Something I read about regarding keeping one's hands warm in cold weather in pioneer days...
Baked potatoes. One small one in each mitten and your hands are toasty warm. They can double as your lunch if you get hungry.
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Baked potatoes. One small one in each mitten and your hands are toasty warm. They can double as your lunch if you get hungry.
It's at the end a more eco-friendly version of a hot water bag. I use it all the time, right now for my cold feet, or when I've messed up one of my back muscles. So it was definitely worth it's money.
You have a good point there. I'm just afraid to accidentally set the microwave on fire
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I guess I'll give it a try with some cloth fabric.
You have a good point there. I'm just afraid to accidentally set the microwave on fire
.I guess I'll give it a try with some cloth fabric.
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Any relatively heavy-duty cotton fabric should work as a patch. The important factor is that it should 100% cotton, to be sure of being properly heat-resistant (the hottest "***"-setting on irons is for cotton).
Denim would probably work, though that does seem like it might be too heavy; it will certainly be harder work to hand-stitch. Or do you maybe have an old cotton shirt you'd be willing to sacrifice?
might need to have a look, maybe.EDIT: Unrelated: Caught a cold (not covid), very annoying. I have a tingling in the nose, which doesn't want to go away, and I have no idea if that'll let me sleep tonight or not.
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Something really stuck out to me in the otherwise excellent Fargo TV show.
At one point a character orders some vodka at the bar. He's supposed to be Russian, he speaks with a Russian accent, yet when he says vodka, he pronounces it.. "Wodka" with a Wh (like in What) sound
What nonsense is that? Is he supposed to be a mentally handicapped Russian or what
At one point a character orders some vodka at the bar. He's supposed to be Russian, he speaks with a Russian accent, yet when he says vodka, he pronounces it.. "Wodka" with a Wh (like in What) sound
What nonsense is that? Is he supposed to be a mentally handicapped Russian or what
That's how Chekov pronounces it in Star Trek.
BTW, it's established in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" that scotch "vas inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad."
That scene is often cut from more recent broadcasts but used to be included (scenes are often chopped to allow more time for commercials). The other people in the Star Trek group I was part of in the '80s and '90s had no idea what I was talking about when I quoted that entire conversation between Scotty and Chekov on the merits of scotch vs. vodka. It must have been dropped by the mid-'80s but was still there when I was watching in the '70s.
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No Russian would pronounce it like that. It makes zero sense. There is a Russian letter that sounds like the English "Wh" but it is not at all the V.
Spoiler :
If it's supposed to be a hint that the character is not really Russian then.. yeah okay I can see that maybe, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
Walter Koenig has been criticized and mocked for decades for his fake "Russian" accent. I didn't know any better when I first started watching the show and had no idea there was even a problem until the '90s when a bunch of "tell all" books started coming out.
I suppose it could be argued that accents shift over time and that his accent is authentic for the 23rd century. But that's reaching, given the reasons Roddenberry gave for creating the character in the first place.
BTW... what do you think of the reviewers who can't pronounce "Villeneuve" when they talk about Dune? I watched a review video last night and it drove me nuts when the reviewers kept saying "Vil-la-nway-va" instead of pronouncing it correctly.
Oh man, that would've been smarter, damn. Especially since the original case could need a wash.
But too late, already patched it over like an imbecile.
Pretty sure my grandma, a peltmonger by education, would be rotating in her grave if she saw how I did it
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I don't speak French much at all so I actually haven't even tried pronouncing that. I even have problems typing it out, so I just don't try (or look it up)
But for a well funded TV show to screw something like this up is just.. weird. Everything else that character said sounded right to me. I mean, it's possible I missed something else since I'm not at all fluent in Russian, but that one thing just stuck out so much, it made me wonder if the character is doing it on purpose for some reason? Like, is he speaking badly to throw somebody off.. or.. what? It just doesn't make any sense and distracts from the story
It'd be like a British character in a big production sounding completely British but when he says "Taco" he pronounces it "Chaxo". It doesn't make any sense.
This sounds a lot, funnily enough, like the name ‘Villanueva’.
The director's name is Denis Villeneuve. Two syllables in the first name, and the "s" is silent. The second name has two syllables. The first and third "e"s are silent.
Here's a video that explains it:
I guess you could say the anglicized translation of his name would be "Dennis Newton." But of course that isn't his real name, so people should learn to pronounce it correctly.
