Random possibly useful fact

[AspieMomma]

I have 60% function in my left kidney and a fiber from my iris that runs across my pupil in one eye.  I blame gestational diabetes. 

["couldbecousin"]

I have 60% function in my left kidney and a fiber from my iris that runs across my pupil in one eye.  I blame gestational diabetes.

  I'm sorry about your left kidney, fascinated by the eye!  Does the fiber obstruct your vision? 

[AspieMomma]

I have 60% function in my left kidney and a fiber from my iris that runs across my pupil in one eye.  I blame gestational diabetes.

  I'm sorry about your left kidney, fascinated by the eye!  Does the fiber obstruct your vision? 

Don't be sorry.  I have an emergency backup kidney, good old "righty."

I can't see the fiber.  I guess it is pretty small, or maybe it is deep in the eye.  I'm not sure.  I can't find a picture that looks anything like it.  This isn't terribly uncommon, but the way mine has formed is really weird.  They're usually either kind of webby or just tiny bits that don't connect across.  I just have one fiber that connects across it.  Normally these fibers disappear in utero, but occasionally some is left. 

According to dog enthusiasts such a creature should not be allowed to breed.  Oops!  

[odeon]

How do they form?

[AspieMomma]

During the process of eye development this membrane that supplies blood to the lens covers the eye.  Everyone starts out with them.  Over time the fibers disappear.  Normally babies are born without it and if they are it usually disappears over time.  Sometimes they form further back in the eye, so they're not obvious.  https://www.inkling.com/read/the-developing-human-moore-9th/chapter-18/persistent-pupillary-membrane

["couldbecousin"]

During the process of eye development this membrane that supplies blood to the lens covers the eye.  Everyone starts out with them.  Over time the fibers disappear.  Normally babies are born without it and if they are it usually disappears over time.  Sometimes they form further back in the eye, so they're not obvious.  https://www.inkling.com/read/the-developing-human-moore-9th/chapter-18/persistent-pupillary-membrane

  Fascinating!     I thought *you* had gestational diabetes, didn't realize it was your mother.

['andersom']

I have 60% function in my left kidney and a fiber from my iris that runs across my pupil in one eye.  I blame gestational diabetes.

  I'm sorry about your left kidney, fascinated by the eye!  Does the fiber obstruct your vision? 

Don't be sorry.  I have an emergency backup kidney, good old "righty."

I can't see the fiber.  I guess it is pretty small, or maybe it is deep in the eye.  I'm not sure.  I can't find a picture that looks anything like it.  This isn't terribly uncommon, but the way mine has formed is really weird.  They're usually either kind of webby or just tiny bits that don't connect across.  I just have one fiber that connects across it.  Normally these fibers disappear in utero, but occasionally some is left. 

According to dog enthusiasts such a creature should not be allowed to breed.  Oops!

That's what I used to say about my ex and me. He has herniated disks running in the family, in my family hip dysplasia is strong.

[odeon]

The XLink specification describes extended, out-of-line links that can effectively describe a relationship between two resources without either of them including any kind of linking information.

[odeon]

XLink is one of my favourite XML-related specifications.

[TheoK]

The Romans didn't eat finer meals in restaurants. Actaully "restaurants" in the Roman Empire rather served like fast food. If you were too poor to have your own kitchen you could still afford cheap food out.

They had fancier paintings than McDonalds, though: Thermopolium

[Parts]

A 28 foot (8.5 meter) extension ladder is the best general use size.  You can reach almost everything on a two story house yet it's light enough for one person to easily use

[sg1008]

Cookies are delicious, but carrot juice is better.

[odeon]

A 28 foot (8.5 meter) extension ladder is the best general use size.  You can reach almost everything on a two story house yet it's light enough for one person to easily use

Used one to paint our house with, a few years ago. Problem is, the house is close to 10 metres at its highest point. Almost killed myself in the process.

[TheoK]

[TheoK]

When making a coloured firework composition you should paradoxically have as little of the colour donor as possible, unless the colour donor is:

*barium chlorate
*a nitrate
*Paris Green
*copper benzoate or a similar salt