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Underflow posted:Close enough. Look at 'Babyliss' for cheap, 'Braun' for something that'll last much longer. I'm not looking to purchase, I just want to go to the barber.
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I poured some carbonated vodka into heavily sugared juice, screwed on the cap and let it stand in the fridge for a few minutes. Now there's globs of gelled juice in the bottle. Would anyone have any idea why?
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Gravity Pike posted:It's way too messy from a "data ownership" point of view, for one thing. You can't un-send an email, you can't un-send a physical letter, and you can't un-make a phone call. Once it's gone, it's gone, and it belongs to someone else. This is totally true but PSA: Gmail has a lab you can enable that allows you to undo send within 10 seconds of sending. I'm sure it just builds in a delay of 10 or 11 seconds until sending it properly, but either way that thing is AWESOME. There's another one that puts up a popup if you try to send an email that mentions an attachment without actually attaching anything.
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spregalia posted:I'm not looking to purchase, I just want to go to the barber. I'm sure the barber will know the answer to that question.. or at least know how many inches he/she is leaving on someone's head... Image removed
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Yes, but unfortunately I have no idea how to ask him/her nor how to understand his/her response. Living in a country where you don't speak the language is fun (yes, I'm trying to learn, but it's taking a bit of time).
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General Venereal posted:I poured some carbonated vodka into heavily sugared juice, screwed on the cap and let it stand in the fridge for a few minutes. Now there's globs of gelled juice in the bottle. Would anyone have any idea why? I would guess it's because sugar solubility in water is really goddamn high compared to solubility in ethanol, so what you're seeing is saturated blobs of ethanol w/ sugar, which will form a gel-like substance. Solubility increases with temperature, so cooling it down will create these 'crystals'. Try heating it up to see if they break down again. In the future, if you want to infuse vodka with flavor, this is not the best way. Try getting some pure flavors, like liquorice or lemon peels, put in a bottle of vodka, seal properly, put in the dishwasher to promote solution thanks to temperature, then let it sit for a week or so before filtering, and afterwards cool it to drinking temp.
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Eggplant Wizard posted:This is totally true but PSA: Gmail has a lab you can enable that allows you to undo send within 10 seconds of sending. I'm sure it just builds in a delay of 10 or 11 seconds until sending it properly, but either way that thing is AWESOME. There's another one that puts up a popup if you try to send an email that mentions an attachment without actually attaching anything. Outlook purports to have a mail recall feature, but since it works by sending a recall notice that appears in your Inbox, it pretty much calls attention to you loving up, and you're usually better off either pretending nothing happened or faking your death. Edit for vodka infusion: there's a fast infusion method that works with a whipped cream charger and charges of nitrous. You dump your stuff, charge it, let it sit a couple minutes so the nitrous dissolves into everything, then let the pressure off completely. Apparently releasing the pressure makes the dissolved nitrous boil and releases the tastiness. I don't know how it would work with carbonation and syrup in the mix, though. Base Emitter fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jun 17, 2012 |
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Some people say they are light sleepers, some people say they are deep sleepers. Why is this? Is it a medical problem? I rarely get a good "deep" sleep. I get woken up easily. Then there is my friend. She goes to sleep and it is like she is dead. I go over to her and her husbands house and she will be talking with us then lay her head down and it is lights out. Her husband can even shake her or smack her lightly in the face and she won't wake up it's freaky.
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A few weeks ago, I posted a leaf for identification. Now, here's the plant it came from. Can anybody identify it? 
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Mister Kingdom posted:A few weeks ago, I posted a leaf for identification. Now, here's the plant it came from. Can anybody identify it? Looks like a type of morning glory to me. I always saw those growing up, and they were less a flower and more of a weed, because they would grow fast and choke other plants. So, possibly from the morning glory family, but not one that you'd buy and plant yourself. The ones that are specifically grown for gardens are really beautiful. Those are pretty too, but they are problematic. I am not in any way a gardener so take this with a grain of salt and all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
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Is there a thread anywhere for learning how to talk to people or anything? I have rather bad social anxiety to the point where I can't leave my room but I know I can't be like this forever so I want to try and fix it.
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A0Refrigerator posted:Is there a thread anywhere for learning how to talk to people or anything? I have rather bad social anxiety to the point where I can't leave my room but I know I can't be like this forever so I want to try and fix it. The E/N mental health megathread? Alternatively, if you happen to be an eggplant, we do have a wizard for that.
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A0Refrigerator posted:Is there a thread anywhere for learning how to talk to people or anything? I have rather bad social anxiety to the point where I can't leave my room but I know I can't be like this forever so I want to try and fix it. How would something on the Internet help you? You can already be in the Internet. It is real gooey people that scare you, so yo must look for gooey people to practice on.
