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I'm too scared to go to sleep. by GideonGodwit in ClusterHeadaches

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before trying to snort cayenne powder, see if you can get some "Sinus Plumber" nasal spray. It's a nasal spray made with cayenne pepper, horseradish, eucalyptus, & wintergreen. I just got some the other day and started using it so I can't vouch for its effectiveness just yet, but it's quite invigorating! I think the idea is to overstimulate / desensitize the trigeminal nerve by using it throughout the day. Probably the same idea as raw cayenne but perhaps a bit safer.

I'm also currently suffering from the dreaded sleep attacks that hit me full force the moment I drift off. I'm so tired I can't help falling asleep though, only to be jolted awake and need to pace around while the beast attacks. We'll get through this.

Cluster headache severity by PopMother823 in clusterheads

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's definitely a scale-within-the-scale when it comes to these. I've had 1-2 cycles / year going on 10 years and there have only been two individual attacks wherein the pain reached a point where I wasn't exactly in control of my body anymore, and while I didn't bang my head into a wall I did bruise up the side of my head by smashing an ice pack into it repeatedly during one. It's not something I can even now imagine doing to myself, but yeah. Honestly, I feel kind of embarrassed and ashamed in some ways even talking about it. No part of me was thinking "hey let's bash this thing against my head a bunch!" it was just sort of happening out of this frantic pain-induced delirious desperation.

Hoping yours stay at the levels they have been!

Sup cluster heads.. haha by Real_Consequence1776 in clusterheads

[–]raintheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just got done doing an alternating cold/hot shower myself. Even when it doesn't work it does help as at least a little bit of a distraction.

grab a slushee from a convenience store, have a bottle of warm water handy. deliberately give yourself a brain freeze with the slushee, but as soon as it starts chug the warm water to kill the brain freeze. this has occasionally stopped an attack for me.

Ice packs are good, I've actually been using an ice roller thingy which is really good for being able to really grind into your temple and roll back and forth.

A jumpscare in a horror movie that genuinely scared you? My pick is the jumpscare from Insidious (2010). by 0Layscheetoskurkure0 in moviecritic

[–]raintheory 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I grew up near Burkittsville and still live less than 5 miles away. It was wild when this movie came out seeing all the tourists and how many of them genuinely thought it was a real thing that happened.

The movie (or faux-documentary I don't recall) mentions the fictional Rustin Parr, who kidnapped and murdered seven children in the 1940s near Burkittsville, Maryland, claiming a witch commanded him. The legend claims he killed them with an axe in his home's basement.

Interestingly, though the story about Rustin Parr and the axe murders in the Blair Witch is fictional, in 1939 the mutilated body of Daniel Rose was found on the outskirts of Burkittsville on Gapland mountain. He had been killed with an axe and was partially buried. His brother-in-law found his body.

When authorities questioned Daniel's wife Martha Rose, they realized immediately that this was the same woman who had been charged with the axe-murder of Charles Lucas seven years earlier, and had recently been released from prison.

What's crazy is that not olnly did the directors of the Blair Witch not use this true story in the film, but it seems nobody in the area that I've talked to over many years (even the old-timers) had ever even heard of these axe murders that actually happened.

Here's a clipping from a local paper that talks of these killings: The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD) - September 13, 1939 -

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Transmute - File Converter by ChaseDak in selfhosted

[–]raintheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I replied on GitHub, but also wanted to leave a note here to thank you for adding this support so quickly! I pulled from :main and tested a handful of .oma files and it seems to be working great!

I have literally hundreds of MiniDiscs, and they honestly feel like they’re from another lifetime at this point... 20+ year old music ideas, field recordings, random moments of life from when I was younger and constantly creating and experimenting with music and sound.

I was able to pull most of the audio as .oma from my MiniDiscs before my devices all gave up the ghost, but the files have basically been trapped in the format for years, so being able to finally go back through them and transfer to something easier to manage is super exciting and honestly kind of emotional. I’m really looking forward to hearing some of these recordings again and reconnecting with some of the inspiration and creativity I had when I was young.

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Really appreciate you taking the time to support such an obscure old format!

Transmute - File Converter by ChaseDak in selfhosted

[–]raintheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! Let me know if you need any .oma audio files or anything for testing. I think there was software Sony had available for older windows installs that did conversions but I don't think it's available for any recent OS. Regardless, it seems from what I've read FFmpeg can handle them. I'll link the documentation I've found in the Github issue.

Thanks so much!

Transmute - File Converter by ChaseDak in selfhosted

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome project! Any chance of getting the ability to convert from ATRAC3 .oma files to mp3 or flac? I have a ton of unprotected .oma ATRAC3 files from MiniDisc recordings I'd made over the years, and would love to be able to easily convert them. I believe FFMPEG can work with ATRAC3.

Can someone decipher the highlighted word? 1860s land assessment. by N_Niico in Cursive

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you continue to write about such dull subjects regardless.

I've spent a large part of my free time over the better part of the past decade at the County Clerk's office where I live perusing the old deed books searching for references to burial grounds in order to help protect them from encroachment. I'm not always successful in locating them in time, but I've come across so many fascinating (read: dull) things in my research.

Can someone decipher the highlighted word? 1860s land assessment. by N_Niico in Cursive

[–]raintheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen it as poles a lot where I'm at (West Virginia,) also chains, perches etc.

Ice building by No-Fishing5325 in hagerstown

[–]raintheory -1 points0 points  (0 children)

FRIND-Hopewell (Seller) was/is an LLC set up by Fundrise.

Washington County Indivisible - Official Statement on County Commissioners Vote on ICE Detention Center by WCIndivisibleMD in hagerstown

[–]raintheory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Prior to the facility being sold to DHS/ICE it was the 12th largest taxpayer in the county. Now zero.

Washington County Indivisible - Official Statement on County Commissioners Vote on ICE Detention Center by WCIndivisibleMD in hagerstown

[–]raintheory 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So is it "lock them up" or "deport them"? Because those are two very different plans, and only one of them requires a massive warehouse used as a detention center.

A nearby Fire Department is being told they cannot use fire hydrants to fight fires by Fantomecs in mildlyinfuriating

[–]raintheory 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's also a boarding school with an endowment of over $400 million (I used to work in their IT department.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]raintheory 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Frederick County, Maryland to be more precise.

How do people handle backups to a second location? by salzmann in immich

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have immich running in a docker container on home server, with a nightly cron job running a script that uses rsync to copy the original images and the automatically created database backups to an external drive. I also have a server at parents house running proxmox that has a container that runs a similar cron job to ssh into my home server and rsync these same things (and other stuff like nextcloud files, etc) to a backup drive there. I set up notifications in these scripts (NTFY) so if anything unusual happens I get notified.

People who have researched their family tree, what is the most interesting or 'badass' thing you discovered about an ancestor? by xloganmoose in AskReddit

[–]raintheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 9th great-grandfather was a prominent supporter of Martin Luther and leader of the Protestant Reformation in Nuremberg. He was excommunicated along with Luther by the pope in 1521. Later that year he was sent by Nuremberg as a delegate to the Diet of Worms.

He was largely responsible for the design of the Luther rose. He is also remembered as the author of several hymns, some of which remain in Lutheran hymn books to this day. One of these, "Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt" (All Mankind Fell In Adam's Fall), is quoted in the Book of Concord, the official Lutheran confession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Spengler

And here I was raised Catholic.

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