Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Explosive coffee creamer

Wired reports that your non-dairy creamer may be explosive, which is interesting, except that I’ve known this for … almost 20 years. Not exactly breaking the news this year, are they? The way I found out was by accident, however, back when I was in high-school.

You see, I was in a program that thought it would be great to give a group of 5 high-school kids a video camera and have them shoot a scene from Shakespeare. The only trick? You had to modernize it, and bring it into the 20th century. So, we chose a scene from The Tempest, and brought it up to Vietnam. Strange, but it lets teenage boys play with guns and explosives.

As part of the effort, we wanted to do some pyrotechnics to simulate land-mines during the scene where we ran along a creek bed near one person’s home. So, being the creative, and slightly pyromaniacal kid that I was, I improvised. The top of a soda can was cut off, a model rocket igniter was placed in the bottom and non-dairy creamer placed on top. The effect was quite splendid, and in fact nearly singed a few people’s eyebrows when we were playing with them.

Can you imagine trying that kind of thing in today’s school? They’d lock you up as a terrorist.