Shenanigans The Curious and Romantic Experiences of a Young Chemist A True Story 2 Craig A Perman
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With self-effacing, amusing stories and lively detail, “Shenanigans, The Curious and Romantic Experiences of a Young Chemist” is the author’s personal story of growing up in a small agricultural Iowa town. While his second grade teacher’s prophecies foretold he would become a scientist, the author was far from his childhood hopes and dreams. Stuck in a town whose fame and employment opportunities were merely pigs and tractors--a destiny he didn’t want, he pursued his dreams, and a way out. Fulfillment did not come easily.
Determined to lead a better life, the aspiring scientist enrolled in college chemistry while also finding fulltime laboratory work on the graveyard shift of a nearly defunct, ramshackle, and once famous pork processing company. The laboratory, the total antithesis of his dreams, was more like an 18th century alchemist’s nightmare. Leaving work at 7 a.m. and smelling like a hickory-wood smoked pork sausage with BO, he attended chemistry classes at a local university. The pace was grueling and bordered on desperation for lack of time and sleep.
One morning, after thirty-six hours of wakefulness, he approached his professor to discuss the situation. “Dr. Kerchall?” he announced his name with all the fear and trembling of meeting the mighty Wizard of Oz. Momentarily he wondered if he should fall on his knees. The professor slowly turned around in his chair and looked at Craig with a “how dare you” glare as if any student really must have balls to interrupt him. His response to Craig’s plight was simple and uncaring, “You can either work or go to school, but you can’t do both.” Undaunted, Craig set a course to accomplish both.
Eating two rib-eye steaks each night and spiking his coffee with caffeine to stay awake, he managed to press through lab work at night and study during the day. Observing that a large amount of the chemical silver chloride, a waste product from analysis of hams, was being dumped down the sewer each day, he came up with an idea. Knowing that carp at the river’s outfall ate much of this discharge along with pig entrails, and that, “you are what you eat,” he figured these fish were mostly pigs with fins--filled with valuable silver. He devised a plan to recover this expensive metal.
Intertwined in this story are various exploits and shenanigans. From climbing water towers, exploding sodium bombs, and high-on-the-hog dining experiences to flying lessons and underwater adventures to recover lost shotguns, Craig is constantly, “up to something.” With various girlfriends thrown in the mix and the frustrating bittersweet tales of young love, romances that almost budded but never flowered, the story is ever on the move with reflections of life at the time.
Success comes after years of double duty and finally graduation. The new scientist is awarded a US Patent for the process that he developed and used to recover all the silver thrown to the river carp. Includes 13 color photographs.
Shenanigans The Curious and Romantic Experiences of a Young Chemist A True Story 2 Craig A Perman
These tales from an era when children were free to roam with their imaginations to a much greater extent than today, to experiment in ways that would place a kid on prescription drugs today, or worse, and eventually come to terms with the challenges of dealing with authorities without losing his dreams. Instead, his dreams were realized in spades. For a young person, wondering how their aspirations to explore and discover might fit into a future that might appear to be ever more restrictive, this can give some perspective. It is not written in any technical language. I was similarly curious and desiring to achieve great things as a child, and I had many chuckles when reading the author's recollections of his naiveté and overcoming his fears to explore the vast world of the opposite sex.Product details
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Shenanigans The Curious and Romantic Experiences of a Young Chemist A True Story 2 Craig A Perman Reviews
Strange how the author brags about stealing food from his employer, sleeping daily on the job, and poisoning his co-workers, and calls his book humorous. Instead of working, he and his comrades would "go hunting" for food to steal. Admits to gluttony, eating 2 stolen ribeye steaks a day for several months. Talks about sleeping half his shift. Then he blames management for causing Rath to go broke. A very immature and juvenile story.
Shenanigans is a walk back into a time that is familiar to many of us from the Midwest. The antics and enthusiasm of a young chemist is an entertaining read. The location is aptly described and the events evoke good memories from youth, when risks in the workplace were about fun and adventure as well as productions or profits. The odd combination of chemistry and personal tale s refreshing and opens a story line that is unusual and thought provoking even to the scientific lay-person. Lighthearted and reminiscent of books about interesting people and their personal youthful antics is a relief from more deadly or mysterious fare.
The author’s description of what it takes to pursue a dream of being a chemist is filled with amusing tales, and yet is cleverly insightful. As a scientist of over 30 years, I enjoyed reading how he weaved basic chemical reactions into the story in a way that a non-science person could easily understand and appreciate the importance of the chemistry to the food industry and beyond. From start to finish, the story tells his journey of exploration and discovery and, despite the grueling hours and hardships, the shear joy of attaining his goal a life-long career as a chemist. Perman’s message should inspire anyone who has the grit and courage to let nothing stand in their way of pursuing their goals in life.
These tales from an era when children were free to roam with their imaginations to a much greater extent than today, to experiment in ways that would place a kid on prescription drugs today, or worse, and eventually come to terms with the challenges of dealing with authorities without losing his dreams. Instead, his dreams were realized in spades. For a young person, wondering how their aspirations to explore and discover might fit into a future that might appear to be ever more restrictive, this can give some perspective. It is not written in any technical language. I was similarly curious and desiring to achieve great things as a child, and I had many chuckles when reading the author's recollections of his naiveté and overcoming his fears to explore the vast world of the opposite sex.
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