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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,353
    McGyver said:

    Does anyone else have this problem with not being able to delete a draft... I keep deleting drafts of posts I don't finish, I'm doing it the right way, it goes away from the text box, I make a post, it doesn't show up and then a few minutes or hours later, it's back in the text field...

    Also the forum seems to randomly resurrect old posts I've made, days after they were posted... I'll click on the text box which is blank and all of a sudden it's filled with an old post I made... or sometimes it's just there when I open the page.

    That happened to me once, a couple of weeks ago.  I went to make a post, and an old post showed up in the text box.  Makes me think the AI is keeping track of me!  frown

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,353
    Mystiarra said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Mystiarra said:

    heartheart

     

    Cadbury Easter Bunny Contest

     

     

    Lama hat should be made from straw and real flowers so that he could eat it (most likely evolution of that situation) without harm.

    who was that lady who had a tag hanging from her hat?  cant remember if was hee haw,

    Minnie Pearl.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,353

    @Subtropic Pixel:   Gee, I wonder how farmers and schoolchildren managed to live before DST?  Let's face it, a majority of people complain about their jobs for one reason or another.  This is just one of the reasons.  "It's still dark when I go to work in the morning!"  "It's already dark when I get out of work.  Can't get anything done after work!"  And remember, back before DST, many children were already working!  Long days, daylight or not.

    There will always be something to complain about.  And most workers will find that something, and will complain about it.  

    As for school children, one of the downsides that is the subject of doctor's and parents' talk is, that they can't adjust to the difference and their studies suffer, their attention is lacking in school for more than just the next day (even students that are normally attentive).

    No easy answers.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,041

    ...yes

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    edited March 2020
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I have the answer for the bi-annual time shifts.  Just stop doing it.surprise  Simply make the length of hours variable.  A little bit during the day so that the sun always rises and sets at specific times and noon is always when the sun is highest.  Computerized clocks are completely capable of shortening and lengthing the hours as needed.  Much easier than tweaking the angular momentum of the Earth.enlightened Scientists can still measure their time by atom vibrations but people don't need to.cheeky

    Non-complaint:  Music to DAZ by:  Ten minutes of quiet contemplation. 

    Ralph Vaughn Williams: "Fantasia on Greensleeves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak85S5KZoKE

    (And there's that silent "L" again.  My uncle was a "Ral-f" not a "Ray-f")  Silent "L"s, bah, humbug.

    I doubt variable time would work.  As in "not at all". 

    Our economies, laws, and even measurements of things like stock market trading hours or electrical system kilowatt-hours rely on consistent timekeeping standards no matter where we are on the globe.  What would be the new standard?  A second?  A minute?  Do we have 60 longer seconds in a minute, or do we have a varying number of seconds in a minute depending on one's latitude and the calendar date?  Oh man, my head hurts already!

    So variable time would not be feasible except to the makers of Excedrine.  And for other reasons, neither would be the other popular idea, 30-minute time-zone changes.

    But back to variable time for a moment:  How would you know when to take your medicine when "every three hours" or "4 times daily" means something different depending on where you live?  How do I give you a recipe that says "reduce for 20 minutes on simmer" now that in addition to altitude differences, we have different timekeeping methods that we both need to know how to translate? 

    Sheesh, we couldn't even go to the metric system back in the 1970s like we were promised would happen.

    Remember, your proposed system would vary not only based on season of the year, but also how far north or south you live from the equator.  That's because hours-of-daylight differences from one part of the year to another are less at the equator than they are farther up or down the globe.  Oh, and the Earth has a fat-bottomed shape (kind of like a very round pear), so maybe we need to have the northern and southern hemispheres different at different lattitudes.

    So being in Florida, an hour for me in May would be different from an hour for you in the northern east coast.  And different STILL when Mystarra moves to Brazil for the great rents and wonderful food.  The simple act of measuring the length of a Mahler piece suddenly becomes so complicated that I lose all interest in Mahler, and you're tired of explaining it to me.  And Mystarra loses all interest in clocks and watches.

