Toilets, Bacteria, Force Fields

Something I learned a few years ago is that when you flush, you're throwing all that bacteria from the toilet into the air. Keep the toilet lid down, and it just gets on the lid, the seat, and on the very back of the toilet bowl rim (that spot right behind the seat between the tank and the bowl). Or all over your legs and ass if you're sitting on it. Ew, right?

Solution: force fields! Create a force field that won't let anything at all pass, and when the toilet is flushed, right before it starts spurting water put a force field in the bowl just above the jets of water. If you can make it a one-way force field so that stuff can still be thrown into the toilet, then you don't even have to set it to only activate while flushing. Just think, when you have a particularly lively trip to the restroom, you don't have to worry about back-splash!

I think this idea is genius, but it requires that they work on make force-fields compact and cheap. Then, it needs to be implemented in every single toilet in the world! Though, I figure, the first while, it'll just be a toy for the rich. Still, it'll make using and cleaning the bathroom a hella lot less disgusting, don't you think?

Creating Forum

I have a forum. The link is this monstrosity.* For some odd reason, I can't add it to my link list in the side-bar. I'm also having trouble getting into the ftp server where the forum is to add mods. BUT, the forum itself works.

So, mods that I'm still working on adding:

-thanks button
-welcome pm
-style choices (one for each roygbv as well as dark red, gray, and charcoal)
-some admin stuff
-more smilies

But, for all intents and purposes, the forum is live. Don't worry, the backup function will be used any time I get a chance to put these mods into place. I have a feeling that once the forum is actually being used, my account will be taken more seriously and I can actually access the ftp servers more easily.

For now, I will continue attempting to connect every couple hours.

(please note: I can connect directly in a manner that allows me to upload one file at a time... but that would take weeks to upload everything I need.)

*Edit: there is a new link to the forum. Please go to http://ladylunasplace.com/forum instead. Thank you!

MHRM

So, watching youtube videos back in January, I stumbled upon Feminism and The Disposable Male by GirlWritesWhat. Which led me to Look out! It's a Nice Guy! Destroy Him!!11! . So I started watching all the GirlWritesWhat videos. And then started watching ManWomanMyth, and watched the whole documentary. Then I watched everything Typhon Blue had posted. And now we come to today (yes, it took awhile.)

So I have a message, one for men, one for women, and one for society.

Men:

I'm sorry, and thank you.

I'm sorry for the way we've treated you. The way we've ignored you. The way we trample all over your rights in the name of equality. The way we decided that equality was supposed to mean equal outcomes, not equal opportunities. The way we push you into sacrificing for us, even when it's not needed. The way we take advantage of your good natures, and give you small thanks those few times we gave you any. The way we usually don't give you any thanks, and instead complain about the things you do for us.

Thank you. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your strength. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your sacrifices. Thank you for every time you've helped us, protected us, provided for us, sheltered us, and comforted us. Thank you for every time you've given us what we need, instead of what we want, despite our protests.

Women:

WAKE THE FUCK UP! Can't you see everything men do for you? Can't you understand that they have always had the short end of the stick? GET OVER YOURSELF! Try sacrificing your life for their dreams sometimes. Try sacrificing what you want for what they want sometimes. Try just letting them go, letting them have a piece of their lives to call their own! Treat them as though they were another woman!

Quit trying to change the game to suit your abilities. If you can't lift a man, you shouldn't take a job that might require you to lift a man! If you can't run a mile, you shouldn't take a job that might require you to run a mile. If you can't handle pressure, don't take a high-stakes job. If you don't want to take the blame, then don't take the credit either.

STOP THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS! Seriously, I don't care how mad you are at him, calling him a rapist is just not good. It's like if he accused you of murder, and managed to convince the entire country of it. Every time a woman makes a false accusation, it makes it harder for those who have a real problem.

YOUR CHILDREN NEED THEIR FATHER. Stop cutting him out of their lives just because he didn't want to deal with your shit anymore. Stop randomly deciding to have a kid without letting the father know you want to do so. Children thrive in an environment where they know that both parents wanted them, and know that both parents are involved in their life. THAT is what is needed. Guess what? It's on you, the mother, to make sure they get that sort of environment!

