Asking the group mind in case someone has #opinions.
The drastic weight loss during my extended hospital stay (~100lbs) has changed my body-shape in all ways save skeletal.
1 weird-ass effect is that my feet have shrunk in width & thickness, but not length, which means I’m now swimming in my Docs, but can’t go down a size.
I’m trying to find a solution that won’t make it too hot for summer wear. I’m leaning towards #hiking#socks but am not familiar enough.
@LikeItOrLumpIt Good thought, thanks! 😀 I should have added that I’ve already tried thick soles (wearing them now as I’m re-acclimatizing to boots rather than sneakers). They only really anchor things at the toe. North of the metatarsals, boots angle upwards to accommodate the lift of arches, of which I have none (should have included that in the description). I’ve never had proper fit in that area. I’ve always relied on ‘anchoring’ at toe & top (tight lacing).
@LikeItOrLumpIt And thanks for the wish for luck. :) It’s a pretty niche problem, so a certain element of Rube Goldberg design is likely. There’s a simple fix (get a leather worker to cut & re-stitch the sides of the boot), but that would be ridonkulously expensive - especially for a 10yr old pair of Docs. It would probably be cheaper to get custom-made boots. 😂🤷🏽
@LikeItOrLumpIt Definitely cheaper, and that’s why it’s an element of the current plan. It’s just messy/slapdash, likely to require constant adjustment during use, not long-lasting, and will still increase insulation on those portions of my calves, which sucks for summer use. I’m trying to figure out something less complicated if possible, but I’ve hit my own limit on that, and am hoping someone else might have faced a similar situation and have insight I lack.
@LikeItOrLumpIt Lol. Thanks. It’s a totally novel - and frankly silly - twist on the ongoing plot line that is the story of me & my feet. On the positive side, it gives me some insight into the problems faced by friends with uncommonly small feet (like, they can only shop in children’s sizes), in terms of the lack of easy options. For all that I’ve had special requirements in my footwear, I’ve always had styles & options that fit the societal needs as well as physical.
@LikeItOrLumpIt I’ve never worn them (nor have I ever discussed them someone who wore them) so that term is totally meaningless to me. 😞 Could you please elaborate?
@LikeItOrLumpIt And totally appreciated. Even if no solution results, framing/reframing an issue in a way that explains it to others helps organize one’s own thoughts & can result in surprising insights into the matter. The pleasant interaction & dopamine rush of feeling seen is just a bonus.
It’s like how teachers talk about learning more about their subjects by teaching it to others.
At one place I worked, someone clever (maybe copied) used that as an efficiency hack.
A small office was set up with a plain table & (IIRC) a single chair.
On the table was a rubber duck.
Before disrupting anybody else’s workflow, it was strongly encouraged that one first “talk to the duck”, ie verbalize the matter and see if in doing so you arrived at a solution/deeper understanding.
Honestly one of the best management ideas I’ve run into.
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Also popping in to say this might actually be a use-case for the ancient AI model called Lisa. Anybody remember that one. From early 70s. You’d type something and it’d parse it and respond. The fun was trying to trick it into spouting gibberish.
@LikeItOrLumpIt@qurlyjoe@mentallyalex Oh I know it’s a common/named thing but I simply didn’t think to contextualize it/include that because I was lazy. :) I included (“maybe copied?”) because this was long enough ago that I don’t k ow whether whoever thought to implement it came up with porting from coding to a more general usage (still an IT environment) or copied that practice from elsewhere. I didn’t want to miscredit, so I made both possible.
@mentallyalex@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt That’s what I mentioned in the comment I made referencing it. It’s common to pretty much any professional/educational situation.
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Why, just the other day I learned about a thing called The Rule of 300 Breaths, in a conversation about our impending Armageddon.
“That’s how many breaths you can be sure you’ll be able to breathe, if you breathe 20 times/minute & it takes 15 minutes for an ICBM to get here from Siberia.” @cautionwip@mentallyalex
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It would help if Masto had Search. Took me a few minutes to scroll back to that. I wasn’t sure what it was but I knew I’d learned something. @cautionwip@mentallyalex
@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt@mentallyalex Get a folding case, then keep post-its on the inside of of the cover. That way you’ll see them every time you go to use your IPad.
Then you’ll be able to know pretty accurately how much time you have left after the public alert goes out, assuming it’s not delayed much after NORAD picks it up.
