10.15.2007

beta catenin

Need to buy a plane ticket or find some form of transportation to get down to SD for the conference.

Have to write KP a letter.

Have to find motivation for classes. Even if the grades are fine for now, I'm getting bored of having to study for tests.

Applied for a restaurant gig. 28,000 square feet. 800 people. I've never operated in a restaurant of that scale. I think the maximum people that my parents stick into the restaurant even for banquets is 150 people.

Food reviews: Raspberry White Tea by Snapple. Look to that instead of Drab if you want interesting facts about smell-ology/olfaction. I twisted off the top and it reads: "The average smell weighs 760 nanograms."

Hawaii Kettle Cooked Original Potato Chips. Salted a tad too much, much oilier than your standard kettle chip, but the flavor was moderately good.

What's the purpose of acidophilus and bifidus? The Lucerne purple label reduced-fat milk claims that they added this to the milk. For what reason, though?

1 comment:

dubrav said...

ok i typed a really long response to your illuminating snapple cap experience, and blogger deleted it.

...it was really good too.

i'll summarize:

1. i don't think we have the necessary data to determine that (and besides the range would be large for an average to really be that meaningful). the metric is really meaningless in itself (number of odorant bindings necessary to elicit the perception of a scent?...)

2. i'm full of interesting smell info: humans can detect the smell of decaying flesh at concentrations as low as 500 pg per liter of air. WOWEY!