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Start here => M.O.-Introductions => Ask Away Threads => Topic started by: Lestat on April 25, 2012, 03:17:46 PM
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Thread title says all. Ask and ye shalt receive.
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What do you do for a living? How do you afford so much junk? What led you down this path in the first place?
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Have you read Ann Rice? Her vampire series or her Sleeping Beauty series?
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Find any spring morels yet?
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Yes, I have indeed read anne rice. She is a good writer.Shame about her ending up getting infected with xtianity and starting to rub herself off using a prayer book.
As for a living, I get some money (although not nearly enough) from the govt due to disability (kneee being fucked up, and being autie...not that I would want to be any other way)...that aside, there is my lab work, and some engineering stuff. Making guitar parts, and parts for tools used to make/repair guitars on an old dinosaur of a capstan lathe. It was old when my father got it, but its still functional quite perfectly. My prescriptions I get for free due to getting the right disability benefits.
And of course, if there is legal gear I want, I have the skills necessary to do a synth myself. I'm pretty handy with a ser of glassware. I can think of few things I enjoy more than spending a quiet, chilled out day in front of a RBF with my latest project refluxing away . Maybe spending all day hiking in the woods, searching for wild mushrooms, but walking, or bending down to pick something fucking kills my hip.
Icequeen...I wish! I LOVE morels. I was lucky enough once, at my previous home, when the garden was mulched with woodchips, to have a gluttonous morel feast, when tons of Morchella elata, the black morel, sprang up all over the garden. Few things taste better than fillet or rump steak, slathered in a marinade of worchestershire sauce, hot brown devil's sauce, soy sauce, teriyaki marinade, and half a bottle each of tabasco and tabasco habanero sauce, with a morel and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) gravy (they are poisonous raw, but when heat cured and dried the toxic ibotenic acid converts to the psychotropic muscimol, an orthosteric GABAa and GABAc receptor agonist....and also lends an excellent savoury, meaty taste; what the japanese call 'umami'. Good medicine too, a tea made from cured fly agaric makes an excellent tonic, which boosts endurance, gives resistance to cold and can induce relaxation and sleep, and unlike all commercial sleeping pills, does not disrupt sleep architecture. I harvest bag after bag of the fly agaric every year from under silver birch trees in one of my favourite hiking spots in a local wood. There is a nice little glade there too, which I love to sprawl out in at the base of a tree, spark a nice juicy doob and take a nap after spending the day picking, just watching the world go by, before going to sleep for a bit.
I take it you are a fellow mycophage, icequeen? I've been picking since I was about age 4-5 or so, having taught myself what is safe, what is loaded with poison, and of course, what is good to eat. Anything I'm not sure about, I take to the lab, where I can test my pickings with various reagents, and stick some samples on a slide, then bung them under the microscope. I have a pretty damn good one; that under the oil immersion lens, can go right up to 2000x magnification. Shows up cell nuclei pretty well. Although I need to buy more stains when I get paid again, and I need to synth some chloral hydrate to prepare some more Melzer's reagent, although I'm out of potassium iodide and need more.
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I don't hunt maybe to the extent you do Lestat, but do love hunting for morels in the spring, and sheepshead (maitake) in the fall and have been going for years.
The past week was fairly good, managed to nab quite a few along with some ramps (wild leeks) for my steak. 8)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/morel.jpg)
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Never had the chance to try matsutake. Grifolia spp. are extremely rare in britain from what I hear.
If you could manage to take some sporeprints, I would love the chance to try growing some. I could take some young oaks, and try to infect them in the lab. Could always pay you a bit for some spores, if you would be willing to take some prints. Heard that they grow to a gigantic size, and interestingly, like few other mushrooms, grow from subterranean sclerotia.
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Did you go to school for any of your interests or are you self taught?
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I went to a spesh school for autie kids, two actually, the first for Kanner's kids, then the second a boarding school way away from home (had to either take a flight there a few times a term, and fly back now and then for a weekend home, or take a train, which took about 5 hours.)
I'm mostly self taught however, in mycology, botany and natural history since age 4-5, and then a little later in chemistry, toxicology, pharmacology and in my teens, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropharmacology in general.
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Are you a drug addict? :zoinks:
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Are you a drug addict? :zoinks:
The appropriate term is "junkie" :zoinks:
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Fick dich.
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are you really as much of a junkie as you pretend to be on the web? :P
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I'm not a junkie, nor do I pretend to be:P
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Why the name Lestat (I like it by the way)?
How did you get your PTSD, if you don't mind my asking?
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Do you worship the Old Ones?
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Do you worship the Old Ones?
Let me illustrate that with smilies for dramatic effect! -----> :worship: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu:
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Hmm. Maybe he finally spiked that vein with a hot dose?
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How did you get your PTSD, if you don't mind my asking?
I think this was a perfectly legitimate question that was roughly ignored. >:(
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How did you get your PTSD, if you don't mind my asking?
I think this was a perfectly legitimate question that was roughly ignored. >:(
A question about how someone got PTSD is a very personal question that some people might not want to answer.
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LOL
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He kept mentioning it so I thought I would ask about it. He could easily say he would rather not talk about it and I would be fine with that.
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From Lovecraft's works, it seems worshiping the great else ones brings nothing but trouble.
I'm bit fan of his works though:)
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Do you ever run into problems with your chemistry hobby? Here in the states it is looked at very suspiciously. I was once grilled by the police who saw some of my glassware in a cabinet at my house while they were there about my wife's stolen wallet
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They have raided many times, damaged the house etc., stolen stuff, and EVERY time they do it, they are forced after about 8 months to back off and return everything, seeing as how there is nothing explosive in the house.
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No raids here but if they did I am sure the bomb squad and hazmat would be called and the house torn apart. I have since made it a rule in the house if anyone government related comes for any reason they are to be dealt with outside in the front yard only
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From Lovecraft's works, it seems worshiping the great else ones brings nothing but trouble.
I'm bit fan of his works though:)
You got PTSD from reading a book? Fuck you're fragile :hahaha:
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Too right, Parts. As far as I am concerned, if they don't have a warrant, they are wasting their time completely.
MLA...what the fuck are you talking about?
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He was referring to the question I asked you.. It is ok, I understand that there are those whose posts you ignore for the most part and those whose posts you do not.
Anyway, I did a Search and found the answer to my question.
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Sorry ren, I should have looked up further along the thread. I just didn't get why MLA was posting that I got it from reading a book.
I wasn't ignoring you ren, I just hadn't seen the question, if I gave you that impression, my apologies. I'd have replied with the answer too, only you said you found it already.
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That's ok. :)
I wrote just above this:He kept mentioning it so I thought I would ask about it. He could easily say he would rather not talk about it and I would be fine with that.
And it looked like you replied with this:From Lovecraft's works, it seems worshiping the great else ones brings nothing but trouble.
I'm bit fan of his works though:)
So that is what MLA is referring to.
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My bad, I just lost track of the thread a bit.
The bit I didn't get, was the suggestion I'd ended up with PTSD from a book.
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My bad, I just lost track of the thread a bit.
The bit I didn't get, was the suggestion I'd ended up with PTSD from a book.
Well, Ren did her best to explain.