Raves

[creaky fossil]

mountains
the pull of gravity
proper headset adjustment
good music
chewy red wine
fresh baguette
figs
PB&J
coffee
orange juice
water
the feeling of oneness with your bike/skis/kayak/whatever
solid ski boot fit
fresh legs

[Steven S. Dallas]

Barium
Eating pizza
New shoes
Gastropods
Hide and go seek
Airplanes
Zebra skin trousers
Ice

[Buster Highmen]

The countdown to snow: I'm hoping for things to start rolling within the month.

[mall walker]

A knowledgeable bartender

QFT. For my money Portland, ME has the best bartenders (and waiters/waitresses) of anywhere I've ever been. Missing them sorely out here in SLC, Land of Terrible Service™

[hortence]

An inside-out flick on the sideline that your guy catches in the end zone as he sprints like mad.

Learning how to sail.

Researching a possible circumvention.

[Plainview]

This is not what I was expecting.

[Peruvian]

Ooonce a ooonce a ooonce a ooonce

[hortence]

This is not what I was expecting.

Tripping ballz on the playa!
Trapped in the porta-potty as your first candy-flip is coming on!
Pacifiers!
Furry chaps!
Wacky mu-muus!
Accidental incineration!
Playa lung!
A pyramid of poo!
Sparkle ponies!

[Buster Highmen]

Strawberries with white chocolate grated on top, nuked in the mwave, served with just a dab of an older, maderized cheap sauternes....mmmmmm...fall is such a good time to gourmandosize

[Meadow Skipper]

Homemade beef and barley soup and a fire in the fireplace when it's cold outside.

[KQ]

New boots! Gawd I love Zappos - shop online moments ago, will be here within 24 hrs!

[NoPostholio]

^^^^that's styling
I rave about the knee high boots on the ladies in all forms -

[Plainview]

Thread sidetrack: I don't get buying clothes online. How do you know it's comfortable or even fits? Sending shit back that doesn't fit must be a bigger pain in the ass than just going to a store and trying things on...??? I'm especially leery of buying shoes online but then I have weird feet.

[mtngirl79]

Most include return shipping labels so it's pretty easy to send stuff back.

[Bobby Stainless]

In the hot tub while its snowing.

[KQ]

Thread sidetrack: I don't get buying clothes online. How do you know it's comfortable or even fits? Sending shit back that doesn't fit must be a bigger pain in the ass than just going to a store and trying things on...??? I'm especially leery of buying shoes online but then I have weird feet.

My feet are pretty straight forward and I'm buying brands I know PLUS reviews have gotten very detailed which helps a lot. I live in a place where my shopping options are limited. Just as easy to order online than drive and hour and a half to a Mall to see if there is anything I like.

Tops/sweaters/jackets/pullovers are no brainers when it comes to ordering online. It is esp. nice that so many manufactures are making "talls" now for people like me. Pants can be a bit dicey esp. with all this "curvy" shit that they make now due to people like the Kardashians. I'm not built like that so I have to rely on stores like Eddie Bauer who make a line of jeans they call "truly straight" or Wranglers which makes no-nonsense cowboy cut work jean. Once I find some I like it's easy to re-order.

Most include return shipping labels so it's pretty easy to send stuff back.

Yup, yup, yup - easy squeezy! Plus my UPS guy rocks!

[ak_powder_monkey]

Hodor!

[nwslider]

watching some other town get beat to shit by anarchists.

Watching Seattle vein overrun by anarchists...and Macklemore. So I guess it's ok then

[iceman]

Anarchists or Macklemore. Tough choice.

[nwslider]

Anarchists or Macklemore. Tough choice.

And not or. Both were present

[riser4]

A 45 second piss. The sweet spot. Long enough to be satisfying, short enough to not be uncomfortable. At 3 minutes it starts to hurt.

[KQ]

no way 3 minutes unless your blocked or a horse.

New Law of Urination: Mammals Take 20 Seconds to Pee

Call it the other Golden Rule: Scientists have found that all mammals weighing more than 2.2 pounds (a kilogram) empty their full bladders in about 20 seconds.

Like many new parents, David Hu, a mechanical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has changed a lot of diapers. Unlike many new parents, however, these soggy diapers caused Hu to think about the physics of urination.



“While I was changing these diapers, I was wondering how it would be different for different animals. How much fluid would they create and how long would it take to leave the body?” Hu said. (Also see “Growing Teeth and Four More Odd Uses for Urine.”)

“The physics of urination—what the forces are and how they affect how quickly urine comes out, is not totally understood, even though it’s a really old problem.”

Although it might sound silly on the surface, urination is actually serious business in the medical and veterinary worlds, especially during the aging process. Many men get enlarged prostates as they get older, which can narrow the urethra and impede urine flow. Veterinarians have been looking for a quick and easy way to identify problems with animals’ urinary tract.

Pee Cam

First, Hu wanted to know how urination varied from species to species. The bladder of a large domestic dog can hold 1.4 liters (about 0.4 of a gallon) of fluid, or roughly the amount of a large bottle of soda. An elephant’s bladder, however, can hold 160 liters of fluid, or enough to fill three large garbage cans. Hu wanted to know how this size difference affects the urinary tract and urine flow.

Enter the pee cam. Three of Hu’s graduate students at Georgia Tech used high-speed cameras to record peeing animals at Zoo Atlanta and elsewhere.

They also measured how much pee was produced by each of these animals, which ranged from rats to jaguars to elephants. The scientists supplemented their research with YouTube videos from zoo visitors. Last, the researchers obtained measurements of the animals’ bladder and urethra widths and lengths from other researchers.

Hu and colleagues suspected that bigger animals would take longer pee breaks than smaller animals, since they had to expel larger volumes of urine. But when they began determining the urination duration of each of these animal species, that wasn’t what they found.

“Even though you have thousands of times more urine, it’s coming out in the same amount of time, which is around 20 seconds,” said Hu, whose study appeared recently on the Cornell University website arXiv. (Also see “Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power.”)

Urination Law Explained

Urinary tract measurements helped to solve the mystery of how animals of such different sizes all pee for the same amount of time.

Larger animals not only had larger bladders, they also had longer and wider urethras. The length of the urethra increases the force of gravity on the urine, which in turn increases how fast pee flows out of the body.

A wider urethra also increases flow rate by increasing the volume of urine that can leave the body at the same time. These increases correlate with the increase in body mass, such that an elephant can empty its bladder in the same amount of time as a cat. (Also see “Turtles Urinate Via Their Mouths—A First.”)

Saying an elephant pees for the same amount of time as a domestic cat seems impressive enough, but it gets even more impressive when you consider just how much urine the elephant produces: several bathtubs’ worth. It’s like having 60 showerheads all going at full blast, Hu said.

For small mammals—those weighing less than 2.2 pounds (a kilogram)—Hu’s Universal Law of Urination wasn’t as accurate. Their urethras were so narrow and short that the surface tension of the urine slowed flow down to mere droplets. Their bladders were also much smaller, so a few drops could successfully empty the bladder. These animals, like rats and mice, can successfully urinate in less than a second.

Animals benefit from such relatively short pee breaks because such pit stops increase risk of predation, Hu noted. Faster urine flow may also help prevent urinary tract infections by flushing out the system.

Now I just have to fight the urge to bring a stopwatch with me into the bathroom.

[danmelon]

This past summer tho:

Weed
Cheap beer
Saturdays
Skateboarding

[KQ]

Receiving Christmas cards - so nice to get a happy note in the mail instead of junk, bills and catalogs.

[Mazderati]

Hot showers.