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Reply #35805 on: April 15, 2017, 11:28:01 AM

So I've always heard you can break a rib coughing. My brother proved it last night. (Took him to the urgent care folks this morning). Nice clean break on his 9th rib in the back. The doctor was...sympathetic but the gist is "We can give you pain pills, try like hell not to make it worse, it's gonna suck for the next 4 to 6 weeks".

He's so looking forward to his surgery in June (hmm, open thoracic surgery with rib spreaders) to pull the last of the tumor, and hopefully end two straight years of constant chest infections, breathing problems, and now broken ribs. (Doctor, who isn't an orthopedic guy, said it looked like he'd broken others in the past. They healed fine, but my brother was unaware of any time he could have broken them...)
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Reply #35806 on: April 17, 2017, 07:50:27 AM

I can't imagine breaking a rib and not knowing it.  I've had bruised ribs before and I thought I would die just trying to breath, let alone move.  Maybe you should buy him some sort of protection that he can wear over his clothes.  It's all the rage in DC.  It's called the Jared Kushner look. 

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Reply #35807 on: April 17, 2017, 07:33:08 PM

I have a lot of loose chunks of rib on the right side (legacy of a really bad car accident 20 years ago), I am *constantly* having them pop out of place. Coughing fits, particularly energetic sneezes, just leaning over with something pressed against my rib cage can do it.

What is really fun is when they rotate to poke the lung, which triggers a coughing fit, which creates a stabbing sensation (as in, somebody just punched a short dagger into my lungs) with each cough. Then I have to hold my breath, find the other end of the offending rib chunk, and find the right angle to push it to pop it back into place...which feels about as excruciating as you would imagine.

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Reply #35808 on: April 17, 2017, 09:23:11 PM

I don't know what "loose chunks of rib" means but you just gave me jelly legs.  Dammit.   ACK!

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Reply #35809 on: April 17, 2017, 10:51:55 PM

Sounds to me like what happens when you smoke em just right. 

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Reply #35810 on: April 17, 2017, 11:11:44 PM

I don't know what "loose chunks of rib" means but you just gave me jelly legs.  Dammit.   ACK!
To not go into too much graphic detail, essentially I was in an accident where I got hit from the side by a very large car going way too fast (probably around 70 MPH), and I wasn't wearing a seat belt. Every single rib on my right side was broken, most of them in several places, and a couple of them just basically shattered into coin-sized pieces along part of their length.  When they healed not all of the pieces were where they were supposed to be and did not reattach to the rest of the rib. Some attached to the wrong rib, some to other pieces, some are just floating loose.

Most of the time this tangle functions normally enough, but every once in a while a piece moves. This ranges in pain level from simple short twinges that are like itches with teeth, to 'Holy FUCK!'

My bones in general are very thick and very dense (I didn't break anything else in that accident), but for the ribs that may actually have worked against me (they didn't bend the way that a normal person's would).

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Reply #35811 on: April 18, 2017, 01:05:40 AM

Fuckinell, horror show stuff.  ACK!

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Reply #35812 on: April 18, 2017, 08:13:16 AM

ITT: Cronenberg

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Reply #35813 on: April 18, 2017, 11:46:00 AM


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Reply #35814 on: April 18, 2017, 12:20:12 PM

Sorry, didn't mean to creep anybody out. Trust me, I gave you the sanitized, non-icky version. This was the event that made me stop being a web server programmer (in 1997-1998), I decided that life was too short to spend it working on stuff that bored me.

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Reply #35815 on: April 18, 2017, 02:44:37 PM

You think you're creeping people out, just wait till they hear about my stinky PSU.   Heartbreak

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Reply #35816 on: April 18, 2017, 06:45:33 PM

I can't imagine breaking a rib and not knowing it.  I've had bruised ribs before and I thought I would die just trying to breath, let alone move.  Maybe you should buy him some sort of protection that he can wear over his clothes.  It's all the rage in DC.  It's called the Jared Kushner look. 
By the time he was diagnosed with Hodgkins (and someone had noticed the football sized mass crushing his bronchial tubes), he had been running on insufficient sleep and oxygen for so long that you could have hit him with a bat and he wouldn't have noticed. His tolerance for pain was really high, and his ability to notice was at a low. His brain was busy with trying not to die.

We found out after his second chemo session that his oncologist had insisted on having the first session within a few days, and given the most powerful dose he could give without risking killing my brother, because he was worried my brother might just die in his sleep if they waited. He was apparently really close to dying.
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Reply #35817 on: April 18, 2017, 09:55:48 PM

I didn't cope well with not being able to catch a proper breath.  I feel panicky now just thinking about it.  I think I would have gone crazy trying to deal with what your brother went through. 

I don't know what PSU stands for, Ironwood, except Penn State University in which case you have a soiled Nitty Lion attached to you.  I'm sure you'll eventually tell us what it really stands for.  Just warn me so I can take a Xanax first.   ACK!

