Month: October 2014

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lb-lee:

albinwonderland:

erikamoen:

Do you get head tinglies during haircuts? Do pages turning or paper crinkling give you an unexplainable buzz? Friend, you may be experiencing ASMR. Read all about it in Grace Allison’s guest comic on Oh Joy Sex Toy!

This comic brought to you by the support of my patrons on Patreon, thanks guys!

A great and informative comic about ASMR! 

Huh.  So, I went to Good Ol’ Youtube to learn more about this, wondering if ASMR was related to the weird (mostly unpleasant) sensations I get when I watch injections or piercing. (You never want me to come with you to a piercing or tattoo appointment, because I will twitch my head and shoulders uncontrollably to block out the sensations.) Turns out no, ASMR is similar, but not nearly so intense or unpleasant. (Though it can veer into it if I pay too close attention.)

And that’s how I ended up accidentally feeling much better and more relaxed after an emotional day.  Thanks, random ASMR people on Youtube!  I learned something new today!

I actually have heard of this before, but I thought my readers might not have.

(Be careful of those “roleplaying close personal attention” ones. The first explanation of ASMR I came across included a link to one of those, and my reaction to it was not so much “ooh nice” as “oh god she’s coming through the fourth wall to get me *tries to back away through the couch*”.)

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#ASMR #the more you know #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #(I find it kind of amusing that *every* ASMR explanation I’ve read explicitly says it’s completely non-sexual) #(then immediately proceeds to describe it as sedating) #(or sometimes they do it in reverse order like here) #(people are *weird*) #the wondrous variety of sapient life

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lb-lee:

zombiefauns:

i’ve figured out that horror games with grotesque monsters and spooky environments are -9000 scary if you pretend you’re steve irwin on a mission to document the monster(s)

“Lookie there. That’s a six-foot grunt from the basement. A’hm gonna wrassle it.”

As a further note, I’ve found that if you are one of those chumps like me who enjoy watching horror games late at night and then going straight to bed, fear and night terrors are much easier to avoid with the addition of one simple thing:

Mariachi. (Or polka.  I hear polka works too.) It is the one genre of music that CAN NOT be made creepy.  Nobody ever gets assaulted by monsters while mariachi is playing.  It is a magic aural force-field against any and all monsters.

This is scientific fact.  I have tested it myself.

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#music #gaming

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thisoldapt:

DAILY FIND: Sometimes the Internet is a crappy place full of crap. But today I’m reminded that it’s an amazing trove of free and good information from reliable sources: The University of Illinois Extension has created a searchable index of every stain known to man and stain removal solutions for each. The tool will even tell you what your window of stain-treatment time is to achieve optimal results.

This is nerd GOLD, people. Use it in good health. -ts

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#habitat unfucking #interesting #the more you know

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cosmictuesdays:

roachpatrol:

archiemcphee:

Grilled cheese sandwiches are awesome, but grilled cheese from heaven delivered via parachute? That’s super awesome! And that’s exactly what has just started happening in New York City thanks to an Australian pop-up restaurant called Jafflechutes. We aren’t kidding, grilled cheese sandwiches really are falling from the sky and we wish we were in NYC right now.

“Jaffle” is an Australian term for grilled or toasted sandwiches. In 2013 three guys in Melbourne who really love jaffles (Adam, David and Huw) successfully crowdfunded their concept for delivering tasty jaffles via parachute – Jafflechute! One year later they decided to tempt Americans with the same offer, grilled cheese sandwiches delivered from on high. Their second fundraising campaign was a success and the jaffles are now descending to meet their destiny in the hands (and bellies) of hungry New Yorkers.

The setup is simple: The Jafflechutes crew posts when they’ll be working. Payment is submitted via PayPal and a delivery/drop time selected. At the appointed time the customer stands on an ‘X’ marked on the sidewalk outside the designated location and awaits the arrival of their very own jaffle. Provided the wind isn’t too strong, a yummy grilled cheese sandwich that’s been carefully wrapped up with a tiny parachute attached is then dropped from a window overhead.

But don’t worry if the wind is up. If your jaffle happens to get stuck in a tree, Jafflechutes says you won’t have to chase after it, they’ll make you another.

Click here to watch Jafflechutes in action.

Visit the Jafflechutes website to learn more. You can also follow them on Twitter and Instagram.

[via The Telegraph, USA Today, Gawker and Jafflechutes]

THIS IS THE BEST BUSINESS MODEL I HAVE EVER SEEN

Tempting! But where does one actually pay?

I think they only open for business occasionally, and take down the Paypal link when they’re not doing sales? That seems like the most plausible explanation for why I can’t find it anywhere.

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#food #neat #reply via reblog

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exozoology:

rhamphotheca:

Sex? It all started 385 million years ago

It may not have been love as we know it, but around 385 million years ago, our very distant ancestors—armoured fish called placoderms—developed the art of intercourse.

So suggest a team of evolutionary scientists, who point to the fossil of a placoderm species blessed with the name of Microbrachius dicki.

Measuring about eight centimetres (four inches) in length, M. dicki lived in habitats in modern-day Scotland—where the first specimen was found in 1888—and in Estonia and China.

Placoderms have previously been found to be the most primitive jawed animal—the earliest known vertebrate forerunner of humans.But they now have an even more honoured…

(read more: PhysOrg)

illustration: Dr. Brian Choo/Flinders Univ.

So my Facebook newsfeed is filled with posts about this and people commenting that “Scots invented sex”! Which reminded me of this book called How the Scots Invented the Modern World! Fitting ;)

A somewhat more accurate answer to the literal meaning of “old as fuck”. (As I recall, that previous post used the specialisation of gamete types to define “fuck”.)

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#the more you know #the power of science #biology #history