OH! My apologies to Gnome, Alaska. They’re a couple of seconds closer than Anchorage, but TBF, nobody ever talks about it.
@mentallyalex@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt Yah, if you’re on either coast or a primary military target, you’re probably going to be hit by an underwater launched missile, which makes all of the stuff upthread irrelevant.
@mentallyalex@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt I missed. The disclosure, it was honestly just the only US military base in sufficiently familiar with to know its proximity to mountains. I’ve got no idea what other strategic installations. Given the convergence of intercontinental travel routes in that area, I’d wager a guess that anyone in proximity to I-25 between Denver & Pueblo has a higher than average likelihood for being in the first wave.
@mentallyalex@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt Boring into and hollowing out a mountain turns out to be a lot easier than digging down and covering with cement, in terms of hardening a facility, yah.
@qurlyjoe@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt It’s honestly the best option in the event of all out nuclear exchange. I have no interest in surviving that outside of a very specific set of circumstances.
Are you seriously telling me there isn’t online pot with a “there within the hour” guarantee available anywhere in the state aside from a military installation?
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Doh! I didn’t make the connection. If I’m gonna go out high I’d wanna do psychedelics. They’re semi-legal in Colorado, but not available yet. @mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt
@qurlyjoe@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt Actually, I may have misunderstood the meaning of “Dispensary?” In the context of the thread..can you please elaborate?
@qurlyjoe@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt What a weird limitation. Like, it seems designed to actively deny it for the people most in need of medical marijuana (ie chronic pain, cancer patients) who have difficulty travelling.
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No kidding. Airports have bins where you can dispose of any cannabis you might be carrying before you get on a plane. Oh, but carry a gun? You betcha, step right up. You do have to declare it, I guess, and it has to be in non-carryon luggage, and they do ask you to unload it before you get to the airport. But people (as in Congress people, for instance) still get caught with undeclared loaded weapons, in carry-on. @mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt
@qurlyjoe@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt I dont honestly know if it’s technically legal here (I’ve never checked) but I think you can purchase it for delivery through the post, at the minimum, in most of Canada. In BC, as long as you live within an hr or so of an urban environment (ie large-ish village and upwards), you should be able to find it online & payable through direct payment via your bank. The only limit (AFAI) is an unlicensed physical dispensary.
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It varies from state to state here. Also from town to town in some states. In Colorado we have retail medical recreational dispensaries. Order online or walk up. I think delivery is going to be on the next ballot in November. Payment is by cash only, because federal law complicates the bank connection. I don’t know if you can use a credit card. @mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt
@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt@qurlyjoe The main reason I mentioned it at all was that I thought it might be a new-to-her concept for Annie, whose posts have never suggested a history in IT (Ie, not especially nerdy). I felt like adding that it was fairly well known/commonly used might smack of the unpleasant tendency in some professionals to imply that their own experience should somehow be common knowledge, & anyone who doesn’t know $that is ignorant.
@mentallyalex@qurlyjoe@LikeItOrLumpIt I wouldn’t call it plagiarism. Very little of what anybody says throughout the day isn’t just a personal phrasing/framing of something somebody else said or thought. If everything we expresssd was original, we’d never get anything done as a species, because we’d be too busy explaining this new thing to others. Rephrasing and repeating or the main structural underpinnings of communication and education.
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I had to use a teletype to run it off the univ mainframe. Then I got a job janitoring and some office had some PDPs where I could run Eliza and some kind of space ship thing, maybe asteroids.
@mentallyalex@LikeItOrLumpIt@qurlyjoe Likewise Eliza, but honestly, I didn’t find it sufficiently engaging. Lisa came close enough to Turing-capable that it was more than just an interesting development.
@mentallyalex@xris@LikeItOrLumpIt This is gonna sound weird, but I associate plush animals so strongly their function (which I continue to employ) as a replacement for human touch/comfort when that’s not available that I can’t make the necessary jump to interacting with them on an intellectual level.
I do, however, employ my Ruby Gloom & Willow plushy/figurine for the purpose. I think the banter my brain would generate using Deadpool would distract.🤷🏽
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Ah ha! Further proof that contrary to popular opinion, I do not have ADHD, I just... think a lot.
Deadpool and I have had so many convos. I would never dream give him money to hold. He is horribly irresponsible. Zara often tries to slap him if he gets in her way so...
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