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Life and everything as we know it = 42 :) Swiggity swooty im coming for for that steam booty

Like popcorn life is sweet yet salty crunchy yet soft find balance and eat popcorn.

Sit Straight
breathe
take a moment to notice everything
This is the oldest you ever had been
This is the youngest you ever will be

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Many dogs sit by the door expectantly every day just about the time their owner is due home from work. How do they know what time it is? It turns out dogs can track time with their noses. The scent of their owner diminishes over the course of the day and when it reaches a sufficiently faint level, they know it's "arrive-home o'clock".

In order to prove this, dog owners were asked to remove their shirts at lunchtime while at work. The shirts were taken to their home and swung around the air in each room... refreshing their scent to higher levels. In each case, the normally punctual pets failed to wait for their owners at the correct time and were instead surprised by their arrival home.

Now whenever I leave my house, I imagine my dog yelling "smell ya later!"

dont cry because its over
cry because it happened

( said to a person who lost a closed one )

porn and potato pron :D
all i love xD

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

The more persons killing oneself, the less person killing oneself..

I was shredding on the guitar. Then I kinda hit a wrong note. However, was it actually a wrong note or something new to play along with? HMMMMMMMMMM

Not entering GAs btw. Thanks man.

That's an Interesting Thread , so i'll take the chance to talk about my Hobby !
On my free time , I am making all sorts of electronics projects , Radios , Little Solar Robots , Remote Controlled Devices and many othes , my friends say it's a weird hobby , but I personally enjoy making those little things !
And Anyways it's important to do whatever you like and makes you feel complete in this life , because you only live once !
Here's a link showing a few solar Robots I've built in action ! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjC-qXsPT0
Thank you Yirg for making this Thread !

nice :)

Honestly, just work hard at everything you do. It may not be easy or turn out the way you like but you got to keep at it. I believe that god or whatever will help you along the way but you can't just sit there and expect it to happen. Work at it.

I have 2, one of which has to do the magic :P

Once I was listenning to a fairly old man making a presentation, and he was talking about relationships(there was a question and the subject quickly turned to that, don't really remember what was the question), and he asked what do you look in a woman. She must be pretty, smart, wise, humble, honest, good sense of humor... etc all that stuff. At some point he asks: "What makes you think she deserves you?".

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. - Homer Simpson

TLDR; Basically explains what we see when we close our eyes according to a research :)

Wel; i wondered what was it that we see when we close our eyes. Apparently our eyes can make light even in darkness. Its different for every person but the lightshow that happens when we close our eyes seeing bright colours and blobs are called ''phospenes''. Just like fireflies or deep sea creatures can glow, cells within in our eyes emit biophotons or biologically produced light particles. The lightshow intensifies when we rub our eyes when feeling really sleepy.

Biophotons exist in your eyes because your atoms constantly emit and absorb tiny particles of light, or photons. This photon exchange is just a part of normal cellular function. Your eyes can’t tell the difference between photons from outside light and the biophotons emitted by your own atoms. Either way, your optic nerve simply relays these light signals to the brain, which must then decide if it accurately represents the real world around you, or if it’s just a phosphene.

Our eyes actually produce far more biophotons than we end up seeing as phosphenes. When you rub your eyes, this generates biophotons in many parts of the eyes,. But they are mostly absorbed locally. Almost all of the biophotons you see are the ones both emitted and absorbed by atoms in the retina — the part of your eye responsible for detecting light.

Inside the retina, millions of tiny cells called rods and cones collect light and convert it into electrical signals. These signals travel through the optic nerve to a part of the brain called the visual cortex. Here, the brain reconstructs an image using the information received from the eyes. When a reconstructed image looks like nonsense, the brain is quick to label the image as unreal, or a phosphene.

But that information doesn’t always come from your retinas. According to István Bókkon, a Hungarian neuroscientist who works at the Vision Research Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts. phosphenes can originate in various other parts of the visual system, too. Research has shown that direct electric and magnetic stimulation of the brain can trigger phosphenes, and Bókkon hopes to soon be able to prove that biophotons are responsible for these phosphenes as well.

Depending on where a phosphene originates, it can take on a variety of shapes, patterns and colors. Different atoms and molecules emit photons of different wavelengths, which is why we see different colors. A phosphene with an orderly geometric pattern like a checkerboard may have originated in a section of the retina where millions of light-collecting cells are arranged in a similarly organized pattern. Researchers have also found that different areas of the brain’s visual cortex create certain specific shapes of phosphenes.

In the 1950s, the German researcher Max Knoll at the Technische Universität in Munich came up with a classification scheme for phosphene shapes. He studied phosphenes in over a thousand volunteers and came up with 15 categories, including triangles, stars, spirals, spots and amorphous blobs. He discovered that by prodding different areas of the visual cortex with an electrode device, he was consistently able to induce the same kinds of phosphenes.

In the lab, scientists generally use electric probes and fancy magnetic machines to make people see phosphenes. But the phosphenes we mostly see every day are not related to any type of electromagnetic stimulation. Instead, most phosphenes occur spontaneously when the atoms in our eyes exchange their biophotons. You can also trigger phosphenes yourself by applying pressure to your eyes — but be careful trying this at home!

The most common non-spontaneous phosphenes are pressure phosphenes, like the ones you see when you rub your eyes. According to Bókkon, any type of pressure on the eyes can cause them to emit an “excess of biophotons” that create intense visuals. Sneezing really hard, getting whacked in the head, and standing up too fast (causing a drop in blood pressure) are also ways to trigger pressure phosphenes.

