Clever Dave

[perldiver]

So I decided to bleach my sink, because that's the first step in the Shine Your Sink recipe from FlyLady.net, a website that yummygirl pointed me to on how to get the household side of your life under better control.  (Yeah, not too much backstory in THAT sentence!)

So I get the sink filling, I fill a 1-cup measure with bleach, dump it in, and then start to put the cup measure in the dishwasher.  "Ah," I think.  "The dishwasher is full, I'll run it."  Then Mr. Minopoli's voice drifts back to me from 11th-grade chemistry saying "Hey! Chlorine bleach leftovers on the cup, plus dishwasher detergent...chlorine gas ring any bells?" 

All things considered, I'll wait until the sink is empty, then clean it by hand before sticking it in the 'washer for double surety.

Two thoughts remain: 

• I can't actually remember what the active ingredient in detergent that causes the reaction.  For that matter, is it even dishwasher detergent?  Can't quite recall.
• Thank you, Mr. Minopoli.  As much of a pest as I'm sure I was with all my questions, you were a wonderful teacher.

[Update:  Ammonia!  That's it!] 

Comments

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

Bleach: Oh, sorry, I see what you meant. Yes, you're right, the empty cup was going in.

Kayuda...The necessary and sufficient problem was that we didn't have a viable business model. We had an awesome piece of technology that could do many things no one else could do, but we didn't know how to actually make money with it.--or at least not lose money. There were some other issues as well, but everything else could have been solved if we had just been able to break even. That one was my fault...I started the company with inaccurate and/or unrealistic expectations about viral growth and the availability of advertising dollars.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for that - I wouldn't know a business model if it bit me, myself. :/ Otherwise maybe I wouldn't be so very unemployed right now and be self-employed instead.

Are you going to make another try with it at some point, maybe a partnership?

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

Well, first I'd have to come up with a believable business model for it, which would probably require significant restructuring of the code to fit it to a particular purpose. I don't know that I'm interested in doing that.

More likely I'll eventually get around to releasing it as open source. That's not a trivial process though; I'd have to dig up an old archive (which I /think/ I have, but I'm not sure), then I'd have to get the code into some form that I was willing to release--my developer staff never thought that silly things like "documentation" were worth doing, even when the CEO (that would be me) demanded them. Once it's in a decent form, I'd have to really think through how I feel about the various licenses...GPL and BSD would be the main candidates, but there are things that I dislike about both of them. Maybe Perl Artistic License, actually, which is pretty good on its own and gives the user the option of defaulting to GPL.