I never would have guess on my own that the feeling was actually because my heart had stopped. I was sure it was beating really fast. The thing that convinced me is that she felt it happen and I didn't have to tell her anything. She knew right then that I would have experienced that feeling.
They (the doctor and the nurse) didn't act all that surprised. It seemed like they probably see it quite a bit. I'm just guessing though by how they just treated it like routine.
During my first year of college, I drank a lot of caffeine, mostly from Mt. Dew. I was drinking probably 6 or 7 12oz cans a day.
During the 2nd half of the year I started noticing that about once a day for 2 to 3 seconds my whole body (and especially my heart) would feel like I was running in super hyper mode. It felt like everything in my body was just running super fast. I didn't know what to think of it, but it only happened once a day for a couple of seconds so like an idiot I just didn't worry about it.
Over the next couple of weeks the incidents started becoming more and more frequent until I was having one of these 2-3 second super-hyper feeling spurts once every 10-15 minutes. At this point I got scared and headed straight for the local night clinic.
When I got there they took my pulse, blood pressure, etc and hooked me up to the EKG thing and had me just hang out there and lay around for 20 minutes or so. As bad luck would have it, I didn't have a single occurrence of the weirdness while I was hooked up. After a while, they unhooked me and were getting ready to send me home, but the nurse decided to go ahead and check my pulse and blood pressure one more time.
While she was checking my pulse, I had one of the weird speed up feelings. I didn't even have to tell her. As soon as it happened she looked up at me and said "It just happened, didn't it!" and I was like "Yes, how did you know?!?! What did you feel?!?!". She had actually felt my heart skip an entire beat while she was taking my pulse!
The doctor came back in and when she gave him this new information he said "Do you drink a lot of caffeine?" I didn't even know what was considered a lot or which drinks had a lot, so I was like "I drink a lot of mountain dew, I think those have caffeine". When he asked me how many and I told him 6 or 7 a day he told me that was my problem. The feeling I had been having was kind of an adrenaline rush where the rest of my body was trying to get my heart started back up again.
I immediately stopped drinking caffeine and it took about 2 weeks for the problem to completely go away. It tapered off at about the same rate it had built up in the first place.
At the time this happened I was in really good shape. It had been less than a year since I was a 2 sport athlete in high school and my fitness level was still pretty high.
So, caffeine may not have negative effects on everyone, but I'm pretty sure I could have killed myself on it if I had kept drinking it at the rate I had been.
Exactly. Things that aren't unnatural because they are made by humans. I look at them as by-products of human life. It's not unnatural when a beaver builds a dam in a creek, why should it be unnatural if we build/do things with the ingredients available?
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and a catchy name too. It really rolls right off of your tongue about like a sawblade.;)
I would think that if we're there, then we are part of their natural evolution, not disrupting it. There is nothing unnatural about humans. One might even argue there is nothing unnatural in the universe.
Well heck, I left off the required [sarcasm] tag and instead of getting my much deserved funny or insightful moderation, I'm left with troll and flamebait.
Maybe I should have added "I'll probably get modded down for this but..."
Good, it worked. The cool thing that '$' looks so much like 'S' that it doesn't look stand out or look stupid in writing, so people won't even notice why they suddenly think Linu$ is a greedy money grubber!
Every piece of email I get is sent to that address, just not by a person. The mail is forwarded to that address and if one of my forwarding addresses gets out of hand with spam I can just delete it. If it wasn't a real address I wouldn't get any email.
People are sending mail to my real address, they just don't know it.
Your phone analogy is would work if you had a different phone number that you gave to every person you knew and each of them forwarded the call to your home phone. If one of them started soliciting you or gave out your number then you turn off that 1 number and you still get all of the calls that everyone else is placing to any one of your other numbers.
Well, I'm not sure about them rejecting your messages. I can't say that I've ever been on a mailing list that gave me a problem with this. I think I've been on two mailing lists since I started using sneakemail and didn't have this problem with either.
As far as your real email being visible in a web archive, I don't even send email with my real address in the Reply To. I have a sneakemail address set up labeled Reply To and anyone that replies to one of my emails gets filtered through that. As far as I know, there are 3 people/groups that know my real email address: me, my isp, and sneakemail.
Sneakemail and teach her to never give out her real email address to anyone. Just set up a new sneakemail address for whoever needs her address and give them that one. I have been using this for about 6 months since I got a new email address, and I still get no spam at all.
The thing that really makes it cool for me is every email you get is forwarded to your real address through sneakemail, but sneakemail puts a label on it that you enter for each address you create. So, if you start getting spam from a certain address, just got to sneakemail and delete it.
Heck, my mom doesn't even know my real address anymore.
I know what you mean. Even if he didn't know that exact command, he could have written a program to just pipe random character strings through cmd.exe and hope he turned off the service before he formatted his c: drive.
You just can't help someone if they aren't willing to help themselves.
I was also involved in the interview process, though my questions would be more like, "What is the directive that throttles the number of Apache processes."
