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Danger Mahoney posted:So I just got contacts for the first time in my life now that I'm pushing thirty. Seem to work well, but I'm plagued by the feeling of something in my eye. I realize that there is now a hunk of plastic resting on the surface of my eye, but is this something you get used to over time? If you've worn contacts for a long time, does it ever get to the point that it feels completely normal to have them in? It took me a couple of weeks to get used to having them in, then it was completely natural. I had much more trouble learning how to jam my fingers into my eyes to get the contacts in and out than I did learning to live with them once they were in. My only tip is don't eat spicy food with your fingers at night. No matter how well you wash your hands, you won't be able to get all the hot sauce off your fingertips.
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kalonji posted:Can anyone tell me about a good over the counter medication for sinus colds/head colds. I used to use sudafed but thanks to the tweakers that doesn't work anymore. I think there are two main OTC sinus medications: pseudoephedrine and phenylephrine. Depending on where you live Sudafed may or may not contain pseudoephedrine (if it doesn't, it has phenylephrine), so look at the label. Go to your Shoppers or whatever and buy the generic versions. Like a previous poster, I have had some success by using antihistamines, I think there are three main types available OTC: chlorpheniramine, loratadine, and diphenhydramine. Again, these are sold as generics, so save your money. Cold and flu meds mostly have a mix of the above. For example, the previously mentioned Theraflu has chlorpheniramine and pseudoephedrine (along with acetaminophen [AKA tylenol] and dextromethorphan [a cough suppressant]). You can buy the mix, although it's probably cheaper to buy the individual drugs and mix them yourself.
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thehandtruck posted:What's a free program for Windows 7 that will allow me to capture audio streamed from internet radio sites other than Audacity? I use Screamer Radio.
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Raimundus posted:Why haven't we adopted a standard name for the 00's decade? I've heard people call it the "millennials", the "two-thousands"... but those sound retarded or else don't make any sense. If history is any guide, the standard name will become "the first decade", which has the advantage of not just being perfectly descriptive, but also not sounding loving retarded.
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gwar3k1 posted:Why did America become so litigious and is there any chance that people will ever chill the gently caress out and not sue each other for the slightest of things? I don't think it has to do with chilling out or questions of national character. It has to do with incentives. The simple answer is that there are fewer disincentives for people in the USA to sue. Most Western countries have a "loser pays" system where the losers pays for the court costs and lawyers fees for both parties. This tends to put a brake on the more frivolous lawsuits. In the USA, people pay only for their own lawyers. Note that no one thinks there is a right or wrong way to set up a system. Loser pays systems are stacked against poorer people suing the rich -- a losing case for them would be disastrous in a way that it wouldn't be in a USA-style system. It's a balance.
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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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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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stubblyhead posted:If you don't mind me asking, how did you guys go about breaking your pelvis? car crash
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Tostito posted:I have been told that being in good shape and being good looking increases your chances of getting a job/holding a job/advancing the ladder immeasurably. From the perspective of someone who is actually out in the real working world, do you find that this is true? I've worked with successful fat slobs and unsuccessful buff jocks. My anecdotes won't add anything to the conversation, but I can tell you that this is a matter of some debate in the social sciences. For example, this study shows that "obesity exerts a large, statistically significant and negative impact on employment for both males and females" in the UK, but this study from 9 other european countries found "weak evidence that obese workers are more likely to be unemployed or tend to be more segregated in self-employment jobs than their non-obese counterparts... our reported estimates also indicate it is extremely difficult to detect statistically significant associations between obesity and wages.... the associations tend to be different for men and women..." So who knows.
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Elijya posted:From an evolutionary perspective, what is the purpose of males being generally hairier than females, specifically in regards to facial hair? In other words, what purpose does a beard serve bilogically? It is notoriously difficult to establish answers to "why" questions like this. But it probably has to do with sexual selection: it is a physical marker selected for by females.
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kapalama posted:Is there a term for the 'orchestral plucked string sound' TV shows have lately been using as a Laugh Track of sorts? I don't know about the laugh track part, but plucked string technique is called pizzacato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM7Hxrbf5nw
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BlueBayou posted:Is there a good website for soccer data/statistics? I am reasonably sure I haven't seen this data online anywhere, but it has been the subject of any number of papers, so I suggest googling some of those papers (eg) and contacting the authors.
