Arguing on hubski may have saved my life! Woo hoo! I've had intermittent arrhythmia for the past few months. Doc didn't take it very seriously (it's a clinic, they schedule you in 20 min timeslots). He told me to work on stress management. You know what stresses me out? My heart feeling like it's going to explode. Anyway he never heard the skipped beats on any of his tests. So I got a new doctor. I was in the waiting room, got a response on a pretty heated thread and was midway through typing a reply when the nurse called me in. Bam! I was worked up enough she could hear the arrhythmia just listening. By the time the doc came in I had calmed down but it was enough for the new doc to take it seriously. She did an ekg and we are trying some medication to see if that helps. So.. yay for arguing on the internet? In the meantime I'm not allowed to do anything I like. Have to eat healthy, can't drink, and only one precious cup of coffee a day. How am I supposed to code without caffiene?? Is that even possible?
guten morgen. killing some time before a phone interview. total hubski donations are at $666 and while I don't want people to not donate... \m/
We could try that. $200 at 27px high is $7.4 per pixel. Do you think it would encourage people to break donations up? We lose more money to Stripe that way, but it if encourages people to donate more, then it could be worth it. I also wonder if it would cause donation fatigue, like the damn thing just won't stay full, so to hell with it.
Just spitballing an idea here... what about Patreon? We subscribe to give you $x/mo, and you keep doing Hubski if we can get to $2500/yr, or $215/mo? It's a piddling amount to gather via Patreon (some artists pull in several grand a month), and it is a unique funding model, for a unique community, that could result in huge benefits to you personally if this whole Hubski thing works out. ;-)
I'm only seeing $158. Does it automatically convert the$antichrist into Canadian worthlessness if you are north of the border?
So the dishwasher burst into flames. We were making dinner and I was cleaning the table and my wife heard arcing. Then it started to smoke. Then she turned it off and I set about unmounting it so I could unplug it, but the property manager put linoleum over the feet so that was kinda difficult. So I went to turn off the breaker and heard my wife say "oh my goodness!" and run out of the room (in search of a fire extinguisher). So I see this thing with a column of flame leaping like a foot up, think "well, it's only 110v" so I swat at it with a wet sponge and put it out. Dragged that fucker out and put it on the back porch. Considering the tree went out there a day previous (in expectation of chipping - the 2nd Troy-Bilt chipper in as many days because the first one literally shook itself apart, there's some fun pictures from that too), the porch went from zero to redneck in 24 hours. Apparently this is a thing. According to the CPSC, there are like 600,000 en fuego dishwashers, of which 100k have been successfully recalled, 50 of which have burst into flame, and 4 of which have caused property damage. Which means, if you include the fact that I'm going to have to replace the linoleum in the kitchen, puts us in rarified territory. So now we're waiting a week for Bosch to come "inspect" it and "diagnose" the issue. Apparently if they'd come by prior to the flambe it'd be worth 40% off a new dishwasher... or a repair. We've been told that Bosch will "make it right", whatever that means. In other news, I'm now negotiating via email with the stupid property manager, who is using as his legal argument "it's your fault you didn't bitch about our shitty checkout review five days before you got here" as reason for not giving us the tenants' deposit, and our architect, whom we've been nagging to get our drawings submitted for permit, let us know yesterday at 6pm that they can only submit for permit today at 2pm and by the way they'll need $7k worth of checks beforehand. On the plus side, we were home, we were in the kitchen, we were on it, no one was harmed, the house didn't burn down and we didn't get a call from our property manager six months ago saying "well, your house burned down." And maybe we get a new dishwasher. Which wouldn't be bad - aside from that whole "burst into flame" thing. My wife and I will look at the empty hole in the kitchen, say "burst into flame" to each other and break out laughing. Which is good, 'cuz it's been leaking for a while and the subfloor is fucked up under it, too.
I was just talking with my dad the other day, who just built a new house. He was bitching about the new arc fault breakers that are code these days (at least in NC; I have no idea about elsewhere). Apparently, they trip every time you try to light a gas stove, hence the inspector sins off and you immediately replace the breaker when he leaves. He was like, "When the hell do you have an arc in an circuit, anyway?" Well, I guess this is when. Glad the damage wasn't catastrophic.
well, I could never say your life is boring, KB.
When I was about... 10, my sister had a kitchen accident/grease fire which scorched the cabinet above the stove and the backsplash... nothing major. But hell if my mom didn't weasel new cabinets and an ENTIRE paintjob throughout the house. Make Bosch do something about the smell.
It's his kidneys. No idea whats wrong with them. Might have been an infection which the antibiotics have cleared up and he's on the mend or they might be fucked and I'm keeping him alive by syringe feeding and subcutaneous fluids. We'll probably know this week. Not going to keep him around if I need to hand feed and IV bag water into him every day to keep him alive. If you've been working on a kidney rejuvenation syrum in the lab which might save/kill/or turn him into a 500 lb monster cat that destroys the neighbourhood I'd try it out on him.
Strangest week of my life. I can't go into it, but it's been rough. Maybe someday On a positive note, things are going very well for the startup. Another positive note The Les Paul I ordered arrived in the mail today. Holy shit, feels like a guitar is supposed to feel. I love it. Anyone want my Tele? Just kidding.
I BOUGHT A RECORD PLAYER BABY! Hooked up a new Audio Technica turntable to a used Sherwood receiver, and stripped the speakers off of my old stereo so I can spin some vinyl until I get decent speakers. It's the happiest a physical purchase of an item has made me for as long as I can remember. $200 total. Over New Years I spent a few days upstate with family friends renting out an amazing estate. The owner had an enormous, old, hidden and untouched record collection in a bookshelf in his basement. ...I stole like 8 records. Santana, Stevie Wonder, some Hitchcock soundtracks including Vertigo, Talking Heads, etc. and I kinda feel bad but at least I'm appreciating these records eh??? I bought a Fugazi record and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly which I had from his show. It's been a good week. No decent pics saved but I can update later. Edit: Also, with my last post about opening a checking account, I'm looking into the (very few) credit unions in my area. Meanwhile, does anyone have experience with TD Bank? It's down the street from my building and the convenience is tempting.
