Pry the Pish

Nick and I, much like Baldrick of Black Adder fame, devised a cunning plan. This, on the other hand, did not involve us wearing a coat of meat sauce to prevent germs from infecting us.

It involved the sexy harnessing of the Earth's ionic energy to obliterate lesser lifeforms. It involved electrolysis. It involved pumping carcinogenic electrons and ions through weak and fragile cellular components. It involve masses of fun!

Bored while waiting for fellow DotAers to return online and wanting to rest our eyes, we decided to do something productive (hmm, more like its acronym) and outdoor-sy instead. We fished around the house for some AA batteries and Blu Tack. The batteries were held in place by the latter to ensure that they made ends meet. This prevented overcharging and saved some current-cy. It however, did not prevent a surge of lameness back there.

The organism in question: FISHES

A lone guppy, to be precise. We left it inside a plastic tupperware filled with scummy pondwater, hoping for it to be done in by its own polar droppings.

Our wires were fashioned from primitive clothes hangers cut and unwound. We held them in place, and awaited some spectacular sparks.

Instead, the fish lay swimming jovially. This was when we decided to increase the ionic gradient by pumping sodium and chloride ions into the solution.

WOO! Bubbles formed at the cathode, indicating the formation of hydrogen gas and hence the safe passage of electricity. The fish responded with a series of spasmic jolts and twitches, especially when we removed one electrode and suddenly placed it back in. This led me to theorise that the fish is more affected by the rate of change of current than by the actual current itself.

Petey Pablo's "Vibrate" was aptly booming in the background as we forced the fish to "make that ass vibrate".

We experimented with many modifications such as changing to the tua kee batteries, which resulted in the fish bobbing over to its side. Unfortunately, we never DID get it purely upside down/killed, and had to resort to end its suffering via microwave.

Now, if you haven't microwaved a critter in solution before, i strongly suggest that you DO IT NOW! It rocks omfg. The above-mentioned critter will explode from the buildup of internal energy and will splatter all over the place! Quite a neat party trick for Radioactive Man, there.

Unfortunately once again, methinks we chose a non-microwaveable saucepan, which only resulted the water fast-boiling. Sigh, no dynamite fishing here, just fish soup.

All in all, it was fun (albeit time-consuming) though. The rest of the day was also spent in slack satisfaction, with a sexy Subway and 2 hours straight of side-splitting Invader Zim. Also, i've started collecting items for Jeremy's care package, and it should be ready to send by somtime next week (SORRY!)

Crap, now i'm feeling down in the dumps with nothing to do but rummage. Not to look like a fish out of water here, but can i fish for compliments? I'll bait you all by saying i'm not (insert adjective here, positive lah) enough. That should get it hook, line and sinker ;)



Realising 'DotA' is an anagram of 'Toad' to... Wherever You Will Go - The Calling