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all the details of a made up universe
space stations
dominany species
what to call the realm's coin
units of measure
archway sty;es
are temporal portals donut shaped
every universe needs an ice planet
are dragons luvable or nightmarish
fashion sense
do mages wave staffs about or snap fingers
look what I found
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/342/the-little-green-box-collection-thread/p1
the green voxes all gones
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Complaint: I decided to go see "Aladin" movie today. I rarely go to movies these days but it looked like it would have some fun 3D effects. Meh..., OK I stayed until the plot turned evil and Jafar captured Aladin and took the lamp away for the 2nd time. The big scene of "Prince Aladin" entering the city was fun and the cave of wonders was fun, as was the flying carpet, but at my age even these animation miracle effects don't impress me much anymore. I was getting tired of sitting in the dark, watching a plot I already knew, and I was out of popcorn. Color me jaded.
PS: The blue genie was "woofy" (*sigh*)
. But Robin Williams did it better.
I’m feeing yeechy... too many margaritas...
I went to a graduation party for a friend’s son... sooo much food... soooo much margarita...
Feeling nostalgic... it seems so quick that time has passed. It was like yesterday that I remember going to the hospital after he was born (the kid, not my friend)... Now my girls will be going to high school next year... stupid time/space continuum...
Even DAZ stuff... my kids were little babies when I discovered DAZ while searching for a new version of Bryce... now Bryce is like a million years old...
I still have that damn horrible Bryce handbook by Shamms Mortier...
Misty water colored memories like the scorpions in my mind... wait... that’s not how the song goes.
rock yoo like a hurricane?
Yes, this. We killed the cats who killed the rats and then we ended up with the plague, resulting in the loss of 1/3 of all human life.
We have antibiotics, but we don't listen to basic instructions about taking them for the full prescribed course. A couple decades ago, I had a friend who kept getting sick every few weeks or so. Finally, I told her I think she may have something WAY MORE SERIOUS than an average bacterial bug because she was getting sick so often and dthe antibiotics didn't seem to be helping. She told me, "no no, the doctors are good and the antibiotics make me feel better, but a few weeks later it comes back; it must be a new bug!"
That's when I got suspicious and started asking for more details. "How many days of meds did you get and how many days did you take therm?" It turns out she would take them for a few days or a week, start feeling better, then stop them because she "didn't want to become dependent on pills". That's when I explained to her that antibiotics are A) not addictive, and B) must be taken long enough to kill the adult bugs AND the next generation that hasn't yet "hatched" in your body, but surely are there floating around as little "bug eggs" in your blood stream and tissues.
Too many people just don't understand basic biology these days, and THAT is really scary.
Yeah, Bryce just makes me sad. I really really wish DAZ would see fit to modernize it. But my complaints fall on deaf ears, so I just be sad.
Oh, and i too thought the Shamms Mortier book was not very well done for such a great (at the time) tool.
I could never understand people buyin the sham book by Mortier. Susan Kitchens book, on the other hand, still graces most active Brycers book shelf.
But was there ever a time where most people did? I'm asking because I keep hearing people say that "no one seems to know anything much about [topic] anymore." It makes me think that there must have been some recent "golden age" of people having access to reliable information and knowledge, but I'm not able to pinpoint when it must have been. When I was in school, in the 90s, people were already complaining about the amount of unqualified teachers. On the other hand, our parent generation often mentions how "we didn't know this-and-that" when they were in school, back in the 50s and 60s. The bell-curve must have topped sometime later than that, I guess?
I am convinced that I know more about a lot of things than the modern generation and I also believe that I got a better education at school, and yes I was at school in the 50s and 60s. Nowadays people seem to need calculators to do the simplest sums, for example, whereas, as a Saturday girl at our local Co_Op store I could add up a complete shopping basket full of goods in my head, not even needing to write it down.
My favourite reference book was The encyclopedia Britannica, not wikipedia. https://blogs.proquest.com/elibrary/happy-250th-birthday-encyclopedia-britannica/
Edited to correct typos caused by arthitic hands
"Common sense" in the average person was never very common (decades ago I read that it was experimentally found to be about 7% even back then) but I slap my forehead these days when I see blatant stupidity flashing its feathers.
