TGIF! Welcome to the wonderful world of November and the return to standard time. My sleep schedule is still messed up so that’s been fun.
Word Count Filler Time
Let’s answer some common questions.
Q: Why are yawns contagious?
A: Studies have shown that merely showing a picture of someone yawning does not cause people to yawn. Instead the studies show that covering your mouth while yawning does not prevent others from yawning, Also, watching a video does induce others to yawn. This is isn’t universal as the response was in 40%-60% of people. Not surprising, more empathetic and self-aware people are more susceptible.
Q: What causes liver spots?
A: Not the liver! Those spots are the result of hyperpigmentation in patches of skin. This is mostly due to prolonged exposure to the sun, but surgery, pregnancy, and some drugs can also cause them.
Q: Why does OJ taste bad after brushing your teeth?
A: Most things will. Most toothpastes contain a detergent called sodium lauryl sulfate. This detergent temporarily alters your sense of taste by subduing your ability to taste sweetness and saltiness, while making sour foods taste bitter.
Q: Why do we have eyebrows?
A: Eyebrows are primarily there to keep water out of your eyes. Turns out your forehead perspires more than most other parts of your body. And that salty sweat would sting your eyes pretty badly without those eyebrows. They also really help out in the rain.
Q: Why do you close your eyes when you sneeze?
A: The nerves for your eyes and nose are closely connected. When sneezing it produces an involuntary reflex that closes your eyes. Also the urban myth that if you did keep your eyes open while sneezing would cause your eyes to pop out is not true.
Q: Why does running water make you want to pee?
A: That’s like a pavlovian response. Your body knows what the sound of peeing is, so running water mimicking that makes your stupid brain think it needs to pee and signals your bladder. Studies have found that this response is also found in dogs.
Well that’s enough knowledge for a Friday. Let’s move on.
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Sexy Time
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1951 Speed Graphic 4×5″ Pacemaker camera with a 1943 Kodak 7-½” Aero Ektar lens.
Photo taken with an iPhone.
Another photo finish! These Aussies know how to race the horses.
The last race was 2000m. Fun fact, 1 furlong is 201 meters, so this was a 10 furlong race.
The track turned left just like a normal track but it’s still a grass surface.
Alas, there was no grey horse, so no GumbyGirl fandom.
This one didn’t have even close to a photo finish. All the races I’ve seen so far indicate the winners are mid track or further out from the rail.
The main event is still to come. Tune in to FS1 to see the race live.
Friday night, couple of beers in, and I have elected to stream Journey’s Escape over the speakers whilst flipping through the sprots offerings. Suddenly, I am back in high school and re-learning the quadratic equation as a shrimpy freshman.
/good times, of course, but not quite as good as getting to third base while listening to Frontiers a couple of years later . . . almost crossed that Rubicon, baby, but got Rizzuto’d just like Meatloaf. Purgatory by the Dashboard Light
//yes, I started with Journey and went to a Meatloaf reference faster than a Bat Out of Hell
I got every single one of those references.
Those crazy nights, I do remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJg1aMYIaE
Went to see Jaws this evening, with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra playing the soundtrack. It was great, when I wasn’t distracted by watching the movie itself for the 53rd time.
It’s got black eyes.
A doll’s eyes.
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
/crowd goes wild
Fightin’ Horatio’s, Netball Division, squeak by UMass-Lowell 110-47.
44-3 run to start the game.
Maybe bump the SOS up a bit there.
Definitely the kind of early season victories the committee is looking for when comparing and contrasting similar schools…
Just partied with the UConn Women’s lacrosse team AMA!!
(they rent the house next door to my friend’s house and we toasted each other: I think they were in bed by 10:30 EST)
2 Chainz is doing well on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. He also may be high as fuck.
Also, he’s at least 2 feet taller than Seacrest.
Good for him on all counts there!
I wish I could pay more attention, because it seems like Space Bowl (UCF-Houston) is flirting with bananacakes.
It was 24-0 UCF at one point, it’s now 27-up with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter.
And here I’ve been wasting my whole night watching my beloved Green Waves punk Memphis.
Oh woah, this game is blocking their regularly scheduled Australian Horse Racing schedule.
I think they run the other way around the track. Coriolis effect.
