Today I learned...

[Buffalobiian]

You got yourself a Fate dakimakura, huh?

This was with a normal pillow, but that^ may now be a very real possibility.

[Buffalobiian]

I learned that if you apply a PNG file (lossless) as your desktop in Windows 7, what appears is instead a compressed (?JPEG) version of your file. If you apply a JPEG file, Windows leaves it alone.

This has implications since you have much more control compressing in Photoshop than in Windows (which was shit, that's why I picked it up). Not to mention that Windows desktop isn't colour managed either (I learned this a few weeks back), so your workaround is to convert the picture to your monitor's colour space. (The resultant file can be saved assigned with your ICC profile so any colour-managed program and computer will know how to compensate back to sRGB).

[Animeniax]

For all us loners/engorging eaters out there, here's a method of saving yourself from choking:



I wonder what the chances are of knocking yourself unconscious by taking one on the chin like that. Then you'd die for sure unless you also dislodged the food from your throat.

[Buffalobiian]

That's interesting. He makes a good point that if you're alone without first aid, pretty much anything that might work would be done.

He's talking about a complete loss of airway here so I being unconscious actually doesn't matter (unless someone turns up later and you're no longer vocal about what's wrong with you)

[Animeniax]

That's interesting. He makes a good point that if you're alone without first aid, pretty much anything that might work would be done.

He's talking about a complete loss of airway here so I being unconscious actually doesn't matter (unless someone turns up later and you're no longer vocal about what's wrong with you)

I've run into this problem a few times but it was never a complete loss of airway. Usually a finger down the throat produced the necessary heaving action. If you lose consciousness from KO'ing yourself, you won't be able to try other methods to save yourself, like a self-tracheotomy.

That was an informative video and well made as well. It would have been even better if he had played a little guitar at the end!

Yeah that looks like quite a fun rumpus room. Though playing guitar at the end might have taken away from the seriousness of the subject matter.

[Buffalobiian]

I've run into this problem a few times but it was never a complete loss of airway. Usually a finger down the throat produced the necessary heaving action. If you lose consciousness from KO'ing yourself, you won't be able to try other methods to save yourself, like a self-tracheotomy.

Cricothyrotomy*

[Kraco]

That was an informative video and well made as well. It would have been even better if he had played a little guitar at the end!

[Ryllharu]

I've choked before on a rather poorly prepared and poorly cut (by the cafeteria) piece of beef. It was mostly sinew.

As soon as I realized I couldn't breathe, I shoved my fingers down my throat and pulled the stringy offending piece of food out of my throat.

I think I'll stick with that method. If I can't reach it, then I might try this as a last ditch effort, but I'm pretty sure I'll go for chair/desk/countertop Heimlich first, the NIH recommends that.

Step 1: Clear the airway.

[shinta|hikari]

Chew better, eat slower.

[Ryllharu]

I chewed that piece for a good 3 minutes. It was all sinew and fat. It slipped down my throat.

What I should have done is spit it out once I realized it wasn't more than 5% meat.

[MFauli]

If you had properly chewed before swallowing, it´d have been impossible to choke on a piece of meat. Stop eating like a ...

[Kraco]

If you had properly chewed before swallowing, it´d have been impossible to choke on a piece of meat. Stop eating like a ...

You have filed your teeth like a cannibal? He just told it wasn't a piece of meat, it was all sinew. You can't chew that with normal human teeth.

[Buffalobiian]

Today I realised that audio data when played back at slow speeds sounds deeper because those sound waves have their wavelengths doubled when played back at 1/2 speed, thus dropping their frequency.

I had accepted the frequency changes associated with altered playback speeds as fact, but it never hit me that sonic frequency can not be independent of time with our audio recording techniques (unlike video frames).

[Animeniax]

Wtf today I learned the 3rd installment of the Starcraft 2 trilogy is coming out next week!!! I didn't even remember it was announced or planned, having completely forgotten about the game since I last played the 2nd part in 2013. Too many awesome games coming out this Nov!!!!

[Buffalobiian]

I shit a lot less since cutting down on diet coke.

I used to drink that a lot of diet cola and poo-ed daily with fairly large quantities. Like a medium/large carrot. The can does warn that overconsumption can cause diarrhoea (since the indigestible sugar draws water into your stools via osmosis), but this wasn't to that level, just large stools.

Lately I must be making super concentrated shit or something. I poo very little, and this is all I can pin it down to - not having artificial sugar bulking up my stool anymore. No feeling of constipation - just kinda empty.

That or my altered bowel habits are a sign of bowel cancer. But probably the coke.

You're welcome.

[Buffalobiian]

I learned that soft-shelled crabs are various species of newly molted crabs and not one specific species that is soft all the time.

[shinta|hikari]

Yeah, and they generally suck because most preparations involve breading and frying them, making the final dish greasy. Crab has a delicate flavor and is best without all that breading or oil.

I love crabs in almost all other forms, from Cajun boils to HK stir fried to simply steamed and dipped in fermented fish with lime to thai crab fried rice to king crab legs dipped in butter. I love eating their innards and eggs. Once I am done with a whole crab, only the lungs and inedible shell are left. However, I have always been disappointed with soft shelled crabs, even after trying it so many times in different restaurants of different cuisines.

[vejita613]

TIL I still have an account here. Time to take a trip down memory lane...

[Kraco]

TIL I still have an account here. Time to take a trip down memory lane...

You can leave Gotwoot but you can't make Gotwoot leave you.

[Buffalobiian]

3.2 tonnes of cocaine will last New Zealand 30 years. Or for Australia, about 1.