Chromium

Moreover, Woodruff believed his likability had contributed to his fortunes being on the upswing.

He could have made a big stink about how unfair losing his job was over collateral fallout from the Chromium fiasco, but he hadn't.

He'd bided his time, rolled with the punches, and decided not to make waves.

He considered himself a good man, fair and open-minded, possessing the traits of an exceptional leader.

[upbeat music] Welcome to Does This Come in Chromium?, the podcast that nature is always saying whoops about.

I'm your host, Matt Anderson, and today I'm talking about 1994's "Generation X #1" with the half psychopath, half garbage man, all Bobby Trippit.

Bobby.

But until then, this is what you get.

Um, and also just because I don't know how to run a podcast.

Anyways, um, so yeah, this show's coming up on one year, which is also kind of wild to me because this show was an idea, or at least Does This Come in Chromium as a, a, a, a notion was just in my head forever.

And, um, you know, I waited till, like, the podcast boom really, like, started dwindling, and then I was like, "Now's my time." When pe- when-- After everyone's had a podcast, it was time for me to have one.

Uh, which, you know, they always say it's good, like, if there's, if there's a bubble that bursts, it's great to get in right as it bursts.

You've got to run water through them.

Chromium's in the water to prevent corrosion.

Well, how do I find out what kind of chromium they use in Hinkley?

Have you been to their water board?

In 1995, Alva Chalice, Rodney Grapes, and Ken Palmer published a study of the region's chromium-rich minerals.

Their samples came from several places and rock types.

Chromium occurred in mica and other minerals, including kyanite.

The researchers proposed that hot fluids associated with granite intrusions had redistributed chromium through parts of the older rocks.

Faults, suitable source materials, and chemical reactions helped explain the altered zones.

Small differences in chemistry help determine the colours that make them familiar to us.

Chromium is associated with ruby's red.

Iron and titanium can produce blue sapphire.

Goodaltite can bring those colours together.

This is a way to do it completely headless.

So like it's, it's not like the old school way of use Chromium and do print CSS and then instrument Chromium to grab a PDF copy of the page.

Like there's, and there's no Java underneath.

So this is just, you're, you're making, you're making stuff in pure TypeScript and No node-only crutches.

Don't know why it's called Stellar System, but card number one that I got was Hot Rod.

It's like a Chromium.

If you remember what Chromium looked like on comic covers back in the 90s, it's like that.

The other card is Cyclonus.

I have no idea how many cards are out there in this, but you're going to have to go to eBay or just buy up a bunch of packs and have many duplicates of these other cards to get this.

Think cyanocobalamin, think folicin, think any number of micro-ingredients.

Chromium, you know, we don't talk enough about chromium and the whole chromium picolinate story.

You know, that's an extraordinary molecule.

Germanium, sesquioxide, another extraordinary micro-mineral.

And then there's metallic synergy.

Uh, "After using Alloyed Resonance, also gain the full benefits of the other power." So when you are punching someone to drain them of Investiture, you can automatically gain the benefits of tapping your pewter strength if you are a Chromium Allomancy pewter Feruchemist Twinborn.

Uh, and that is my favorite.

[laughs]I remember someone saying like, "Oh, you found a reason to test this?" And I was like, "Yeah.