publication.

  18. I think its called Olympia cheese. Anyway, its on the main floor, at the south end of St Lawrence Market in Toronto. Great selection of foreign and domestic products including my favourite real Stilton and real Cheddar. Cheese in Ontario is extortionately expensive. Mostly due to import duties and dairy marketing boards. We usually end up eating what we refer to as “Stalinist Yellow” or “Stalinist White”. I have been to France a few times in my life. There food is highly over rated but their cheese is fabulous. Ontario has got to be the only place in the world where it is cheaper to eat the cow than drink its milk.

  20. Our previous cheese selections at SDA Late Nite Radio have included Spenwood, Wensleydale, Cheshire, Glenphilly, Woolsery, Ticklemore, Stilton, Lancashire , Delice de Bourgogne & Explorateur, Morbier & Cotswold, Appenzeller, Drumloch, Dubliner, & Shropshire Blue, Soccermom. And don’t forget that Professor Arthur R. Hill in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph has an excellent web site on cheese chemistry, methodology, and aesthetics, including a document entitled Making Cheese at Home, which includes some helpful references, several simple cheese making procedures and information about sourcing cheese making supplies.

  21. Vitruvius et al: I will put in a plug for good ole’ Ontario cheddar. You should try “Extra Old Vintage Cheddar” from Ivanhoe Cheese (www.ivanhoecheese.com). I don’t know if they’d ship for you or not.
    Melt-in-your-mouth tangy goodness!

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