wow... major bonus points for actually being a fun rock cover of the song, too.

you're lucky, Roofles. It seems to vary a lot from person to person.

One thing that gets me about these things is they do have useful, good effects, but the random horrible side effects make them rather questionable.

Oh... one thing I just remembered, for the physics buffs around here: paxil apparently has the problem of being a disappearing polymorph, where the introduction of the hemihydrate form converted all of the older anhydrous forms, Ice-9 style.

The scientist in me worries about what other permanent changes happened to the brain (or other things) from these drugs. Kindof like how mad cow/CJD catalyzes a protein to convert out of a an astable-minimum. That would be a rather new and frightening idea in drug research/use...

I've had most every drug around, and SSRIs take the cake.

Kicking heroin, nicotine, alcohol, benzos (valium)... they can be pretty bad, but even the horribly taboo heroin is just a "really bad flu" for a while.

SSRIs gave me the worst headaches, messed up vision and balance, all kinds of bad stress and mental mess... they are by far the worst withdrawl I've ever had.

But... they are considered "non-addictive" because they don't touch dopamine. What idiocy.

Oh... anybody stopping SSRIs should switch to prosac - the 9.4 day halflife makes for a MUCH smoother withdrawl.

down with idiotically over-compressed music!

Of course, most "artists" don't seem to understand this thing call dynamics in your music anyway...

ahh yes, the movie that is a study in the color "orange".

It was fairly well done, though, if you like post-apocalyptic sci-fi.

Yay, it made it!

Ooo... thanks James Roe!

I'll have to see if it needs to be adapted when 3.0 shows up... that would save a bunch of work. ;

This is easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. You'll need to brush up on your quantum physics to really understand it... specifically pair production and virtual particles.

Also, beyond the amazing feat of doing it all for $7k, he apparently shot only 80min of footage (the movie is 78min long!).

The website has an interesting forum for after you've seen it, with lots of discussion and interpretation, which produced this massive spoiler which makes a great reference card for later viewings. It's a detailed study of one of the better interpretations of the movie. Do watch the movie first, though, as the spoiler really gives a lot away.

wow... all in hammer-ons

Because it used footage from the best scenes in the movie, a paraphrase:

There was madness in any direction, at any hour...
You could strike sparks anywhere.
There was a fantastic universal sense
that whatever we were doing was right,
that we were winning.

And that, I think, was the handle
that sense of inevitable victory
over the forces of Old and Evil
Not in any mean or military sense;
we didn’t need that.
Our energy would simply prevail.

So now, less than five years later,
you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West,
and with the right kind of eyes
you can almost see the high-water mark
that place where the wave finally broke
and rolled back.

for some strange reason that reminded me of the "bouncing" scene from Delicatessen... not exactly sure why...

always upvote for Carl Stalling's music!

ah... Yoko Kanno's best music...

She was great in Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell TV, etc... but Escaflowne, with her conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic still gets to me every time I hear it.

By the time you get about 2/3 of the way through the series, with war and other tragedy arriving, the music keeps hammering the pain of it all home.

/waaah - now I need to go watch it again... ;_;

actually... drinking it wouldn't be that much of a problem. I (STRONGLY) wouldn't recommend it, but it will basically go right through you. It doesn't get absorbed by the intestines/etc.

(which, by the way, is why it's dangerous - it doesn't really go the other way either, so you're stuck with it if you get it in your lungs/blood/etc)

The vapor is much more dangerous, as it doesn't really have anywhere good to go from your lungs. That infinitesimal amounts, though, and not relevant unless you breath it all the time. (and as Anti_Climax said, ventilation will do a lot)

Now... mercuric nitrate... that's scary stuff. That compound is the stuff that was used in hatting, and probably the source of most of the "mercury is horribly dangerous" theories.

I believe it doesn't work for hydrogen as "compressed hydrogen" is really hard to keep around - it leaks out the bottle. Most of the hydrogen transportation techs that were long-range were based on binding the hydrogen in something that would keep it in the container...

You know... like binding a bunch of hydrogens to a convenient chain of carbons as a transport medium, say about 8 carbons long... (haha)