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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    NVIATWAS said:

    I shouldn't have had a nap this afternoon.  I slept for about 2 hours then BOOM, wide awake.  Well, it lets me refine my grocery list!  Getting chili dog makings for the Super Bowl, one final splurge before full austerity mode cuts in.

    Going to sell my 3TB USB3 Passport drive for $30 or three sixes of decent beer.  I wonder which I'll get?

     

    yumma pub snacks

    potato skins, nachos, 

    winj  - sippy lid on my tea is leaking 

    sky ready to dump frozed water puffs

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Chohole said:

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    ...I have a protable Underwood like this:

    That's portable?!?!?!?!? Lard ham merci! :-O

    ...just like this used to be considered a "compact" car.

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

    I shouldn't have had a nap this afternoon.  I slept for about 2 hours then BOOM, wide awake.  Well, it lets me refine my grocery list!  Getting chili dog makings for the Super Bowl, one final splurge before full austerity mode cuts in.

    Going to sell my 3TB USB3 Passport drive for $30 or three sixes of decent beer.  I wonder which I'll get?

     

    yumma pub snacks

    potato skins, nachos, 

    winj  - sippy lid on my tea is leaking 

    sky ready to dump frozed water puffs

    Pub snacks good!

    Leaky sippy cup bad.

    FROZEN WATER FROM THE SKY terrible!!!!!! :-O

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...nice surprise yesterday, the water from the sky that was forecast didn't occur and it made it up to a balmy 64° here under partly cloudy skies. Felt like spring.  Almost considered sitting outside when I stopped off at my old hangout on the way home from the Sunday RPG session.

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

    My Dad wrote his first book on an old sit up and beg typewriter in 1955,  and used part of the money he made to buy himself what was laughingly called a "portable" remington typewiter, also manual before he wrote his 2nd book.   I learned to type on that remington and it was still going strong when we lost my Dad in 1984.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/REMINGTON-QUIET-RITER-MIRACLE-TAB-PORTABLE-TYPEWRITER-IN-CASE-GREEN-KEYS-/332231470852

    ...I have a protable Underwood like this:

    That's portable?!?!?!?!? Lard ham merci! :-O

    ...just like this used to be considered a "compact" car.

    SMH.. remember the 'loggable' portable computer? Computer and workout tool in one unit!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited January 2018

    ...yeah I've handled steamer trunks and full military duffels that felt lighter than those.

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah I've handled steamer trunks and full military duffels that felt lighter than those.

    Oooooffff!  I had the Compaq version of the Osbourne, I swear it was made of neutronium! Heavy heavy ugh.

  • I had a friend in college who had one of the early Osbournes  It was definately smaller than typical computers of the era and it had a handle.  He used it to drive a player piano.  But programming in all those notes was a bitch!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    I had a friend in college who had one of the early Osbournes  It was definately smaller than typical computers of the era and it had a handle.  He used it to drive a player piano.  But programming in all those notes was a bitch!

    That must have been back in the day before even the earliest Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software from twelve Tone Systems - later known as Cakewalk.  Probably something like a tracker system, you key in each note with velocity slowwwwly and paiiiinfully.

    I admire his determination but don't envy him the work it must have been!  Nowadays I can quickly mouse in notes if I want to compose, whew!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...yeah they even make edible flutterbies for cakes and cupcakes.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Green curry chicken into the air fryer!  What I'm going to do is partially roast the mariinated chicken first, to make sure the skin gets crispy, then simmer the marinade liquid with coconut milk along with the partially cooked chicken until the chicken falls off the bone into the curry sauce.  Hard to go wrong that way.  Sooooo hungry now...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...mmm, sounds tasty.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...yeah they even make edible flutterbies for cakes and cupcakes.

    Schweeeeet!  I want a flutterby cake! :-)

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...mmm, sounds tasty.

    My room smells like a Thai restaurant.  I need to curry more stuff!  I blame you for inspiring me! :-P

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...at the pub yesterday evening, I kept being assaulted by the lovely aroma from the curry place next door as the door to the back patio was open.  Almost broke down and bought some.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complainnnt - ice fuzzies on my butter pecan ice cream.

    ice fuzzies in bag of frozen potato wedges

    is a frost free freezer, woes, how the ice get in there?

     

    could really go for bit of hot farina with melty butter and cinnamon

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...at the pub yesterday evening, I kept being assaulted by the lovely aroma from the curry place next door as the door to the back patio was open.  Almost broke down and bought some.

    That's totally unfair marketing! :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    complainnnt - ice fuzzies on my butter pecan ice cream.

    ice fuzzies in bag of frozen potato wedges

    is a frost free freezer, woes, how the ice get in there?

     

    could really go for bit of hot farina with melty butter and cinnamon

     

    Sometimes humidity can get in to the freezer and ice fuzzies breed.  It's an annoyance.

