fygjam

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

Unfortunately no happy hour price on my 60B SangSom Sodas. Guess the boss wants guys like me subsidizing the CC beer drinkers.

Do I see a market for a hip flask designed to look like a mobile phone?

^^^

Ballsy!

1 hour ago, Phantom51red said:

Extra tabs including allopurinol to take to work with me ,30bht a strip,the other smaller tabs were 15 bht cheaper a strip than hua hin,just goes to show,same tablet different pharmacy, bought small vit c tabs for 10bht,saves me going to hua hin pharmacy later.

I pay about 190 baht for 200x100mg allopurinol tabs if that makes you feel any better.

Remember, allopurinol is a long term preventative measure not a "my hand hurts, I'll take a tablet" headache type treatment.

For foot gout, in Oz the recommended daily dose is 300mg. But one should work up to that. 100mg per day for the first month, 200mg per day for the second month then 300mg per day. Too large a dose initially can actually promote a flare.

Good luck.

^^^

Not until I know where the hot dog sausage is.

Roni Stoneman - 22/02/2024

7 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

 

I was wondering if you ever wash your hands.....   lol

Happy?

25 minutes ago, Phantom51red said:

Isn't trigger finger a form of gout or arthritis? some would suggest it is online,if mine don't straight up I might look into steroid injection s,but I'll try these new tabs first and maybe allopurinol later.

Trigger finger (stenosing tenosynovitis) is related to the tendons, gout is related to the joints so not the same.

https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/trigger-finger/

I have a trigger finger, if I make a fist and then relax my hand it can sometimes look like this.

One finger remains curled up. (My hand is cleaner and I trim my nails). I can straighten it by pushing my fingers out/up like a Thai dancer.

It doesn't hurt.

42 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

So, Amazing Thailand!

There is a drought on here (no this isn't about Sonkran!) and the village water supply has dried up so we are getting a new hole drilled, 55ft downpipe, filter and pump installed.

Because the situation is widespread we have had to wait a week for the drilling truck to be available. As it has started to work nearer, I took the opportunity to monitor the process. They seemed to be scanning the required area before successfully drilling down..

...They arrived here about an hour ago to start scanning the 2 rai of land. Firstly it was the standard gift and praying to the spirits with jossticks and seesip degree ... but then they brought out the technical gear to start scanning ......Yep! You are ahead of me on this one, and you are right ...Two fucking water divining twigs!!

I came inside when M'Lady joined in with the chanting ..

Just saw this Delhi plane spotting channel on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sLX0UnJmt0

They stopped streaming just after I took the screen grab so it's now a recording. Conditions look even better at the beginning of the vid.

^^^

This might also interest you.

54 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

Perhaps someone can teach me something new today. In the article below Rebecca Ferguson has the following quote.

What does the saying "I’m going to work towards a tennis ball" mean?

Rebecca Ferguson praised by former costars for speaking out against ‘idiot’ castmate

“I looked at this person and I said: ‘You can eff off. I’m going to work towards a tennis ball,’” she recalled, apparently referring to the practice of acting against a tennis ball in scenes that will later have computer graphics added.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/rebecca-ferguson-slams-idiot-celeb-235430881.html?guccounter=1

Yesterday, Shazam! Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg tweeted a fun behind the scenes image from his upcoming film. It was of a unicorn-like stuffy head, complete with a tennis ball covering the pointy end of the unicorn’s horn.

While it may have been placed there for (obvious) safety reasons, tennis balls are actually quite a common sight on film sets, often for more than just protecting actor and crew members from sharp pieces of kit. Tennis balls regularly serve as ‘stand-ins’ for the eyelines of creatures of characters which might be added in later in CG by a visual effects studio. Plus, tennis balls have, over the years, played an important role in acting as tracking markers around interior and exterior sets.

https://beforesandafters.com/2023/03/04/meet-the-true-unsung-hero-of-visual-effects-the-tennis-ball/#:~:text=Tennis balls regularly serve as,around interior and exterior sets.

Now I learnt something today as well.

