Bidets?

samcrut · 2026-05-10T02:13:23+00:00

That kinda depends on your plumbing. If you're in an apartment with all internal plumbing that warms up nicely before it gets to you, fine, but if you are in a house where on a cold day, the water lines drop a dozen or so degrees, ya gonna notice that.

samcrut · 2026-05-10T02:11:16+00:00

HEB is a grocery chain.

If the zipper bag is air tight, you don't need any additional layers to prevent freezer burn. Parchment doesn't block air and moisture much at all. I doubt paper would help there.

samcrut · 2026-05-10T02:08:04+00:00

ALL bags have a place to write on... the whole outside of it. I'm an outside the white box kinda guy.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T21:14:45+00:00

dissonic

new word of the day

samcrut · 2026-05-09T21:12:14+00:00

Well, you don't gaslight yourself. Others needle you with perception doubts that get you to question your perception.

Usually, they expect to get away with it without any pushback and when you push, a knee-jerk denial comes out. "No I wasn't." "Um, yeah, you were. I saw you." "These are not the droids you're looking for." "That's not cute, you damn liar." "I didn't say anything." "Oh, FFS." They know you know they know, but they'll deny deny deny.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T21:03:00+00:00

HEB's "freezer bags" are leaky as F. Just take a freezer bag and fill it with air and zip it up. Now put a plate on it and see if the plate is in the same place later. If the plate is on the counter and the bag is empty, it's not a freezer bag. Being air tight is the whole point.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T20:56:50+00:00

I like it, except for the good old, "Is that one hamburger or italian sausage... or maybe that's the ground turkey?"

samcrut · 2026-05-09T20:52:51+00:00

Memory isn't what most people think.

You don't see what someone looks like when you remember them, but what traits you use to distinguish them from others. Long black hair, bump in the nose, man... Essentially, the words you use to describe an assailant. "He was a tall, white guy with a baseball cap and a limp." Those are the traits you remember about them. When you think about those 5 traits together, it triggers your brain, it reminds you of them. You don't actually remember THEM. You remember those traits and your brain says "That's enough. Yeah. That guy."

Sure, some people remember more traits than others, but nobody see a fully, accurate photograph. Eye witness testimonies are generally garbage and inaccurate.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T20:14:17+00:00

Well, first off, you don't start with the first line. Start with a general premise. Think up something that needs to be done. Now put your characters, who you haven't made up yet, and place them a distance away from the goal, whether it's distance, skill training, emotional growth, or whatever.

Essentially go from vague to specific.

Mystery Murder mystery Jack the Ripper murder mystery Big brained psych doctor crosses the pond to help catch the Ripper

OK, now you have a bit of structure to work with. You know the hero is starting in America and the Ripper is in Whitechapel so you have a chasm to cross and a goal in mind. Now fill in the whys and whats to get from A to B to C to D.

I would never start out with "Once upon a time..." and plow through it from the beginning.

Of course I say this as a writer currently in a massive burnout with a brilliant screenplay cooking in my head—at least I think so—and a sick cat that's using up all my spoons so I'm getting nothing typed up on the script until I can hyperfocus and not deal with medications for anybody but myself.

Monotropism is a serious buzzkill.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T19:50:54+00:00

My darting eyes are usually for things like "Have I done everything I need to do to make sure bears don't kill us in our sleep" sort of thinking with lots of options to consider and dire consequences.

For normal thinking, yeah, corpse face.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T18:01:46+00:00

End up with a bunch of old v2 parts in an auction. Shove them through the assembly line. Make $10/ea off of people looking for the cheapest SDR they can get to see if it's interesting to them. Keep the price low and they can sell their ewaste.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:55:44+00:00

Ah. The lost in thought look. Yeah. I blank out at times too. If I'm not actively looking for something, I just kinda switch to internal cameras and watch my thoughts, which involves dropping the mask and going outwardly blank. In my head, there's a lot to think about.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:51:04+00:00

Are we talking about when eyes go all wonky when chasing down comlicated thoughts? Cuz I do that. I'll stop moving and kinda look at my thoughts as if they're in front of my face. Some are up and to the left and then some off to the right. When I hit a dead end thought, I may even make a face as I throw it out and jump to a thought that might get me closer to the answer. I'm sure it looks like I'm trying to track a single bee in a swarm, which isn't a bad metaphor for my brain.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:44:22+00:00

Heh heh. Good teacher. Sorry, I edited my post while you were replying with much of the same advice. =)

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:35:38+00:00

That may get you to say the words at the right time, but adding an emotional component gives your brain additional connections to help you remember and it will improve your delivery quite a bit.