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I drew a collab textmode art piece with an Israeli artist and it ended up reminding me of a movie poster a bit so.. anyway long story short I misspelled DV's name as a joke. Scroll down to the very bottom to see it
To make this post fit into this thread better, can't we figure out a better way to keep our sidewalks snow free? We just dump salt everywhere like a bunch of idiots. That seems like a very shortsighted strategy invented by big salt
To make this post fit into this thread better, can't we figure out a better way to keep our sidewalks snow free? We just dump salt everywhere like a bunch of idiots. That seems like a very shortsighted strategy invented by big salt
A few months ago, my dad got a kidney stone. It wasn't too bad for the most part other than his pee sometimes being red, but he wasn't ever able to pass it (it was probably too large to pass naturally, or something like that). So, yesterday, he had a procedure done to break the stone up into smaller chunks with ultrasonic sound waves to make passing it easier.
It sounded like it would be a simple and easy procedure and he'd just need a few days of rest to recover and pass the stones, but it's been a lot worse than that. I don't know if this is a normal reaction to the procedure or his condition or the medication they gave him to deal with the pain or what, but when he got home yesterday, he was in excruciating pain for a while. It got a bit better about half an hour to an hour later when the hydrocodone they gave him kicked in and he was able to nap for a bit and function somewhat normally for the rest of the day, but the pain got worse again late last night and he also developed severe nausea and hasn't even been able to keep water down for over 12 hours now, which also means he can't really pee out the stones more. He's also been really warm and sweating a ton.
My mom tried calling the doctors hours ago but, given everything going on in these times, they're understaffed and overworked and weren't able to get back to her, and with my dad continuing to be in a lot of pain and starting to getting badly dehydrated, she took him back to the hospital a little while ago, where hopefully they'll be able to at least treat his current condition and give us a way to manage his pain and other ailments until they get better and he can get rid of the stones.
But right now this just really effing sucks.
It sounded like it would be a simple and easy procedure and he'd just need a few days of rest to recover and pass the stones, but it's been a lot worse than that. I don't know if this is a normal reaction to the procedure or his condition or the medication they gave him to deal with the pain or what, but when he got home yesterday, he was in excruciating pain for a while. It got a bit better about half an hour to an hour later when the hydrocodone they gave him kicked in and he was able to nap for a bit and function somewhat normally for the rest of the day, but the pain got worse again late last night and he also developed severe nausea and hasn't even been able to keep water down for over 12 hours now, which also means he can't really pee out the stones more. He's also been really warm and sweating a ton.
My mom tried calling the doctors hours ago but, given everything going on in these times, they're understaffed and overworked and weren't able to get back to her, and with my dad continuing to be in a lot of pain and starting to getting badly dehydrated, she took him back to the hospital a little while ago, where hopefully they'll be able to at least treat his current condition and give us a way to manage his pain and other ailments until they get better and he can get rid of the stones.
But right now this just really effing sucks.
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I've been now for a while arguing with our technician about my space consumption on our HPC cluster.
"HPC cluster". Yeah, there's a bunch of computers, which also have some power, but in this setting I shouldn't need to argue with someone about 100GB more or less on one of the single 500 GB hard drives. I have 20TB of space at home. Why do you have in the cluster only HDDs for little kids? I've even offered to buy another drive for the server myself. It's not so that this is a lot of money for research, and not so that it wouldn't be used.
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"HPC cluster". Yeah, there's a bunch of computers, which also have some power, but in this setting I shouldn't need to argue with someone about 100GB more or less on one of the single 500 GB hard drives. I have 20TB of space at home. Why do you have in the cluster only HDDs for little kids? I've even offered to buy another drive for the server myself. It's not so that this is a lot of money for research, and not so that it wouldn't be used.
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It seems I let my cherry pit cushion to long in the microwave, and it essentially burned a whole into it.
I don't think I can fix it, since whatever I'll use will probably be less tough than the material it is out (doesn't mean much, besides that it's more likely to burn lol), and stapling it will probably be an issue for the microwave.
So I guess I gotta buy a new one, although this really feels like a waste.
Oh man, that would've been smarter, damn. Especially since the original case could need a wash.
But too late, already patched it over like an imbecile.
Pretty sure my grandma, a peltmonger by education, would be rotating in her grave if she saw how I did it
I burned it. It ripped open. I patched it. Repeat
(okay, only the first 2 steps yet).Guess I'll need to set the microwave to a lower temperature.
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