Unless you have pyro tendencies, your dominant hand will be more heat resistant for grabby the plates from the microwave and pans from the oven because of repeated dumb exposure.
If you have pyro tendencies, you will have learned to prioritize the dominant hand by reaching toward hot things / flames with your non-dominant hand making it stronger.
If you are dumb and have pyro tendencies, you — like me — will decide which hand to use to touch the hot things by which is currently colder because that will warm it up.
So I made this crappily funny shirt today, even the ugly pixelart, the main photo is me from when I was like 15 and edited with a silly broken MP3-Player as face with the digital bubble saying "ERROR 404: brain.exe not found" <the back says "powered by SQRT∞://superhumanoid_AI"
After all I had a good laugh, maybe I will sell these, so: Please don't steal this one, if you want one we can talk about it. I like the stupid idea of this dumb shirt.
Lets talk about how I used them to help my trim bird beaks. It was all for science, definitely not because I look great wearing them. I guess you could just call it a coping tool. (Pun ABSOLUTELY intended)
So for the past few days I've had the wonderful privilege of talking with a number of falconers and raptor enthusiasts in a new little discord community. We've talked about all sorts of things from awesome raptors, to husbandry and care, even story time about exploding computers. It's been great.
At the same time, I'm also coming to a time where our birds need the beaks trimmed. We call is coping and it helps keep ouraptors beaks healthy and well shaped. It can also be a tedious process. Especially when my fat fingers have to open and keep open the beaks of the birds. I mentioned this in conversation and a good friend immediately shared that their facility director uses false nails to assist in opening their bird's beaks.
So being curious, and wanting to make the process more fun, I decided to test this out.
There were, of course, some considerations for this process.
The first being nail size. I keep my nails short which is why I can't just use them for this instead of fake nails. I also couldn't choose fake nails that were too long because they need to be strong and needed to still fit inside my falconry glove at times. I have stupid big hands so I didn't have a lot of room in my gauntlet to work with. I settled with short nails just a little longer than my own.
The next consideration was application and removal. Now I'm a guy who has never worn fake nails before so they needed to be easy to apply and honestly I didn't feel like wearing them to work tomorrow so they needed to be easily removable.
Finally I needed to decide on color. It was suggested I choose a color that fit me. I went with coral.
Application was easy but still took long enough that my volunteers arrived while I was still pitting them on. That was a fun conversation. But they already know I'm strange.
Ultimately, I decided to only install two for this test. I put nails on my thumb and pointer finger of my left hand as I theorized those would be the fingers I use to hold the bird's beak.
Next up was picking the bird. Pandora was our bird in need of a beak trim the most and she is generally pretty calm during this routine process. We got her secured and hooded and got to work. Just look at that long beak!
Holding her head was not that difficult and I quickly got used to the slight improvement in the length of my nails.
When I went to open her beak however, I found them unhelpful and realized I should have worn some on my right hand to help open the mouth. An unfortunate oversight.
Once the mouth was open though, they did a good job of supporting the natural nails and my finger were quite comfortable even if she bit down.
During one of my adjustments, disaster struck, the nail on my pointer finger came off. Obviously I opted to keep working rather than fix it. finishing the trimming process is way more important. I took this photo once we were all done. Because of the ease at which it did so, I'm willing to admit user error.
One additional benefit I noticed was that the fake nails protected my own nails from the dremel as I worked, I often scrape my nails on the dremel when coping, this was a pleasant discovery.
The rest of the trimming proceeded without incident.
My findings are as follows, in list format
Cons:
The nails were not super durable, the chipped and bent quickly. They were really cheap though
They did not immediately help me open bird beaks. Though perhaps applying them to different fingers would help
Falling off mid trimming process wasn’t great, but again I’ll admit to not knowing what I’m doing when it comes to fake nails
I got weird looks at the restaraunt on the way home
Pros:
They were good protection from the dremel and files
Installed on the other hand, I believe they may help open beaks
They offered bite protection
My hand still fit in a glove
I look good in Coral
I felt pretty
To conclude. I'm still not sure if they would be useful enough to add to a beak trimming kit, though they did provide some advantages without the dexterity issues of gloves.
I’m not sure if I’d do it again. Though I may keep the spare nails in my kit, next to the stockings I use for casting (securing) newly trapped birds. If nothing else I can laugh anytime someone opens the box to get something for me while I'm working.
Either way it ended up being a fun change of pace for a tedious process and did not hinder the trimming in any way.
So I just spent an hour learning about electromagnetic science. My convo went from, 'how does powering an led with a potato work?' To... LETS HARVEST THE POWER OF JUPITER ITSELF
I want to explain my reasoning because it's technically scientifically plausible on a theoretical level just not a safe realistic level
One can turn movement into energy by spinning a magnet inside a coil of wire.
Me: the earth is a spinning magnet. Just wrap a giant wire around that.
Science: you'd need to wrap it running north to south and have it move from east to west. But technically people have done that. The earth is just a weak magnet
Me: whats the most magnet planet
Science: jupiter but thats unrealistic and dangerous and the radiation alone would fry you in seconds
Me: but its possible
Science: i mean... hypothetically?
Me: THE SPACE PROGRAM IS BACK BABY!!! LETS STEAL JUPITER!!!!!
a reasonable explination why you don't look like the human model in animal crossing:
that *thing* is a model of a homo sapien, a currently exinct species in the animal crossing world. *you* are a homo nintendous, same as mario. Mario oddyssy is set before other mario games in the franchise, as there is still some humans remaining, albiet mostly limited to new donk city.
while there is very ltitle informwation on homo nintendous as a species, i believe that the animal crossing homo nintendous's that we see are part of a different breed then say, mario and luigi.
mario and luigi are feral forms of the nintendus species, retaining their offensive teeth and claws.
the animal crossing species, hereforth reffered as homo nintendous crossius is a domesticated breed of the species.
the domesticated crossius has lost it's defensive capabilties, for it has few natural threats. the wild nintendous is a dexturous wily species difficult to capture.
the domesticated breeds are willing and readily accepting to trade and find great value in coins, which is a trait shared by both subspecies, however only in rare cases does the feral nintendous partake in the buying and selling of items unless in a captive scenario.
there should also be noted that there is a extreme sexual dimorphism in the feral species while the domesticated crossius looks almost identical.