Perhaps it's because I'm older and more observant and know what to look for. Or perhaps it's because of the Internet we're able to "witness" recorded idiocy in ever growing supply. Or perhaps it's true that intelligence is being bred out of Homo Sapiens. Industrial poisons, lead paint, and a skewing force defeating the survival-of-the-fittest principle.
The movie "Idiocracy" weighs heavily on my mind.
Well, common sense is what keeps people alive, so I would think that a little more than 7% of people possess it, even nowadays. If not, humanity would probably have won the Darwin Award thousands of years ago.
BTW, lead paint and unregulated poisons in household articles used to be a lot more common than it is today. If modern humans are suffering mental deterioration because of those, it's probably late-term effects of that. The Victorians loved their arsenic.
Isn't the school system in Wales supposed to be really good, though? At least I seem to remember having heard something about it. (It is Wales you're from, right?)
Actually, I just remembered something that makes me a little bit angry every time I think about it. A couple of years back, I saw a meme-thing, all glittery and hideous, making the rounds on FaceBook. A couple of my contacts, who is and was teachers, respectively, reposted it. The message was something along the lines of "Dear young people, please come to your senses. We can't ALL go off to college and get degrees! Some of you will have to drive the bus and work the cash register." It had a freaking graphic of something like a teddy bear or a bouquet of flowers as the background. Passive aggressive, much? I mean, it's theoretically true, but I don't think a teacher should be actively discouraging their students from pursuing higher education. There will always be kids who aren't keen on the academic stuff, want to get out of school ASAP, and just want a job they can leave when their shift is done. The really ironic (yeah, I may not be using that term correctly) thing to me, is that one of these teachers used to be our student counselor. When I was a 14-year-old with a case of school fatigue, she told me that I shouldn't be aiming at "washing dishes for the rest of my life," because I was apparently too smart for that. Times change, I guess.
In my defense I bought it in a “discount book store“, back when that was “a thing”... in the early 2000s there would be these discount book that would briefly open up in vacant retail spaces in malls and shopping centers... They usually sold junk books like “coffee table” books or novelty titles... on occasion you would find good stuff, but mostly it was a lot of searching through junk titles... I guess back then people still read books.
I saw the Bryce handbook (I knew nothing about the author) and I thought “Score!”... boy, was I confused by that book.
I still have it because I like keeping it around to remind me that just because a lot of sheets of paper with words on them are bound together and surrounded by a cover, it doesn’t necessarily make it a book.
Education is important, and it always will be. But advanced school systems (colleges and universities) are not served well by lowering the standards for entry and then expecting enrollees to somehow become students. But they have done this. So to increase graduation rates, they water down the program and the graduation requirements.
That has ruined much of post high school education, yet everybody who graduates still expects to get a job (after all, why wouldn't you?), even if they graduated without really meeting the requirements.
But if we're honest with ourselves, advanced education cannot be for everybody. Vocational education still has a place in our world, however; so I think that counselor is right, purely on the face of the mathematics. And that counselor may have been right on your own personal situation too, even if the two may seem to be in contradiction to you now.
There's a company in town who does heating, air/con, electrical, and plumbing. They run a radio show and share advice to people. One thing the owner of the company has said is that the most difficult thing about his business is finding good quality people without criminal histories who want to go into the trades. He even says he'll train them and at his own cost.
Even IT and technology can be "tradesized", so to speek, and we're seeing some of that now, starting about five years ago or so. I know of several people who went to a "certificate" type trade school, where you go to school (real or virtual) to develop expertise in one "medium scope" subject, such as Amazon Web Services, Ruby on Rails, or iOS development. You might go to school as a full-time student or you might do it as a part time/evening student for a longer span of time. Whichever way you did it, after 3 or 6 or 12 months, you'd get your certificate and you go find work (or make your own).
