cybervegan

Life-long night owl myself. I always seem to get more awake as it approaches midnight, at least until recently after going on anxiety meds. It's a new experience for me to be yawning and feeling sleepy at 10 or 11PM.

I know right

Phew! Lucky my home server runs FreeBSD then....

Yes, for about 15 years. I was a Linux/Unix admin at several places, and I ran Linux on my computer (laptop and desktop) as it's such a horrible experience to remote admin Linux hosts from Windows. At the last place, because they had mandated everyone to use Skype for Business for online meetings, and switched off OWA, I actually had an old windoze laptop just for meetings and email. I had tried running 'doze in a VM, but it didn't work well enough for video calls, because of problems with efficiently forwarding USB ports to the VM for camera and mic, and video performance.

My last job was back to windoze support, and in that respect was NOT fun.

The sound of 3D printers is mesmerising. Not so keen on the sound of kitchen blenders/grinders.

Fuckin hell. I'm Autistic, but I'm not like that. Can't claim Autism for being a gobshite.

Because substack is a nazi bar.

Who calls pasta "noodles"? Noodles are long and thin where I live (UK). Definitely not pasta - not even spaghetti. Definitely not Penne.

Sounds like you're lucky enough to not have any sensory problems - you probably don't get overwhelmed by textures, flavours or smells. Not everyone is like that. You also don't seem to have any particular cultural or ethical concerns about your food choices. My family is vegan and very neurodivergent; none of us would ever consider steak or shrimp, for ethical reasons, and most of us have texture and flavour sensitivities that mean that certain foods are off limits for some of us. We generally buy within those parameters, but some of us really like things others really hate, so cooking can be a nightmare. In many cases, it's the texture of food that causes this - often borderline textures going from firm to soft, too granular, "wrong" like soft when should be crunchy etc.

But I bet you have some things you wouldn't try, based on cultural or texture preferences, which some people love. What about...

• Soft biscuits (cookies) - baked crunchy, but have gone damp and soft?
• Dry, stale bread - baked soft, but just dried out and stale?
• Witchetty grubs - moth larvae from Australia?
• Dog meat, eaten in some Asian countries?
• Fermented shark meat, stinky and rank, eaten in some Nordic states?
• Reindeer poo - traditional Finnish cuisine sometimes uses it?
• Natto - stringy, slimy soya beans fermented by a bacteria, very strong flavour, popular in Asia, especially Japan?
• Tempeh - soya beans colonised by a particular edible mould fungus, eaten widely in Asia?
• Tofu - bean curd in various textures, but very little flavour, eaten widely by vegans and in Asia?
• Furry tofu - tofu colonised by another edible mould fungus, eaten widely in Asia?

Can relate, it's heart-rending. Had to do the same with my 18 year old mackerel tabby, Macro, about a month ago. It hurts so much, but it's the kindest thing to do when they aren't going to recover. Solidarity.

Me. I am typing this without looking at the keyboard. Learnt at college on an old school electric typewriter as part of my computer science course in the mid 1980s.

Not going to happen. :-D