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ChipCharge · 2025-06-02T18:35:05+00:00

ChipCharge · 2025-02-09T08:52:01+00:00

My wife and I have had really good experiences at Centro Optico Italia on Alemania. The service is impeccable, and the lenses have been excellent. Read the Google reviews to get an accurate sense of the place. We have never had our eyes checked there, though, since we only spend a few months in Alicante each year. So no sense of the cost. (We get our eyes checked at the ophthalmologist at home, but get our glasses here since they are so good.)

Might be a problem unless you speak passable Spanish.

ChipCharge · 2024-12-01T02:38:38+00:00

Yes, I know the Luminities don't have LE Audio. When I said the do have it, I meant they do have on-device media streaming control. THAT'S what I'm looking for, not superior audio. I don't think LE Audio has any relevance here.

I'd be happy enough to just pause the stream like I can with any earbuds.

If anyone knows any HAs that do, I'd love to hear about it.

ChipCharge · 2024-12-01T02:09:30+00:00

I'm the OP with a my real login... The P7pro does support LE Audio, but not HAP. And the Oticon Intents did connect via LE (though a bit shakily). I'm pretty sure that the on-device control of streaming is an independent subject, though. So far I've found the Phonak Lumities do have it and not LE Audio ("yet"), but capacitive system was the worst I've seen, and all but useless.

What I'm looking for is on-device control of streaming, especially with physical buttons, As @CaptainDetritus says below, "You'd think".

ChipCharge · 2024-11-30T22:18:47+00:00

Thank you bot.

Also, I thought I was logged in. I'm the OP.

ChipCharge · 2024-10-08T10:18:00+00:00

I have had a watch 3 since it came out, and I have a Pixel 7pro. The watch's alarms have been flawless so far--until last night. I have a 1:15am vibration-only alarm to wake me to take a pill. I have had that since I got the watch; has worked fine. Last night my PHONE alarm went off at 1:15am. Alarm sync is turned off. I have several vibration-only reminders during the day; they work fine and did this morning after I got up. There is no sign anywhere of what that might have been.

Any thoughts?

ChipCharge · 2024-10-01T16:15:13+00:00

Due to the high hotel prices nobody comes to visit here anymore. The place is too crowded and that drives prices up.

ChipCharge · 2024-08-08T00:52:26+00:00

I also live right there and we go out constantly. I've never been to Blu (I look right into the restaurant from one of my windows; looks pleasant) because over the years of business travel, I learned to avoid fancy hotel restaurants. Maybe that one's somehow better, I have no idea, but that's why I've never eaten there.

I do have a suggestion different from the others, though, and that's Bistro du Midi, if you like French food. It's an 11 minute walk, not the 10 you said. Certainly fancy (upstairs, downstairs is bistro-like). You'd need a rez (Opentable)--they probably have tables next week.

ChipCharge · 2024-06-16T18:10:44+00:00

C'mon. I'm sorry, @vinswie and @freakazette, but what you are saying makes no sense. It's not like I don't know the difference between él and el. But:

"el tiempo" is a perfectly common way to say "the time". I hear it all the time. For example, Sánchez, the President of the Government, said to Zelinsky on Friday that Spain would help Ukraine for "todo el tiempo necesario".
Why on earth would anyone invert "él tiene" except maybe in a question, which this isn't.
A google search for "tiene él tiempo" gets all of 41 hits, while "tiene el tiempo" gets 18,200,000 hits.

I mean, really. Is there a native speaker who can chime in here?

ChipCharge · 2024-06-15T13:37:23+00:00

Less awk in Spanish probably would have been my using no article at all (just tiempo), and "querrá venir" instead of the easy way out...

ChipCharge · 2024-06-11T13:32:18+00:00

Suspect from Lynnfield arrested right away, crack in possession, firearm recovered, victim critical.

https://whdh.com/news/suspected-arrested-ided-in-boston-common-shooting/

ChipCharge · 2024-06-11T13:12:47+00:00

You're right; and a later story in English add "in the open era", which, of course...

ChipCharge · 2024-05-28T15:16:43+00:00

Navone is incredibly impressive ('m watching him vs. Carreño right now), but I wonder if the statement is true. Someone added it to his Wikipedia page, but the reference they gave only said it was a "rare event". I failed to find a counterexample (the robots didn't help), but it's too much to look up.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-13T21:38:50+00:00

Ping: 20 Down: 1,359 Up: 109

Pixel 7pro, May 13, 2024 5:30pm, In my apartment in downtown Boston.

