The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread
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Interesting how we have such marvelous devices at our beck and call, created and evolved by the combined intelligence and efforts of millions of people and billions of dollars over hundreds of years, that can capture reality in accurate and precise detail, and the first thing we do with the images is distort them, smudge them, grubby them up.
Something deep inside of me is screaming. 
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's "art". But the older I get, the less impressed I am by that overused rationalization.
..and in the possibly "becoming worse " department.
Just received a message about a potential failure of my D Drive so I am currently backing it up to an external HDD. I wonder this may have something to do with the odd behaviour of the DIM I experienced last night.
It looks like McGyver nailed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Russia
Except they are offsetting that cost by taking away much of the perks the workers had including the elimination of monthly bonuses, share benefits, etc. Some of the workers have even spoken up saying they fear they'll actually be making LESS than before the "raise" when all is said and done with the benefits that are being pulled.
I didn't nail it, I just recognized it from a picture I had on my computer... I had renamed it "MoscowTwistyTower"... Not very imaginative... But now I know (thanks to this thread) that it's called "Evolution Tower"... Though I still think "Evolution Twisty Tower" would sound better.
Well, the original pictures were kinda boring... Not that the finished images were any better... I don't actually use Filter Forge for making artsy pictures or anything, I mostly use it to create textures.
While there is a federal minimum wage ($7.25), each state sets up their own minimum wage with the floor being the federally set minimum. Such as if you live in the state of Washington you're guaranteed to make a minimum of $11.50 an hour. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States
Unless you work for a stingy B who pays commision ONLY so if you are at work for 12 hours and have no clients ,you don't get paid at all for that day or you work 40hrs in a week and go home with a 130.00 paycheck ,because same boss has hired more techs ,that don't know what they are doing and clients aren't coming back ,and if you ask about a increase in your commision ( after working there for 15 years ) and are told "If you want more money work more hours" ........sorry that just boiled up and out .......
Have mercy people.
Please.
Thank you.
..so, interesting, spent the last 2 hours backing up the D: Drive but the size on the backup doesn't look quite right. There is a message that some files were skipped but when I checked that all it said was "D:/"
new generation of popstars
i been out of the coveted target demographic a long time
Worf enjoyed Russian opera, dudnt he?
my exposure to Russian opera was the musIc in "hunt for red octoner"
'marrieed with children' series had 11 seasons??
show wad riduculous but,
Al Bundy made me laugh.
..well Daz opens, still loads scenes and can find content (which are on the D: drive) fine. Also all the new content I installed before the DIM went nuts is there.
I do have a replacement drive but will need to do a bit of "surgery" to install it and then clone everything but the bad folder over.
I also created a new folder for the DIM to download (bypassing the hosed one) to and am testing it now.
Everything worked fine, the files populated the new directory and installed correctly. I don't know why Windows won't let me delete the corrupted one. I get an error message that says the folder is not empty, but then it won't let me open it up either to delete the files within it so it just sits there taking up drive space..
His adoptive parents were Russian. He really loved Klingon opera; here is him singing a bit:
Worf exclaimed his appreciation of Klingon opera several times but I don't think he ever mentioned Russian Opera. However, to a non-musical outsider (i.e. someone non-Klingon, non-Russian) the difference might not be noticeable.
(eg: Klingon:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDfuv4JmSM Russian: https://youtu.be/iOChVZlKiK0?t=1h56m45s ) (start @ 1:56:45)
In my recent pathetic efforts to learn the Russian language I have learned to recite from memory, two Russian poems. Reciting them at spurious victims is a pleasure I engage in when I can wedge in an opportunity to do so.
I'm not sure if the looks on my victim's faces is shock, amusement, or pain. But I revel in the sounds coming forth from my all too animated vocalizations. The rolling "R"s, the hacking "X"s the pithy "TS"s, the throaty "BL"s, the nasal "NY"s the viceral "V"s and when I come to my favorite word "благодатная" (pr: "Bloga-dat-naya") from Mikhail Lermantov's "Молитва" (pr: "Molitva") (tr: "Prayer") I go into paroxysms of ecstasy and let the melodious growling rhythms of punctuated bass vibrations flood the room.
Audio recitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0-B2l29c8 Text translation: http://lingualeo.com/ru/jungle/mikhail-lermontov-the-prayer-translation-by-yevgeny-bonver-485660#/page/1
That poem, by the way, is the poem that John Cleese recites (brokenly) while dancing around naked in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSK3BpSfULo
Actually there are some wonderful pieces of music from Russian Opera:
The overture from "Ruslan & Ludmilla" by Glinka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUijyeFMu0 (very energetic)
The overture from "The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky-Korsakov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxIyl6KV_4 (very haunting and "oriental")
The overture from "Prince Igor" by Borodin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbFly9b-9Dg
The "Polovtsian Dances" from "Prince Igor" by Borodin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8C8frqCKKg
The "Russian Sailor's Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Glière https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1ZdEhELF0 (gymnastics begin @ 2:40)
The "Sadko Suite" from "Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYrr5bNBt30 (very forboding & mysterious)
The "Flight of the Bumblebee" from "Tales of Tsar Sultan" by Rimsky-Korsakov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE
The "Procession of the Nobles" from "Mlada" by Rimsky-Korsakov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXEdXeSM7I
I agree! Twisty is the word that came to my mind when I saw it, too!
Dana
Well, I've been out of it for a while. Didn't know about different states. Last time minimum wage entered my sphere of attention was in the 1970s.
Dana
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I am so sleepy but not ready to go to bed yet.
I gotta stay awake. I gotta stay awake. echo? echo? ooh a cute fish.
Non-complaint: Finally after two years I get to see the fourth season of "Gotham". I'd just finished the 3rd season when I decided to dump my satellite TV subscription. I've been waiting for NetFlix to pick it up. Today I just discovered new episodes covering the 4th season. Yay! Happy happy, joy joy!
Is there a 5th season?
I am hungry but I think it is dinner time.
The shower I took was wet, so I put it back.
Do you do the same when you take a leak? (Yeah, I know... TMI
)
New, and final, season starts soon. Will he put on the costume?
Seems it will be a mid-season thing. Way to keep us hanging!
Dana
thanks, i emjoyed that bit of next gen
omg how long ago it was
worf and deanna were totally cute couple.
Woreanna, Dearf
the Leaky Cauldron ?
i miss the faeriewylde forum
There's a leek in the boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNvPoumEVU
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