Some things to consider
a) Heroin is ramped up morphine
b) I assume other analgesics have an abuse-able version. Not sure if people can really abuse derivatives of anaesthetics, but where there's a will there's a way.
c) Drug abuse increases the body's tolerance to that drug
d) Anaesthesiology seems like a pretty damn precise science
So as well as taking in age, sex, body mass, anaesthetists/anaesthesiologists also have to account for history of substance abuse.
And so when your liver/kidney is destroyed from ingesting all those drugs, you also have to worry about not being sedated enough as they cut you open. The joys of a life of drugs.
Also did you know anaesthetists (as they're called in British English, and perhaps it would be interesting to note that that is synonymous with English English) are over-represented in substance abuse, especially opioids?
-They have a much greater access to power drugs than the average joe. It is also relatively easy for them to nick a couple grams for personal use, compared to like, a street urchin.
-They spent years studying drugs so of course they would know how to use them properly, right?
-They see the effect of the highs on patients, the stimulation of reward centres, and think to themselves: "bucket listed".
This is all American data but nothing listed here seems culturally specific to the USA.
rio tinto
Those that I speak to regularly know that it was an arbitrary aim of mine to score full marks in the Rio Tinto Big Science Competition, following disappointing results of only 1 mark from full marks in 2010 and 2011.
Unfortunately, I also got one wrong in the 2012 comp.
Mysteriously I received a Top Scorer award in my blue BOS portfolio. I checked online and it appears that nobody managed to get full marks in the senior paper. NOBODY. WHAT THE ABSOLUTE BALLS.
I blame that stupid tide question.
But it seems foreign to me that the top mark is not full marks in a paper so relatively simple as the Rio Tinto.
Unfortunately, I also got one wrong in the 2012 comp.
Mysteriously I received a Top Scorer award in my blue BOS portfolio. I checked online and it appears that nobody managed to get full marks in the senior paper. NOBODY. WHAT THE ABSOLUTE BALLS.
I blame that stupid tide question.
But it seems foreign to me that the top mark is not full marks in a paper so relatively simple as the Rio Tinto.
did you know...
3. COLLIDING WITH A VEHICLE, PEDESTRIAN OR OBjECT
This includes mounting or straddling (one wheel either side of) a traffic
dome and mounting the kerb or roundabout.
You will not fail if you touch the kerb face with your wheels.
-Guide to the Driving Test, RTA
No more "my-mum-says" anecdotes plox. Unless she's a driving instructor or testing officer.
memories so far
Just want to note down a few things that I would appreciate remembering later:
Bahaha we got a weird look from the waitress who clearly did not get the reference.
Nothing else was that highlight-ful, except for the pleasant surprise of the DJ that actually tried to mix songs instead of just playing a goddamn playlist. Some of the transitions were pretty cringe but others were actually really smooth (Y).
Over the day I made:
Virgin Mojito
Made this one first for Crystal the ex-party girl who will stay on the good side of the drink for the time being.
The mint taste may have been a little too strong so perhaps I'll cut back on the number of leaves I put in.
I think she enjoyed the mint garnish though LOL
Appletini
This was sad. There is no way it can taste good with 1.5oz vodka, 0.5oz sour apple schnapps, 0.5oz Cointreau. Danal said it tasted like cough medicine but he also said that the Cape Cod tasted like cough medicine (they have no ingredients in common except for vodka) so perhaps he's just sensitive to vodka.
I tried a couple different recipes after but none made me happy. Next one I'll try is 1oz vodka, 1.5oz schnapps, 0.5oz Cointreau, and 1oz apple juice.
But perhaps
Vodka Martini (Stirred)
Marcus commented: "This martini is very dry", for I used dry vermouth.
Both Marcus and I prefer actual martinis (with gin), but mixing vermouth with vodka does make it much more pleasant than straight drinking vodka.
Garnished with a lemon twist cut using the bluntest knife in existence.
Cape Cod aka Vodka Cranberry
Apparently it didn't taste alcoholic at all. It's also pink-ish.
Good for getting drunk without you even realising.
Cosmopolitan
FINALLY WORKED OUT HOW TO MAKE IT DELICIOUS, WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY FORGOT THE RECIPE.
Needed more cranberry juice! A personal success for me.
