Pointless Disconnected Blabs, Ramblings and Utterances

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

A few months back I tried a Chinese take out in a nearby town for the first time. Real Chinese in that they barely speak English and you have to point to things on the menu to order.

I hit the buffet with the styrofoam clamshell they give you and pack it to where the lid is hard to close. The add a large combination fried rice that has a little bit of everything in it.

Nothing has tasted bad or off in any way.


I can spend $20 there and eat for several days. Bear in mind I don't eat like most people do. I nibble every few hours rather than big sit down meals, so I eat some other types of things in between warming bits of this stuff.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Reese's Big Cups with pretzel bits.


Yummy.

 

[lxskllr]

Haven't had them with pretzels, and haven't had them at all in awhile, but I didn't care for the regular big cups. The ingredient ratio seemed wrong and didn't taste as good to me as the regular cups.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

There's something weird going on.

I've never been a typist, always hunt and peck with a lot of errors.

But the last couple of weeks has been miserable. Even a short post like this is difficult. Just to this point I've made a dozen errors.

My hands and eyes are not co-operating. I can place my finger over the tight key, but can't press it. I study it for a minute to make sure it's the right one and then sometimes it isn't.

Then, I can't seem to place the cursor between the right characters or press the proper right or left arrows to change positions.

It isn't vision as such, it's more coordination.

Total error count is now about 30 in this post alone.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It isn't vision as such, it's more coordination.

Total error count is now about 30 in this post alone.

Lack of sleep? Vitamin deficiency? You don't eat something with artificial butter flavor, do you?

 

[nakedfrog]

There's something weird going on.

I've never been a typist, always hunt and peck with a lot of errors.

But the last couple of weeks has been miserable. Even a short post like this is difficult. Just to this point I've made a dozen errors.

My hands and eyes are not co-operating. I can place my finger over the tight key, but can't press it. I study it for a minute to make sure it's the right one and then sometimes it isn't.

Then, I can't seem to place the cursor between the right characters or press the proper right or left arrows to change positions.

It isn't vision as such, it's more coordination.

Total error count is now about 30 in this post alone.

Could it be related to the health concerns about which you posted some time back?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I get amused by people in college who don't know the simple things. Posted on another website:

"I study my last bachelor's year abroad and my daily expenses/bills are handled with a different (aka local) bank entirely. Once I get my degree and come back to U.S., I want to move out as soon as possible (I'm planning to use this year to save up as much as I can). I'm aware that I need a lot of money to do that safely, so I'm prepping in advance.


I will be able to store the money I earn in my U.S. bank accounts. That's why I'm wondering - should I save all of my money for moving out in a savings account or in a checking one? Will I be able to withdraw/use money from the savings account to deal with rent, bills, initial expenses, etc? Is there a real difference for this? Thinking of using Wealthfront/Ally for this."

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Why am I having dreams about people I haven't seen since the 80's?

And in situations they were never in?

Not just one person either, more like 6 or 7 that were not connected to each other.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Why am I having dreams about people I haven't seen since the 80's?

And in situations they were never in?

Not just one person either, more like 6 or 7 that were not connected to each other.

Tell us more. If you would rather not, you can PM me. I can try to decipher their meaning.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

What does all this mean?

Faulting application name: MsMpEng.exe, version: 4.10.209.0, time stamp: 0x582a94a1
Faulting module name: mpengine.dll, version: 1.1.24080.9, time stamp: 0xa2586c61
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000242969
Faulting process id: 0x3cc
Faulting application start time: 0x01dafc5664f88bd5
Faulting application path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\MsMpEng.exe
Faulting module path: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\Definition Updates\{BB8869C1-DFF1-40C0-ABEF-D7D95677038B}\mpengine.dll
Report Id: ae599af7-7f84-11ef-ab26-00235a7690dd

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Left side shows it 'Started' Right side shows it 'Stopped'.



If I click on the left side to start it, the right side shows running for a few seconds, then goes back to stopped.

 

[lxskllr]

Program crash. I don't think it would mean anything unless you were an MS dev of the program.

Faulting application name: MsMpEng.exe, version: 4.10.209.0, time stamp: 0x582a94a1 THE PROGRAM NAME
Faulting module name: mpengine.dll, version: 1.1.24080.9, time stamp: 0xa2586c61 THE PORTION THAT FAILED
Exception code: 0xc0000005 REASON IT FAILED
Fault offset: 0x0000000000242969 ???
Faulting process id: 0x3cc THE RUNNING PROCESS THAT FAILED
Faulting application start time: 0x01dafc5664f88bd5 PROGRAM START TIME
Faulting application path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\MsMpEng.exe WHERE THE PROGRAM IS STORED
Faulting module path: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\Definition Updates\{BB8869C1-DFF1-40C0-ABEF-D7D95677038B}\mpengine.dll WHERE THE PORTION OF THE PROGRAM IS STORED
Report Id: ae599af7-7f84-11ef-ab26-00235a7690dd ???

I'm not a programmer

Maybe a bad update?

