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Mistara

plaint   so many of the scifi promos, product is covered in thick white fog

wanna see what the product is  dang it

WinterMoon

LeatherGryphon said:

 

and I'm told, tasty.

Now we're all wondering about your early experiences with cannibalism, and what body-parts you've had to go without.

Mistara

LeatherGryphon said:

A white dwarf is often an old big star that went supernova and blew off a lot of its material and the core shrunk to just a dense white hot tiny star instead of further down to a neutron star or farther still to a black hole.

A red dwarf is often a small star that just barely had enough material to start fusion.  It burns at a low temperature (thus the red color) and despite being small may last many times longer than brighter stars which burn through their fuel quickly.  Red dwarfs are difficult to see without a telescope because they are so small and dim.

Thanks.

Mistara

guessing the Odysee is about someone named Odysseus.  or Ulyses.  or would that be the Ulysee?

Mistara

the other big scifi decision, transporter beams, yay or nay.  sga does it.  harry potter apparates.  the tomorrow people jaunts.

pern dragons go between

kyoto kid

..I'd go with shuttles or for smaller ships, atmospheric streamlining. 

SlimerJSpud

LeatherGryphon said:

A white dwarf is often an old big star that went supernova and blew off a lot of its material and the core shrunk to just a dense white hot tiny star instead of further down to a neutron star or farther still to a black hole.

A red dwarf is often a small star that just barely had enough material to start fusion.  It burns at a low temperature (thus the red color) and despite being small may last many times longer than brighter stars which burn through their fuel quickly.  Red dwarfs are difficult to see without a telescope because they are so small and dim.

There's some speculation that the red giant star Betelgeuse may go supernova soon. It has dimmed significantly just in the last few months. Of course, if it does happen, that means it already happened about 700 years ago and the light is just reaching us. Of course, in astronomical terms, "soon" is kind of like Daz soon, in that it could be anytime in the next 100,000 years...

 

LeatherGryphon

SlimerJSpud said:

LeatherGryphon said:

A white dwarf is often an old big star that went supernova and blew off a lot of its material and the core shrunk to just a dense white hot tiny star instead of further down to a neutron star or farther still to a black hole.

A red dwarf is often a small star that just barely had enough material to start fusion.  It burns at a low temperature (thus the red color) and despite being small may last many times longer than brighter stars which burn through their fuel quickly.  Red dwarfs are difficult to see without a telescope because they are so small and dim.

There's some speculation that the red giant star Betelgeuse may go supernova soon. It has dimmed significantly just in the last few months. Of course, if it does happen, that means it already happened about 700 years ago and the light is just reaching us. Of course, in astronomical terms, "soon" is kind of like Daz soon, in that it could be anytime in the next 100,000 years...

 

Well, I won't hold my breath, but it would be kind of interesting to witness it.  We're supposedly just far enough away to be safe.  And it is interesting though that a red dwarf star is red because it's small and cool, but a red giant star is red because it's large and cool.  But only on the outside.  Inside, closer to the core it's a seething ball of fury, busy fusing layers of heavier and heavier elements inward toward the core but about to "flame out" the moment it starts to produce lead at the center, at which time much of the star above it no longer pressed outward by the pressure of the heat, collapses inward, only to bounce off the unfusing, unyielding lead core, creating enough pressure and energy to cause a massive ever growing compression wave to bounce outward, sufficient to enable runaway fusion to create even heavier and heavier elements beyond lead in the core and in the outbound layers, culminating in a catastrophic explosion ripping through the thin, cool, red outer layers of cooler gas, frying and disintegrating its planets, zapping with radiation even planets of nearby stars, and becoming the brightest star in the sky for a few days as it gains supernova status. (BOOM, stardust!)

