The Vent and Rant Thread

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

The vast majority of instructional videos are terrible. Poor lighting, jerky camera movements, out of focus, slooooow talking, just plain poorly done.

I watch sewing videos at times, to learn new methods, etc. So many are just bad, and I've mentioned it before, giggling. Lots of giggling.

I prefer well done still photos and well written instructions. Every time.

Instructional videos and my lefthanded, aphantasic self really, really do not mesh well. And it isn't helped by the fact that most videos when converted into still photos and a transcript demonstrate that the presenter really does not know how to teach.

[HLS]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Tomorrow I get the Flu and COVID vaccine. Lucky me.

I got mine the same day and i slept for days

[twowheels]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

I prefer well done still photos and well written instructions. Every time.

Same here, and that's why I think that peak-internet for hobbyists was pre Youtube. I've often wondered about the loss of blogging and text based content, and I think the reason is that people are chasing the money -- Youtube pays for views.

I recently discovered Medium and Substack after years of vaguely knowing of them, but kind of ignoring them, and have been pleasantly surprised -- I actually paid for an annual subscription to Medium because I found a lot of good content there, and I want to support more written content and encourage a marketplace for ideas where people can be paid for their effort that isn't video based.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by twowheels

You OK, Jon? Your messages are usually more intelligible than this.

Just some typos that turned out to be valid words. So no underline to show me what I need to fix.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Is that one dose of the combined vaccine that's been promised?

I just looked at the my state's surveillance report, the KP.3 variant has been at the top of the prevalence list for 6 months, KW.1.1 and XEC have been and gone. I think that's the longest any variant hasn't been overtaken by a new one in this state.

Given I've never had the flu or covid I wonder why I bother with the vaccinations… apart from Sod's Law.

BR

I got one of each. I had the choice of one in each arm of both in my choice of arm. I chose one in each arm. No idea which was in which arm.

The only side effect was I got tried and cold the night I got my injections. I was a little bit tired the next day and my left arm bothered me a little for a few days. Overall, not bad.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I got one of each. I had the choice of one in each arm of both in my choice of arm. I chose one in each arm. No idea which was in which arm.

Unfortunately, I wasn't given a choice - I had to get one in each arm. I would've preferred just one arm.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I got one of each. I had the choice of one in each arm of both in my choice of arm. I chose one in each arm. No idea which was in which arm.

The only side effect was I got tried and cold the night I got my injections. I was a little bit tired the next day and my left arm bothered me a little for a few days. Overall, not bad.

Wow - didn't think RFK would go that far, a night in the slammer for getting double dosed.

After being trialled in a couple states and found to be very effective all Australian mothers-to-be can now get the RSV vaccine for free… its not for them, its for the baby.

BR

[poohbear_nc]

Is it me or is it getting darker earlier this year? I don't remember taking as many walks in pitch darkness last year ... need my reflective vest & flashlight for my pre-dinner walk.

I really miss DST - now 3 years in a row ....

[issybird]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I really miss DST - now 3 years in a row ....

You've come to the light! Or what we wish were the light.

Standard Time is brutal. The emotional cost of the loss of that hour of daylight in the late afternoon is enormous. So dark, so dreary, so depressing.

FWIW, it helps me a little, there's only a month to go until the afternoons at least start getting longer. It turns on December 9th or 10th. But realistically I don't start to notice a change until the end of January. That's a long dark slog ahead.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by issybird

You've come to the light! Or what we wish were the light.

Standard Time is brutal. The emotional cost of the loss of that hour of daylight in the late afternoon is enormous. So dark, so dreary, so depressing.

FWIW, it helps me a little, there's only a month to go until the afternoons at least start getting longer. It turns on December 9th or 10th. But realistically I don't start to notice a change until the end of January. That's a long dark slog ahead.

Here it gets dark so early in winter that an hour here or there actually makes no real difference. At the moment the sun sets at 4 p.m.; in December it will do so at 3 p.m. And I don't notice a real change until mid-February.

But yeah, it would still be nice to have DST all the time.

[Ghostcat]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

But yeah, it would still be nice to have DST all the time.

The UK tried this in the late 1960s. I got up in the dark, travelled to collage in the dark, returned home from collage in the dark. Parents were annoyed that their sprogs had to go to school in the dark. This was in the North of England; Scotland was even worse. The natives were restless and the government had no choice but to change things back.

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

The UK tried this in the late 1960s. I got up in the dark, travelled to collage in the dark, returned home from collage in the dark. Parents were annoyed that their sprogs had to go to school in the dark. This was in the North of England; Scotland was even worse. The natives were restless and the government had no choice but to change things back.

Spending all the daylight hours indoors, pah .

I personally find my SAD best managed by being able to take a walk in morning light and had just managed to arrange things so that I could do so even in late December, so I voted against permanent DST back when we had a referendum on the issue.

And back when I was trying to get my school-age children to bed at a reasonable hour in June, I would have been happy to vote for banning DST altogether.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

The UK tried this in the late 1960s. I got up in the dark, travelled to collage in the dark, returned home from collage in the dark. Parents were annoyed that their sprogs had to go to school in the dark. This was in the North of England; Scotland was even worse. The natives were restless and the government had no choice but to change things back.

Well, I have no kids and am not a morning person; I'm a total night owl, so I enjoy the long daylight hours in summer. And I live far enough in the north that in winter both mornings and afternoons are dark anyway, DST or not.

[PeterT]

BLAST.

For the 2nd time in just over a month I've lost my only contact lens. Put it in this morning and realized a few minutes later that my vision hadn't improved.

I searched the floor and desk I was sitting at; no sign.

Can't feel it in the eye or off pupil on the eye. This is a Rigid Gas Permeable lens designed to help my keracotonus under control. No... I don't have backup glasses; they're too difficult to prescribe. Luckily I do have many sets of +4.00 drug store reading glasses that help a bit.

I'm not sure I've lost lens in the past 20 odd years of wearing them, and of course only having vision in that eye (the other eye lost vision due to complications from infection over two years ago).

Replacement ordered, but probably will be a week until I get it.

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