Ohhhh...Sam doing the Halloween movie reviews. Nice!
Jeffrey W. | Homepage | 10.29.07 - 2:28 pm | #

1982... the only memorable things were the Falklands War and the "Tylenol Crisis", which led to that stupid "tamper-proof" packaging that no one can open.
Zntrip | 10.29.07 - 11:51 pm | #

I just so happened to watch Poltergeist on TV. It's a rather impressive feat considering that the movie actually had a plot and good acting (compared to modern horror standards). A long time ago, like in the Hitchcock/Twilight Zone days, people actually used drama instead of CG zombies to generate fear. Weird!

Zntrip, do you have an informative link on the Tylenol crisis?
teh_guy | 11.05.07 - 7:59 am | #

I heard about the Tylenol crisis on an episode of "I Love The 80's" on VH1. There's a Wikipedia article about it too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tyl..._Crisis_of_1982
Zntrip | 11.05.07 - 4:32 pm | #

Thanks for the info! Wow, that's freaky. Basically, some freak put cyanide into those gel caps and no one could tell they were tampered with. The killer got 7 people.

I often work with potassium ferricyanide, which is harmless unless you eat it and it mixes with your stomach acid (see below).

I think I told you guys a while ago that a coworker once told me to clean up a ferricyanide stain on an instrument with acid. This would have liberated the cyanide groups, which could have dissolved straight through my skin and killed me. Yay! I'm glad I no longer work with that person or my former employer.
teh_guy | 11.06.07 - 12:06 pm | #

I take it that your a chemist or something.
Zntrip | 11.07.07 - 4:32 pm | #

Applied environmental scientist.

You'd be surprised how many hats you get to wear while working on energy projects.
teh_guy | 11.08.07 - 11:18 am | #

Cool! Have you ever had to travel to other countries for said "energy projects" and wear funny hats?
Zntrip | 11.08.07 - 5:42 pm | #