So like ever since I got my wisdom teeth out, I've had to rinse my mouth after every time I consume solid food. I don't really understand why exactly the pockets are even there, seeing as my wisdom teeth hadn't crowned(terminology?) at the time of the operation.
My theory was that the teeth was "filling out" the gum, so that it was tight with my molars (I believe the notation is 17, 27, 37, 47), but once my wisdoms were removed, my gum sits slightly away from the gums.
Now remember that story by Roald Dahl called "The Twits", where the dude licked his own beard for a second meal? Well I'm not going to say it outright, but rest assured that I didn't mention this part for nothing.
Also, after finishing our assignment for this TP, I am now practicing string skipping and learning my arpeggios on guitar. I haven't played properly for a while :(
paypal rox
In response to everyone who loves PayPal for enabling their crippling dependence on retail therapy, I've often quipped that PayPal isn't as angelic as it may appear. I had previously read articles about PayPal being shitty to buyers who want a refund, or to sellers dealing with refunds, fucking up charity donations and etc. Today I found this article, so I have something to dig up next time someone goes "what do you mean PayPal isn't a godsend for gratuitous spending?".
I'll break it down if you can't be bothered reading it.
- Lady sells violin that survived through WW2, for $2500
- Transaction goes as normal
- Buyer receives item, then disputes its historical authenticity
- PayPal tells the buyer that it is a counterfeit (hardly PayPal's job)
- PayPal informs the buyer that he must destroy the violin in order to receive a refund
- So the buyer does, gets his refund, and the seller is left going "what the fuck"
Also, please sort out your terminology/understanding of credit card vs debit card. It could end up costing you a lot of money in the event you use one instead of the other.
Appendix:
Actually I searched on reddit.com for "PayPal" and, through a massive swamp of "I got swindled out of $x by PayPal" and "Bitcoins ftw", I was reminded of this case, where a teen kid finds a security flaw in PayPal's website. Most websites have a bounty program, where they pay a decent amount for bug finds. But since this kid is not 18, PayPal takes the submission, and straight out refuses to pay him. When the kid asked for some recognition so he can put it on a resume, etc, PayPal then proceeds to just straight out ignore him. Note this kid has been paid previously by Microsoft and Mozilla. PayPal just does not give a fuck since it's almost a monopoly.
I'll break it down if you can't be bothered reading it.
- Lady sells violin that survived through WW2, for $2500
- Transaction goes as normal
- Buyer receives item, then disputes its historical authenticity
- PayPal tells the buyer that it is a counterfeit (hardly PayPal's job)
- PayPal informs the buyer that he must destroy the violin in order to receive a refund
- So the buyer does, gets his refund, and the seller is left going "what the fuck"
Also, please sort out your terminology/understanding of credit card vs debit card. It could end up costing you a lot of money in the event you use one instead of the other.
Appendix:
Actually I searched on reddit.com for "PayPal" and, through a massive swamp of "I got swindled out of $x by PayPal" and "Bitcoins ftw", I was reminded of this case, where a teen kid finds a security flaw in PayPal's website. Most websites have a bounty program, where they pay a decent amount for bug finds. But since this kid is not 18, PayPal takes the submission, and straight out refuses to pay him. When the kid asked for some recognition so he can put it on a resume, etc, PayPal then proceeds to just straight out ignore him. Note this kid has been paid previously by Microsoft and Mozilla. PayPal just does not give a fuck since it's almost a monopoly.
my incidental find on asian glow
Journal article I found. Yeah... this isn't peer reviewed. It's like one step above a blog post, I guess. In any case I'm half basing it on lectures we've had, and half basing it on the article.
Quick medicoscientific basis:
1) Alcohol
2) Enzyme called ADH converts it to acetaldehyde
3) Enzyme called ALDH oxidises this into excretable acids so your kidneys help you piss it all out
Everyone, unless they be majorly messed up, has adequate ADH floating around
But something like 10% of Caucasians and 60% of East Asians are missing that important ALDH enzyme.
As far as I can tell it's not the ethanol itself causing symptoms of facial flush, nausea, increased heart rate, headache, feelings of shittiness, and other Asian/hangover style symptoms. Rather, it's the buildup of acetaldehyde that causes these annoying symptoms.
This article claims that ALDH-deficient individuals are at greater risk of oesophageal cancer, since acetaldehyde meddles with your DNA and shit which is like recipe for cancer. However, it doesn't state what the increase in risk is, as a percentage, nor does it cite any articles to support how it came to the conclusion that this is true (this is what you get when it's not peer reviewed). However, if you're curious about how acetaldehyde affects DNA in your lymphocytes, which is linked to oesophageal cancer by ??? mechanism, you can always look up T. Matsuda et al., Chem Res. Toxicol. 19, 1374-1378 (2006) or H. Ishikawa et al., Mutat. Res. 615, 134-142 (2007). I can't be bothered because I don't care that much, and also who the hell cites with the shortened journal names wtf.
