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I haven't had any serious amount of caffeine in a good long time now. So today I figure since I'm spending the rest of the evening here at home with a few DVDs and the internet and my musical gear, keeping to myself, I went and bought two 20oz. bottles of Mountain Dew LiveWire (orange ignited!) and I'm halfway through number two already. I am looking forward to seeing what happens to me (I am already making lots more typographical errors than usual but I think I've caught and edited all of them good lord this is taking forever to type or at least it feels like it)

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

I think the most I've ever tried to do is simply stay awake a full evening to the dawn. There was the whole bottle of wine the one time, that's about it. I'm not very depraved.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

hahahahahaha hhahahahaahaha holy shit I'm a fidgety ass motherfucker right now OMG

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

If someone came up to me right now and tried to tell me a story and took too long to get to the point I'd fuckin' kill 'em hahahahahahahaha

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

There was a story, of a man named Millar!

(the end)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Enjoy the shaky hands, the nausea and the total inability to sleep!

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

I had to do an experiment in my room at uni which involved taking measurements of humidlity and temoerature over 24 hours. I'm sure i described it on ilx sometime before - have to do a search and link to it. I drank a lot of coffee to keep myself awake but don't recall any ill effects - but hey, I was 20 and a great deal more resilient...if I tried to do the same now I'd prolly end up a jibbering wreck.

measuring a drink in ounces rather than a liquid measure like ml or pints sounds like utter mentalism.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 23 August 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

20 fl oz = 1.25pt = 591mL

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

This has the potential to be the greatest thread ever. I'm keeping an eye on.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

1.25 US pints: 1.04 UK pints.

< /irritating dick >

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

jason statham isn't really a very interesting badass

He was better in Snatch

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, Mark C...a man who knows when to use entities and when to use angle brackets!

yes, there are various theories as to why the US pint is smaller, including that some of the "standard pint" which the Pilgrim Fathers took over on the Mayflower had spilt or evaporatedd by the time they landed at "the other Plymouth". My favourite however, is that one of the sailors mistook it as drinking water, and when discovered was made to walk the plank as a result!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

oh look the tough guy is very nice to the random girl he just found in his trunk

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, but with UK pints you can't say "A pint's a pound the world around."

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

But but surely you can't say that anyway because the British pint *does* exist whether you like it or not!

Also, it = more beer. How can that be a bad thing?

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

the odd thing is I don't appear to have mentioned my experiment on here before! But the device I used to take the readings was called an Assman psychrometer, and i ran a search on assman and lo and behold it brought up lots of hits! Look:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/searchresults.php?board=1&mode=messages&q=assman&titlepart=&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all.

...could Mr Perry be responsible for some of these? Hmmmmm....

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'm going to be grinding my teeth all night

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

this bad guy is a ridiculous fop

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

I bet he listens to really awful music

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

silver suitcase in being a bomb SHOCKA

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

I was right they do listen to shit music!!

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

I am v. disappointed in the effects of this caffeine, I expected a much stronger reaction

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

you want to experiment on yourself?
take a job as a film production assistant.
(file under physical arduousness, sleep deprivation, mental cruelty)

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

(file under physical arduousness, sleep deprivation, mental cruelty)

I already went to Basic Training and the Defense Language Institute

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

man this movie is just crazy with the bad foreign accents

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

Basic Training = all capitalised = classic! It's an institution.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

ned, you went to grad school and you only pulled one all-nighter?

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

Tad, trust me -- my very essence of doing schoolwork was to have it all done the day before something was due precisely so I could have a good night's sleep.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Ned is a fine, upstanding, responsible young man, Tad!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

i should've followed yer lead ... i think that i can count on my one hand the number of post-grad exams i took after a good night's sleep (yes, that includes the new york bar exam!).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

i.e., nothing is so much fun as driving back from Albany, NY after being sure you flunked aforementioned exam, not having had any sleep for 30 hours, and having to wake up in time to take the rest of the exam the very next morning in secaucus, new jersey!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

The movie is The Transporter! What do I win?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

whatever re me and my shitty post-grad sleeping/test-taking habits. as always, i am in awe of ned and his raggett-edness!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

Aw.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

The Transporter is not averse to punching dudes repeatedly in the genitals when necessary! I like him!

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

or sucking the air out of a dead man's lungs! WTF

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

I am sure mark c is right because it sounds so authoritative, but I always thought 20 fl oz was exactly one British pint.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

Today was horseshit.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

Id rank more beers than in a while, it's still not a loot of beers but it's a lot for me.

― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 24 August 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

Stupid tough guys! What about on the Audioslave video where they keep driving the cops off the road. Come on, they're just trying to do their job.

