Comments on: My two alien implants http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Red October http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4983 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:27:40 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4983 Jonadab, a buddy of mine argues the same way about Flouride in the water. I'm against it on principle; I don't buy the conspiracy (indeed, if nothing's wrong then the quantity should be of little concern) but I find it offensive that the water bureau or government wants to make my health decisions, and puts crap in the water that I only have to pay money for a machine to remove because I'd rather drink pure water than water Enhanced For My Own Safety. That said, the water quality is so poor in my town that it causes all sorts of other health problems (I live near Iron Horse Park, 'though I'm not sure the two are related), so I'd still by the filter, but it's principle. If I want medicine, I'll take it. The government shouldn't be putting it in my water because it wants me to have it. Jonadab, a buddy of mine argues the same way about Flouride in the water. I'm against it on principle; I don't buy the conspiracy (indeed, if nothing's wrong then the quantity should be of little concern) but I find it offensive that the water bureau or government wants to make my health decisions, and puts crap in the water that I only have to pay money for a machine to remove because I'd rather drink pure water than water Enhanced For My Own Safety. That said, the water quality is so poor in my town that it causes all sorts of other health problems (I live near Iron Horse Park, 'though I'm not sure the two are related), so I'd still by the filter, but it's principle. If I want medicine, I'll take it. The government shouldn't be putting it in my water because it wants me to have it.

]]> by: fleacircus http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4980 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:21:18 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4980 My body seems to just be a collection of foreign objects vaguely resembling the rest of you so I shall comment upon the bunk aspect of this post. A quote from (I think) Michael Shermer: I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it myself. My body seems to just be a collection of foreign objects vaguely resembling the rest of you so I shall comment upon the bunk aspect of this post.

A quote from (I think) Michael Shermer: I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it myself.

]]> by: Jonadab http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4979 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:15:27 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4979 Oh, you thought all the tooth fairy does is find teeth under kids' pillows and trade coins for them? Well, what do you think she DOES with all those little teeth, huh? Can you tell me that? Well, according to MY sources, she surgically implants them in people's jaws while they sleep... Ahem. Speaking of the Evil Fluoride Conspiracy, Grrrr. In 1990, when I was in tenth grade, we moved for the first time in my life to a city that doesn't have fluoridated water. Some influential people in the community are against it, because fluoride is poisonous. When we moved here, I'd never had a cavity in my life. Never took very careful care of my teeth, and never had a cavity either. Two years later, I had my first one. Then another... these days I have one just about every year. I took up brushing daily, but it didn't stem the tide of cavities. Now I'm experimenting with floss and fluoride mouth rinses, but a part of me screams out, "I shouldn't have to MESS with this if Galion could just join the civilized would!" (Another part of me knows that there are probably other factors as well, e.g., I drink significantly more hot tea now than I did as a child, so the lack of fluoridated water is almost certainly not the whole cause. But still, it annoys me.) Oh, you thought all the tooth fairy does is find teeth under kids' pillows and trade coins for them? Well, what do you think she DOES with all those little teeth, huh? Can you tell me that? Well, according to MY sources, she surgically implants them in people's jaws while they sleep...

Ahem.

Speaking of the Evil Fluoride Conspiracy, Grrrr. In 1990, when I was in tenth grade, we moved for the first time in my life to a city that doesn't have fluoridated water. Some influential people in the community are against it, because fluoride is poisonous. When we moved here, I'd never had a cavity in my life. Never took very careful care of my teeth, and never had a cavity either. Two years later, I had my first one. Then another... these days I have one just about every year. I took up brushing daily, but it didn't stem the tide of cavities. Now I'm experimenting with floss and fluoride mouth rinses, but a part of me screams out, "I shouldn't have to MESS with this if Galion could just join the civilized would!" (Another part of me knows that there are probably other factors as well, e.g., I drink significantly more hot tea now than I did as a child, so the lack of fluoridated water is almost certainly not the whole cause. But still, it annoys me.)

]]> by: Maxn http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4976 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:07:00 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4976 I found a small tick on the white of my eye at 3am one morning. Yes, I could have gone back to bed and gone to the doctor later in the day. But I had an old pair of tweezers and wasn't keen on waiting with a parasitic creature on my eyeball. It came out first go and all in one piece. I have never been so happy that we get so may ticks here that I've became a master extractor. I found a small tick on the white of my eye at 3am one morning.
Yes, I could have gone back to bed and gone to the doctor later in the day. But I had an old pair of tweezers and wasn't keen on waiting with a parasitic creature on my eyeball.

It came out first go and all in one piece. I have never been so happy that we get so may ticks here that I've became a master extractor.

]]> by: Kagato http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4975 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:10:15 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4975 Well played, sir. Well played. Well played, sir. Well played.

