Reporter's Notebook: Dipping my finger in liquefied natural gas (slideshow)

I’ve done some pretty weird things in the name of journalism. Harlingen police once tased me in a demonstration to prove how effective their tasers are at taking down criminals.

I’ve flown 5,000 feet in the sky to get a bird’s eye view of the Eagle Ford Shale in Pleasanton. To get a tour of an oil rig, I even shaved off my beard. But for this week’s cover story, I dipped my finger into a beaker of liquefied natural gas, or LNG as it’s known in the industry. It was all part of a demonstration about…