The "Complaints 'R' Us, complaint thread"

ps1borg

NVIATWAS said:

Chohole said:

ps1borg said:

Mistara said:

watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

makin me want to move to santa barbara

they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

One thing you can say for sure about a pod of whales is awe-inspiring, terror and wonder all at once so wouldn’t be at all surprised :)

ps1borg

kyoto kid said:

...yuck, worse than frozen water from the sky

A fair amount of storm damage in the hood today and scratchy eyes from all the dust and pollen  :)

ps1borg

kyoto kid said:

...Non Complaint.

Lookee what I just got.

https://www.daz3d.com/hd-grand-piano-and-poses-for-genesis-3-and-8

Leela very happy now!!!!!!

Hey nice render :)

NVIATWAS

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

Mistara said:

luv the still life, luv to boogieeee 

haz some mhe fruit to play with,  

veggie fruit fruit veggie veggie  fruit fruit  -  

i can still remember that from my epcot vacation in 1983, but i cant remember what hair i rendered last night 

I remember my honeymoon at Epcot, we took Amtrak and got a sleeper car.  It came with meals, which were pretty damn good.  This was in 1986!!!!

And yet I can't remember half the contracts I worked, so much for memorable jobs... :-/

       I've always wanted to take a luxury train trip across country (or to Florida at least) but trains are soooo expensive.  I do remember riding the train alone about 80 miles when I was about 8 or 9 back in the mid '50s.  I'd been visiting my aunt for a week or so.  She worked for Erie Railroad and she shipped me back to my parents on the train so they wouldn't have to drive out to pick me up.   I"ve also ridden train from Union Station in Washington, DC to Pennsylvania Station in NYC and back a couple of times.  I've ridden the Metro in Washington, DC, and the MUNI in San Francisco, the Underground in London, the subway in Hamburg, Germany, The subway in Montreal to the 1967 World's Fair, the Monorail in both DisneyWorld, Orlando & DisneyLand, Anaheim.  And I've even ridden the Hogwart's Express at Universal Studios, Orlando.  But that's about it for train travel.  I'd always hoped that the US would develop good high speed intercity rail travel but I'll never live to see it happen.  If I want a real train experience I'll have to go to Europe or Asia.  Which, at this point in my life, ain't gonna' happen either. 

Ooh, ooh, hmmm..., I wonder if I could afford the AutoTrain from Washington, DC to WinterPark, Florida.  I can drive  to Washington in 8 hours, I wouldn't have to spend two nights in hotels...,  hmmm... have to check that out.

I've done sleepers round trip to EPCOT, rail from DC to Boston, rail from DC to New York, rail from DC to Chicago, and rail from Los Angeles to Austin.  Sleepers are stupid expensive, but damn are they nice!! So glad I did it when I could, but the ex-wife is a railfan so she kind of insisted.. worked out though.

I too wish we had nice rail like Japan or Europe, but we won't see it until we get out of the transportation Stone Age, which certainly won't happen in my lifetime unless gas reaches $50 a gallon and people stop being in such a damned hurry.  Maybe the next apex species will be smarter.

I've seen tthe sunrise over a huge lake from the train, the mountains in Arizona,New Mexico, and the desert between New Mexico and El Paso. I've seen the dawn on one end of an observation car and the full Moon at the other end on a train in the Midwest. If I live so long, I want to load a backpack, buy some kind of rail pass, and just take my time traveling the U.S. - better would be Eurail, and the T.E.E. (Trans Europe Express).

Maybe next incarnation... :-/

...one of the greatest moments was on a trip back form the Bay area when I woke up in my compartment, opened the shade and there was Mt Shasta with the sun rising just over the south flank. Now that is a "good morning".

That is beyond cool!!!!!! :-)

NVIATWAS

kyoto kid said:

...Non Complaint.

Lookee what I just got.

https://www.daz3d.com/hd-grand-piano-and-poses-for-genesis-3-and-8

Leela very happy now!!!!!!

Schweet! :-)

NVIATWAS

Tjohn said:

NVIATWAS said:

Chohole said:

ps1borg said:

Mistara said:

watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

makin me want to move to santa barbara

they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

Dunno about Druids, but bards? Ever heard of whalesong?

Of course.. there's also an odd instrument called a whalesail, used a lot about 20 years ago in New Age music. :-)

NVIATWAS

Complaint: insomnia sucks.  Might as well get up and get some Craigslis posting done... :-|

Sure hope Thursday is nice, I'm down to two chicken thighs and a pack of hot dogs.  Rain or shine, have to shop or starve. :-(

LeatherGryphon

I get insomnia once in a while, really sucks.  But I just go to sleep until it goes away.

