Moonshine Morning

I spent the morningmaking an old-fashioned moonshine still…only I’m not going to make moonshine(or maybe I am).  I actually made a stillto purify hydrogen gas.  It is important tohave a nice clean highly flammable gas when attempting a little science at yourhome close to the propane tank as you grill steaks. I’m guessing I might havebeen one of few people doing that this morning. At any rate, I’m taking my “still” to after school today and blowing upa balloon with hydrogen.  Then I’ll light it on fire and blow it up.  I think the kids will appreciate thatand, as an extra bonus, I’m thinking it will scare them enough to behave for atleast a few hours.  If that doesn’t work,I’ll just eat a bunch of onions, get in their faces and reenact scenes fromA&E’s Beyond Scared Straight or scenes, acting as the drill sergeant, fromFull Metal Jacket.  I might just do thatanyway for my own amusement.  Life is tooshort to not jump at opportunities to terrify children.


At any rate as I wasresearching a design for my hydrogen still, I discovered that you can buy a moonshinestill on eBay.  I guess I didn’t realize,since prohibition was repealed and all, that one might wish to acquire a moonshinestill.  I also discovered this picture.  I was really impressed with this seller’ssubtle marketing strategy.