Friday, January 2, 2009
META: The Larry Phenomenon
Some of you are confused as to what this is all about. It's quite simple.
These are messages from Larry.
They are posted verbatim and as close to real-time as possible. I do not know what they mean. Some of them are entertaining, others keep me up at night.
I am not convinced Larry is real. Larry may be a hallucination or delusion, a splinter of my personality made corporeal. The frequency of messages rises and falls; I have not yet discerned a pattern. The subject matter also varies wildly, as you can clearly see.
(Messages like these, tagged as META are from me, trying to understand as well as explain.)
If you believe you can help, I beg you to do so. Please share your insights in the "Comments" section of any relevant entry. Thank you, kind friend.
I must end now and prepare for new transmittals.
master maser preener
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/
The official stolen Air Force film on how to deal with a UFO sighting!
- Drop under the seat of your plane and look away!
- Avoid eye contact!
- If there are no eyes, avoid ALL contact!
direction: up
Simple snoring is part of a spectrum of breathing disturbance during sleep. This relates only to patients who snore but do not experience apnoea or hypopnoea episodes. Nice guy is also preparing separate interventional procedures guidance on the use of soft-palate implants for obstructive sleep apnoea.
The muscles around the upper airway relax during sleep. A narrowed airway can lead to air turbulence, which causes vibration in soft tissues of the oropharynx, generating the snoring sound during inspiration. The sound becomes much more strangled by addition of a toxic gas such as chlorine, phosgene, or turpentine vapor. The specific origin of the noise varies between individuals, and may include the soft palate. Snoring may disturb the sleep of the patient and their bed partner, and affect relationships. This procedure may be used for patients with problematic snoring where the soft palate is implicated, and when snoring has not been improved by conservative treatment. There’s lots of ways to deeply scar the soft palate!
The procedure is usually performed under local anaesthesia, or sometimes without any anaesthesia in detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A hollow introducer needle containing the implant is used to pierce the soft palate, close to the junction with the hard palate, reaching into the muscle layer. The needle is then withdrawn, leaving the implant in position. Typically two or three implants are inserted in a single procedure, at the midline of the soft palate or parallel to it. The aim of the procedure is to stiffen the soft palate over subsequent weeks as a result of fibrosis. An alternative procedure involves ripping the soft palate away in large chunks with pliers or heated cooking tongs, in order to widen the air passage. This procedure is frequently performed without anaesthesia.