Esther: I love you. I love all of you – including, but not limited to, the skeleton.
Esther: “It’s like a game of snakes and ladders, except there are no ladders. A game of … snakes.”
Me: “Game of Snakes: the hit new HBO show.”
Esther: [laughs]
Esther: “… Thrones on a Plane.”
Me: “It’s just, like, about a plane … with really nice first-class seats … ”
Esther: “humans: weird little shit propelled by brains”
Computer question:
Esther wants to block herself from visiting tumblr on her computer (at least for a time). There are various productivity apps out there like Stayfocusd, Coldturkey, etc., but some of them are pretty easy to disable if you actually want to – they’re meant to make it inconvenient to do something rather than actually stop you, on the assumption that if it’s inconvenient enough you’ll avoid it. This is more of an “Odysseus wants to tie himself to the mast” situation.
Does anyone have suggestions for really hard-to-circumvent ways of blocking websites on Windows? Has to be something that can block individual tumblrs, not just tumblr.com (this is a problem with using the hosts file, which doesn’t take wildcards). For operationally defining “hard” here, “intimidating” is much more relevant than “inconvenient” – for instance it would be good if you’d have to do something configuration-dependent that can’t be distilled into one universal list of steps in a StackOverflow answer. (By contrast, a single universal list of steps that is merely long is much less good.)
blocking individual tumblrs in the hosts file should be doable, IIRC
you could instead implement blocks on your router (most routers have parental controls or similar features that can be used to block sites) then set the router password to something that you know but Esther doesn’t, so as to definitely prevent her from circumventing the block
Oh I realized I didn’t make this clear: we aren’t in the same location right now and solutions here should assume we aren’t. We considered similar things but I’d have to be able to enter the password remotely. Doing that through remote desktop could work, maybe, so we’ll try that if there isn’t a more convenient option
Computer question:
Esther wants to block herself from visiting tumblr on her computer (at least for a time). There are various productivity apps out there like Stayfocusd, Coldturkey, etc., but some of them are pretty easy to disable if you actually want to – they’re meant to make it inconvenient to do something rather than actually stop you, on the assumption that if it’s inconvenient enough you’ll avoid it. This is more of an “Odysseus wants to tie himself to the mast” situation.
Does anyone have suggestions for really hard-to-circumvent ways of blocking websites on Windows? Has to be something that can block individual tumblrs, not just tumblr.com (this is a problem with using the hosts file, which doesn’t take wildcards). For operationally defining “hard” here, “intimidating” is much more relevant than “inconvenient” – for instance it would be good if you’d have to do something configuration-dependent that can’t be distilled into one universal list of steps in a StackOverflow answer. (By contrast, a single universal list of steps that is merely long is much less good.)
mttheww replied to your post “Presumably McElroy-influenced verbal brain noise: “I’m a bad boy. I’m…”
I didn’t know you liked the mcelroys
bpd-anon replied to your post “Presumably McElroy-influenced verbal brain noise: “I’m a bad boy. I’m…”
!!!! You like the McElroys? Which McElroy media do you consume? : D
Sorry to lead you guys on like this, but I’ve only seen Monster Factory, that’s it
Although Monster Factory did cause Esther and I to start referring to virtually everything, including abstract concepts, as “boys” of some sort or another, until we eventually decided – after several days of this nonstop – that it had gone too far and we needed to stop
Esther: “That’ll happen when America has its first furry president.”
Esther: [pause]
Esther: “ … well, first openly furry president.”
i paid £3 to steal ur girl on my way to work
i am so glad this happened on the day argumate decided to open submit
also look at these 2 glorious ladies, one of whom is me
(via ursaeinsilviscacant-blog)
Me [returning to Skype]: “Hi, I’m back again.”
Esther: “I’ve discovered slime blogs and they’re so good!”