No more 4 year degree, no more attitude that you must go straight from high school to an associate or bachelor degree and then into a gilded educational doctorate program at some gilded "legacy" school, where you basically toil under the authority of a tenured professor for years until your dissertation sees the light of day, if ever.
The content is more important than the onion skin in today's world, and students can more and more now differentiate themselves from their peers (who are also their competitors, by the way), by getting the schooling done and moving into the workforce sooner.
There is still a long way to go but I think more people will adapt. Advanced education schools will need to adapt too, because without new alumni, they're going to find funding sources drying up for those fancy new buildings and campuses. Myself, I would like to go back for another advanced degree, but I'm also considering other options too because I don't want to become beholden to the old legacy education system with all its limited effectiveness.
So I see the future as mostly good, even if there are still some pretty big challenges.
Takes a long time to swipe to the bottom of page on phone
If i had a hammock. I'd hammock in the morning. Hammock in the evening all over this
lovely day
caught up on irville episodes last night. They used the sane dolly song dead pool used
Dragons love apple pies and pumpkin pies and cherry pie and blueberry pie. A farm space station should dedicate itself to keeping dragon tummys happy
This, almost word-by-word, was exactly what my parents wanted for me. You see, my family has always been poor-ish, but my cousin escaped the poverty he grew up in by being above-normally intelligent, somehow getting a scholarship to a university in England, before getting a scholarship to a university in the US. He finished his doctorate degree before he was out of his 20s, and became a professor at one of those universities around the time I was born. (Maybe a few years into my childhood, but he's close to my mother in age, so he's always been Cousin Professor.) When I started showing the early signs of being "advanced" too, my Mom hoped I would follow in his wake, and make a better life for myself than what most of our other relatives had managed. Problem is, I'm not him, and I never was. Nobody ever told him to go be a professor, he followed his passions, and that's where they eventually led him. I was pretty much told from I was a little tyke that "when you grow up, you'll go to university and become a Clever Person of Knowledge."
In my teens, I started struggling with maths, to the point where I fell behind the schedule. When I was put in a group with other kids who needed extra tuition in maths, I was furious that my teachers thought I was retarded. (Sorry about the word, but in this context it was exactly what I was thinking.) I refused to leave the group I was already in, and kept going to their classes instead. You see, this same thing had happened to my cousin when he was a kid, except his bad class was English. That all happened before I was even born, but apparently his teacher was a monster for trying to put him in the "slow-poke bin." My parents told me this, which is how I know. The steadily declining grades I got in maths were cause of a lot of angry tears and tensions between my parents and me. I was constantly angry, because I felt that they only cared about my grades, not about my happiness. People told me that I needed to focus on my future happiness instead, because teenaged stuff is meaningless, natch. The meaning of Life itself depended on going to college, it seemed, so in the end I did. I got a Bachelor's degree.
In many ways, I'm completely messed up in the head about stuff to do with education. The only way I can describe it is that it almost felt like a religion, while I was growing up. I was a religious fanatic, and I got thrown out of my scary doomsday sect when I failed to become an illustrious academic. My parents died shortly after I graduated, so they don't know about this. And if they do, if they can somehow still see me, I hope they're at such an elevated level of being that it all seems insignificant.
Gosh, I'm sorry for rambling on.
Sense is not common. I keep saying that to people, have been saying it for years. But never so true as in the past decade or so. And it seems, at times, to be intentional. People seem to want to be ignorant, as though that protects them in some way. Let me be clear, ignorance is not bliss! It is ignorance. Ignorance is dangerous, to the ignorant person as well as everyone around that person.
But few will consider those thoughts.
Dana
Can we please stop the political stuff and bring this thread back to it's normal mixture of fun, foolishness and falderol, spiced with elements of frivolity and other such malarky. It is becoming far too serious for a bank holiday Monday.