The only people who never see phosphenes are people who have been blind since birth. But people who lose their vision due to illnesses or injuries usually don’t lose all visual functions. Because phosphenes can originate in different parts of the visual system, “theoretically, all blind people who could previously see can retain the ability to see phosphenes,” explained Bókkon.

Researchers have also been studying ways to trigger phosphenes in blind patients to try and figure out a way to potentially restore their vision. If scientists can use technology to make the blind see phosphenes, perhaps they can use similar technology make them see real images.

So next time you crawl into bed, close your eyes and admire the phosphenes. Now that you can appreciate the visual effects in a whole new way, you can just lay back and enjoy the show.

If i would describe the image of what i see when i close my eyes is like looking into a galaxy but with much more green blue and light purple colours

here are some other interpretations of what they see artist giving his take on it and some other persons view

On Morning your Cup coffe be like

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Peeing in the shower is good for you. It fights athlete's foot. Urine is like an antiseptic, it's all got to do with the enzymes in your body.

Long long time ago there was a boy named Tom and he was very interesting guy. One day the king himself heard about Tom and he invited this boy to his castle. But no one could expected that on his way boy will have terrible accident. The lama that he had been riding on got scared of yellow flowers growing near the tract and its just throw off its rider on the ground. Tom was unconscious for 8 years now and he never made it to the castle to show off his interesting personality to the mighty King. The end.
Yes.

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if you want to shine like a star prepare to burn up

dont' buy legos because of 3 following reasons:
If you have kids they might swallow them and sufficate
you might step on them and they hurt. BAD
they cost sososososososo much .

buy legos because of this reasons:
creativity

So, I couldn't decide between a small useful thing and a big interesting thing, so here's some of each:

• I find misconceptions very interesting: things almost everyone believes, but which turn out to be clearly false when investigated. For example, people think Napolean was an abnormally short man with towering ambition. Part of that’s true, but he wasn’t unusually short. Napolean was 5’6” when he died, taller than average in France at that time. The myth that he was short comes from a mismatch between English and French units of measurement; if you gave his height in French units but interpreted it in English ones the result was misleadingly short. And, since the English knew about Napolean mostly from written accounts, that’s exactly what happened. Somehow the mistake lasted all this time.

(Bonus misconceptions: The Buddha, Sidhartha Gautama, wasn’t fat. In the original legends he was a lean man, which makes sense since he didn't indulge his appetites much. That fat fellow we see statues of and often call the “The Buddha” was something that originated in China, not India, and possibly is based on a different character altogether. Also, Vikings never had horns on their helmets. This makes sense too--it would have been terrifically impractical in a fight.)

• Ok, now something useful. I don’t like the Windows start menu much even on Windows 7, it gets too cluttered. Sure, you can organize it or clean it, but there's still extra layers of menu. I’d prefer a small menu on the task bar with quick access to just the things I frequently launch. Well, conveniently, Windows 7 has this functionality built in. Make an empty folder on your hard drive. Next, right click on the task bar, go to “Toolbars”, select “New Toolbar”, and in the menu select the folder you just created. Now fill that folder with the shortcuts you want (you can organize them in directories)—they will appear on your start menu. I don’t want to see all that clutter, so I drag the little slider on the left side of my new toolbar over to the right until the icons are hidden and two little white arrows appear. Voila, you have a tiny launch menu with just items you want on it--just click on those arrows and quickly launch what you want.

I don't know what to write at the moment. I've written lots of stuff in the past, but it's usually on a whim and during a sudden brainstorm of ideas.
I've once written about the possibility of extremely intelligent bots being on Steam without us noticing, multiple times about time traveling, about human's nature to destroy earth and life, dreams and how they can be a much more important part of our lives than we think...

Yeah. I think I've run out of ideas for now.

But I already own most of the games so I wasn't planning of entering anyways. :P
Thanks though!

Well... I can share the most useful management tool that I learned to use since ever... it's called 5W2H and it stands for a grid with:

• "What" (what should be done?)
• "Who" (who should do it? with who should be done?)
• "When" (when it starts and when it finishes? how much time you have to do it?)
• "Where" (where it should be done?)
• "Why" (reasons to do it? achieve another goal, for example?)
• "How" (how it should be done? what steps or path you should chose to achieve the goal?)
• "How much" (how much it costs? if only time, remember, time is money.)

This tool teach me a important lesson: everything you want to achieve in your life, you must write it.
Even doing a micro management for little tasks, optimizes anything in your life...
Since you wrote it somewhere, every fucking day in your life you will remember that your life have one goal: achieve what you wrote.
So, I really recommend to use it. From my personal experience, I must say, this management tool really got where I want to be.
If you want something, start making plans write. If you want a girl, manage it. If you want a job, manage it. If you want a giveaway without spend much, plan it. Prepare yourself to the path you need to cross. Its all about antecipate steps. Believe me, you'll be there, before you even get there.
pic related and sorry for crappy english... hope it helps someone at some time.

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Beware of how caffenie you can consume, lest your stomach be ill.

my country has almoast all kind of climates there are. we have deserts, jungles and large flat spaces. We have the highest peak of America and cant remember well, but the widest river too. Summers go up to 45° C +- and winters goes down to -15°C +-. But not in the whole country. Im talking about Argentina.
South America in general its way underrated, and its unfair. :D

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