Quit blaming others for your actions. Quit using what you did to them as evidence against them. Stop this madness!

Society:

Equal opportunity is not equal outcomes. Give everyone an equal opportunity. Forget about the equal outcomes. They aren't going to happen. Stop destroying the economy in the interests of having a "balanced" workforce. Jobs should be free to hire the best person, whether that's a man or a woman, no matter what race.

I don't know how to fix the taxes situation, but we really need to get back to the sort of society where two people can live off of one paycheck. Seriously! And what is this shit where any sort of discipline is viewed as abuse? What is this shit where enjoying the company of a child is considered abuse? There is nothing wrong with giving a hug. There is nothing wrong with sitting a child on your lap for a story. I don't fucking care what gender you are! It's only wrong if the man is getting a boner, or the woman is getting short of breath. Aren't there ways to monitor if a person actually finds a situation sexually appealing?

It might not be the man's fault if he's an absent father. How hard is it to look up in the court cases and see if he's not around because the mother decided he wasn't allowed to be? Why the fuck do you use that as "proof" that he's not a responsible father? Why not ask him "Why couldn't you take time to visit your children?" and actually believe him if he says "Because she wouldn't let me. She got a restraining order put on me." This is bullshit!
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Okay, I think I feel better now.

Throw Trucks With Your Mind!

A friend who went to college for video game design got his hands on one of those headsets which measures brainwaves a few years ago. Since then, he's been working on making a video game that actually makes use of this technology! He's gotten the quirks worked out of the system and is finally ready to start actually developing the real game.

It's called Throw Trucks with Your Mind, and it looks AWESOME! If you want to help him make his dream a reality, and so make all our dreams a reality, here is the kickstarter campagin. The rewards for the different tiers are awesome stuff, like designing objects to throw ($150+) or giving the concept behind a level in the game (3,000+). Anything $25 and up gets a copy of the game when it comes out (This is the lowest I'm going, though if I can get the art stuff I totally will!) You have until March 12th to save up for enough to get the level you're interested in, but act fast, cause everything involving game concepts has limited slots, and the higher the tier, the fewer slots are available.

So check it out! Spread the word! Let's get this project moving!

(donate for this project and send a screen shot of the confirmation to my email for a free video! You get to choose, anything up to twice what you donated!)

My game- update

Almost done with items!

I've gotten everything organized except melee weapons. Once that's done, all I have left are the armor and weapon stats. Whee!

and I said I was going to work on writing a novel.

Saying it to my face...

A lot of people don't like to hear that they were insulted behind their backs. They'd much rather whoever is insulting them say it to their face. I am not one of those people. Why? When you say something to my face, that gives it weight. To me, that means that you actually mean what you say. If you say it behind my back, you're just blowing off steam. I don't mean spreading untrue rumors. I mean the name-calling.

When I am insulted to my face, by someone I see on a regular basis, that has weight. That has meaning. That says that maybe I actually am this way. That hurts. When I hear that so-and-so called me such-and-such the other day, so what? If they really think I'm that, they can tell me for themselves. Otherwise, they probably didn't mean it. They probably were just frustrated with me. Who doesn't frustrate other people from time to time? Maybe that person just really doesn't like me, but we have no choice but to interact on a daily basis. Of course they'll justify their dislike of me by calling me names behind my back. But if they won't call me that to my face, then obviously part of them doesn't really believe that it's true. And so, it can't hurt me. If they call me that to my face, then they actually believe in what they are saying.

Now, people I don't interact with on a regular basis, they can call me whatever they want wherever they want. I'll probably cut them out of my life. But it's not like they really know me, so their words don't have any weight. They saw one or two things, but didn't see how I am day-in and day-out. Maybe it was a bad day. Maybe it was a bad situation. Maybe they caught my one weakness, but most of the time I'm much better than that. They have no way of knowing that.

So please, unless you really truly believe I completely deserve whatever you're saying, don't tell me about it.