    Oh and then you plan to move to another part of the country.  Now you, Mystarra, Kyoto Kid, Chohole, and I ALL have to learn all over how to tell time.  crying 

    DanaTA said:

    @Subtropic Pixel:   Gee, I wonder how farmers and schoolchildren managed to live before DST?  Let's face it, a majority of people complain about their jobs for one reason or another.  This is just one of the reasons.  "It's still dark when I go to work in the morning!"  "It's already dark when I get out of work.  Can't get anything done after work!"  And remember, back before DST, many children were already working!  Long days, daylight or not.

    There will always be something to complain about.  And most workers will find that something, and will complain about it.  

    As for school children, one of the downsides that is the subject of doctor's and parents' talk is, that they can't adjust to the difference and their studies suffer, their attention is lacking in school for more than just the next day (even students that are normally attentive).

    No easy answers.

    Dana

    Yep, when we were a more agrarian society (here in the US), farmers used to get up with the roosters.  Kids only got to go to school when the there were no sowing or harvesting duties needed.  And everybody went to bed when it got dark out because candlelight was expensive.

    And somehow we survived, didn't we?

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,645

    Entering hour 3 of this dForce simulation.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,041
    edited March 2020

    ...then there's "waiting time" which seems to increase the longer it goes on. 

    At time it also feels like its going retrograde mode.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    I want one of these... It looks safe, right?


     

    Popular Science- September 1917...

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,177
    edited March 2020

    'Twould make a BIG, exciting target for some bored trench guard.laugh

    Also, I'm wondering where the kickstand is.indecision  And how long it is.frown

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited March 2020
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Also, I'm wondering where the kickstand is.indecision  And how long it is.frown

    Yeah, exactly... that was like one of my first observations... "How the hell do you start that thing or get off without any obvious kickstand?"...

    I guess you just spool it down and leap off.

    I shared this with my motorcycle buddies and this started a whole long thread of pictures of crazy monocycle pictures... both vintage and recent.

    But none have freakin' kickstands.

    What up wit dat?

     

    I also just noticed that thing seems to have two steering wheels ("for the airscrew")... that must be interesting.

     

    Well... it was 1917... safety would not be invented for another forty years...

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    what the heck is reading my forum posts???

    i received anemail from ebay for a texas instrument calculator 

    this scary as foxtrot

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    1274 x 131 - 21K
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the 20-flash works on gift cards.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,177
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Also, I'm wondering where the kickstand is.indecision  And how long it is.frown

    Yeah, exactly... that was like one of my first observations... "How the hell do you start that thing or get off without any obvious kickstand?"...

    I guess you just spool it down and leap off.

    I shared this with my motorcycle buddies and this started a whole long thread of pictures of crazy monocycle pictures... both vintage and recent.

    But none have freakin' kickstands.

    What up wit dat?

     

    I also just noticed that thing seems to have two steering wheels ("for the airscrew")... that must be interesting.

     

    Well... it was 1917... safety would not be invented for another forty years...

    Perhaps it's like riding a tiger.  You DON'T get off!  Just hang on for dear life.surprise

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,365

    Oops I forgot to hide the other figures when doing a dForce simulation.  G8F was carrying Tobyn 8 and he is messing up the simulation.  I figured that out after an hour of the simulation.  Trying to stop it and fix it.  Do I just hide the extra figures?  What is the easiest way to hide everything but G8F who is wearing the dForce dress?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    found somethin profound sounding, but dunno what it means
    'man is not what he thinks he is,
    he is what he hides'

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,365
    edited March 2020
    Mystiarra said:

    found somethin profound sounding, but dunno what it means
    'man is not what he thinks he is,
    he is what he hides'

    I am just guessing because I do not know where it is from or the full context.  I guess the first part could mean a person could think that they are anything but that does not make it true.  I can think that I am tall but it still will not change the fact I am petite.

    The second part is probably about what secrets the person hides.  Maybe a man could think he is a good man, but he has a gambling/drinking/womanizing/etc/etc/etc/etc problem.  (the womanizing problem could include having issues with having affairs such as one night affairs or long term affair.)

    edit it could be profound or not, but it sounds poetic, wordy and confusing to me.