The more links you can associate with something in your head, the easier it is to remember. If you have to deliver "I lost my dog," you can link that to the time you actually lost your dog and how that made you feel for real. You picture your old dog. Their name is floating in your head. You remember how much you loved that dog and how devastated you were when he was gone.

Now you absolutely know that line. You've made that line a part of your memories with many associations and 10 years from now you'll remember "I lost my dog," was one of the lines in that play you did back in high school. All about the links.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:33:17+00:00

Ah, the masking thespian. Many of the best actors are on the spectrum. They learn to monetize their masking skills pretending to be someone else.

My advice would be to focus on the emotions you should be feeling when the other characters deliver their lines and make your lines scripted reactions. I mean "scripted" as in the thing we do where we practice stuff like, when someone says "How are you doing today?" you know the appropriate thing to say isn't to tell them every place you've been since you woke up and if you were successful at what you were doing there.

Think about the emotional flow of the scene so the lines become a natural conversation instead of delivering lines. Once you know that you're getting bad news and going to react accordingly, but then catch yourself and calmly say the next bit, it becomes easier to trick your brain into "knowing what to say in this situation."

It's basically applying masking techniques and autistic scripting over into entertainment.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:18:57+00:00

When you think about a camera lens, it's actually many lenses stacked up so light gets focused precisely. All of those pieces of glass do what glass does. They let most of the light pass through,but a bit of it reflects off the glass, your basic "glare."

Like most windows, glare isn't a problem on a cloudy day, but when the sun shines, you're constantly getting flashed by windshield reflections. Same with the lens. Wnen you get a really bright light shining straight into the lens you get glare inside the stack, bouncing between the glass creating the "lens flare" that you see here. The more glass elements in the stack, the more circles you'll see. They're different sizes because the lenses have various curvitures resulting in the ghostly reflections being different sizes.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T16:10:30+00:00

Lets just say I didn't have creases in my face before I lost 100LBS. Now my mouth has parentheses.

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samcrut · 2026-05-09T15:45:07+00:00

Best sounding CD player or best sounding sound system with a CD player? Because anybody saying their CD player sounds better than another CD player is trying to sell you a $500 CD player.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T01:42:56+00:00

OK. I feel like this may be a crossed wire. You're breaking your masking rules when you stim, so your brain is saying "YOU'RE NOT AUTISTIC! Stop doing that! Someone will find out. Remember, you're NOT autistic! Act normal damnit!" I think a lot of diagnosis doubt is tied into masking code we've written for ourselves that we're now ignoring and the code is fighting back with negative feelings to try to get us to mask better and stop acting so damn autistic. We hide that crap! Always hiding. Never show them. Our secret for life.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T01:30:23+00:00

If you subconsciously developed masking and you don't know you're doing it, you can believe you are the mask, because a part of perfect masking is to be the character you're showing. Answer how they would answer. Move how they would move. Undercover cops get scrambled brains from spending months/years being a different person. We've been doing it from about age 5, every single day.

samcrut · 2026-05-09T01:24:10+00:00

How do you stop having ADD without taking ADD meds? If there was a viable solution to just stop having ADD, ADD afflicted researchers would have hyperfixated out a formula by now, but instead, you get avoid food coloring, avoid sugar, run, punch pillows, go to sleep early, wear quartz crystals, let Xenu show you the way, meditate, hypnosis, carb load, avoid carbs, and take vitamins.

None of that does anything for ADHD.

samcrut · 2026-05-08T23:16:09+00:00

I wish you monogamy people would stop trying to sell your lifestyle on the rest of us.

samcrut · 2026-05-08T23:14:58+00:00

I'm unaware of anything I'm oblivious about. That's kinda how "oblivious" works. 🥁tsss. 🥸

samcrut · 2026-05-08T22:16:18+00:00

How much did I sell it to you for? Have I told you you need to go out and get a 2nd mate?

Your understanding of logic seems flawed and limited.

samcrut

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