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I'm proud of the fact that I can keep time to music with my left foot and maintain my car's speed with my right foot.

I'm proud of the fact that I liked Nutella before it was cool. *hipster glasses*
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Beagle wrote:I'm proud of the fact that I can keep time to music with my left foot and maintain my car's speed with my right foot.
I play the entire drum set with my hands and feet in my car, also using the left foot for bass. Getting good exercise with my left foot should help me learn to play metal better. *giggles*
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Beagle wrote:I'm proud of the fact that I can keep time to music with my left foot and maintain my car's speed with my right foot.
I play the entire drum set with my hands and feet in my car, also using the left foot for bass. Getting good exercise with my left foot should help me learn to play metal better. *giggles*
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I found a 1.8 billion year-old chunk of metamorphosed banded iron formation in a mid-Michigan farmer's field. There's so much iron in it that a magnet sticks to it. It's super neat, with its stripes of nearly pure iron ore and it's layers of chert that are folded onto each other. The shape of this rock looks like a cow heart including the artery on top. Thus, I've nicknamed it "heart of stone".
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I want to see pictures. Did it oxidize at all?
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About five - 6 inches across, weighing in at about eight pounds. One dense rock!
The iron is held in a matrix of either hematite (FE3O4) or Magnetite (FE2O3) interspersed with layers of silia-rich chert.
Because the iron is already bonded with oxygen, it doesn't rust. The rock will however turn reddish if you handle it, especially on the cherty layers so I suppose that there are some unbound iron molecules floating about. This heart of stone has been heated and faulted, cracked, and pressed together then heated some more. It's been metamorphosed sometime in the ancient past while the north american continent was being stitched together out of separate microcontinents. I have an even prettier bit of BIF, with a totally different story of violence in it's past: Something came along and tore it up while still soft: Maybe even the tsunami caused by the Sudbury meteorite.
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tychoaussie wrote:I found a 1.8 billion year-old chunk of metamorphosed banded iron formation in a mid-Michigan farmer's field. There's so much iron in it that a magnet sticks to it. It's super neat, with its stripes of nearly pure iron ore and it's layers of chert that are folded onto each other. The shape of this rock looks like a cow heart including the artery on top. Thus, I've nicknamed it "heart of stone".
Maybe it's a frozen ball of airplane waste like from the movie Joe Dirt!?

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I got $300 worth of Steam games for $85. $36 of that $85 was Skyrim: Legendary Edition. I got 15 games and tons of DLCs, yeeeeeeeeeeah!

I'll post my list in the video game thread. X3
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I'm proud that I can beat all of my friends at Dance Central 3

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Trivial things I'm proud about?
Why, me, of course!

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I'm proud of the fact that I got the highscore on Robotron: 2084 :3
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This is just silly, but I'm proud to have at least gotten Rick to do a spit take ~ even though clearly I should be paying attention.

I'm also proud to have an 30 minute hourglass at home.
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I'm a proud owner of a small foldable chabudai with a Zabuton and a straw mat to go with it.
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I'm proud that I can beat my friends in a 3 person free-for-all in SSBB, but I can't beat them 1v1.
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I'm proud that I finished Dark Souls. Although seeing some of the insane challenge runs people have done (no healing, no armor, level 1 runs etc.) makes me feel a bit less proud. I can still rub it in my brother's face though!
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SkyeCaptain wrote:I'm proud that I finished Dark Souls. Although seeing some of the insane challenge runs people have done (no healing, no armor, level 1 runs etc.) makes me feel a bit less proud. I can still rub it in my brother's face though!

That game was a pain in the butt. When I beat it the first time, I went right out and got rid of it. To stressful for my liking.
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Tatsuo wrote:
SkyeCaptain wrote:I'm proud that I finished Dark Souls. Although seeing some of the insane challenge runs people have done (no healing, no armor, level 1 runs etc.) makes me feel a bit less proud. I can still rub it in my brother's face though!

That game was a pain in the butt. When I beat it the first time, I went right out and got rid of it. To stressful for my liking.
Go Skyrim cough cough.
Yeah I can see that. There are a lot of things I like about Dark Souls but it's too frustrating and punishing to really lose yourself in like Skyrim.

Another thing I'm proud of is that I drank 9 cups of tea in one day. I'm Irish, I'm allowed to.
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Nature must have called a lot that day :lol:
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I'm proud I placed in a Competitive REL Magic tournament for the first time tonight. :3
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I am proud that I can get good deals when I go shopping. Really good deals.
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I am proud at consistently getting really cheap airline tickets (local and international).
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I have drank 100 coffees straight. Sadly I did not reach a stage of enlightenment, but ran around screaming for a few hours.
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Is 100 an exaggeration? I think you're gonna get some form of intoxication from that many cups of coffee. XD
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I'm pretty sure it is. Otherwise that would literally be fatal.
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Well, it depends. Different people have different threshold levels of caffeine tolerance. My mum drunk 3 big jugs of coffee each day in her 20's, but I can't drink more than 1 mug of black joe at one time before I get antsy and irritated.
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Sleet has a biomedical engineering degree and better understanding of toxicology than anyone else without equivalent education or experience. There is a threshhold at which caffeine, or any substance, becomes fatal. Lethal coffee dose, for an average adult, is approximately 80 cups (about 150mg/kg body mass).
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Dissension wrote:Sleet has a biomedical engineering degree and better understanding of toxicology than anyone else without equivalent education or experience. There is a threshhold at which caffeine, or any substance, becomes fatal. Lethal coffee dose, for an average adult, is approximately 80 cups (about 150mg/kg body mass).

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Dissension wrote:Sleet has a biomedical engineering degree and better understanding of toxicology than anyone else without equivalent education or experience. There is a threshhold at which caffeine, or any substance, becomes fatal. Lethal coffee dose, for an average adult, is approximately 80 cups (about 150mg/kg body mass).
Well, I can only quote from experience and some basic knowledge that I have around me. That's a lot of trouble just to get yourself fatally intoxicated by coffee xD
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"Intoxication" probably isn't the word for it. Unless it's Irish coffee. :P

Then again it'd take a lot less of that to kill you.
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Wouldn't it actually be more of water intoxication rather than caffeine?
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You'd die from caffeine before you died from water I think.
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You may find this handy dandy calculator useful for determining the quantity of caffeinated beverages it would take to terminate an individual.

If anything, those cups of coffee were decaffeinated. There also exists the possibility of complete universal slowdown as demonstrated by Fry in Futurama.
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I have a complete chess set composed of the Asterix comic strip characters (32 different plastoy figures). Picked it up in Strasbourg long ago.
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That after nearly a decade of being a jobless loser I finally have a job.
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I'm proud of myself for learning Japanese all by myself
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I have the first issue of not only Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog (#0 of the Limited Series, and also #1 of the Regular Series), as well as Furrlough #1.
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I am able to memorize a ton of family trees from soap operas which can get nearly-incestuous but not quite. I like being able to point out that so and so is somebody's first cousin and half-sister. :mrgreen:
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Amazee Dayzee wrote: Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:05 pm I am able to memorize a ton of family trees from soap operas which can get nearly-incestuous but not quite. I like being able to point out that so and so is somebody's first cousin and half-sister. :mrgreen:
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