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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I probably should not work on texturing G3F/G8F while at the mall waiting for work.   So I put G3F into a bikini and work on the parts that are covered later.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,346

    It this a world-wide phenomena? We've had the worst drought here in Denmark for 40 years and record high temperatures. But every one except the farmers love it, the summers here are mostly clouded and/or rainy most of the time.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171

    I have a confusion ...when the directions say "a heaping teaspoon " do they mean a teaspoon as in a measureing spoon or a teaspoon as in the spoon you stir your tea with? This is the directions on the fiber supplement bottle .

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I am at the Barnes and Nobel Cafe.  I heard someone playing something from their computer.  It turned out Hulu on one of my tabs decided to start playing a movie.

  • SummerhorseSummerhorse Posts: 684
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:

     

     

    What is there here at Dowlais Top to please a poet's eye?
    A bloody Asda Superstore between the hill and sky!
    An aluminium monster there, eight hundred feet on high!

    I won't bore you with the rest of the poem

    Haha, I like that !

    I'm in the Sonoran desert, and we fooled the weathermen and cooled off with a nice monsoon today.

  • SummerhorseSummerhorse Posts: 684
    carrie58 said:

    I have a confusion ...when the directions say "a heaping teaspoon " do they mean a teaspoon as in a measureing spoon or a teaspoon as in the spoon you stir your tea with? This is the directions on the fiber supplement bottle .

    Usually that means a measuring teaspoon. Heaping means you do not have to level it- the product can be rounded or heaped in the spoon-so they are letting you know that a precise measurement is not needed.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited July 2018
    carrie58 said:

    I have a confusion ...when the directions say "a heaping teaspoon " do they mean a teaspoon as in a measureing spoon or a teaspoon as in the spoon you stir your tea with? This is the directions on the fiber supplement bottle .

    A teaspoon, as used to put sugar in your tea, did used to be a standard size.  However all the fancy cutlery that came out has meant that teaspoons as supplied in cutlery sets are not neccessarily a constant size, nor are dessert spoons and tablespoons.   Which was why enterprising manufactures started making sets of measuring spoons which are constant.   A teaspoon was always accepted as being 5ml   and a tablespoon as 15ml

    https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/convert/measurements.html          This is quite a good chart,   because it also shows the difference between US and UK measurements for some amounts that have the same name
     

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171
    edited July 2018

    Thank you Summerhorse and Chohole for some reason that had me brain boggled for 2 days wondering

     

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    Is 188MB a big file?  Also it seems that Skin Builder 3 is taking forever to download.  Is that a big file?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited July 2018
    carrie58 said:

    Thank you Summerhorse and Chohole for some reason that had me brain boggled for 2 days wondering

     

    I always get confused with cups being used as a measurement.   I collect vintage and antique china  and do have quite a few cups in my collection. Tea cups vary considerably in size depending on the age and style, coffee cups also are widely varied and you can even get chocolate cups, which are different again.   So   what does one do when one comes across a recipe that calls for ingredients in cups.  Here in the UK we have always measured dry ingredients in pounds and ounces and liquid ingredients in fluid ounces and fractions of a pint.  (or ML, CL and Litres now we are supposed to be decimal.)

    And BTW the chart I linked to is not at all accurate when it comes to British measurements.  We use both ounces (oz) and Fluid ounces  (Fl oz)  there are 20 fl oz to a pint, 2 pints to a quart and 8 pints or 4 quarts to a gallon.  We do not use gallons as a dry measurement at all really.   When we talk about a 1 gallon bucket, that contains 8 fluid pints.    We do not buy our icecream in gallons.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,435

    When the recipe calls for a tablespoon, I just pick up a spoon from the nearest table. The results have varied success.

  • SummerhorseSummerhorse Posts: 684

    https://www.etiquettescholar.com/dining_etiquette/table_setting/place_setting/dinnerware/cups.html

    I don't know how accurate he is, but here is some interesting info on different cup sizes.

    I wonder why coffee is no longer served with saucers in America? I was reading about G. Washington, and he was pouring the coffee into a saucer and then drinking it out of the saucer- just as my Norwegian relatives still do. ( Our family members from India do this with their tea, I don't enjoy all the slurping noises! )

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    There are so many different stories as to how this habit came about.   It has been known to happen in the UK, and is associated with lower or working classes.  Putting a search line in google brings up some interesting non wikipedia pages,   such as this one

    https://19thct.com/2014/01/12/drinking-from-saucers/

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171
    edited July 2018

    Okay I must be feeling needy today need opinions,been working on new textures for Nursoda's MerPal  and have gotten a nice psd made to simplify things but here is the first texture what do you think?

    Teal MerPal2.png
    2000 x 2000 - 2M
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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,410
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Is 188MB a big file?  Also it seems that Skin Builder 3 is taking forever to download.  Is that a big file?

    In 1980, it was considered unreasonable monstrous.  In fact, Bill Gates (I believe) was quoted as saying nobody should need more than 640K of RAM!  Today, the file system app wouldn't fit in that!  In 1990 it was considered a huge file.  In 2000, it was a little big.  Today, it's a drop in the bucket.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,410
    Chohole said:
    carrie58 said:

    Thank you Summerhorse and Chohole for some reason that had me brain boggled for 2 days wondering

     

    I always get confused with cups being used as a measurement.   I collect vintage and antique china  and do have quite a few cups in my collection. Tea cups vary considerably in size depending on the age and style, coffee cups also are widely varied and you can even get chocolate cups, which are different again.   So   what does one do when one comes across a recipe that calls for ingredients in cups.  Here in the UK we have always measured dry ingredients in pounds and ounces and liquid ingredients in fluid ounces and fractions of a pint.  (or ML, CL and Litres now we are supposed to be decimal.)

