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My knee feels like it keeps trying to bend sideways. It's been like that for about a week, and it's really worrying me. I don't recall any particular incident that would have caused it. Also, it seems like the sort of thing that going to a doctor would do nothing to fix. not that we can really afford the doctor visit, anyways. I hope we have an old knee brace lying around somewhere.

I've found that these things are best treated as follows:

First, squeeze out as much pus as possible. Even if it hurts, even if you have to squeeze from flesh way out from the wound. Get that stuff out. Next, use some hydrogen peroxide. Make sure it really gets in there. Let it fizz for a few seconds, then try to squeeze more pus out to be sure. Repeat until the fizzing mostly stops. Lastly, cover the wound with something. If not bandages, then tape a paper towel or a small piece of paper to the wound. Though, i find the peroxide treatment usually stops most of the bleeding.

Ride around in it like a giant mech.

WWUD if bronze colossus Voltron?

I swear, these crickets are getting louder every year. With all the noise they make, you'd think everything outside is made of crickets, and that during the day, they just wear disguises to make them look like trees and grass and stuff.

Quote from: Iceblaster on October 06, 2013, 08:00:24 am

Interesting, and where is the creepy?

I see art, but eh, everyone sees different things as creepy.

Considering that the bird used to be alive at one point, before being calcified by the lake, it's at least a bit morbid.

The lake in colour is just trippy though. The bacteria in the algae within the lake is what turns the lake red. It also contributes to the flamingo's pink plumage when ingested.

Calcified while it was still alive.

This amuses me.

I have found a fun new time killer.

Quote from: Skyrunner on October 05, 2013, 03:10:46 am

Quote from: JoshuaFH on October 04, 2013, 09:55:22 pm

I have never been more upset at a piece of programming in my lfe.

My Mom decides to take her computer troubles into her own hands, and despite the fact that she knows nothing at all about computers, went and bought a small acer laptop with Windows 8 installed on it.

I've quickly come to discover that Windows 8 is the most streamlined, handholding piece of trash I have ever personally laid eyes upon. This OS feels like an abusive captor that is holding the computer hostage, but it speaks a different goddamn langauge from me so I can't even negotiate with it, I have to use sweeping and obvious hand gestures to get the simplest ideas across, and even then there's egregious misunderstandings.

Why's it so different from Window 7? Like, I've worked with computers my whole life, but I can't wrap my head around this nonsense. I'm so utterly frustrated with this piece of trash software, and with my Mom for not consulting with me first.

People say Windows 8 actually makes sense on tablet PCs and touchscreen laptops, like Window's Surface Pro.

I don't know. Whenever I dink around with tablets, I just get red in the face I'm so angry and frustrated. My sister got an android tablet, and the UI of this thing was designed from the ground up to give me instant headaches. If, god forbid, I want to do something simple with one of these things, my more than a decade of tech experience is completely useless!

It irritates me so thoroughly that anyone in their right mind could think that the ideal method of streamlining is to completely preempt the users desires, and to design the interface like a Fisher Price toy to cater to these utterly shallow assumptions!

I just want to be able to use the tools I've grown up learning to use to do what I want when I have a perfectly good computer in my hands, rather than have them slapped out of my hands by some designer cause he thinks he knows whats best for the customer!

I'm just disgusted by all this, I swear.

This is why i don't want to get into programming. They keep pulling the rug out from under you.

Relative mass and density matter. A thicker shell is less likely to buckle than a thinner one under the same stress. Now, if both tanks were heavier and had thicker armor...