During the only lockdown I’ve been in I played Candy Crush until the all-clear was announced. I figured if I was going to die I might as well go out in a blaze of dissociative nihilism.
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I have a friend who has been through three: one at her Master’s institution, the one I went through, and one her first week as faculty. We were goofing around taking first day of school selfies over SnapChat when she got a lockdown notice. Another of my friends who was in the same lockdown as I was was a guest at the Mandalay Bay hotel the day of the Vegas shooting, and heard it from her window.
LOL! I found the “Congrats, you got a paper accepted!” booze and drank that shit like there was no tomorrow.
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There are days I could be on either side of that equation.
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Getting woken up by a 2:00 am strobing and the resulting migraine.
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Also, I have a doctor’s appointment, but no acessible public transportation, and the taxi websites are broken again. I can’t use pains!
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How do you cope w/ lawnmower or helicopter noise? I’m currently wearing my ear protection, and hiding in the bathroom, but it keeps coming… and going… and coming back… and I feel like it’s shaking everything.
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I try to object to slurs. I just got told “Oh shut up, [i-slur]…” for objecting to the i-slur and pointing out that the supreme court used it to try to justify forced sterilization campaigns.
Really, a lot of slur-users are offended that some disabled freaks are offended.
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It could very well be! A helicopter just went over our house, and what first got my (and the cat’s) attention was the vibration of something rattly on the mantlepiece when the passing copter’s noise Dopplered through a sympathetic frequency.
I live pretty near a CHP helicopter landing pad, so I get choppers overhead fairly frequently, and I know that’s gotta be hell for those with sensitivity to such noises. Like my 8-year-old son, when I was his age I was sensitive to loud sounds like passing fire trucks and motorcycles (one of my earliest memories is covering my ears and cringing at the sound of someone riding a small dirt bike I could barely see because it was most of a mile away), but never to the point of nausea and migraines. Short of living in a fairly remote rural location far from farming machinery, freeways, and air traffic routes, I am at a loss to suggest a practical solution.
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We never did until just about all helicopters in the SW became based at RNAS Yeovilton and we seem to be under the flight path to places like Aldershot.
Possibly unsafe to write this here but I begin to understand why people point lasers at helicopters. I’m not about to do it* but they are insanely noisy and irritating things. It wouldn’t hurt the armed forces to have a few more flight routes and spread the misery.
*Edit - Especially as the son of a friend of ours is a helicopter pilot stationed there and a cousin is a helicopter maintenance specialist.
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When one fearbeast is barking, loudly, every time you move. You can’t tell where it is. And another fearbeast is approaching, is getting walked towards you. You need to get away but every step brings another bark. You run for it, screaming.
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A few of the neighbors spend a half-hour each evening making their cars growl every few seconds. It’s uncomfortably loud, at more than 60 decibels, and it’s hard to think through, perhaps because of the whole instinct to avoid growling animals.
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I used to have the following conversation with them.
Me: watcha doing?
Them: tuning her up (or whatever).
Me: I used to be an automotive research engineer.
Them: Oh (or dismissive noises).
Me: Have you any idea what that does to your pistons and rings?
Them: No.
Me: Half an hour of that causes as much wear as a journey of several hundred miles, because the rapid acceleration causes the rings to lose oil momentarily and they scrape carbon.*
Them: I don’t believe you.
Me: Not my rebore to worry about.
Sometimes, after a few days of still doing it to be macho, they would quietly stop.
*Edit - I have no idea whether or not this is true.
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Ugh… I’ve been trying to get out to go salsa dancing for weeks now; because I desperately need to have some fun and release some tension, but stuff kept coming up.
I’m supposed to go tonight, but the muscles in the arches of both my feet are sore…
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Excessive work this week to be followed by a vacation next week and I started feeling like crap this morning.
Joy.
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This is more like petty annoyance, but I’m looking to buy an eReader, specifically one that doesn’t require me to go through the rigmarole of installing wine, winetricks, 32-bit app of Adobe Digital Editions with all these other ‘gotcha’ utilities and apps, and creating tons of accounts, and over half the Kindle ads I see on Craigslist don’t mention if they have special offers.
E.g. of companion install for Adobe Digital Editions 1.7 (the current one doesn’t play well in WINE, I have read)
"suggested installs: opencl-icd:i386"
sudo apt-get install opencl-icd:i386
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package opencl-icd:i386 is a virtual package provided by:
nvidia-opencl-icd-384:i386 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
nvidia-opencl-icd-340:i386 340.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
nvidia-opencl-icd-304:i386 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
mesa-opencl-icd:i386 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
beignet-opencl-icd:i386 1.1.1-2
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package ‘opencl-icd:i386’ has no installation candidate
Hurrdurr, such a cinch, right?Is it likely I’m the only person in a metropolitan area of 2 million people who would care if special offers were on a used Kindle?
ETA: just went to Reddit, learned from a five-year-old news itemthat in my vicinity 1 in 124 people own a Kindle eReader. Is it still likely that in a metropolitan area of 16,129 Kindle readers I would be the only one who finds ‘special offers’ in eReaders unnecessary and objectionable?
Do North Americans fidget or take their stress out on others if they don’t meet a minimum Required Daily Allowance of ads?
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Large, small, or what?
I have a lot of trouble with pdfs and djvus with @#$% jpeg-2000 images, and would like some way to test whether pdfs are compatible with my e-readers short of… installing them, checking, uninstalling, trying to reprocess, installing them, checking, etc.
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Size of ads doesn’t matter to me, as I don’t want any of them. When I read a physical book, I don’t think “I need to take a break and look at some ads.” I don’t believe ads are required in reading books (although I have noticed some legitimate trade nonfiction books are practically ads for the author’s website, products), ergo they are unnecessary in electronic media when I have already spent money on the unit, and possibly on electronic format materials.
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I meant “size of reader.” I haven’t encountered e-reader ads. I have to block web ads to keep them from triggering migraines.
I’d like an eReader’s screen size to be at least 6". My phone allows some eReader apps but I’m not into small screens, ergo not into the small print.
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I got a used Kindle Dx, but had to wait for a good sale. Occasionally a $40 one turns up before it reverts to the $200+ price range. No ads. I had to replace the usb cord, and have to reprocess a lot of pdfs because too many have edit passwords, or have jpeg-2000 images, or are scanned as jpeg-2000 images. But it has a big non-touch screen, and it has buttons, so that’s good for me.
A couple years ago I bought some Mutex foam to protect agains backup beaters. It didn’t work. Now I moved my desk and stuff to slip the foam under because maybe it would at least protect against bass-blasters and gear-grinders which shake the building. It hasn’t been working there either.
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