Science nerds help the arts through love of corn syrup
Several weeks ago, the newly formed local Art Boosters organization (formed to raise money, awareness, support, etc., for the arts in the local school system) had a cool fund raising event with lots of live performances, games, and the opportunity for me to buy nifty old vinyl to play on my nifty new turntable. As part of that someone donated a ton of lollipop’s to sell, and they ended up with quite a few leftovers (they donated a lot).
WeatherGirl got all clever and decided to continue to raise money by engaging computer science students’ legendary fondness for corn syrup. A big bag was placed in the CSci labs with a cup and a sign explaining the deal, and sure enough she sold out the whole lot speedy quick. On a completely honor system, she/they raised $26.45, and she was only short a nickle.
Pretty cool, eh?
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June 10th, 2005 at 15:02
Corn syrup?
June 12th, 2005 at 06:31
Yup, corn syrup. A dominant sweetener and certainly one of the most common forms of sugar consumed in the western world. Most candy is congealed corn syrup in one form or another, and pop is much the same but in liquid form. Sadly, most fruit drinks (as opposed to fruit juices) are also mostly corn syrup with flavors and colors added.
Corn syrup.
June 14th, 2005 at 18:07
So, Mountain Dew is to be thought of as corn syrup with caffeine. I see. We have an old UNIX geek down the hall who has a stack of Mountain Dew cans big enough to build a cubicle … maybe he already has.
June 14th, 2005 at 19:17
Indeed :-). Much of the “standard” diet of computing nerds (pop and candy bars) is in fact corn syrup in different forms. That, plus the habit of sitting in chairs staring at screens all day, isn’t the healthiest of lifestyles. One could argue that that putting the candy in the lab wasn’t exactly helping, but at least the money went to a good cause.
June 14th, 2005 at 21:38
I rode my bicycle half way to Pullman and back after work to make up for the donuts somebody brought in for their birthday ….