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Killbox posted:How awesome was JFK? What were the downsides with him, were there any? Because everywhere i read and look, he really is presented as one of the greatest among presidents in USA. Wikipedia has an excellent article summarizing presidential rankings over time. He is typically regarded as a borderline top ten president. He was a charismatic guy, but politically was a typical liberal of the day. Johnson's presidency following his assassination suggests that Kennedy possibly would not be as well-regarded today had he had to deal with the social rifts created by the Vietnam mess.
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Ariza posted:What is that little book called that is supposed to be one of the most useful books to own? I think it is green or blue and has common measurements for construction, metric-imperial conversions, etc. I first read about it somewhere here on the forums but searching for it on Google hasn't worked out for me today yet. Thanks! Are you thinking of Pocket Ref by Thomas Glover?
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SouvlakiPlaystation posted:I recently acquired a 550mb avi movie file, which was split up in to 6 smaller avi files that all have names like "ronnie.home.movie.avi.001" then named the same way through 6, etc. This being the case I thought all I had to do was remove the numbers at the end to make them playable and that would be that...but after doing so i'm told by Windows Media Player that I'm missing a codec. I've downloaded a few codec packs, but haven't had any luck. Can anyone recommend a good player that would do the trick? hjsplit.
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tendrilsfor20 posted:What is the musical term for when two singers are singing at different tempos at the same time? I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a name for that. At least I've never heard of one. BTW the row row row your boat thing is called singing in the round.
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baquerd posted:For stabbing victims in general, no particular region or time period, are there any data on mortality rate versus number of stab wounds? I can't really find anything on google scholar, the overwhelming interest in the literature concerns the mortality of the area of the wound, not necessarily the number of wounds. I don't have access to these papers but the abstracts suggest that they may have something related to what you're after.
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A drat FOG posted:One of the tuning pegs on my guitar is loose/broken and will only tune down, not up. As an intermediate player with little to no guitar repair knowledge, is this something I can trust myself to fix with some online tutorial or should I just take it to a shop? It is very easy and straightforward to change tuning pegs. Go for it.
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JimTheSarcastic posted:How do I do the following in Excel 2007?  Or you can highlight the top two cells, Conditional Formatting > New Rule > Use a formula to determine which cells to format, then put "=A2=B2" in the formula field. Then copy those cells and highlight the entire range, Paste Special > Format.
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Bojanglesworth posted:Thank you! Another question, is there an easy way to convert from FLAC to mp3? I tried to do it thru this dumb winamp tutorial and I can't figure it out. If you just have a few small files you can use http://media.io/ to convert them online. Your media manager should have a way to do it internally, though, or there should be a plugin for it.
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Tshirt Ninja posted:Does anyone remember which goon was the keyboardist for Tokyo Police Club (Graham Wright)? I think it was BlackSheepBoy.
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Breath Ray posted:I'd like to see where and how many times a word's been mentioned in a single, multi-page thread. Without SA search or anything, how would I go about that? Using Google? If you can't work with perl, the easiest way for you to do it without any programming is to 1) paste all the text from the thread into a text editor, and 2) search-and-replace for welp, which should return something like "welp has been replaced 31 times". As for 1), you can go through all 31 pages, and copy/paste the text into Word, then hit CTL+H, type in the welp you want to find and enter welp as its replacement, then hit Replace All. Copy/pasting 31 pages is a pain in the rear end -- I have an app that downloads entire threads and merges all the pages into a single file, I have no idea where I got it from. I have it installed as "SA single thread read SinglePT_win32", but I can't find the installation files anywhere. Anyone have a lead on this?
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JayBulworth posted:Alright, I recently broke my toilet seat so I need a new one. The problem is that the holes on my toilet that you screw the hinges in are 7.5 inches apart instead of the American standard of 5 inches apart. Can someone point me to a place where I can by toilet seats that have hinges like this? Other than the hinge issue, the toilet will accommodate any rounded seat. The keywords you need to search for is "bolt distance" or "hinge distance". Also try searching for Case toilet models. They seem to have a 7 inch bolt distance standard. I found a couple of 7 inch seats with that. For example, the first hit for "case 1000 seat is this, which has a list of seats, all of which "with chrome hinges, 7" center-to-center".