On 2/27/2024 at 10:51 PM, lazarus said:

Here kitty kitty kitty...

. . .

 

The question still remains.

Why was the panther on its way to Phanoen Thung?

^^^

China announced that they are developing their own version of the Patriot missile system.

They have the transporter.

Now for the control unit.

15 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

You mean Tim the Enchanter ..

Not bad but I do like lightening bolts.

^^^

I would have preferred one of those lightening bolts he allegedly hurls from on high. Or a Storm Shadow.

Do you have HRV?

What is HRV?

Can you get HRV with a side of fries?

Heart rate variability. In simple terms, if you heart beats with the precision of a Swiss watch say one beat every 1000ms (1 second) then you would have a heart rate (HR) of 60 BPM but no HRV. If, on the other hand, the interval between beats was slightly erratic say 950ms, 1050ms, 900ms, 1100ms then you would also have a HR of 60 BPM but with HRV.

If there is no underlying disease or cause then a high HRV is good. HRV can be considered an indication of overall fitness.

HRV reduces naturally with age.

Over training can reduce HRV.

There is an app, ithlete - https://www.myithlete.com/, that some people use to plan their training days. In my younger days I used it all the time. For some reason I always found it necessary to restrict myself to a light workout due to a low HRV, well I thought it was low.

Polar HR monitors calculate a thing called fitness based on HRV.

HRV is measured when you are at rest. Polar, for example, suggest you wear your chest strap and device when you sleep to get the best reading.

Any device/app combination that communicate over BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) should be able to calculate HRV because the protocol for BLE HRMs requires they supply the heart rate interval in binary milliseconds (1024ths of a second).Devices which use photoplethysmography are not considered as accurate as those which detect the heart beat electrically. e.g. chest strap.

Why did I make this post. Wel I thought it might be of interest and then @Yessongs posted a photo of his oximeter and I remembered the oximeter I got during the pandemic also displayed HRV. This one

It is unbranded but the model is YWK-J1 and available from a number of sellers on Aliexpress so shop around if interested. The app is called Oximeter-H. PI stands for perfusion index.

There's plenty of information on the internet about HRV so do your own research.

And yes, photoplethysmography is a real word.

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple optical technique used to detect volumetric changes in blood in peripheral circulation.

It's the little green LED that flashed on the underside of wrist fitness devices etc.

Swimmer refuses to leave the water complaining that the helicopter with siren blaring is disturbing his swim.

4 metre Great White shark as seen from helicopter.

1 minute ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

And here is me thinking that PIO stands for Penis Induced Orgasms and somebody was in the rear galley giving the stewardess a good seeing to !!

If it were a female pilot then pilot induced oscillations may be correct. Otherwise

Pilot-induced oscillations (PIOs), as defined by MIL-HDBK-1797A,[1] are sustained or uncontrollable oscillations resulting from efforts of the pilot to control the aircraft. They occur when the pilot of an aircraft inadvertently commands an often increasing series of corrections in opposite directions, each an attempt to cover the aircraft's reaction to the previous input with an overcorrection in the opposite direction. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot-induced_oscillation

1 hour ago, boydeste said:

That's got to be horrendous for the passengers. Thought the pilot did a good job controlling that.

Actually I think it might have been pilot error albeit due to difficult conditions.

That video is 11 hours long with aircraft landing every 2-3 minutes and that was the worst landing that I saw although there were a number of other go arounds. No, I haven't seen all 11 hours.

They were sent away for about 40 minutes. You can see the second attempt at 6:54:13.

I am not a pilot!

13 hours ago, fygjam said:

A three bounce touch and go.

 

Keep your seatbelt fastened until the aircraft comes to a complete stop.

Video positioned for the three bounce landing, bit of PIO there.

7 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

I know a former member who is flying in at 5 pm from Barcelona, be interesting to hear if his flight lands ok.

If you have his email you could always send him the link so he can watch 2 hours of landings before it's his turn.

Another go around. They're having a hard job getting the aircraft to stick to the ground.