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[time]

I did one of the heart stress tests on the treadmill in the past few months and it does get ramped up really quickly. They take your blood pressure constantly throughout the test and it's very possible if the doc didn't like what they saw during the test they could end it after 60 seconds for someone in their 80s. I don't remember exactly how long I went but I don't think it was more than 8-10 minutes. My arms/wrists were getting sore with sweaty hands from holding myself at the steep incline that they get you to in a relatively short amount of time. I should also add that they never got me to a running speed. By the time the treadmill was at a pace of 4.8MPH the incline was so steep that running would have been a pain. The pace was just at an annoying speed that it was just too slow to start a jog and not fast enough to commit making it uncomfortable.

That IS their intention - they don't want you to run, that's too easy.

I just did poorly on one (less than 6 minutes, whereas on the previous one 2 years ago I managed the next two levels of incline and 12 minutes). I felt sick - I'll see what the cardio consultant makes of it on Tuesday.

 

[time]

I have not had one in many years, but the worst part was the bunch of electrodes attached to the skin with some super adhesive. It must have been developed by some hairless due or a woman. :lol:

Women have varying amounts of hair too. But in modern western society, most remove it regularly and painfully.

So you're a bit of an insensitive prick for making that comment, wouldn't you agree?

 

[Stereodude]

So you're a bit of an insensitive prick for making that comment, wouldn't you agree?

Kids these days... Can't take a joke.

Do you need to go back to your safe space so you're not triggered again?

 

[LunarMist]

Women have varying amounts of hair too. But in modern western society, most remove it regularly and painfully.

So you're a bit of an insensitive prick for making that comment, wouldn't you agree?

I did not mean it that way, but maybe you have experience with hairier women than I have. Do you remember the 40 virgin movie? I use a trimmer, not wax. :lol: The most hirsute woman I ever knew cannot compare to me.

 

[snowhiker]

Kids these days... Can't take a joke.

Do you need to go back to your safe space so you're not triggered again?

WARNING: The next sentence may trigger you.

Hey buddy, you need to post a trigger warning BEFORE you ask is someone was triggered because I was triggered by it.

 

[Stereodude]

WARNING: The next sentence may trigger you.

Hey buddy, you need to post a trigger warning BEFORE you ask is someone was triggered because I was triggered by it.

Sorry snowflake. :rofl:

 

[LunarMist]

I'm sorry to have started this but please calm down guys. Life is too short to be stressed over trivialities.

 

[snowhiker]

Sorry snowflake. :rofl:

That's extra special snowflake. TYVM.

 

[snowhiker]

Two upper molars (tooth 1 & 16) have been removed. Total time 40 minutes, and half of that was waiting for the jaw to numb. Bitting down on gauze right now so I don't bleed to death. Seems funny in this modern age, but tooth extraction is simply a doc putting your tooth in a pair of vice grips and slowly rocking and twisting tooth back and forth like you are trying to remove a nail stuck in a piece of wood.

Antibiotics seem to be working for my previous mentioned pain in lower jaw. At least I don't have to apply orajel every 2 hours now. Simply sensitive to hot/cold liquids now. Hopefully that will go away as well. At least now I have a bunch of Rx for nice pain killers.

Time for bed.

 

[Stereodude]

I'm sorry to have started this but please calm down guys. Life is too short to be stressed over trivialities.

I disagree. It's long enough to stress the extremely thin skinned with trivialities for entertainment. :idea:

 

[LunarMist]

I disagree. It's long enough to stress the extremely thin skinned with trivialities for entertainment. :idea:

If your goal is to drive everyone away, then it's not difficult to be successful.

 

[time]

Why don't we have our own popcorn emoticon? I had to steal this one.

 

[mubs]

Scary stuff: How to make Linux more trustworthy

Yahoo mail users raped again. Long time users of email (before GMail was even born) like Merc and I primarily use Yahoo. What kind of nitwits are running the place? In the last couple of years they fu*ed up the interface too. I should start using Gmail more.

 

[mubs]

Hey Merc, you've been away too long. You're being terribly missed, buddy. Come back!

 

[snowhiker]

Hey Merc, you've been away too long. You're being terribly missed, buddy. Come back!

He's just giving all of us time to catch up on our post counts.

