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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:

    play with another medium?

    paint by numbers, silly putty, bake a cake sculpt frosting 

     

     

    I’m back to animating over winter, should be a nice change from standing around freezing my a$$ off :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    NVIATWAS said:
    Chohole said:

    It's a random glitch   they come and go,  You just have to work round them.  Instructions are in most of the threads about the problem, and there are quite a few threads about it.

     

    I just set FF to save my password, so it's merely an annoyance.  But if I suddenly saart talking sense, it means someone hijacked my browser!! :-O

    The Amazon Alexa AI has apparently taken to randomly laughing at users, skynet can’t be too far behind...

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220
    edited March 2018
    Mistara said:

    play with another medium?

    ...

    I tried to play cards with a medium but I think the ghosts kept peaking at my hand and snitching to her.  I'm not sure playing with another medium would be any better.

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,417

    I prefer medium but sometimes I need a large due to my large ------ oh we were not talking about shirts?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,417

    I thought I did a clean install of Windows but it kept all the files I had.  Not really a complaint or a non complaint.  it unistalled everything but kept the files.

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

    I prefer medium but sometimes I need a large due to my large ------ oh we were not talking about shirts?

    venti ?

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Rising sun splashing orange and gold on treetops and glass-sided towers like drops flicked from a giant but unsteady paint brush :)

    You should start making art that reflects your observations.  I bet they'd be great!

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220

    I wear mirrored sunglasses to reflect my observations. indecision 

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Is a three day weekend here for the river festival, as the sun sets I’m listening to quite a few parties starting up, knowing some of them will be going for the duration; is the last chance to party like it’s summer *\o/*\o/*\o/*\o/*

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I wear mirrored sunglasses to reflect my observations. indecision 

     

    They say the most beautiful-lace in the world is on the inside of your eyes ;)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Rising sun splashing orange and gold on treetops and glass-sided towers like drops flicked from a giant but unsteady paint brush :)

    You should start making art that reflects your observations.  I bet they'd be great!

    Dana

    I got a big animation/environment job to do over winter so let’s see what happens there :)

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220
    edited March 2018

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., woke up this morning to another 8 inches of frozen water from the sky.  Good thing I did my uptown chores yesterday, 'cause the car's not moving today. frown

    2 hours later:  Snow still coming down.  No wind, just frozen water from the sky.  I swept my porch clear, and the landlord has plowed the driveway about an hour ago.  Snow has contined to fall but the temperatures have risen above freezing so no new accumulation on bare road or sun exposed wood.  Great, that means the already fallen snow is now melting down to mush and ice. frown  Oh, the joys of March weather. indecision

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    TMI ALERT - you have been warned..

    3:15am and wide awake.  Lay down for a nap at 5:00pm, woke up a little bit ago!  I knew I felt tired, but wtf?!?!?!?!

    Also, nonstop dreaming.  And all really weird dreams, too.  Well, one would qualify as a nightmare but I'm so used to the place I end up it's become mostly annoying at this point.  The middle dream was od but unremarkable but the last one was really strange.

    Nothing less fun than spending what felt like 3 hours being chased around a nightmare living landscape by things that would make HR
     Giger scram and cause Wes Craven and Stephen King to wet thier pants and cry for mommy. The rubbery worm thing with the baby head and huge teeth that came out of a mudhole was particularly unsettling, as was the man made of straw with the hollow head that you could see out the straw in the back of his head. Amazing VFX, though, everything was hyper-real and both eyes worked fine.

    The coolest part was the end of the third dream.  I was crammed into a small basment with a crowd, there was a band of electronic musicians about to do a live jam streamed over the Internet. The thing that I recall so vividly was this one guys audio effect box: it was about a 10in touchscreen with the picture of an ET-like alien face.  Depending on what part of the face you touched, a different effect panel would slide out into the display, where he'd tweak an effect, and when he brushed it away it slid off the screen so only the alien face showed.

    If I still had my health and a job I would build and sell this thing!  Never seen anything like it.  Can someone go and invent this? It would freaking rock!

    I figure I recall about 70% of my dreams.  I kept a dream journal for 15 years, and the more I wrote the more I started to remember.  Sometimes I wonder if that was such a smart move, but now I know how some artists come up with their bizarre and scary artwork... :-|

     

    TMI, i know.

    ...wow, I've had some intense and vivid drams like that one very surreal and scary that sticks with me and I can still remember everything.  Also included music but which was created by arranging coloured tiles on the floor in different patterns then a big storm came up and the place we were at (a library) came under attack by spirits. As long as the music kept playing they were held at bay until the ending crescendo broke the storm and everything was fine again.  After the storm abated there was a strange shower of transparent strips of film with words on them fluttering in the air but I remember for some reason, you didn't want to be touched by or touch them.   From there we left and entered a massive set of stone and wood doors that led to a huge hallway lined with various "alcoves" when we heard kind of faint whispering.  When I turned around there was a young lithe black haired girl maybe in her mid teens, with black eyes facing us.  That was when I woke up. 

    I had this dream a several months ago, but still remember it vividly like it happened last night.

    There has to be a story in this somewhere, or at least a series of surrealistic images.

    Very interesting!  I could definitely see some wild images out of that! And remembering it this long, there must be more to it than a dream...

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

    Time to start the drumsticks cooking.  Mmmm, mesquire bbq sauce!!

    Booze run successfully completed, ready for the weekend!

    ...oh crikey, thanks for reminding me. Boozateria is just across the street and I'm totally out.

    NVIATWAS said:

    Complaint: walking to the store, I was passed by a little old lady in a walker. :-|

     

    ...beginning to have that happen myself too.  At least it wasn't someone walking a herd of anklebiters that tangle you up with their leashes when they start circling around you while yapping up a storm (one of my nightmares).  Not unusual here to see someone walking a bunch of them along the pavement here, all on separate leashes.

    I seriouly dislike herds of yappy small dogs!  The owners never seem to be able to control them.  Ugh.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,220
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Time to start the drumsticks cooking.  Mmmm, mesquire bbq sauce!!

    Booze run successfully completed, ready for the weekend!

    ...oh crikey, thanks for reminding me. Boozateria is just across the street and I'm totally out.

    NVIATWAS said:

    Complaint: walking to the store, I was passed by a little old lady in a walker. :-|

     

    ...beginning to have that happen myself too.  At least it wasn't someone walking a herd of anklebiters that tangle you up with their leashes when they start circling around you while yapping up a storm (one of my nightmares).  Not unusual here to see someone walking a bunch of them along the pavement here, all on separate leashes.

    I seriouly dislike herds of yappy small dogs!  The owners never seem to be able to control them.  Ugh.

    Very much like teenagers. indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    time keeps on slippin slippin slippin ... into the fyoo tyoor

    listenen to wbab

    robert plant is on tour?  does he need the money?

    had a small paycheq this week, cause of the doctor time i took off hours.
    ordered 8 more rams for the 8 core (baaaa)
    and upgrading my old sony acid 7 to (now owned by magix) acid 10.

    i think coming up with a sound some kind of music soundtrack will make my carrara movie feel like it's coming to life 
    somethin like the drum track from 'boys of summer have gone"
    laughlaugh

    mebbe next week i'll get the vegas movie upgrade.
    really want a mac and final cut pro, but thar isnt going to happen this year. 

    was up to 2am practicing keyframing forearm bending.  tryin to get a feel for the right speed. 
    non-molasses, yet not jerky.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    Mistara said:

     

    robert plant is on tour?  does he need the money?

    ​It's not about the money for most artists, it's about the music.

    Dana

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Chohole said:

    It's a random glitch   they come and go,  You just have to work round them.  Instructions are in most of the threads about the problem, and there are quite a few threads about it.

     

    I just set FF to save my password, so it's merely an annoyance.  But if I suddenly saart talking sense, it means someone hijacked my browser!! :-O

    The Amazon Alexa AI has apparently taken to randomly laughing at users, skynet can’t be too far behind...

    I tend to think the human race is a joke as well. :-P

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

    Time to start the drumsticks cooking.  Mmmm, mesquire bbq sauce!!

    Booze run successfully completed, ready for the weekend!

    ...oh crikey, thanks for reminding me. Boozateria is just across the street and I'm totally out.

    NVIATWAS said:

    Complaint: walking to the store, I was passed by a little old lady in a walker. :-|

     

    ...beginning to have that happen myself too.  At least it wasn't someone walking a herd of anklebiters that tangle you up with their leashes when they start circling around you while yapping up a storm (one of my nightmares).  Not unusual here to see someone walking a bunch of them along the pavement here, all on separate leashes.

    I seriouly dislike herds of yappy small dogs!  The owners never seem to be able to control them.  Ugh.

    Very much like teenagers. indecision

    I'd prefer the dogs!!! :-O

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

     

    robert plant is on tour?  does he need the money?