Mistara

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.  they give me no sick days 

Mistara

hearing a gaggle of canadian geese flying overhead.  they forgot to check the weather with their travel agent

Mistara

meh  every toot i watched about writing screenplays says the first scene hasss to have a confiict.
why can't i watch a story without the anxiety and agida?

i thought Bilbo's birthday party a great movie opening (after all the voice over exposition.).  his conflict was hiding from the Bracegirdles.

Mistara

Dain $22.03  when it get so expensive i can't just buy it cuz i want it?

what does teen raven do for my runtime?  already have the other teen 8.

kyoto kid

Mystarra said:

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.  they give me no sick days 

...unless I was feeling that dire, I usually went into work for the same reason as well.  One year I felt like the walking dead with what was most likely a form of pneumonia as my co manager was on vacation and I totally had to run the two departments we were in charge of myself.  I actually took two days off before the Thanksgiving holiday as I was feeling pretty rough and couldn't afford to lose any more time. During those two days I was gone, our client dropped the largest imprint job we ever received which also was extremely difficult  (5 colours tight registration which would have meant three passes through the old offset press which was literally held together with bailing wire and duct tape). The bombshell, it had to be ship by December 1st.  What I didn't know until returned to work that following Monday was the Digital Print manager (in my absence) also signed off on two weeks of vacation time for our most experienced press operator, so I had to deal with a backup operator to boot .

On top of all this there was a personnel change at the client as to who handled their imprint orders.  Basically I walked into a "perfect storm" being at about 30% - 40% at best instead of the 150%  - 200% I was required to function at.

First I had a couple days of catch up to do (as usually my duties were not covered when I was gone which is why I was loathe to even take vacation time myself), and still had to handle all my other duties I was required to do while sick and having to deal with what became a major crisis.  For one, the artwork they sent was not in the correct format to process for making plates. Second the client's new  rep couldn't understand that we really didn't have the resources to make the job work exactly how their customer specified as she didn't know our imprinting capabilities.  So now I was getting fire from two sides, the client's rep and my company's upper management to make this work without my best most experienced pressman and old equipment (which actually broke down that week and needed a new part ordered) when I most likely should have been in the hospital. 

In the end the Ops Manager (the only admin member who actually cared about us in the warehouse and who realistically understood that the situation was set up to effectively fail from the start) saw what I was going through in my and interceded on my behalf.  New art (3 colour) that our press (once it was up and running) could handle was received, my lead pressman came back from vacation, the job was completed and shipped albeit about a week and a half late.

When my co manager returned I burned a week of vacation just to recover (had I done so beforehand everything would have come to a screeching halt).  Sad when vacation time is your only "sick leave".

WinterMoon

Mystarra said:

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.

A literal bucket? Didn't people give you odd glances?  I mean, that's preferrable to going to work in pants full of vomit.

Mistara

literal bucket cartied it in a supermarket tote bag with a bag as a liner

Mistara

kyoto kid said:

Mystarra said:

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.  they give me no sick days 

...unless I was feeling that dire, I usually went into work for the same reason as well.  One year I felt like the walking dead with what was most likely a form of pneumonia as my co manager was on vacation and I totally had to run the two departments we were in charge of myself.  I actually took two days off before the Thanksgiving holiday as I was feeling pretty rough and couldn't afford to lose any more time. During those two days I was gone, our client dropped the largest imprint job we ever received which also was extremely difficult  (5 colours tight registration which would have meant three passes through the old offset press which was literally held together with bailing wire and duct tape). The bombshell, it had to be ship by December 1st.  What I didn't know until returned to work that following Monday was the Digital Print manager (in my absence) also signed off on two weeks of vacation time for our most experienced press operator, so I had to deal with a backup operator to boot .

On top of all this there was a personnel change at the client as to who handled their imprint orders.  Basically I walked into a "perfect storm" being at about 30% - 40% at best instead of the 150%  - 200% I was required to function at.