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when worlds collide posted:Looks like a type of morning glory to me. I always saw those growing up, and they were less a flower and more of a weed, because they would grow fast and choke other plants. So, possibly from the morning glory family, but not one that you'd buy and plant yourself. The ones that are specifically grown for gardens are really beautiful. Those are pretty too, but they are problematic. I am not in any way a gardener so take this with a grain of salt and all. If it's a morning glory, it'll close up at night, so that's one way to check. Noni posted:The E/N mental health megathread? Bibbity boppity motherfuckin boo'  Yes, the mental health thread is tha place where the cool socially anxious oh god don't talk to me kids hang out. We will tell you to go to therapy but you won't be alone!
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Anyone know of a comedy sketch where at one point someone gets hit with a typewriter or something? It takes place in a typical executive office (dark decor?) and I think it's British as well. I don't remember too much else. It's two men sitting across a desk and talking about something, maybe about a job hiring/firing.
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Dudebro posted:Anyone know of a comedy sketch where at one point someone gets hit with a typewriter or something? It takes place in a typical executive office (dark decor?) and I think it's British as well. I don't remember too much else. It's two men sitting across a desk and talking about something, maybe about a job hiring/firing. On similar note, anyone know the comedy sketch between Bell and Edison, where Bell invented a wireless phone and Edison convinces him to put a wire there because that's what people like? I for the life of me can't find it with any search word combination on youtube. Also pretty sure it's British.
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Dudebro posted:Anyone know of a comedy sketch where at one point someone gets hit with a typewriter or something? It takes place in a typical executive office (dark decor?) and I think it's British as well. I don't remember too much else. It's two men sitting across a desk and talking about something, maybe about a job hiring/firing. [e]i think this is the one you're talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRtBvo9grLw [e]lol its still funny Hoops fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 18, 2012 |
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I really loving need to get out of bed in the mornings. I am useless. My current system is having three alarms on my mobile. At some point about an hour after the last one goes off, I finally wake up. I'm terrible at mornings and I need to stop being late for work. What can I do? Any good alarm clocks/recommended routines?
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If there's a better thread for this, point me to it. I'm in the market for a new(er) car and plan to trade in my '02 Acura. The Acura's got a few issues (the driver door and hatch actuators are busted, which means the key fob doesn't work and the hatch won't open at all), and I am distinctly un-handy - to get these fixed I'll likely have to pay someone. At what point when trading/selling a car is it not worth it to have something fixed? For instance it might cost $250 to have a mechanic fix this, but if I do have it fixed will I see at least a $250 gain in trade-in price? Or is it a wash? My fear is that they'll see the fob doesn't work and the hatch won't open, and they'll assume bigger (unseen) problems and automatically knock $500 off their estimate.
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marshmallard posted:I really loving need to get out of bed in the mornings. I am useless. My current system is having three alarms on my mobile. At some point about an hour after the last one goes off, I finally wake up. A clock with a bedshaker alarm like this one http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/ They're usually made for deaf people who can't hear an alarm, but can be woken up by violently shaking the bed.
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Install Gentoo posted:A clock with a bedshaker alarm like this one http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/ Purchased. Brilliant, thank you.
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marshmallard posted:I'm terrible at mornings and I need to stop being late for work. What can I do? Any good alarm clocks/recommended routines? ...And not one of them fixed the problem (or rather they did fix it, but only in a short term way that still had me oversleeping a couple times a month) until I started going to bed at a decent time. I realized about five years too late that I simply wasn't capable of functioning on 5 hours' sleep each night, like I could through my mid-20's. As soon as I bumped it up to about 7-8 hours, waking up got a hell of a lot easier. That doesn't mean I enjoy it, but at least now I'm not in danger of falling back asleep two seconds after I've turned off the alarm. The thing is, if your problem is the same as mine (and of course it may not be) it means you now have an even bigger problem: you're getting old. 
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jackpot posted:The thing is, if your problem is the same as mine (and of course it may not be) it means you now have an even bigger problem: you're getting old. :/ I do not like this answer. (You're probably right, although I've never been able to get up in the morning).
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marshmallard posted:I really loving need to get out of bed in the mornings. I am useless. My current system is having three alarms on my mobile. At some point about an hour after the last one goes off, I finally wake up. Peh. Saw the matter was settled in the thread the moment after I hit Quote and can't think of a question to ask, or find the wireless phone sketch which I think sounds familiar. What a waste of a post, sorry.
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Hoops posted:It's a Mitchell and Webb sketch, you can probably find it on Youtube. Yes, that's exactly the one. Thank you!
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Is there any way to un-blur a photo? Like you took a photo, but its a bit blurry and you want to sharpen it up so you can read a string of numbers? I'm trying to read this tracking number but it's blurry as crap and I can't get a clearer photo.
