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@Ryhia No I'm a Cambridge man - born there but basically a very simple yokel. I have lived in Suffolk for a whole 3 weeks, oddly in Oxford Close. Look at what Oxford turns out and it will be immediately apparent I have not been contaminated. Contact with Oxford limited to going past on the way to Southampton - that's enough thanks. Your comment went before I replied.
 
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Yes so right as always lets stock up on tbe cat food We can eat whatever is left!
 
Yes, sorry, I removed it in case I caused offense. Wasn't sure if it was too flippant.
 
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Lol if it was gin I might need to think twice
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Bought a bottle of gin a couple of days ago thinking well if I cannot get hold of any sanitizer I can always rinse my hands in alcohol. On the other hand my DIL has a particular liking for gin so if I don't use it, there is part of her birthday present already.
 
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Only contact I have with Oxford is traffic jams on the way to Wiltshire.
 
Reminded me of my mum. Liverpool lime street train station. She popped to the loo. Came out and we were trundling along the platform when someone tapped her on her shoulder. Mums skirt was tucked in her knickers/tights!!! Talk about embarrassing!!!! And not a drop of alcohol involved!!!
 
A nap standing up ;-)
 
Are AIs taking over? Two very strange things happened this evening with our unwelcome but somehow necessary and often useful listening AI, HELP @OldButBold.

We have the Amazon echo sitting quietly in a corner, during a lively discussion and raucous game with daughter, son in law, grandaughter about aliens, Ride of the Valkyries and Monster Mash, don't ask! Our AI that can't be named suddenly woke, no wake name mentioned, and recited a poem by Mary Shelley saying it was this poem that helped our AI to know and understand what it is to be human. With all the noise and the surprise we missed the name of Shelley's poem. I have asked the AI for clarification in many different ways but just get "hmmm I'm not sure" or "hmm I don't know that one" I have also searched on the internet my iPad and can find no reference to other owners of this AI haveing a similar experience.

The next thing that happened was I am playing my guitar when again the AI suddenly spoke advising that an advanced guitar tuition will be available on YouTube, I missed when and where and names links because again was taken by surprise. I have asked for clarification but again with the same response of "hmm...... " and so on.

I am thinking of contacting Amazon, maybe ask for all the information they hold on me, however I suspect I would be swamped with huge files to search through which would kill any of my computers.

All very strange.

Edit.. just to add, which may also throw some light on things, I use the AI to remind me when to take my BG. I always ask to set a reminder 'To feed Dracula' did the AIs algorithms associate Mary Shelley????
 
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On the understanding sharing is caring.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...inas-face-mask-shortage-inspired-people-learn

Readily sourced materials, 80-90% as effective as medical masks, so it says... Seemed like a good thing with all the shortages.

Much more durable masks lower down page, but not sure quite what the materials are in Europe.. And I noted that single use was frowned upon for those healthy... Do still maintain that best use is for those with colds (should be the ones wearing them, to stop the spread of their germs rather then all wearing to stop covid19,
Much as that might reassure many.)

Also, perhaps we won't get there, but I wasn't aware the Chinese could not even enter stores unless wearing a mask..Mmhh.
 
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I find 'Alexa play that again ' works or 'repeat '

We have had the same issues on occasion. They must be in it together ;-)
 
Debandez said:
I find 'Alexa play that again ' works or 'repeat '

We have had the same issues on occasion. They must be in it together ;-)
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never had that , as in speaking to us, but have had the green ring which i believe is passive listening*
as for repeat etc, yep, nice i also use Alexa pause, if i am off to do something else, regardless of how long Alexa resume seems to work nicely.

love a gadget, but this one was not one i thought i'd use, yet it's been pretty useful and well used..
Q is am i just setting myself up for the Borg assimilation, i wonder...

