myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
myrrh Link...can't go wrong with any zojirushi, really, and they offer models catering to every segment of the market depending upon how simple or sophisticated you want to get with the feature set.........can't go wrong with any zojirushi, really, and they offer models catering to every segment of the market depending upon how simple or sophisticated you want to get with the feature set...
...conversely, you can go very wrong with cuisinart or kitchen-aid, and the performance difference is profound, but they'll still get the job done if you don't really care about the quality of your rice; it's all edible...
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Comment on Interesting material types for fantasy resources/macguffins other than crystals or metals? in ~creative
myrrh Link...sentient kombucha with psychic abilities......sentient kombucha with psychic abilities...
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Comment on Does anyone have experience exchanging actual letters with a pen pal? in ~talk
myrrh Link...i had a south korean penpal back in 1986 or `87; kind of a random program in which our honors english class participated...as noted above, sustaining the dialog was perennially challenging......i had a south korean penpal back in 1986 or `87; kind of a random program in which our honors english class participated...as noted above, sustaining the dialog was perennially challenging...
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i was hoping someone might drop in with IPA; thanks!..i hadn't cracked-out those rusty pronounciation symbols since 1978... (awry rhymes with SAWree; fixed the breve diacritics i couldn't......i was hoping someone might drop in with IPA; thanks!..i hadn't cracked-out those rusty pronounciation symbols since 1978...
(awry rhymes with SAWree; fixed the breve diacritics i couldn't discern on my tiny desktop display)
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh (edited )Link Parent(FŌtō-GRĂFē and fəTŎ-grəfē, ŎW-rē and ə-RĪ) ...i first learned to read and picked up the formative bulk of my vocabulary abroad, contextually but without english-speaking peers nor broadcast...(FŌtō-GRĂFē and fəTŎ-grəfē, ŎW-rē and ə-RĪ)
...i first learned to read and picked up the formative bulk of my vocabulary abroad, contextually but without english-speaking peers nor broadcast media, so there are a lot of words i tend to pronounce in fashion which makes perfect sense to a self-taught six-year-old...
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh Link Parent...i'm a native english speaker and experience a similar phenomenon with words i've learned through reading versus hearing: for example, photography/photography and awry/awry are each pairs of two......i'm a native english speaker and experience a similar phenomenon with words i've learned through reading versus hearing: for example, photography/photography and awry/awry are each pairs of two entirely different words which happen to share the same meaning and spelling...
(i don't have an internal monolog but i do pronounce words in my head while reading)
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
myrrh Link...sergeant tripped me fairly; the others were all fine although i personally disagree on pronounciation and will continue to spell it as i see fit, convention be damned......sergeant tripped me fairly; the others were all fine although i personally disagree on pronounciation and will continue to spell it as i see fit, convention be damned...
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Comment on When you were first getting your driver's license, what were you afraid of? in ~transport
myrrh Link...i was intimidated by the parallel-parking portion of the drivers' test on account of fellow students talking up its difficulty + attrition rate, but it wasn't bad at all and i passed my first......i was intimidated by the parallel-parking portion of the drivers' test on account of fellow students talking up its difficulty + attrition rate, but it wasn't bad at all and i passed my first attempt without issue...
...i understand that most states don't administer driving tests anymore, just the written portion of the test...
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Comment on What do you think about putting your driver's license in your digital wallet? in ~tech
myrrh Link...do you use your license regularly?.. ...the only times i need mine are for voting, military base passes, and commercial air travel, which amounts to maybe three times per year: i just leave it......do you use your license regularly?..
...the only times i need mine are for voting, military base passes, and commercial air travel, which amounts to maybe three times per year: i just leave it at home and only toss it in my pocket on rare occasion i need it...as earhart noted above, i also have my license number memorised, so when traffic police pull me over i just tell them i forgot it and they look it up on their system...
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Comment on Hisense TVs show ads during normal operation in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...that seems like the simplest fix: just don't connect the television to your local network and run an external media box instead, which will likely perform better anyway......that seems like the simplest fix: just don't connect the television to your local network and run an external media box instead, which will likely perform better anyway...
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Comment on Once we were ALL spacemen in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...the scenes were obviously filmed separately (each cast member at their own home) but that hokeyness is played up for camp......the scenes were obviously filmed separately (each cast member at their own home) but that hokeyness is played up for camp...
