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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    Mistara said:

    happy caturday 

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    My web browser is using 40% of the CPU time.  I wonder if the javascript or an add on is slow or performing many instructions.  I'm not playing any videos or music.  Hmm.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    is it time for flowers and flutterbys yet?

    Banksias are flowering here :)

    What a cool looking blossom!

    Dana

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,451
    Chohole said:
    manekiNeko said:
    Chohole said:
    manekiNeko said:

    oh you're based in the UK ( i thought US). so yeah, looks like you guys are dealing with the same beast we had here - just a few days later. we had a little of this powder too a few days before the worst wind & cold sun-wed, but not much, just a fine layer, i was wondering what that weird snow was.. no drifts here, but maybe in other places higher up.. now the harsh cold is gone, normal snow has been falling again, all's back to white outside >_<
    hmm.. i might even have spent 2 weeks "not too far" from where you live, not sure, but it was in wales, in a rented house near the hills with pals, near some town called kingston or something.. it was autumn tho, so no snow. anyways, this beast should be over soon i guess & hope for you.

    I think you may mean Knighton, which is about 60 miles North of us.

    yes! that's the name! hmm kingston is a little bit more.. south i guess *embarrassed cough* XDD.
    i loved it there. lots of green, beautiful and so quiet - i remember wandering (alone) to the top of a hill, a very "naked" hill with very scarce short vegetation, no trees, and no road/path anywhere in the vicinity. and i suddently noticed... nothing. complete utter silence. no birds, no insects, no human background - and no sheep right there, lol. and nothing much to be seen from this POV either, just the grass and the sky. i laid there on the ground for a while, so peaceful.. ^^

    Ironically before we moved to Wales we lived in Richmond, which is the next biggest town downstream from Kingston on the Surrey bank along that stretch of the River.  Kingston is actually Kingston upon Thames and Richmond is Richmond upon Thames. So yes further south and east, just under 200 miles away.

    And yes There are some beautifully quiet spots to be found in Wales.  Also some dark places, as The Brecon Beacons National Park has been awarded Dark Sky status 

    there really is a Kingston in Wales? what a coincidence.. because when i meant, all embarrassed that "Kingston is more south", i was referring to.. Jamaica XD. i didn't even realize i was saying a half-truth per pure chance, i had just mixed up Knighton from the holidays with Kingston where a LJ community friend lives ^^
    i'd say geography is not exactly one of my strong points ~

    while we regrettably didn't really wander at night, like, at all, i can believe the night sky is amazing there - if there was no noticeable intrusion of the modern world on the top of that hill during the day, it would make sense urban lights wouldn't disturb the night either.. it's a great idea to award such a site for those who can appreciate.

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,451
    Tjohn said:

    I wandered lonely as a Cloud
       That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
       A host of golden Daffodils;
    Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
    Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. - Wordsworth

    smileyheart

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418

    If there is a New York, where is the old York?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,306
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    If there is a New York, where is the old York?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_York Capital of Yorkshire

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220
    edited March 2018

    Old New York was New Amsterdam. surprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,096

    Before the First Great Hamster Wars, it was just Hamsterdam.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    If there is a New York, where is the old York?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_York Capital of Yorkshire

     

    that where they invented the pudding

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:

    Before the First Great Hamster Wars, it was just Hamsterdam.

     

    ninja hamsters!

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418
    edited March 2018

    I was thinking of Wings.  I am going to check to see if there is a 64 bit Wings

    edit: or is wings3d no more?

    Post edited by TSasha Smith on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I was thinking of Wings.  I am going to check to see if there is a 64 bit Wings

    edit: or is wings3d no more?

     

    i still use v 99.5

    was used to working with the hole material, and it has uv template options they took away

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

    happy caturday 

     

    snuggle kitteh heart

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    Mistara said:

    is it time for flowers and flutterbys yet?

    ...maybe in a week or two here.  Finally looks as if Winter got the hint it overstayed its welcome here. 60s by late next week.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    NVIATWAS said:

    Biskies!!! I just baked 5 buttermilk biscuits in the air fryer and they came out perfect!!! So happy munching flakey browned biscuits!!!

