Can anyone explain the ASMR to me? Or whether it's a thing?
As with a lot of weird shit, I stumbled upon reference to it on Reddit (www.reddit.com), which seems to have a collection of videos of people staring too closely into the camera, talk-whispering into binaural mics, and turning the audio balance such that you can clearly hear their horrible, moist mouth noises as they talk about nothing. It's everything I tend to find trying about human interaction.
Honestly, at first, I thought I'd found yet another weird fetish. Then, of course, I found the actual, not-safe-for-work-fetish section, linked from the normal page.
If you haven't listened to the This American Life (www.youtube.com) segment on it then you should. Listening to the show when it's compared to a porn addiction, even though she emphasizes that it's not like porn at all, I still have a hard time being... well empathetic isn't really the best word but its close. It's still an addiction for sure, one that takes up a vast amount of a persons day in order to seek pleasure and relief from anxiety and stress.
At any rate, I definitely do not have ASMR as far as I can tell after listening to some of this stuff. Though to some degree I have on occasion had the sensations described, sort of.
Crazy man runs SCREAMING around the library waiving a library card in people's face and asking them if they lost.
I take it from him and add it to the 3 inch stack of cards behind our desk.
15 minutes later he calmly and sheepishly comes up and asks if that card was his. it was.
I'm going to miss this place. But I'll still be in a public library with plenty of crazies to make for interesting dinner stories.
Erik this is mostly for you, I really hope you knew about the Klok opera (www.youtube.com) because it was as good as I wanted it to be. I Will buy the album.
This is for Josh:
A 1970s ad for computer programmers.
Source: https://twitter.com/computermuseum/status/406810708853018624/photo/1 (twitter.com)
Most people think Marv is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him. They woulda tossed him girls like Nancy back then.
Thanks, 2013 Edition
(in no particular order)
(At the gate, a young woman is setting up the gate for the upcoming flight from Honolulu to Anchorage. The gate is empty, except for a man, who saunters up to the kiosk)
Erik: (pops a sleeping pill, swallows it dry, coughs) "Uh, whew, hi! I was wondering, ah..." (teeters) "Wow. Sorry, I haven't slept for about a week. Um, got any, ah, you know, upgrades? I'm willing to bet I've got more miles than any of these fuckers. Gotta get my bloody mary on, know'm'sayin'?"
Gate Lady: "Um, let me check, sir, one moment, the system is just coming online."
Erik: "Right, no problem." (teeters, braces self on the counter) "You know.. you might think this is interesting. I was reading. Turns out: Corona Light? Not the best bang for your buck, alcohol-wise. Wanna guess what it is?"
Gate Lady: "I don't know, sir."
Erik: "Beck's Light!" (teeters) "Right? Who knew! Blew my mind. Not really full of vitamins, like a bloody mary, but you know. Bang for your buck."
Gate Lady: (her screen is full of green lights of available upgrades) "Sir, did you take a sleeping pill?"
Erik: "Yeah. Got to."
Gate Lady: (crisis of conscience) "I'm... I'm sorry, sir. We don't have any upgrades at this time. We'll be boarding soon. If anything comes up, I'll be sure to call you."
Erik: (looks around, teeters) "Allllright." (walks away, the words "MVP" and "loyalty" spoken audibly under his breath)
Safe flight, man.
Extermination: Earth (www.youtube.com)
One of the latest from Nicolas Gurewitch, of Perry Bible Fellowship fame.
This (getdrunknotfat.com)is a thing.
I suppose this is what I get for trying to figure out if my claim about Corona Light was true (it is not... Beck's Light!). Also, here's to the end of our 20s! Except for some of you, Josh. And also a fuck you to some of you, Josh ;)
Elizabeth and I changed our most-used lights from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs about a year ago.
We were averaging a bill of about $90, and a usage of about 470 kWh per month.
Since the switch, we've been averaging a bill of about $60, and a usage of about 380 kWh per month.
That's a total savings, since the switch, of about $360. The LED bulbs cost $260 when I bought them.
Over the summer I added gaskets to all of our outlets and light switches throughout the house. I also improved the garage door weather seal. Both of these measures cost a combined total of $50. We have the Nest downstairs, and the NetAtmo upstairs.
Even in this cold snap over the last few days, the temperature difference between upstairs and downstairs has stayed around 5 or 6 degrees. Last winter, and even over the summer, this temperature difference was usually 9 to 11 degrees.
MAGIC
