Year: 2008

Maybe you shouldn’t use ice packs on the neck because of the jugular vein being there?

Michele sent me back, Sleepypete; I couldn’t get here earlier, due to blogger’s being down.

I too love pizza and Mini Eggs!

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

Lol – I’ll have to update my post a little to add a couple of links in for SETI, BOINC and Rosetta@Home 🙂

They make the cpu go 100% all the time, which means heat which means :

Laptop = Surrogate Hot Water Bottle !

Thanks for the tip, SP! We’re being nailed by another blast of Canadian winter, so any source of heat is welcome indeed.

My new laptop is decidedly cooler than my old one – darn you, Intel, for introducing new lower-power chipsets! – but I think it has a High Performance mode that kicks up the clock speed and forces the little gerbils inside my machine to run even faster.

Belated hi from Michele’s: Blogger’s been an unhappy camper today.

Wrist feels better now 🙂

Yep – heat’s good, I think it helps to open up the blood vessels, getting more oxygen around. It’s what ultrasound treatment is supposed to encourage, healing through heating of the area that’s not happy.

Standing under the shower with the hot water directed to my injured shoulder can feel oh so good 🙂

“Also, do not use ice packs on the left shoulder if you have a heart condition. Do not use ice packs around the front or side of the neck.”
Curious – just found that on a medical page. I can understand the heart one but am trying to figure the neck one.

So, it’s watch while you heal then? Heat can be so soothing, especially in this vile damp adn cold weather. Yuk.

My wrist is bugging me again, so I’m sneakily using my laptop for heat treatment. I run the BOINC distributed compuing application on my 2 PCs, my laptop is currently analysing radio signals in hope of finding an alien life derived signal in one. It alternates between that and manipulating proteins for medical research for the Rosetta@Home project. My desktop does both SETI and Rosetta but also adds in climate prediction.

Sneaky use of laptop ? All that work makes the processor hot and because ventilation is never that great on a laptop, the heat spreads through the case. So for the rest of the second half of the England rugby game, I’ll have my right hand stuffed under the laptop getting some advantage out of all that heat being generated 🙂

It’s a bit of a painful game at the moment. Conditions are poor at Murrayfield due to heavy rain, meaning it’s turned into a kicking duel. England are playing typically poorly though and won’t deserve to win if they do manage to catch up the 12-3 deficit they have at the moment.

Addon – links added for BOINC. I run SETI, Rosetta and Climate Prediction. It’s a good idea to run several projects as it means your machine always has work. Sometimes the projects are down for maintenance, which can mean your machine can run out of work.

[chuckle] That’s a symptom of me writing posts when my mind is buzzing from playing those games !

Must avoid them so I can regain a little clarity 😉

Although I did not understand most of it, I wish you a good day. I am here via Michele and sorry for bein delayed in arriving here.

I’ve discovered a new idiotgame site and am currently coming down from getting addicted to several of the games on there … I call those idiotgames because they are so simple, any idiot can play them. It takes some doing though to figure out the strategies. The one I’ve linked above is especially maddening. It looks oh so simple but it’ll be weeks of pounding before I even approach the high score table.

Had a bit of a frustrating day, I took today off work because the Gas people were coming to change my meter. Figured that with an appointment time of between 12.00 and 17.00, it wasn’t worth going in for the 2 hours or so I’d have been there before needing to come home to shepherd Gas Person. So I have a lie in, which I think I needed (hours are a little strange cos of cricket on telly!) and got a few more things watched off the Skybox before settling in to wait from 12.00 noon. On goes iTunes and out comes the book, both things I can interrupt at a moment’s notice, unlike a game or a taped TV programme. Said Gas Person actually turns up at 16.15, with me getting lots of exercise jumping up to see if that engine sound outside was them. Was starting to rehearse a rant to the people who said I needed to be in to shepherd Gas Person before he turned up.

Managed to get through 120 pages of David Weber’s At All Costs, the latest in his Honor Harrington space opera series.

I’m now looking to calm my thinking down again, as it tends to go into hyperspeed and intense focus when doing those idiotgames. What didn’t help was what’s best described as a Heated Discussion breaking out on the Mercs forums, centred around one of our older players who is leaving due to dissatisfaction with the other players in the guild. He’s got a point, we’ve moved a long way away from what we were in the early days which was a guild of only the best players. We’ve grown a little too much to still deserve that tag. We have players who are only along for the ride and aren’t too comfortable on the horse at that.

Maybe it’s time to disappear from World of Warcraft again ? To be really honest, I haven’t been in the game enough to justify £8 a month on the subscription fee. I’ve only been coming on to raid and although I settle for no less than a committed raiding performance from myself, I’m not particularly interested. I come on to help out the team. Good selfless reason but is playing a game for someone else’s enjoyment reason enough for staying in a game you’re not enjoying ?

There’s also other politics going on, including some strange decisions taken with reference to the leadership of the Warcraft guild. So I’m irritated with various people over that as well, because I’ve been overlooked with no direct explanation as to why.

Ho hum – if a game starts getting irritating instead of fun, then maybe it’s time to find another game. Just wish there wasn’t so much expectation from a whole crowd of people looking at me to decide what they want to do.