u/JeSuisGourde

I'm reading Into Thin Air right now (I'm only about 100 pages in) and in the intro Krakauer mentions talking to his teammate at the top while wearing an oxygen mask. I always assumed it would be similar to wearing like a chemical respirator, which muffles speech quite a bit. Is it difficult for climbers to speak to each other through the oxygen masks? Do they end up yelling and enunciating extra clearly in order to understand each other? Or is there some other way of communicating? (I don't know anything about mountaineering, and maybe Krakauer answers this question later on in the book, but I've just been thinking about it since reading that intro and I'm curious.)

Are there any episodes where a character space walks, or goes out into space with adequate equipment but outside of a vessel/spaceship? So, not someone being sucked into space from inside a ship (like in Midnight) or someone standing inside the TARDIS with the door open. Do any main or side characters go out into space just with a suit and equipment or something?

I've watched the full Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctor series and random smatterings of episodes from the original 7 Doctors, but it was years and years ago and I no longer remember if that's a thing that happened in any of those series. Due to fluctuations in my fandom interest I've not watched the show since, so I don't really know anything about any of the episodes for the other Doctors.

I would love to donate blood, but I'm not sure if I can. I had hydro at like 8 months old and had a VP shunt put in. I've never had issues with it and never had to get it lengthened or changed or anything. I've never donated blood because I was always uncertain about whether or not I could. When I was in college there was one of those mobile blood donation trucks on campus, and I asked the nurses there and they didn't know. Every time I've been at the doctor's office I forget to ask. And when I try to look it up online I get conflicting info and/or UK info. But I'm thinking about it now that I've seen the news about low donations. So does anyone in the US have any experience with donating blood or being rejected from donating?

Hi all, I posted about a month ago about the small theatre I work with wanting to switch from traditional light fixtures to LED (https://www.reddit.com/r/lightingdesign/s/S4SjixVUG5) and you all gave me some good advice! I have a meeting with the directors of the theatre this week. I think I have more questions.

From everyone's advice on my previous post, I think I want to try and convince the theatre to supplement what they already have with LEDs rather than replace everything.

This is a theatre that almost exclusively does pre-millennium plays. Last year they did 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress, House On Haunted Hill, Harvey, and I Hate Hamlet. (Myself and a few of the younger people on the team are planning to try and convince them to start doing more contemporary productions that might draw in more audiences. They've been running since the 80s on this model so we'll see how that goes.)

My experience with LED lighting is limited (as I said in my other post) and I am most familiar with traditional fixtures. When I have used LEDs in the past it has almost exclusively been to utilize the intense color pallette for specials or for more dream-like or supernatural effects. In my mind (though I'm probably wrong!) a play like 5 Women Wearing The Same Dress would do better to have traditional lighting than LED. But like I said, my LED experience is limited so I am a bit biased! I'm very open to having my mind changed as I simply don't have enough exposure to working with the fixtures to have an opinion based on my own experience.

So I'm wondering what other people's design preferences are when doing pre-millennium plays that do not have dreamlike/supernatural/unusual elements: LED or traditional? Or if both, in what ways do you use the LEDs?

Would you agree with my thoughts about telling this theatre to supplement what they already have instead of replacing?

Also, if you have any other advice about switching to LED or supplementing LED after reading this post and/or my previous one, I'd absolutely love to have it!

Sometime in the last couple of years I've suddenly become (negatively) hypersensitive to ASMR using proper mics or any super close to the mic ASMR. I'm only able to listen to lofi ASMR or stuff further away from the mic. The better quality or closer stuff gives me this horrible unpleasant tingle sensation down my right side, not at all the same as the nice ASMR tingles. Any sibilants or higher pitched (for asmr) noises are the worst culprits but I'm even sensitive to bass-ier noises or things like tapping. I have no idea why! I was just wondering if anyone else had this experience and if it went away or if you're stuck unable to listen to videos made using proper mics.

I always had a sense that a polyphonic novel necessarily was told from the point of view of multiple characters (first or third person) and then that the author is not using the characters to put forward a specific moral position or to obviously express an authorial opinion via the characters' dialogue/actions/role as metaphor.

I'm currently 3/4 of the way through reading Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, and noticed that the back of the book calls it a "polyphonic tale". The book has one point of view from the third person. I do think that the book meets the condition of not expressing authorial moral positions/opinions/etc.

