stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 12/6/2013 at 3:42 AM, StephenG said:

Maybe I used the wrong words...

 

I'm financially successful, but find this is a result of circumstance/luck or whatever. Or maybe I don't have the confidence to recognize my own efforts or something I don't know.

 

Whereas, I find through these forums that you and smetty, you two are genuinely intelligent...

 

I wish you both great success though in your lifetime! I'm still only halfway through my accounting degree, nowhere NEAR a masters lol!

 

Also, that avatar is fantastic Chen lol. For some reason the face is reminding me of a tim burton production.

 

I'll trade you intelligence for money;)

A/D did a fine jerb on the avatar :woot:

  On 12/6/2013 at 3:56 AM, SR4 said:

wow Stephen, thanks! Thats a genuinely awesome statement and im...not quite sure how to react to kindness actually appearing on WATMM.

 

Ive Im ever in Canada, the three of us should have a drink!

Lol a drink of coffee!!

Lol here's your xmas avatar sir. My deepest apologies

my phone alarm stopped working randomly last week (well only did the vibrate ring) so i set up my old iPhone instead.

now it has miraculously started working again, giving me 4 alarms every morning. stupid computers!!!

  On 12/6/2013 at 6:08 AM, A/D said:

Lol here's your xmas avatar sir. My deepest apologies

 

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Fantastico!

I can't concentrate in one thing at once. I have plenty of stuff in my mind which drives me insane and, therefore, unproductive. I think the main problem is my habit of being worried about what's happening around me all the time. I wish I could crawl back into my own world again... But now, how?

  On 12/6/2013 at 10:48 PM, logakght said:

I can't concentrate in one thing at once. I have plenty of stuff in my mind which drives me insane and, therefore, unproductive. I think the main problem is my habit of being worried about what's happening around me all the time. I wish I could crawl back into my own world again... But now, how?

I have this problem when I'm studying.

Do you know anything about coloured noise? I've tried some therapy with different coloured noise when studying and it works (at least for me)...

  On 12/6/2013 at 11:03 PM, delet... said:

please explain, and whilst i realise that synaesthesia wouldn't be a required to appreciate coloured noise hehe, i'd still like to know from you, as opposed to the net, what you mean. And please don't tell me fennesz.

What's fennesz?

I'm just referring to using different frequencies of drone/static and ambient noises with isochronic tones etc to help you focus. I use this vid off youtube most often but I also have some .wav files as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5mfNxFuXos

fennesz is ambient music guy. also i muted my post as i was always going to, heh.

I really don't see the point of listening to his music, really. It's just basic mucking around, who gives a shit, make a song out of it you bum. (sorry, i'll probably mute this post too, hah)

PS thanks for the link, the sound in my headphones is actually making me super tense !! So maybe this colour thing isn't for me.

  On 12/6/2013 at 11:51 PM, delet... said:

PS thanks for the link, the sound in my headphones is actually making me super tense !! So maybe this colour thing isn't for me.

lol!

No worries. At first I found the sound really jarring and it made me anxious. But now it really helps with my ADD tendencies when I'm studying. I find if I study with it on, I only have to read my textbook once (vs before where I was re-reading the same paragraph 4-5 times) and I don't come on watmm or check my e-mail 100 times or whatever lol.

So maybe it's doing something then, the part of your brain that will seek other stimuli is distracted by and focused on that sound, leaving you free to study. I hate reading and not retaining, being easily distracted all that, pissa me off. But that sound seriously i started to feel ill. Probably doesn't help how tired i am, so mentally fragile.

  On 12/6/2013 at 11:49 PM, delet... said:

fennesz is ambient music guy. also i muted my post as i was always going to, heh.

 

 

I really don't see the point of listening to his music, really. It's just basic mucking around, who gives a shit, make a song out of it you bum. (sorry, i'll probably mute this post too, hah)

zole, oh you.

Fennesz is awesome! Sure, his stuff is pretty meandering, but isn't that the point of ambient music?

zole, in what world is fennesz ambient music?

saw him live and it was the loudest concert I've ever been to lol

Buffalo Trace came to my work today and gave us all free bourbon.

his name sounds like finesse so he has to be the abients

lel

  On 12/7/2013 at 1:14 AM, Alcofribas said:

zole, in what world is fennesz ambient music?

 

saw him live and it was the loudest concert I've ever been to lol

i found out that the flush i get when i drink certain kinds of alcohol is probably "asian flush" and is prevalent among native americans and i'm 1/2 native and it basically means you've got a ludicrously high risk of developing esophageal cancer. fun!

thats racist

I'M SORRY ALCOHOL FLUSH REACTION

it's actually just called that because it's largely found in asian peoples. it's just also found in native american peoples, but no one gives a shit about us lol.

welp here's to esophageal cancer!

*downs wine*

*turns bright red*

^that's like an enyzme related thing right? I always hear slightly different explanations from my Asian friends. Also, no idea there was a connection to cancer.

North Texas is frozen. I'm missing a wedding because it's too dangerous to drive up there.

Isn't that a good thing? ... Fuck wedding are pretty lame ;-p Then again, free piss, but if you were driving that wasn't gone be the hap.

  On 11/28/2013 at 7:58 AM, Sprillian said:

Also, this has been sporadically happening when I drink:

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It used to just be spirits - gin in particular - and only on my face, but pic above was after wine. Thing is, it doesn't always happen, so I think I'm fine and it'll suddenly creep up on me. Wondering if it might depend on what I've eaten in combination with the whole asian alcohol flush thing. Whatever it is it's annoying and pretty unsightly.

 

Edit: Ugh poor quality pics

  On 12/7/2013 at 2:58 AM, disparaissant said:

i found out that the flush i get when i drink certain kinds of alcohol is probably "asian flush" and is prevalent among native americans and i'm 1/2 native and it basically means you've got a ludicrously high risk of developing esophageal cancer. fun!

Asian flush FTW!

(though the first time it flared up all over her I was shitting myself and doing that Meningitis glass-roll detection thing)

  On 12/7/2013 at 8:27 AM, joshuatx said:

^that's like an enyzme related thing right? I always hear slightly different explanations from my Asian friends. Also, no idea there was a connection to cancer.

 

 

North Texas is frozen. I'm missing a wedding because it's too dangerous to drive up there.

-38 celcius and 4-6 foot snow drifts here.

I still have to make it in to work though. =(

What does "frozen" mean in texas?