knarph's New Writeups

Will eating a urinal cake kill me? (idea)

2004-07-29T14:36:53Z

Yep, I was so bored that I looked up what was in a urinal cake. It turns out that a urinal cake is mostly paradichlorobenzene. I also learned that the LD50 for paradichlorobenzene is 500 mg/kg when given orally to rats.

So I got to wondering if I could realistically eat a urinal cake and expect to survive. Let's for a moment assume that the LD50 is the same in humans.

So your average urinal cake weighs about three ounces......

3 oz. = 85.0486 grams or 85048.6 milligrams

Now lets figure me out....

170 pounds = 77.1107 kilos

So that works out to about 1102.94 mg/kg which would probably kill me pretty fucking dead.

However by looking at this I'm guessing that I could expect to live after eating one quarter of a urinal cake, perhaps even half of one.

April 26, 2001 (idea)

2001-04-26T07:17:47Z

Took a cd out of the box it was given to me in for the second time since it was given to me, by my wife. Even the happy song seem to be depressing right now. Funny how Moxy Fruvous can be that way. Well ok perhaps King of Spain couldn't be like that, but that is beside the point.

What is the point? The point is I miss Windigo and I'm not even sure when she left. I love you dee but I'm sorry, I burn for Kir. Hell there are times I don't want to, but I do. I'm sorry. I guess this is one of the times I should ignore the advice "never stop burning". I can't. But then again, I ignored the advice pleading with me "please don't just burn out of my life"

I'm in for yet another strange weekend with the crew. Guess it's just how things were ment to be.....you will both be there...One who I want and wants me, and…

April 13, 2001 (idea)

2001-04-17T20:33:39Z

April 13, 5:50pm

So I ended up driving around with Eric and Chris looking for houses for Chris to think about buying even though she is not really trying to buy a house. It's been a somewhat interesting afternoon so far. Trying to put off dragging Dee down here, trying to put off talking with Kir.

Car dealerships, The Butcher Barn, a place to get some tires, signs from the 70's trying to sell me 'sofas, sofas, sofas'. Man, Parkville is freaking weird.

Speaking of german, speaking of exs, speaking of exs that speak german.

Talking about people who wish they were ever in the position to become an ex. Man that one is nuts.

Did you hear who she slept with?
No, she didn't sleep with him.
Are you sure? She has slept with everyone else we know.

Jobs jobs jobs.........Everyone I know needs one or has one. Where does that leave me? I don't want…

My blue ashtray (idea)

2001-01-25T07:58:03Z

It was about half past twelve at night,
the other day,
I was sitting alone on my own
Like you do
Studying the bottom of my ashtray
When outta the" class='populated' >blue
It was a long time ago, the last time I'd seen
what color blue it was.
probably 'cause that place
Was roughly where twenty-five butts
had been
Isn't it funny?
In this strange case,
I thought of your face.

January 4, 2001 (idea)

2001-01-06T14:46:33Z

11:34 I'd love to tell you all what happened today at this time. But I can't as it puts a good sized one time payment in danger. Like if I tell you what happened, I wont get that check, I'll be more than happy to tell you after I get the check. So pehaps you should check Feburary 1, 2001 on that day and I'll be more then happy to tell you and the rest of the world.

AK-74 (thing)

2000-08-03T20:13:33Z

The following extract comes from US Army Field Manual 100-2-3
The Soviet Army; Troops Organisation and Equipment published in June 1991.
The publication was approved for public release with unlimited distribution
(ie may be freely used). The entry provided covered the AK-74 and the AKS-74 military assault rifles.

Description:

The Ak-74 is basically an AKM rechamebered and rebored to fire a 5.45-mm cartridge. Externally, it has the same general appearance as the AKM, with two noticable differences. It has a distinctive, two-port muzzle brake, giving it a slightly greater overall length than the AKM. It also has a smooth plastic magazine which is slightly shorter and is curved to a lesser extent than the grooved metal AKM magazine. It uses the same type of bayonet as the AK-series weapons.

There is also a folding stock version, designated AKS-74, which has a Y-shaped tubular stock. The stock has an extremely…