The camera angles look like the they turn to the left. But when you figure the cameras are upside down, the track does turn to the right.
This is great. I get watch horses now.
They are running in a straight line? And there’s a shitload of pigeons.
How many furlongs are they going?
1000m. Grass surface. One prerace scratch. No injuries and a photo finish.
How many “furlongs” in “Wyoming”?
TRICK QUESTION, neither are real things!
This Makai Lemon, wr for USC is having himself a game.
/do Big 10 ‘purists’ complain about having to watch football on Friday night? I’ll bet they do
I do, but as my kids have long since left high school, it ain’t interfering with anything other than the drinking — so now I’m off to watch the (checks notes via remote control) traditional USC-Northwestern rivalry.
White Guy Complains About His Day Alert:
-set alarm for 3am because of kid having delivery shift
-set alarm again for 6:30 because I have to open up warehouse
-dressed in the dark so as not to wake up wifey, forget my phone
-can’t run back and get it because I’ve a meeting with bankers
-later, have a meeting with another shareholder
-regular ordering and calling/texting for orders compressed into 90 minutes
-time for drinks? No
-staying up until 11 because son has to pick up a trailerload of stuff in Toronto for a fundraising thing that we do
/there will be day drinking tomorrow my friends
-a pair of drifters disappear at some interterminal point of time…
Reminds me my Wednesday.
House cleaners showed up at 8am and woke me up. So then I spent an hour having to wait to use the bathroom and shower while they did their thing.
Went to get a haircut and it turned out terrible. I don’t have enough hair to make it terrible, but they managed it.
Then I went to my local breakfast spot with a bar and my usual waitress wasn’t there so they wouldn’t put on the Shempions League games.
Finally gave up and went back home and drank away the rest of the day.
Oh wait, no. The worst part was then I went to the hockey game and watched the fucking Sharks beat the absolute piss out of the Kraken 6-1. Terrible evening.
Call Wednesday back, and ask to either speak to the manager, or at least get a refund.
Look, she’s more of a swallower than a spitter, and I don’t think she treats money any differently,
I’ve walked into some shitty, chaotic shift changes, but NOT upset tonight’s didn’t involve the double-shooting in Homestead at occurred literally eleven minutes before I got here, 22 minutes ago real-time.
I’m just going to post up over here. You’ll hear from me eventually, and I apologize for that in advance, too.
Flying back to Chicago tomorrow night so I can watch football and do more laundry there then flying back again early Monday morning is a Good Idea right?
Status padding?
Not really at this point, although I’m happy to have some buffer since I’m cutting it close and have a flight with a tight connection on Dec 31st. More because I want a weekend day in Chi before it get too chilly
I wanted to status pad hotels for the work trip in the UK but I would still be short. Though the time in Australia got me pretty far up in Accor hotels so that’s nice
Apply for a new credit card that comes with status nights?
GG’s Blazers and Hippo’s Wolven Sort on ACCN!
Hippo napped so he’d be able to stay awake for this, so The Man In Black best deliver me a funtime win.
Think I’ve definitively proved a couple of experiments I’ve been wanting to try. Is this how Dok feels when she develops some new genetic abhorration that will inevitably consume us all?
Possibly.
I like ze adorable genetic oddities best!
Legit blown away by the eyebrow thing. Thought they were for growing old ungracefully.
#MeToo
I thought that eyebrows were used by old men to hide caterpillars
Caterpillar smuggling is big business
SonOfSpam said he’s made good money on the plum side.
That cannot be easy…
I’m really interested in how one smuggles this…
Popular opinion – Hitler Mice’s “space kitsch” alternate kit is atrocioUs.
Unpopular opinion – Space, in general? Fucking boring.
#4 is an amazing picture!
Lookit Hippo y Balls, in full agreement!
(I like #3 almost equally well)
This is balls politely noting the lack of suitable asses in today’s selection.
The plot to Star Trek’s rejected pilot, The Cage, in one picture.
No, that’s the Mirror Universe.
A lot of people also run the tap while potty training. My parents didn’t do that and the sound of running water doesn’t make me want to pee. Lots of beer otoh…
I did not know this but I’ve never had to potty train anything. Although I did know the last part.