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Sorry for the crappy MS-Paint illustration, but it's all I've got. In the above picture, the light-grey axis is what the wheel is spinning about, but the red dot/line is its center of gravity. The dark-grey half-circle is made out of something relatively heavy. When it spins, inertia wants to keep it fairly steady about its center of gravity, but it's forced to spin about the light grey axis. It compromises, and shoves the axis in the opposite direction that the wheel's mass shifts. The axis is in turn anchored to the body of your cell phone or your mom's vibrator, which causes that to move in tiny circles opposite the direction that the wheel is spinning. Editin' dis in: stawk Archer posted:Can you cook eggs on a George Foreman grill? No. It's designed to drain liquids to a tray in the bottom, the eggs would just run right out! Not in my experience. Gravity Pike fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Nov 3, 2010 |
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kapalama posted:Also vibrators dammit. Highly pressurized Mexican jumping beans.
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stawk Archer posted:Can you cook eggs on a George Foreman grill? Yes, but don't close the top. It's essentially a griddle with ridges. quote:Do hipsters actually bitch about market economies or do they just have one in the group who does? This is a bad question, as with any group of "hipsters" you encounter, you'll invariably find one with more knowledge of something than you. quote:I found a snapping turtle in the woods - what should I feed it? Can i keep him in a five by four pond? How deep does the pond need to be? Feed it chicken/turkey necks. Is the four by five pond stagnant as poo poo as covered in algae? No? Let the fucker go. Unless you plan on eating it.... quote:Is there any way to get a Puma Solebox rug like the one featured [ Not that one specifically, but hit up your local Urban Outfitters and you can get all your anti-hipster hipster gear you've been blabbing about...
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Here's a question about Android and tablets from someone with no knowledge of either firsthand, I guess it's a little about Google Voice too which I have a little knowledge of. I'm looking into getting a cheapy Android 2.1/2.2 tablet for around the house browsing/reading and whatnot. I notice some offer built-in mics and I remember mention of the Google Voice app being an obvious for Android phones. Is there any reason to have it on a wifi tablet? Is there some sort of trickery I can use to maybe daisy chain gvoice and skype into free/cheap VOIP from the tablet or something? I've used Google voice in conjunction with my non-smartphone as a voicemail archive and telemarketer screener, but I'm not getting if the "app" version actually handles calls like GTalks voice/video chat or just routes them?
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I'm trying to remember the name of this movie, I've seen it a few time on Comedy Central when I was younger, but basically its about these teenagers who were obsessed with this "Feed Bag" thing that they sold at 7-11 and Circle K type places, and they were stopping the sale of them, so they were all trying to get the last few by breaking into the stores...any ideas?
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So I got sick off of some hot dogs and canned chili last night. Maybe the bowl wasn't clean enough or something. I've been vomiting / diarrhea at the same time, like four times already. How can I help this along to get better? What can I eat / drink?
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Nov 3, 2010 11:00
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Check your temp. Do you have a fever? Cold chills? If so, its probably best to go see a doctor. If you don't have a fever, in most cases you'll have to wait it out, but to be sure (and if you're pretty miserable) go to the ER and they'll give you an anti-nausea for it. In all the cases where I thought I had food poisoning I just had a stomach bug that only lasted 24-48 hours. Usually your first thought when you start vomiting is that it must have been something you ate. I'm not a doctor though, so take it anecdotally and go see a doctor if its bad. I also have a question: I'm looking to start reading some Jack Kerouac. Can anyone guide me to some of his best works/a good first read?
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SausageMahoney posted:I'm trying to remember the name of this movie, I've seen it a few time on Comedy Central when I was younger, but basically its about these teenagers who were obsessed with this "Feed Bag" thing that they sold at 7-11 and Circle K type places, and they were stopping the sale of them, so they were all trying to get the last few by breaking into the stores...any ideas? Try here, they are really good at this. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2617448
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stawk Archer posted:Can you cook eggs on a George Foreman grill? stawk Archer posted:
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revolther posted:Here's a question about Android and tablets from someone with no knowledge of either firsthand, I guess it's a little about Google Voice too which I have a little knowledge of. You're better off asking here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3281154
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Broke my pelvis and both my feet a little less than a month ago. They've given me these boots to keep my tendon flexed so I don't get drop foot, and they're uncomfortable but better than the alternative. Since returning home from the hospital, I was able to sleep alright, even though i did have to wake up to roll over. Now, I can't sleep. It's horrible. I thought it was the boots, so I got permission from my PT to sleep without them as long as I promised to flex extra much and always wear the boots during the day. While removing the boots has helped, I still am barely pulling in 5 hours a night, and it's all broken up into one-or-two-hour chunks. It's horrible. Last night I awoke absolutely drenched in sweat. I was using an electric blanket (gotta stay with my parents for now, their house is goddamn freezing) and the tempurature felt totally comfortable, I had no idea why I sweat so much. Soaked my pjs, sheets, pillow, had to wake my parents up for a towel so I didn't freeze when my skin touched the air. This isn't normal for me. Normally I can sleep pretty well. First I figured it's just my body healing, getting back to normal, not being all drugged. But this all started right as I stopped using the prescription meds the doctor gave me, Norco. I've been on the meds since the 7th or 8th of last month, and just stopped using them a few days ago. ...Am I going through withrdawal, or am I just unable to sleep due to the fact that I am unable to burn much energy during the day? At night I'm fidgety, restless, unable to get comfortable, unable to find a good temperature, and always waking up miserable and unable to fall asleep again for hours. I guess my question is, am I going through withdrawal? If not, are there any remedies for night sweats for people not going through any hormonal imbalances? I'm at my wit's end, I can't keep this up for very long.