TSasha Smith

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

NVIATWAS

LeatherGryphon said:

I get insomnia once in a while, really sucks.  But I just go to sleep until it goes away.

Wish that worked for me.  I'm stressed out about getting to/from the grocery store, there's no good option, just a choice of evils.  On one hand, a long walk to and from on modestly level ground.  On the other hand, a somewhat shorter walk to the bus stop.. up a modestly steep hill.

There's no win here, and I have to choose one!  Bus pass is $2.50 so it's affordable, but that's less food money and that would pay for tortillas and salsa. :-|

Sucks.  Can't wait for this all to be over.

On to good news, since I was awake I went on a Craigslist posting spree and put $300 worth of stuff up for sale at decent prices.  I still have my plasma lightning lamp, my leather and ebony wood cane, my brass and leather chair cane,  my collapsable hand truck, my wireless MIDI controller with case, my entire customized guitar setup with case, and my practice amp to put up for sale - that's close to $700 worth of gear if it all sells!! That's March rent, pizza, and beer with maybe some chicken wings. :-)

NVIATWAS

Miss Bad Wolf said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

It's no fun ending up in a lifeboat in ice cold water... :-O

NVIATWAS

No shopping today, fog and a light drizzle that would soak me in minutes.  Alarm turned off, aspirin taken for muscle tension headache, sound generator setto medium rainfall snzzzzzzzzzz...

Mistara

NVIATWAS said:

Tjohn said:

NVIATWAS said:

Chohole said:

ps1borg said:

Mistara said:

watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

makin me want to move to santa barbara

they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

Dunno about Druids, but bards? Ever heard of whalesong?

Of course.. there's also an odd instrument called a whalesail, used a lot about 20 years ago in New Age music. :-)

 

i asked the internet about whalesail, it showed me a soggy biscuit ??  

LeatherGryphon

As long as we're talking about trains.  I'd  forgotten that I'd ridden the train from Amsterdam to Hamburg then on to Berlin & back to Amsterdam.   I think I also rode a train in Sydney, Austrailia locally within the city.  Not sure though.   But I am sure that while in Austraila I almost rode the train from Alice Springs back to Sydney, but decided to fly instead.  I now wish I'd taken the train and made a trip through Coober Pedy to see the opal mines.  Another opportunity missed.

Mistara

opals pretties

Mistara

NVIATWAS said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

It's no fun ending up in a lifeboat in ice cold water... :-O

 

Atlantis sank.  mebbe in the Atlantic ocean.  and thats why we call it the atlantic ocean?

Mistara

complainnnnt  UPS tracking number hasnt updated since Feb 10th.  my 8 core could be near or far right now.

LeatherGryphon

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

It's no fun ending up in a lifeboat in ice cold water... :-O

 

Atlantis sank.  mebbe in the Atlantic ocean.  and thats why we call it the atlantic ocean?

Google is your friend.  Searched for "etymology atlantic" 

"late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Atlantikos, from Atlas, Atlant- (see atlas). The term originally referred to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, hence to the sea near the west African coast, later extended to the whole ocean."

 

As for "Atlantis", it is now generally believed that Atlantis was a prosperous civilization on a volcanic island (Thera in the Santorinni Archipelago) in the Mediterranean Sea destroyed by a HUGE explosion over 3500 years ago.  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html   It is also conjectured that debris and long range effects from this volcanic explosion explains some of the plagues in Egypt mentioned in the Bible. 

 

NVIATWAS

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

Tjohn said:

NVIATWAS said:

Chohole said:

ps1borg said:

Mistara said:

watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

makin me want to move to santa barbara

they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

Dunno about Druids, but bards? Ever heard of whalesong?

Of course.. there's also an odd instrument called a whalesail, used a lot about 20 years ago in New Age music. :-)

 

i asked the internet about whalesail, it showed me a soggy biscuit ??  

No idea there.. only one person ever used it, maybe she never posted.  This was ages ago. :-|

NVIATWAS

LeatherGryphon said:

As long as we're talking about trains.  I'd  forgotten that I'd ridden the train from Amsterdam to Hamburg then on to Berlin & back to Amsterdam.   I think I also rode a train in Sydney, Austrailia locally within the city.  Not sure though.   But I am sure that while in Austraila I almost rode the train from Alice Springs back to Sydney, but decided to fly instead.  I now wish I'd taken the train and made a trip through Coober Pedy to see the opal mines.  Another opportunity missed.