Vodka Lemon Drop
I think this was the favourite! It's dead easy to make (1:1 lemon juice, 1tsp sugar per fl.oz. of drink) but was a surprising hit. I would recommend the whiskey sour (I tried it with JD) and I think the tang of lemon compliments the smoke in the whiskey
Bahaha I hope you guys enjoyed one of your (I think few) nights where you a) were with friends and b) alcohol was actually consumed responsibly :L.
Oh and we played pool, from now on I will forevermore refer to the corner pockets as "vajayjays" and the side pockets as "a-holes", after Danal's charming story about his friend who says that it is really damn hard to pot balls into the a-holes, but so much easier for vajayjays.
And then Danal's super subtle double entendre's regarding his ability to strike straight, and his uncanny ability to pot in a-holes but not in vajayjays.
Btw stay tuned for tomorrow, when I will upload a video that will strike close to home for half the grade.
Formal
When our whole table, before our meal, joined hands and said the grace from Madeline - "We love our bread, we love our butter, but most of all, we love each other."Bahaha we got a weird look from the waitress who clearly did not get the reference.
Nothing else was that highlight-ful, except for the pleasant surprise of the DJ that actually tried to mix songs instead of just playing a goddamn playlist. Some of the transitions were pretty cringe but others were actually really smooth (Y).
English Table Congregation
We were meant to have some drinks and watch LOTR at Crystal's house, but instead we had drinks and watched some of Forrest Gump and most of The Vow while playing pool at Bonnie's house. Sick ability to stick to a plan.Over the day I made:
Virgin Mojito
Made this one first for Crystal the ex-party girl who will stay on the good side of the drink for the time being.
The mint taste may have been a little too strong so perhaps I'll cut back on the number of leaves I put in.
I think she enjoyed the mint garnish though LOL
Appletini
This was sad. There is no way it can taste good with 1.5oz vodka, 0.5oz sour apple schnapps, 0.5oz Cointreau. Danal said it tasted like cough medicine but he also said that the Cape Cod tasted like cough medicine (they have no ingredients in common except for vodka) so perhaps he's just sensitive to vodka.
I tried a couple different recipes after but none made me happy. Next one I'll try is 1oz vodka, 1.5oz schnapps, 0.5oz Cointreau, and 1oz apple juice.
But perhaps
Vodka Martini (Stirred)
Marcus commented: "This martini is very dry", for I used dry vermouth.
Both Marcus and I prefer actual martinis (with gin), but mixing vermouth with vodka does make it much more pleasant than straight drinking vodka.
Garnished with a lemon twist cut using the bluntest knife in existence.
Cape Cod aka Vodka Cranberry
Apparently it didn't taste alcoholic at all. It's also pink-ish.
Good for getting drunk without you even realising.
Cosmopolitan
FINALLY WORKED OUT HOW TO MAKE IT DELICIOUS, WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY FORGOT THE RECIPE.
Needed more cranberry juice! A personal success for me.
Vodka Lemon Drop
I think this was the favourite! It's dead easy to make (1:1 lemon juice, 1tsp sugar per fl.oz. of drink) but was a surprising hit. I would recommend the whiskey sour (I tried it with JD) and I think the tang of lemon compliments the smoke in the whiskey
Bahaha I hope you guys enjoyed one of your (I think few) nights where you a) were with friends and b) alcohol was actually consumed responsibly :L.
Oh and we played pool, from now on I will forevermore refer to the corner pockets as "vajayjays" and the side pockets as "a-holes", after Danal's charming story about his friend who says that it is really damn hard to pot balls into the a-holes, but so much easier for vajayjays.
And then Danal's super subtle double entendre's regarding his ability to strike straight, and his uncanny ability to pot in a-holes but not in vajayjays.
Btw stay tuned for tomorrow, when I will upload a video that will strike close to home for half the grade.
abridged shortcuts
The new side-scrolling ex-Metro screen is actually just a really complicated Start menu, that has some interactive apps and stuff. Interestingly, the desktop is considered an "app" instead of "the whole point of the OS". In any case as soon as you get used to the fact that you're not meant to dwell on the ex-Metro screen while you're actually trying to use the computer, then you're fine (Y). Anyways, the apps in the store suck. Except this one periodic table one which is really bloody awesome.
And also, when you delete stuff it no longer asks if you are sure. It just sends that shit straight to Recycle Bin (Y)
Windows 8, with it's Charm bar, is not all that charming without keyboard shortcuts. This is a list adapted from Redmond Pie, for the features that I've actually needed to use since getting Windows 8.
