They released the Little Mermaid on Blu Ray just this past fall and I've been watching it non-stop !! :sing: Because, I want to be, where the people are.. :sing:

I KNOW RIGHT!!!!! lmao! I have it... bought it... it happened... Also have Monster U as well currently... got Lady and the tramp in Aug... I dunno, I guess I just want my kids to grow up and be able to see what I watched when I was a kid!!

I allways try to get my 6 year old into Disney but he is like na I want to watch Sponge Bob

You think you're Disney-crazy? We have an annual pass to Disneyland. Yes, said, but true. It doesn't get much crazier than that. I guess you could say that, :sing: we want to be, part of that world :sing:

My friends took their 2 children to Disneyland last year and I think it will be their first and last trip as when their 5 yr old son started to cry when he saw Mickey cause the 6 foot mouse scared him their 7 yr old daughter went up and kicked Mickey for scaring her lil brother and then giving Mickey a severe talking to about scaring little kids. Best part was it was all caught on video every time I see it I can't help but laugh so hard till I cry.

Anyone ever measured the TDS of snow?!

14 at my house!

Try feeding a ball python, a red tail boa, aclimating my clowns back into my new tank and moving my partners cats into my house with 3 cats already... Talk about a handful!! Not he mention the 3 dogs down stairs!

Why does Capt. Morgan spice rum & egg nog taste so good..


:heh:

Disney is awesome for crazy **** like that! haha. And ya, I've seen some pretty messed up **** at Disney. So awesome. :lol:

Meh. We have a zoo and can never leave home as a result. Srsly, who wants to adhere to instructions for feeding, cleaning and care for over 100 animals? We have a book of instructions, color code and have everything pre-made and people still can't be paid enough.

Do I win the gold medal for the Martyr Olympics? I think I've got a shot at the bitching and complaining relay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYi...e_gdata_player

Have at 'er

OK, you asked for it

Pretty awful 'scape

Looks pretty fresh judging by the rock
Only time will tell if the fish live ...

On the flip side, it looks great with lots of fish, although I feel sorry for them in that small space

Thanks for the vid

George Bailey rocks

High up in the mountains not far from Kimberley at the backcountry Boulder Hut I carefully scooped some fresh snow & it measured 2 or 4, can't recall exactly. Actually had a good reason to do it, we had run out of distilled water to top up the batteries of the micro hydro system & I wanted to confirm melted snow was ok to use. Good enough in a pinch, but we had no choice anyhow, the plates were almost exposed on a couple of the batteries.

I imagine results will vary depending on location, length of time since the snow fell, proximity to industry, etc.

Water for the hut comes from a spring fed creek & IIRC it measured around 10-11. And that TDS is prolly good stuff like minerals your bod needs.

"Convenience Charge", what next? I just purchased a ticket to a concert in Kelowna online & the price breakdown doesn't show either PST or GST, but this Convenience Charge. Convenient for who, certainly not me? Honestly, what the H is this? A hidden tax? Who's kid am I helping to send through college with this charge? So an initial $59.00 cheap seat ticket ends up costing $70.75 due to an $11.75 Convenience Charge? Convenient for me would be if ZZ Top came to my living room to perform instead of me driving from Vernon to Kelowna, finding a parking spot, rocking out to the tunes & then driving back from Kelowna to Vernon.....

Not finished my rant... I look at some of my utility bills & in addition to GST, PST, I see franchise fees, carbon tax, clean energy levy, 5% rate rider.... argggh. And all that sheeet is on top of Fed & Prov Income tax, Municipal Home Owner taxes, sewer, water & the list goes on.... Is it time to simplify our tax system or what? Might mean some bureaucratic job cuts, but I just don't care, I'm all taxed out! Time for a revolt, anarchy even. Clearly our politicians are incompetent at every level and their all spending like drunken sailors... on the wrong things. Otherwise there wouldn't be homeless folks looking for handouts on the street, or hospitals with light a bulb campaigns to help buy much needed medical equipment & finish new hospital towers... how many other charities are out there???

'Kay, I think I'm good now, Merry Christmas.

You have put the face in the wrong place :lol:

And the word "original" is missing.

Maybe you are paying to get snow with tds 2-4 when needed :lol:

Jokes apart, that snow seems as clean as my RO water output (4 tds). Don't know but can the TDS meter be affected (maybe higher or lower) if the snow is acidic/alkaline/neutral? That might be interesting. Suppose TDS reads less in acidic water and you get a TDS of 5ppm and you put the snow ball in the mouth and DAMN! Lemonade slush!

I pay good money to go the the Boulder Hut every winter to get as far away from civilization & the gov't as possible. That bill includes GST and some sort of holiday tax.... To the best of my knowledge the gov't does not make snow. In Toronto the mayor calls in the military if they get too much of it at one go. They don't deal with it too well in Vancouver either.