:-(

NVIATWAS

Mistara said:

opals pretties

My fave gemstone: https://geology.com/gemstones/opal/fire-opal.shtml

 

NVIATWAS

Mistara said:

complainnnnt  UPS tracking number hasnt updated since Feb 10th.  my 8 core could be near or far right now.

Extremely complaint-worthy!! :-(

NVIATWAS

LeatherGryphon said:

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

It's no fun ending up in a lifeboat in ice cold water... :-O

 

Atlantis sank.  mebbe in the Atlantic ocean.  and thats why we call it the atlantic ocean?

Google is your friend.  Searched for "etymology atlantic" 

"late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Atlantikos, from Atlas, Atlant- (see atlas). The term originally referred to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, hence to the sea near the west African coast, later extended to the whole ocean."

 

As for "Atlantis", it is now generally believed that Atlantis was a prosperous civilization on a volcanic island (Thera in the Santorinni Archipelago) in the Mediterranean Sea destroyed by a HUGE explosion over 3500 years ago.  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html   It is also conjectured that debris and long range effects from this volcanic explosion explains some of the plagues in Egypt mentioned in the Bible. 

 

Big words makes my head hurt.. E-T-Moe-logical? :-P

ps1borg

NVIATWAS said:

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

Tjohn said:

NVIATWAS said:

Chohole said:

ps1borg said:

Mistara said:

watching Psych season 1, is a cute show

makin me want to move to santa barbara

they dont have earthquakes in santa barbara?

Been watching English  Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)

Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/

I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...

Dunno about Druids, but bards? Ever heard of whalesong?

Of course.. there's also an odd instrument called a whalesail, used a lot about 20 years ago in New Age music. :-)

 

i asked the internet about whalesail, it showed me a soggy biscuit ??  

No idea there.. only one person ever used it, maybe she never posted.  This was ages ago. :-|

Constance Demby https://www.soundtravels.co.uk/c-Constance_Demby-309.aspx

ps1borg

Morning. A little less exciting here today a while after dawn :)

Mistara

ps1borg said:

Morning. A little less exciting here today a while after dawn :)

 

days are finally elongating.   wasn't pitch dark when i left this morning my usual time.

earth wobblies. comin round the ellipse.  

 

? is there a name for the pointy part of an ellipse?

Mistara

LeatherGryphon said:

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

Miss Bad Wolf said:

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

I missed pharaonic Egypt too!  I missed the chance to ride the titanic.  Oops it sank.

 

It's no fun ending up in a lifeboat in ice cold water... :-O

 

Atlantis sank.  mebbe in the Atlantic ocean.  and thats why we call it the atlantic ocean?

Google is your friend.  Searched for "etymology atlantic" 

"late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Atlantikos, from Atlas, Atlant- (see atlas). The term originally referred to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, hence to the sea near the west African coast, later extended to the whole ocean."

 

As for "Atlantis", it is now generally believed that Atlantis was a prosperous civilization on a volcanic island (Thera in the Santorinni Archipelago) in the Mediterranean Sea destroyed by a HUGE explosion over 3500 years ago.  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html   It is also conjectured that debris and long range effects from this volcanic explosion explains some of the plagues in Egypt mentioned in the Bible. 

 

oh yeah, Atlas.  seen him at rockefella center.  busy holding earth up.

DanaTA

NVIATWAS said:

LeatherGryphon said:

I don't remember much about the 1940s but then, I wasn't born until near the end so there wasn't much left.

I wasn't born until 1969, so there's a lot I missed.  I missed Ur, Sumeria. ancient Greece, Pharonic Egypt... how depressing. :=/

Soooo...when you were sucking on a binkie, I was sucking on a doobie...or the water pipe I built.   ​

Dana

DanaTA

kyoto kid said:

...Non Complaint.

Lookee what I just got.

https://www.daz3d.com/hd-grand-piano-and-poses-for-genesis-3-and-8

Leela very happy now!!!!!!

I saw that, and thought of you.  Looks like it has poseable keys!  Is it all of them (like the harpsichord) or just the center area?

Dana

ps1borg

Mistara said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. A little less exciting here today a while after dawn :)

 

days are finally elongating.   wasn't pitch dark when i left this morning my usual time.

earth wobblies. comin round the ellipse.  

 

? is there a name for the pointy part of an ellipse?

Yes but it isn’t *ahem* very polite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse