trapical

Right pocket: cell phone, wallet, and keys Left pocket: lock picks, 150 lumen tactical LED flashlight, and a walkie talkie connected to a secret service style headset. Belt holsters: throwing knives, night vision, backup weapon: tactical tomahawk Back pocket: passports from 6 different counties, $5,000 and ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì5,000 in cash. ... but lately I have only been using the right pocket :-s

I'm confused... how did you know what he even looks like, the whole "no RL pictures" and all :|

The smell of rain.

Jeez guys, everyone saying Google.com needs to get with the times! www.google.com/ig is the home page you need. :D It's a google's made to order personalized home page. It starts out as just the google search but then you can add like thousands of things to it. The weather, gaming news, actual news, daily comics from the newspaper, etc. Oh what the heck, I'll load a screenshot of mine: Larger, better quality picture one here: http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9126/sohi4.jpg Okay, let me walk you through it. Let's start the top center box and work our way counter clockwise: -My Gmail inbox. Shows the last 6 emails I got and I can click on it to go to my Inbox. -Stock tickers of my choosing -Quotes of the day. One of them is usually serious/inspiring and the other is amusing -'wikiHow of the day' Occasionally I'll spot a cool one like "how to throw knives" or something like that. -The two big circles are the 'Eyes' they watch follow my mouse, never looking away from it. Notice how at time of picture there looking at my black mouse near the bottom right. Pretty amusing really. -Below that is my 'Picture of the day' but it's off screen at the moment -Continuing to the right, we have my day by day countdown. Right now it's sarcastically counting down the days until summer vacation ^_^ -Above that is my pet/watchspider. His name is Boris and he helps protect my homepage. He sorta walks around in that box of his and looks up at me occasionally. He's pretty much the best pet ever ^_^ -Above him cNet news. Keeps me informed on all the nerdy computer/internet news. -Finally, in the center in a "Top News" section which constantly scans ABC/BBC/NBC/CNN/FOX/CBS/AlJazeera for news updates. At the top is the Google search engine and my current "theme". Right nows you see of the Fox wearing his cool Japanese hat and feeding ducks. That isn't a constant picture, every 15 minutes or so it changes. It's kind of hard to explain. At first you enter in your ZIP code and then the picture changes throughout the day to match the time in your area. If you just woke up the picture will show a sunrise, if it's 3am it will be dark outside, etc. It also changes with the seasons. Most importantly though is that sweet looking fox. He also changes position every 15 minutes or so and he lives out his day. Go to your computer around lunch time and the fox is eating a sandwich. Go there at 10am and he is doing his laundry. Come at night and he is lying under the stars with some fireflies... In all honesty, I can't see why anyone wouldn't use Google's homepage. I mean it has the weather, it has the news, it has the search engine... But in truth all that matters is it has a fox wearing a hat who also goes fishing at night and plays with ducks. I mean, honestly now, how can you beat that? :wink:

I find it funny how a black hole really isn't that big. I mean sure the event horizon is massive, but the actual black hole? It's smaller than the size of a proton.

Well hey... then you shall study in the shade :wink:

Oh, so we can't do panoramics, only squares?

doesn't your teacher the gas supply to the gas tap when the students aren't using it? My science teacher does... They should, but often forget to. Mine rarely did.

While you're at it why don't you tell us of the time you let a baby play with sharp knives :roll: Seriously, what was the point of that? Do you know how many people die from natural gas explosions every year? My dad lost two fingers on his left hand in 1961 when he was screwing around with explosives in college after lab had ended. The only difference here is, your stunt would have harmed others, not yourself. I can only assume your post was a lie since no one is that stupid, but even just saying you did it to try and look "cool" and be "hardcore" gives people bad ideas.

Ha, so true. I mean, it's possible with like weeks of prior planning and maps and all... but anything somewhat spur of the moment? Don't even bother trying :

Oh, the nerve of some people! :x /sarcasm

Which brings up a very interesting point. You spelled merciful wrong. Haha! Your name is a misspelling of a real word! Haha! Looser! ...oh wait -.-

nayarCelpruPyM Okay, done. I still think you're an idiot. I think he means look at it like CrayonPurpleMy. The initials are now CPM. The first result on google for CPM is College Preparatory Mathematics. Math deals with numbers, so yeah. I think that was the connection he was making. :D that, good sirs, was quite possibly the funniest string of posts I have read in quite some time, lol. I also agree on the number thing. I loathe numbers for some reason. Might have stated when my best friend had the name "[email protected]" and I had "Eevee&[email protected]" I figure, if you need to use numbers, it was kinda lame. The person who got that name first (no numbers attached) kinda deserves to have that name without other people latching on to it. That's what I though 7 years ago, so don't quote me on that. I still am pretty favorable towards original names though, trapical has stuck with me and I actually traded a green phat for a Gmail invite :oops: Granted, this was back when GMail had only been around for about a week, and invites were going for hundreds of dollars on eBay. I used that invite to make [email protected], which is by far the coolest email address I have ever used . Kinda cool too, I keep getting emails from random people saying "Dude, cool address" and I even got an email from some Florida real estate company, asking if I would sell them the account for $100. Before I could decide they sent another email saying sorry, but they called Google and found out it was illegal to do so. Anyway, so yea. I like non-number email addresses.

