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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    what do you think of mashed turnip?

    it's never been my veggie of choice, but mebbe is tasty in the right mashmix?

    Never tried turnips, parsnips are good mashed with butter and salt.

    I use a mixture of carrots parsnip and swede

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    Petercat said:
    Subtropic Pixel said:

    Cooking a turkey bones and mushroom soup right now.  Very gothlike.  Poor, poor, turkey.  Poor, poor, tasty turkey.  Poor tasty turkey.  Tasty, tasty turkey.  Oh wow, how did that happen?  laugh

     

    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

     

    Petercat said:

    Welcome to the club.

    You should both be aware that Windows 7 (and 8.1 in the future) won't run on some newer processors.  So if you want to upgrade an older computer or build a new one and run an older version of Windows on it, beware of this.  This was known 2 years ago.  Article here:  Why Windows 7 Won't Work On Intel's Current and Next Gen CPUs

    The pull-quote gives some reasoning:

    Matthew Huges said:

    “Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

    And it won't be restricted only to Intel CPUs, either.  AMD and Qualcomm have said they're going to do something similar.

    Of course, if you never ever upgrade your PC and never ever buy a new one, then you won't be affected.  wink

    Yeah, there was a thread about that in this forum. I got rid of my Win ME/400mhz AMD K6 a couple of years ago, but only because the motherboard failed.
    I tend to hang onto computers as long as they'll do what I need them to do. My current Win7 setup will last until DAZ ports Studio to Linux.
    In other words, forever.

    I still keep two Dell 8100 WinXP machines here at home.  Every now and then I like to break out my old Myst games and some of them don't run well on newer machines. 

    Those Dell machines are well built and could have a tolerable good second-life as a boat anchor for a small boat.  Or some evil techie on TV could use it to keep bodies at the bottom of the lake.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    edited November 2017

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    Sympathies. As someone with a lifetime of back troubles (2 ruptured lumbar disks, etc.) I can feel your pain. Feel better soonest!

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,708
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    I know the feeling. I have severe back issues and that kinda stuff kills me and I'm down for a few days.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,708
    Tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    Sympathies. As someone with a lifetime of back troubles (2 ruptured lumbar disks, etc.) I can feel your pain. Feel better soonest!

    I've had 5 back surgeries since 2004. The spinal fusion was the worse. I also have arthritis and degenerative disks. I have osteoarthritis in all my joints. The only things that were spared atm is my right knee and my left hip.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    Owwwwwwwwwwww!  Feel better soonest!

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,335
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    I hope doesn't take long to heal up!

    Dana

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Ahhh, planned obsolence!  Well, you have to keep the stockholders happy, and modern stockholders want quick big returns, which means corporate profit and growth, and nothing spells profit like selling your customer the same product over and over! 

    Now, guitars, I had one for 12 years that was still going strong when I sold it.  They do make throwaway guitars but most musicians don't buy them, and it's not a mass market so per-unit profit is still good because there's not a huge downward pressure on price.

    Technology will drive turnover to a point - most people have no use for an octa-core 32GB laptop to run office apps and Moms casual games, so it's the hardcore folks - gamers, content creators and scientists - that drive the sale of bazillion-core Xeon CPUs, and who cares if it costs $1200 just for your CPU or GPU? Profits on those things are pretty decent.  Fab cost isn't too high, it's investment in manufacturing tools that can crank out nanometer wafers.. it ain't cheap, have to recoup the cost from someone.

    Working for Philips was an eye-opener.. fab cost for a basic 8051 based SOC was in the pennies, at a bulk buy cost of 25 cents a pop the profit was incredible.  Semiconductor fab is a tricky business.. go obsolete and go bankrupt.

    Taking a break from being massacred  by horned demons that breathe lightning and have a paralytic touch. they  keep getting me, argh.  Even with my holy fire aura, damn, 6 at a time jump me!  I need to run for it sooner, string them out, and axe them to death one at a time.  No bondage babes to be seen, though, sigh.

    Nibbled my yam to death - took forever to cook, being 3 inches thick, but omg so worth it! An organic jewel yam from Sprouts,one yam = 2lbs!  Half of it sits uncooked 'for later'.

    Going to buy parsnips and turnips next delivery, curious as to how they cook in the air fryer.  The yam did well cut in half, I think yam slices or chips would have been faster and just as tasty.

