[Abyss]

Azath Vitr (D, on 13 October 2022 - 03:58 PM, said:

The goddess of death was just about to resurrect my cat when the alarm went off.

Stubbed my little toe so hard the nail detached from the bottom and from one side. It's still attached on the other side though. Medical websites giving conflicting advice about whether to remove the rest or leave it on, but for now I'll leave it---it looks like it won't impede the growth of new nail from the base, at least not the initial growth (websites estimate 12 months for toenail to regrow but don't specify *which* toe---since this is smallest toe, and has the smallest nail, I imagine it should take considerably less time). Bought some toe protectors in case it catches on something and gets torn off. Don't particularly want to waste money on medical care when the stock market's this low.

Salt let me know I had a hole in the meat of my mouth---maybe an ulcer. Then I accidentally bit the inside of my mouth open in another place.

Ripping open a taped-shut box a bit carelessly I managed to rip the fingernail off my left index finger partially. That finger of my glove was full of blood. Thankfully the base of the fingernail held on.

Azath, i don't mean to offer unprofessional non-medical professional internet advice, but have you considered whether maybe just maybe you might be just a little bit undead?
Not full blown vampiric or lich or anything dramatic like that, just maybe zombie, possibly a bit ghoul or wight?

[QuickTidal]

Azath Vitr (D, on 13 October 2022 - 03:58 PM, said:

The goddess of death was just about to resurrect my cat when the alarm went off.

Stubbed my little toe so hard the nail detached from the bottom and from one side. It's still attached on the other side though. Medical websites giving conflicting advice about whether to remove the rest or leave it on, but for now I'll leave it---it looks like it won't impede the growth of new nail from the base, at least not the initial growth (websites estimate 12 months for toenail to regrow but don't specify *which* toe---since this is smallest toe, and has the smallest nail, I imagine it should take considerably less time). Bought some toe protectors in case it catches on something and gets torn off. Don't particularly want to waste money on medical care when the stock market's this low.

Salt let me know I had a hole in the meat of my mouth---maybe an ulcer. Then I accidentally bit the inside of my mouth open in another place.

Ripping open a taped-shut box a bit carelessly I managed to rip the fingernail off my left index finger partially. That finger of my glove was full of blood. Thankfully the base of the fingernail held on.

Time for one of my fave quotes:

Quote

When you have a bad day, give up. Go home and sleep. Fuck it. Try again tomorrow. Not every bad day can become a good day. Some days are just fucked, and cannot be unfucked. When you have a day that is fucked beyond repair, that is the universe speaking to you. Sending you a message. Listen to the universe. Go home, and save your energy. Tomorrow is another day. For now, just fucking chill at home.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 October 2022 - 06:46 PM

[worry]

One of my favorite Mother Teresa quotes.

[Slow Ben]

Renewed For 2 More Seasons, on 13 October 2022 - 09:11 PM, said:

One of my favorite Mother Teresa quotes.

I thought that was Ghandi?

[Abyss]

Slow Ben, on 13 October 2022 - 10:51 PM, said:

Renewed For 2 More Seasons, on 13 October 2022 - 09:11 PM, said:

One of my favorite Mother Teresa quotes.

I thought that was Ghandi?

You're both wrong, it was Nietzsche.

[worry]

My bad, not really my niche.

[Slow Ben]

Yep, unfortunately, learning philosophy has ghandi way of the dodo.

















I am sorry…..

[Tiste Simeon]

Dang Robbie Coltrane died

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

My girlfriend and I both have COVID. We both just started Paxlovid.

🤞

[Tsundoku]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 14 October 2022 - 07:38 PM, said:

My girlfriend and I both have COVID. We both just started Paxlovid.

🤞

Bummer. At least it's at the same time, bad as it may seem, because it's worse when one gets it and starts to get better then the other one gets it. Hope it's not too bad for you both.

Paxlovid sounds like some sort of celebrity fitness craze. Or one of Putin's inner circle.

[Lady Bliss]

Dislocated my arm in my sleep at exactly midnight which rang in my birthday. Got to spend the first several hours in agony in the emergency room. Yay me .

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Winter has come. Inside my (sealed and insulated) apartment it's still a tolerable 60 degrees (for now), but I'm trying to get as much Seaboard practice in (it's basically like a cross between a keyboard where every fingertip is a violin and a fretless zither (that "feels like an expensive sex toy" (and "like the skin of a dolphin"))) as possible (without re-injuring my wrists (spaced practice is apparently more effective anyway)) before it gets cold enough to start impeding my playing (at which point I'll switch to instruments I can play with winter gloves without impediment---finger drumming, etc.).


'One of the oldest, most robust findings on learning and memory, one that’s been found everywhere from purely verbal skills like language-learning to fine motor skills like surgery, is that if you want to remember something, you should use spaced repetition. [...]

The effect is more subtle as skills get more physically and mentally demanding, and for complex psychomotor skills like piano performance it’s not particularly well-studied. I would guess that this happens because learning music requires some combination of “massed” and spaced practice: you need to do quite a few repetitions in a row to make any progress, but to retain and build on that progress you’d do well to space out your reviews. Because of the limited scope of any research study, you tend to find comparisons that look like “practiced seven times in a row, exactly once” versus “practiced exactly once a day for a week.” Neither of those methods is going to get you to master that Mozart sonata. But the finding itself is so robust that it would be surprising if there weren’t a spacing effect for piano practice done right as well.

So why does hardly anyone do this?'

Spaced repetition for musicians


... I'll grant that Trump was right about one big thing; 'FOOLS!' Oh wearisome Condition(edness) of Humanity...

[Maark Abbott]

Seaboard? Nice. Seen one of those live before, they're really cool.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Slate article today falsely claimed that quantum entanglement allows for faster than light information transfer. Their science journalism has been really bad....

[Abyss]

Azath Vitr (D, on 20 October 2022 - 02:49 PM, said:

Slate article today falsely claimed that quantum entanglement allows for faster than light information transfer. Their science journalism has been really bad....

Well, there goes my groove.

[amphibian]

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 October 2022 - 07:51 PM, said:

Winter has come. Inside my (sealed and insulated) apartment it's still a tolerable 60 degrees (for now), but I'm trying to get as much Seaboard practice in (it's basically like a cross between a keyboard where every fingertip is a violin and a fretless zither (that "feels like an expensive sex toy" (and "like the skin of a dolphin"))) as possible (without re-injuring my wrists (spaced practice is apparently more effective anyway)) before it gets cold enough to start impeding my playing (at which point I'll switch to instruments I can play with winter gloves without impediment---finger drumming, etc.).

Do you turn the heat on during the winter? Because you can have a 60 degree house throughout the winter...

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

amphibian, on 20 October 2022 - 03:25 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 October 2022 - 07:51 PM, said:

Winter has come. Inside my (sealed and insulated) apartment it's still a tolerable 60 degrees (for now), but I'm trying to get as much Seaboard practice in (it's basically like a cross between a keyboard where every fingertip is a violin and a fretless zither (that "feels like an expensive sex toy" (and "like the skin of a dolphin"))) as possible (without re-injuring my wrists (spaced practice is apparently more effective anyway)) before it gets cold enough to start impeding my playing (at which point I'll switch to instruments I can play with winter gloves without impediment---finger drumming, etc.).

Do you turn the heat on during the winter? Because you can have a 60 degree house throughout the winter...

Only when there's significant risk of the pipes freezing (which is when my current lease requires it).

1. It's expensive. Especially don't want to waste money on heat while the stock market's this low. (While some insulation has been placed ooutside on the windows and I've put up some insulation against the windows and walls, I don't think there's any insulation inside the walls, which is what would really be required for it to be very effective.)

2. It's bad for the environment.

On Slate: it's messing with my groove because they're one of my favorite news sources, and faster than light information transfer through something as readily accessible as quantum entanglement would have major implications for the (near- as well as long-term) future of humanity (pseudo-FTL information transfer through wormholes is still a possibility)... it's a major error.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 20 October 2022 - 03:39 PM

[amphibian]

It's worth whatever the heating bill is to keep a place at 60 or whatever temperature that allows you to do the things you want to do during the winter without wearing gloves inside.

I know you operate a bit differently than most people, but saving 100 bucks a month by functionally punishing yourself with cold is more stressful and foolish than turning on the heat all the time.

[QuickTidal]

Azath Vitr (D, on 20 October 2022 - 02:49 PM, said:

Slate article today falsely claimed that quantum entanglement allows for faster than light information transfer. Their science journalism has been really bad....

To be fair, the concepts about all this come from stuff like a PHILOSOPHY of Quantum Physics book (Tim Maudlin, I think?), and this is all around Bell's theory isn't it?...So the HONEST answer is that no one really knows, everyone is speculating and even the foremost experts can't be 100% certain.....so "falsely" is a bit grandiose. What we know about the universe is infantile in the grand scheme...

And you have to admit the nitpick of "information" doesn't travel faster than the speed of light between those two spinning electrons is exactly that a nitpick, especially with something so esoteric to science circles where they all kind of hand wave it because we can also frame it like: Entanglement doesn't "travel" at all, so how can it travel faster than light? Why are we even asking this question.

It's just Hank's (and others) tiktok's took a VERY complex subject and perhaps oversimplified it (based on what I think is wave function collapse, which I understand some groups of people studying QM reject in favour of what? Super-determinism otherwise known as "The universe is like it is...just because"...?).

Everything is everywhere all at once, and it's all magic anyways.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

amphibian, on 20 October 2022 - 03:45 PM, said:

It's worth whatever the heating bill is to keep a place at 60 or whatever temperature that allows you to do the things you want to do during the winter without wearing gloves inside.

I know you operate a bit differently than most people, but saving 100 bucks a month by functionally punishing yourself with cold is more stressful and foolish than turning on the heat all the time.

Probably more like $150-$300 / month after the rate hikes (before I added the insulation, sealed the cracks, and started using as little heat as possible, I was regularly getting heating bills of $200-$300 / month). Discounting against the future value of the stocks I'd have to sell that could easily be more like $300-600 to $2000-$3000 / month (depending on time frame, and how quickly automation, quantum computing, and other technologies take off...).

Unfortunately I am still human, so that 'FOOLS!' applies to me as well. But I'll still be able to practice finger drumming and vocals/singing without significant impediment.

I could also sell some of my music software or hardware but I don't want to. Maybe I'll sell some things I don't really use. Still, it would be better to put that money in the stock market (probably...).

Thought I'd have more time before it started getting cold---last few years have been relatively warm through much of December. Might still end up being that way after this cold front passes... or not.

Wearing socks and slippers ripped that toenail (that was already mostly detached) off... didn't see any blood though.