My Lease Is Nearly Up On The Complaint Thread

TJohn · August 2016

I can't think about coffee perking without hearing this ad song in my head.

DanaTA · August 2016

LeatherGryphon said:

I have NEVER seen a cockroach in my part of NY State. Perhaps they are only city dwellers?

Florida however is another matter. Cockroaches there are like quantum particles, they pop into existence out of the void in a whole spectrum of sizes. Some of them ride horses in the saddle.

Don't you mean Palmetto bugs? (Sounds nice than roaches, but they're huge! Nothing nice about that!) That's what my niece said they call them down there...she lived there for a few years, and worked at Disney.

Dana

Jan19 · August 2016

Chohole said:

All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees. I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee. So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago.

When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove) You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker. The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid.. Took a while to brew properly. That was coffee.

That's interesting. :-)

Jan19 · August 2016

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

McGyver · August 2016

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

Coffee snobbery... That's a good word. I have a fairly good sense of smell (although I usually smell pretty terrible), and a pretty good sense of taste (I imagine the same disclaimer applies) and I'm very good at tasting complicated sauces and dishes and breaking them down into a good copy... But a while ago I was in a specialty coffee shop and (I should add that I went there with a friend to pick up some coffee for party we were at I was already "partaking" of the refreshment beverages at said party, so I was already in "comedian mode") the proprietor was amused by my comments and jokes , but more so was surprised that I knew a bit about coffee and that I could actually identify the sample brews without reading the labels... (I really used to like coffee, but because I'm prone to kidney stones, I had to cut back... A lot)... Anyhooz, he decided to tell me about cold brewing and how superior it is to regular brewing and how in a few years it will replace regular brewing... Mind you, he has this whole glass Frankenstein "still" going... It's, about the size of four regular espresso machines and takes a little over a day to produce a half gallon or so of coffee... I drink my coffee with 1/2&1/2 and brown sugar usually (which I didn't mention), but he goes on about how people who don't drink pure coffee don't understand its flavor or appreciate coffee's complexity... To be honest, I think the place was a little out of the way and he didn't get to talk to a lot of people and he finally found someone who understood him... Be it that, that person was actually a little intoxicated, but he gave me a cup of this complex cold brewed coffee that should have changed my life and started to tell me how I could build my own version of the coffee still... That was one of those complicated moments that reminds me why I shouldn't go outdoors, let alone talk to people when I've been drinking... It was coffee... Just coffee... I forget what the region of origin was now, but it was just that... Coffee from wherever and cold... Actually if I had to be really honest, it tasted like you were drinking coffee in the break room and reading the newspaper and reached for your coffee but picked up a cup that someone left behind several days before instead... I didn't have the heart to tell him it was pretty terrible... I don't know if all cold brew is like that, but if that one cup did do anything, it made me reluctant to try it again... Granted it's just opinion, it could have been fantastic to others, but the fact is I wish I knew why I started telling this story... Megh, is there ever a point to anything I write? You know, if for any reason any of you ever happen to come across me in public and for some reason, somehow you recognize me from some dumb photo of me that might be floating around somewhere on some forum... Don't talk to me... Save yourself the trouble, I might just start talking to you and you'll wish you had some sort of personal hyperspace transporter or self destruct button like most robots seem to... It's not worth it... I just thought I'd mention that.

a live conversation? with paragraph breaks?

starbucks has the clover machine brewer, s'pposed to release the true flavor of the bean. so far i'se just take their word

Paragraph breaks? What are those? Do we get cookies if we take them?... Actually, I used to add paragraph breaks, but since the new forum software puts a larger break instead of just letting you drop down one line, I refuse to add them... It makes everything look like a list or some corporate form letter ticking off important thoughts with that big gap...

I have no important thoughts.

Besides it makes everything more realistic to my stream of consciousness way of thinking, which is much like a Labrador retriever...

Example: (what I'm thinking right now)...

