Hold Back The Dawn!

Actually Please Don't
     It's just that I was stuck for a title and opened a page at random in my "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" and there it was.

Eels
     No, not the genus Anguilloformes!  The band.  "Eels", Mark Everett's crew.  You know, Mr. E.  

Hugh Everett, Mark's dad the quantum physicist.  Yes, really.  He created the "Many Worlds Interpretation*"

They play the Bridgewater here in Manchester on June 16th and guess who's going?
     No, not Emily Ravenscroft and her best friend Matt.
     NO! Not the local Darby & Joan club.
     NO!  Not Keyser Soze - he doesn't exist!
     Me!  I'm going - honestly you lot are hard work.  The 16th is  a Monday so I shall probably just tootle over after work.  Since E changes the band and accompaniement I don't know if it'll just be him and a geetar or a whole lot of folks and a string section, too.

Heels.  Close enough.

What Were They Thinking!
     In doing a little research for dangerous chemicals yesterday, Conrad came across a substance called Chlorine Triflouride.  It was invented in 1930 by a pair of scientists who seem to have sat down and decided "What compound can we create that's really dangerous?  Nah, strike that - really really REALLY dangerous!  Stupidly dangerous!"
     With ClF3 they got their wish.  This stuff will ignite on contact with nearly everything - cloth, wood, sand, asbestos, people, glass - and can only be kept in metal containers made from steel, copper or nickel. It is extremely toxic, but don't worry about that, if you get any on you the burning pillar of fire that used to be you won't last long enough to begin worrying.  Oh, part of the process when exposed to water is to create hydroflouric and hydrochloric acid, so that burning pillar of flame will also be melting.  Melting, burning and poisoned - can't say you don't get plenty of bang for your buck with ClF3!
     Here the kicker: you can't put a ClF3 fire out.  Throw a bucket of water on it and you get an acid cloud as per reaction above, and it will be an extremely hot acid cloud.  Bucket of sand?  Pile of sand on fire!
     The stuff was invented in 1930 and only found a use thirty years later for cleaning in the creation of transistor circuitry, and processing nuclear fuels.

The bond-model schematic for ClF3

A Little Experiment Of My Own
     Not involving volatile or dangerous chemicals.  I baked a cauliflower recipe earlier in the week, producing what the recipe-poster claimed to be a substitute for bread.
     Um, no.  Quite palatable whilst hot, when cold it was pretty "meh".  So today Conrad tried it with mashed potato.
     Still not a bread substitute, but nicer than the cauliflower version.  Yes, I know, you want proof:

When I left it only one slice had gone.  Honestly - those cats!

Oh Noes!
     The Kepler space telescope's data has confirmed the presence of over 700 exoplanets, including 4 of near-Earth size that orbit in the habitable zone (not too hot, not too cold).  This is - hang on here's the link to Auntie Beeb and the report:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26362433

This is not good!  At this rate Hom. Sap. will have discovered my homeworld before the invasion fleet arrives.  Disastrous!

Home.

So - Tanks?
     This is just barely a tank.  Behold the unmitigatedly ineffective Italian L6:

If tanks were people, this would be the pencil-necked, acne-spotted loser in the corner 

It only weighed 6 tons, so definitely a lightweight compared to it's contemporaries.  Main gun was a 20mm cannon, which would be utterly deadly in use against wheelbarrows and baker's vans, but was slightly less effectual against things like - tanks (those things you often find on battlefields)

Finally
     A photo of Edna at rest in the kitchen.  Today she discovered the joy of chasing a small rattling plastic ball around the kitchen and didn't stop for at least quarter of an hour.  The ball, you see, ricocheted off every surface and never stopped moving, so neither did she.

Only still because she's eating!

*  I knew you wanted to know more about this!  Let me quote:"The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse". There.  I trust all is now made clear?