    I was worried the dough would burn on the edges, but the convecion effect browned the entire outside, even the underside.. totally crispy outside and hot flakey inside.  Why do people even use energy-inefficient huge stove any more??!?!?!?!?

    I sound like an evangelist, sorry.... :-/ But whn I can turn corn tortillas into fresh, hot corn chips in 5 minutes I just don't understand people spending 5x as much for a bag of cold stale chips..

    I feel sorry for folks that live on lame prefab food,.. :-|

    ...the nice thing for me about making my own crisps is I control how much salt they get. So many are just way to salty for my taste.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    Chohole said:
    manekiNeko said:
    Chohole said:
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    Chohole said:
    manekiNeko said:
    Chohole said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    For the people east of Buffalo in the path of that storm, hunker down!  I woke up this morning to 8 inches of FROZEN WATER FROM THE SKY the consistency of cake frosting. surprise  I tried to sweep it off my porch and it just compacted into alabaster cement.  No mini-adventures for me today. indecision  And it's still coming down! sad

    I am trapped indoors.  At the front, the way the wind tunnelled through it has meant that half the street is almost clear and driveable.  This side of the street, the old houses have drifts caused by the wind actually blocking the front doors, well mine is blocked anyway and I can't get out to check if it has picked on me especially, and yet the other side, where the new houses have gardens they have snow drifts in their gardens, but can get out to clear it as they have porches so not as thoroughly blocked as I am.   At the back I only have a 15 inch drift across the back door, but it is quite a trek to struggle out of that,  find a spde or shovel and walk up the garden along the back lane, down the next road and back along to my front door.  Not certain I care to try opening the front door to try to clear away a drift that varies from 2ft 6inches to almost 4ft. We are at 23f, (real feel 7f due to wind chill factor)

    is this frequent where you live, or do we have a particularly harsh/weird winter? and is this a big urban area, or somehow isolated?

    Not at all usual.   We have a bad set of circumstances hitting the UK at the moment.   What they are calling "the beast from the East" which is arctic type weather coming from Russia met head on with Storm Emma, coming the other way.    Snow we are used to in this area, winds we are used to.  But this particular thing is bad.  The Artic blast is fuelling dry powder snow, not nice flaky moister snow which makes nice snowballs. The winds are howling around, picking up the light dry powder snow and causing the snow drifts, It is what a Swedish friend says they call snow smoke, like a sandstorm but with snow.  I live in what they poetically call "the foot hills of the Brecon Beacon Mountain Range" or less poetically "the Heads of the Valleys"  full of ups and downs and our street is around 1200 ft above sea level.,  As LeatherGryphon says, genuinely uphill both ways to the shops and our street is sort of West to East orientation, so the NorEaster drving the Artic weather is funnelling straight down the street driving snow before it.  Emma is whirling the winds around making for beautifully sculpted snow drifts which look very impressive but really are a pain in the proverbial.

    oh you're based in the UK ( i thought US). so yeah, looks like you guys are dealing with the same beast we had here - just a few days later. we had a little of this powder too a few days before the worst wind & cold sun-wed, but not much, just a fine layer, i was wondering what that weird snow was.. no drifts here, but maybe in other places higher up.. now the harsh cold is gone, normal snow has been falling again, all's back to white outside >_<
    hmm.. i might even have spent 2 weeks "not too far" from where you live, not sure, but it was in wales, in a rented house near the hills with pals, near some town called kingston or something.. it was autumn tho, so no snow. anyways, this beast should be over soon i guess & hope for you.

    I think you may mean Knighton, which is about 60 miles North of us.

    yes! that's the name! hmm kingston is a little bit more.. south i guess *embarrassed cough* XDD.
    i loved it there. lots of green, beautiful and so quiet - i remember wandering (alone) to the top of a hill, a very "naked" hill with very scarce short vegetation, no trees, and no road/path anywhere in the vicinity. and i suddently noticed... nothing. complete utter silence. no birds, no insects, no human background - and no sheep right there, lol. and nothing much to be seen from this POV either, just the grass and the sky. i laid there on the ground for a while, so peaceful.. ^^

    Ironically before we moved to Wales we lived in Richmond, which is the next biggest town downstream from Kingston on the Surrey bank along that stretch of the River.  Kingston is actually Kingston upon Thames and Richmond is Richmond upon Thames. So yes further south and east, just under 200 miles away.