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Comment on What is your top, unknown, non fiction recommendation ? in ~books
myrrh Link...just a few random titles which immediately come to mind, no particular theme nor critical grouping, but these are each books i've appreciated sufficiently to buy additional copies as gifts for......just a few random titles which immediately come to mind, no particular theme nor critical grouping, but these are each books i've appreciated sufficiently to buy additional copies as gifts for close friends...
Temperament (Stuart Isacoff)
Inventing Reality (Bruce Gregory)
Inside the Machine (Jon Stokes) -
Comment on Sony pulls back from PlayStation games on PC in ~games
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Comment on What’s your preferred work monitor setup? in ~comp
myrrh (edited )Link||-- (arrayed circumferentially around a nintety-degree corner desk with coplanar portrait displays serving as a single unit, effectively triple-head) ...i believe that they're all 2560x1440, but...||--
(arrayed circumferentially around a nintety-degree corner desk with coplanar portrait displays serving as a single unit, effectively triple-head)...i believe that they're all 2560x1440, but the two portait displays are smaller (and thus greater pixel density) than the landscape pair, nearly a square form-factor when used together for displaying two-page document spreads; i use the larger displays for technical drawings and miscellaneous windows...
...while i'd prefer a pair of curved 4K displays, or even better a single 8K curved display, curved televisions are tough to find these days and my current arrangement works well-enough for general productivity...
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Comment on What's an obscure book/series that you've read that you would like to recommend? in ~books
myrrh Link Parent...greg bear was originally grouped with hard-science fiction but i'd probably place the corpus of his work more genre-straddling, with an substantial element of thriller plotting (in fact his......greg bear was originally grouped with hard-science fiction but i'd probably place the corpus of his work more genre-straddling, with an substantial element of thriller plotting (in fact his later books were marketed as pop-fiction crossovers despite his science-fiction roots)...that said, greg bear's science-fiction chops are on-par with the other killer-Bs (gregory benford, david brin) and especially his early work is brimming with ideas...
...i find greg egan's work substantially more cerebral; although greg bear's a breezier read, that's not necessarily a bad thing...one interesting aspect of greg bear's quantum logic cycle is that he wrote the books in a loosely-reverse chronology, which means that his more-accessible later books (set earlier in the series) also serve to ease a reader from the present world into a more technically-fantastic future (ending with the hard-SF books written earlier in his career)...
...if you can find a copy of tangents, short-story anthologies are a great way to sample an author's work, but his most notable science fiction works are probably the way series, the forge of god series, and of course the novelisation of his original blood music short story; darwin's radio / children also had a substantial buzz early this millenium but medical fiction isn't really my jam...
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Comment on Spotify's strong revenue isn't reflected in its stock market performance – investors fear growth will stall, while artists are voicing frustration over what they consider a miserly compensation system in ~finance
myrrh Link Parent...bandcamp's pretty much that, and it's been refreshing to see some high-profile artists embrace the platform in recent years......bandcamp's pretty much that, and it's been refreshing to see some high-profile artists embrace the platform in recent years...
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Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...in the pilot, of course; they toned it down a bit for the ongoing series...Londo has the best haircut in television history.
...in the pilot, of course; they toned it down a bit for the ongoing series...
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Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...i don't think they were universally awful, but definitely produced on-the-cheap and for the most part their pulp heritage shows through...the whole selective-canon thing was mostly JMS being......i don't think they were universally awful, but definitely produced on-the-cheap and for the most part their pulp heritage shows through...the whole selective-canon thing was mostly JMS being JMS, although as he became more involved in production of the later books i think they grew a measure of editorial veracity alongside reputable authorship...
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Comment on Babylon 5 S01E02: "Midnight On The Firing Line" - Episode Discussion in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...i read the first batch of paperbacks, yes, although i can't remember much off the top of my head besides that they were terribly formulatic and perennially plagued by writers unfamiliar with......i read the first batch of paperbacks, yes, although i can't remember much off the top of my head besides that they were terribly formulatic and perennially plagued by writers unfamiliar with the source material simply phoning-in genre filler...
...i lived my first thirty years cooking rice in pots on the stovetop, so my vietnamese wife boggled my mind when she unpacked a rice cooker upon moving in; seemed like an absolutely frivolous gadget cluttering our kitchen countertop...conversely, she'd lived a quarter-century never realising that rice can be prepared on a stove!..
...it took a good decade cycling through a series of hand-me-downs before she finally won me over, and since she'd always said her dream was to someday have a zojirushi, we bought their flagship model for our fifteenth anniversary, our first brand-new rice cooker: i think we went through at least a half-dozen brands those first fifteen years, and the zojirushi really is that much better...