Random Thought Thread

Been looking at tunnel bags for my sled because I am sick of carrying a 60 lb back pack every time. Phoockkkk that, $200-$300 for arctic cat tunnel bags??!!

Went to Harbor Freight and got this for $60, and it matches my sled!!!! Eff yeah!
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Murphjd25 said:
Been looking at tunnel bags for my sled because I am sick of carrying a 60 lb back pack every time. Phoockkkk that, $200-$300 for arctic cat tunnel bags??!!

Went to Harbor Freight and got this for $60, and it matches my sled!!!! Eff yeah!
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And those are pretty nice!

I have the smaller one for some of my knives!
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Is it better to take your chances with heart disease from the calcium from Tums? Or risk your kidneys with the sodium from sodium bicarbonate?
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My professional opinion is probably not worth what you paid for it, but: (warning: TMI, TLDR)

1: Calcium carbonate
2: If it happens a lot:
a: get tested for H. pylori, get treated if you have it
b: in the mean time omeprazole or esomeprazole.
c: you can still use CaCO3
3: if it happens a lot and it ain't H. pylori, talk to a GI about getting a camera run down there to make sure its not stomach cancer or barret's esophagus
z: sorta related, get screened for colon cancer at the same time if you can (they use a different camera at the high class places). I see too much of it and I've lost friends to it. Some of them younger than 'screening age'.
4: losing 10 pounds can make a huge difference. Unless it doesn't. Then maybe 20 pounds. Its physics.
5: lava pumpkins. choose your own destiny.
6: if its horrible and all the time and treating H. pylori doesn't fix it, and it ain't cancer, think about a Nissen fundiplication (wrap job). Last resort. Mixed results.
7: indenting with leading spaces in the forum is apparently a no-go
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Here's my random thought for the day

Apparently, there are more ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms in this galaxy.

So, even though it's physically possible to shuffle a deck of cards twice and get the same order, statistically speaking it's essentially impossible that there has ever been two decks of cards shuffled in the same order.

This is a great example of something that is physically possible but will never happen. Not in a million billion years.

I wonder if the odds of developing intelligent life capable of leaving a planet are similar odds?

I've always assumed there's other intelligent life in the galaxy.

But maybe that was a bad assumption?
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This is always a fun tangent to the intelligent life train of thought:

en.m.wikipedia.org

Fermi paradox - Wikipedia

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fnordmorph said:
My professional opinion is probably not worth what you paid for it, but: (warning: TMI, TLDR)

1: Calcium carbonate
2: If it happens a lot:
a: get tested for H. pylori, get treated if you have it
b: in the mean time omeprazole or esomeprazole.
c: you can still use CaCO3
3: if it happens a lot and it ain't H. pylori, talk to a GI about getting a camera run down there to make sure its not stomach cancer or barret's esophagus
z: sorta related, get screened for colon cancer at the same time if you can (they use a different camera at the high class places). I see too much of it and I've lost friends to it. Some of them younger than 'screening age'.
4: losing 10 pounds can make a huge difference. Unless it doesn't. Then maybe 20 pounds. Its physics.
5: lava pumpkins. choose your own destiny.
6: if its horrible and all the time and treating H. pylori doesn't fix it, and it ain't cancer, think about a Nissen fundiplication (wrap job). Last resort. Mixed results.
7: indenting with leading spaces in the forum is apparently a no-go
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You’re not doing TMI correctly.

Read and learn.

