What first world problem did you have today?

[IronWing]

I was working through a list of names for a conference a few years ago and there was a person with a Vietnamese name Something Nmi Something and I asked a coworker about pronunciation of the name so I could get it right. We puzzled over it for a few minutes and then she slugged me. Apparently NMI is “no middle initial”.

 

[QueBert]

Kitchen sink was clogged, so I pulled the pipes apart and cleaned them out and ran a hose into the uhhh drain thingy in the back of the house. I put the pipes back together and ran water for 2 minutes on each side, no leak. Put everything back under the sink, and 20 seconds of running water there was a steady leak. Now I gotta re do shit and see where I fucked up. While I'm no handyman, this is really basic on the handyman scale. I never fail to disappoint myself.

My bafflement is high right now.

 

[lxskllr]

A plunger is the best first step before taking shit apart. It's easy and cheap.

 

[igor_kavinski]

My bafflement is high right now.

We are dying to know how you effed up.

 

[QueBert]

A plunger is the best first step before taking shit apart. It's easy and cheap.

Somebody else had tried that, it was beyond plunging. There was like a solid golf ball sized glop of shit which I'm sure was mostly stuff you're not supposed to put in a garbage disposal. A ton of crap came out the exit pipe in the back of the house too. I'm a lazy ass no way and I'm not much of a handyman, so there's no damn way I'm gonna start out with taking all the pipes apart lol.

 

[Pohemi]

Had my general anesthesia Friday morning, procedure was fast, and I was out of the hospital by 10am, not too bad. Felt fine when I left. Then made a dumbass decision on the way home...

My ride wanted to stop at McDick's to get some breakfast burritos, and asked if I wanted anything. I figured I hadn't eaten since Thursday and was feeling good, so I got a plain sausage biscuit. I hadn't eaten anything from a McDonalds in a long while.

This was my 8th time going under general anesthesia, and I never got sick before. But that damn sammich did it to me. I got queasy within 5min of eating it. Queasiness turned to nausea, and then (several hours later), to vomiting. This is the first time in my life that puking did NOT ease the nausea AT ALL. It sucked.

Called the doc, he sent a script for some anti-nausea meds to the pharmacy for me. As soon as I was able to keep one down, I laid down for an hour and got up feeling almost relatively normal. It was weird.

 

[pmv]

Had my general anesthesia Friday morning, procedure was fast, and I was out of the hospital by 10am, not too bad. Felt fine when I left. Then made a dumbass decision on the way home...

My ride wanted to stop at McDick's to get some breakfast burritos, and asked if I wanted anything. I figured I hadn't eaten since Thursday and was feeling good, so I got a plain sausage biscuit. I hadn't eaten anything from a McDonalds in a long while.

This was my 8th time going under general anesthesia, and I never got sick before. But that damn sammich did it to me. I got queasy within 5min of eating it. Queasiness turned to nausea, and then (several hours later), to vomiting. This is the first time in my life that puking did NOT ease the nausea AT ALL. It sucked.

Called the doc, he sent a script for some anti-nausea meds to the pharmacy for me. As soon as I was able to keep one down, I laid down for an hour and got up feeling almost relatively normal. It was weird.

When I had general anesthesia last time I was nauseous for over a week. Frustrating as I was in hospital under observation and hence there was all this free food (I know people disparage 'hospital food', but as far as I'm concerned the best kind of food is 'free food'). And I couldn't eat any of it.

 

[Pohemi]

Yeah, I'm quite familiar with starving in the hospital from my youth, heh.

Quite a few trips for severe DKA, and the first 2-3 days they'd give me nothing but water, ice chips, and broth. After being stabilized the first day in, I'd be starving.

Of course, once I was allowed solid food again, I was still on a restricted diet. I always ended up eating a lot of raw veggies and sugar-free Jello, lol.

 

[Chaotic42]

Had my general anesthesia Friday morning, procedure was fast, and I was out of the hospital by 10am, not too bad. Felt fine when I left. Then made a dumbass decision on the way home...

My ride wanted to stop at McDick's to get some breakfast burritos, and asked if I wanted anything. I figured I hadn't eaten since Thursday and was feeling good, so I got a plain sausage biscuit. I hadn't eaten anything from a McDonalds in a long while.

This was my 8th time going under general anesthesia, and I never got sick before. But that damn sammich did it to me. I got queasy within 5min of eating it. Queasiness turned to nausea, and then (several hours later), to vomiting. This is the first time in my life that puking did NOT ease the nausea AT ALL. It sucked.

Called the doc, he sent a script for some anti-nausea meds to the pharmacy for me. As soon as I was able to keep one down, I laid down for an hour and got up feeling almost relatively normal. It was weird.

You're lovin it! TM

 

[pmv]

How do I categorise Ibn Battuta? Is Ibn a given name, so it's "Battuta, Ibn"? Does it work the same way for non-Anglo names?

How about "Mother Jones"? Is that "Jones, Mother"?

Dammit, why did I start this?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Is Ibn a given name, so it's "Battuta, Ibn"?

Not a name. Ibn means son. He is referred to as Son of Battuta.

These people like to carry around their family trees in their names. Two similar sounding people may only be differentiated by their ancestral names so it could go something like, A bin B bin C bin D bin E and so on.

Bint Battuta would be daughter of Battuta <<< sounds similar to batata which is potato.

 

[pmv]

Not a name. Ibn means son. He is referred to as Son of Battuta.

These people like to carry around their family trees in their names. Two similar sounding people may only be differentiated by their ancestral names so it could go something like, A bin B bin C bin D bin E and so on.

