Maybe one day science will come out with tech that will allow the blind to see. Unless you were born blind in which case it may take longer to gain sight. I can only imagine how disorienting it would be to finally see when you were never able to see in the first place…
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Well… I finally have the new graphics card on order. Hopefully once it's in place (and I get another HyperX 8 Gigabyte memory stick for a total of 16GB) my computer will be futureproofed for a few more years. The graphics card will BARELY fit inside… I'll have a good half inch clearance from the drive bay once it's installed. And I apparently got the very last card at $219 because the price has now jumped to nearly $250. Anyways…
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They're definitely working on it http://time.com/4399255/mice-blindness-cure/
I forgot my DD password today. Lucky I'm still logged on with my phone and it has my password remembered itself. :)
I'm fed up with the US and it's stupid voting public. Ugh!
I'm just going to go home and watch more Adventure Time and Steven Universe and draw.
I used to think those shows were nambi-pamby crap till Pitface strongly recommend them to me, then I was sick in Cambodia, watching them on Cartoon Network. I really like them now.
ozoneocean wrote:
I'm fed up with the US and it's stupid voting public. Ugh!
I'm just going to go home and watch more Adventure Time and Steven Universe and draw.
I wonder if it's too late for me to move to Canada… There's nothing I can do anyway as we territories aren't allowed to participate in any CONUS elections…
Lonnehart wrote:ozoneocean wrote:
I'm fed up with the US and it's stupid voting public. Ugh!
I'm just going to go home and watch more Adventure Time and Steven Universe and draw.
I wonder if it's too late for me to move to Canada… There's nothing I can do anyway as we territories aren't allowed to participate in any CONUS elections…
You're better off, participation isn't all it's cracked up to be especially with the candidate choice we've had the past few elections. Even the local school board are a bunch of pay to play crooks giving out no bid contracts to their brother in law.
As for the Great.White North (koo-roo-koo-koo, koo-roo-koo-koo) Under their Healthcare my cataract surgery would have been scheduled for sometime in 2020 after my cataracts were fully mature.
Lonnehart wrote:
I think the harder part of all this is giving sight to those who never had it. The mechanisms that give us sight either never formed in those born blind, and even if they are there you'd have to "train" it to see…
Yeah, I heard stories about that too. Your brain has to be trained to see perspective and things like that. I wish I knew where I heard that story again, it was really interesting.
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Now that I have time I've been getting active in webcomics communities again, and it feels kind of weird when someone says "Wait a minute, The Duck still exists? I didn't even know"
Whirlwynd wrote:Lonnehart wrote:
I think the harder part of all this is giving sight to those who never had it. The mechanisms that give us sight either never formed in those born blind, and even if they are there you'd have to "train" it to see…
Yeah, I heard stories about that too. Your brain has to be trained to see perspective and things like that. I wish I knew where I heard that story again, it was really interesting.
Obviously not sure if this is where you heard that story originally, but Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars has at least one chapter about that.
Lonnehart wrote:
If there's one thing I hate about buying things online… it's the WAIT! I guess there's a piece of my mind that's not willing to wait… It wants that graphics card here RIGHT NOW!!! How do I calm it down… or rip it out without dying? :)
You want it done yesterday, well, you better learn to wait until the day after tomorrow.
I got over it by getting everything sent with a tracking number. I check that number multiple times a day to ease my impatience. At least I know where my package is.
bravo1102 wrote:Lonnehart wrote:
If there's one thing I hate about buying things online… it's the WAIT! I guess there's a piece of my mind that's not willing to wait… It wants that graphics card here RIGHT NOW!!! How do I calm it down… or rip it out without dying? :)
You want it done yesterday, well, you better learn to wait until the day after tomorrow.
I got over it by getting everything sent with a tracking number. I check that number multiple times a day to ease my impatience. At least I know where my package is.
You've got it easy as an American, though! I'm always jealous of you guys getting your online shopping orders days after you order it. I've been waiting on an order for nearly three weeks now. -_-
(This is possibly the first worldiest problem ever though.)
