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[Dunamisdeos]

In the episode "Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean", Mr. Bean runs out of Twiglets at his New Year's Eve party and substitutes real twigs coated with Marmite.

Sounds delicious!

[TamerVirus]

If MONOgraph was a singular research paper, why isn't POLYgraph multiple research papers but instead something totally different?

[wierd]

Because the quacks that thought a fancy galvanic skin response machine was a great way to measure deception got there first?

[KittyTac]

I'm mostly going to use the printer for helping with Arduino builds. There's only so much you can do with cardboard as a casing.

[wierd]

Trust me, you will appreciate the durability of the nylon, over the brittleness of the ABS, and the thermal softening of the PLA. (PLA softens in hot water!! HOT WATER! While arduinos dont get terribly hot, if they are put in outdoor or enclosed spaces, they can reach the deformation temperatures.)

[Trekkin]

Because the quacks that thought a fancy galvanic skin response machine was a great way to measure deception got there first?

They weren't quacks exactly. Marston was careful to point out that his device fell short of being an objective measure of deceptive intent, and Keeler -- who added the galvanic component -- wasn't selling a magic truth meter either. He intended it to be used more like an occaisionally informative prop with which to con information out of people, in which purpose it still serves. It's just that the methods used at the time were closer to torture, so the public leapt at the idea that somewhere in Keeler's version of Marston's machine was a scientific version of an oracle, and law enforcement capitalized on that.

So less a case of quackery and more of people repeatedly hearing what they wanted to hear.

[hector13]

People tend to do that with science.

There’s an xkcd for that.

[wierd]

Because the quacks that thought a fancy galvanic skin response machine was a great way to measure deception got there first?

They weren't quacks exactly. Marston was careful to point out that his device fell short of being an objective measure of deceptive intent, and Keeler -- who added the galvanic component -- wasn't selling a magic truth meter either. He intended it to be used more like an occaisionally informative prop with which to con information out of people, in which purpose it still serves. It's just that the methods used at the time were closer to torture, so the public leapt at the idea that somewhere in Keeler's version of Marston's machine was a scientific version of an oracle, and law enforcement capitalized on that.

So less a case of quackery and more of people repeatedly hearing what they wanted to hear.

Huh.  The more you know.

[Grim Portent]

Went to the zoo today, saw a leucistic penguin, a cute baby lemur, some otters who got amazed by a butterfly, a big fat axolotl and a bunch of other cute stuff.

[Flying Dice]

WERNING

[wierd]

So, I tried something a little unorthodox today.

I made some kettle corn style popcorn-- No biggie there; I usually use avocado oil for its reasonably less deadly for you, and high heat resistance properties, and if you get the cold pressed kind, it doesnt taste bad.

But, I added some sesame seed oil, and the seasoned the stuff with ground cumin and black pepper along with the salt. 

Not quite "chili" flavor, but not that bad actually.

[Hanslanda]

*Hans briefly glows*
You have leveled up!
*Hans distributes one additional point to Strength*

I can do 35 pushups with relative ease, 40 with some struggle, and potentially up to ~70 or so in two minutes. Also my body fat is melting away like Termagants under Vulcan Mega Bolter fire. More than 3 minute planks continue to stay out of reach but I got to 315 today before the protests of my body overtook me.

[TD1]

One minute planks is where I'm at, but I time them and break off at one minute on the dot, so I guess I haven't tried pushing it.

If I may ask, what's your daily exercise routine?

[Hanslanda]

I was doing 300 pushups a day in ten sets of 30, approximately 30 minutes to an hour and a half apart, plus 5 planks, one three minutes the rest 2, about 2 hours apart. I did that 4-5 times a week and ran 1.2 miles 2-4 times. That's all the same but I'm doing 5 more pushups each time for 350 a day.

[TD1]

So no weights or anything?