Bint Battuta would be daughter of Battuta <<< sounds similar to batata which is potato.

Didn't know that. I guess the word "bint" - moderately insulting British slang for a girl - is derived from the Arabic, then?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Didn't know that. I guess the word "bint" - moderately insulting British slang for a girl - is derived from the Arabic, then?

Yup.

bint - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

 

[pete6032]

It's crazy how easy it is to eat calories, vs the amount of work you have to put in to burn them. Grabbed a handful of M&Ms once on the way out the door, went for a 10km walk. When I got back I was curious how many calories I burned so I found an online calculator and inputted the data it asked for. I'm sure it's not super accurate but should at least give a ballpark. Basically burned half the calories walking 10km than I gained eating a handful of M&Ms. It's a miracle I'm not fat lol.

The food industry has been very aggressive in telling people the best way to lose weight is to exercise. The best way to lose weight is to eat less. Run a mile? Good job you burned 100 calories, you can now eat 2 tbsp of peanuts!

 

[pmv]

The food industry has been very aggressive in telling people the best way to lose weight is to exercise. The best way to lose weight is to eat less. Run a mile? Good job you burned 100 calories, you can now eat 2 tbsp of peanuts!

I disagree. My weight has gone up-and-down in line with how physically active I was being. When I was walking 16 miles a day, every day, I was pretty much the right BMI, ditto when I was cycling 40 miles every day (commuting). When I lived a couple of minutes walk from where I worked (in a sedentary desk job), my weight went up. Controlling weight via diet is much, much harder, I find.

I tend to blame the motor industry/car lobby, in putting all the emphasis on diet and ignoring physical activity levels.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Sigh. Told this developer with access to an Epyc 9175F (512MB cache!) to use the NPS4 NUMA setting for lower RAM access latency. He asks me, will it make it go 4 times faster?



There definitely is a God and one of His favorite pastimes is giving stuff to people who don't deserve them so He can chuckle about the irony of it all.

 

[sdifox]

Had to pay 1,100 for dentist (family teeth cleaning) first then we'll get refunded from insurance. The FWP is I had to insert card and enter pin.

 

[manly]

How do I categorise Ibn Battuta? Is Ibn a given name, so it's "Battuta, Ibn"? Does it work the same way for non-Anglo names?

How about "Mother Jones"? Is that "Jones, Mother"?

Dammit, why did I start this?

I don't see a benefit to the strict "Second name, first name" format vs just the full name. Not a huge fan of punctuation in filenames either.

When I was walking 16 miles a day, every day,

Pretty sure that's 99th percentile wow.

 

[snoopy7548]

How do I categorise Ibn Battuta? Is Ibn a given name, so it's "Battuta, Ibn"? Does it work the same way for non-Anglo names?

How about "Mother Jones"? Is that "Jones, Mother"?

Dammit, why did I start this?

Just don't buy books from people with weird names. Problem solved.

 

[lxskllr]

I disagree. My weight has gone up-and-down in line with how physically active I was being. When I was walking 16 miles a day, every day, I was pretty much the right BMI, ditto when I was cycling 40 miles every day (commuting). When I lived a couple of minutes walk from where I worked (in a sedentary desk job), my weight went up. Controlling weight via diet is much, much harder, I find.

I tend to blame the motor industry/car lobby, in putting all the emphasis on diet and ignoring physical activity levels.

16 miles is a lot of damned walking. Last time I did that(in one shot), I got blisters on my feet. At my fast, but not breakneck pace, that would be 4hr moving on my feet.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Walking a lot winds up the male battery for some extra long sessions in the bedroom

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I was walking 3 or 4 most days, country road, 1-2 miles out and back. Sometimes twice a day when I was bored. Haven't been doing it lately.

I can see someone who works in a large retail store doing several miles in a normal day.

 

[Pohemi]

Always prefered rolling (bicycle) to walking for both exercise and transportation, and just plain fun. I enjoyed riding hard on a single speed until I was into my 30s. I rode across Madison 13 miles to go to work on a 20" wheeled BMX bike in about 40 min any day that it was nice enough. Now my vision keeps me from riding at all, and my neuropathy in my lower body limits my walking to a few blocks.

Book categorization: I separate first by genre of book, then by author. First name first, last name last. I have separate folders for my ebooks and audiobooks, and I can only use audiobooks now.

 

[pmv]

16 miles is a lot of damned walking. Last time I did that(in one shot), I got blisters on my feet. At my fast, but not breakneck pace, that would be 4hr moving on my feet.

True enough, but I just never learned to drive, and turns out walking is at least as fast, and much more reliable, than the bus. Plus everything I need to go to always turns out to be "about four miles away".

(walk to work and back - 8 miles round trip, walk to friend's and back in the evening, another 8 miles, even walking to the medical centre to get bloods taken for tests - 8 miles round trip...even 'going shopping' is a couple of miles round trip with the rucksack).

It was all far less time consuming when I felt well enough to cycle everywhere, though. Plus then I could get to more interesting places, like outside the city. And, as I say, when I had a job less than a mile from where I lived at the time, I immediately started putting on weight. Keeping weight down by reducing what I eat I personally find far, far, more difficult.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Keeping weight down by reducing what I eat I personally find far, far, more difficult.

The only sure way to do that is to do alternate day fasting. Go at least 24 hours just on water. It sounds difficult but after about 10 days of doing this, your body adapts and the hunger pangs and headaches stop and you will just go about your day without thinking much about food. Does make it a bit difficult when people around you are eating. But I tend to keep myself busy so it doesn't affect me that much.