I've never understood these type of questions. Do you really want the person to be able to tell you that answer? Is "I don't know, but it would take me a couple of minutes looking through the config file or the help file to find out" an acceptable answer? Is it really that important to you for your employees to have memorized these things?
I'm just curious and maybe that's not how you intended the question. But, I will say that I'm a programmer and most of my co-workers think I have a great memory, but I would make no attempt to remember something like that when I can have the answer in about 2 minutes if I need it. Now, if I happen to remember it just because it sticks with me, that's another thing. But it isn't something I would try to remember.
The word inferior is subjective, so the idea that mp3 is an inferior copy is an opinion and anyone is free to disagree. One may find mp3 to be superior because there is no noticeable difference in quality while there is a huge savings in space.
I agree, any state being "fixed" is unacceptable. I was just arguing for arguments sake. I'm not convinced that the election in Florida was really fixed, but then again, I haven't read much about it since the election so I don't really know what I think about it.
The point I would make is that, if Florida alone being fixed was enough to elect Bush, then we (the people in general) probably didn't really want either one of them to be in office. I know when I voted I intended for whoever won the election to only be in office for 4 years.
For a while in college I was double majoring in CS and Business Education and once in a while in one of the Bus Ed classes I'd be asked to teach 1 class since I had more technical knowlege than the professor or most of the rest of the students. I would teach about different technologies and how they could be used for educational purposes, in a classroom, etc.
Anyway, one day I was teaching about the internet, search engines, etc and I was browsing around on the web in front of class with the display going through a projector onto the wall. I meant to go to the whitehouse web page, but I accidentally typed whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov. This was before I knew what whitehouse.com was (and how I learned what it was). Imagine my surprise!
I'd say the 6 foot tall porn was probably the only thing most of the class remembered about that little lesson. Amazingly enough, I was still asked to teach similar classes after that incident.
I'm not sure exactly how many of mine are missing -- I can never remember how many teeth normal people are supposed to have. I know that on the top I actually have 5 of my adult teeth (they are now used as anchors for a big bridge) and on the bottom I'm missing 3 of my adult teeth, but the "baby" ones are still there in those spots.
I'm 25 now and I've had the bridge since I was like 16 or 17.
My dentist recently told me that I can probably only get 5-10 more years out of this bridge before it will have to be replaced. I'm hoping implants will be easy (relatively) and reliable by then.
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I never would have guess on my own that the feeling was actually because my heart had stopped. I was sure it was beating really fast. The thing that convinced me is that she felt it happen and I didn't have to tell her anything. She knew right then that I would have experienced that feeling.
They (the doctor and the nurse) didn't act all that surprised. It seemed like they probably see it quite a bit. I'm just guessing though by how they just treated it like routine.
During my first year of college, I drank a lot of caffeine, mostly from Mt. Dew. I was drinking probably 6 or 7 12oz cans a day.
During the 2nd half of the year I started noticing that about once a day for 2 to 3 seconds my whole body (and especially my heart) would feel like I was running in super hyper mode. It felt like everything in my body was just running super fast. I didn't know what to think of it, but it only happened once a day for a couple of seconds so like an idiot I just didn't worry about it.
Over the next couple of weeks the incidents started becoming more and more frequent until I was having one of these 2-3 second super-hyper feeling spurts once every 10-15 minutes. At this point I got scared and headed straight for the local night clinic.
When I got there they took my pulse, blood pressure, etc and hooked me up to the EKG thing and had me just hang out there and lay around for 20 minutes or so. As bad luck would have it, I didn't have a single occurrence of the weirdness while I was hooked up. After a while, they unhooked me and were getting ready to send me home, but the nurse decided to go ahead and check my pulse and blood pressure one more time.
While she was checking my pulse, I had one of the weird speed up feelings. I didn't even have to tell her. As soon as it happened she looked up at me and said "It just happened, didn't it!" and I was like "Yes, how did you know?!?! What did you feel?!?!". She had actually felt my heart skip an entire beat while she was taking my pulse!
The doctor came back in and when she gave him this new information he said "Do you drink a lot of caffeine?" I didn't even know what was considered a lot or which drinks had a lot, so I was like "I drink a lot of mountain dew, I think those have caffeine". When he asked me how many and I told him 6 or 7 a day he told me that was my problem. The feeling I had been having was kind of an adrenaline rush where the rest of my body was trying to get my heart started back up again.
I immediately stopped drinking caffeine and it took about 2 weeks for the problem to completely go away. It tapered off at about the same rate it had built up in the first place.
At the time this happened I was in really good shape. It had been less than a year since I was a 2 sport athlete in high school and my fitness level was still pretty high.
So, caffeine may not have negative effects on everyone, but I'm pretty sure I could have killed myself on it if I had kept drinking it at the rate I had been.
Exactly. Things that aren't unnatural because they are made by humans. I look at them as by-products of human life. It's not unnatural when a beaver builds a dam in a creek, why should it be unnatural if we build/do things with the ingredients available?
and a catchy name too. It really rolls right off of your tongue about like a sawblade. ;)
I would think that if we're there, then we are part of their natural evolution, not disrupting it. There is nothing unnatural about humans. One might even argue there is nothing unnatural in the universe.