    Sipping Diet Dr. Pepper and potato wodka, enjoying the cool outside air, not so much the bugs.  I need a citronella candle for the windowsill.  Or an AI-driven bug laser...

    Moving the laptop 5ft from one desk to another dropped me from 3-4 bars to 1-2 bars and crap bandwidth.  Range extender/repeater ordered from Amazon, will arrive Wednesday.  Line-of-sight for the router to my location goes through 4 walls and a staircase!  No wonder WiFi sucks, but the repeater has 2 extra-sensitive antennas and serious output power, so it should do well if it doesn't melt the wiring in the walls.

    Turnip chips dipped in mayo, hmmm, yummy sounding.  Will post the results of my air fryer experiments here!

     

    ...yeah going to stick with older tech for the next build (when I ever get my retro benefits). Dual 10 or 12 core Xeons (40 or 48 threads),128 GB of four channel DDR3 (for what we do DDR4 is not really all that necessary).   This system will pretty remain offline as it is designed to be a CPU render powerhouse.  Just too much obsolescence built into GPUs for my taste and I doubt that NVIDA would cut their own throats by offering a consumer card with as much or more memory as their more expensive pro grade line.   I like Iray, just not happy that it requires a specific brand of GPU for rendering (and for the most memory, a very expensive one at that) so looking to get as much bang as I can out of CPU rendering.

    Non complaint  Daz has a new beta of Hexagon in the works that crushes many of the bugs with plans to go 64 bit (finally).  Happy Time:

    Second non complaint, Wisconsin shut out Minnesota 31 - 0 and Alabama lost to Auburn so the Badgers are now the only undefeated team in FBS college football.

    Third non complaint.  Rendo has a store-wide Black Friday sale all weekend with everything at 50% off.  Finally picked up the model of the Greyhound Scenicruiser highway bus I've been wanting like the one below.

    Fancy bus!  I've been on observation train cars and it's really cool,  but I've never seen a bus like that before.  Cool!

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    what do you think of mashed turnip?

    it's never been my veggie of choice, but mebbe is tasty in the right mashmix?

    Never tried turnips, parsnips are good mashed with butter and salt.

    I use a mixture of carrots parsnip and swede

     

    i've never met a parsnip

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    frank0314 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    I know the feeling. I have severe back issues and that kinda stuff kills me and I'm down for a few days.

     

    without my cane i'd fall down a lot

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,708

    Parsnips are really good.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    frank0314 said:
    Tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., I just reached for the towel in the bathroom and twisted my back. crying  Another week of hobbling around with my cane. sad

    Sympathies. As someone with a lifetime of back troubles (2 ruptured lumbar disks, etc.) I can feel your pain. Feel better soonest!

    I've had 5 back surgeries since 2004. The spinal fusion was the worse. I also have arthritis and degenerative disks. I have osteoarthritis in all my joints. The only things that were spared atm is my right knee and my left hip.

    Geebus dude! {{{{{{{{ frank }}}}}}}}

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I don't have enough spare cash to buy everything that I want during the black Friday sale.  I'll wait for another sale to spend $$$. lol

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Sunday complaints!

    - Stupid warm for the end of November

    - Sore shoulders

    - Low on meds, pharmacy run next week

    - Down to 3 bottles of Arrogant Bastard ale

    - Internet connection still crummy

    - Didn't sleep worth a darn last night, might have to nap

    - At least 100 more hours of Diablo to play

    Non-complaints!

    - Hot tea

    - Cheese

    - Sardines in hot sauce

     

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,708
    starionwolf said:

    I don't have enough spare cash to buy everything that I want during the black Friday sale.  I'll wait for another sale to spend $$$. lol

    Maybe they will have a cyber Monday sale like they did last year. I know pretty much everyone online runs one. I'll be keeping an eye on Amazon

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254

    Trying Ubuntu.  Tired of windows 10 not working right.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    frank0314 said:
    starionwolf said:

    I don't have enough spare cash to buy everything that I want during the black Friday sale.  I'll wait for another sale to spend $$$. lol

    Maybe they will have a cyber Monday sale like they did last year. I know pretty much everyone online runs one. I'll be keeping an eye on Amazon

     

    i'se soo entirely tapped out of spending mony til next friday.

