So i recently heard of a BRAND NEW THING called -well not really really brand new.. It's called the Ganzfeld Effect.... and it sounds straight out of a sci-fi book.

The experiment:
Placing balls over your eyes, err... half of a ping pong ball over your eyes.  Get your ears to some fine static tune, and if you want an extra kick, shine a light to your eyes while the ping pong balls do what they do best, shield your eyes from seeing anything.
Next, take some gloves so that when the sensory deprivation gets a goin, you also lose feeling of having limbs, and so you end up with the feeling that you just are this lump sum of.... MASS... i guess.

The effect:
Straight to the point, you'll see trippy shit.  I'm talking LSD trippy shit - no wait you know what? i don't buy it, but what i do buy, is that your mind will feel that since there's no sensory input it'll have to come up with its own.  The same effect i feel will be in par with dreaming.

Anywho, the guys over at gawker wrote about it here.

So after work, i went to wally world, bought some pingy pawng balls, went to my buddy's house to do it! but instead we ended up watching the kroods.

So it's just past midnight and i'm about to try this at home.  I'll be updating more as I continue to experiment.

My goal:
See if i am able to interact with whatever it is that i see.  Example, if i'm hallucinating that I'm in the woods, will i be able to walk around? If i hallucinate that i'm in the middle of a crowd, will I push the guy in front of me for being a d-bag and not letting me closer to the concert? Will I remember to do all of this while it's happening!?
So many unanswered questions *to me at least*

-but for now, I go to my slumber chambers!

--Hh

Necessary tools:
Earplugs
Ping Pong balls (be careful when cutting these, use scissors for a much easier time)
Mp3/radio to listen to some continuous static
Gloves (optional, you can embrace your own hands as well)

Wiki article here

Avocado

     So recently I found out that the Hass Avocado is an avocado which was cultivated in the early part of the 20th century from unknown seedlings.  Per wikipedia's report, the person which planted it did not exactly know where the original seed came from or if it was cross-cultivated:

"Hass avocado trees have been grown from ... a seed bought by Rudolph Hass in 1926 from A. R. Rideout of Whittier, California. At the time, Rideout was getting seeds from any source he could find, even restaurant food scraps. The subspecies of this seed is not known and may already have been cross-pollinated when Hass bought it."

     So wtf kind of seeds are they? *shrugs* but they shore tastes goods!

     This is straight from the paradise grove plantation website :

"The Persea americana (avocado) originated in South-Central America between 7,000 and 5,000 B.C., but several millennia passed before the Aztecs cultivated it. They named it ahuacatl.

The Spanish, who had difficulty pronouncing the word, changed it to aguacate, which eventually morphed into avocado in English."

Tell me again how the word "ahuacatl/aguacate" morphed to avoado?

     Where the hell does the V come from? The spanish word for "agua" didn't morph to "avo" so... OH WAIT LET'S NOT GIVE A FUCK

*flips table over