EDIT* see later posts re Green ring =incoming call
 
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Muddy Cyclist said:
Are AIs taking over? Two very strange things happened this evening with our unwelcome but somehow necessary and often useful listening AI, HELP @OldButBold.
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jjraak said:
love a gadget, but this one not one i thought i'd use, yet it's been pretty useful and well used..
Q is am i just setting myself up for the Borg assimilation, i wonder...
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Try having my gadget...a cochlear implant...
Yesterday I was in a shop, asking the assistant for some kitchen roll. She holds a couple up, but suddenly my cochlear speech processor cuts out, with the beeps and noises it makes when it is connecting to something possibly Bluetooth related. My phone and Bluetooth is off, so my speech processor is not meant to do this to an unknown device or whatever. It has no business connecting to something unless I initiate it. I started to hear something..someone speaking...a transmission? It was directly into my skull (like those stupid Apple noise alerts months ago). I heard clearly "Just to let you know..." Then the shop assistant lady is waving her hands in front of my face and I am Lipreading from her (my speech processor by this time is doing more beeps and noises disconnecting ? from this transmission directly into my skull, and all the while I am getting no sound input from external sound)lips "Hello, is any one home?" While waving her hands in front of my face. I have absolutely no idea what my shocked face had looked like to her when this unexpected 'transmission' came into my skull, She thought I had gone completely doolally. My processor is still beeping with its various connecting and disconnecting noises, and I got intermittent garbled words directly into my skull. I managed to say to her, "oh, I'm sorry my hearing aid battery has gone", pointing to my speech processor. That satisfied her that she did not have a lunatic on her hands. I left the shop and my cochlear speech processor returned to normal, and then started picking up normal external sounds, which come through the speech processor, and that is transferred via the magnet in my head through to the Cochlear wires, and does not have the scary impact of the earlier "transmission" (?) directly into my skull...is the best way I can explain this.

I feel I am assimilated into the Borg collective...

I have had problems into past with earlier cochlear speech processors. The first one I had 12 years ago when J was alive, I used to pick up stuff with my speech processor. But the stuff I picked up then was directed/picked up by the Cochlear speech processor (not like the scary directly into the skull impact of yesterday), and I told J. His first reaction was don't be silly. I told him, I am telling you, I am picking stuff up. Then he was with me, in the kitchen, when it happened. He put his ear next to my Cochlear Speech processor, and starts laughing. I can hear that someone is talking, but I cannot hear the detail of the words. But J with his normal hearing can. It turns out that it was two of my neighbours talking a conversation they should not have had with each other as they were married to other people. So J is trying to relay the telephone conversation I am picking up in my Speech Processor that I don't have the ability to hear the details of.. A ridiculous situation. I couldn't look those neighbours in the eye again. I often picked up those two people when I was standing in a particular spot...by the kitchen sink.

There were lots of other instances in those first years when I picked up stuff via my Cochlear speech processor that I should not have picked up, but I needed J to put his ear next to my Cochlear speech processor to relay to me what as actually being said, because as I said I couldn't make out the words, but a hearing person could. The above I related is a funny instance. The hospital audiologist said that the frequency in the Cochlear speech processor needed to be changed to another one. They did that, but it made no difference. It is bl**dy annoying. Then J died and I had no one to tell me what I was picking up by listening with an ear next to my processor. Well, people don't want to know when you tell them this...

After that, I just took the speech processor off if it happened, until I moved out of that vicinity.

Yesterday was a whole new scary ball game in this...

Why do these stupid things happen to me?

I am going back to driving the car with no Cochlear speech processor on. I couldn't have something like that happen as it did in the shop when I was trying to buy the kitchen roll. I've driven all my life with no sound input, and never an accident in my life, I have been driving since I was 17, until that stupid Apple update, which sent unexpected alerts and that suddenly telephone ringing directly into my skull which caused my brain to freeze and I drove into that wall.

No sound is better. I question Cochlear Implants. I have a Cochlear meeting today, and I am going to bring yesterday's incident up. But I won't get far, I know I won't...

By the way I never paint with any incoming sound...apart from the tinnitus of course...the speech processor stays in its box when I paint.
 
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Fbg 8.3

Couldn't sleep last night/this morning so up at 2am painting.

Here are the paintings...



Watercolours etc etc same as yesterday.
Mixed media paper on top, Index card on bottom. Did sky and foreground first. Each pic suggested something slight different as regards trees.

I have a Cochlear meeting later. More driving. Long day.
Going to try for a nap...
Take care.
Don't be good...have fun...
Hugs if you need them.
I need my battle armour on today...
 
Good morning/evening folks, 6.2 on the dice today, ate too much for tea last night, eyes bigger than my belly.
Enjoying the new job challenge, it's been a long while since I used public transport.
Good luck with the cochlear meeting today gen.
 
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