    And BTW the chart I linked to is not at all accurate when it comes to British measurements.  We use both ounces (oz) and Fluid ounces  (Fl oz)  there are 20 fl oz to a pint, 2 pints to a quart and 8 pints or 4 quarts to a gallon.  We do not use gallons as a dry measurement at all really.   When we talk about a 1 gallon bucket, that contains 8 fluid pints.    We do not buy our icecream in gallons.

    Here there are 16 oz. in a pint, 8 oz. in a cup.  One interesting thing is water, one pint of water weighs one pound, so an ounce of water is both an ounce in volume and weight.  Here we buy ice cream by volume...although there are no longer half gallon containers of ice cream.  Everything has shrunken, yet become more expensive.  Now they sell us 1.5 quart ice cream containers.  They think we didn't notice, but we did.   angry

    Dana

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I just ate dinner at work.  Now I come home to another dinner.  The food looks good but I need some time in between meals.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,407
    edited July 2018
    Chohole said:
    carrie58 said:

    Thank you Summerhorse and Chohole for some reason that had me brain boggled for 2 days wondering

     

    I always get confused with cups being used as a measurement.   I collect vintage and antique china  and do have quite a few cups in my collection. Tea cups vary considerably in size depending on the age and style, coffee cups also are widely varied and you can even get chocolate cups, which are different again.   So   what does one do when one comes across a recipe that calls for ingredients in cups.  Here in the UK we have always measured dry ingredients in pounds and ounces and liquid ingredients in fluid ounces and fractions of a pint.  (or ML, CL and Litres now we are supposed to be decimal.)

    And BTW the chart I linked to is not at all accurate when it comes to British measurements.  We use both ounces (oz) and Fluid ounces  (Fl oz)  there are 20 fl oz to a pint, 2 pints to a quart and 8 pints or 4 quarts to a gallon.  We do not use gallons as a dry measurement at all really.   When we talk about a 1 gallon bucket, that contains 8 fluid pints.    We do not buy our icecream in gallons.

    ..ice creme no longer comes in half gallons here anymore, but containers that are one pint short (56 oz).  Same for the old standard "3# can" of coffee, it is now something like 38 oz. 

    Pub glasses apparently must be rated in how much fluid they displace as opposed to actual volume they can hold.  Testing the theory I once ordered a 16 oz can of ale along with a standard US "pint" glass, poured it in and it overflowed all over the table. The next time I filled the glass to the rim and taking another glass poured the rest in to discover there was about 3 oz left in the can.  So that "pint" you order at the corner pub is often 13 - 14 oz (even sometimes as little as 12 oz depending on how thick the bottom of the glass is) instead of a full 16.

    Glad the same people don't set fuel volume standards for aeroplanes.

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    DanaTA said:
    atticanne said:
    Tjohn said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Which would you prefer?  Candy scented Candles or Candle flavored Candy?

    If you ever ate wax lips, you know what candle flavored candy tastes like.

    I loved the orange wax whistles.  

    Whistle or pan flute?  We had the pan flutes up here.  Yes, they were kind of tasty, and fun!  smiley

    Dana

    Pan Flute, I guess.  We could play songs on them.  Until we couldn't resisting taking bites, one note at a time.  Those black mustaches tasted horrible though.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,410
    atticanne said:
    DanaTA said:
    atticanne said:
    Tjohn said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Which would you prefer?  Candy scented Candles or Candle flavored Candy?

    If you ever ate wax lips, you know what candle flavored candy tastes like.

    I loved the orange wax whistles.  

    Whistle or pan flute?  We had the pan flutes up here.  Yes, they were kind of tasty, and fun!  smiley

    Dana

    Pan Flute, I guess.  We could play songs on them.  Until we couldn't resisting taking bites, one note at a time.  Those black mustaches tasted horrible though.

    Yes, they did!   cheeky

     

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    carrie58 said:

    Okay I must be feeling needy today need opinions,been working on new textures for Nursoda's MerPal  and have gotten a nice psd made to simplify things but here is the first texture what do you think?

    I really like this.

     

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171

    Thank you atticanne

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    lightnin bugs jamboree in the yard.  soo manysmiley

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,407
    ...bugger, I miss them. When I was still in Wisconsin they were all over rhe place putting on quite the light show. Here in Oregon, nothing. Leela calls them "glowbutts".
  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546

    I am confused.  Why tell a client to watch another client?  A client claimed that they were told to watch me so I would not bring my tablet to the table.  That other client made a big deal out of it, when I thought it was not her business or issue.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,171
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am confused.  Why tell a client to watch another client?  A client claimed that they were told to watch me so I would not bring my tablet to the table.  That other client made a big deal out of it, when I thought it was not her business or issue.

    at work or at home?

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    egg custard or an omlette gone horribly wrong

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Mistara said:

    egg custard or an omlette gone horribly wrong

    sounds intriguing

     

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,546
    carrie58 said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am confused.  Why tell a client to watch another client?  A client claimed that they were told to watch me so I would not bring my tablet to the table.  That other client made a big deal out of it, when I thought it was not her business or issue.

    at work or at home?

     

     

    At home!

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    kyoto kid said:

    Glad the same people don't set fuel volume standards for aeroplanes.

     

    Here, avgas is dispensed in litres, but consumption is monitored in US Gallons/hour. Jet-A is dispensed in kilograms OR lbs, but monitored in lbs/hour. Planes HAVE crashed cos the pilot orderd xxx lbs, thinking he was getting kgs . . .

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