Yemsky
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The “oh shit I just realized _____” thread
I never noticed Boogie Wonderland was not written by EW&F let alone did I know this demo by the original songwriters existed.
When I found out last week, through this video...
...I was initially convinced that Allee Willis is man.
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Set up placement relative to your height - turntables and mixers related
In the first picture he posted a few days ago I thought it was a face mask, a tooth brush, a dental mirror and two plexiglas boxes for dentures.
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Lockdown tunes
What's good?
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"skating" on 45s (HALP!!!!)
dizzybull said:billbradley What type of turntable are you using?
Vestax PDX a1 mkII. I think the anti skate is a little block knob thing, but i'm not sure which direction or how far to turn it.
Try in the direction of trial and error.
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T3h C0Vids
My immediate family hadCovid in March 2020. My wife is a paediatric intensive care consultant (attending for you US folks) and she probably brought it home from work. She was unwell for about two weeks with temperature and muscle aches but has been fine since; our then 11 year old daughter had a temperature for literally a day but lost her sense of taste and smell for more than three months; our then 15 year old daughter had no symptoms, which might be because she is a super fit athlete. I went down with incredible pain in my body and a temperature of between 39.5-41C (103-106F) for a full three weeks. I slept between 15-20 hours per day during those weeks. My condition deteriorated until my wife called the ambulance when I had some serious breathing problems. After some oxygen in the hospital I felt better and my blood oxygen levels were OK. They diagnosed pneumonia on top of the infection and gave me antibiotics which over the following five days made a significant difference. On my birthday in April I felt OK again for the first time in a month but it still took time to regain my strength. I had lost six kilos (one good thing...) and have been more active over the summer / fall using the time I have due to WFH and not commuting. Winter weather is a bummer though as I hate skating on wet roads and I’ve put the weight back on again. A lot of people ask me about Long Covid symptoms but I am generally OK or possibly in denial as I hesitate to attribute slightly increased joint pains to it and blame a family history of rheumatism and arthritis. I do need more sleep though, which in my case means probably more “normal” amounts as I previously was “burning the candle on both ends” as colleagues would say. One noticeable change: I never used to remember dreams in the mornings. Now I am conscious of them almost every day. Weird stuff....
I’ve been donating plasma for Covid patients every few weeks since June as my antibody levels are good.
The kids are coping so-so with the home schooling situation. The younger one seems OK now but in the first lockdown suffered enormously from the lack of social interaction. The older one is putting on a brave face and sticks to her training regime as much as possible. She is a rower and apart from a brief period after the summer hasn’t been in a boat in ages and hasn’t had a race since the previous season. She was aiming for a scholarship to a US college but has cancelled all those plans due to a mix of concerns about sports scholarships being withdrawn and a mix of concerns about the handling of Covid at US universities and the general US political situation.
My wife’s paediatric ICU has now for the second time been cleared of all children to make space for adult patients who need intensive care. They are very busy and I dare say that having been an intensive care doctor who has had to deal with life and death on a daily basis for decades helps dealing with the situation. Other doctors and nurses who don’t normally deal with patients who might or might not make it do not cope as well.
My wife has not been given a vaccination yet, which is pretty bad in principle but tolerable in her individual case as she has antibodies from her own infection last year.
We both have parents in their late 70s / early 80s who are sheltering at home. Both in-laws need home care and I am very surprised that the visiting carers have not brought the virus into the house. However, mother-in-law had to go into hospital before Christmas for other reasons. She was tested for Covid every other day and was initially Covid free but then tested positive in the first week of January, so she caught it from staff in hospital. She’s asymptomatic so far.
Amongst our 250 staff at work we’ve had some infections but no transmissions amongst those who work on site (warehouse staff etc.) which I take as evidence that our strict social distancing, cleaning and hygiene regime is working. Not so sure about the discipline outside work amongst those who have been WFH since March as I know that people had BBQs etc. before it got cold.
I still get asked by some colleagues whether I thought that Covid was as serious as flu and I had people comparing it to their glandular fever...
I noticed a peculiar attitude amongst some British staff who (unlike the majority of European colleagues) seem to try and find loopholes in and (un)reasonable excuses to not apply whatever restrictions are in place I had to spend an unreasonable amount of managerial time to explain why they can’t visit customers or hold Christmas dinners etc. It was unexpected for me to witness a really odd attitude of them trying to make their case by quoting from (incorrect) newspaper articles rather than checking official government websites for rules.
Amongst relatives of employees we had about half a dozen deaths that I know of but if anything that’s obviously an underestimation.
We had slightly more than half a dozen resignations from people wanting / needing to be closer to their families and consequently moved back to their country of origin. We have about 100 staff who are not originally from the U.K. and many have not seen their family back home since Christmas 2019. We have a few who are currently abroad as they have family members on life support, some since before Christmas. Under “normal” circumstances they would come back to the U.K. by now and prepared to leave again if there was a significant change to the better or worse, but with travel rules and restrictions constantly changing and airlines cutting down flight schedules more and more, some people feel stuck abroad, especially given that more and more countries would not let them back in coming from the U.K.
Amongst the few who went home for Christmas to see their families literally everybody had their booked return journey back to the U.K. cancelled, altered and delayed.
The Financial Times reported yesterday:
“Coronavirus has caused an exodus of immigrants from the UK, triggering what is likely to be the largest fall in Britain’s population since the second world war, according to a new statistical analysis of official data.
A blog published by the government-funded Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCOE) on Thursday estimated that up to 1.3m people born abroad left the UK between the third quarter of 2019 and the same period in 2020.
https://www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-the-uk-population-during-the-pandemic/
In London alone, almost 700,000 foreign-born residents have probably moved out, the authors of the blog calculated, leading to a potential 8 per cent drop in the capital’s population last year.”