The article does vouch for the effectiveness of Zantac and other "antihistimines" [sic] in reducing the facial flush, although obviously this does nothing for the acetaldehyde levels. Yeah this article wasn't so much of a great find after all... I shoulda just done a search on MEDLINE about acetaldehyde buildup.
Quick medicoscientific basis:
1) Alcohol
2) Enzyme called ADH converts it to acetaldehyde
3) Enzyme called ALDH oxidises this into excretable acids so your kidneys help you piss it all out
Everyone, unless they be majorly messed up, has adequate ADH floating around
But something like 10% of Caucasians and 60% of East Asians are missing that important ALDH enzyme.
As far as I can tell it's not the ethanol itself causing symptoms of facial flush, nausea, increased heart rate, headache, feelings of shittiness, and other Asian/hangover style symptoms. Rather, it's the buildup of acetaldehyde that causes these annoying symptoms.
This article claims that ALDH-deficient individuals are at greater risk of oesophageal cancer, since acetaldehyde meddles with your DNA and shit which is like recipe for cancer. However, it doesn't state what the increase in risk is, as a percentage, nor does it cite any articles to support how it came to the conclusion that this is true (this is what you get when it's not peer reviewed). However, if you're curious about how acetaldehyde affects DNA in your lymphocytes, which is linked to oesophageal cancer by ??? mechanism, you can always look up T. Matsuda et al., Chem Res. Toxicol. 19, 1374-1378 (2006) or H. Ishikawa et al., Mutat. Res. 615, 134-142 (2007). I can't be bothered because I don't care that much, and also who the hell cites with the shortened journal names wtf.
The article does vouch for the effectiveness of Zantac and other "antihistimines" [sic] in reducing the facial flush, although obviously this does nothing for the acetaldehyde levels. Yeah this article wasn't so much of a great find after all... I shoulda just done a search on MEDLINE about acetaldehyde buildup.
choice is an illusion
Just watched this video on the near-monopoly that a company you've probably never heard of, Luxottica, has on the eyewear industry. Think like every fucking eyewear brand that you can think of.
Not content with just owning all the top brands of eyewear, they also fully own outlets like Sunglass Hut and OPSM.
If you watched the video, the CEO is one clever but slimy guy. You can just tell he's a genius but he won't hesitate to take advantage of others. It's pretty genius to maintain the illusion of choice by maintaining a huge variety of brands so it's all "free market" and shit. Although it's not like that same shit isn't happening with stuff you'd find at the supermarket. (Although that's significantly less price-fixy or whatever the monopoly equivalent of that is)
Now switching from O.O to :D:
http://www.megalomaniac.com/~andrew/funny/bloodcyber.html
This thing might be as old as the internet, but I only just discovered it. I couldn't stop laughing at some bits.
It's a guy going to a chatroom, initiating cybersex, then progressively ruining it for the other party.
body is not ready
I went for a run today in the first time in ages. I went for a 5-lap run around a soccer field, which is almost exactly one mile.
Yeah, so I couldn't run the whole way without slowing down to a walk in order to let the nausea subside (I think I'll call it the "Barf of the Weak"). Also around 3rd lap I started to feel that I literally could not lift my legs as high as I could before. So both my muscular and cardio fitness have gone down the drain. Scrap that, I'll admit that on the warm-up jog to the park (distance of <1km) I got a stitch within 300m.
On the way home from the field I did a hill-sprint, which was probably 60m, maybe 1:5 slope (I'm not very good at estimating). I didn't feel particularly bad on that, but it probably wasn't as fast as I was when I was 15. I feel old when I say that LOL.
Fortunately I didn't throw up but I did harbour some shame. I don't think anyone was watching me closely enough to realise how shittily I was doing. So while I was not wallowing in vomit I was wallowing in self pity and general feelings of inadequacy.
Luckily I have every Tuesday "off" for this half-sem, so perhaps I'll make it a thing to run more often. I will probably chuck in some core-strengthening exercises, once I work out a routine.
On the subject of bodies, how the fuck do you get drunk off beer? Having 3 beers is already 1L of carbonated fluid in your stomach. That's a piddling 4.2 standard drinks. If you want to get your daily recommended intake of water through beer, that's 6 beers and 8.4 standard drinks. So even if you deprived yourself of water for the day, and made it up with beer in one hour, you wouldn't get very far. While 8.4 standard drinks is not a trivial amount of alcohol, it is definitely not worth distending your stomach to 50-100% of its capacity (depending on stomach size).