Damn, it's 2:45 already... I really should eat something... but if I eat right now I'm gonna probably not have time to... Where did that screwdriver come from... Why did someone move my box of files... I think that was the screwdriver that I was using to make sure I slotted that set screw properly... Maybe just a peanut butter granola... SQUIRRELS!!! Ow! Stupid door... Lousy squirrel nosing around in my pipe bin... I hope that sneaker comes back down... Ah, wife shouldn't of left them drying there... I just hope nothing starts nesting in there before it falls off that branch... Stupid squirrel... I should fix that shovel, or at least paint the handle, actually I should just let it fall apart and buy a fiberglass replacement handle... Actually I think it's just cheaper to... Ew, the squirrel was eating a cicada... Now there are cicada bits all over my PVC pipes... Cicadas look like giant leaf hoppers, I wonder if they are related... I wonder how many times I wondered this in fifty years, but have been too lazy too actually look it up... I wonder what cicada taste like... Insects are basically similar in structure to crustaceans and isopods, I wonder if cicadas are any good to eat... Ew... Stupid squirrel... I hope I didn't eat any squirrel saliva... That would suck if I turned into a weresquirrel... that's probably the bottom of the lycanthropy scale... I dodged the werewolf bullet when little werewolf boy turned out to just be a weird kid who bites random strangers... Unless... What if he was a wolf cub that got bitten by a werekid and turned into a werekid during daylight hours... Do werewolves bite other wolves? Because wouldn't that just cancel out the other and it would just make the regular wolf just an angry regular wolf? I was just confused when little werewolf boy bit me... It certainly didn't make me more human and I don't turn into a werewolf... Bleh, cicada particles... I shouldn't eat insects without cooking them or adding hot sauce... MAILMAN!!!!! Stupid gate! Not the mailman... Why do people always make U-turns in my driveway? That's so annoying, and that idiot drove partly on the grass... WTF... I'm gonna bite the next person who does that... Thats not a rational line of reasoning, I should just shout at them and throw something... biting is too personal... I wonder if that's the squirrel saliva talking... I suppose if I were turning into a weresquirrel, I'd probably just want to bury them for the winter or chew on electrical wires... I wonder why rodents love the PVC insulation on wires so much, it tastes pretty awful and it's not chewy... Silicone rubber is much better if you want chewy and there is no terrible taste to deal with... Stupid squirrels totally missed the chewy silicone tubing in the box... I should go find the lid... I should probably eat something... Besides cicada bits... What was that statistic about how many bugs we eat? I bet Olympic cyclists eat a lot of bugs... Especially if they get tired and they yawn a lot while they are riding. That would be an interesting device to make to test that theory, first I'd have to figure out how often an Olympic cyclist yawns, then make box with a net inside with a lid that that opens based on the average Olympic cyclist yawn rate, and mount it on my bike... But I'd have to fix the brakes first... Actually I'd have to true the wheel, because, damn, that thing is warped... I suppose I'd also have to actually bike as much as an Olympic...

(by the way is anyone still reading this?)... (I thought not)

Cyclist.. I'd also probably have to go to the park to ride, because around here I'd just be getting run over constantly and I'm really not as into that as I used to be... I wonder if there is any salami left in the fridge...

And it goes on and on like that...

To be honest... (That's more of a saying, by the way)I'm not that much better in real life... Except I do pause to breath and stuff...

What's even more annoying about that paragraph break is it's infectious... Sometimes when I make a post, I'll have to put my iPad down and attend to something else like a small fire or hamster rebellion (they hate wearing the uniforms)... So since I've had like a million things I was writing "forgotten" by draft autosaves because of temporary WiFi connectivity lapses, I copy them to "Notes" and finish them in bits and pieces when I have a moment, then post them... Or I actually read them first and delete them because I realized how stupid they are... But anyway, if you copy and paste from these forums, Notes won't let you drop a line like it normally does... And writing a clean post entirely in Notes won't transfer its breaks either.

Richard Haseltine · August 2016

You can skip the break by pressing
shift + return
and then you will get regular wall-of-text.

McGyver · August 2016

Chohole said:

All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees. I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee. So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago.

When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove) You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker. The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid.. Took a while to brew properly. That was coffee.

I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

TJohn · August 2016

Levels at which the FDA rejects food. Mmmmmm...Insect filth.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/SanitationTransportation/ucm056174.htm

Mistara · August 2016

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

It's an awesome animation software. and there are workarounds for the geograft grief,
i saw the conversations about it, but i didn't realize what they meant til i saw it myself. it's a shock i'm trying to deal with, emothionally.

there was one brief euphoric hour when i thought i'd licked my problems with the minotaur6. gargoyle g2m.
even bought myself a bottle of fizzy pink bubbly as my kickoff party to start seriously working on my movie.
opened the bottle of bubbly already, >.<
i'm sure Joss Whedon has had these moments.

on the bright side,had good news in the meeting, starting next year dayjob giving me paid Holidays!!!

Jan19 · August 2016

MistyMist said:

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

It's an awesome animation software. and there are workarounds for the geograft grief,
i saw the conversations about it, but i didn't realize what they meant til i saw it myself. it's a shock i'm trying to deal with, emothionally.

there was one brief euphoric hour when i thought i'd licked my problems with the minotaur6. gargoyle g2m.
even bought myself a bottle of fizzy pink bubbly as my kickoff party to start seriously working on my movie.
opened the bottle of bubbly already, >.<
i'm sure Joss Whedon has had these moments.

on the bright side,had good news in the meeting, starting next year dayjob giving me paid Holidays!!!