First I had a couple days of catch up to do (as usually my duties were not covered when I was gone which is why I was loathe to even take vacation time myself), and still had to handle all my other duties I was required to do while sick and having to deal with what became a major crisis.  For one, the artwork they sent was not in the correct format to process for making plates. Second the client's new  rep couldn't understand that we really didn't have the resources to make the job work exactly how their customer specified as she didn't know our imprinting capabilities.  So now I was getting fire from two sides, the client's rep and my company's upper management to make this work without my best most experienced pressman and old equipment (which actually broke down that week and needed a new part ordered) when I most likely should have been in the hospital. 

In the end the Ops Manager (the only admin member who actually cared about us in the warehouse and who realistically understood that the situation was set up to effectively fail from the start) saw what I was going through in my and interceded on my behalf.  New art (3 colour) that our press (once it was up and running) could handle was received, my lead pressman came back from vacation, the job was completed and shipped albeit about a week and a half late.

When my co manager returned I burned a week of vacation just to recover (had I done so beforehand everything would have come to a screeching halt).  Sad when vacation time is your only "sick leave".

they penny wise pound foolish.

SlimerJSpud

LeatherGryphon said:

 

 (BOOM, stardust!)

"We are all star stuff." -- Carl Sagan

zombietaggerung

i'm bitter.

kyoto kid

Mystarra said:

kyoto kid said:

Mystarra said:

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.  they give me no sick days 

...unless I was feeling that dire, I usually went into work for the same reason as well.  One year I felt like the walking dead with what was most likely a form of pneumonia as my co manager was on vacation and I totally had to run the two departments we were in charge of myself.  I actually took two days off before the Thanksgiving holiday as I was feeling pretty rough and couldn't afford to lose any more time. During those two days I was gone, our client dropped the largest imprint job we ever received which also was extremely difficult  (5 colours tight registration which would have meant three passes through the old offset press which was literally held together with bailing wire and duct tape). The bombshell, it had to be ship by December 1st.  What I didn't know until returned to work that following Monday was the Digital Print manager (in my absence) also signed off on two weeks of vacation time for our most experienced press operator, so I had to deal with a backup operator to boot .

On top of all this there was a personnel change at the client as to who handled their imprint orders.  Basically I walked into a "perfect storm" being at about 30% - 40% at best instead of the 150%  - 200% I was required to function at.

First I had a couple days of catch up to do (as usually my duties were not covered when I was gone which is why I was loathe to even take vacation time myself), and still had to handle all my other duties I was required to do while sick and having to deal with what became a major crisis.  For one, the artwork they sent was not in the correct format to process for making plates. Second the client's new  rep couldn't understand that we really didn't have the resources to make the job work exactly how their customer specified as she didn't know our imprinting capabilities.  So now I was getting fire from two sides, the client's rep and my company's upper management to make this work without my best most experienced pressman and old equipment (which actually broke down that week and needed a new part ordered) when I most likely should have been in the hospital. 

In the end the Ops Manager (the only admin member who actually cared about us in the warehouse and who realistically understood that the situation was set up to effectively fail from the start) saw what I was going through in my and interceded on my behalf.  New art (3 colour) that our press (once it was up and running) could handle was received, my lead pressman came back from vacation, the job was completed and shipped albeit about a week and a half late.

When my co manager returned I burned a week of vacation just to recover (had I done so beforehand everything would have come to a screeching halt).  Sad when vacation time is your only "sick leave".

they penny wise pound foolish.

...that is exactly what I felt and said.

kyoto kid

zombietaggerung said:

i'm bitter.

...I usually am myself but try to be sweet as best I can. 

zombietaggerung

kyoto kid said:

zombietaggerung said:

i'm bitter.

...I usually am myself but try to be sweet as best I can. 

nah. this is where the line is drawn. It stops here and goes no further. 

Actually, I'm not that bitter. I'm angry. And demanding a refund. This shall not stand. 

Mistara

zombietaggerung said:

kyoto kid said:

zombietaggerung said:

i'm bitter.