    And yes There are some beautifully quiet spots to be found in Wales.  Also some dark places, as The Brecon Beacons National Park has been awarded Dark Sky status 

    ...looks like an amateur astronomer's dream.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    Tjohn said:
    Mistara said:

    happy caturday 

    ...ohhhh.

    Cute-O-Meter shorted out again.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    If there is a New York, where is the old York?

    This is the one, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Complaints: intestines hating on me something fierce for no reason; 24 post since I last visited.

    Could be worse...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109

    ...doesn't sound good.  Sometimes if I don't eat I feel kind of blah in the gut.

    Was out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while on Friday and didn't get home until late so ended up sleeping in late then had other matters to attend to like rent and getting a new RPG character ready for Sunday.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...doesn't sound good.  Sometimes if I don't eat I feel kind of blah in the gut.

    Was out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while on Friday and didn't get home until late so ended up sleeping in late then had other matters to attend to like rent and getting a new RPG character ready for Sunday.

    Sleeping late sounds like a good idea.  In fact, plain old sleep sounds good.  Digestive system is happier now, and I got some tortillas and milk into me.  Time to finally hit the sack.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418

    Why is it now that 1 TB HDD is so easy to fill and old computers had a fraction of the space?

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    The sky is dim and cloudy gray

    There's not much hope for Sun today

    The birds are sleeping in the trees

    If it gets colder, they might freeze

    The cars that pass are moving slow

    They have no clue as where to go

    I have fresh biscuits soaked with butter

    And tons of coffee so I don't sputter

    I'm learning how to lay a flloor

    And several ways to hang a door

    'This Old House' is lots of fun

    Those guys thy sure can get thing done

    It might rain soon, I've got a cramp

    Best close the window or I'll get damp!

    ..by me..

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418

    I want to send my goldfish to sweep the hall, but they are like we are fish we need to stay in water.  It is too much work to fill the hall with fish water just for them to sweep it.  They still will not sweep the floor.  I better go sweep the hallway soon.  as in this morning soon.  before the morning is up soon.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418
    edited March 2018

    Okay I got stuff downloading so I am going to sweep that hallway as my goldfish will not do so.

    edit also my battery is at 19% which I want to charge it.

    Post edited by TSasha Smith on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Why is it now that 1 TB HDD is so easy to fill and old computers had a fraction of the space?

    Murphy's Laws of Computers: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-computer.html  "Data always expands to fill the available space."

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    NVIATWAS said:

    The sky is dim and cloudy gray

    There's not much hope for Sun today

    The birds are sleeping in the trees

    If it gets colder, they might freeze

    The cars that pass are moving slow

    They have no clue as where to go

    I have fresh biscuits soaked with butter

    And tons of coffee so I don't sputter

    I'm learning how to lay a flloor

    And several ways to hang a door

    'This Old House' is lots of fun

    Those guys thy sure can get thing done

    It might rain soon, I've got a cramp

    Best close the window or I'll get damp!

    ..by me..

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Why is it now that 1 TB HDD is so easy to fill and old computers had a fraction of the space?

    Murphy's Laws of Computers: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-computer.html  "Data always expands to fill the available space."

     

    That is 1000% true.   U managed to nearly fill my 3TB drive with downloaded backup copies of all my games, apps, and music tools.  Wiped the drive a few days ago, if I need to reinstall an app I just re-download.  So simple and easy. :-/

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

    The sky is dim and cloudy gray

    There's not much hope for Sun today

    The birds are sleeping in the trees

    If it gets colder, they might freeze

    The cars that pass are moving slow

    They have no clue as where to go

    I have fresh biscuits soaked with butter

    And tons of coffee so I don't sputter

    I'm learning how to lay a flloor

    And several ways to hang a door

    'This Old House' is lots of fun

    Those guys thy sure can get thing done

    It might rain soon, I've got a cramp

    Best close the window or I'll get damp!

    ..by me..

     

    Thank yew, thank yew, thank yew. :-)

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