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Reply #35818 on: April 18, 2017, 10:07:19 PM

I am guessing he is talking about the Power Supply in his PC, and something must have died in there or something?

Either that or it means Personal Storage Unit, and that's where he keeps all the dead hookers.

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Reply #35819 on: April 19, 2017, 12:16:17 AM

The first one. It's a great sadness to me anyway.

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Reply #35820 on: April 19, 2017, 02:16:36 AM

I feel your pain.

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Reply #35821 on: April 19, 2017, 02:17:45 AM

Also let's take a moment to consider that this is probably the last power of two page for at least another eleven years.

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Reply #35822 on: April 19, 2017, 03:23:04 AM

A truly unusual observation. 

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Reply #35823 on: April 19, 2017, 10:01:40 AM

I think I'm going to start uploading artwork to Society6, or perhaps someplace less nice, and see if I can live off of that instead of computer money.  So I need a way to draw things.

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Reply #35824 on: April 19, 2017, 10:59:34 AM

Bamboo tablet by Wacom. Costs about $100.

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Reply #35825 on: April 19, 2017, 11:08:10 AM

Tiny Etch a Sketch: $5.98


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Reply #35826 on: April 19, 2017, 12:15:24 PM

I hear a pencil and paper still work.
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Reply #35827 on: April 19, 2017, 12:31:14 PM

I priced setting up a good digital drawing/painting setup. For the same price I could completely kit out my home art studio and buy all the stuff for a decent matting and framing shop (including the power tools for the frames). So...I'll stick to charcoal and oil paints....

In other news, I found a new thing that will slowly drive me insane. For some reason, the mac os developers decided it was a good idea to have scroll direction in the mouse system pref and the one in touchpad prefs be linked. So when I want to plug in a mouse, I have to reverse direction. Unplug mouse, reverse it again. Repeat FOREVER.

That's burn in hell evil right there.
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Reply #35828 on: April 19, 2017, 12:34:13 PM

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Reply #35829 on: April 19, 2017, 12:56:11 PM

On the new laptop. Thanks for the link, but one of my pet peeves about macs going back to when I first started here in 2000...the amount of leechware needed to do things that should be in the OS. The old guy spent SO MUCH money on such things.
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Reply #35830 on: April 19, 2017, 12:57:24 PM

I found an app that decoupled them and reversed the mouse but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was called.  It wasn't too hard to find a year ago though.
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Reply #35831 on: April 19, 2017, 03:27:00 PM

A truly unusual observation. 

To the population at large, I imagine so, but to any developers, the number 1024 jumps out and shouts at you in a way that is probably beaten only by 256.

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Reply #35832 on: April 19, 2017, 03:29:35 PM

I priced setting up a good digital drawing/painting setup. For the same price I could completely kit out my home art studio and buy all the stuff for a decent matting and framing shop (including the power tools for the frames). So...I'll stick to charcoal and

Yeah, If you're not doing digital work and print setup professionally I can't ever see investing in all the stuff to do it. I'll do a bamboo tablet but never a full Wacom. Even the awesome surface desktop tablet is more than I'm willing to spend as an amateur.

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Reply #35833 on: April 19, 2017, 03:34:48 PM

When I was looking at such things a few months back, this art tablet/monitor was recommended to me by an artist friend as the best bang for the buck. Never actually bought one, though.

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Reply #35834 on: April 19, 2017, 07:20:09 PM

My cheaper option was this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWYZO1P/

Remember I've been training to draw at 18x24, so bigger is better for me and many digital artists disagree.
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Reply #35835 on: April 20, 2017, 09:09:47 AM

Neat-o.  I'll be selling stupid t-shirts in no time.

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Reply #35836 on: April 20, 2017, 09:26:29 AM

My cheaper option was this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWYZO1P/

Remember I've been training to draw at 18x24, so bigger is better for me and many digital artists disagree.

I'm a fan of seeing things as close to 1:1 as you can without printing, so bigger is better. Yeah, I also know digital artists who think "zoom to extents" is good enough. They're wrong.

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Reply #35837 on: April 20, 2017, 10:28:57 AM

A truly unusual observation. 

To the population at large, I imagine so, but to any developers, the number 1024 jumps out and shouts at you in a way that is probably beaten only by 256.

I didn't even see the page number but assumed it was either 1024 or 2048 by your first comment. Nerds of a feather...

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Reply #35838 on: April 20, 2017, 06:13:54 PM

So, randomly, assume I had a piano for a few months at least and no ability to hire a human being to give me lessons. But I do have access to Amazon (for books) and the internet (for videos) and wanted to learn a bit. Can anyone suggest any good resources for someone who is starting at "You press the keys and music happens, yes?"
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Reply #35839 on: April 20, 2017, 07:06:58 PM

Have you played other instruments before? Can you read musical notation?

Edit: also what kind of piano is it?
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