Today I learned...

[Buffalobiian]

Why did you use hot water in a shake in the first place?

It's really protein powder and I have it in a cup. The night was cold, so I decided to test out exactly what a denatured protein drink resulted in. I wasn't pleased.

[Animeniax]

Yeah that sounds pretty gross.

[lelouch]

Today I was flipping channels and saw a 7-on-7 high school touch football tournament on ESPN and the guys were frickin' huge. The top rated HIGH SCHOOL running back is 6'1" 232lbs.

A frickin' high schooler is that big and probably hasn't finished growing. People complain about all the hormones and chems the food industry injects into our food but I say let them do it. We'll evolve the human race into giants for the betterment of the species.

Yes and they'll grow up to beat their wives and children.

[Animeniax]

Yes and they'll grow up to beat their wives and children.

That's racist, sexist, and bigoted. Not all football players beat their wives or their children. Just have to make sure the wives and children get their dose of hormones and chemicals.

[Buffalobiian]

Ants (at least the leafcutter ants) do not "eat" the material that they collect, but use it to farm edible fungus instead.



In other news, I found that sleeping with a pillow in parallel to my body is rather comfortable.

[Kraco]

Ants (at least the leafcutter ants) do not "eat" the material that they collect, but use it to farm edible fungus instead.

You live in a Commonwealth country but never watched any of the excellent BBC Attenborough nature documentaries? Such a pity.

In other news, I found that sleeping with a pillow in parallel to my body is rather comfortable.

You got yourself a Fate dakimakura, huh?

[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)

[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!

[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*

[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!!!!