Miscellaneous Any Cafe members in the Curitiba / BR region?

[LostCircuits]

I'll be traveling to Curitiba / Campo Largo in October and I was just wondering if there are any familiar faces in the area.

😉

 

[Pete Thomas]

Try a member location search. However you may get results of members no longer active of course.

 

[LostCircuits]

Yes, I am getting a few "last seen 2014" and earlier but nobody current. But there may also be some non-members who see the post.

 

[Grumps]

I know a reed man who lives on the outskirts:

 

[LostCircuits]

I know a reed man who lives on the outskirts:

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Awesome! Reeds laced with curare?

 

[Joe from New Orleans]

Awesome! Reeds laced with curare?

Ouch...

 

[LostCircuits]

Ouch...

Curare is perfectly edible unless you have lesions in your mouth that allow it to seep into your blood stream.
Otherwise how would the natives been able to eat the animals they harvested using curare?

And it is not really that terrible anyway. My experience with Curare was having it injected in the eye orbits to paralyze the extraocular muscles to suppress saccadic eye movements. After a few seconds the entire visual field turned into a silver shimmer but then a nurse walked through the room and I could see her very clearly and not only that but she also left a trail of clear images behind her. It was an "eye-opening" experience that gave me some very good clues to as to why snipers or hunters want to keep their eyes focused on a single spot to blur out everything else, which then makes any tiny motion jump out.
It is imitation of the lizard eye and I am using it regularly when I am out in the forest, literally miles away from any civilization.

 

[Grumps]

I'll hold out for some ebene...

 

[LostCircuits]

I'll hold out for some ebene...

That would be a trip worth a trip!

 

[mizmar]

their eyes focused on a single spot to blur out everything else, which then makes any tiny motion jump out.

I'm no expert but I thought the idea was to "look" at a point but pay attention to the peripheral vision - where there are mostly rod cells which a better at low light and motion, compared with cones which are for colour and sharper vision.

 

[LostCircuits]

I'm no expert but I thought the idea was to "look" at a point but pay attention to the peripheral vision - where there are mostly rod cells which a better at low light and motion, compared with cones which are for colour and sharper vision.

I know it "looks" a little weird but you can easily try it yourself, for example in the forest by keeping your eyes as still as possible until everything turns into some kind of silver blur. And then, every little motion will stand out as some area of sharp image in the silver background. It takes a little bit of practice but it works really well.

Rods are just highly sensitive photo receptors, the integration happens on the level of horizontal cells and below.