Comment and Link Roundup: February 8, 2021

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

[mild cw: amnesia, corporate bullshit] One year of lifelogging

[cw: venting, unsanitary, aging, (arguably) sexism] if you want something done right you have to do it yourself

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by maryellencarter) Tips on what flavourings to add to beans.

[cw: food, apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) The practical usefulness of rotated stockpiles. [two comments]

[cw: abuse, kidnapping] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by alarajrogers) Not all magic portals lead somewhere good.

[Reddit; Wayback] (OP by /u/GoonieGangGeneral; in response to /u/ForbiddenText) Geometric Weather is a great weather app, once you know how to handle its quirks.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by ms-demeanor) How to make a smart TV without the corporate bullshit.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by tototavros) Advice on effective alarm clocks.

[cw: murder, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by chongoblog; in response to maryellencarter) BBC Sherlock got pretty batshit in its later seasons.

[cw: heterosexism, cissexism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) Queer people and oversharing (or possibly ""oversharing"").

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Links:

[Hackaday; Wayback] (by Lewin Day) A car transmission modelled in Lego.

[Commute Time Map] (by Geoapify) A map that shows which parts of your area you can reach within a given timeframe, using a given means of transportation.



There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.


Comments on my own posts:

[cw: suicide, unsanitary, (relatively mild) vomit] All those days of pure, elemental misery, of nothing but waiting for the light [two comments, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: suicide] [WordPress part 1 (Tumblr part 1); WordPress part 2 (Tumblr part 2); WordPress part 3 (Tumblr part 3)] (OP by AshWrites; in response to derinthescarletpescatarian, alarajrogers, rustingbridges, gasmaskaesthetic, poipoipoi-2016, and jadagul) More spreading the good word of masks as an allergy prophylactic; today in the hidden diversity of experience, many people *don't* get severe depression for 3 - 5 days as part of getting a cold. (If you're one of those people, please re-evaluate everything you have ever heard me say about the importance of disease prevention in light of the knowledge that *these* are the stakes I'm playing for, the stakes I thought we were *all* playing for.) [seven comments]

[cw: death, poison, suicide, sexism, (arguably) racism] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by maryellencarter) Justice League Animated reactionblogging, featuring fictional characters completely failing to wear protective gear in the face of fictional disasters; how The Happening should have gone.


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Links:

[jonasneubert.com; Wayback] (by Jonas Neubert and Cornelia Scheitz) How it's made: mRNA vaccine edition.

Comments

[brin_bellway]

For the record, I also experience unusually bad stomach bugs, but I knew that already. It's hard to tell just by looking at people how much pure-elemental-misery they've got in their system, but when a norovirus(?) sweeps through your household, and everyone else shrugs it off in a day or two while *you* get ~4 days of being as sick as they were *plus* a little over a week of [severely reduced appetite] and/or [feeling nauseated every evening], you Notice.

(Stomach bugs don't give me depression, but they *are* horribly painful, and you have to plan everything you do around the possibility that you might have to go pray to the porcelain god, and also it's pretty scary when your digestive system posts a sign reading "Closed for Repairs Until Further Notice".)

((Knock on wood, but I'm a *little* hopeful this may have improved? I do get a lot fewer unexplained bouts of nausea in general than I did as a child and teenager, which might be a good sign. Come to think of it, in the last three years I've had a cold with no depression *and* a cold with no long tail (it just *stopped* when the stuffy nose ended), so there might be some cause for hope there too.))

[contrarianarchon]

> commute time map

Damn, I was wondering if a thing like this existed for a while now, was super-glad to hear about it, and then intensely annoyed to discover that it gives bullshit results for public transport in my area. (Including such foibles as "the zone is much smaller than the same range set for walking, doesn't seem to interact with public transport routes at all, obviously not including places I know I can get to in the given timeframe because it's my regular commute, etc, and also the equally baffling "says I can get several blocks over the conspicuously unbridged (well, at least un-driving-bridged, there are probably any footbridges not visible on maps) part of the river")