Shower Temperature

I got rather good at figuring out how to do shower temperatures.

Single Knob controls: turn it all the way hot, leave it run until it's actually all the way hot (usually five minutes), then turn it down to the magic "just right" spot if you already know it. If you don't already know it, twist it about a fourth of the way along the allowed range, and wait a couple minutes. Adjust a tiny bit, wait a couple mins, repeat as needed until the "just right" spot is found. Memorize the spot.

Two Knob controls: turn the hot water all the way on, leave it run until it's all the way hot (usually five minutes). Turn the hot water down halfway and add cold slowly until it's the right temperature.

My old shower was a two knob, but it was tricky. After five minutes of running, it would appear to be done heating up, but if you adjust the temperature at that point every couple of minutes during the shower you'll need to change the temperature back down. So you have to wait another two minutes before turning the temperature down.

My current shower is a single knob, and it is the devil. The way single knobs are supposed to work, each spot on the run has a set temperature. The way this one actually works, it randomly decides what temperature it should be based on how much you moved it from the previous one, except it increases the change exponentially. So moving it too far, all of a sudden you have cold water in the middle of the hot side of the range. To make matters worse, no matter how long you let it run or what temperature you finally wrangle it in to, every two minutes it will randomly change to either hotter or colder. And how much of a change either way varies so much that you could end up with a workable temperature, or you could end up being scalded by the shower. Where the knob is on the range seems to have no bearing on whether it gets hotter, colder, or by how much.

Now, it's possible I just haven't figured out the trick of it yet. It's possible that I've just been impatient, and not letting it sit long enough between temperature changes. It's possible that the only thing wrong with the shower is that it shares hot and cold water with the rest of the building so anyone in any of the eleven other apartments could be messing it up for me. But I only just a few years ago got over my phobia of bathrooms, and the longer this continues the worse I'm going to have to fight it, and the more likely it is that I'll be so tense about the shower that I'll be unable to give it the time it needs to heat up and change temperature.

Besides, I swear the shower just WAITS until I'm actually under the water to change temperatures on me.

My wish- they would come out with Enterprise-like showers, not in space, just in temperature control. We tell the computer hotter or colder, and it remembers what temperature we like. It could start at baby-bath temperature to make sure no one is ever actually hurt by the water (seriously, there was one shower where if you weren't careful, you'd get burned by it).

Owie

On Monday my period started and I got sick. I stayed up most of the night until my nose stopped being a fountain so I could sleep without drowning in snot, and spent Tuesday alternating between being awake and being asleep. On Tuesday, I couldn't eat anything because everything made me want to throw up, so I've been slowly getting my body used to food again for the past week, while I cough up flegm.

Today I went to get Paraguard, an IUD. They recommended that I take 800 mg of Ibuprofen, which translates into 4 pills of it, about an hour before the appointment. 15 minutes into the appointment, I got really woozy. I feel like I have cramps, and I'm still kinda bleeding. It might be a few days before I can cam again. I'm still really woozy, from lack of sleep, lack of food, and painkillers (after the appointment, I slept awhile, woke up to intense pain, took 3 more ibuprofen, and went back to sleep for another few hours).

I will be checking my hotmail and mfc mail, so if anyone is interested in the videos in my store but doesn't want to use clips4sale to purchase them, get in touch with me one way or the other. I'll let you know if I have it and what price it is (general prices are $1 or 10 tokens per 30 seconds, rounded to the nearest 30 secs. 14 rounds down, 15 rounds up, 44 rounds down, 45 rounds up. Unless it's one of my findom films, which are the ignore ones). DO NOT send the money before I confirm the price and whether or not I actually have the vid. Please do send the video title, description, claimed length, and filename, so I can verify, because there are a few on the site where I have a different video named the same as the title, but it's a different length and different filename.

Dream Car

I've been through a lot of cars. I'm not going to go into details about how or why, but I've been through a lot. So I have a pretty good idea by now of what I want to drive, and be driven around in (since when my partner and I have two cars, we usually take mine and he drives if he's with me).