About ten years ago I started having a lot of gurgling in my stomach. Doctors have a fancier name for it, but it’s gurgling. Then came the urgency. Not normal urgency, this was “I’m going to shit myself right now!” urgency. So I went to the doctor and had some blood work done. “All normal” they tell me. I told my doctor, “I can assure you all is not normal.”
The frequency of “code browns” was increasing so he sent me to a GI guy. This guy does some test,including some genetic tests, and tells me I have celiac disease. I said that doesn’t seem right. What are the symptoms. He tells me he bets I get this urgency after eating pasta. I tell him no. He goes on with a few more things. None ring true. He sends me on my way.
I go back to my primary and tell him it is becoming unbearable and I have almost shit myself on a daily basis for two weeks now (this was after frequency increase). He sends me over to the lab where I have to liquid shit in a bucket and then dump the liquid into a bunch of little test tubes.
Literally anybody could look at the contents of those test tubes and their first thought would be “something’s wrong with the owner of those contents”.
No medical background necessary.
A week later the results come back. All normal.
I worked everyday. This went on for months. Had blood work done two more times. All normal.
About four to five months in, I have finally got an asscam lined up for Friday morning. I wouldn’t normally be excited for this type of procedure but I kind of was. Desperate for an answer and all.
I had blood work done again early that week. By this time, I have been losing weight steadily, my gums are receding, my hair is falling out faster than normal and I’m tired all the time (malnourished). Wednesday evening that week I started running a low grade temp. Thursday evening I actually left work early for the first time in about a decade of time at that company. I was running 103 degree temp and taking both Tylenol and advil trying to get the fever to break, to no avail. Next morning I get the asscam done. Finally a diagnosis!
My primary calls me as I’m leaving the GI’s office. He’s a little frantic sounding as he asks me where I am. I told him leaving the GI’s. He asks if I have a diagnosis. I tell him yes and ask “Why?”.
He got my blood work back and my white count was 24K. He said he would normally be checking me into the hospital but since I had a diagnosis and prescription to just get the meds started and get some rest.
It was C. Diff, or clostridium difficile.
I nearly shit myself to death.
It wasn’t fun.

I blame my work environment combined with the z-pack I took earlier that year. My work environment was nursing homes. You get C. Diff. fecal to oral.

That’s how you TMI.
 
Cap’n Smudge said:
You’re not doing TMI correctly.

Read and learn.

About ten years ago I started having a lot of gurgling in my stomach. Doctors have a fancier name for it, but it’s gurgling. Then came the urgency. Not normal urgency, this was “I’m going to shit myself right now!” urgency. So I went to the doctor and had some blood work done. “All normal” they tell me. I told my doctor, “I can assure you all is not normal.”
The frequency of “code browns” was increasing so he sent me to a GI guy. This guy does some test,including some genetic tests, and tells me I have celiac disease. I said that doesn’t seem right. What are the symptoms. He tells me he bets I get this urgency after eating pasta. I tell him no. He goes on with a few more things. None ring true. He sends me on my way.
I go back to my primary and tell him it is becoming unbearable and I have almost shit myself on a daily basis for two weeks now (this was after frequency increase). He sends me over to the lab where I have to liquid shit in a bucket and then dump the liquid into a bunch of little test tubes.
Literally anybody could look at the contents of those test tubes and their first thought would be “something’s wrong with the owner of those contents”.
No medical background necessary.
A week later the results come back. All normal.
I worked everyday. This went on for months. Had blood work done two more times. All normal.
About four to five months in, I have finally got an asscam lined up for Friday morning. I wouldn’t normally be excited for this type of procedure but I kind of was. Desperate for an answer and all.
I had blood work done again early that week. By this time, I have been losing weight steadily, my gums are receding, my hair is falling out faster than normal and I’m tired all the time (malnourished). Wednesday evening that week I started running a low grade temp. Thursday evening I actually left work early for the first time in about a decade of time at that company. I was running 103 degree temp and taking both Tylenol and advil trying to get the fever to break, to no avail. Next morning I get the asscam done. Finally a diagnosis!
My primary calls me as I’m leaving the GI’s office. He’s a little frantic sounding as he asks me where I am. I told him leaving the GI’s. He asks if I have a diagnosis. I tell him yes and ask “Why?”.
He got my blood work back and my white count was 24K. He said he would normally be checking me into the hospital but since I had a diagnosis and prescription to just get the meds started and get some rest.
It was C. Diff, or clostridium difficile.
I nearly shit myself to death.
It wasn’t fun.

I blame my work environment combined with the z-pack I took earlier that year. My work environment was nursing homes. You get C. Diff. fecal to oral.

That’s how you TMI.
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Crazy!! I guess this is why my doctor said "I don't just hand out z-packs, it'll kill you one day".

Your story isn't entirely believable... you said you "almost" shit yourself...
 
Richard338 said:
Crazy!! I guess this is why my doctor said "I don't just hand out z-packs, it'll kill you one day".

