The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Mar 27, 2011 11:19:30 am PDT #546 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I haven't ever noticed much lag time on my camera (a Lumix DMC-FZ7). It's not just a little party camera though, its primary feature is a 12X optical zoom, as these have historically tended to be my targets:

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Now, of course, it's this:

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Either way, I imagine I'd have some trouble with any significant lag time too.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 27, 2011 11:28:16 am PDT #547 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is there some reason a pharmacy would make pill capsules with an extremely bitter outer coating? I've run into pills that were bitter before, but this is the first time I recall taking capsules that had a strong taste in the brief second before I can wash them down with water.


Anne W. - Mar 27, 2011 11:29:47 am PDT #548 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I've had that happen recently with some of my generics, Matt.


Jesse - Mar 27, 2011 11:31:26 am PDT #549 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You might as well empty them out and not take the capsule part, no?


Juliebird - Mar 27, 2011 11:31:56 am PDT #550 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Yeah, I always figured that the brand names charged you five dollars more for the candy-coating.


Holli - Mar 27, 2011 12:29:18 pm PDT #551 of 30001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

Seconding billytea's vote for the Lumix-- I have a DMC-FZ18, and it's very fast and takes great pictures.


§ ita § - Mar 27, 2011 12:31:03 pm PDT #552 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You might as well empty them out and not take the capsule part, no?

Wouldn't that affect the rate of delivery? It's factored in how the capsule lining dissolves when the drug is dissipating into your system.

I am having basic colour theory problems. Can someone not color-tone-blind (as in, nothing clinical, I just don't *get* it) help me with the basics of choosing highlight and shadow colours? I can fake it, but actual artists look at my choices with disdain.

I'm willing to crib off the colour wheel for the rest of my life, if I can just work out exactly where to go.


Jesse - Mar 27, 2011 12:31:50 pm PDT #553 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't know, but my grandmother grinds all of her pills and empties out the capsules. I don't know if the prescriptions take that into account.


Hil R. - Mar 27, 2011 12:34:54 pm PDT #554 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

When I was a teenager, I couldn't swallow pills, and there was one medicine that I needed to take that only came in pill form, so my mom would crush it and mix it into some apple sauce for me. The doctor said that was fine -- I think that it's OK as long as the bottle doesn't say "Do not crush" or "Take whole" or something like that.


§ ita § - Mar 27, 2011 12:48:23 pm PDT #555 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Steph knows the answer. I figure if there's a difference between binders, etc, between generics and name brand, the binding/delivery mechanism can actually be deliberate and important, and by circumventing that, you might be messing with something.

Capsules seem like text book "take whole" meds to me.