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  • Huffing – Canned Air (reprint)

    (I still see regular hits in the stats on this) I probably get a hit a day to my blog from people searching for information on “tetrafluoroethane huffing”. I don’t know if these are concerned parents or experimenters looking for instructions on how to do it safely. THERE IS NO SAFE WAY!

    Live healthy, eat healthy and you will have natural buzzes that beat anything a substance can give you!

    My original post from April appears in the box below.

    I had a question about my “canned air” reference. This is neat stuff. The chemical composition is 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (at least in the Fellowes brand that I buy). It’s a chemical under pressure that is typically used to blow dust out of computers. If you turn it upside down the chemical will spray out in liquid form and can freeze ants or be used to remove bubble gum stuck to something.

    I found it interesting that when I bought this at Walmart I had to have an “age verification” which severely slowed me down at the self-serve checkout. This forum discusses the “blackouts” and “paralysis” caused by huffing canned air. Would You Know If Your Child Was “Huffing”? (scroll down to see article. Note 1999 publish date.)

        

  • Traffic Crashes

    Bubba Down! Bubba Down!

    Pundit Down! Pundit Down!

    Where am I supposed to follow this ‘lectshun?!

  • Quote of the Day

    A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

    – — Thomas A. Kempis

  • I did my duty!

    In my attempt to save democracy, I have voted for John Kerry!

  • Early Retirement

    You may or probably may not have noticed that I finally placed my Google Adsense banner on my blog. Now I’m planning for my retirement! I must thank you kind souls. Yesterday I made 10 cents!!

  • Candidate info

    Candidate Info by the (biased) Knoxville News Sentinel. (see Bug Me Not for login.)

  • Election Results

    Knox County Election Results (5 minute refresh)

  • Election Day

    A New Day!

    Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

    This Morning

    GO VOTE!

    ( and preferrably for Kerry )

  • From the Mouths of Babes

    Dad: “Amy, want your hot dog?”

    Amy: “No, I’m building!”

    later-

    Amy: “Hey Dad! I’m building!”

  • Legs of Fire

    Ok. My bod is recovering from the juggling last night for the most part. The pain is now mostly in my thighs.

  • Shhh

    I have a secret.

  • Quit or go the next level?

    I commented to my wife that last night was the first time I ever felt the Rola Bola in my knees. She recommended that perhaps it is time for my old self to retire that trick. I instead want to try some of these tricks!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: How did I get into this predicament?

    Master: You reap what you sow.

  • Juggling at Truck or Treat

    This Morning

    I juggled for roughly 2.5 hours straight at the church‘s Trunk or Treat event last night. There were significantly few cars than last year. I could not judge the number of people because I had spot lights on me most of the evening. Today my arms feel like rubber, my back is telling me I should be streatching regularly, and my gluts don’t hurt as much as they did last night and are actually probably better off for the event. We had one casuality during the show I asked for an adult volunteer and accidentally ended up with a child. This is for the routine I juggle knives over the person (actually, I juggle rubber chickens over them after convincing them it will be knives and blindfolding them). Since it was a child I turned the microphone off and forewarned her of what was to come (sometimes I have to do that for the adults too). She relaxed and enjoyed herself until she left the stage and fell on the stairs onto her hip. I was mortified! But she was ok.

    The torches always draw a huge crowd. This performance I actually burned myself! A rarity. I was being stupid and as the volunteer held the torches, me standing on a rola bola (a board atop a pvc pipe), I lit the two torches closest to me then reached through the flames to light the third. It was a stunt that no one in the audience could follow and only endangered myself. Schtupid!

    I would like to do more practices and more performances. Come on lottery!

  • An eyeful a day keeps the doctor away


    My stats are showing many searches for the “Jonathan Hayter” article which declared “staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health.” So I followed the original link to the newspaper clipping and sure enough the image is gone. Well, having the foresight and the ability to recognise this as a cute Photoshop job, I saved a copy of the “article” for prosperity and now that it has disappeared from its source, I re-present it to you! Posted by Hello