You can take 800 mg of ibuprofen every 6-8 hours. I don't recommend doing it for weeks and months, but in the first few days after an injury? Do it. Drugs help your body out, yo.

That juxtaposed with this:

Ooh, yeah, add a handful at the last minute so it's stays nice and bright green, just a splash of color and flavor. Or grated carrots, that would be pretty.

Has me crying with laughter.

Heh. Ibuprofen likes carrots?

I was doing a little whiplash reading those.

But, yeah, in the Army it was standard for the docs to prescribe 800mg 3x a day with meals for things like tendonitis.

I found the empty box of motrin that I bought a couple weeks ago, but can't find the motrin, grrr. Gonna dig under the bed to pull out the old barely used bottle of some barbiturate I was prescribed for inflammatory tendonitis in my neck for the night. Oh, but I know so well about being so far into pain that I've lost the window for painkillers to be effective (hi, cramps!).

Adjusted the crutches so they don't bother me (had to read up on proper usage of them and discovered the nurse had adjusted them wrong. Apparently I shouldn't rest my weight on my armpits! Never knew that).

Okay, I'll shut up about my freaking booboo after this, but I just have to share the weird phenomenon that, while watching TV or reading, I keep expecting the characters to be hobbled, more so with the book I'm reading. I keep being surprised that they are able to do what they're doing, you know, like, "shouldn't they ask for help for that? the writer's cheating, there's no way they could do that task for so long without needing to sit down! How can Harry be throwing kicks on a bum leg?" and then have to actually remind myself that the character isn't injured. It's really strange.

Tom Hiddleston. I think I just melted.

He is just too much. ridic crush on that one.

Who gave him permission to read sex poetry? That seems an oversight.

Map projections never fail to blow my mind [link] I expect that's one of the many reasons I'm so bad at explaining them.

Wow. That is mind-blowing. Perspective is so useful!

I don't understand why that's surprising. Do people generally think Africa is not that big?

Do people generally think Africa is not that big?

That's what the commentary on the map itself says, but ignoring that, if you look at a Peters projection, would you think you could fit all that in the Dark Continent?

What percentage of people do you think understand why there are different projections in the first place, much less grasp the limitations of any given one? What input are they getting that would tell them the information in the surface area-alone comparison? I doubt many people are doing the math in their free time.