I am too literal, and I get upset over it...

[Progster]

Does anyone get just super eerked over "non-logic stuff," that is supposed to be logical, informational, etc... ?

Yes, totally. Actually, I cringed at the phrase "motivational speaker"... they are usually all rhetoric without any real connection to the actual issue they are trying to solve - I feel no real connection with them or their words and words alone aren't going to motivate me - I have to see and believe for myself.

 

[Streetwise]

I need to find me some sort of "buffer" for my full out logical mindset. All afternoon, I have been putting my replacement drone together (yes its finally here). Now I can quit moaning about the loss of my other drone that is among the "dead" in the abyss at the lake, (I still don't know or understand what happened). I'm trying to get this thing registered on-line (kind of griped over that), and some other stuff... I'm being ASD cranky right now, or just being a full out pissy jerk... I think... Do any of you ever get like this... Just all cranked up over something stupid?

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During all this time, I have been trying to keep my sanity... So, I have been listening to some "motivational" stuff on YouTube... One great guy (who I like and admire deeply) keeps saying, that to be anyone, or do anything in todays world... you have to give 120%...

He has harped on that now for about an hour... I am now going out my head because there is NO logic in what he is saying anymore. Actually I am calling BS on all of it.

Now I ask you... In all of LIFE, is not 100% considered full, done, all charged up, all you got???

But he is saying 90-100% is not enough any more??? I want to write this truly great person (who I admire) and give him a lesson in ASD reality... but I wont ever do that of course.

In real LIFE I cant even pull off 100% mostly, and he's telling me if I cant do 120% I will never be anything in LIFE... Thanks buddy...

I must just be a jerk, or as stupid as people have told me I am, or ASD kicked in really hard... but I'm aggravated at this person. I know I probably shouldn't be... Or should I?

I want to let you explain how you feel, and deal with, what I see as "concrete constructs"... IF??? If he was joking, or making a play on words... I would get that, but he seemed as if he was not...

Now where does the other 20% come from? I need to KNOW this to understand it, to ever grasp it.

What's next? For people to demand 150%, or 1000%, or that I be full out magic, and pull a rabbit out my ... hat.

In my concrete head... If a person is going to try and "motivate" anyone (especially me) and they do not seem have to have a firm grip on concrete constructs, how am I supposed to believe a word that was said??? I may be being a jerk here... But lets find out... : )

Does anyone get just super eerked over "non-logic stuff," that is supposed to be logical, informational, etc... ?

May I ask in an autistic way does it say it's supposed to be logical on YouTube ?
I do what you do in different amounts each time not ever watching it or listening to it ,thinking about it for an enth of a second or slightly longer before I hyperventilate I've tried before but I just don't understand it i'm still drawn to it .

 

[Chance]

May I ask in an autistic way does it say it's supposed to be logical on YouTube ?
I do what you do in different amounts each time not ever watching it or listening to it ,thinking about it for an enth of a second or slightly longer before I hyperventilate I've tried before but I just don't understand it i'm still drawn to it .

I guess I just "judge" things by "context"... If its suppose to be funny, even stupid - then I get that. If it is supposed to be informative and something I can learn from... Then I need it to be logical on a level most people may not get...

I know its mostly me... I admit that, but it doesn't mean I can sometimes help it, or force it to just get out of my head... : )

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

I guess I just "judge" things by "context"... If its suppose to be funny, even stupid - then I get that. If it is supposed to be informative and something I can learn from... Then I need it to be logical on a level most people may not get...

I know its mostly me... I admit that, but it doesn't mean I can sometimes help it, or force it to just get out of my head... : )

I agree with you 150%

 

[Chance]

I agree with you 150%

Only you would come up with something so mind tangling... : )

Its like this impossible equation... Once anything passes 100% its gone out into the land of impossibility... So you are now 50% impossible by simply deducting the impossible from the 100% of possibility....

By this logic I need to raise my standards to ever reach a sustained goal of 80% logic.... : )

 

[Judge]

No test flights over the lake... No way
On my other drone we think it lost the battery connection maybe. I had been flying it really hard and had soft crashed it right before it went down.

It was flying perfect and we heard the blades just stop (no warnings). It should have auto returned "home" if it had a sensor issue or low battery or a software problem... it just went silent and fell and was gone.... : (

Here is a video of what they do... I should have kept mine, but it was on my iPhone 6. That was the phone that I jumped in the pool like a fool with it in my pocket (only to notice that when I got out and felt it against my leg about 20 minutes later)... I have a thing with killing things in water...
I think I am secretly an electronics torture guy. My MO is always drowning them... : )

My DJI Mavic Pro is totally different from GoPro Karma in many ways, but basically same set up...
I think GoPro tried to keep this quiet but they were having LOTS of trouble with the Karma (what a name, for this to be such a nightmare)...

They actually pulled the Karma off the market around the time mine crashed. Its back now it looks like, but GoPro suffered a massive hit over this, and lost tons of customer support, and business support. I hope they get it all back. I love that company, the inspiring story behind that company, and most of their products... But this just turned me off pretty bad.

