Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

On 6/18/2017 at 0:03 PM, Mark F said:

I thought I had this problem ( do not) so got tested for it.

they connect many, probably more than 15 wires to different parts of your body, (just contact) and then do some tests. (your supposed to attempt to sleep)

then, put the breathing unit/apparatus on to see how that worked.  It steadily forces air into your nose or mouth or both can't remember.

there is always slight inwards air pressure. so exhaling requires effort.

Did not like that feeling at all.

 

 

I was a sufferer and referred for the testing but ended up not going.  I knew exactly what my problem was.  a 20 lb swing in weight meant the difference between breathing and not breathing.  Lost weight and now sleep like a baby, no snoring or anything.

Although I have also suffered sleep paralysis/night terrors on and off since I was a child.

3 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Although I have also suffered sleep paralysis/night terrors on and off since I was a child.

You're not alone on this one 

Have some great memories. I wonder what the landlord wants to do with the building. Condos?

26 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Have some great memories. I wonder what the landlord wants to do with the building. Condos?

Back in the day used to play pinball by the back exit almost everyday, wasn't a very good bowler.

3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Have some great memories. I wonder what the landlord wants to do with the building. Condos?

One report says 35 years and the other 50+. Pretty  sure its 50+ isnt it?

Is it the bowling lane is 35 with current owners and building is 50?

5 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Is it the bowling lane is 35 with current owners and building is 50?

Or bowling for 50 and Academy Lanes as name for 35.

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 1:30 PM, The Unknown Poster said:

I was a sufferer and referred for the testing but ended up not going.  I knew exactly what my problem was.  a 20 lb swing in weight meant the difference between breathing and not breathing.  Lost weight and now sleep like a baby, no snoring or anything.

Although I have also suffered sleep paralysis/night terrors on and off since I was a child.

We're Bomber fans. We've all experienced night terrors like  you did over the years.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/28/pornhub-will-sync-videos-with-your-interactive-sex-toys/

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/wasylycia-leis-house-firebombed-431231613.html

Random or attempted murder? You decide!

 

Edited June 28, 20178 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

On 2017-6-24 at 5:53 PM, The Unknown Poster said:

Have some great memories. I wonder what the landlord wants to do with the building. Condos?

That's too bad, I won many tournaments there as a teen against adults, was a good way to make $ as a kid, so I have fond memories of the place even though I spent my YBC at Windsor Lanes, and "super" leagues at Hi-way Lanes (former Chalmers lanes) and Dakota. 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/top-canadian-court-permits-worldwide-internet-censorship

2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/wasylycia-leis-house-firebombed-431231613.html

Random or attempted murder? You decide!

 

This random incident has taught us that: (a) Judy's 28 year-old son still lives at home, and (b) that she still loves getting her name in the paper.

3 minutes ago, nate007 said:

This random incident has taught us that: (a) Judy's 28 year-old son still lives at home, and (b) that she still loves getting her name in the paper.

I think on the TV he said he just came from outside the province. Something like that. Good timing as he discovered it.

Edited June 28, 20178 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-bike-sharing-firm-wukong-bike-closes-after-90-of-its-bicycles-go-missing

New league, flag football with retired NFL stars

https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:32ec9979ac2943f180158ef1387959e5/576.mp4

8 minutes ago, Mark F said:

New league, flag football with retired NFL stars

https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:32ec9979ac2943f180158ef1387959e5/576.mp4

Im still waiting for NFL2, a spring/summer league.

Bad TSA o the Day https://us.yahoo.com/news/owner-giant-20-pound-lobster-201900938.html

Bad Cop o the Day http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article158578229.html

Edited June 30, 20178 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

http://globalnews.ca/news/3565069/post-surgery-foreign-bodies-canada/

book recommendation

author:  Phillip K dyck (should be an i but censored with that spelling)

genre: sci fi.

he wrote the book that Blade runner was taken from.

title: A scanner darkly.

movie version: yes, CGI.

subject matter: set in the future, and undercover narc is living with several drug addicts hoping to get leads to the higher ups in the dealer chain.

much of the daily life of drug addicts is detailed. This aspect is autobiographical.

The narcs wear a scramble suit so that they will not be identified

"

Quote

 

The scramble suit was an invention of the Bell laboratories, conjured up by accident by an employee named S. A. Powers... Basically, his design consisted of a multifaceted quartz lens hooked up to a million and a half physiognomic fraction-representations of various people: men and women, children, with every variant encoded and then projected outward in all directions equally onto a superthin shroudlike membrane large enough to fit around an average human.

As the computer looped through its banks, it projected every conceivable eye color, hair color, shape and type of nose, formation of teeth, configuration of facial bone structure - the entire shroudlike membrane took on whatever physical characteristics were projected at any nanosecond, then switched to the next...

In any case, the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination (up to combinations of a million and a half sub-bits) during the course of each hour. Hence, any description of him - or her - was meaningless.

From A Scanner Darkly.

 

Brilliant book.

very funny, and very sad. and quite deep.

 

Edited June 30, 20178 yr by Mark F

@Mark F Never read the book but I really liked the movie.

9 minutes ago, Atomic said:

@Mark F Never read the book but I really liked the movie.

There are audiobooks... really well done, one extremely well narrated by Paul Giammatti.

(just learned his father was a Prof at Yale, and also commissioner of major league baseball)

Just now, Mark F said:

There are audiobooks... really well done, one extremely well narrated by Paul Giammatti.

(just learned his father was a Prof at Yale, and also commissioner of major league baseball)

Well I've never read the book but that doesn't mean I can't read!!

1 hour ago, Atomic said:

Well I've never read the book but that doesn't mean I can't read!!

lol.

The audiobook with Giamatti, was probably better (for me) than had I read the book myself. He basically acted the roles of the different people.