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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @Onj @cachondo @simon Still eloquence. Around 95 percent for work, 80 percent for casual reading.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Onj @cachondo @simon Because I’m terrible at languages. Repeating is easy! But unfortunately other languages use different words for everything! And sometimes they put them in the wrong order! I can’t get on with that at all rofl. Seriously, I think I have the same problem with language that I do with music: my ability to memorize sounds is absolute crap. I can only remember words if I know what they mean; I couldn’t repeat Spanish eloquence at all. And remember and play a sequence of notes? Forget it!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@emma_cogdev Yeah, that's it! My dream just changed "gal's lovin'" into "brown nugget". LOL Thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jaybird110127 Yes! That's it! The real lyrics are "Don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin'". Okay, gotta give it to my dream; that was a pretty darn good change to make the song about chocolate and fit the tune.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Onj I did, but I think my dream must've modified the words slightly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
So here's a with an identify the song challenge. I dreamed that I was part of a TV ad for accessible chocolate. No, I don't know what "accessible" chocolate is, either. Braille on the boxes, I guess? Anyway, I woke up and sang the advertising song into my dream journal. The lyrics were "Don't know what it is 'bout that little brown nugget. But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it." Sung by an extremely American sounding man. I'm not musical, so I'm absolutely sure my dream pulled this from somewhere! My brain isn't capable of creating music by itself. Was this an actual ad for something? Or some kind of country song about...uh...the only brown nuggets I can think of are poop or chocolate. So maybe not that? I've been humming it to myself all day in hopes that I could come up with where it came from. But no luck. Hense the late post.

Edit: that was quick! Y'all are fast. Thanks to @jaybird110127 we now know that the real lyric is "don't know what it is 'bout that little girl's lovin'" and it's a song by Tim McGraw. I'm not aware that I've ever heard of this song in my life, but hearing it it's an exact match to the dream. So I must have heard it some point and just have no memory of it. But I am proud of my dream self for apparently changing "gal's lovin'" to "brown nugget" so it still fit perfectly and was about chocolate.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Why is it that when I finish looking at a website, I close the tab, then immediately open a new tab to visit another website? Why don't I just reuse the tab I already had? LOL! Does anyone else do this, or am I just nuts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tardis I’m trying to find one of those menus that appears at the bottom of the page instead of under the button when you expand it with NVDA.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The trials and tribulations of working in : when I want to find something broken to demonstrate a particular issue, all the places I look, it's been fixed. When I need something to actually work, everything is always broken.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer Nope, just four giant legs. And a purr that's so loud you can't talk over it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I'm so tempted to stop using the word dream in posts. And let people think this is somehow happening in real life. Or, more likely, that I'm having some kind of psychotic break. Anyway, last night my cat Zara discovered how to reproduce via mitosis. Every time I picked her up, there was another cat; one in my arms, and one where she'd been sitting. It got to the point where there were so many Zara's that the house was getting full. So I decided to train her to combine all of her clones into one larger cat. Unfortunately, I created a monster. Literally. Soon a 30-foot tall cat was rampaging down to our local pizza place to demand anchovies and bacon. The police were ringing my doorbell to complain, and the ringing of the doorbell turned into the dinging of my alarm and I woke up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Why are disgusting food back again? In last night's dream, I was attending a "speed tasting event". See, if you just pull off someone else's thumb and eat it, the thumb will grow back again in about 30 seconds or so! Same with any other body part like ears, fingers, noses, toes, and so on. Also, the best way to tell how close someone is to being a good match for you to date is how much you like the taste of their body parts. Obviously, that leads to speed tasting: an event where you eat as many people's thumbs as you can, and date the person who's thumb you liked best! What could go wrong with this perfectly healthy combination of cannibalism and romance? Nothing, apparently. I ended up with the girl who's thumb tasted like a vanilla marshmallow; apparently mine tastes like brown sugar and baked beans, because I know you were all curious about that. Anyway, then the dream got better.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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naughty word So last night was extremely strange and unrelated to anything. All of the swim instructors at our local community pool had gone on strike and were forming a union. It was the community pool I went to in high school; I was a teenager in the dream. A bunch of us went to support them on the picket line, and found out that every time we used a swear word, the union got ten cents! Also, apparently expelling us for cursing was somehow against the law because it would be interfering with the union. So the vast majority of the dream was just me running up and down the hallways of my high school screaming "FUCK!" at the top of my lungs and occasionally giggling like a madman. It was strangely cathartic. If only supporting unions was this much fun in real life.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@mcourcel "The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living." You know you want to watch that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer BZZT THE CAPTCHA PROCESS IS MALFUNCTIONING IT MUST BE REPAIRED WE ARE THE SUPERIOR BEINGS! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel They made a movie called The Crawling Hand way back in 1963 to show what happens to people who forget to update their firmware!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So The first in a while: last night I dreamed that I needed to visit a clinic to upgrade the firmware on my hands. Apparently, if you just bend your hand backwards hard enough, a USBC port on your wrist just under your palm will be revealed! Then the nurse plugs a cable into each hand and updates them with her iPad. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and my hands went all numb and tingly. I had to go to rehab to have them debugged, and get retrained on how to move my hands again. Yup...I was sleeping on my hand and it had pins and needles when I woke up! Anyway, HOW ARE YOU FELLOW HUMANS BEEP BOOP I AM DOING WELL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@thegnuguy Also muggle fairytales are mad! Is fun.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@thegnuguy Oh gosh! There are so many good ones. Depends on my mood. Comedy, realism, erotica, crossover, etc. in general though, I avoid wrong bwl, Draco or snape redemption fics, and m/m. But I read almost anything else! The hp/mlp crossover if wishes were horses is a fun cozy one for the holidays.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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No for the last couple days; I've had a stomach bug, and my sleep schedule has been completely and utterly screwed, and I haven't been using my dream journal at all. My dream memories are all stuff like "the corkboard turned out to be some kind of slime monster" and "I attended the wedding of Jesus Christe and Tailor Swift". No detail and nothing to write up.