Looks like a very fun, though expensive hobby. Puts quite a spin on digital photography/videography. Very cool.

Do any of the remote control units or digital readouts indicate battery power at a given time? Seems to me that would be a must. Do they all utilize lithium batteries? I know with my DSLR they've been very reliable.

I know drone signal jamming is prohibited by federal law, but I still wonder if some people use such technology anyways, no less than any hacker might do ? Or is there any possibility of your drone's manufacturer having a built-in power cutoff based on certain areas designated as a drone "no-fly" zone? I know there's a website you can access that verifies such locations. Though admittedly I suspect such possibilities are probably unlikely. I'd just think- or hope that prior to entering a prohibited area there would be some kind of "warning".

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Only you would come up with something so mind tangling... : )

Its like this impossible equation... Once anything passes 100% its gone out into the land of impossibility... So you are now 50% impossible by simply deducting the impossible from the 100% of possibility....

By this logic I need to raise my standards to ever reach a sustained goal of 80% logic.... : )

I always liked the stories of when they invented 'zero'

If you have one apple and i take one apple away now many apples do i have?
I dont have any apples,what are you talking about?
You have zero apples.
Dont be stupid. I dont have any.

Did read it was the arabs that first used zero as a concept which transformed maths, and society.
Have read since they werent the first, cant remember who though.

We'll call 150% a positive percentage. And jnvent a new form of maths based on positive percentages only.

 

[Tom]

Thats the thing with people. Some are so admirable for a while and seem wise and then say something thats obviously BS.

120% would have lost me. Thats motivational, kill your workers, type speech.

And yes, having a crappy day is normal. The best thing you can do once you realize it, is try to slowly turn it around. Forgive yourself for a vent and it happening.

 

[LucyPurrs]

No test flights over the lake... No way
On my other drone we think it lost the battery connection maybe. I had been flying it really hard and had soft crashed it right before it went down.

It was flying perfect and we heard the blades just stop (no warnings). It should have auto returned "home" if it had a sensor issue or low battery or a software problem... it just went silent and fell and was gone.... : (

Here is a video of what they do... I should have kept mine, but it was on my iPhone 6. That was the phone that I jumped in the pool like a fool with it in my pocket (only to notice that when I got out and felt it against my leg about 20 minutes later)... I have a thing with killing things in water...
I think I am secretly an electronics torture guy. My MO is always drowning them... : )

My DJI Mavic Pro is totally different from GoPro Karma in many ways, but basically same set up...
I think GoPro tried to keep this quiet but they were having LOTS of trouble with the Karma (what a name, for this to be such a nightmare)...

They actually pulled the Karma off the market around the time mine crashed. Its back now it looks like, but GoPro suffered a massive hit over this, and lost tons of customer support, and business support. I hope they get it all back. I love that company, the inspiring story behind that company, and most of their products... But this just turned me off pretty bad.

Wow wish I'd had a drone I could have used while scuba diving. How cool would that be? (someone will no doubt invent one).

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

I read somewhere that 30% of jobs are menial/rubbish jobs.
Ie an anon survey was done and people ranked the importance of their own jobs.

A quote by someone 'most men live lives of quiet desperation'

In the modern world how can you motivate people to be 100% YAY about a job or life that is quite clearly difficult and quite rubbish and always will be?

Take a job cleaning toilets, get some humility and x the y off.

 

[Streetwise]

Thats the thing with people. Some are so admirable for a while and seem wise and then say something thats obviously BS.

120% would have lost me. Thats motivational, kill your workers, type speech.

And yes, having a crappy day is normal. The best thing you can do once you realize it, is try to slowly turn it around. Forgive yourself for a vent and it happening.

sorry I put funny when you said not to kill your workers it gave me a slightly unhinged chuckle

 

[Streetwise]

I read somewhere that 30% of jobs are menial/rubbish jobs.
Ie an anon survey was done and people ranked the importance of their own jobs.

A quote by someone 'most men live lives of quiet desperation'

In the modern world how can you motivate people to be 100% YAY about a job or life that is quite clearly difficult and quite rubbish and always will be?

Take a job cleaning toilets, get some humility and x the y off.

are you not speaking to the kumquat

 

[Chance]

Looks like a very fun, though expensive hobby. Puts quite a spin on digital photography/videography. Very cool.

Do any of the remote control units or digital readouts indicate battery power at a given time? Seems to me that would be a must. Do they all utilize lithium batteries? I know with my DSLR they've been very reliable.

I know drone signal jamming is prohibited by federal law, but I still wonder if some people use such technology anyways, no less than any hacker might do ? Or is there any possibility of your drone's manufacturer having a built-in power cutoff based on certain areas designated as a drone "no-fly" zone? I know there's a website you can access that verifies such locations. Though admittedly I suspect such possibilities are probably unlikely. I'd just think- or hope that prior to entering a prohibited area there would be some kind of "warning".

I got it all registered and the apps all down loaded and linked... I charged up everything, did my pre flight, it did its pre-flight.... And off I went. I have just came in my first flight Sunday 1:30 pm. It was fun... Its fast, too fast at times. I have to get an adapter for the card reader to down load my videos and pics. I never got one for the other one... The new Mac has NO normal USB ports, just USB-c ports, so thats my next little thing.

Flying was great... It gets me out of my head, and on it! That is why I fell in love with flying the drones. I got hooked on my cousins and I just sort of fell in love with what I can see and where I can go and never leave the ground, but yet you still get this cool feeling like you are flying in a way.

I am good as long as it is going away from me, but once it turns around the controls are all backwards (mind boggling for a short time). My head has to reorient how to use my hands and basically think backwards... I can do it but it gets tiring a little. I fly by my phone mostly so thats much easier...

*I have seen a video where they hacked a drone in hover mode, (at Harvard maybe?)
I'm so remote the worst thing I have to worry about is the woods and a few power lines and the lake of course.
* it has sensors all around it to avoid crashing into stuff. It can be set up in so many ways...
*Battery meter for drone, drone remote, and iPhone (of course).
*Lithium batteries (I have 3) and that gives me a little over an hour of flight time about 20 minutes at a time.
*Returns home when it senses something wrong, or low battery
* Lots of rules... Most are simple common sense. Texas has some of the most extreme rules of all the states. Some of them are just stupid, but I will go by them.

Its maybe what could be called an expensive hobby, but there are lots of little starter drones that I have also had fun with. The Mavic is just really high quality, really fast processing, really fast flying, with a 4k gimbal camera and filters. It flies long distances about 4 miles at nearly 500 ft altitude. (which in Texas it line of sight only-so thats supposed to not happen). I want to use it for some cool pictures I hope at some point.

Some people race them, like in arena style events but I don't think (at least right now) I am ready to try that... The drone races on You Tube look pretty fun... : )

 

[Streetwise]

I got it all registered and the apps all down loaded and linked... I charged up everything, did my pre flight, it did its pre-flight.... And off I went. I have just came in my first flight Sunday 1:30 pm. It was fun... Its fast, too fast at times. I have to get an adapter for the card reader to down load my videos and pics. I never got one for the other one... The new Mac has NO normal USB ports, just USB-c ports, so thats my next little thing.

Flying was great... It gets me out of my head, and on it! That is why I fell in love with flying the drones. I got hooked on my cousins and I just sort of fell in love with what I can see and where I can go and never leave the ground, but yet you still get this cool feeling like you are flying in a way.

I am good as long as it is going away from me, but once it turns around the controls are all backwards (mind boggling for a short time). My head has to reorient how to use my hands and basically think backwards... I can do it but it gets tiring a little. I fly by my phone mostly so thats much easier...

*I have seen a video where they hacked a drone in hover mode, (at Harvard maybe?)
I'm so remote the worst thing I have to worry about is the woods and a few power lines and the lake of course.
* it has sensors all around it to avoid crashing into stuff. It can be set up in so many ways...
*Battery meter for drone, drone remote, and iPhone (of course).
*Lithium batteries (I have 3) and that gives me a little over an hour of flight time about 20 minutes at a time.
*Returns home when it senses something wrong, or low battery
* Lots of rules... Most are simple common sense. Texas has some of the most extreme rules of all the states. Some of them are just stupid, but I will go by them.

Its maybe what could be called an expensive hobby, but there are lots of little starter drones that I have also had fun with. The Mavic is just really high quality, really fast processing, really fast flying, with a 4k gimbal camera and filters. It flies long distances about 4 miles at nearly 500 ft altitude. (which in Texas it line of sight only-so thats supposed to not happen). I want to use it for some cool pictures I hope at some point.

Some people race them, like in arena style events but I don't think (at least right now) I am ready to try that... The drone races on You Tube look pretty fun... : )

did you ever see Topgear (bbc)when the what I call three stooges Jeremy Clarkson ,James may ,Richard Hammond went to look for the source of the Nile .they used a drone to work out which way the river was moving if you've never seen it before Jeremy Clarkson is really irritating ,they don't present the programme anymore , Jeremy Clarkson assaulted a producer.

 

[Chance]

did you ever see Topgear (bbc)when the what I call three stooges Jeremy Clarkson ,James may ,Richard Hammond went to look for the source of the Nile .they used a drone to work out which way the river was moving if you've never seen it before Jeremy Clarkson is really irritating ,they don't present the programme anymore , Jeremy Clarkson assaulted a producer.

Wow... no I never saw that...

 

[Streetwise]

Wow... no I never saw that...

bit of a rant here !at least when you look for it on YouTube if you do it will work! I personally think I live in the Bermuda Triangle so I've given up on YouTube.

 

[WereBear]

The last time I tried to register something (our new microwave this summer) I filled it all in and the site would not take it and did not tell me why and where, either. So I took screen shots of the whole mess and emailed that to them with an explanation.

Did they thank me for troubleshooting? Did they register my thing? Did they get the job done? Of course not!

They just emailed back detailing how I can call this 800 number and someone would teach me how to use the website.

What is wrong with them?