Every time my one of my roommates shower, as soon as they open the bathroom door, all three fire alarms start going off and its utter pandemoniumthe poor dogs go nuts and it wakes up other household members. What to do?
No sir. Leave those people to mourn their loss. Another is sure to come. I say that with much pain near my heart.
No, I did not particularly like Wesley Crusher. It wasn't his fault, reallythe writers were to blame. Basically the main problem I had was that he could walk into Engineering, take a look at a screen Data had been studying for an hour, and immediately say, oh, you should do such and such and that would fix the problem. I mean, no one is that smartData's an android and supposed to be one of the most intelligent people on the ship. It really irritated me that Wesley, who originally had had so little training, was smarter than Data and Geordi combined! Interestingly enough, even Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley, hated the scenes that made his character look that way. Wesley himself was a nice enough kid, but those scenes really irked me. In later Star Trek series they did a little better: Jake Sisko, for instance, wasn't such a mechanical genius, which made him easier to watch. And Icheb (from Voyager), was extremely intelligent, and even came up with some pretty ingenious ideas, but he wasn't smarter than the rest of the crew. Plus he had emotional issues (his parents genetically altered him to use him to kill Borg: you can imagine the effects of that on a young teenager) which made him easier to relate to.
Many a person has been killed by potassium chlorate, even Chemistry teachers, it almost got me also. Even one of the doctors at our small local hospital said he almost got killed by it while I was being patched up for a teenage 1970's rocket program gone bad. The stuff, if mixed with red phosphorus, blows up with sudden and unexpected and uncontrolled massive force while you mixing it, or later while sitting on the shelf. So, if you fool with it, work with only small amounts, grams, wear safety goggles, gloves and keep your distance. Acids or other combustables mixed with it are also sometimes unpredictable, If you planning on making rocket fuel, it would be best to wait until your in an engineering class where the professor knows what he is doing. 911 makes people a little edgy about selling it, and don't be surprised if the airport authorities won't let you fly.