Yeah, so I couldn't run the whole way without slowing down to a walk in order to let the nausea subside (I think I'll call it the "Barf of the Weak"). Also around 3rd lap I started to feel that I literally could not lift my legs as high as I could before. So both my muscular and cardio fitness have gone down the drain. Scrap that, I'll admit that on the warm-up jog to the park (distance of <1km) I got a stitch within 300m.
On the way home from the field I did a hill-sprint, which was probably 60m, maybe 1:5 slope (I'm not very good at estimating). I didn't feel particularly bad on that, but it probably wasn't as fast as I was when I was 15. I feel old when I say that LOL.
Fortunately I didn't throw up but I did harbour some shame. I don't think anyone was watching me closely enough to realise how shittily I was doing. So while I was not wallowing in vomit I was wallowing in self pity and general feelings of inadequacy.
Luckily I have every Tuesday "off" for this half-sem, so perhaps I'll make it a thing to run more often. I will probably chuck in some core-strengthening exercises, once I work out a routine.
On the subject of bodies, how the fuck do you get drunk off beer? Having 3 beers is already 1L of carbonated fluid in your stomach. That's a piddling 4.2 standard drinks. If you want to get your daily recommended intake of water through beer, that's 6 beers and 8.4 standard drinks. So even if you deprived yourself of water for the day, and made it up with beer in one hour, you wouldn't get very far. While 8.4 standard drinks is not a trivial amount of alcohol, it is definitely not worth distending your stomach to 50-100% of its capacity (depending on stomach size).
SMUG AS FUCK
JUST GOT MUSE TICKETS WITH ZERO QUEUE FUCK YEAH.
Normal Ticketek site: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MUSE13 (screencap)
Fansite link to Ticketek site: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MUSEPRE13 (screencap)
The second link can't be found through the Ticketek site, you have to go to the member's page, then click the "if you want your presale tickets, click here".
Muse almost juked me out you know. The second link, up until like 3 minutes before the presale, was a 404. I almost deleted it as a bookmark, but due to faith I kept it as an open tab. mfw it turned out to load a real page.
Anyway the normal Ticketek site doesn't let you order tickets (in case you're reading this post some time after today, and they've updated the site), like any announced concert that hasn't released tickets yet.
SO I'M SMUG AS FUCK COS I GOT ZERO QUEUE, AND I CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT TRYING TO WORK OUT WHY THEY CAN'T ACCESS THE SALES.
Normal Ticketek site: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MUSE13 (screencap)
Fansite link to Ticketek site: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MUSEPRE13 (screencap)
The second link can't be found through the Ticketek site, you have to go to the member's page, then click the "if you want your presale tickets, click here".
Muse almost juked me out you know. The second link, up until like 3 minutes before the presale, was a 404. I almost deleted it as a bookmark, but due to faith I kept it as an open tab. mfw it turned out to load a real page.
Anyway the normal Ticketek site doesn't let you order tickets (in case you're reading this post some time after today, and they've updated the site), like any announced concert that hasn't released tickets yet.
SO I'M SMUG AS FUCK COS I GOT ZERO QUEUE, AND I CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT TRYING TO WORK OUT WHY THEY CAN'T ACCESS THE SALES.
too easy to mess with
Friend: are you making all the drinks for fiona's
Me:yes
M:no i'm making half of them and you make the rest yourself
F:do you have a recipe book or is it yolo
M:nah i just get random juices and liquors
M:stir it together
M:and hope you don't throw up
M:sometimes i use yoghurt
M:or
F:oh....
F:i thought it was like an art form
M:like
M:celery
F:what
M:sometimes i grind up nuts
M:and put it in
F:um
F:has anyone died yet
M:nah cos usually i boil it as well
F:WTF
F:youre being sarcastic yes
F:WTF BOIL
M:yes
F:BOILLLL?!?!??!!
Me:yes
M:no i'm making half of them and you make the rest yourself
F:do you have a recipe book or is it yolo
M:nah i just get random juices and liquors
M:stir it together
M:and hope you don't throw up
M:sometimes i use yoghurt
M:or
F:oh....
F:i thought it was like an art form
M:like
M:celery
F:what
M:sometimes i grind up nuts
M:and put it in
F:um
F:has anyone died yet
M:nah cos usually i boil it as well
F:WTF
F:youre being sarcastic yes
F:WTF BOIL
M:yes
F:BOILLLL?!?!??!!
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