Congratulations on paid holidays. :-)

Animation. OK, well, I know next to nothing about that, so I'll take your word for everything. :-)

McGyver · August 2016

Animation is thems funny picture that talks an moves... Like that mouse what hits the cat with the big hammer... Thems things... I knows cuz I saws dem on the big picture screen.

Geez... I actually knew a guy who talked like that... Nice guy... Harder than me to follow.

LeatherGryphon · August 2016

McGyver said:

Animation is thems funny picture that talks an moves... Like that mouse what hits the cat with the big hammer... Thems things... I knows cuz I saws dem on the big picture screen.

Geez... I actually knew a guy who talked like that... Nice guy... Harder than me to follow.

Nobody follows you. We're just dragged along waiting for the final punchline.

Jan19 · August 2016

McGyver said:

Animation is thems funny picture that talks an moves... Like that mouse what hits the cat with the big hammer... Thems things... I knows cuz I saws dem on the big picture screen.

I know the definition of animation.

TJohn · August 2016

No Tjohn animations. I have a limited life span and attention span as well. So stills only for me. I love animation though.

ps1borg · August 2016

Morning. Only one more sleep to go until spring ! Altho the real eather has a little catching up to do after that Oscar Mike Golf :)

ps1borg · August 2016

MistyMist said:

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

It's an awesome animation software. and there are workarounds for the geograft grief,
i saw the conversations about it, but i didn't realize what they meant til i saw it myself. it's a shock i'm trying to deal with, emothionally.

there was one brief euphoric hour when i thought i'd licked my problems with the minotaur6. gargoyle g2m.
even bought myself a bottle of fizzy pink bubbly as my kickoff party to start seriously working on my movie.
opened the bottle of bubbly already, >.<
i'm sure Joss Whedon has had these moments.

on the bright side,had good news in the meeting, starting next year dayjob giving me paid Holidays!!!

Animation can be a heart breaker alright. There's no chance of exporting what you want to some standard format, say wavefront files, and working from those? ps Holidays is something I should have more of :)

ps most of this (animatic) was exported from studio to wavefront format and animated using morphs, just waiting on time to finish off nao

Mistara · August 2016

Tjohn said:

No Tjohn animations. I have a limited life span and attention span as well. So stills only for me. I love animation though.

mr rogers and bozo?! one and the same?!

who was thatt masked neighbor

Mistara · August 2016

ps1borg said:

MistyMist said:

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

It's an awesome animation software. and there are workarounds for the geograft grief,
i saw the conversations about it, but i didn't realize what they meant til i saw it myself. it's a shock i'm trying to deal with, emothionally.

there was one brief euphoric hour when i thought i'd licked my problems with the minotaur6. gargoyle g2m.
even bought myself a bottle of fizzy pink bubbly as my kickoff party to start seriously working on my movie.
opened the bottle of bubbly already, >.<
i'm sure Joss Whedon has had these moments.

on the bright side,had good news in the meeting, starting next year dayjob giving me paid Holidays!!!

Animation can be a heart breaker alright. There's no chance of exporting what you want to some standard format, say wavefront files, and working from those? ps Holidays is something I should have more of :)

ps most of this (animatic) was exported from studio to wavefront format and animated using morphs, just waiting on time to finish off nao

the crossing, symbolic of life

Mistara · August 2016

McGyver said:

Chohole said:

All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees. I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee. So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago.

When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove) You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker. The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid.. Took a while to brew properly. That was coffee.

I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

perks!

Mistara · August 2016

thai curry coconut sauce. watch out for the tiny flakes

Mistara · August 2016

can perked coffee be any nomms on an electric stove?

live on a dead end, no gas stove with fire and such

Mistara · August 2016

oooo seeing a zelda-link-ish cap

kyoto kid · August 2016

LeatherGryphon said:

Chohole said:

All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees. I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee. So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago.

When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove) You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker. The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid.. Took a while to brew properly. That was coffee.

Long live percolators! Made the whole house smell like coffee. It's when the phrase "Wake up and smell the coffee" had meaning. Percolators were ubiquitous in every houseold. Fancy chrome ones, dented aluminum ones, glass ones, enamelled steel ones, simple ones or electric ones. They made real coffee, whether on a gas range or on a campfire. No fru-fruy names, just solid coffee flavor that curled your hair and could be used for cockroach deterent. Back when men were men and women knew how to cook & knit & sew and knew how to deal with 8 kids without having a psychotic breakdown if one of them ate some dirt.

