toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

You can buy various HMDs that essentially mount to your existing glasses (I bought and fiddled about with one during the lockdown) and attach to any computer that supports USB. I haven't looked into whether there are any wireless options now, but you could satisfy at least some of your desires with that kind of thing.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

The art kinda reminds me of Thank Goodness You're Here:

Main character from Thank Goodness You're Here

That's the main character, but there are also characters more resembling the mascot you've shown. This looks closest to me:

Quest giver from TGYH

Maybe it's just me.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I once was let go from a job in favor of someone who was later found to be spending most of their shifts watching porn. I don't know if they suffered consequences for that - they were offshore and had no on site supervision.

To be fair, that person was more qualified than I was at the time, but I didn't watch porn on the job, so ...

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Green Day decided to skip this challenge.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I saw the other comment indicating that elsewhere in the thread and tried to edit my comment, but I think lemmy.world and Cloudflare might be having connectivity issues of some sort right now so edits are mostly a no go.

The state I grew up in is not one of the 31, so that's why the concept is alien to me, I suppose; the state I live in now is one of them, but I doubt I'll give my kid any alcohol for some time. Regardless, thank you for following up!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I've never given my kid alcohol, but I think the reason kids can have communion wine is that the law addresses a blood alcohol level. This is to accommodate things like communion wine and medicines, like NyQuil, that have small amounts of alcohol as one of their ingredients. (This is based on a post I read back when I used Reddit.)

Pretty sure that if a legal authority saw you hand your five year old a beer or spirit, they'd have something to say about it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Grapes are awesome, frozen grapes even more so. Not only are they ~~grape~~ great by themselves, but you can use them in lieu of ice cubes to keep your drinks cold without diluting them.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

My wife is awesome! Thank you for noticing.

My friends were a mixed bag in terms of how they reacted. However, I don't think I would marry any of them, so I'll have to agree that few are as rad as my wife.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

My dad died at 77, but I assure you he was extraordinary, rather than average.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That is indeed what I thought of, but I wasn't sure whether to believe it since I've never heard it used in isolation. Again, I appreciate the answer.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I like the quote, but what does "yang" mean in this context? Thanks in advance.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago
 

So they made their own fixes.

 

I've only bought a few...

 

I feel like I used to have a satisfactory layout for years but haven't since found a consistently comfortable arrangement. I like to have a fairly thick pillow or two under my head to accommodate my bad shoulder, a pillow between my thighs to avoid chafed skin, and a pillow for hugging - also mostly for my shoulder.

The head ones tend to get distorted really quickly and it's really difficult to find a good hugging pillow.

 

I'm not really sure why.

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Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.

Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.

Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.

edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.

 

But there's something about them I find distracting.

 

I didn't think my cats would care, but since my dog died, Maze has been ... Aggressively affectionate. To the point that I need to shoo her away if I need any alone time. She wasn't this loving any time over her past fifteen years or so of life and didn't seem like she cared about the dog, but she's been completely transformed since then.

 

I mean, just look at it.

edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.

 

Later in the day, the water flow collapsed the culvert under 50% of my driveway and made a pretty cool waterfall. Fortunately it turns out the town is responsible for repairs! Culvert destroyed and subsequent small waterfall

 
 
 

Pretty much the title. It's really weird to scratch my chin and not run my fingers through hair. As a plus, my five year old keeps telling me "you look like a completely different person. But I still know you're my daddy!"

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