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Confessions of A Studio Owner, Pt 28

The Compressor’s Useless Facts

I don’t have much this week I’m afraid. The band have been well behaved (the kitchen is as usual a shit hole) so I thought I would offer up a few nuggets of information that may be useful at times of trouble:

1. Does your studio have stinging nettles around the fire door? Want to get rid them? HOLD YOUR BREATH and you won’t get stung!

2. Filling your car up with petrol but can’t remember which side the cap is on? Look at the petrol gauge and you’ll find a small arrow telling you which side the filler is!!

3. Want to save money off your electricity bill? Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil. Our bodies expend a large amount of calories keeping us at a steady 98.6 degrees, enough to boil water or even cook pasta.

4. Keep your clients happy….keep their rooms warm. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream. It isn’t entirely clear to scientists why this is the case, but if you are opposed to having nightmares you might want to keep yourself a little toastier at night.

5. Can you hear ok in the control room? Are you scared? Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t. The chemicals and hormones released when you are afraid could be having unseen effects on your body in the form of earwax. Studies have suggested that fear causes the ears to produce more of the sticky substance, though the reasons are not yet clear.

6. Are you depressed….don’t bother tickling yourself. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves. The reason  HYPERLINK “http://health.howstuffworks.com/question511.htm” behind this is that your brain predicts the tickle from information it already has, like how your fingers are moving. Because it knows and can feel where the tickle is coming from, your brain doesn’t respond in the same way as it would if someone else was doing the tickling.

Quick way to measure your height….The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is a pretty good estimator of your height.

Why doesn’t your dog cry? Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears. In the animal world, humans are the biggest crybabies, being the only animals who cry because they’ve had a bad day, lost a loved one, or just don’t feel good.

Is your engineer right or left handed? Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. This doesn’t have a genetic basis, but is largely due to the fact that a majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.

If you go to bed with an itchy bum you WILL wake up with a smelly finger

TTFN The Compressor