Yes. So I was walking around today at the CCA carnival thing, and noticed that the symphonic band was giving out helium-filled balloons. Shaun(who seems to have developed some kind of balloon-fetish) had to go get one. So he did. Eventually, I got my hands on a stray balloon, too.
Okay, everyone knows what happens when you try to speak through helium, but have they actually seen it in person? No, not a lot of people have enough free time or easy access to helium. Now that I had a balloon full of helium, dangling from a string, I couldn't help but try it out myself.
So then, after German(Kinder Beuno is Italian?!?!), while waiting for the lift, I untied the knot on the balloon, and took a deep breath.
The effect wasn't quite what I'd imagined. It didn't make my voice go high or anything. Instead, I got a very short-lived, thin, nasal tone. My voice did become noticeably higher pitched, but it got to maybe the contra-alto range or so... No squeakiness for me.
That didn't stop it from being funny, though, as I tried to sing a note with helium in my lungs. I want to try it again sometime. It didn't last any longer than one breath, though. And it also seemed to be a much shorter breath than usual.
Oh, where will I find more helium.
Now, I think it's actually a little dangerous. When my lungs were full of helium, my fingers started becoming a little numb, and I got slightly dizzy. I would guess those were due to me having a lack of oxygen...
But the fact that helium is less dense than regular air also gave it the property of escaping my lungs naturally and easily. Shouldn't have to worry about suffocation. It's really the sulphur hexaflouride gas that I need to worry about. You know, anti-helium. It's dense and stays inside.
It's been at least 10 days since I've last had a good and proper gaming session. I haven't had a climatic battle on a tiberium infested earth, or blasted mutated splicers in the underwater city of Rapture. I need to spend some time sneaking around a Korean warship and stopping World War III.
And yeah, maybe the projects are the reason some people say that poly is as tough as JC. But seriously, these projects are... Slightly irrelevant? I mean, come on, a STORY? Could a chemistry project get any less... Chemicallish? Ugh.
Also, I had some people try to explain to me why evolution was absurd, as compared to religion. Normally, I probably would've coldly and forcefully explained the actual mechanics of natural selection, but I just didn't have the heart to bite their heads off. They were just so... You know, innocently believing and trusting. It's hard to be mean to people like that.
-Joe
And also, as the great A.Low once said, if you're bored or anything, just do some maths. Do some maths.
I'm halfway through tutorial 3.