 

[jtr1962]

Yahoo mail users raped again. Long time users of email (before GMail was even born) like Merc and I primarily use Yahoo. What kind of nitwits are running the place? In the last couple of years they fu*ed up the interface too. I should start using Gmail more.

It's not just the interface they screwed up. Virtually anytime I use Yahoo Mail or look at Yahoo news articles my CPU pegs at 100% and the machine becomes unresponsive for seconds to a minute or more. It looks like maybe they're trying to run scripts for ads or other nonsense. In fact, the obsession with bombarding users with ads is usually the reason why many formerly good sites and services went downhill. It also creates loads of security holes which otherwise might not exist.

 

[ddrueding]

Don't rent from anyone. Buy a domain, hire the best provider at the time (currently Google) to run it. If better comes along, change to them. Your e-mail address never needs to change again.

 

[mubs]

Too much work, dd

 

[ddrueding]

On Tuesday I did it twice (his and hers) in the span of 30 minutes. No webpage at all.

 

[sedrosken]

Because I like messing around with old crap and I needed something to do for the holidays, I secured a HP T5700 thin client, a 44 pin IDE female to female cable, a 44 pin IDE to CF adapter, and an 8GB CF card. The T5700 has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 clocked at one whole gigahertz, 256MB of DDR-266 RAM, an 8MB ATi Rage XL (HP calls it an XC but I'm 90% sure that's a typo) graphics chip baked onto the system board, and 256MB of flash storage on a laptop IDE bus. They're due to arrive between the 21st and 22nd, some probably earlier.

My plan, because I needed one of those, is to take the CF card, load DOS on it and a copy of Windows 98SE setup, and put it in the machine, taping it to the side panel or something to keep it from shorting on anything. And then I plan on seeing for myself just what it's capable of. Transmeta once said a 1GHz Crusoe was about the speed of an 800MHz PIII. We know how that tends to go, the PIII tends to clean house and I laugh at their hopelessly high estimates of performance, but maybe this will surprise me. Up until a couple years ago I had never even heard of Transmeta, much less the Crusoe.

Call me stupid for buying it, but hey, I needed some cheap entertainment, and I don't know many people who ever had one of these Crusoe-powered machines.

 

[sedrosken]

Accidental double post, whoever's in charge of that would you please delete this?

 

[mubs]

On Tuesday I did it twice (his and hers) in the span of 30 minutes. No webpage at all.

Is this on Gmail? Or is it the whole 9 yards: get a domain; buy some cloud computing; install mail server etc. etc.??

If there's a real easy way to do it, can you please point me there? Thanks.

 

[Newtun]

Thanks. Good to know. My insurance will pay 50% with yearly max of $1500 (I think) so if they are way over $3000 I may have to pass.

As it happened, I had a dentist appointment last week, so I asked them about the cost of one of those ceramic crowns; they charge about $1400.

 

[snowhiker]

As it happened, I had a dentist appointment last week, so I asked them about the cost of one of those ceramic crowns; they charge about $1400.

Thanks for the info. $1400 seems reasonable, depending on how much is covered by insurance. I was lucky that I ended up not needing a crown or worse a root canal. My only problem now is that if I eat/drink anything hot or cold I have intense toothache pain for 30-60 seconds. Dentist says teeth are 100% fine and the antibiotic I'm taking should have eliminated any sinus infection by now, so I'm at a loss as to the cause of my suddenly occurring toothache pain or a solution.

If the pain doesn't eventually fade away I may have to find a specialists and have some exotic CAT/PET/MRI scan performed. Joy.

 

[jtr1962]

My guess might be that your gums receded slightly and exposed the more sensitive part of the tooth without enamel below the gum line. I think brushing with flouride solution might help develop at least a thin layer of enamel on the exposed tooth. Anyway, mention my thoughts to your dentist and see if they have a solution.

 

[ddrueding]

Is this on Gmail? Or is it the whole 9 yards: get a domain; buy some cloud computing; install mail server etc. etc.??

If there's a real easy way to do it, can you please point me there? Thanks.

Squarespace now has integration with Google Business on checkout. Go to Squarespace, buy a domain, choose Google integration, choose the 1-page site, config site. By the time you are done configuring a stock image and simple text for the page Google should have authorized the domain so you can go back and set up the address.

