A Quick One

I was doing some boring water quality homework and I typed this up, which I thought was funny:

"5-11) The health risk of ingesting too much nitrate in drinking water is infant methemoglobinemia. Methemoglobinemia causes cyanosis, which gives the baby a blue color. This stems from nitrite that is absorbed by the blood after developing from nitrate in the child’s intestine. It is, however, readily diagnosed and quickly treated.

"5-13) The five trihalomethane compounds that have been found in water are chloroform (CHCl₃), bromodichloromethane (CHCl₂Br), dibromochloromethane (CHClBr₂), bromoform (CHBr₃, and dichloroiodomethane (CHCl₂I). These are produced in surface waters as a by-product of chlorination, when the chlorine interacts with organic substances present in the raw water."

Just so we're clear, I didn't find the sick baby funny, just the big words (hopefully you don't think me that sinister). As you can imagine, my spell checker had the time of its life.

Also, I was in Indianapolis all last weekend for the Celebration III Star Wars convention. I had a blast, and I will write a long post about that, with pictures and all, hopefully this weekend if I have time. I guess you already knew I was a geek. If you didn't, don't laugh. Star Wars geeks are some of the nicest people you can ever hope to meet.