I Am So Tired But There's So Much To Do Complaint Thread
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Usually, when they ask for the zip code first, they automatically fill in the city from the zip code.
Dana
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Dana
Okay sour was the wrong word. I guess I meant the humor would not be my type.
...don't have that much HDD space on the old system. Video files take up a lot of space.
Complaint: (or not) I think there was a small earthquake here today. Either that or something shook the house more than just a door slam. Unfortunately I was out at the time. I returned to find a couple of things out of place slightly. Now this might seem that I'm overly sensitive to the position of my things but let me explain.
I have a little display of four, very strong, tiny (1/4 inch), square, neodymium magnets arranged in a square laying on the tabletop so that their magnetic field produces sort of a doughnut shaped field with a slightly weaker spot in the doughnut "hole" at the juncture of the four magnets. Floating above that juncture I have a little fragment of graphite that is square, about the size of a single magnet and extremely thin and light. This form of graphite is slightly paramagnetic (avoids magnetism) so it finds a quite stable equilibrium floating about 1/16th of an inch above the juncture in the weak spot "hole" of the doughnut shaped magnetic field, and is stable there unless you blow on it or touch it slightly, at which time it will fling itself off the edge of the magnetic platform. The whole thing is under a small glass dome so there are no stray air currents or casual touching incidents. That graphite has remained floating over the magnets for months until this afternoon when I found it dislodged.
OK, perhaps there was a stray magnetic field knot floating around in the air and upset the balance of the levitating graphite. Or some quantum fluctuation in the universe conspired to dislodge my display. Unlikely but I'd accept that if proven.
But wait, there was a second clue, I have on that same tabletop (actually, it's the top of a short bookcase) a small glass box with mirrored bottom in which I recently placed a few tiny, loose, translucent, colored rocks Two of them are shaped like a round cone. They are each laying on the side of the "cone" and I arranged them very carefully so that they are pointed so that they both reflect the display light exactly the same direction. So, from the proper angle they light up quite nicely like a pair of headlights. That display has only been set up for a few days but has been quite stable. I have no pets, and I don't slam doors. Today when I returned, the "headlights" were 180 degrees askew. That, along with the dislodged magnetic levitation display means that something jiggled that bookcase.
Mystery, mystery. 
Perhaps the landlord came in the house, or perhaps the gas man slamed the cellar hatch when he checked the meter down there, or perhaps somebody jumped up and down on my porch or perhaps some honking big vehicle bounced past on the road or train tracks or perhaps, just perhaps, I have invented an earthquake detector. Cool!
the day the earth stood still
No, that's not overly sensitive at all.
Touche'
I've been interested in micro earthquakes since a micro adventure in the '90s in San Francisco. I was in a little dive leather bar somewhere on Folsom St. playing pool. My opponent made a shot that left the cue ball just short of falling into a pocket ending his turn. He was gloating about his skill and took a few seconds looking over the table to figure out where to shoot next when all of a sudden the cue ball made a quick wobble and dropped into the pocket.
We all looked at each other for a moment dumbfounded then he conceded his turn and I took over. The next morning I read in the newspaper that a small earthquake had been recorded across the bay in Oakland right at the time we were playing pool. I thought it was pretty nice of the Earth to take a little wind out of his sails. 
I have a 500GB Seagate USB hard drive that I'll be happy to format and send you. It's one of the physically small ones, needs no external power.
I just checked it, and it works. I don't need it anymore, it's sitting in my drawer.
I agree with Tjohn...silly to think that's overly sensitive!
Dana
it's not hd, but still love the movie
Oh good! Thank you, I was worried about that, but heaven forbid I should ever find my bathroom soap on the wrong side of the sink or the cans of food in the cupboard not all arranged with the labels facing precisely forward.
TV Detective "Monk" is my hero. 
I've been watching the sand grains in my long idle hourglass and notice them shifting spontaneously now and then, but figure that's to be expected due to normal vibrations, but I keep a log of their movements for posterity.
big 'O' can shake the decor
...ahh not sure if the old BIOS would support it. . This is an 11 year old system that i got long before SSDs were introduced. Two of my USB ports (USB2) are also flaky as well, while the remaining two good ports have the secondary keyboard and mouse plugged in them.
...micro quakes are rather common here (particularly with Mt Hood and St.Helen's nearby) that they pretty much go unnoticed. As I also live close to the train station probably wouldn't know the difference if it was a heavy freight train pounding by or an earth tremor.
I remember one morning when I was still living back in Milwaukee WI in 1969, the ground shook for a moment, At first I thought a train had derailed as we were less than a block away from a major freight rail line (dual tracks). I was surprised to hear on the radio that it was due to a minor earthquake in south central Illinois. We thought, an earthquake, in the Midwest? Those only happened in California and Alaska.
Of course as we learned afterwards, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in US history occurred in that region back in 1811 along what is called the New Madrid Fault. Of course (and fortunately) the region was sparsely populated at the time with St Louis a trading post, while Chicago and Milwaukee were outpost forts. Predictions are that if another quake of similar magnitude hit the area today cities like St Louis, Little Rock and Springfield would be flattened while Chicago, Des Moines, and even Milwaukee would sustain major damage since nothing in that region was ever built or has been retrofitted to withstand seismic activity like here on the west coast.
I understand. Offer is open if you change your mind.
And it's a regular 2.5" hard drive.
Give away a 500gig SSD? I'm generous, not insane!
knew something was going wrong today ;)
wow wonder what the odds would be for that cue ball to sit in just the right place at just the right time :)
Well, once it's happened, I'd say the odds were 100%.
Similarly, did you realize that Lotto tickets when you purchase them, are guaranteed to be winners until just before the drawing? Who knew! 
I've been watching a lot of Monk reruns myself lately (love the show). If you're emulating him, you've got a long way to go. You may however mastered his need for symmetry.
shake it up
twist n shout
The website did not automatically fill in the city. Strange.
complaint: its too humid for me to go out to take photos. I almost spelt photos with an "f". Maybe I'm too sleepy?? I woke up at 11 AM because the sky is cloudy outside.
ph is a weird diphthong. why dont they just spell it with a 'f'?
soft 'g' and hard 'ch' overcomplicates english.
Because then "diphthong" would be misspelled?
nooo complaint dayjob is changing again. been here 15 years. been bought, flipped, traded, merged, and next beeing spit out again.
The "dumbing-down" of English is already proceeding apace.
...that often seems to occur while waiting for the bus. I have a tracker app on my phone that tells how long it will be before the bus arrives and often the wait time showing doesn't change for several minutes. Sometimes it even goes backwards with the wait time becoming longer and longer while at other times it gets a "-" sign before the number
I guess could understand this happening if there was a Tardis or DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor nearby, but never seen either when this happens.
Just light one of your last few precious cigarettes and the bus will come before you finish the first puff.
this is blowing my mind. i searched for medieval roofing
the houses is in the canal?
in the canal! in the water?!
http://www.medievalhistory.net/build~g4.htm
...quit those over 40 years ago. After I returned from Germany I bought a pack of American ciggies, lit one up, took a couple puffs and bloody near gagged because it was so awful compared ot the Euro brands I smoked while there (mostly French and occasionally Russian). Ended up tossing the rest of the pack away and simply quit. (fortunately they were still pretty cheap back then)
Also bus stops and shelters here are designated "no smoking" areas. If seen by either a police officer or anyone associated with the transit system (and we have special "Transit Police" units here), it is a 250$ fine.
...forum spell check is brain dead again, so please excuse any typos, tired of copying to Word to check spelling.