Recent content by svi

Nine and a half. .. oh.

2nd rev Model M here.

25mg pills, right? That's 100/125mg or so... well, if that much hits you that hard, be really, really happy you didn't take any more. At higher doses, diphenhydramine can induce paranoia, mild psychosis of a sort, open-eye hallucinations. It's a good idea to follow the FDA's maximum dosage...

Try swallowing with soda. The sugar and carbonation desensitize your throat to the pill for a little while, plus it seems to float better. I had that problem, myself... learned how to start taking pills with soda, made it relatively easy to move on to water.

Sorry if you already answered this, but do you have a productive (wet) or a non-productive (dry) cough? That is, are you coughing anything (mucus) out of your throat, or is it just general dry coughing? I'm guessing it's a non-productive cough, but it can't hurt to ask.

I guess a wireless keyboard would be nice if your desk was actually joined with a wall in back of it or something? Or maybe if you like to use your keyboard on your bed. I've never had any use for them myself, but I'm sure some people have reasons beyond thinking wireless > wired in general...

To repeat what others have said: surround sound headphones are gimmicks. When the drivers are directly on your ears, so long as the headphones are constructed correctly, you only need two drivers to simulate full surround. The full explanation for this requires an intermediate-level knowledge of...

Tough call. I'd say Navy for air and sea, Marines for ground, Army for ground that I deal with personally (no offense to the any ex- or current USMC on this forum, 90% of Marines just give me this "I'm going to eat your face" vibe). Chair Force... nah, I prefer FedEx.

Gemesis and Apollo Diamond stuff == sort of gem quality. I've read that you can't tell the difference with pure visual inspection (I mean visual, not just unaided eye) if they're formed properly. Obviously, there are still chemical differences, and there are other ways to tell the real thing...

First I drink about a liter of water, that solves it about half, two thirds of the time. The other times, I'm genuinely sick, and what I take depends on how sick I am. I usually take aspirin, simply because generic aspirin is extremely cheap and seems to be very effective in my case. If I'm...

You are right about that ionizers are more than an order of magnitude better than "acceptable", but regarding thunderstorms, the government's regulations on what constitutes acceptable deal with 24/7 ozone inhalation. Twice the 24/7 limit for a few minutes is considered perfectly acceptable...

According to Sharper Image, the Ionic Breeze is not an ozone generator. They are close enough to correct. I'm talking about items that are actually meant to generate ozone, sometimes sold / referred to as ionizers (in the same sense that voltage depression is called the memory effect; wrong, but...

It's higher than that in air, actually, especially at relatively low concentrations (equilibrium point and all, and there's a little that will produce small amounts of ozone in the average computer room). And anyway, that seems like a lot of trouble to do something that can be done cheaper, less...

Ozone does break down (/damage/alter/destroy, whatever you want to call it) most organic molecules, yes. Unfortunately, you and your lungs are made of organic molecules, which is why ozone is classified as poisonous. Also, ozone smells like ozone. All in all: bad idea. How about a box of...

I _love_ Panera. I can't actually recall buying anything there-- no one's ever given me a gift certificate there, and if I'm going to have a fancypants fruit drink there will be triple sec involved-- but I have rummaged through their trash on several occasions, and their excess (ostensibly...