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Abel Wingnut posted:I just came across this Jeopardy! clue: through, thorough, dunno, thought, bough, & tough
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the posted:Is there a term in music production when they sing the last refrain/verse in a higher octave? I think I got all of the terms right, but for examples: Modulation, not transposition, is the term. Or colloquially "key change". Octave is not the right term for the amount of modulation -- the first song modulates up one semitone, the second song goes up two semitones. Octave = 12 semitones.
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the posted:That's pretty interesting. I don't know too much about the history of music. Key changes are very common in modern western popular music, I have to assume popular music in the past has used it as well. I can easily imagine opera's using key changes. The purpose of the key changes is to 1) signal a section break or change in the song, and 2) to provide a "lift" in energy. This seems ideally suited to the dramatic purposes of say opera, I'd be surprised if composers didn't explore the dramatic possiblities. Here is an article about key changes in modern popular music, written for musicians but not requiring any kind of theory background.
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Econosaurus posted:Whats a good place to host images off of somethingawful? I saw a thread somewhere but I can't find it. You want this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1840176 I like imgur.com
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wigtrade.cc posted:I am curious if there is a service that gives you wakeup calls because even with 3 alarms, and an online alarmclock winning the fight against my subconscious turning my alarm off and going back to sleep is going to ruin me. I'm not sure why a wakeup call would be any more effective than the alarm on your phone, but anyway. I found these free services: http://www.wakeupdialer.com/ http://www.mysnoozester.com/ http://www.antsers.org/
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Pull your upper eyelid over your lower lid and hold it there till your eye starts to tear up. As seen on a Superfriends PSA in the seventies.
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Drimble Wedge posted:I live in Ontario. Do I have any legal recourse against an obnoxious, harassing neighbour in the same building? (house) The landlord knows about the issue but won't do anything, though he's on our side. If it matters, my boyfriend and I have lived here a lot longer than the neighbour. I don't know, but I can point you to http://www.torontotenants.org/ if you live in Toronto. There are some other resources being discussed in this thread: http://www.settlement.org/discuss/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3192
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Jeffrey Colon posted:If anyone can help me find either of these two threads I will be very grateful. This?
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Dudebro posted:Anyone know of any long interview-type videos on youtube talking about anything? Just as long as its comprehensive english and a controlled environment. I need some practice material for my court reporting thingamajig. I already listen to podcasts and fora.tv, but it's good to have more sources to draw from. I was watching some of the Conversations with History series last week, longform interviews with host Harry Kreisler. eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZJWyGh1EI
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Mak0rz posted:What does "The Jump" mean in blogging? As far as I can tell it means absolutely nothing and it looks kind of retarded to see content broken with a single sentence saying "More after the jump!" or "Hit the jump to see the rest." If you get blog updates through an RSS feed, sometimes the update would contain only the first graf or so and you'd need to click through to get the content after the jump. Also some rss readers only show a small preview of a blog post. So after the jump becomes a way of saying "there's more to this post after this".
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Mak0rz posted:I've come down with a bit of a cold. Naturally, nasal congestion came with it. I have pseudophedrine which helps me breathe through the day, but it WIRES me so I can't really take any before bed. If you are in North America I think the only OTC decongestants available, at least in pill form, are pseudophedrine and phenylephrine. edit: other decongenstants: I think ephedrine is available OTC in canada. Levomethamphetamine is used in Vicks Vapor Inhaler. dokmo fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Feb 22, 2011 |
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Drimble Wedge posted:Why do some stores like Canadian Tire make you push through a turnstile to enter? Is it a way of counting how many people come in? I think it's for the same reason that they use turnstiles in subways: to allow people to enter in that area but not leave.
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Dudebro posted:Maybe that's normal for Canada. No.
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What would happen if someone hijacked my google account? It's not likely to happen (I have a decent password, only I have access to my laptops, I never log into google from another computer), but would I be totally hosed if it did?
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back2newbelf posted:Would someone please be so kind and explain NHL play by play files to me? The hockey threads are very active, you should probably ask there: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3393440 I had a look at the pbp and it looks like you may not be able to accurately track puck possession. For example:  CAR wins the FACeoff and has possession. Seven seconds later there is a HIT. Five seconds later MTL player BOUILLON takes a shot. At some point CAR lost the puck to MTL, but it doesn't show up in the pbp.
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Fun Times! posted:I need help with Microsoft Excel! I'm not entirely sure if I understand your problem, but right click the x axis and change the values in Axis Options: Minimum and Maximum:     
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