Size and Shape:

I really liked driving my 2006 Kia Spectra. So that would be my ideal size and shape. However, that size might not be big enough to contain everything I want in the car, so I'm willing to go up to the size of the 2006 Honda Accord that I drove.

Engine:

I want it to be easy to do self-maintenance on the engine. Oh, I'll take it to the shop until the warranties are out, but once they're out, I want to learn how to do the tune ups and oil changes. It needs to get good gas mileage, but I also want it strong enough to be able to tow a small flatbed.

Seats:

Two seats up front, two seats in back. Back seats need to fold down to extend the trunk, and I want the hole between the backseat and the trunk to be as big as allowed by the frame of the car. None of this blocking off all but half of it that all the new cars like to do.

I prefer cloth seats. I just don't like how leather burns my ass in the summer and freezes it in the winter. I want the front seats to be able to go all the way back, and I want all the seats to be comfortable.

Cupholders and storage:

One of the cars I had, in the door there was a place for a water bottle, along with the usual paper-holder. I want that. I've seen cars that have cupholders right behind the shifter, followed by a storage compartment, and finally cupholders that could fold up and drop back down for the back seats. This is the ideal setup for me.

I've never understood why there can't be more storage under the back seats. If it's possible, then I'd like that in my car. If it's not possible, then I guess I'll have to deal with it. I like the idea of a hidey-hole in the headrests where I can put emergency supplies, like matches, a swiss army knife, and some emergency cash. Under the backseat would go bigger emergency supplies, like jumper cables, blankets, foldable road cones, flares, a gas can, and a toolbox. That way, when I put groceries in the trunk, I don't have to worry about that stuff touching the food.

Of course, the trunk will have the usual lift up the bottom to get to the spare. If it won't sacrifice too much gas mileage, I'd like an actual spare, not the dinky donuts. It doesn't have to be a full sized spare, but an actual spare tire.

Stereo

Quality sound. Can take usb, audio cables, sd cards, and cd's up front. Hooked up to it is a 10-cd changer, that I understand is usually in the trunk of the car.

Power

I would like two power outlets under the rear cupholders. I would also like two power outlets and one cigarette lighter under the radio. No ashtray needed, though an indent for change would be nice.

Coloring:

I like white exterior with tan interior. Dunno why, I just do.

So there you have it, that's what my dream car is like. I don't even know if some of it is possible, but it would be so nice. ^_^

Global Warming

Many people don't think global warming exists. They are wrong. It's definitely getting warmer and warmer every year. When there's a "record low", they mean record for the last 20 years, not as low as it was 100 years ago. Did humans make it happen? I don't know. I know the Earth has temperature cycles, and I think we would have to deal with a warming no matter what. But I also know that it doesn't usually get warm enough to melt the polar ice caps, and that it might this time.

If it does, there won't be enough land left for humans to live on. We'll have to find new ways of living between now and then, but no one seems to be thinking about it. Well, here's my thoughts:

1. Land- learning to build cities underground and as skyscrapers. Learning how to farm indoors. Learning how to make indoor gardens and maybe even indoor forests would definitely help. These things can then be translated into the next two areas.

2. Sea- we need to discover how to make buildings that can work under the ocean, or on the ocean. I think under would be safer during storms, but not too far under, because of the giant sea-creatures down there. Or maybe they can make them on the sea, and figure out how to protect them from the giant waves that happen when it's stormy.

3. Space- learning to make space stations that can support countries instead of just a village. Exploring ways of living on the moon, and living on mars. Maybe green-house gasses could be used to create an atmosphere around them? I don't know enough about science to say how this can happen, but it needs to be explored at the very least.

These are the things science needs to be working on, so that we can live during the years when there is so little land on earth. Heck, if all the people live on the ocean and in space, the land can be used for plants and animals.

If you think it can't be done... look at zoos and aquariums  Seriously, they build tanks to hold that much water in, can't they use the same concepts to keep that much water out? They already make habitats inside for the animals that need climate control. So don't laugh at me for thinking this. It needs to happen.

Alright, I'm done with my soapbox for today.