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...from Toronto for another week, and I'm outbound to San Francisco until Saturday Mar. 11th. I'm trading coolish weather for warm but rain (and a boatload of work between tomorrow morning and Friday evening).
Checklist for San Francisco:
Oh, if you ever want to get a lot of funny looks from airport security screeners and waste a few minutes, put two laptops through - they love that.
Checklist for San Francisco:
- Laptop (customer's company)
- Laptop (my company)
- Palm Tungsten E2
- iPod (4th gen, 20 gig)
- 5 days of nice clothing
- 1 day of relaxed, flying clothing
- Toiletries
- 4 cases of Coca Cola - one of the people at the customer's office is an expatriate Canadian, and he discovered that US coke tastes like pipe cleaner compared to Canadian stuff because the US uses 'high-fructose corn syrup' as their primary sugar source and Canada uses 'Glucose-Fructose' (i.e. table sugar)
Oh, if you ever want to get a lot of funny looks from airport security screeners and waste a few minutes, put two laptops through - they love that.
posted by Ryan Slobojan at 14:41
2 Comments:
Glucose-fructose is not table sugar. Table sugar is Sucrose.
Glucose is the simplest sugar, and absorbs into the system very quickly. Fructose is fruit sugar.
This is the part where I get highly technical back. :)
Sucrose (From Wikipedia) is a disaccharide which "[...] consists of two monosaccharides, α-glucose and fructose [...]". My understanding is that saying 'Glucose-fructose' is the company's way of indicating *which* sugar is at that ingredient.
[10 minutes later]
Actually, it appears that this is mistaken - I found an experiment online for converting Sucrose to Glucose-fructose. Let this be a lesson to others - Sucrose and Glucose-fructose are NOT the same thing, even though they may seem to be similar if you know the chemical composition of Sucrose.
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