Random Thoughts Thread. (Clean version)

[Strike105X]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

I have the most disgusting feet you can imagine.

-I have pinch skin up the sides from tight shoes, it's like a hard and thick callus ridge of skin that's discoloured.
-My feet are covered in blisters at the various stages of healing.
-One spot has 5, count them, 5 blisters merged into each other and ripped up.
- My toenails are black and red from accumulated blood prising the nail apart from the skin, they look like tortoise shell (the material)
-My feet and toes are swollen with fluid.
-I have a few welts where chunks of skin have been ripped out.
-I think I now have (mild) athletes foot too. Already treating it with mad skills.

It doesn't hurt to run with them though, the running is going fantastic actually!
I took pictures of my feet if that doesn't sound weird because it's kind of an achievement to work through such massive intensity and have the battle scars to prove it.

I think you should see a doctor about the nails and chunks of skin part, it could be nothing alarming, or it could be alarming, but better with a whole in the wallet then loosing something or limiting something, take it from someone with some experience regarding it...

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

You really shouldn't be running with all that. It isn't gonna get a chance to heal and is just gonna get worse.

They're all healing fine, early last week I was limping pretty badly but today if I couldn't see the condition of my feet, I wouldn't even know.

Originally Posted by Strike105X

I think you should see a doctor about the nails and chunks of skin part, it could be nothing alarming, or it could be alarming, but better with a whole in the wallet then loosing something or limiting something, take it from someone with some experience regarding it...

Already saw a chiropodist, I have some cool skin lotion for them and I just need new trainers, thinking of vibrams but it's so hipster to wear them, probably get a pair of asics or nb's. Nikes just can't compete in price/performance and I currently wear some midrange nikes. They sucked the first 500 miles but aren't too fatiguing now they're broken.

[Strike105X]

^I see well, its at least good to hear its nothing serious , wish you a swift recovery ^^.

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I bought a little 1TB USB drive (maxell brand, 2.5" seagate drive) and the drive makes a little "chirp" kinda noise when it starts up. The drive seems to work perfectly fine, but I've never heard a drive make such a noise..... Then again I've never owned a 2.5" 1TB drive. Should I be concerned?

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[thelittlegumnut]

doesn't feel like long ago i was complaining about school starting somewhere on here. well, i assume im approximately quarter way through as its the holidays tommorow. YUH!

it seems like life goes faster the older you get. im sure there is some sort of math for that... like, one year doesn't seem like as much when your 16 as opposed to when you were 4. there must be a formula...? oh well.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by thelittlegumnut

doesn't feel like long ago i was complaining about school starting somewhere on here. well, i assume im approximately quarter way through as its the holidays tommorow. YUH!

it seems like life goes faster the older you get. im sure there is some sort of math for that... like, one year doesn't seem like as much when your 16 as opposed to when you were 4. there must be a formula...? oh well.

You're 16, nearly finished the end of school and should be thinking hard about the path of your future.
Let me give you a proper life lesson, son. As someone who never gave credit to his life at that age.


Life doesn't go faster when you get older, you automate more of your tasks into a routine. By constantly presenting new seriously difficult challenges, you get the slow time back.
Finding time to plan your life is strange, when you have lots of free time you'll seldom do it but when you're busy doing something you hate, your mind will be working hard to figure it out.

The good times and big achievements are never big deals. Imagine losing 300 pounds of weight and how long it must take, time goes by so slow that you see no immediate improvements at any point on the journey. There's no gratification in getting results with the tougher goals in life, it's the progress that yields the fun, the journeys and challenges. Yesterday I reached a clean 20nps alternate picking, it's a holy grail number on the guitar but it brings no joy, my sweeping is now close to jason becker's level of accuracy and speed when he was 19, again little joy.

I would blow the mind of the 16 year old version of me with what I can do now, totally surpass every dream he had.
It meant everything in the world to me to become like I am now, the real deal, a proper ranking player but the payoff is nothing.
Not even the biggest dream in the world brought happiness at the end.