Dude... ripping off vinyl is seriously bad karma. Eight months from now dude's gonna come home and wanna play some Santana and it's gonna be gone. And then he's gonna look through and wonder what else is gone. And then he's gonna walk all around his house, racking his brain for what else has turned up missing, and he's going to hate every.single.person that has been in his house and he's gonna pull all his books and all his vinyl so that nobody can enjoy it. And then he's gonna pepper his house with "don't fucking touch my vinyl" stickers and it's gonna suck for everyone. Do yourself a favor. Send 'em back. Anonymously is fine, but send 'em back. Ripping off another man's record collection is a serious dick move.
You're right. I felt pretty bad about it. The reason I followed through was because these records clearly hadn't been touched or moved for long enough that there was dust and dusty-webby-stringy stuff coating the stacks. I had to cover my face from the dust that kicked up from flipping through the collection. There wasn't even a record player in his home. But you're right. I'll think about sending them back.
Listened to or not, he hadn't gotten rid of them. Ponder that for a minute. To steal someone's music is to steal their past. I had ave rats rip off my CD collection in '96 and ever since, when I remember snippets of songs I wonder if I own it or if it's one of the lost ones.
I concur with klein that you should send them back. My dad has his old drum set packed away and getting all dusty in his storage room. He hasn't played it for years and maybe never will again. But there's a lot of good memories that go along with it for him. Not to mention the potential of an appreciation in value. I could imagine he'd be pretty bummed/annoyed if someone stole it, regardless of how the perpetrator justified their actions. Sure, a drum set is arguably a bigger 'thing' than a few records, but in principle it's the same. Just because someone doesn't actively use something, it doesn't mean it's not of value to them.
Well damnit. I didn't want my first Pubski to be a bummer, but I have to come to terms with the ever-increasing likelihood that, despite hours of amazing interviews, the content I submitted for the writing job I wanted, just didn't hit the mark. This company has gotten back to me promptly at every turn. Like, same day responses to emails, phone calls, etc. I submitted my portfolio to them on Friday and ... here I sit, pressing F5 on Gmail, and unable to focus at my current gig. (Which is slowing turning into a shitshow.) So... yeah.
I've found a radio station that's stuck! Super cool little community station that does a lot of great shows. Going to about two shows a week for the next couple of months. I need to move to Seattle sooner rather than later. In other news I'm trying to setup a tour of Starbucks Corporate HQ, should be interesting.
It's going to be based entirely off of "when the employee I know there wants to give me a tour" since that's the only way in. However, I will keep a sharp eye for that food truck in general. Food trucks rule!
Finally handed in two assignments that were a pain in the butt. One was handed in four minutes before the 23:59 deadline. I put a ton of effort into it but the group dropped the ball at the last moment. This week was meant to be a full-on study week but I've been feeling depleted the last two days. Sleep deprivation + no heating for two days + 5 courses + 2 projects running = frustrated veen.
Had my first progress report at work today. It went fine :) Have been working a lot lately and I have a feeling that this is the workload I have to keep for this PhD. I just wonder how long this will go well as I am not used to sustain such load for more than a month. I used to do that in peaks. Doing behavioral experiments with mice. It is much harder than I thought. I did not expect mice to be that sensitive to smell, sound, cage condition etc. Started meditating again and got reminded how good it feels and sets a good tune for the day.
Big meeting tomorrow, doing last minute analysis, trying to improve my scripts to be more than "Sort by fold change and guess at the function of hits". It really amazes me how few good tools there are in the world of proteomics for my type of data. No GSEA for protein-based pathways, little consensus on clustering methods, poor gene ontology, incomplete interaction maps, no cell-type enrichment, very little annotation of even the most common protein modifications. My research right now feels only a step above the average Reddit science discussion: find a hit, pubmed it, and speculate. The rest of my day will consist of learning more about self-organizing maps. Hopefully talking to some real neuroscientists will give more insight.
My Hand therapist is a malevolent, foul creature who delights in the continued suffering and anguish of her torture victims. In other words, she's awesome. I could do without the evil cackle, however. Hopefully things keep progressing. In other news, the motivate hubski spreadsheet will need an update soon, and I'm sorta-kinda sticking to goals.
Chilling in between shifts drinking a triple ipa that is malty enough to balance the 133 ibu nicely. I spent the morning working on a walk in cooler and learning to wire lights. The fuse box is a lot less intimidating now that I know which parts of it will kill me haha. Training a friend tonight so I can focus more on projects around work. Got asked to dj at Club around here for "First Friday" which is a big night for people to come to the city for art and music, it's not a huge deal in general I guess but a big deal for me! Should be fun. The power ball drawing is tonight. I haven't bought a ticket but I'm enjoying the mania and hearing people's plans if they win.
I bought a frame, fork, and cassette at a bike swap meet. Spent $50 total, which seems kinda sketchy, but I'll splurge on the brakes and wheels. The fork isn't great, so I'll probably replace it before the year is out, but 80mm of travel is huge compared to a rigid. Literally infinite time better. Frame is a Trek 820, heavy and a bit small, but I'm aiming for an all-mountain hardtail I can also do some freeriding on too, so small is actually kinda nice, and heavy is okay. 9-speed cassette, but I'm doing a 1x. I've got pedals already from my current bike, and a saddle. Worst part is I don't have anything I can actually put together yet. Besides that, semester is ending, which is scary and chaotic.