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Norco is just hydrocodone IIRC, and sweating profusely at night is most definitely a withdrawal symptom, as are all the other things you describe. Your doctor should've reduced your dose gradually instead of stopping you cold turkey. Ask him WTF.
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Nov 3, 2010 19:33
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Huntersoninski posted:I guess my question is, am I going through withdrawal?
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If you go to google and start typing en.wiki, the second link is to some zipper ride article which appears to have no significance. How does this happen?
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Not for me, I don't see a zipper ride article. For me it is the wiki article for goatse 
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For me it's kancho (don't look it up). Each of our little corners of Google has a slightly different dataset to use.
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Are there any tricks for creating/learning to create CSS page layouts. I have learned HTML/PHP/Javascript on my own but always get annoyed trying to figure out CSS. Alternately are there are any simple (preferably free) CSS creator programs?
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It's not free but I used top style back in the day and it helped me quite a bit. I still can't get comfortable with CSS though.
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Huntersoninski posted:Broke my pelvis and both my feet a little less than a month ago.  sup pelvis breaking buddy quote:I guess my question is, am I going through withdrawal? If not, are there any remedies for night sweats for people not going through any hormonal imbalances? I'm at my wit's end, I can't keep this up for very long. I slept without the boot. It felt really uncomfortable to have my foot just dangling, so I propped my foot upright with some pillows at the foot of my bed. I slept like this for six months. It wasn't comfortable, but it was the best I could do. To answer your larger question, my body was seriously hosed up for a long time. The circulation in my body was erratic, which meant sometimes I was cold and sometimes sweating hot within an hour without the temperature having changed at all. To this day (6 years after) my left leg is always much colder than the right. I didn't take any meds, so I can't answer that part of your story, but as far as I know it is perfectly normal for your temperature to swing wildly. There might not be anything you can do about it, I don't know since I didn't ask the doctor. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions about getting through this.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Your doctor should've reduced your dose gradually instead of stopping you cold turkey. Ask him WTF. Will do. I have about five or six pills left. He had me taking two every four hours...should I maybe take one every six hours or something to try to ease down or should i not bother now i've already quit? I don't wanna be an addict  Rent-A-Cop posted:Yes. Norco is Hydrocodone and withdrawal is no fun. Give it a week and you should be fine. Well at least I'm not wrecked for life, but this will probably be the longest week ever. I've never had withdrawal before and I gotta say, it sucks about a million dicks. dokmo posted:
I don't have PMs, do you maybe have an AIM? Mine's my username.
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Thanks for the answers all around. One more about the turtle: the habitat I have has a pond but it's not very deep. Maybe a foot in most of it. That thing shits everywhere! I'm gonna have to clean it every month, week?
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Huntersoninski posted:I don't have PMs, do you maybe have an AIM? Mine's my username. I don't have an AIM account, you can email me at candy.gorilla which is a gmail account.
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If you don't mind me asking, how did you guys go about breaking your pelvis?
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stubblyhead posted:If you don't mind me asking, how did you guys go about breaking your pelvis? Fell really, really hard down a very tall, very steep flight of stairs onto concrete. My own ignorant clumsiness, and I've paid for it and paid for it, with pain and soon with all my money and more edit: cracked it in half, actually. Doctor said usually my kind of pelvic fracture is for car or motorcycle accidents, and if the force that broke it had been applied to, say, my ribcage or head, I wouldn't have survived 
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stubblyhead posted:If you don't mind me asking, how did you guys go about breaking your pelvis? car crash
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Huntersoninski posted:Will do. I have about five or six pills left. He had me taking two every four hours...should I maybe take one every six hours or something to try to ease down or should i not bother now i've already quit? I don't wanna be an addict At this point, if you've been off for a few days, I wouldn't recommend picking it back up. You're halfway through, give it another few days and you'll be golden.