    Ice fuzzies are related to dust bunnies, by the way.

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

    complainnnt - ice fuzzies on my butter pecan ice cream.

    ice fuzzies in bag of frozen potato wedges

    is a frost free freezer, woes, how the ice get in there?

     

    could really go for bit of hot farina with melty butter and cinnamon

     

    Sometimes humidity can get in to the freezer and ice fuzzies breed.  It's an annoyance.

    Ice fuzzies are related to dust bunnies, by the way.

     

    dust bunnies carnivorous?

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

    complainnnt - ice fuzzies on my butter pecan ice cream.

    ice fuzzies in bag of frozen potato wedges

    is a frost free freezer, woes, how the ice get in there?

     

    could really go for bit of hot farina with melty butter and cinnamon

     

    Sometimes humidity can get in to the freezer and ice fuzzies breed.  It's an annoyance.

    Ice fuzzies are related to dust bunnies, by the way.

     

    dust bunnies carnivorous?

    Mostly, they just eat dust and stuff to grow.  However, they will eat each other in an attempt to become a MEGA DUSTBUNNY!!! :-O

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    complainnnt - ice fuzzies on my butter pecan ice cream.

    ice fuzzies in bag of frozen potato wedges

    is a frost free freezer, woes, how the ice get in there?

     

    could really go for bit of hot farina with melty butter and cinnamon

     

    Sometimes humidity can get in to the freezer and ice fuzzies breed.  It's an annoyance.

    Ice fuzzies are related to dust bunnies, by the way.

     

    dust bunnies carnivorous?

    ...the ones over at the Fantasy Attic site certainly are.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    fuzzie bunnies are meeeaann 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    omgawwd  just saw a dforce ad on the u toobs

     

    will the rhino find luv

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Green curry chicken came out perfect!  Tender chicken, tasty sauce kind of souplike but flavorful, no complaints.

    Godzilla Vs. Mega Dustbunny!!! :-|

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ice grits falling from sky

    i'm running out of the flour i use for pancakes.

     

  • NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:

    I used ASCII escape sequences to make shadowed title windows and menus in my COBOL homework projects, and my 3rd semester COBOL final exam.  It was neat.  I couldn't get it to run on my study version of the compiler, buy my professor could run it at the college.  He said there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that the student compiler couldn't work with such a complex program.  I aced it.  I also hoped that I'd never have to work at a job in COBOL.  laugh 

    Dana

    I did one COBOL project for a bank when I worked at Computer Sciences Corporation.  It was over 30 years ago.  I still get stupid headhunters askinf if I'm available to maintain old COBOL code.  I (usually rudely) inform them that if they had actually read my resume' they'd see my COBOL was decades stale, the implied they were illerate and to take remedial reading.  Never heard from them again.

    COBOL, shudder barf.  Not the worst language I've coded in, that would be APL - I was helping this PhD in theoretical math work on signal processing software.  Never again, I mean, you needed a special keyboard!  APL is also write-only, attempting to figure out what you'd done even 2 weeks afterwards was mission impossible.

    Not for nothing, but some places are willing to pay well for a decent COBOL programmer or two.    They sure ain’t getting the college kids to do it! 

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

    I used ASCII escape sequences to make shadowed title windows and menus in my COBOL homework projects, and my 3rd semester COBOL final exam.  It was neat.  I couldn't get it to run on my study version of the compiler, buy my professor could run it at the college.  He said there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that the student compiler couldn't work with such a complex program.  I aced it.  I also hoped that I'd never have to work at a job in COBOL.  laugh 

    Dana

    I did one COBOL project for a bank when I worked at Computer Sciences Corporation.  It was over 30 years ago.  I still get stupid headhunters askinf if I'm available to maintain old COBOL code.  I (usually rudely) inform them that if they had actually read my resume' they'd see my COBOL was decades stale, the implied they were illerate and to take remedial reading.  Never heard from them again.

    COBOL, shudder barf.  Not the worst language I've coded in, that would be APL - I was helping this PhD in theoretical math work on signal processing software.  Never again, I mean, you needed a special keyboard!  APL is also write-only, attempting to figure out what you'd done even 2 weeks afterwards was mission impossible.

    Not for nothing, but some places are willing to pay well for a decent COBOL programmer or two.    They sure ain’t getting the college kids to do it! 

    This is true as true can be - I don't think they even teach COBOL any more!!!

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Big ol supermoon glowering from amongst storm tossed black clouds, tomorrow there will an eclipse around local midnight I think that makes it a blue moon, supermoon and at least partially eclipsed moon all at once - think anything after Jan 31 makes it not blue again :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:

    omgawwd  just saw a dforce ad on the u toobs

     

    will the rhino find luv

    was a Star Wars video ?

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