Daniel, me and our brand-new prepaid cellphones. Melbourne’s skyline. A cool looking tower. The ice bar. An ice chair in the ice bar.
Everyone knows that when you cut yourself shaving you tear off a little piece of toilet paper and stick it on. It sits there, looking silly on your face, saying, “Look at me, I’m a klutz!” to the world until it finally falls off into your breakfast cereal.
There’s a better way.
And the funny part is that it’s been around for years. Styptic pencils used to be part of any standard shaving kit. When you cut yourself, you wet the pencil, you dab it on the cut, it stings like the dickens for a couple seconds and then…
IT STOPS BLEEDING!
Just like that. Couple dabs, no blood. It’s incredible! How did these things go out of style? Where were they when I was growing up? Paper cuts, razor nicks, even canker sores – I use mine all the time now.
One final word of advice, though: Styptic pencils are made from alum. They’re great. Caustic pencils, however, are made from silver nitrate and are used to cauterize skin and remove warts. They’re not to be used for minor cuts and I hear they burn with the fire of a thousand suns. Doesn’t stop the UK from selling them without a prescription, though.
Last time I flew to Australia, I flew Air Fiji. One of the perks of Air Fiji is that you get a free stopover in Fiji for as long as you deem necessary.
If you want a cure for jet lag, land in Fiji in the evening, stumble your way into bed, and then wake up in at sunrise in a bamboo hut on the beach with waves lapping at your front step. That was a magical morning.
Unfortunately, this time I flew Qantas. Aack, I feel like crap. Even my post timestamps are jet lagged. Though I have to say, the selection of on-demand movies on board the plane was quite impressive.
I swear I’m not a narcissist. It’s just really weird to see photos of myself plastered all over the place. So far, I’ve found a few at zap2it, realitytvworld, and the full cast photo at wikipedia. I just wish more places realized my name is Niels, not Neils.
[edit: photos removed]
I haven’t seen any Niles, Nels, Neals, Nielf, or Nils yet, but I’m sure that’s coming.
Edit: The CW has ordered me to take down the photos and the links. Guess you’ll have to search for them yourself.
I’m number 122 in a Google search for “Niels”? Seriously?! There’s 121 Nielses in the world more important than me? How humbling.