Windows = Open/Close "Start Menu", the ex-Metro screen.
Windows-C = Open Charm Bar
Windows-Tab = Switch between apps (via LHS Modern Taskbar, no more Windows Flow or whatever it was called)
Windows-I = Settings Charm
Windows-Q = App Search
Windows-W = Setting Search
Windows-F = File Search
Windows-X = System Tools (cool set of links to stuff like Device Manager, Control Panel, Power Options, Task Manager, and many many more!!)
Windows-L = Locks computer. Different to Windows 7 because the awesome lock screen pops up =D
Ctrl-Scroll = Zooms in and out of tile view (hard to explain just try that shit)
Some that have been around since Windows 7 and prior:
Windows-D = Show desktop
Windows-M = Minimise all windows
Windows-E = Open what used to be called "My Computer"
Windows-R = Run dialogue box
Alt-F4 = Closes current application
Alt-Tab = Switch between open windows (and applications, in Win8)
Windows-UpArrow = Maximise window
Windows-DownArrow = Restore Down, then Minimise Window
Windows-LeftArrow = Snap left
Windows-RightArrow = Snap right
And also, when you delete stuff it no longer asks if you are sure. It just sends that shit straight to Recycle Bin (Y)
Windows 8, with it's Charm bar, is not all that charming without keyboard shortcuts. This is a list adapted from Redmond Pie, for the features that I've actually needed to use since getting Windows 8.
Windows = Open/Close "Start Menu", the ex-Metro screen.
Windows-C = Open Charm Bar
Windows-Tab = Switch between apps (via LHS Modern Taskbar, no more Windows Flow or whatever it was called)
Windows-I = Settings Charm
Windows-Q = App Search
Windows-W = Setting Search
Windows-F = File Search
Windows-X = System Tools (cool set of links to stuff like Device Manager, Control Panel, Power Options, Task Manager, and many many more!!)
Windows-L = Locks computer. Different to Windows 7 because the awesome lock screen pops up =D
Ctrl-Scroll = Zooms in and out of tile view (hard to explain just try that shit)
Some that have been around since Windows 7 and prior:
Windows-D = Show desktop
Windows-M = Minimise all windows
Windows-E = Open what used to be called "My Computer"
Windows-R = Run dialogue box
Alt-F4 = Closes current application
Alt-Tab = Switch between open windows (and applications, in Win8)
Windows-UpArrow = Maximise window
Windows-DownArrow = Restore Down, then Minimise Window
Windows-LeftArrow = Snap left
Windows-RightArrow = Snap right
almost lucid
So the night before Chem I had a dream.
I had a dream that HSC was already over and I was chilling around doing nothing. Then I suddenly realised: "Wait a minute. Lemme see if I can remember anything from the Chem test. If this is real, then I will easily be able to remember at least the last question". So I tried to remember what the test was like.
Obviously I couldn't remember as the test didn't exist. Aha, lucid dreaming here I come. But my brain is better than me.
It went NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE YOU DON'T GET TO LUCID. And I woke up.
Dafuq is that shit, mayne.
A few minutes later I fell asleep, and ended up telling that story^, in my dreams, to a couple of people. I remember particularly that I told Tree.
So there marks the time that I was almost lucid dreaming.
I had a dream that HSC was already over and I was chilling around doing nothing. Then I suddenly realised: "Wait a minute. Lemme see if I can remember anything from the Chem test. If this is real, then I will easily be able to remember at least the last question". So I tried to remember what the test was like.
Obviously I couldn't remember as the test didn't exist. Aha, lucid dreaming here I come. But my brain is better than me.
It went NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE YOU DON'T GET TO LUCID. And I woke up.
Dafuq is that shit, mayne.
A few minutes later I fell asleep, and ended up telling that story^, in my dreams, to a couple of people. I remember particularly that I told Tree.
So there marks the time that I was almost lucid dreaming.
fuck. yes.
To celebrate, I had a Martini.
Will move onto whiskey sour (sozza using Jack Daniels instead of good bourbon) and maybe a Mojito if I still feel like it. SO MUCH FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT!!
Can't copy photos straight from Instagram so here's a link in case you genuinely care.
Gotta get a job too.