    Post edited by TSasha Smith on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,365

    dForce can be messy espeically if there are a lot of figures in the scene?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,041
    edited March 2020
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Oops I forgot to hide the other figures when doing a dForce simulation.  G8F was carrying Tobyn 8 and he is messing up the simulation.  I figured that out after an hour of the simulation.  Trying to stop it and fix it.  Do I just hide the extra figures?  What is the easiest way to hide everything but G8F who is wearing the dForce dress?

    ...there's a new utility in the store to help with that.

    https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-companion

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited March 2020
    Mystiarra said:

    found somethin profound sounding, but dunno what it means
    'man is not what he thinks he is,
    he is what he hides'

    It means that for example, if a person is a big blow hard and is always bragging, he probably in actuality just a pile of dirty underwear and socks stuffed under bed before company arrives... I believe that is a variation on the quote "A pious man is more the laundry he hides than the saint he seems"... 

    I submit these random quotes from famous people I did not at all make up... they are from my "Book Of Inspirational Quotes Which I Totally Didn't Make Up" Volume 3

    "Face the day with courage and face the night with a flamethrower in one hand and a bottle of cheap rum in the other."

    "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, beat a man with a fish and he will mistrust you forever."

    "A wise man does not entrust his fortune to an octopus, no more then the octopus will lend his bicycle to the fool."

    "It is only in the deepest depths of failure that we can truly say we failed."

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,041

     

    McGyver said:

     

    "Face the day with courage and face the night with a flamethrower in one hand and a bottle of cheap rum in the other."

     

    ...one of my role play game characters lives by that axiom. (and yes she uses a flame thrower).

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    kyoto kid said:

     

    McGyver said:

     

    "Face the day with courage and face the night with a flamethrower in one hand and a bottle of cheap rum in the other."

     

    ...one of my role play game characters lives by that axiom. (and yes she uses a flame thrower).

    That quote was based on my friend Barbara (god rest her soul*), and her approach to life... in fact there was many a time she faced both night and day that way.


     

    *She is not dead, but she definitely has a restless soul and needs to put that damned flamethrower down.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,365

    I forgot the name of the garden product I am trying to look for.  It was a recent freebie.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited March 2020

    I got a bag of free carrot seeds in the mail from some charity... was it carrot seeds?... carrot seeds are a garden product.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    carrots have seeds?

    i guess it must be true cuz i've seen baby carrots

    it also sounds profound.

    reading into all kinds of existential  profoundity tnite

    smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I forgot the name of the garden product I am trying to look for.  It was a recent freebie.

    https://www.daz3d.com/garden-plants--herbs-vol-2

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i asked siri to be sure, today is caturday

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i put an apple outside on the step to decoy the mail stealing squirrel away from my mail

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388

    Sandwich, salad, chicken, or lasagna?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,365
    Mystiarra said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I forgot the name of the garden product I am trying to look for.  It was a recent freebie.

    https://www.daz3d.com/garden-plants--herbs-vol-2

    Thanks that is it.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited March 2020
    Subtropic Pixel said:

    Sandwich, salad, chicken, or lasagna?

    This is a profound quandary that has perplexed mankind for eons... 

    The sage Proboscus of Nair mused "If a man must chose between a sandwich offered by a ox, a salad given by the goat, the lasagna delivered by the monkey or the friendship of his brother's chicken, who is wise enough to see the ox's hubris, the condescension of the goat, the monkey's subterfuge, and reject these deceptive bounties for the love of the faithful chicken?... It is only he that can see the chicken's true nature, his courage and fortitude that will chose the love of the chicken and not roast him as the fool would"...

    It has been almost three thousand years since Proboscus was trampled to death by rhinoceroses, but his words still bear truth... "The ox and goat may seem sincere, but only a fool ignores their intentions... choose the love of a chicken over the lasagna of the monkey and you will find happiness."

    In these uncertain times we must always trust in the love of the chicken and act accordingly.

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