...I usually am myself but try to be sweet as best I can. 

nah. this is where the line is drawn. It stops here and goes no further. 

Actually, I'm not that bitter. I'm angry. And demanding a refund. This shall not stand. 

Batlle with a Balrog?

Mistara

kyoto kid said:

Mystarra said:

kyoto kid said:

Mystarra said:

cpmplainnt  so sick this morning.  carried a bucket with me on the bus.  they give me no sick days 

...unless I was feeling that dire, I usually went into work for the same reason as well.  One year I felt like the walking dead with what was most likely a form of pneumonia as my co manager was on vacation and I totally had to run the two departments we were in charge of myself.  I actually took two days off before the Thanksgiving holiday as I was feeling pretty rough and couldn't afford to lose any more time. During those two days I was gone, our client dropped the largest imprint job we ever received which also was extremely difficult  (5 colours tight registration which would have meant three passes through the old offset press which was literally held together with bailing wire and duct tape). The bombshell, it had to be ship by December 1st.  What I didn't know until returned to work that following Monday was the Digital Print manager (in my absence) also signed off on two weeks of vacation time for our most experienced press operator, so I had to deal with a backup operator to boot .

On top of all this there was a personnel change at the client as to who handled their imprint orders.  Basically I walked into a "perfect storm" being at about 30% - 40% at best instead of the 150%  - 200% I was required to function at.

First I had a couple days of catch up to do (as usually my duties were not covered when I was gone which is why I was loathe to even take vacation time myself), and still had to handle all my other duties I was required to do while sick and having to deal with what became a major crisis.  For one, the artwork they sent was not in the correct format to process for making plates. Second the client's new  rep couldn't understand that we really didn't have the resources to make the job work exactly how their customer specified as she didn't know our imprinting capabilities.  So now I was getting fire from two sides, the client's rep and my company's upper management to make this work without my best most experienced pressman and old equipment (which actually broke down that week and needed a new part ordered) when I most likely should have been in the hospital. 

In the end the Ops Manager (the only admin member who actually cared about us in the warehouse and who realistically understood that the situation was set up to effectively fail from the start) saw what I was going through in my and interceded on my behalf.  New art (3 colour) that our press (once it was up and running) could handle was received, my lead pressman came back from vacation, the job was completed and shipped albeit about a week and a half late.

When my co manager returned I burned a week of vacation just to recover (had I done so beforehand everything would have come to a screeching halt).  Sad when vacation time is your only "sick leave".

they penny wise pound foolish.

...that is exactly what I felt and said.

is a shame what you had to go thru to get your benefits.  can just imagine the elderly who can't put up the fight, or have no one to look out for them?  

Mistara

NOOOO!  put calibration documents in the scanner feeder.  it jammed.  now pages are out of order.  the lovely engibneers didn't put page numbers.   arghhhh

Mistara

could this office life actuallty be purgatory?

what if i've been dead this whole time? 

 

LeatherGryphon

Mystarra said:

NOOOO!  put calibration documents in the scanner feeder.  it jammed.  now pages are out of order.  the lovely engibneers didn't put page numbers.   arghhhh

1st tip:  Old punch card trick.  When you have a thick bunch of unnumbered punch cards, align them carefully and place a relatively long straight line with a felt-tip marker diagonally across the top edge of the stack.  That way, when the deck got dropped and shuffled, it helped to have the line across the top to guide you in putting cards in at least nearly the right order.  Saved me at least once.

2nd tip:  Make sure your document handlers are not hungry before placing things in their mouth.

 

WinterMoon

Question for the architecture-savvy people here: What is the correct name for those little round towers that are sometimes found on older buildings? 

You see one in the middle here.

LeatherGryphon

Turrets?

WinterMoon

LeatherGryphon said:

Turrets?

Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

 

Mistara

WinterMoon said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Turrets?

Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

 

turrets for pople who don't want dragons to find a nice napping spot on their roof