A Magnetar is sweet. It a neutron star that's magnetic. They can kill humans from thousands of kilometers away as all of the water would get ripped out of you. It can erase the magnetic strip on your credit card from a distance of about 200,000km... Okay, let's remember that magnetic forces get exponentially stronger as your bring them closer together... Most powerful force? I want to see someone stop two Magnetars from colliding if they were 1mm apart from each other \ I can't even fathom how powerful of a force that would be.

I have found one other person to have used my name. It's the first result if you search for trapical space: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe ... tnG=Search :x Lol, oh well. I seem to dominate the results for just "trapical". Well me and tons of sites with typos

Well jeez, now I feel obligated :wink: Ha, nice thread, brings back memories. High School was fun, I always had the tendency to challenge the system,. Not necessarily to be a rebel or whatever, but because it was a challenge. By Junior year I was inadvertently formed a type of society akin to Yale's Order of the Skull and Bones" within our high school and thus began the quest to obtain all 10 of the keys to the school. Most of them went on without a hitch but one of them turned pretty ugly. I was in gym class and we were playing kickball inside. One of the group's newer members, also in this gym class, passes by me in line and slips a key into my pocket. Apparently he took it off the teacher's key ring (which was attached to her belt) while she was yelling at some other kid. An impressive move, but stupid since she will realize it soon and know it was someone in was her class. Anyway I realized the problem so I slipped it into my shoe and was about to ask to go to the bathroom so I could hide it somewhere and get it later. Too late. The teacher looked up and started yelling "WHO TOOK MY KEY!!!" and she quarantined us in the corner of the gym, made us stand shoulder to shoulder and started making us all turn out our pockets. Thankfully, the key was in my sock so I thought we were all home free. But after the last kid turned out his pockets she yelled "Shoes off!" and then I started to worry. I had placed the key under my foot and had already thrown my shoes into the pile, the teacher was going down the line looking under the students feet and then having them bring their shoes over to her for her to look at. I was frantically running out of ideas when I looked over to the other kid that had given my the key in the first place. He signaled at me with his eyes (the place was dead silent) and then mouthed the words "on three...". He was at the very end of the line and had yet to have thrown his shoes into the pile. He had one of them in his throwing arm and was eying the steel door 50 yards away. I nodded and counted to three in my head, at which point he snapped his arm and his shoe went flying and slammed into the closed gym doors, making a tremendous noise. Everyone turned to look at the noise... except for the teacher who didn't even flinch. It didn't matter, the mass motion of 40 students turning to look at the notice allowed me to snap my foot back and the key went flying behind us, going into the area below the bleachers. The kid explained that he was aiming for the pile and missed, but the teacher still gave him a detention. After another 30 minutes of searching she was forced to call it off and we all went to out next class. I returned several hours after school ended and retrieved the key gave it to another one of the group's members who made copies, and then slid the original under the teacher's door the next morning. Yea, those were fun days. I have a story on how we got each of the 10 keys, but it would take me days to type it all. If you are interested in the product of all this hard work though, read my now famous 2005 Senior Prank tale. Just don't bump that thread, it's really old.

A condensed star is a neutron star. A neutron star has the mass of a star but is only about 10km in diameter. It resembles a single giant nucleus, it is made entirely of protons/neutron/elections. There is no wasted space, and is extremely dense. -One teaspoon of it = 1.1 trillion pounds. -You need to be going almost half the speed of light to escape it's gravitation pull -Not only are they small and dense, but they spin... fast. One observed neutron star was spinning at 1,200 rotations per second :shock: Let's recap. Sphere 10km wide, spinning 1,000+ rotations per second, near black hole gravity. I want to stand on one. \

...regrettably Genesis is actually also Royal Carribean. Now for that one, I do agree with you. 250,000 tons? More than twice the size of the QueenMary2? Lol, it's almost comical. They are going to have near full size indoor waterfall. No one has ever done that before, not even in a regular building, let alone a ship! But yea, that's too big. I doubt I would want ever want to go on it, but I would love to see what's inside someday.