The mail hosting is on the GMail client, but the address is on your domain. The page uses the (IMO) industry leading WYSIWYG squarespace editor. All web-based.

 

[mubs]

Thanks DD, will look into it.

 

[Chewy509]

My family and I had lunch at the local tavern's restaurant today, and across from us were a group of young blokes having lunch and a beer. Nothing strange about this, however one of them had a lot of ice in his beer and was drinking it through a cocktail straw? My wife and I have never seen anyone do this, and thought it was strange... Has anyone else seen this before? And would you agree that's strange?

Furthermore, my wife did see him eat normally and was able to hold his glass fine, so we assume it wasn't due to a disability...

 

[LunarMist]

Because I like messing around with old crap and I needed something to do for the holidays...

Find some women.

 

[LunarMist]

Hey Merc, you've been away too long. You're being terribly missed, buddy. Come back!

Yeah, it's getting to be more of a concern. I hope he is off watching the star warring movie or something like that.

 

[LunarMist]

One week to Christmas. I'm not ready. Argghh!

 

[snowhiker]

My guess might be that your gums receded slightly and exposed the more sensitive part of the tooth without enamel below the gum line. I think brushing with flouride solution might help develop at least a thin layer of enamel on the exposed tooth. Anyway, mention my thoughts to your dentist and see if they have a solution.

Sounds plausible. On the other hand, I doubt my gums receded the neccessary amount in under 12 hours. I'm going back in March for another cleaning and will mention it and salivary gland and any other possible issue.

One week to Christmas. I'm not ready. Argghh!

I'm always "ready" for xmas because I don't celebrate it.

 

[LunarMist]

I'm always "ready" for xmas because I don't celebrate it.

I have to hit four states and three countries. I hope for no repeat of the missing shoe (Korean) incident or the Santa Barbara clusterf*ck.

 

[time]

Thanks for the info. $1400 seems reasonable, depending on how much is covered by insurance. I was lucky that I ended up not needing a crown or worse a root canal. My only problem now is that if I eat/drink anything hot or cold I have intense toothache pain for 30-60 seconds. Dentist says teeth are 100% fine and the antibiotic I'm taking should have eliminated any sinus infection by now, so I'm at a loss as to the cause of my suddenly occurring toothache pain or a solution.

If the pain doesn't eventually fade away I may have to find a specialists and have some exotic CAT/PET/MRI scan performed. Joy.

Hairline crack for sure. Unfortunately, you just added a zero to the cost.

J/K, sort of, maybe. Exact same thing happened to my daughter. Ended up destroying an otherwise perfectly good tooth to do a root canal. Dentist broke off the end of the drill/tool in the end of the "J" and didn't tell her - he just hoped it would be OK. Expensive scans and three specialists later, they've all advised her to abandon the tooth and go for extraction, because the chances of getting the broken tool fragment out are remote (and about AU$4000).

Moral of the story: save up a lot more and go to a specialist for root canal work. If your dentist can't prove the cause of tooth pain, find another dentist who is happy to send you to a specialist radiography clinic.

 

[Chewy509]

@Tannin @Tea,

I assume this wasn't your store?

http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/s...l-ballarat-business-shocked-after-fire/?cs=12

 

[DrunkenBastard]

I believe his store is Red Hill Computers. This sounds like a much larger building. However this may be Tea taking out the compeition.

 

[LunarMist]

Did anyone see a juvenile ape running from the premises prior to the conflagration?:rofl:

 

[snowhiker]

1) Who's working New Year's Day?

My work day starts at 6pm so that barely counts. I'm also not doing any type of celebration on New Year's Eve that would prevent me from making it into work later in the afternoon.

2) What New Year's traditions/resolutions do you do, or try to do?

I don't do New Year's Resolutions, as I never follow thru with them anyways. No party/celebrations. I have, for the last 30+ years, watch my digital wrist watch flip from: 23:59:59 & 12-31 to: 00:00:00 & 1-1 and listen to gunfire.

 

[ddrueding]

1. This is my first day not in the office (including weekends) in about 40.

2. Resolution: Be less of a dick. Stretch goal: Make those around me have better lives.

 

[snowhiker]

Happy New Year! Oh the glorious gunfire!!!