Re:Ask HN: Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery
by gstar on Monday October 12, 2009 @07:35AM
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That's incredible - friend of mine and I did exactly that, but in Australia rather than Texas.
We rather over-specced the reflux column (it was about 1m tall, copper, and ran a water jacket pumped from a swimming pool) and we even asked a friend to put samples thru a mass spectrometer to make sure we weren't drinking methanol.
Never thought of it as a hack though, just a cheap way to get booze.
We flavoured it with oak chips and watered it down. Great hackers think alike? :)
We rather over-specced the reflux column (it was about 1m tall, copper, and ran a water jacket pumped from a swimming pool) and we even asked a friend to put samples thru a mass spectrometer to make sure we weren't drinking methanol.
Never thought of it as a hack though, just a cheap way to get booze.
We flavoured it with oak chips and watered it down. Great hackers think alike? :)