Your story isn't entirely believable... you said you "almost" shit yourself...
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That’s because I only eat once a day. After work.
And at the time, we were remodeling vacant resident rooms. So there was a bathroom in my work space. The silver lining I guess.
 
beeinak said:
Looks great but I am jealous that you can have water bottles not freeze/rupture. I have to use thermoses🤣.
Serious question- how cold is it where you ride? I use soft luggage because plastic has snapped on me when about -15. I hate riding when it is below zero.
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I just put the water bottles in there for a picture. I can only take water bottles with me in the spring. It’s usually 0 to 30 degrees where I ride in the winter.
 
Murphjd25 said:
I just put the water bottles in there for a picture. I can only take water bottles with me in the spring. It’s usually 0 to 30 degrees where I ride in the winter.
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Orange is cool for machines. This was towards the beginning of the trail to my cabin a few years ago. Frigging branches and trees down everywhere after an ice storm. It took over 6 hrs to go the last few miles. Was nice at the cabin! I have 11” skins and a 20”x156” track and pull a Northern Sledworks 10’ sled with too much stuff, but going solo I never know what I might need.
I hope you have a good riding season.
 
beeinak said:
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Orange is cool for machines. This was towards the beginning of the trail to my cabin a few years ago. Frigging branches and trees down everywhere after an ice storm. It took over 6 hrs to go the last few miles. Was nice at the cabin! I have 11” skins and a 20”x156” track and pull a Northern Sledworks 10’ sled with too much stuff, but going solo I never know what I might need.
I hope you have a good riding season.
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Looks fun! I have a buddy that lives in Healy that has been trying to get me to come up and go riding for years. I need to make it happen sometime.

The mountains where I usually ride are supposed to get about a foot between tomorrow and Thursday. First snow of the season! I hope I can get out by thanksgiving this year. They are calling for a good snow year.
 
Murphjd25 said:
Looks fun! I have a buddy that lives in Healy that has been trying to get me to come up and go riding for years. I need to make it happen sometime.

The mountains where I usually ride are supposed to get about a foot between tomorrow and Thursday. First snow of the season! I hope I can get out by thanksgiving this year. They are calling for a good snow year.
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We have had strange winters the last few years with crazy warming followed by extreme cold and causing lots of ice layers which animals and sleds have a hard time with.
 
beeinak said:
Looks great but I am jealous that you can have water bottles not freeze/rupture. I have to use thermoses🤣.
Serious question- how cold is it where you ride? I use soft luggage because plastic has snapped on me when about -15. I hate riding when it is below zero.
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That’s odd. Have you ever tested different brands?

Back when I used to leave a box of bottled water in the Yukon 24/7/365 (rotating), I tested them first by sticking them in the freezer. I found that most brands tolerated freezing just fine, even some of the cheap ones, as long as the base of the bottle had a good sized… indent?

When it froze solid, that indent would pop out, creating enough volume to not crack/rupture the bottle(s) (although they wouldn’t be able to stand on a flat surface any longer).

Oh, and seeing a bottle of water flash freeze in your hand, because your grip made the plastic crackle, is pretty cool. Not so much fun, when you realize it WAS water 3 seconds ago, and now you can’t drink the solid block of ice 😅

***I was much more careful with grabbing the next bottle and twisting the cap off, and it stayed liquid, but yes, it was REALLY cold.
 
bluemax_1 said:
That’s odd. Have you ever tested different brands?

Back when I used to leave a box of bottled water in the Yukon 24/7/365 (rotating), I tested them first by sticking them in the freezer. I found that most brands tolerated freezing just fine, even some of the cheap ones, as long as the base of the bottle had a good sized… indent?

When it froze solid, that indent would pop out, creating enough volume to not crack/rupture the bottle(s) (although they wouldn’t be able to stand on a flat surface any longer).

Oh, and seeing a bottle of water flash freeze in your hand, because your grip made the plastic crackle, is pretty cool. Not so much fun, when you realize it WAS water 3 seconds ago, and now you can’t drink the solid block of ice 😅

***I was much more careful with grabbing the next bottle and twisting the cap off, and it stayed liquid, but yes, it was REALLY cold.
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My favorite bottled water is the generic Costco brand. I have had them pop the tops off in winter. My comment to Murph was more about the water being liquid🤣. Plastic totes get pretty brittle and I prefer the rubbermaid ones after lifting another brand out of my sled and having the handles pop right out.

I should never complain about the cold though. The photos and stories I get from an Elder up in Utqiagvik are like another world.
 
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