]]> by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4967 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:11:15 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4967 You sir, are evil. Funny as hell, but evil nonetheless. Luckily for you we (your loyal readers) seem to like that quality in people. You sir, are evil. Funny as hell, but evil nonetheless. Luckily for you we (your loyal readers) seem to like that quality in people.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4953 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:04:42 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4953 So anyway, to use an ice-pick leucotome, you first stun the patient with an electric shock, then pull the upper eyelid away from the eyeball and poke the leucotome up past the front of the eyeball to the top of the orbit. The eyeball will be significantly squashed by the steel shaft of the tool, but should suffer no permanent damage unless you accidentally poke the sharp point into it. You'll need to sort of wiggle the tool around up there to make sure the point is at the top of the orbital vault, then you tap the bottom of the leucotome with a hammer to break through the bone and drive the shaft up into the brain. You probably want to insert it about four centimetres into the brain before you sweep it from side to side to chop off the thalamofrontal region, then push it in another three centimetres and sweep again, to cut the blood supply to more of the frontal lobe. It's a bit like <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2034328_slice-banana-peeled.html">that trick</a> where you use a needle to slice a banana while it's still inside its skin. Any questions? So anyway, to use an ice-pick leucotome, you first stun the patient with an electric shock, then pull the upper eyelid away from the eyeball and poke the leucotome up past the front of the eyeball to the top of the orbit. The eyeball will be significantly squashed by the steel shaft of the tool, but should suffer no permanent damage unless you accidentally poke the sharp point into it. You'll need to sort of wiggle the tool around up there to make sure the point is at the top of the orbital vault, then you tap the bottom of the leucotome with a hammer to break through the bone and drive the shaft up into the brain. You probably want to insert it about four centimetres into the brain before you sweep it from side to side to chop off the thalamofrontal region, then push it in another three centimetres and sweep again, to cut the blood supply to more of the frontal lobe.

It's a bit like that trick where you use a needle to slice a banana while it's still inside its skin.

Any questions?

]]> by: Kagato http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4951 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:12:10 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4951 Again with the metal shards shooting out of people's eyeballs! Ugh, damnit Dan, cut that out! The comments on this post are also pretty squicky, but at least none of them have anything to do with foreign objects in the eyes. No, I don't think I'll be checking back, in case someone takes that as a challenge. Again with the metal shards shooting out of people's eyeballs! Ugh, damnit Dan, cut that out!

The comments on this post are also pretty squicky, but at least none of them have anything to do with foreign objects in the eyes.

No, I don't think I'll be checking back, in case someone takes that as a challenge.

]]> by: Red October http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4950 Sun, 31 May 2009 12:55:35 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4950 Wow... many years ago when I was about 14 or 15 I think I had some discomfort in my teeth... there was an object, definitely, I could feel it, and it was indeed not there before. Removal by tweezer (it was stuck fast) revealed a woody sliver perhaps 1/2 an inch long. My father asked if I had been chewing on broomsticks! It was truly odd as it didn't fit the profile of anything I had been eating recently. I still have some weird teeth (I have all my teeth and take similarly paranoid care of them, helped by the fact that I can't stand the feeling of unbrushed teeth), but the resulting closeness of the teeth renders me unable to floss to any degree without shredding the floss. A friend of mine (A skilled mechanic and a HazMat tech) once remedied an ingrown toenail with a pair of pliers and a pair of diagonal cutters... I wonder, is it those amongst us who are apt to ignore "No user servicable parts inside" notices who are also willing to take our own tools to our own bodies when they trouble us as well? Wow... many years ago when I was about 14 or 15 I think I had some discomfort in my teeth... there was an object, definitely, I could feel it, and it was indeed not there before. Removal by tweezer (it was stuck fast) revealed a woody sliver perhaps 1/2 an inch long. My father asked if I had been chewing on broomsticks! It was truly odd as it didn't fit the profile of anything I had been eating recently. I still have some weird teeth (I have all my teeth and take similarly paranoid care of them, helped by the fact that I can't stand the feeling of unbrushed teeth), but the resulting closeness of the teeth renders me unable to floss to any degree without shredding the floss.

A friend of mine (A skilled mechanic and a HazMat tech) once remedied an ingrown toenail with a pair of pliers and a pair of diagonal cutters... I wonder, is it those amongst us who are apt to ignore "No user servicable parts inside" notices who are also willing to take our own tools to our own bodies when they trouble us as well?

]]> by: Thuli http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4949 Sun, 31 May 2009 11:28:58 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/30/my-two-alien-implants/#comment-4949 I have a 2cm diameter cyst lurking somewhere in my sinuses, haven't gotten around to following up on that one... And I (accidentally), injected myself in the knee with a pencil lead as a child, still there 20 years later I have a 2cm diameter cyst lurking somewhere in my sinuses, haven't gotten around to following up on that one...
And I (accidentally), injected myself in the knee with a pencil lead as a child, still there 20 years later

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