...actually read the article!
Well heck, I left off the required [sarcasm] tag and instead of getting my much deserved funny or insightful moderation, I'm left with troll and flamebait.
Maybe I should have added "I'll probably get modded down for this but..."
Good, it worked. The cool thing that '$' looks so much like 'S' that it doesn't look stand out or look stupid in writing, so people won't even notice why they suddenly think Linu$ is a greedy money grubber!
Every piece of email I get is sent to that address, just not by a person. The mail is forwarded to that address and if one of my forwarding addresses gets out of hand with spam I can just delete it. If it wasn't a real address I wouldn't get any email.
People are sending mail to my real address, they just don't know it.
Your phone analogy is would work if you had a different phone number that you gave to every person you knew and each of them forwarded the call to your home phone. If one of them started soliciting you or gave out your number then you turn off that 1 number and you still get all of the calls that everyone else is placing to any one of your other numbers.
Well, I'm not sure about them rejecting your messages. I can't say that I've ever been on a mailing list that gave me a problem with this. I think I've been on two mailing lists since I started using sneakemail and didn't have this problem with either.
As far as your real email being visible in a web archive, I don't even send email with my real address in the Reply To. I have a sneakemail address set up labeled Reply To and anyone that replies to one of my emails gets filtered through that. As far as I know, there are 3 people/groups that know my real email address: me, my isp, and sneakemail.
Sneakemail and teach her to never give out her real email address to anyone. Just set up a new sneakemail address for whoever needs her address and give them that one. I have been using this for about 6 months since I got a new email address, and I still get no spam at all.
The thing that really makes it cool for me is every email you get is forwarded to your real address through sneakemail, but sneakemail puts a label on it that you enter for each address you create. So, if you start getting spam from a certain address, just got to sneakemail and delete it.
Heck, my mom doesn't even know my real address anymore.
What a way to spend the holidays. I don't think I could stand the excitement...
I know what you mean. Even if he didn't know that exact command, he could have written a program to just pipe random character strings through cmd.exe and hope he turned off the service before he formatted his c: drive.
You just can't help someone if they aren't willing to help themselves.
I've never understood these type of questions. Do you really want the person to be able to tell you that answer? Is "I don't know, but it would take me a couple of minutes looking through the config file or the help file to find out" an acceptable answer? Is it really that important to you for your employees to have memorized these things?
I'm just curious and maybe that's not how you intended the question. But, I will say that I'm a programmer and most of my co-workers think I have a great memory, but I would make no attempt to remember something like that when I can have the answer in about 2 minutes if I need it. Now, if I happen to remember it just because it sticks with me, that's another thing. But it isn't something I would try to remember.
The word inferior is subjective, so the idea that mp3 is an inferior copy is an opinion and anyone is free to disagree. One may find mp3 to be superior because there is no noticeable difference in quality while there is a huge savings in space.
It is all subjective.
I think that's what I was trying to say above before I ran out of stack space :)
You must be some kind of terrorist or something.
I agree, any state being "fixed" is unacceptable. I was just arguing for arguments sake. I'm not convinced that the election in Florida was really fixed, but then again, I haven't read much about it since the election so I don't really know what I think about it.
The point I would make is that, if Florida alone being fixed was enough to elect Bush, then we (the people in general) probably didn't really want either one of them to be in office. I know when I voted I intended for whoever won the election to only be in office for 4 years.
For a while in college I was double majoring in CS and Business Education and once in a while in one of the Bus Ed classes I'd be asked to teach 1 class since I had more technical knowlege than the professor or most of the rest of the students. I would teach about different technologies and how they could be used for educational purposes, in a classroom, etc.
Anyway, one day I was teaching about the internet, search engines, etc and I was browsing around on the web in front of class with the display going through a projector onto the wall. I meant to go to the whitehouse web page, but I accidentally typed whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov. This was before I knew what whitehouse.com was (and how I learned what it was). Imagine my surprise!
I'd say the 6 foot tall porn was probably the only thing most of the class remembered about that little lesson. Amazingly enough, I was still asked to teach similar classes after that incident.
Man, I hadn't even thought of that. That would be cool, but probably really expensive.
Assuming that what you are saying is true, is Florida the only state that gets to vote for president?
I'm not sure exactly how many of mine are missing -- I can never remember how many teeth normal people are supposed to have. I know that on the top I actually have 5 of my adult teeth (they are now used as anchors for a big bridge) and on the bottom I'm missing 3 of my adult teeth, but the "baby" ones are still there in those spots.
I'm 25 now and I've had the bridge since I was like 16 or 17.
My dentist recently told me that I can probably only get 5-10 more years out of this bridge before it will have to be replaced. I'm hoping implants will be easy (relatively) and reliable by then.
Seriously, I have some weird genetic thing that kept me from having a lot of my teeth. I'm pretty sure what I have is the same as this.
Kinda weird when you get a half-set of false teeth at age 16.
It's a good thing it wasn't the size of an NT bug
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