Non-complaint: Just came back from this town's annual big day. The Memorial Day Parade. Wheeee... It was a beautiful day, temperatures in the 70s(F), partly cloudy, un-humid. And I even took an Aleve in preparation for the pain in my knees and screwed up my courage enough to walk the three blocks to the center of town to view the parade as it turned the corner. Propped myself up on the tail bumper of the local mechanic's tow truck at the service station on the corner and took a photo of every entrant in the parade. There was the: Flag bearers; the Dairy Princess and her court; the bicycle brigade; the highschool band; the hefty men motorcycle group; ten firetrucks; the town officials; a '50s car; a '60s car; a '70s car; an '80s car, a '90s car, and an actual antique car, black, with horsehair seats and a crank.
There was the fancy horsedrawn carriage and we even had our annual visit from George and Martha Washington (my mother made those costumes over 50 years ago).
I survived the six block round-trip walking ordeal and plopped in my chair until I cooled down and then made lunch. The whole ordeal including the walk was only 30 minutes. Just the right sized parade.
So... are you suggesting I go on about how the squirrels are conspiring to overthrow humanity?...
That usually defuses most situations and gives people pause to think about the things that really matter... like bacon and video games and video games featuring bacon...
I for one think that in these troubled times (1:00 PM to 2:27 PM)...(Sorry, in eurotime I think that’s 13:00 to 82~4Q.7 or something like that)... we all need to think more about pudding... not just bowls of pudding, but the true meaning of pudding.
I believe the single thing dividing us all these days is tectonic plate movement... if we can all get beyond the divisive nature of divergent plate boundaries and embrace convergent boundaries instead, we’d all feel a lot closer to each other... it would probably get sweaty real fast and I’m sure a lot of people out there would forget to wear deodorant or even shower properly and eventually everyone would get tired of the smells and there would probably be some maga involved at some point, but I think it would be a great experience in general.
Also I’m thinking of starting a half eaten salami sandwich rescue group... too many helpless half eaten salami sandwiches are discarded each and every day... I don’t actually know how many, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lot and I think it’s a real crisis and people need to step up and adopt these sandwiches before it’s too late.
I hope this bewildering post has distracted everyone long enough to wonder what in the hell is wrong with me as opposed to thinking unhappy thoughts about unhappy subjects like cannibalism or whatever was being previously discussed when I read the post which I decided to comment on.
Remenber... Ask not what your country can do for you, but who’s leftovers those are in the refrigerator at work before you help yourself to them.
Edited because it made too much sense
In that middle picture on the right side... is that some guy on a quad bike who has imprisoned some old people and goats and is parading his captives around town?... bloody brazen of him.
Oh.., yes, thanks. I forgot to mention the goat farm entry.
The whole town worries that someday the manure factory will want to have an entry and drive their crud covered, leaky, manure tanker in the parade.
Complaint: I used my new(used) replacement camera that I got for $49 to take the photos, and when comparing its pictures to ones of the parade I've taken in previous years with my original identical camera, the pictures from this replacement are actually not quite in focus. (*sigh*)
Now the question is, is the difference bad enough to warrant spending $160 to get the original camera fixed properly by Nikon?
I think I lost my tv remote (again!)
trying to overcome my fear of the unknown and eat a blackberry. it looks like a fancier blueberry how bad could it be?
what are odds it has the same side effects as prunes?
Koala 8, if only
How about goldfish 8?
Koi 8
The fruit or the defunct smartphone?... Don’t eat electronics... but if you do decide to try the berry, at least try one at a farmers market or some organic ones... this way you have a reference point... blackberries are one of those fruits that taste good, but some growers just grow things that look like blackberries, but are total crap... like tomatoes, nectarines and many veggies... they taste nothing like what they should, they only look good.
I don’t think they act like prunes... unless maybe you are allergic to them or they were rolled in swine droppings... that could be a gastronomic problem.
A friend of mine grows blackberries. They need a very cold spell in the winter in order to produce a good crop of berries. I like them better than rasberries, which is the thing they're closest to. I just get mine at a local grocery when in season. Given what I can get here, I doubt that organic would be so much better as to justify the extra cost, but they also should not be bland or tasteless, either.
I say let your inhibitions fall away. Unshackle yourself and try new fruit! Well, unless you are diabetic, of course...some fruits are more sugary than others.