    ​It's not about the money for most artists, it's about the music.

    Dana

     

    Amen!  I give away 90% of wht I compose, even though I've sold some. Some folks like my tunes...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    watching hitfilmpro demos.  it's lookin better than the old sony vegas

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    was just thinkin the cardiac doctor will expect me to wear 1 of those smockee things.  ... complaint no wanna
    foot dr is okay, they expect keeping clothes on.
    there's no point in going to cardiac place really, no way i'm eating lasix or anything other than vitamines. 
    i'm not doing the stress test, that just sounds stupid. 

    need another snow storm to come!

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Big city feels hungover quiet today after a night of partying, so quiet the sound of pigeons coo-ing from treetops and telephone wires is almost unbearable :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:

    was just thinkin the cardiac doctor will expect me to wear 1 of those smockee things.  ... complaint no wanna
    foot dr is okay, they expect keeping clothes on.
    there's no point in going to cardiac place really, no way i'm eating lasix or anything other than vitamines. 
    i'm not doing the stress test, that just sounds stupid. 

    need another snow storm to come!

    *hugs*

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

     

    robert plant is on tour?  does he need the money?

    ​It's not about the money for most artists, it's about the music.

    Dana

     

    Amen!  I give away 90% of wht I compose, even though I've sold some. Some folks like my tunes...

    Very much :)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    Mistara said:

    was just thinkin the cardiac doctor will expect me to wear 1 of those smockee things.  ... complaint no wanna
    foot dr is okay, they expect keeping clothes on.
    there's no point in going to cardiac place really, no way i'm eating lasix or anything other than vitamines. 
    i'm not doing the stress test, that just sounds stupid. 

    need another snow storm to come!

    Lasix?  Water buildup issues?  Vitamins won't help that.  And if you leave it untreated, it will eventually get to your heart.  My mom is dealing with this.  Stubborn.  Won't take the pills, even though they will eventually smooth it out and make life more bearable.  

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,108

    ...OK still searching for a good front end AV been lookign at reviews, comparisons "best..." lists etc.  The three top ones usually mentioned are Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and Norton.  Now I recall there was some matter dealing with Kaspersky and back doors a while back, not sure if it was FUD, clickbait, or something that actually existed and was resolved. 

    I tend to prefer Tom's reviews and tests the best and all three AVs get high marks with Kaspersky being rated 9/10 and the other two 8/10.  Of the three Bitdefender is shown to have a light impact on system operations when scanning while the other two are listed as moderate. Kaspersky has a virtual private network that kicks in when you're connected to an open Wi-Fi network which the other two don't but doesn't have a password manager that both Norton and Bitdefender do have.  Norton on the other hand does not have a hardened/secure browser or ransomware protection (didn't realise the latter) which the other two do. 

    Not even considering McAfee as I had that a while back (came with the computer) and it didn't prevent a nasty redirect virus from infecting my notebook.

    So it really boils sown to feature comparison.  I do like the fact that Bitdefender does have a light footprint compared to the other two a well as both a password locker and hardened security browser, but these days with ransomware and more recently miningware that is infecting systems definitely need the best protection I can get.

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361

    Norton does have a VPN for wifi connecting...it is an extra feature, but I'm considering it for when we take the laptop on vacation.  Plus it will go on the smartphones as well.  Norton also has a password locker, IdentitySafe.  HOwever, you can get that for free as add-ins or whatever they're called, by browser.  They also have their free password generator.  They are also now partnered, or perhaps merged, with LifeLock and offer a discounted rate for that coverage.  I also keep seeing messages from Norton about ransomware protection, so you might look into that further.  Perhaps it is simply using a proper backup and restore method, I haven't really looked into it, I just dismiss the messages.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    DanaTA said:

    Norton does have a VPN for wifi connecting...it is an extra feature, but I'm considering it for when we take the laptop on vacation.  Plus it will go on the smartphones as well.  Norton also has a password locker, IdentitySafe.  HOwever, you can get that for free as add-ins or whatever they're called, by browser.  They also have their free password generator.  They are also now partnered, or perhaps merged, with LifeLock and offer a discounted rate for that coverage.  I also keep seeing messages from Norton about ransomware protection, so you might look into that further.  Perhaps it is simply using a proper backup and restore method, I haven't really looked into it, I just dismiss the messages.

    Dana

    Oh, and consider that Kaspersky is Russian.  There is a lot of skepticism concerning that software.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,108

    ..that's what I thought. 

    My attraction to Bitdefender is the light load during scans.

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