Today I Learned

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by oph, Oct 24, 2015.

  1. Another Shy One

    Another Shy One More books than clothes

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  2. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    My webcam does work in the Windows partition of the computer, seemingly thanks to how Windows' shitty confetti-like granting of root access means it can easily get needed drivers for devices, or maybe because the camera didn't have Linux in mind. So I don't have to be stuck holding a phone to do camera stuff. Bad resolution, but it's a start. @unknownanonymous I've performed an initial camera test!
     
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  3. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    yay!!! :D:D:D
     
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  4. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Til you cant substitute yogurt for butter (idk why i thought it would work) in cookies but if you do you get these delicious bread ball things
     
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  5. prismaticvoid

    prismaticvoid Too Too Abstract

    TIL what singed fingernails look like (I am uninjured, but I was careless with a lighter and now the tip of my thumbnail is not the color it should be)
     
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  6. Another Shy One

    Another Shy One More books than clothes

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  7. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    "Jesus Christ Superstar/Optimus Prime (Fashion makeover, to change into [more fashionable] clothing)" oh my god
     
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  8. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

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  9. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal



    this is so cool
     
  10. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    there is an in-browser web skype! it's still bs and lag on my computer to try being in a large chat or reread a chat's archive, but if i intend to voice chat with people who insist on using skype, i have that option for not loading the program
     
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  11. Exohedron

    Exohedron Doesn't like words

    I probably should have realized this earlier, but the eye-stinging gas that onions release when you cut them goes on the list of "defense mechanisms that humans joke about whilst devouring the things that the mechanisms were supposed to defend".
     
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  12. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    From now on im going to think of that when i eat onions, and they will taste that much more delicious. The failure, its sweet and delectable
     
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  13. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    I always assumed it was just aerosolized onion juice. (Which, well, eye-stinging is definitely in the "NO DON'T EAT ME" category, so it ends up the same anyway, but.)
     
  14. Exohedron

    Exohedron Doesn't like words

    According to Wikipedia the gas is actually produced by a two-stage reaction that only triggers when certain cells are damaged, so it's probably not even in regular onion juice.
     
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  15. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

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  16. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    did you know that american opossums can't get rabies? their body temperature is too low.
     
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  17. Everett

    Everett local rats so small, so tiny

    they are perfect tick-eating babies
     
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  18. BunjyWunjy

    BunjyWunjy Frabjous

    delightful beatnik cats
     
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  19. Wingyl

    Wingyl Allegedly Magic

    yesterday i learnt how to do gel electroporosis (almost certainly spelt wrong), how to work a small centrifuge, what happens when someone doesn't balance the stuff they're centrifuging on a big centrifuge properly, how to use genbank+BLAST, and so on!

    (there was a field trip to massey's biotech lab)
     
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  20. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    (Electrophoresis)
     
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