That one time I messed up big time playing a small hotel bar by having my stuff turned off in front of Chris Scott (a friend and rival that I majorly respected) made me happy.
The first time I performed in front of my advanced music class and played very badly, so badly the teacher swore calling my playing the s word, the only time I heard her swear makes me happy (after about 3 years of 'u mad bro').
The first time I played in rehearsal with my second band ice 9 and heard my drummer talking about me behind my back in an expression of amazement, makes me happy.

I guess what I'm saying is that trains move on rails and they don't move past stations. Make sure you don't take many pit stops in life, keep the goals rolling and do stupid stuff.

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Last edited by Kaizen; March 29th, 2012 at 20:24..

[Strike105X]

^I'd like to add to his idea that Gumnut you should really start considering what you want to do with your life, for some things it can be just to late if you leave them in the last second... Except for that i have never regretted anything about my life.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by Strike105X

^I'd like to add to his idea that Gumnut you should really start considering what you want to do with your life, for some things it can be just to late if you leave them in the last second... Except for that i have never regretted anything about my life.

Not a single thing?
Not one single thing?

Is it perhaps that you have nothing to regret important enough to last time or that you undervalue the mistakes you make.

Spoiler:

I regret quitting a job on my first day twice over, I regret flunking uni because I was too scared to try and fit in, I regret not telling my dad to go **** himself when he said mum didn't need to go to hospital when I seen signs of paraneo-plastic cerebral degeneration, I regret not flooring my brother when he imposed that I should back off a certain conversation, I regret picking up girls at a works night out causing jealousy from a girl who lied to have me fired, I regret so much that I could pump another thousand words into this post and everything I regret is properly important stuff. Live more

[Strike105X]

You omitted the word "Except" :P, not giving proper thought about my future at the right time is that single thing i regret... Don't get me wrong i did had a lot of failures, moments i was/am ashamed of and things in which i should have proceeded better with, but even failures help in shaping a person and give him a certain experience, that's why i don't have regrets (well except one).

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by Strike105X

You omitted the word "Except" :P, not giving proper thought about my future at the right time is that single thing i regret... Don't get me wrong i did had a lot of failures, moments i was/am ashamed of and things in which i should have proceeded better with, but even failures help in shaping a person and give him a certain experience, that's why i don't have regrets (well except one).

Well, regretting something genuinely tried for and failed is a bad move for the brain.

My own random thought, I went running last night in the gym and I swear when I got out I was high as a kite. I sat on a bench for 30 minutes looking at the sun, it was glorious.

[redlofredlof]

I regret going to uni. I could have done the same job without a degree

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But could you have gotten the job without that little piece of paper?

[thelittlegumnut]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

You're 16, nearly finished the end of school and should be thinking hard about the path of your future.
Let me give you a proper life lesson, son. As someone who never gave credit to his life at that age...

hey, thanks. i liked the saying a lot and i definately agree with you on your whole statement. Its about time i be mature about my business and stop being so ******* lazy! ive got exactly two weeks to clean up my act before next term.

i would like to be a programmer some day and a musician, since ive always loved computer stuff in general. ever since i was a kid, i wondered how on earth video games worked! like, how it does this when you get to a certain event, when you press this, etc...

so im definately certain with all that, i try my best to teach myself programming at home, and compose my own piano pieces. (unbelievably difficult)

but i cant just expect all this to fall on my lap. gotta think of pathways to get there instead of whinging about it all.

so thanks again for the wake up call.

(i also read the original stuff you wrote too before you edited it out because of e-mail notifications but anyway, whyd you delete it? it was all good.)

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[redlofredlof]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought my ps3. My first big purchase from my own money tears of happiness

Spoiler:

Don't have a TV yet

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[Phil]

Congrats. Play it on your monitor

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[thelittlegumnut]

nice buddy

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[redlofredlof]

Originally Posted by Phil

Congrats. Play it on your monitor

I sure will, as soon as I get it back.
For now I put the ps3 in a suitcase and installed the motionjoy driver for using the controller in windows.
I can't seem to get the vibration working on it.

Come to think of it, the ps3 has regular usb ports, cann I use my wired xbox360 controlller as a controller for ps3?

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[Phil]

No, the PS3 has no drivers for support of the 360 controller.

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