Good luck for interviews if you're doing those! Have funz :D
Will move onto whiskey sour (sozza using Jack Daniels instead of good bourbon) and maybe a Mojito if I still feel like it. SO MUCH FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT!!
Can't copy photos straight from Instagram so here's a link in case you genuinely care.
Gotta get a job too.
Good luck for interviews if you're doing those! Have funz :D
c
I was reading Neil deGrasse Tyson's AMA on Reddit. I came across two shit-brix ways to interpret how light works.
Not for the faint-of-physics, but uses content from HSC Phys and before.
1) A photon will be absorbed the instant it is emitted, in its own frame of reference. All we have to do is rearrange the time dilation formula for t_0 to see that it's 0. I previously never considered this but this is goddamn cool.
2) I understood why travelling faster than the speed of light is essentially travelling back in time. It's because time is a relative concept that depends on the interactions with light that you are receiving. If you were somehow teleported 20 million light years away and had a sick telescope, you could observe the extinction of the dinosaurs. Although I don't get what would happen if you orbited the Earth a tangential velocity of greater than c, then reentered. I'm guessing that since circular motion is far from inertial, special relativity can go to hell, and nothing cool will happen =(.
It seems like the perfect tradeoff - if we could go >c, we would be able to view events from the past, at the expense of not being able to interact with them.
Not for the faint-of-physics, but uses content from HSC Phys and before.
1) A photon will be absorbed the instant it is emitted, in its own frame of reference. All we have to do is rearrange the time dilation formula for t_0 to see that it's 0. I previously never considered this but this is goddamn cool.
2) I understood why travelling faster than the speed of light is essentially travelling back in time. It's because time is a relative concept that depends on the interactions with light that you are receiving. If you were somehow teleported 20 million light years away and had a sick telescope, you could observe the extinction of the dinosaurs. Although I don't get what would happen if you orbited the Earth a tangential velocity of greater than c, then reentered. I'm guessing that since circular motion is far from inertial, special relativity can go to hell, and nothing cool will happen =(.
It seems like the perfect tradeoff - if we could go >c, we would be able to view events from the past, at the expense of not being able to interact with them.
vesper
Today I told my mum:
Me: "After I buy a bottle of gin I can make a martini!"
Mum: "Really? When we go to duty free to buy a bottle of that stuff, we pay $200, but you're telling me you can make it from a $15 bottle of vermouth and a $40 bottle of gin?"
Me (after some time): "Are you talking about Remy Martin..."
Lols.
Then I told her martinis are/were what James Bond drinks :L
Me: "After I buy a bottle of gin I can make a martini!"
Mum: "Really? When we go to duty free to buy a bottle of that stuff, we pay $200, but you're telling me you can make it from a $15 bottle of vermouth and a $40 bottle of gin?"
Me (after some time): "Are you talking about Remy Martin..."
Lols.
Then I told her martinis are/were what James Bond drinks :L
double the pressure
Two things I cannot visualise:
In one second, light travels 3e8 m, which is 30,000 km. Okay.
So a light year is several billion kilometres. Alright.
How is our NEAREST galaxy, Andromeda, 2.25million light years away?! That kind of distance is just impossible to grasp.
Next thing I can't visualise is a pressure of 2 atmospheres. I have nothing to compare with. I have one atmosphere on me right now, but I would have no idea what double that would feel like. Like when I'm at the bottom of the pool, I have no idea if that's 2 atm or 20atm. Or only 1.01atm.
While we're at it, I suck totally at guessing weights below 500g. I cannot tell the goddamn difference between 200g and 400g from memory.
In one second, light travels 3e8 m, which is 30,000 km. Okay.
So a light year is several billion kilometres. Alright.
How is our NEAREST galaxy, Andromeda, 2.25million light years away?! That kind of distance is just impossible to grasp.
Next thing I can't visualise is a pressure of 2 atmospheres. I have nothing to compare with. I have one atmosphere on me right now, but I would have no idea what double that would feel like. Like when I'm at the bottom of the pool, I have no idea if that's 2 atm or 20atm. Or only 1.01atm.
While we're at it, I suck totally at guessing weights below 500g. I cannot tell the goddamn difference between 200g and 400g from memory.
p-p-p-p-p-p-POWAH
Background for non-physics people
- Superconductors can carry a huge electrical current when they are cooled to almost absolute zero.
