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Congrats! You could survive for 1 minute 35 seconds !
In the first 30 seconds any fluid on the surface of your body would begin to boil due to lack of ambient pressure, this includes the saliva on your tongue and the moisture in your eyes. Your eardrums would most likely burst due to the pressure in your body trying to equalize with the vacuum outside. Unlike what some science fiction films have suggested, your body would not explode.
After the first 15 seconds you would lose consciousness. If you held your breath you could potentially stay alive longer but you risk pulmonary trauma. If you didn’t hold your breath you’d pass out sooner, but your lungs might have a better chance of avoiding permanent damage.
The pressure in your veins would rise until your heart no longer had the capacity to pump blood, at which point you’d die.
How long would you survive?
A while back I discovered a great way to manage the noise on Twitter by using Device Updates on Twitter.
Now that I’m following a few hundred people, I’ve learned to manage the noise even better. However, Twitter turned off the IM device update service that I’ve relied on. I know they are going through some growing pains and need to turn off some things, but I think it would be nice to get an ETA on them turning it back on.
Anyway, assuming it’s turned back on, I wanted to share with you what I’ve learned about managing the noise of Twitter. What I had to do was decide to be comfortable with the idea of following a lot of people but only catching some of what they say. Then I found a way to get my attention when someone I want to not miss writes or when anyone writes to me.
Install and run Twhirl. It’s easy to use and gives you a lot of features for interacting on Twitter. What I’ve done is often keep it open on the left side of my screen. When it grabs updates, it flows like a river down the the side of my screen. If I catch something interesting then great. If I don’t, it just keeps flowing by.- Use Twitter IM Device Updates. Geeze it bugs that they turned this off. The main reason is because now that I’m following and engaging with hundreds of people, there are a few that I want to make sure I read. Some are breaking news, a couple of friends, and my wife. When the IM is working, my gTalk window pops up just like I got an IM with their twitter update.
- Subscribe to Twitter Search. This is something I’ve just recently started. What I did was do a search for “@orangejack” then subscribe to the RSS of the search results (example). Now I’m sure to receive in my RSS reader notification if someone writes me directly in Twitter.
The system works great (when Twitter works fully). As a backup I’ve subscribed to some of my friend’s twitter RSS feeds but it’s not very reliable either. One thing I have discovered is I could subscribe to a search feed (like in step 3) for their name without the ‘@’. But honestly, I’d rather wait until Twitter turns IM back on. Or at least let me know when they plan to.
You can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/orangejack
Finally got the photo set done for our trip to Puerto Rico. You can view the entire set here. A few more photos have been added since the last update (including more shots of the wild red-masked parakeets who came back close on our last day).
My birthday is coming up in a few days (Aug 4). If you want to buy me anything from my wishlist I won’t stop you.
Puerto Rican Parrots
These beautiful Puerto Rican Parrots are endangered but have been making a comeback (it is possible the birds we’re seeing aren’t exactly the PR Parrots but they could be a variation) CORRECTION: These are Red-masked Parakeets. They only live in Puerto Rico. Every now and then when we visit we’ll see a flock flying around. Today a group of about 7 landed close. I hate that the photos a bit blurry, but I maxed out my zoom and still had to crop tight. A couple more…
2 Puerto Rican Parrots
And there are, believe it or not, 5 parrots in this one. You may need to see the large version to find them. Can you spot the 5?
Can You Find All 5?
Also got to see a huge iguana sunning himself.
Iguana Sunning Himself
Sometimes there is a reward for getting up early in Puerto Rico.
Sunrise over El Yunque
Moonset in the Morning
Well it’s still not even a tropical depression, but all the models a few days ago said it was going to Trinidad. Tonight the two of the models have it going to Puerto Rico.
Since we’re going to PR for a week, maybe we’ll get to meet the storm there.
Sigh.
It’s not normal for a tropical storm or hurricane to sit low in the Caribbean like Invest 94 is doing right now. Granted it’s not even a cyclone yet, but the models have it going to Trinidad.
I mean, Trinidad even made some crazy list of safe islands to visit in regards to storms like this.
Hopefully this will not become anything significant.
Bored? Big Brother 10 announced its cast today.
Of the 11 members, Angie is from Orlando. Jerry is 75 years old. Keesha works at Hooters. Libra had twins: one white, one black.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
This is pretty cool, something I haven’t seen before. You can track tropical storms and hurricanes in a slick flash presentation - per storm. Here is the one for Bertha.
Weather Underground’s tropical weather page is a good one to monitor for stuff like this.