 

[pmv]

Why do they take Manhattan first, then Berlin? It seems a very illogical order in which to do things. First, one small neighbourhood of a major US city, then, ignoring the rest of that city, jump across the Atlantic and take an _entire_ city in the centre of Europe, all at one go. Surely you should start with a neighbourhood of Berlin (kreuzberg, say), then incrementally take the rest of that city, then expand to other German cities, or perhaps cities in neighbouring countries, and only then attempt to take parts of North America, taking Manhatten as part of the general process of taking NYC as a whole.
Leonard Cohen is not a strategic thinker.

 

[lxskllr]

My girl cat Mamas has a remarkable grasp of English. The first time she impressed me was when she knew she was "the sister", even though I've never called her that directly, and when she responded, I was talking to her brother. I just told her to get in the chair and I'd give her attention, and she hopped up into the chair. To the best of my memory, I've never said that to her before. I may have made a leading movement with my head, but she still knew exactly what to do, and what the result would be.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Something very weird happened above, but not sure what caused what.

SeaMonkey also crashed but was able to be reopened.

Then LibreOffice crashed and could not be reopened. It would try to reopen and recover, but crash again. Never saw that before.

On PC restart, all is back. MSE is running, LibreOffice opened fine and only lost one minor entry/change


Ran MalwareBytes sometime last evening after MSE crashed. Found nothing.

 

[VirtualLarry]

MsMpEng.exe

This is, I believe, MS's own firewall. Or was that A/V?

 

[lxskllr]

This is, I believe, MS's own firewall. Or was that A/V?

Based on the rest of the error, I'd say av, but I have no idea what's going on in the windows world. I haven't used windows since vista was still in support.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

M$ Security Essentials.

 

[nakedfrog]

Why do they take Manhattan first, then Berlin? It seems a very illogical order in which to do things. First, one small neighbourhood of a major US city, then, ignoring the rest of that city, jump across the Atlantic and take an _entire_ city in the centre of Europe, all at one go. Surely you should start with a neighbourhood of Berlin (kreuzberg, say), then incrementally take the rest of that city, then expand to other German cities, or perhaps cities in neighbouring countries, and only then attempt to take parts of North America, taking Manhatten as part of the general process of taking NYC as a whole.
Leonard Cohen is not a strategic thinker.

TBF, the "small neighborhood" of Manhattan is 1.6 million people. It's also not landlocked, as opposed to Berlin. It may be that the weapons are located there, and once those are secured. I think perhaps you lack sufficient data to make your assessment 🤪 Besides, it worked for the Muppets!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

When the remake is better than the original.

Quite a few years back, I picked up a Jefferson Starship CD, Tree Of Liberty. It's a collection of oddball protest songs and includes tracks like Follow The Drinking Gourd, Santy Anno, I Ain't Marchin' Anymore and Comandante Carlos Fonseca.

One track that caught my attention is In A Crisis . Found out it was originally done by an obscure group called World Entertainment War.

Finally got the CD that had their version (not streaming anywhere that I could fine). It's OK, but not as good as the JS version. Weird CD too. It has a spoken track at the beginning of some songs like a radio announcer. At first I thought I'd gotten a bootleg somebody copied off the radio.

 

[Muse]

I dreamed up one a couple days ago and realized it was perfect for this thread. I guess it was so pointless I forget what it was.

 

[Muse]

There's something weird going on.

I've never been a typist, always hunt and peck with a lot of errors.

But the last couple of weeks has been miserable. Even a short post like this is difficult. Just to this point I've made a dozen errors.

My hands and eyes are not co-operating. I can place my finger over the tight key, but can't press it. I study it for a minute to make sure it's the right one and then sometimes it isn't.

Then, I can't seem to place the cursor between the right characters or press the proper right or left arrows to change positions.

It isn't vision as such, it's more coordination.

Total error count is now about 30 in this post alone.

Maybe you can still learn "touch typing," which allows you (me!) to type without looking at the keyboard. I took Typing in 8th grade, and at the time and since I realized it was and still is one of the best classes I have ever had. Best probably to take the class in person with a human instructor in supervision. If you are reasonably healthy I think you should be able to master this. I got up to 40 wpm in that one class and got faster since. The best thing about touch typing is when you get proficient enough at it you know when you've made an error without even having to look or be informed by a spell checker. You just know (or at least suspect!).

 

[nakedfrog]

I dreamed up one a couple days ago and realized it was perfect for this thread. I guess it was so pointless I forget what it was.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember learning how to type and thinking to myself I just don't see how I could actually get good at it as it just felt so weird. But after a while, muscle memory is what really takes over and now I can do it pretty well.

Then there's my dad. One finger at a time, and uses caps lock for capital letters lol.

 

[pmv]

Maybe you can still learn "touch typing," which allows you (me!) to type without looking at the keyboard. I took Typing in 8th grade, and at the time and since I realized it was and still is one of the best classes I have ever had. Best probably to take the class in person with a human instructor in supervision. If you are reasonably healthy I think you should be able to master this. I got up to 40 wpm in that one class and got faster since. The best thing about touch typing is when you get proficient enough at it you know when you've made an error without even having to look or be informed by a spell checker. You just know (or at least suspect!).

I would assume that the OP's concern is not the practicalities of typing but whether there's some medical/neurological cause for suddenly developing such difficulties.