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I'm not sure where to put this so I figured here would be best. We have Comcast for internet and tv, we download a lot of stuff. Comcast has a data usage meter on their website. I checked it today, haven't looked at it in several months, apparently we went over the 250GB limit for the past two months. I can't view any other previous months. My brother and I are both stunned from this, we didn't think we downloaded that much. We've never gotten any notice about going over the limit. The thing is though, the new data cycle started today, yet the system already says that we downloaded 48GB. I haven't downloaded anything, my brother did a little bit like 3GBs worth. Our connection is 1.5MBps at best. It would take us atleast 9 straight hours of downloading at 1.5MBps to do that. How on earth did it hit 48GB that fast?
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Do either of you play a lot of online games? That could potentially use a lot of bandwidth, especially if you're hosting a server of some kind. And do you have a wireless router? Someone could be stealing your bandwidth. edit: or maybe you've gotten hacked and you're hosting some kind of kiddy porn ftp server Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Schweinhund posted:Do either of you play a lot of online games? That could potentially use a lot of bandwidth, especially if you're hosting a server of some kind. And do you have a wireless router? Someone could be stealing your bandwidth. We don't play a lot of online games, we don't do server hosting stuff. We do have wifi but the router doesn't show any other devices attached, going to change the password. I went through my list of stuff I downloaded, overestimating it I'd say like 75GB in october, my brother did about 80GB. According to comcast, our internet usage was 350GB. I don't get how someone could stealing bandwidth from us, if they were downloading/uploading our speeds would suffer too. Anyone know of a program that can monitor the network traffic? Drevoak fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Drevoak posted:Anyone know of a program that can monitor the network traffic? Many routers support logging traffic, and if yours doesn't you can probably install DD-WRT which will. You need to be logging at the router level, not on an individual computer.
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Drevoak posted:We don't play a lot of online games, we don't do server hosting stuff. We do have wifi but the router doesn't show any other devices attached, going to change the password. I went through my list of stuff I downloaded, overestimating it I'd say like 75GB in october, my brother did about 80GB. According to comcast, our internet usage was 350GB. Are you just downloading or are your torrenting? That meter is for both directions of traffic. (a big YMMV) I go over every month and haven't heard a peep. Although I'd tell them to eat a dick if they did since I was like the first residential customer for cable here and have every single service they offer. From what I hear the process goes like this: You go over and they call you and basically try to upsell you into some long contract for business service. If you're worried about it just get the basic business class service which isn't more than +10-20 per month IIRC.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:Are you just downloading or are your torrenting? That meter is for both directions of traffic. Purely downloading, no uploading. I'm not worried about them calling or disconnecting us. Just freaked me out seeing that much downloading going on. I still don't know how it got that high, unless someone could somehow connect to the network, stay hidden from the attached devices and keep downloading.
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Drevoak posted:We've never gotten any notice about going over the limit. Then don't worry about it. The 250 gigabyte cap is a "soft" cap - it does not apply to everyone at all times. If you've been going over for months, and having received a notice, it's because Comcast doesn't care if you go over the cap in your location. I also have Comcast and have been going over 250 gb every month since April, no problems.
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Huntersoninski posted:Broke my pelvis and both my feet a little less than a month ago. They've given me these boots to keep my tendon flexed so I don't get drop foot, and they're uncomfortable but better than the alternative. hey dude you're withdrawing from opiates, you need to talk to your doc about getting off of those safely ok <-- see; burnouts tag
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Drevoak posted:Purely downloading, no uploading. I'm not worried about them calling or disconnecting us. Just freaked me out seeing that much downloading going on. I still don't know how it got that high, unless someone could somehow connect to the network, stay hidden from the attached devices and keep downloading. If you estimate your "downloads" in the ~150gb range it's probably multiples of it. Anyway, see above advice. ChubbyEmoBabe fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Okay, here's a really stupid question: How much would Gordon Freeman's equipment in the first Half-Life game weigh, assuming he is fully equipped? Obviously we don't know how much a gluon gun or a snark weighs, so there is some guesswork involved. I'm just interested in a guesstimate. TIA.
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Extensive Vamping posted:Okay, here's a really stupid question: Standard spacesuits weigh 185 pounds, and the HEV suit is basically a spacesuit, so it probably weighs the same.
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Figured I'd start here before bothering SH/SC. My main computer suddenly got VERY slow loading the forums. As in, timeouts all around, independent of browser (tried FF 3.6, Chrome 7.0.5, and IE 8.0.76). Other sites load fine, and the forums are nice and speedy on my netbook, which is on the same network as my main computer. Clearing the cache helped some, but some threads are still dragging rear end. Main is running Windows 7 x64.
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Is youtube hosed up for anyone else today? For me none of the dynamic things work - clicking on my username does nothing, when it should expand the account menu. Clicking on the expand player button does nothing, when it should be making it bigger and moving the right-hand column down. I've tried disabling noscript and greasmonkey. Another question: Are any non-prescription sleep medications effective? Or are they all snake oil. Sir Sidney Poitier fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Extensive Vamping posted:Okay, here's a really stupid question: I get ~80 lbs not counting ammo, multiples of the same weapons (satchels, grenades), or any of the alien/sci-fi guns. Plus whatever an HEV suit weighs.
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