It's Game Day!!!

Well almost. Tech kicks off the football season on Saturday September 2 at 8:00 PM nationally televised against long time rival Notre Dame. The reason I'm excited, other than it should be a great season, is that my tickets came today. Thanks to a nice season ticket holder on the Hive named Tim I was able to get a mini pack with two tickets to the Notre Dame (9/2), Miami (10/28 and homecoming), and Duke (11/18) games. The seats aren't that great but that's fine because I'll be there.

Another interesting factoid comes from Good Eats (one of the best shows on the Food Network) with Alton Brown. Besides being filmed in Atlanta it also goes into detail in a fun loving way the science of cooking. This interesting and surprising fact came from an episode I DVRed about water, yes water. Alton was discussing how water filters like the Brita pitcher filters work. There are two media inside the cartridge some plastic ball thingies and activated charcoal. Here is the interesting part, one gram of activated charcoal has the same surface area of two, yes two, tennis courts. That's 5,616 square feet or 6.02 apartments like mine squished down into something that would fit in tablespoon (you have to come visit me to figure how much that is) and a lot of surface area for one gram of carbon to have. That's how it catchs all the nasty things in the water. Pretty cool stuff that makes water good eats.

I've got a golden ticket!