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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Good morning, fediverse! It’s the time none of you’ve been waiting for: the hashtag! A shorter one today. In last night’s dream, I got out of bed and headed to the Kitchen for breakfast. I pored myself a big ol’ bowl of AirPods Pro. I added milk, grabbed a spoon, and dug in! It tasted like plastic mixed with that fizzing popping candy. Brain, I’m begging you: can we please not make terrible food an ongoing theme?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html?m=1
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Harry Potter, grossness Today's entry probably also qualifies for the hashtag. I've got a bit of a cold that's been clinging on for weeks. I didn't want to take cold medicine again, so last night I dabbed a bit of Vicks VapoRub(tm) just under my nose to keep it clear. My brain turned the smell of Vicks and the feelings of post-nasal drip and snuffling into an onslaught of horrifying sensory sensations! Strap in, folks: this is gonna be a gross one. And I get to relive it all again, as I translate my sleepy 5 AM mumblings in my dream journal into full sentences for y'all. I have regrets. The dream started out innocently enough. I'd decided to interview for a job as a presenter on the Wizarding Wireless. Luna Lovegood, as owner of the Quibbler, was starting a new Wizarding Wireless station focused on bringing muggle music and news to the wizarding world. When I arrived for the interview, the first thing I noticed was that Luna had absolutely doused herself in cheap perfume. Imagine the smell of funnel cake, but the cheap dollar store (Poundland, I guess...this is a British dream after all) perfume version of that scent. She absolutely wreaked of fake sugar, and it was making my eyes water. But I really wanted the job, so I didn't say anything. She offered me a glass of pumpkin juice and a biscuit before the interview got started. The pumpkin juice was awful! It had a slimy, pulpy texture, and only a vague pumpkin taste. The best way I can describe it is as slightly fruity snot water. Did she mean an American biscuit or a British biscuit? I have no idea, because what she actually gave me was a cube about the size of my palm. The outside was the hardness and texture of biscotti, and it had a grid of chocolate chips imbedded into each side, with the points of the chips sticking up, making it weird and pointy and awkward to hold. Even if I'd wanted to dip it into the pumpkin juice I couldn't, because it was a cube! Biting into it, the outside was dry and crunchy like biscotti, but the center of the cube was an overly moist vanilla cake. I cannot describe to you how terrible this thing was. Terrible to hold, terrible to eat, and the mixed texture was also terrible. But I still wanted the job for some reason, so I forced it down with a smile. The interview finally began. But every time she asked me a question, she reached across the desk, put her hand over my mouth, then answered the question herself! Unfortunately, if that wasn't bad enough, she was also clumsy, and kept accidentally sticking part of her hand in my mouth instead of just covering it. She'd used some kind of lavender hand cream, and her skin was unpleasantly greasy and lavender flavoured. In an effort to get away from her, and actually answer one of the questions myself (why did I still want this job?) I began leaning away, slowly tipping my chair further and further back on two legs. Eventually, I tipped the chair back so far that I fell over with a crash! I landed on my bed, wide awake and enraged. I ranted angrily in my dream journal for a while, then got up and started my morning ablutions. It took me the entire length of my shower to stop being furious with Luna Lovegood. That was a heck of a way to start the day!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo @arqeria @jaybird110127 @TomGrant91 I have a sudden urge to edit that to say "Part of this family may be considered...unsuitable."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cachondo @arqeria @jaybird110127 @TomGrant91 When CNIB borrows books from the RNIB they always add like a weird stereo logo with a violin riff and a posh lady going "RNIB" at the beginning. It puts me off my feed every time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo @arqeria @jaybird110127 @TomGrant91 Do you also get the copyright notice that the book is only for blind people and if anyone else ever hears it you'll be tracked down and killed?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Extra strange because the email came to my professional corporate email address. Even if I did have a wattpad account, it wouldn't be under my work email LOL!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Oh, no! According to this email I just got, apparently the Wattpad account I've never had will be closed soon! Whatever shall I do?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 I mean there were always clues that she’s an awful woman.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 Yikes, he must’ve hated having to do the Harry potter audiobooks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 Uh. I guess it depends on what fanfiction you’re reading?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 It sounds like Harry potter has lied to me! Aren’t British boarding schools wonderful places where you make best friends, have adventures, and fight evil?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 Woe i was assuming a dorm like that would be university! You had it that nice in high school?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 Wow, your residence was a lot nicer than mine lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arqeria @jaybird110127 Yikes, that sounds terrifying!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jaybird110127 I also take melatonin. But it was the Zoloft that really turned the dreams up to 11 for me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tardis I preferred a glass of apple juice! In the dream that’s what I was mad about.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@nick lol thanks for the reminder.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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And we begin the hashtag with a dream that’s utterly pointless and boring. 2024 is a year of disappointment, and this won’t help. The only dream I remember from last night was about attending my high school reunion. After arriving, I went to the refreshments table to get a glass of apple juice. Unfortunately, someone had just drank the last of it! So I sulked grumpily in the corner, listening to all of my classmates talk about how wealthy and successful they are now, while I couldn’t even get a glass of apple juice. I didn’t talk to anyone, and nobody talked to me. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the dream. Bleh.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in dreaming. I practiced recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the hashtag entirely.