Is there some other definition of polyphonic? Am I misunderstanding and there's some aspect that I don't remember? It's been quite some time since I got my lit degree and I unfortunately have not used it much since then.

The terrible air quality of the northen/midwest US right now is making me wonder - what was the air quality like on the western front? How quickly did smoke from guns and artillery and/or gas clear? I've seen records where they talk about "good visibility" during the day; is this relative or did the rain/mist/fog clear out the air quite quickly? Was it smoky in the sky and/or general larger area of battle or just in smaller patches that cleared out? This is pure curiosity prompted by reading a book about WWI right now plus being outside (unfortunately) during this awful air quality.

I've been in this fandom on and off since 2008ish, and this is my 100th fic for Torchwood. It's also my most complicated fic because I decided to do some crazy stuff with formatting and had to learn CSS and AO3 Workskins! It took me ages to write and I'm very proud of it and a little nervous because it's so different from everything else I've ever done.

Title: Purgatory Heart; or, The Modern Philoctetes
Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, John Hart, Lucia Moretti
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Jack/Lucia Moretti, Jack/John Hart, Jack/Estelle Cole
Tags: Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Torture, Jack Harkness Backstory, Guilt, Angst, Experimental Style, Spans the first two series up through Exit Wounds
Summary:
Jack's been like this for as long as he can remember. He wants to know why, wants to know what he can do to be forgiven for whatever it is he must have done and the things he knows he's done. Wants to know if he can be fixed. Wants to know how much he must take on before it is enough. He has taken on so much, stuck here on this planet, tethered to this place by questions, emotional blackmail, debts, an ever-growing hollow, the need to find some way to fix this, whatever this is.
Stand in the darkness of the hub, staring at your own reflection in the window of the office. Look into your own face. Say, You cannot fix everyone, you cannot save everyone, and it tears you apart inside. Say, You have a hole in your chest to prove it. (And then there's Ianto, factotum, quiet and stalwart, asking no questions but offering his hands.)

I'm really really curious about this! I feel like AO3 has such a hugely diverse demographic of readers in general, and reading devices/habits are probably included in that diversity. I exclusively read fic on my computer, but I wrote a fic using a workskin and suddenly had to think about how it would look on a phone. And then I started wondering about the percentages of phone vs computer readers on AO3. Then I remembered reddit has polls and I can actually maybe find an answer to my random AO3 use question.

(Edit: I totally forgot to add kindle/tablet/ipad/e-reader devices to the poll! My bad! I suppose that falls under "other", then, since reddit won't let me edit the poll.)

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I occasionally work with a smallish theatre doing lighting design. The man who manages the tech side of things is mostly a sound guy. He recently told me that the theatre is interested in switching all their instruments to LED and wanted my advice on what to get. Unfortunately, most of my experience is with traditional/incandescent instruments. I told him I'd do some research, but I figured this sub might be a good starting point for advice. Right now the theatre is mostly working with pars and ellipsoidals; we have about 30 instruments, plus I think 8 or 10 inexpensive unbranded LED pars.

I'm wondering what a good starting point is for new LED instruments. What's a good brand that isn't crazy expensive? Should we start by purchasing pars or ellipsoidals? Is there anything I should keep in mind regarding switching from traditional to LED lighting? I've really only worked with LEDs as a supplement to incandescent so going full LED is unfamiliar territory.

(I might also crosspost this in r/techtheatre if people think I might get more advice there.)

There's a broken electrical box (I think? I'm really not sure) up on a telephone pole in the alley near my apartment. It looks like it was hit by a delivery truck or something as one of the doors has been bent open backwards and twisted so it's sort of shoved into a gap in the box behind the electrical components. (It's really hard to explain the way in which it's broken but this sub doesn't allow images.) Because it's all the way on the other end of the alley from my apartment and in an alley between businesses and residential buildings I have no idea who to call or email about it. Especially since I don't really know what it is! I think it's an electrical box, it says "RI54ONH" on the front of the ripped off door, if that means anything to anyone.

Somehow I always feel less relaxed and I'm more likely to start tensing up when ASMRtists say "relax relax relax" or anything like that. I don't know if it's because relax is not a very calming-sounding word or if it makes me aware of not being relaxed or what. But it happens every time, no matter if it's whispered or soft-speaking or whatever. Anyone else dislike being told to relax in ASMR videos?