― m.s (m .s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link

Most of my self-imposed experiments involve pharmaceuticals in varying doses.
And rubber porky pig masks.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 24 August 2003 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

Th website I just checked agrees with you, N. So what is the 591 ml measure you see every so often? It can't be random,, can it? Maybe it is to a UK pint what a guinea is to a pound sterling.

I am laughing at how they make spoons smaller in th US. It seems 1 US teaspoon = 5/6 of a UK teaspoon. Crazy.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 24 August 2003 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

I was watching cycling on telly once and they were drinking lots of water so I was wondering how much the human body could contain at once, so I drank nearly 3 pints in one go (less than a couple of minutes) and wanted to throw up.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

OK side effect besides the immediate twitching = I am still awake. What in the jesus.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

This seems v. wrong.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

There's like a dozen web sites out there demanding the sale of Mountain Dew in Germany, wtf. I fear the day my mentalist I-can-sleep-when-I'm-dead flatmate gets her hands on this stuff.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

You've broken the barrier, man. You will never sleep again.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 24 August 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

haha at some point I slept. I just don't know when. And if this fucking Macintosh keeps opening Control Panels every time I mistype an Fkey there's going to be serious BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

This thread

1. Kind of makes me miss my iBook. It's still here, though. I just don't use it.

2. Makes me really miss when I was just Millar, and not required to assume some variety of character when posting. A pressure which is entirely self-inflicted but nonetheless suffocating at times. Hello policital/US foreign policy especially threads.

3. Makes me wonder what Mountain Dew LiveWire would taste like mixed with rum.

4. Do you think that if I drank that I could do P2P filesharing with my brain alone? It seems possible.

5. Spinktor is even skinnier than when I met him, these days.

6. Fuck off with the pint talk! I miss London. (I miss Bermuda more)

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought for sure this thread would be about self-trepanation.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

P2P filesharing with my brain alone? It seems possible.

came across this today:

"Another exciting development has been the use of 100-electrode array implants in paralyzed human subjects. Work by John Donoghue at Brown University and at Cyberkinetics in Foxborough, Mass., has been using this implant as a neural prosthesis, enabling subjects to command a computer by merely thinking about the desired effect."

http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/6/6/18/1

article with couple of example pictures discussing current advances in
high-throughput neuron data capture and how this is driving interdisciplinary
work

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i used to have a skin tag on my neck, i tied some thread around it and pulled the knot tight. three days later the skin tag dried up and fell off.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i once tried to go on very little sleep for a few days to see whatd happen. eventually i kind of lost the groggy sort of tiredness and started hallucinating a little. nothing serious, just things looking odd and like what they werent.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought for sure this thread would be about self-trepanation.

There was this guy whose name I could never remember who would always be at the bar or at parties and always wanted to talk about trepanation. He was really interested in it, his eyes would gleam. It was weird, I'd just be standing there talking to someone or getting another beer, and then this guy would be there, talking about drilling holes in his head. I don't think he ever did it, but I don't know, I never actually knew who he was.

My greatest experiment on myself was when I was 4 and very thirsty and I decided to find out if fire extinguishers had water in them like the fire hoses in my picture books, so I put the nozzle in my mouth and pulled the lever.

They don't have water in them.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Yow, I made the mistake of squirting an extinguisher into my hand when I was a kid. I can't imagine how much that would burn in your mouth.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a skin tag on my nut sac once. it's gone now.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The skin tag is gone. Nut sac remains.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you for clarifying that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

So how did you remove the tag? I bet freezing it off with the dry ice stuff from the fire extinguisher would have worked.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

And it would have put out the fire in your pants.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I have skin tags all over my neck :( Apparently it means I'm getting old.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The time I was using my parents' bed as a car, using the headboard at the steering console/dash, but I had real keys, but I put them into the fake ignition, which was the electrical outlet, and which also constitutes self-experimentation, I guess. Only time in my life, I think, that I shat my pants involuntarily.

Clear/scotch tape to contort my face - still a favorite! Esp. when I pull my eyes EXTRA slanty and rig the pig nose and I STARR TARKING RIKE DISS - "OHHH AIYAAAA PHYSICS CREW OWN YUUUUU!" What, are people going to call me a racist? Haha I do not believe so, kemo sabe. I also enjoy doing Nay-Nay from In Living Color, except even SLUTTIER. "OH HUNGRY? OH NAY NAY."

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

"Only time in my life, I think, that I shat my pants involuntarily."

So all those other times were intentional?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link

few years back at university, friend of mine would take small doses of ketamine every week in a laboratory as a favour to his psychology and physiology student friends conducting some experiment.

he thought it was definitely classic.

― barbarianuser, Friday, 26 August 2005 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always enjoyed wrapping my head in cling film.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link

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