[Macros]

First real pint of Guinness of 2021

Oh it's marvelous. Sitting outside imthe golf club in the sunshine, no crowd, one other table.

Oh heaven

[Aptorian]

Bought a pair of Jabra 75t Elite ear buds and I'm really impressed with the things. I know that Bluetooth ear buds have been around for a few years now but I wasn't really interested in trying them out. I was sure I'd lose them first time I tried them out but I finally caved after destroying my latest set of corded headphones.

There's something really futuristic about carrying small wireless speakers around in your ears that can block out sound and take phone calls.

[amphibian]

Welcome to the hearing aid revolution - in full swing since the 1960s.

The models you'll have as you get older will be even cooler than these.

[Aptorian]

I know. It's pretty cool. One of my older colleagues uses hearing aids and is often using it to play music. You don't notice it at all except when she mentions it.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Just remember to buy power bars I have adapters to stream my cell phone, land line phone, home computer, work computer and TV to my implant, all of which run on rechargeable batteries. Along with the implant processor batteries, remote microphone (useful in meetings) and drying kit, I am always charging things. You can never have enough power bars.

[Tiste Simeon]

Have you seen those running headphones that don't even go in your ear? They kind of sit on your temples just next to your ears. The sound quality is phenomenal and it doesn't have the uncomfortable feeling that in ear pieces can give you.

I imagine there's similar technology for hearing aids?

Here's some for an example:
https://upandrunning...9-as800cb-black

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 17 May 2021 - 03:14 AM

[Mentalist]

I don't trust any earbuds that don't hook around my ear to not fall out.
Should be getting my new JVCs today, unless Amazon lied to me.

Also, put down a chunk of cash on Kickstarter for a new Android 11 keyboard phone. Since there's been no recent news about the new BlackBerry, felt like a right thing to do.

[Macros]

You know the ethical questions around keeping people alive when they are on life support with zero chance of recovery or survival....

[Mentalist]

Macros, on 18 May 2021 - 04:02 PM, said:

You know the ethical questions around keeping people alive when they are on life support with zero chance of recovery or survival....

https://www.kickstar...d-11-smartphone

Second KS project for a Keyboard phone from this company that's manufacturing small batches. reached its funding goal in 7 minutes.

The demand is out there.

[Mentalist]

6-day weekend.


Fuck yeah.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Briar King, on 22 May 2021 - 01:38 AM, said:

I think this is more of a southern thing but we call cicadas locust and locust grasshoppers. Anyhoo the locust(cicada) are starting to show up and it's always hilarious to me when those bastards are on the house walls outside because my mutt absolutely loves to eat those damn things. I walk with him and point them out to him. Nom nom nom he then goes.

They actually make a satisfying crunch. Sometimes they scream.

'Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas were used as a food source by Native Americans and are still eaten by humans in many countries.

[...] "They have a buttery texture, a delicious, nutty flavor, probably from the tannins, from the roots of the trees on which they fed," [...] "And they're going to be really good with a Merlot."

[...] In America, "We're kind of the weirdos: 80% of the world's cultures eat insects, but we're in that 20% that thinks it's an abomination."'

https://apnews.com/a...81a8f0bd19e6ead

The crunch makes them 'the croutons of the sky'... No actually that's june bugs apparently:

'Historically, the Bear River people in northwestern California ate fire-roasted June bugs. Today, many people collect adult June bugs from lights or dig larvae from the soil for recipes. They crush them and bake them into biscuits, sprinkle them onto salads as "croutons of the sky," [...] or even fill cooked larvae with cheese and wrap them in bacon'

https://phys.org/new...s-croutons.html

June Is Coming....

In all seriousness I do hope I'll be able to buy some cicadas on Amazon. They had locusts last summer I bought for my coffee salad soup, but they've been out of those for a while (plenty of crickets and grasshoppers though)...

https://www.amazon.c...e?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 May 2021 - 03:41 AM

[Mezla PigDog]

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

[Tsundoku]

Mezla PigDog, on 23 May 2021 - 06:09 PM, said:

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

Ah jeez Mez, don't you know you just put the mockers on yourself? Your work will have some sort of lasminute.com emergency and of course only SuperMez can save the day.

I hope I'm wrong though and you have great old time:

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 24 May 2021 - 09:36 AM

[Malankazooie]

High wind is the pits and I don't like it at all. We even had tornado warnings on the far eastern counties yesterday. But driving by a reservoir when the wind is blowing and seeing the whitecaps is kind of magical. Especially when you are driving in from above down into the valley and it opens up, and the sun is at the perfect angle to maximize the light reflecting off them.

[Gorefest]

My football team finally managed to get promoted again after 4 years on the second tier of Dutch football! Damn I am elated.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Expected wait times between the first and second Covid vaccine shot were cut from 16 weeks to 8 weeks here today. That would make the start of August two weeks after my second shot. Providing that holds, that would open up all sorts of summer activities and events that were looking out of question previously. After a no-fun summer last year, that really gives me something to look forward to now.

[Mezla PigDog]

Tsundoku, on 24 May 2021 - 09:31 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 23 May 2021 - 06:09 PM, said:

Mr PigDog and the sprog are away next weekend. It's been tentatively on the cards for a while but officially confirmed today at 3 whole nights away. I haven't been alone in the house during non-work time for more than a couple of hours since Spring 2019 I think.

Holy sweet frickin jesus. If anything stops this happening I'm going to have a psychological meltdown.

Ah jeez Mez, don't you know you just put the mockers on yourself? Your work will have some sort of lasminute.com emergency and of course only SuperMez can save the day.

I hope I'm wrong though and you have great old time:

It's happened! They are not at their destination yet but they have left and are closer to the destination than home at this point so they can't come back tonight! I worked until 7.30pm finishing a bastard of a project and now blissful solitude awaits until Monday (I hope)!

[Morgoth]

Bars are open again and I’m having a beer in the sun

[Cyphon]

I want to hear how the Mezla long weekend went.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Briar King, on 02 June 2021 - 10:15 PM, said:

I'm so excited y'all! Our 2 brand new fridges are finally being delivered this Thursday! This is such wonderful news. I miss ice cream. I'm going to buy a couple of tubs to celebrate after they cycle up.