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The more immersive games are, the more glitches make everything fall apart.  I was playing Oblivion last night and a glaring glitch that could have been easily forseen and avoided kind of kicked me out of my groove.  I posted something on the Oblivion Forum if you're curious.

The more immersive games are, the more glitches make everything fall apart.  I was playing Oblivion last night and a glaring glitch that could have been easily forseen and avoided kind of kicked me out of my groove.  I posted something on the Oblivion Forum if you're curious.

I just wrote about how tired I was.  Nothing like working with potentially deadly chemicals to wake you up.  I did some work in our HF alkylation unit today.  Many refineries use Hydrofluoric Acid to rearrange butanes into better fuels for gasoline.  HF acid is a bad mother.  Here's some info from eMedicine:

"Dilute solutions deeply penetrate before dissociating, thus causing delayed injury and symptoms. Burns to the fingers and nail beds may leave the overlying nails intact, and pain may be severe with little surface abnormality.

I just wrote about how tired I was.  Nothing like working with potentially deadly chemicals to wake you up.  I did some work in our HF alkylation unit today.  Many refineries use Hydrofluoric Acid to rearrange butanes into better fuels for gasoline.  HF acid is a bad mother.  Here's some info from eMedicine:

"Dilute solutions deeply penetrate before dissociating, thus causing delayed injury and symptoms. Burns to the fingers and nail beds may leave the overlying nails intact, and pain may be severe with little surface abnormality.

So, it's noon and I've already put away a Rockstar, 5 coffees and a Diet Coke. Following my usual January (70-90 hour workweeks, 7 days a week, often at night) I've stumbled into February cranky and sleep deprived. Last night my son was sick and I ended up going to the couch to catch a few hours of sleep before work.

So, it's noon and I've already put away a Rockstar, 5 coffees and a Diet Coke. Following my usual January (70-90 hour workweeks, 7 days a week, often at night) I've stumbled into February cranky and sleep deprived. Last night my son was sick and I ended up going to the couch to catch a few hours of sleep before work.

Here are some pictures from a Lithuanian Refinery that didn't take care of their process lines and sprung a leak. This is similar to where I work except that we don't let our process lines get big holes in them. There is also a video of the tower (vaccum distilation tower, for those interested) collapsing. Sorry about the music, I didn't pick it. No one was injured, but the was almost $50 million in damage, as well as the fact that the refinery will be down for a while.

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Here are some pictures from a Lithuanian Refinery that didn't take care of their process lines and sprung a leak. This is similar to where I work except that we don't let our process lines get big holes in them. There is also a video of the tower (vaccum distilation tower, for those interested) collapsing. Sorry about the music, I didn't pick it. No one was injured, but the was almost $50 million in damage, as well as the fact that the refinery will be down for a while.

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