Letters of Intent

This photo is one of Ethan's constructions; he created it while we were up visiting my mom in Vermont this past weekend. The tiles are from the game "Bananagrams":

Ethan decided that he wanted to start with a "really big word", and then see if he could use up every last one of the tiles by building words off the original backbone, so I provided a very long word with which to start. He did a nice job; it's actually trickier than you might think to use all the letters (you have to work hard to deal with the Q's, X's, etc).

Perhydrocylopentanophrenathrene is actually an interesting real-life molecule-- for some reason it stuck in my head from my college organic chemistry courses. It forms the basis for a lot of steroid compounds.