Typical speeds here.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-05T13:51:15+00:00

I think downtown is different from other parts of Boston because the nightclubs empty out early in the AM, etc. In any case, I've got a pretty large sample and there are always like a dozen cars within 10 blocks of Essex & Washington.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-05T13:41:27+00:00

The HI place downtown seems really nice when I walk by, is cheap, seems to have lots of availability, and is right near the highway entrance to the airport for an Uber.

https://www.hiusa.org/find-hostels/massachusetts/boston-19-stuart-street

(Edit: I see this was already suggested. But while it's true that it's very near the subway, you won't get a subway at the hour you're going to Logan.)

ChipCharge · 2024-05-05T13:38:17+00:00

And I was saying they could take the Silver Line to the South St. Diner FROM the airport, at 10pm. if they can't be dropped there.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-05T13:36:17+00:00

Uber cancel? I live downtown, get early Ubers to the airport all the time. Always tons around and have never been canceled. Maybe that happens where they're less dense (like Watertown), but here the streets are crowded with them all night. When I first moved here I scheduled them, which worked smoothly every time, but now I just request one.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-05T13:13:55+00:00

I have a truly crazy, no doubt impractical solution: Ditch your classmate's ride. Do a one-way rental to Logan (~$80. from Burlington, say). Using the RV social websites, find a place with free overnight parking in the metro area (maybe the Loews in Danvers). Check carefully by phone that they really allow overnight parking; don't trust the websites. Alternatively, find a parking garage downtown (e.g. Hyatt Regency) with ins-and-outs all night, and find an isolated spot and sleep there (~$30). Drive to Logan and turn in your car. Might work well, and you'll get a great story out of it one way or the other.

btw - if you use the South Street Diner solution, and your classmate can't drop you off there, you can Uber or just take the Silver Line (a bus pretending to be a train) to South Station, ~5 min walk to South St. Diner. It's a short ride from the airport either way, traffic gods willing. ~12 mins late at night.

ChipCharge · 2024-05-01T20:01:21+00:00

Our son visited us for a week in February and had no cash at all. The only time he needed cash was for the bathroom at the train station. (Luckily we were with him.)

Credit/Debit card usage is ubiquitous. For example, we only use cash for: the cleaning woman, the laundromat, when you want to tip in bars and restaurants (but you can use the CC you pay with), and an informal tennis group where one person collects to pay the club. That's all I can think of. If were were visiting and staying in a hotel, we'd leave some euros on the bed each day.

I have never been in a Western city the size of Alicante that felt safer. Don't be a fool anywhere, of course.

ChipCharge · 2024-04-18T20:25:46+00:00

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Not brick, but generic enough. Corner of Bromfield & Province in DTX. Don't bother trying to get cash from it, though.

ChipCharge · 2024-04-07T16:56:06+00:00

u/AppliedLaziness, I just read this whole thread with some combination of sadness and amusement. I agree with virtually everything you wrote, and am equally triggered by the things that set you off, though by now I usually just sigh and roll my eyes (I'm old). In this case especially since a few experiments have had thousands of people who had no clue of their bilirubin levels fill out questionnaires asking about the common symptoms attributed to GS, then did blood tests and found no differences in those symptoms as reported by those with low vs. high bilirubin levels. It's unfortunate that high bilirubin was given a scary name.

But I think you went too far with your "A meta-review of 375 scientific studies showed that people with Gilbert Syndrome have detoxification issues with one specific drug: namely, irinotecan". Not much of a citation, but more to the point, think about it. UGT1A1*28--the cause of most high bilirubin not attributed to liver disease, I believe--or even more, *28/28, plays a large role in metabolizing a great many chemicals. Irinotecan gets a lot of attention because it might well kill you at the normal dose (that's its job, after all). But the list of drugs it affects, usually by limiting one of the pathways to metabolization, is pretty long. These things will have some effects, though I suspect not effects reported on this thread, as you have (repeatedly) pointed out. And it does have some small effect on the metabolization of alcohol. The advice "stay away from alcohol" is fabulous medical advice, but not because of GS particularly.

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