Aimee!! Are you aware there are THERAPY LLAMAS?!??!
I have a picture of a llama clutching a pen and notebook and asking, "And how did that make you feel? BRAAAAAP!"
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Apr 24, 2013 3:58:52 am PDT #20333 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
msbelle - Apr 24, 2013 4:09:34 am PDT #20334 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think we need to make sure that we have therapy llamas and calming manatees on Buffista Island.
Admin lunch today, a mini celebration of my new job. whee. 4 of my 6 bosses are out of the office today, so my goal is to clean off my desk and maybe type up a few more process documents.
Toddson - Apr 24, 2013 4:48:19 am PDT #20335 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The story about the woman who ended up singing "We Are The World" reminded me of a time at a previous job.
They'd installed a "panic button" at the receptionist desk. It was located under the desktop so, in the event of a problem visitor, she could press it with her knee. Nice concept, but - bet you can see this coming - anyone sitting at the desk would it it by accident. After a bunch of false alarms, with people running out to rescue the receptionist who was just find thank you very much, when we DID have someone alarming (yes, you can see this one coming) she pressed it on purpose ... and no one came.
Theodosia - Apr 24, 2013 4:56:40 am PDT #20336 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm pretty sure I've triggered ASMR with my knitting -- not the finished knit pieces, but the act of knitting itself. In group situations where a bunch of people are talking, and I'm knitting along, I've found someone falling silent, somewhat hypnotized as they stare at my working.
FWIW, I'm considered quite fast for a knitter, hold my needles loosely and maintain a very even tension in the yarn. I use English-style, so I feed the yarn from the left and do not have to take my hands off the needles until I reach the end of the row.
JenP - Apr 24, 2013 5:10:11 am PDT #20337 of 30001
I listened to that ASMR podcast, too -- it was really cool and not something I'd heard of before. Will bookmark the Slate article for later. When I first learned about synesthesia, I wished there were a way to dial in to someone's brain to experience it. Now I feel that way about ASMR.
Jesse - Apr 24, 2013 5:15:16 am PDT #20338 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The knitting sounds more like a visual "hypnosis" (probably you're not actually hypnotizing them?) than the ASMR.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2013 5:16:08 am PDT #20339 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm getting confused now, between what's a physical sensation, and what's "just" getting pleasurably caught up in something and losing track of what else is happening. I'd think the latter is fairly randomly applicable, but actual tingling as a response to auditory or visual stimulation is the specific that makes ASMR a useful term. I mean, if it is a definite thing.
Jesse - Apr 24, 2013 5:25:57 am PDT #20340 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I thought ASMR was just auditory. That's what I get for not doing the reading!
Toddson - Apr 24, 2013 5:28:15 am PDT #20341 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Those ASMR audio things ... I kept wanting someone to yell "SPEAK UP DAMMIT".
Jessica - Apr 24, 2013 5:39:05 am PDT #20342 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sequestration has cancelled fleet week.