I'm not one for one liner posts but I only have one thing to say: :D

Challenge accepted! To make it harder I will, only use pictures I took from my own camera! ^_^ Dining rooms: QM2 RCCL Other Parts: QM2 RCCL Beats it by far? If anything I say they are a tie. Both have crowded atrium's, both have large pools and then solarium's (the Sovereign was a small ship, but ships like Freedom/QM2 have multiple pools, many of them 'hidden' and not used all that much) But the QM2 is full of the nostalgic elderly, whereas RCCL caters to all ages groups. Seeing as though I'm a teenager, I'll stick with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Energy drinks aren't that bad people. They're better than, say, a cup of coffee or 2 cans on Mountain Dew. Speaking of caffeine, this to totally off topic by the way, it's really interesting on how it works. Caffeine in itself doesn't keep you up. Adrenaline/epinephrine does. Everyone knows adrenaline as the chemical that your body releases when you are in danger and it lets you do extraordinarily things, like run very fast or lift a heavy weight. Most people don't realize that you have it in your blood all the time, it is what keeps your muscles active and releases sugar. Adrenaline is released everytime you do anything that requires movement: running, walking, even laughing. When these muscles are used they want to get energy back so they release adrenaline to release more stored sugars that they can use. When you are in danger you're body releases a TON of the stuff all over to place and your muscles go insane with energy to burn. Anyway, back on topic, Caffeine blocks the enzymes that destroy adrenaline. You see, everytime your body releases the chemical, it needs to soon be stopped so it doesn't keep releasing energy. With caffeine many of those enzymes are stopped so you have an adrenaline boast that keeps you alert (not unlike if your life was in danger, you suddenly wouldn't be very tired. Lol.) However, you need to have adrenaline for this to work. My point is you can't just take a Mountain Dew while sitting there in class and hope that it will wake you up. In fact, you can drink 5 red bull while lying down and then fall asleep if you really wanted to. For caffeine to work you need to do something active. So remember that next time you drink an energy drink. If you want the caffeine to really kick in, you can't just sit there. Stand up, walk around, do a few push ups, whatever. Just do 15 seconds of activity and then sit back down. Trust me, it works. :

Wait... what? You're kidding right? Did you just call the Freedom ugly? :shame: Picture comparison is a must at this point: This sexy beast: Of this old old barge. Oh wait, it's the Queen Mary 2. My bad. :oops: I'v been on multiple ships from RCCL, Princess, Carnival, and Celebrity ranging from 20,000 to 140,000 tons. Its amazing that one could sink, and while it would suck to loose everything you brought with you, personally I would find it an adventure worth the trouble. No real danger of dying, it took 15 hours to sink. I mean, just get outside and you're safe. Your in the Mediterranean so the rescue ships were there in less than an hour I'm guessing. Heck, if worst comes to worst just jump in wearing your life jacket (the water is warm near Greece, unlike in the Titanic). Once in the water swim over to any of the hundreds of rescue boats that were probably there.

No problem, figure my slight medial training can be put to use somewhere :wink: Oh, and I editing my post with a few more details.

- Food poisoning? :-s Seriously doubt it, you would have had more concentrated symptoms. - Lack of sleep? Don't think so. Lack of sleep rarely causes vomiting, and while it can cause blurriness in vision it would happen to both eyes, not one, and this only happens when your at rest and fighting the urge to sleep (aka sitting in class, struggling to keep your eyes open). If you just finished gym class and were walking you would not be on the verge of sleep. Thirdly, you would know if you were that lacking of sleep. If you were so tired you had a hard time focusing on walking, you would know it. We're talking like being 36-48 hours without sleep, that kind of tired. I take it you didn't feel that tired. - On and off dizziness, blurred vision, and vomiting are textbook definitions of low blood pressure. This is further supported by the fact that you just finished gym (blood pressure is lowering after you finished the work out), and you had an energy drink (which really affects your epinephrine levels) I'm curious. How low is low? Blood pressure is measured in two number, like "120/75" Good rule of thumb: If the 2nd number (the smaller one) is higher than 90, you have high blood pressure. If the 1st number (the larger of the two) is below 90, then you have low blood pressure. :wink: These aren't the textbook definitions, but I find them to be easy to remember and quite accurate. Blood pressure levels fluctuate during the day, and vary day by day. The next time you feel kinda like you did ask the school nurse to take your blood pressure, it only take about 30 seconds and will tell you a lot more about what the problem is and how to treat it.

*EDIT* Yikes, double post! :oops: