Re: (Fwd) FWD: Technology (fwd)

To see the original show on the web, you can find it at:

http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/

It is an entertaining page, complete with movies and sound if you want them.

Milt Forsberg
SM, Troop 7
Champaign, IL

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Donald R Izard wrote:

> With Klondike season upon us in the northern states, I though I would
> pass on some creative fire starting methods reported on my college
> frat net. Note that Clarkson College has been mostly known as an
> engineering and or techie (tekie?) college.
>
> enjoy . . . . scouter don
[snip]
> > >>By hooking into the World Wide Web, you can look at a variety of
> > >>electronic "pages," consisting of documents, pictures, and videos
> > >>created by people all over the world. One of these is a guy named
> > >>(really) George Goble, a computer person in the Purdue University
> > >>engineering department. Each year, Goble and a bunch of other
> > >>engineers hold a picnic in West Lafayette, Indiana, at which they cook
> > >>hamburgers on a big grill. Being engineers, they began looking for
> > >>practical ways to speed up the charcoal-lighting process. "We started
> > >>by blowing the charcoal with a hair dryer," Goble told me in a telephone
> > >>interview. "Then we figured out that it would light faster if we used a
> > >>vacuum cleaner." If you know anything about (1) engineers and (2) guys
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