HippieVan wrote:bravo1102 wrote:Lonnehart wrote:
If there's one thing I hate about buying things online… it's the WAIT! I guess there's a piece of my mind that's not willing to wait… It wants that graphics card here RIGHT NOW!!! How do I calm it down… or rip it out without dying? :)
You want it done yesterday, well, you better learn to wait until the day after tomorrow.
I got over it by getting everything sent with a tracking number. I check that number multiple times a day to ease my impatience. At least I know where my package is.
You've got it easy as an American, though! I'm always jealous of you guys getting your online shopping orders days after you order it. I've been waiting on an order for nearly three weeks now. -_-
(This is possibly the first worldiest problem ever though.)
We're going to need new frame of reference. I have mailed plenty of stuff and received stuff from the second and third world and there are all kinds of tracking numbers to and from the US. Really fun tracking a package across China then down to a port and into a container for transocean shipping.
Ozoneocean can speak to this because he ordered something for me from China and we were able to follow the package to my front door. And I know from model building sites that it works in the opposite direction. So what is first versus second or third world anymore?
I guess anything beyond pure survival is a first world problem? Anything past food, water and shelter? So a guy in Africa who is having trouble with his smartphone has a first world problem in the third world? (A lot of which has better WiFi than the US!)
Eek, we're becoming a one world global community! Help me president elect Trump I need some good old American xenophobia!
HippieVan wrote:bravo1102 wrote:Lonnehart wrote:
If there's one thing I hate about buying things online… it's the WAIT! I guess there's a piece of my mind that's not willing to wait… It wants that graphics card here RIGHT NOW!!! How do I calm it down… or rip it out without dying? :)
You want it done yesterday, well, you better learn to wait until the day after tomorrow.
I got over it by getting everything sent with a tracking number. I check that number multiple times a day to ease my impatience. At least I know where my package is.
You've got it easy as an American, though! I'm always jealous of you guys getting your online shopping orders days after you order it. I've been waiting on an order for nearly three weeks now. -_-
(This is possibly the first worldiest problem ever though.)
I get the same problem as you due to me living in a U.S. Territory (and a LOT if not MOST U.S businesses think we're a third world country). Some orders take a week. I had to wait for a laptop battery to get to me… for a month…
As for tracking numbers they don't help. Yes, the USPS tracker says it's only its way to its destination. The problem is the final destination (where the package is heading to) is the USPS hub here on Guam. And the package will be here on the 14th. And thanks to the way the local post office handles things it will sit there for a few days before I finally get it.
Hahaha, yess, your super heavy tank :)
Out of all the places I have bought things from around the planet, Canada is without exception BY FAR the very slowest postage service. They are the very worst, no one can compete.
I have had man things shipped from Canada so it's not a one off. they're the most expensive and the slowest.
Even the free postage from china, that they just chuck in a container with bulk orders to save money, is faster than Canada post.
And it's not just because Canada is far away either. Stuff from the USA in any state comes in half the time and half the cost, same from the UK. Even as far away as Slovenia and Turkey.
So I can understand Hippie's issue!
-Last thing I got from Canada was my pillbox hat. That took 7 weeks from postage to get to me. And that wasn't unusual.
I used to deal with a seller in Canada who actually made weekly trips to a PO box across the border to avoid dealing with the Canadian post office.
There's also customs. Canadian and UK customs can hold up things for little or no reason and not notify anybody. As a seller I once dealt with that too.
We should junk all the computers and all and just go back to biplanes and little old guys in the back of a general store with a visor cap…
And Fred Astaire driving a half track. (As in the old Christmas special Santa Claus is coming to town)
I once ordered a hat online for the cold Canadian winter in August and it did not arrive until the second week of December. I ended up having to buy another hat at full retail to keep my head from freezing.
Crossing the border for packages makes sense. It was much faster to drive down to Watertown, NY, weekly than to wait for mail to arrive in Ottawa, Canada.
Heh… I wish I could drive all the way to the mainland U.S. to pick up a package. Imagine the roadtrip, 90% of which will be looking at the beautiful Pacific Ocean, enjoying the sunsets, weathering the super typhoons/hurricanes…
On second thought maybe I should just be as patient as I possibly can and just wait for the package to arrive… hopefully undamaged…
bravo1102 wrote:
I guess anything beyond pure survival is a first world problem? Anything past food, water and shelter? So a guy in Africa who is having trouble with his smartphone has a first world problem in the third world? (A lot of which has better WiFi than the US!)
