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[Flying Dice]

With the way he's been trollishly scolding people for posting the warning about him and doing it himself in a sarcastic way instead of his usual insults I'm getting the feel that at this point he may just be doing it out of some twisted sense of obligation

Or possibly because it's the closest he gets to legitimate social interaction.

[kaijyuu]

This was an image used in a BBC article.

If you know anything about how computers work, this makes absolutely zero sense.

[Flying Dice]

This was an image used in a BBC article.

If you know anything about how computers work, this makes absolutely zero sense.

Head, meet desk. Head, meet wall. Head, meet bedpost. Brain, meet trauma.

[Pnx]

It's obviously a perspective representation of someone examining a keylogger, they're holding a magnifying glass in front of the screen because they have very poor eyesight. The reason why the log is the way it is, is because the person who uses the computer likes to type random sequences of zero's and one's on his numpad when he's browsing around. You know, to throw off CSI.

Also whoever they are have made a horrible choice of username and password.

[Akura]

Huh, someone flagged the Powder Toy site as unsafe.

[Furtuka]

The driving school I went to a couple months ago and was still getting driving practice from suddenly closed a week ago without warning.

[Imp]

Just now,I just noticed something very strange. It seems when my heart beats, everything looks ever so slightly redder for a bit. I have never noticed this before. Maybe it doesn't happen all the time. It was very subtle, and seems to have stopped. I think.

. . .That's pretty hard to quantify.

Because your heart never stops beating. Ever. :/

Death and some heart attacks can.

The other heart attacks make your heart beat TOO quickly, so not enough blood is pumped around the body.

Since I suddenly felt my heartbeat, maybe my blood pressure went up for a few seconds? Perhaps the increased blood flow to the capillaries in my eyes caused the reddish tint?

This is an unusual thing, and could possibly be a symptom of a problem with your retinas or your heart.  You do have blood vessels in your eyes and some of them are placed in some people so that bloodflow can be observed in ideal lighting conditions, or sometimes by pressuring the eye by squinting and such.

I can see my pulse under ideal lighting, but only during and right after a heartbeat.  It is colorless (these are very small blood vessels) and looks like a shadow of movement in specific spots.  I've been able to see it, rarely, from childhood.

That you don't normally observe this, or feel your heartbeat (and some people can and do feel their heartbeat most of the time or periodically), be aware of these changes, and consider getting yourself checked.  If you are starting to have a lot of blood vessel growth in your eyes or something, this can be extremely bad for your vision and its easier to correct early rather than late.

Feeling your heartbeat is often called palpitations.  That's a rather more common symptom than suddenly seeing your heartbeat, but their being linked isn't common.  It's worth mentioning to both the eye doctor and the regular doctor, because the combination could be significant.

[Furtuka]

...apparently sticking my nose at my bedroom wall doesn't count

[miauw62]

Apparently, if you look at a blank, blue surface (or the sky on a clear day), you can see little white dots. Which are, apparently, the white blood cells going over your retina.

Not white blood cells, IIRC. Look up "floaters" on Wikipedia.

[Graknorke]

Apparently, if you look at a blank, blue surface (or the sky on a clear day), you can see little white dots. Which are, apparently, the white blood cells going over your retina.

Not white blood cells, IIRC. Look up "floaters" on Wikipedia.

You can see floaters anywhere. And I hate them.

[Gentlefish]

What.

Here's another.

[Frumple]

Not white blood cells, IIRC. Look up "floaters" on Wikipedia.

Nah, what GO's talking about is a separate phenomena. Floaters are pretty distinct from them.

I get both! And visual snow. Blue sky is so busy it's literally physically painful to look at.

[Darvi]

I get both, with floaters being more common.

But only on the left eye, because fuck the other one.

[Graknorke]

Not white blood cells, IIRC. Look up "floaters" on Wikipedia.

Nah, what GO's talking about is a separate phenomena. Floaters are pretty distinct from them.

I get both! And visual snow. Blue sky is so busy it's literally physically painful to look at.

Yep.

One thing I found odd that we looked at in biology was that the nerves and blood vessels are on top of the cone and rod cells, rather than under them.

Evolution, ho!

[Frumple]

24/7, 365,*baby! Any and all light conditions (but incredibly vivid in dark ones), even in m'dreams. I have been constantly hallucinating for decades.

It's one of the reasons hallucinogens have always seemed kinda' meh to me. Other people need drugs to see things that aren't there. Those people are weak.*+1 day on leap year.