Daily DeMo : Edition 41
January 23 - 29, 2010
January 23 - 29, 2010
DD302 :: Saturday - The Intrust Bank Arena takes 6 hours to clean to get it back to pre-show condition, and 18 people do the work.
DD303 :: Sunday - Little Shop of Horrors was the lowest budgeted film. The sets were leftover from a previous movie.
DD304 :: Monday - The average American gets 40 pounds of junk mail each year. (number 35)
DD305 :: Tuesday - I learned the process of fracturing, also called "fracing" (sounds like: fracking). Fracturing is the process of which water, sand, and other chemicals are pumped downhole at high pressures to break open fractures in shale formations. This allows natural gas trapped in the shale rock to flow to the surface. Fracing is usually done in wells drilled horizontally. Things like sand and other chemicals and gels, even ceramics, that are carried downhole with the water are called proppants. The propants are what stay inside the fractures, holding them open. They are permiable and allow the gas to travel through and around them.
DD306 :: Wednesday - I read this very long, but really informative story about what life is like as a sniper for the military. The military changed from using bull's-eye targets to silhouettes for shooting practice to help a rifleman's aversion to killing.
DD306.1 - I watched the trailer for the movie The Art of the Steal and also read more about the Barnes Foundation. Mr. Barnes hung out with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
DD307 :: Thursday - J.D. Salinger died. I haven't read Catcher in the Rye, but it is on my list of books to read. Somehow in all my years of school I got in the classes that didn't require that book to be read. Salinger refused to publish much of his works, and refused to let anything be adapted.
DD308 :: Friday - According to coupons.com, Wichita is in the top 20 of most frugal US cities.
1 comments:
I read The Catcher in the Rye back when I was in high school just because I wanted to know why it was banned. (Going to a Christian HS there was no way it was going to be assigned.) All I remember about it is a feeling of anger. I'll have to read it again. Maybe with some life experience, it will mean something different?
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