I'm a total noob at CSS and I've never made a work skin before. I read through all of the W3schools tutorial on CSS and I thought I was understanding everything, but now when I try to make a work skin, nothing is happening. I'm not sure if I've done something wrong in the skin itself or in the draft. I've looked at other people's public skins and various guides and tutorials from AO3 users and everything seems to be right? But I would not be surprised if I missed some little thing, since I've never done this before.

EDIT: I figured it out!! Turns out you have to click "Show creator's style" even in previews in order to see the effect of the work skin. Newbie mistake!

Here's some screenshots of what I've done so far. The first image is my workskin CSS. The second is my draft with the coding. The third image is the draft preview where coding doesn't seem to have done anything. The fourth image is a screenshot of my google doc of what *should* be happening.

Workskin CSS

Draft with coding

Draft preview - coding doesn't seem to have worked

Google doc - this is what should be happening w/ formatting

On windows you can right click and choose "Properties" and then "Details" and change or add things on an mp3 file like track number, title, artist, etc. Is there a way to do that in Linux Mint? I've attached a screenshot of what I mean in Windows. I couldn't see an equivalent ability from right click > properties in Linux.

https://preview.redd.it/qmml4ap1ho8h1.jpg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e54d3d44c130816588ffa6d05daab5d15054a24

This is a memory of a movie an old roommate wrote an essay on that I watched little bits of. So some of this may be entirely wrong and it's all quite fragmented.

I think the plot is something like man is kidnapping girls off the side of the road, but he does the same thing every time. Kidnaps the girl, dresses them in white, puts them up on a big tree stump (or similar pedestal type thing) in a clearing in the forest. And they're killed in some way? I think? This happens to the main character, but for some reason the spirits of the other killed girls return and kill the guy. I think? I don't remember why they helped the girl and not other people. Like I said very little memory. I think at one point the girl gets away from the kidnapper by smashing him in the face with a shovel, but he catches her anyway (may be wrong/mixing things up). I think the main girl's best friend was killed in the same way some time before, so she maybe gets caught on purpose to try and get revenge?

Definitely a low budget indie horror movie. Probably mid-00s to early 2010s.

Anyone know what's up with that space? Suddenly the front is all boarded up. I know it was closed after that shooting like a year ago, but it's been having some events of some kind recently. I work across the street so I'm just curious. I don't even know if it's been operating as The Point still or as something else, their insta hasn't updated since last year.

My renter's insurance billing/property address is my current address but for some reason my mailing address is my old one. I still live in the same city, just a different neighborhood. The mailing address for my car insurance is my current address. I cannot find any place to change my renter's insurance mailing address. I do have paperless, but I would like to use my renter's insurance documents for proof of residency for something, and I'm worried that the discrepancy between the mailing address and property address will cause issues. How do I change the mailing address for my renter's insurance?

I just discovered that my REAL ID driver's license expired in April. I never got a letter to renew it despite living at the same address as when I got it. Every single time I call the ILSOS number it says it can't process my request and hangs up on me. Because I never got a letter, I don't have a renewal number/pin number to enter online. I assume this means I have to get it renewed at the office, but do I have to bring all the stuff I had to bring to get the original one, since the one I have is now expired by a couple months? Is there some way I can renew online without the renewal number? It says you "cannot renew online if you want a REAL ID" but I already have one so wouldn't it just be renewing the same ID? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer on the ILSOS website.

I'm trying to remember this brand of fruit roll up that I used to eat as a kid in the 90s. It was made from real fruit (as opposed to like fruit by the foot which is basically just colored sugar). It was cut in a big circle maybe 4-5 inches in diameter? It was on a thin clear plastic sheet which was rolled into a tube and then packaged in slightly thicker plastic. The package had different colors for different flavors, and I think the logo was a drawing of a cluster of fruits. The flavors were stuff like apple, pear, peach, apricot, strawberry. I remember the strawberry one was pink, the pear green, the apricot one a bright orange, the peach one a slightly lighter orange. I think there were other flavors but I don't recall what they were.

The grocery store where we bought them had them in the produce section in the shelves under the fruit, they were stored in branded buckets sticking up and sold individually. So like all the apple flavored rolls were in a big hexagonal (I think?) cardboard bucket with the apple color and branding on it and you could pick out however many you wanted, with all the other flavors the same. This was in northern California in the 90s, possibly as late as the early 00s, and the grocery store was either a Raley's or a Safeway, I'm not sure which.