To the best of my knowledge a TDS meter is simply a conductivity meter, not sure acid or alkaline has any impact on the reading. Although, if TDS is mainly alkaline type elements.... not sure what elements make water acidic, but certainly lime content which is abundant in mountainous regions, would tend to make the water alkaline? Acid rain I suppose, that would probably be high in sulphur? Time for a chemist to chime in.

As far as my limited chemistry knowledge goes, both acid and alkali are ionic solutions so they should interfere TDS reading (since its a conductivity meter). Lime contents are acidic so I guess those snow must be acidic too. Acid rain contains sulphur (in form of sulphuric acid I guess) along with many other low pH acids.

With regard to lime, I meant limestone which is an alkaline agent, not the green fruit, which of course contains acetic acid. My reference was intended to be limestone in the mountains. Sorry for the mixup.

Ops :lol: Yah lime, limestone, limewater....I don't know why they would be named such!

Ok , where has December gone?? Actually, where has this year gone?? Year end sucks, 12 hour days suck, hoping for some downtime over the holidays!!

@ Raied. Yeah well, it was me that forgot to add the word 'stone' to lime, so my mistake. Assumptions can lead to confusion. As far as acid vs alkaline affecting TDS meter readings, again I'm just guessing, but you mention both are ionic solutions. My take is, pure DI water conducts no electricity since there are no impurities, whether acidic or alkaline. My high school physics goes back a long way, but ionic means there are free electrons? This means there is potential for current flow, i.e. conductivity. So it shouldn't matter whether a solution is acidic or alkaline, either one should conduct providing a reading on a conductivity (TDS) meter? Perhaps you could run this question by one of the highly intelligent (and paid) professors at your university!

EDIT: Google is your friend, I think I answered my own question, no need to bother the professor..

Properties of Acids
taste sour (don't taste them!)... the word 'acid' comes from the Latin acere, which means 'sour'
acids change litmus (a blue vegetable dye) from blue to red
their aqueous (water) solutions conduct electric current (are electrolytes)
react with bases to form salts and water
evolve hydrogen gas (H2) upon reaction with an active metal (such as alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, zinc, aluminum)

Properties of Bases
taste bitter (don't taste them!)
feel slippery or soapy (don't arbitrarily touch them!)
bases don't change the color of litmus; they can turn red (acidified) litmus back to blue
their aqueous (water) solutions conduct and electric current (are electrolytes)
react with acids to form salts and water

Ionic solutions are the charged particles (like mixing calcium chloride in water would form Ca+ and Cl-) and applying a voltage in the solution could cause the positive ones to go to negative terminal and vice versa. I can't recall whether there would be any free electrons. The hottest topic right now in Canreef with all the ionic balance and stuffs :razz: We already have atleast "one" highly intelligent chemist in this forum isn't it? ;)

I second that 1,000,000,000,000%, Im booked solid right up to xmas eve day & the wife has put her foot down & told me I am taking at least a week away from work if that is possible.

Yep, caused me to lose complete interest in either product. It's pretty sad really.:neutral:

I don't think 2014 is going to be any better...seems like we are booming again, hard to get things done or have people respond to requests.....

On another note, had a weird dream last night that for some reason, all the water drained out of my tank and I found my fish in barely enough water to stay alive or flopping around on the floor. (so tank didn't explode). Threw them in my sump and random buckets in a mad panic, then used my new pump to bring water up from the basement. Got up this morning, checked the tank, all was good, just need top up water....hmmmmmm.....

My boss handed me my Christmas bonus and said "don't spend it all on fish tanks"

Phhh, common I'm only planning on spending most of it on fish tanks

He doesn't need to know ;) :razz:

I'm tempted to just buy a pallet of io salt

Christmas Bonus what's that?:neutral:

No doubt!! My boss is a cheap penny pinching scrooge!!

The dreaded time of year has arrived. I, I loathe to look forward to this time ......


... when the J&L New&Noteworthy page goes offline until January. Oh the humanity!!! :cry:

so today i got to the store, stuck a bottle of coke in the freezer to cool it down, left it in there for about 3 hours... looked at it and it wasnt frozen, slipped, dropped it on the floor, picked it up and proceeded to open it.
it overflowed everywhere and turned into an instant slushy...


stupid coke

Hahahaha. You stick a Coke in the freezer for 3 hours, drop it & then open it and its Coke's fault that it spewed all over the floor??:laluot_32:

Sorry my friend, but that's a good one Tyler.

its their fault that when it did explode it exploded into a slushy mess instead of just plain liquid.... the exploding part was my fault

Being as we are a 24/365 mill we don't shut down for Christmas and it works out that my crew works all the stats this year big money for us last paycheck of the year always good to look forward to.

Who's happier, you or the government? Merry chirstmas politicians! Lol
And a very merry one to you and your fat paycheck Dearth :)