Eek, we're becoming a one world global community! Help me president elect Trump I need some good old American xenophobia!
I…okay. That escalated quickly. I actually meant to refer to myself with the "first world problem" comment. I have money to throw around on more eyeshadows that I definitely don't need, and then complain about how long they take to get to me. Pretty silly.
ozoneocean wrote:
Hahaha, yess, your super heavy tank :)
Out of all the places I have bought things from around the planet, Canada is without exception BY FAR the very slowest postage service. They are the very worst, no one can compete.
I have had man things shipped from Canada so it's not a one off. they're the most expensive and the slowest.
Even the free postage from china, that they just chuck in a container with bulk orders to save money, is faster than Canada post.
And it's not just because Canada is far away either. Stuff from the USA in any state comes in half the time and half the cost, same from the UK. Even as far away as Slovenia and Turkey.
So I can understand Hippie's issue!
-Last thing I got from Canada was my pillbox hat. That took 7 weeks from postage to get to me. And that wasn't unusual.
Yeeeeeep. I genuinely don't know why Canada Post is so terrible. We seem to have just decided that we're okay with it. It's actually cheaper for me to send the same package to someone in the US or UK than it is to send it to someone in the next province over. And customs is completely unpredictable - most orders come in with no problem whatsoever, but every so often an order will get looked over and it'll have an incredible fee owing on it, like 1/3 of the cost of the actual products.
HippieVan wrote:bravo1102 wrote:
I guess anything beyond pure survival is a first world problem? Anything past food, water and shelter? So a guy in Africa who is having trouble with his smartphone has a first world problem in the third world? (A lot of which has better WiFi than the US!)
Eek, we're becoming a one world global community! Help me president elect Trump I need some good old American xenophobia!
I…okay. That escalated quickly. I actually meant to refer to myself with the "first world problem" comment. I have money to throw around on more eyeshadows
Without a sarcastic delivery and rolling eyes my joke falls flat. I was being facetious. But then life is a banquet and most people are starving to death because they didn't read the sign saying it's self serve.
It really has become one big world where anybody with Internet access can search and find anything and have 30 shades of eye shadow and a 60 inch TV mailed to their hut in Botswana.
And now I'm worried. One shipping option I took was to have the graphics card wrapped up in an Amazon.com box. According to a coworker she ordered something from Amazon and had it wrapped in such a box, but when she got it the thing had been opened and the box had holes in it…
I wonder what whoever is looking into the box will think when they see a pot of Vegemite inside…
https://www.amazon.com/Vegemite-Pot-950g-Made-Australia/dp/B00HYUSEXO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478911844&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=vegemite&smid=A3L6TC6HVCYFVE&th=1
Obviously not sure if this is where you heard that story originally, but Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars has at least one chapter about that.
Ooh, I don't think I've read that, but it's on my list now!
I'm antsy about ordering things online because I've had too many packages disappear since I've moved here =( Someone tells me they're sending me something and I never get it and they have to resend it if they can.
Well, that was a fun night of earthquakes. No damage to our house, and the kids get a day off school, and the wife a day (or more) off work. Her workplace has taken quite a bit of damage. The cats are a bit freaked, and the aftershocks are coming in swarms, but we got off lightly. A lack of sleep and the need to boil drinking water being the most pressing problems in our house at least.
Gunwallace wrote:
Well, that was a fun night of earthquakes. No damage to our house, and the kids get a day off school, and the wife a day (or more) off work. Her workplace has taken quite a bit of damage. The cats are a bit freaked, and the aftershocks are coming in swarms, but we got off lightly. A lack of sleep and the need to boil drinking water being the most pressing problems in our house at least.
Yikes! It's nice to know your family is safe! I hope your community made it out okay (sans the building damage and damaged utilities).
At least my package is now on island. I'll be checking the post office in a few hours…
@Gunwallace-
I saw the New Zealand earthquake on the news and hoped that your family made it out okay. I remember when the whole Christchurch earthquake happened around the beginning of 2011.
Boiling water is bothersome, but it is an important step to reducing the risk of getting sick.
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