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ladyweapon posted:Is there any way to un-blur a photo? Like you took a photo, but its a bit blurry and you want to sharpen it up so you can read a string of numbers? I'm trying to read this tracking number but it's blurry as crap and I can't get a clearer photo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk Eh, depends on how bad the blur is-- if it's significantly blurred, depends whether it's motion blur or defocus. You can certainly sharpen images in Photoshop -- use the Sharpen effect for quick and dirty results. There are much better ways, but they all depend on your proficiency in the software.
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Samopsa posted:In the future, if you want to infuse vodka with flavor, this is not the best way. Try getting some pure flavors, like liquorice or lemon peels, put in a bottle of vodka, seal properly, put in the dishwasher to promote solution thanks to temperature, then let it sit for a week or so before filtering, and afterwards cool it to drinking temp. Thanks for really great advice!
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Liebfraumilch posted:Peh. Saw the matter was settled in the thread the moment after I hit Quote and can't think of a question to ask, or find the wireless phone sketch which I think sounds familiar. What a waste of a post, sorry.
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Recently I heard some music that sounded like pop R&B, but it sounded like a CD was skipping. I noticed, though, that the skips were definitely deliberate, and rhythmic. But they were full-blown skips, with the vocals and instruments all skipping back a few milliseconds. Sometimes these happened several in a row, and it made for an interesting rhythm on top of the original music's rhythm. Is this a thing in music, or one particular artist, or a little of both?
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alnilam posted:Recently I heard some music that sounded like pop R&B, but it sounded like a CD was skipping. I noticed, though, that the skips were definitely deliberate, and rhythmic. But they were full-blown skips, with the vocals and instruments all skipping back a few milliseconds. Sometimes these happened several in a row, and it made for an interesting rhythm on top of the original music's rhythm. Yes, it's a recognized thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_and_screwed
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randyest posted:You may know this but from your post I can't be sure: it's not a post until you click "submit." You can click post or reply or quote all day but nothing gets sent to the forums until you submit it. I had no idea--I always see apologetic messages from users hitting quote instead of edit, so I thought once you did that you had grabbed the mic and your choice was to mumble something or make a blank post. I had originally posted to clarify whether marshmallard had trouble hearing the alarm at all, or, like me, trouble not compulsively hitting Snooze every five minutes for an hour. I solve that on days I absolutely must get up by putting my alarm (mobile phone) way across the room or even in the bathroom so I have to walk across the cold tile and going back to bed is actually more trouble than just resigning myself to the day.
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marshmallard posted:I really loving need to get out of bed in the mornings. I am useless. My current system is having three alarms on my mobile. At some point about an hour after the last one goes off, I finally wake up. I know you got the shaking thing but there are a lot of suggestions in a recent E/N thread (not normal e/n thread, it's okay): http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3490586
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Eggplant Wizard posted:I know you got the shaking thing but there are a lot of suggestions in a recent E/N thread (not normal e/n thread, it's okay): http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3490586 This is great, thank you.
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Liebfraumilch posted:I had no idea--I always see apologetic messages from users hitting quote instead of edit, so I thought once you did that you had grabbed the mic and your choice was to mumble something or make a blank post. They do this because they hit quote, make their changes, save it, and only then realize they hadn't edited. They then go back, edit their original post, and blank the reply.
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b0nes posted:Some people say they are light sleepers, some people say they are deep sleepers. Why is this? Is it a medical problem? I rarely get a good "deep" sleep. I get woken up easily. Then there is my friend. She goes to sleep and it is like she is dead. I go over to her and her husbands house and she will be talking with us then lay her head down and it is lights out. Her husband can even shake her or smack her lightly in the face and she won't wake up it's freaky. I would love to know this as well, as I'm like your friend and can sleep through drat near anything. When I was living in a residence (dorm) in grad school I slept through a fire alarm once which scared my friends to the point where they asked me to not lock my room at night, in case there really was a fire. OTOH I have a hell of a time falling asleep and always have; when I was a kid mornings usually meant my mother and I would both be angry or in tears or both because I was being peeled out of bed after getting about 3 or 4 hours' sleep and felt like absolute poo poo. Slightly related to the above: is there a noise limit on motorcycles in Ontario? There's at least one person in this town who has the loudest loving machine in the world and it makes me wish the yellow pages had a section where you could find snipers for hire. It's slightly related because I was trying to grab a nap this afternoon after a busy weekend and a lot of late nights, and twice when I was about to doze off, the world's loudest bike went past (once in each direction).
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Go to bed earlier and at the same time dvery single day. Your body will take care of the rest. I've only ever used an alarm a dozen times or so, and that only in the last few years when I've had a cell phone... but I still wake up before the alarm.
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