The giant pizza can be seen at http://www.bnellis.eu/pizza/
Kloumpios ate 8 slices, Clumpy a more modest 2, leaving 20 slices for
the family (5 of us!). All the dog had was a lick of the box!
Kloumpios said he loved the 4th July, particularly the seven hot dogs!
Brian
On 06/07/2011 18:48, Brian Ellis wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'll get them doing some tedious website work for
> http://weather.cypenv.eu/ - copying tags for all-time records is a
> proctalgia. Judging from the way the dog is barking. they just arrived,
> so they can share some giant pizza tonight.
>
> Kloumpios just told me that he is going home on Friday for a home-made
> kleftiko (a whole lamb or kid baked in a preheated hermetically sealed
> clay oven for 5 or 6 hours: the juicy meat just falls off the bones).
> http://alifeincyprus.com/2010/09/17/kleftiko-ovens/
>
> Brian
>
> On 06/07/2011 16:31, David D. Hillman wrote:
>> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:
>>
>> The Question:
>>
>> This element is used for research purposes only. There are no commercial
>> outlets for the element as Sodium can be used to accomplish the same
>> tasks
>>
>> at a much lower cost. This element is more expensive than gold or
>> platinum
>>
>> (*** per my reference source). A pure sample of this element was not
>> produced until 1928. Apples contain 50 ppm of this element but plays has
>> no known biological role.
>>
>> Bonus Question: Name the mineral that contains this element.
>>
>> The Answer:
>>
>> The element is Rubidium (Rb). Rubidium was first reported in 1700's by
>> Nicholas Poda. Credit for discovery of the element goes to Robert Bunsen
>> and Gustav Kirchohoff in 1861. The first pure sample of the element was
>> produced in 1928 by Louis Hackspill. Rb has been used as a 'getter' in
>> vacuum tubes to scavenge trace oxygen and rubidium carbonate is used to
>> make special types of glass but very few other commercial applications
>> exist. There are a number of commercial applications were Rb could be
>> used
>> but Sodium has been shown to accomplish the same end result for a
>> fraction
>> of the cost.
>>
>> Bonus Answer: Lepidolite with contains approximately 1.5% Rb.
>>
>>
>> There were lots of good guesses (Bev - loved your process of elimination
>> approach) but Brian Ellis was first across the finish line. The Clumpy
>> and
>> Kloumpios celebrated the 4th of July with Scott Post (rumor has it they
>> grilled hot dogs, made handcranked ice cream, and saw a great fireworks
>> show)then used their Technet connections to catch a "stealthy" ride to
>> Cyprus. I had no idea Clumpy and Kloumpios knew how to sky dive! They
>> should be dropping in on Brian's house today ready for a task.
>>
>> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have:
>>
>> Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings
>> - accomplished nothing (drank lots of coffee)
>>
>> Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - conducted REACH material testing
>>
>> Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
>> - Solderability testing and mowed the lawn
>>
>> Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich
>> - had an epic journey of travel
>>
>> Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrolab
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon
>> - Were tackling dummys for Dallas Cowboys
>>
>> Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
>> - Cleaned gutters and painted window trim
>>
>> Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits
>> - unknown
>>
>> Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
>> - descaled the in-line wash machine! Ouch!
>>
>> Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation
>> - assisted with AS9100 quality management systems requirements audit
>>
>> Week 12 Steve Creswick of Balanced Enterprise Solutions
>> - Acted as Steve's "go fer" due to a broken leg!
>>
>> Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
>> - conducted a plasma pre treatment Taguchi DOE for a sealing process
>>
>> Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - assisted with a tin pest investigation/test
>>
>> Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - assisted Bev shoveling snow
>>
>> Week 16 David Bealer of Waatchfire Signs
>> - assisted with reflow profiling
>>
>> Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired
>> - assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found
>> his cousin Kloumpios
>>
>> Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC
>> - assisted with tin whisker inspection/examinations
>>
>> Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
>> - assisted with scraping barnacles, boat paint and boat engine
>> maintenance
>>
>> Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
>> - assisted with weather observations (70F to snow) and resolving
>> electrochemical migration failures
>>
>> Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
>> - assisted with commercial aircraft galley inspection
>>
>> Week 21 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired, and Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense,
>> Space and Security
>> - assisted with root cause corrective action tasks
>> - assisted with nothing but catching up with the family
>>
>> Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
>> - assisted with metallographic cross-sections and Dye& Pry testing
>>
>> Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM
>> - assisted with a creep corrosion project and the setting up of an oxygen
>> bomb
>>
>> Week 24 Steve Gregory, RD Circuits
>> - assisted with ?????
>>
>> Week 25 Ahne Oosterhof, A-Laser
>> - assisted with stencil aperture data analysis and split/stacked firewood
>>
>> Week 26 Scott Post, Delphi
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>> Week 27 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>> Dave Hillman
>> Rockwell Collins
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