    i forked over my rent yesterday before i spent it

    just saw 2 things i really want cryingcrying didnt know i needed it til i saw it 

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087
    edited November 2017

    My budget is already $200 over drawn for the month and I don't get my check for 3 and a half more weeks.  I'm going to be spending a lot of days indoors with my credit card locked up safely away from DAZ and on-line auctions. sad  My monthly budget hasn't been balanced for 6 months.  Resolving that is going to be my New Year's Resolution. enlightened

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    enlightenment in a scifi background, feels confusing

    i'm confused between Bhudda and Confusius.  and Siddhartha.

    they all seem to give up all worldly possessions?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254

    I am so tired but I am also still hungry.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    enlightenment in a scifi background, feels confusing

    i'm confused between Bhudda and Confusius.  and Siddhartha.

    they all seem to give up all worldly possessions?

    The whole concept here is that attachment to the world causes woe and will trap you in the cycle of reincarnation.  That might have worked a few thousand years ago, nowadays try living off the land with no possessions and see how long you last.

    It's a good concept, it just needs some work to fit into modern days.

    Buddah and Siddhartha thought along similar lines, some consider them to be th same person.  Confucius was more of a philisopher than spiritual guru.

    I'm not sure any of the three would last a week nowadays...

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254

    Where did the shark go?

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Skeleton archers, ugh.  Pincushion time again. :(

    Trying to reach the spider demoness but she's at the bottom of the dungeon.  Fighting through the two jail levels.. trying to figure out why a monastery has a 2-level underground jail..that seems a bit weird... anyway it's full of some serious enemies! Well, it's something to do during laundry.

    Black beans mixed with sausage and diced green chilis, so tasty.  Rest of the yam cooking.  Ugh.  Feeling flat. :|

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,087

    Boo!

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,708
    NVIATWAS said:
     

    Black beans mixed with sausage and diced green chilis, so tasty.  Rest of the yam cooking.  Ugh.  Feeling flat. :|

    That sounds fantastic. I haven't had black beans in a while.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    frank0314 said:
    NVIATWAS said:
     

    Black beans mixed with sausage and diced green chilis, so tasty.  Rest of the yam cooking.  Ugh.  Feeling flat. :|

    That sounds fantastic. I haven't had black beans in a while.

    It's actually incredibly easy to fix.  Partially drain one 18oz can of black beans and put them in the air fryer cookpot. Add one tablespoon of butter, one small can diced green chiles (I use Old El Paso brand), chop 3-6 brown and serve breakfast sausage (depending on how meaty you want it), stir sausage in and cover cookpot with foil.  Set air fryer to 200f and put the cookpot in the basket, close air fryer.  Cook in 3 rounds of 25 minutes, removing the foil/stirring/replacing foil on pot every 25 minutes.  Take out of air fryer - careful it's hot! - and serve or cool and store. Will taste better in 2-3 days, freeze for storage over 5 days.  Add hot sauce if you need more kick.  Add salt if needed, I usually don't.

    The same technique works for pintos as well, and you can vary the sausage you put in - I've used chicken sausage, kielbasa, and even Italian sausage.

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Broke down and ordered pizza, to go with my last few beers.  12in crispy crust with bacon, pepperoni, meatballs, mushrooms, and black olives.  Some garlic cheese bread 'for later' and six hot wings and I'll feast for about 3-4 days.  Wow, the wings are hotter than a $1000 a night hooker!  I ended up drinking the entire container of bleu cheese dressing just to cool down a bit.  The cheese garlic bread is amazing, it's 3 cheese - mozarella, parm, and cheddar.  Sooooo good!  The pizza is all going into the fridge for the next few days.

    Only 2 more beers left, then it's over to wodka.

    EEEuuuwwww, sweaty shirt! Dumping the ranch dressing on the bread, cooooooling.

    Yams done and cooled, will be stored in the fridge once I scrape the goodie out into a container.

    Then, back to skeleton archers, ugh.

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,254

    Got windows 7 back on the computer, I think.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Stressed looking Mynah birds scratching around browning foliage and baked dry earth in a planter box painting a grim picture this overcast and relatively cool- 70 - Monday. Think there must be rain somewhere up in the looming overcast, just not making it to the ground :0 Poor Mynah birds live in urban rooftops, must be slim pickings for them so far this spring, or grim peckings or something ;)

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