- Superconductors make really good electromagnets
- Electromagnets can be used to deflect cosmic particles, which mess up computers and give people cancer
Detech skillz!
Jeff says (8:45 PM):
*the proposed model for superconducting wores was
*running liquid helium through the core of the wire
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*which sounds inefficient as all fuck
Max says (8:46 PM):
*mmmm
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*unless it's under the ocean shit
Max says (8:46 PM):
*well if you could get a nice vacuum
*could be okay
*omg does that mean in space
*superconductors are fucking mad
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*vacuum prevents losses to convection
*but not radiation
*ooh it would
Max says (8:47 PM):
*ooooh forgot about that
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*as in just have some on the outside of your ship
*and when you hit space
*FREE POWAH
Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*if it doesn't burn away
Max says (8:47 PM):
*and your solar panels at the front go
*NGEWWEEEEEEEE MAKE POWAH
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*dude it would be hax
*oh it would power that magnetosphere!
Max says (8:47 PM):
*hahahhaahahahaha
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*in 2008
Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL YES
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE SUN YOU GET
*THE MORE IT DEFLECTS
*AHAHAHA
Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE POWAH
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*OMFG
Max says (8:47 PM):
*DOOOD OOOD ODDOOOO
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*PERFECT
Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE SHAMPOO GUY LOL
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*AHAHAHA
Max says (8:48 PM):
*do you know what im talking about hahahahah
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*old spice right
Max says (8:48 PM):
*yeah!
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*i'ma posting this shit it's so hax
Patent pending.
Addendum:
Tom said "space isnt cold". Interestingly, he may have a point.
Space definitely has a low temperature. Temperature is the measure of excitement of the surrounding molecules, and since there are almost no molecules in space, you get no temperature. If you put a thermometer in space, you'll have to wait forever for a gas molecule to impact on the glass.
However, space is also a vacuum. That means the only way anything can lose heat is via radiation. The way objects lose heat (on Earth) is mainly via convection, which is imparting heat onto surrounding molecules. There are no molecules in space, so heat takes much longer than expected to dissipate into space.
So while it has a low temperature, that low temperature does not mean it sucks heat out of objects quickly. Cool!
- Superconductors can carry a huge electrical current when they are cooled to almost absolute zero.
- Superconductors make really good electromagnets
- Electromagnets can be used to deflect cosmic particles, which mess up computers and give people cancer
Detech skillz!
Jeff says (8:45 PM):
*the proposed model for superconducting wores was
*running liquid helium through the core of the wire
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*which sounds inefficient as all fuck
Max says (8:46 PM):
*mmmm
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*unless it's under the ocean shit
Max says (8:46 PM):
*well if you could get a nice vacuum
*could be okay
*omg does that mean in space
*superconductors are fucking mad
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*vacuum prevents losses to convection
*but not radiation
*ooh it would
Max says (8:47 PM):
*ooooh forgot about that
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*as in just have some on the outside of your ship
*and when you hit space
*FREE POWAH
Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*if it doesn't burn away
Max says (8:47 PM):
*and your solar panels at the front go
*NGEWWEEEEEEEE MAKE POWAH
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*dude it would be hax
*oh it would power that magnetosphere!
Max says (8:47 PM):
*hahahhaahahahaha
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*in 2008
Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL YES
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE SUN YOU GET
*THE MORE IT DEFLECTS
*AHAHAHA
Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE POWAH
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*OMFG
Max says (8:47 PM):
*DOOOD OOOD ODDOOOO
Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*PERFECT
Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE SHAMPOO GUY LOL
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*AHAHAHA
Max says (8:48 PM):
*do you know what im talking about hahahahah
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*old spice right
Max says (8:48 PM):
*yeah!
Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*i'ma posting this shit it's so hax
Patent pending.
Addendum:
Tom said "space isnt cold". Interestingly, he may have a point.
Space definitely has a low temperature. Temperature is the measure of excitement of the surrounding molecules, and since there are almost no molecules in space, you get no temperature. If you put a thermometer in space, you'll have to wait forever for a gas molecule to impact on the glass.
However, space is also a vacuum. That means the only way anything can lose heat is via radiation. The way objects lose heat (on Earth) is mainly via convection, which is imparting heat onto surrounding molecules. There are no molecules in space, so heat takes much longer than expected to dissipate into space.
So while it has a low temperature, that low temperature does not mean it sucks heat out of objects quickly. Cool!
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