...[click and play]

kyoto kid · August 2016

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

...Carrara can handle large environments/sets much better and you can also create your own environments. it's render engine can produce very realistc resuts in a more reasonable amount of time (compared to Iray CPU mode) without needing an expensive GPU, it has a better animation engine than Daz, you can model directly in the pogramme, It can directly import more file formats, and from my perspective it has a more intuitive shader editor/builder than Daz's Shader Mixer/Builder.

Carrara is basically a multi purpose programme and thus a bit more complex to learn than Daz which is still pretty much a character posing, morphing, and rendering one.

The major headaches in Carrara right now are G3 (no compatibility yet, though as I unserstand there is an update in the works which may probably solve this), and pretty much most new content going to Iray shaders which are more difficult to work with.

Chohole · August 2016

MistyMist said:

can perked coffee be any nomms on an electric stove?

live on a dead end, no gas stove with fire and such

We only had an electric stove when I was growing up. Percolator went on the hot plate just fine. Of course nowadays you can get plug in ones as well

kyoto kid · August 2016

Tjohn said:

I can't think about coffee perking without hearing this ad song in my head.

...yeah, remember that. We had one of the big white pyrex percolators (and a gas stove) Granddad however still liked his "Cowboy Coffee".

ps1borg · August 2016

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kyoto kid said:

Jan19 said:

MistyMist said:

wanna cry. meeting in 30 minutes, i just wanna huddle in the dark and cry. have you seen geografts in carrara? never been this close to giving up.

Misty, why do you use Carrara, if it gives you so much grief? Studio has become a power app. I did a geograft in DS. Not perfect, but I could do it.

...Carrara can handle large environments/sets much better and you can also create your own environments. it's render engine can produce very realistc resuts in a more reasonable amount of time (compared to Iray CPU mode) without needing an expensive GPU, it has a better animation engine than Daz, you can model directly in the pogramme, It can directly import more file formats, and from my perspective it has a more intuitive shader editor/builder than Daz's Shader Mixer/Builder.

Carrara is basically a multi purpose programme and thus a bit more complex to learn than Daz which is still pretty much a character posing, morphing, and rendering one.

The major headaches in Carrara right now are G3 (no compatibility yet, though as I unserstand there is an update in the works which may probably solve this), and pretty much most new content going to Iray shaders which are more difficult to work with.

+1 and a robust particle system and body dynamics interface ... there would be no harm in rigging something G3 you need using Studio and exporting as if it were a Poser figure, Carrara should handle that no problems ?

ps1borg · August 2016

Chohole said:

MistyMist said:

can perked coffee be any nomms on an electric stove?

live on a dead end, no gas stove with fire and such

We only had an electric stove when I was growing up. Percolator went on the hot plate just fine. Of course nowadays you can get plug in ones as well

Gas Percolator sounds vaguely steampunky

Petercat · August 2016

McGyver said:

Chohole said:

All these fancy nancy places with their long list of poofety type coffees. I can rember when Mum and I would go shopping fopr coffee. We had to get the bus to the next town, as our little riverside town didn't have a shop that sold proper coffee. So on the bus we would hop, cost us tuppence happenny each way to get there. In the big dept store we would go to the food hall and Mum would buy 2 or 3 packets of coffee beans. I forget which ones they were, it was a long time ago.

When we got back home Mum would then open one of the bags and after she had started dinner cookin she would get out the coffee grinder and grind up enough coffee beans to fill the thingy on the top of the percolator. (Do you rember percolators, the sort that sat on top of the stove) You put the water in the pot, and the ground coffee in the thingy with holes in it, then put the lid on and put it on the cooker. The water would bubble up the middle tube and go down through the coffee, you could stand a watch it getting darker and darker cos it had a little glass thingummy in the middle of the lid.. Took a while to brew properly. That was coffee.

I want one of those but really big... I make three gallons of coffee at a time, bottle it and refrigerate it... It lasts about two weeks and is less annoying then making it as I need it... I've been doing this for twenty years (friends think it's a little weird) and just last week I went into a grocery store and found several different brands of "premade" coffee in "convenient" 42 ounce bottle for four times the price of actual convenience... Maybe I'll make a giant percolator... That ought to be fun...

I do the same . But cheaper. Three scoops of the cheapest generic coffee to make a pot, add cream and sugar, place in fridge. Add two more scoops of coffee, make another pot, do the same. 1/3 cup creamer and sugar per pot.

Cuts my coffee cost by 16.666%, and my filter costs by 50%.

Half gallon fruit juice bottles will hold a pot of coffee.

I save the grounds to make dirt on model railroads. Used teas make nice vegetation, depending on type.

kyoto kid · August 2016

ps1borg said:

Chohole said:

MistyMist said:

can perked coffee be any nomms on an electric stove?

live on a dead end, no gas stove with fire and such

We only had an electric stove when I was growing up. Percolator went on the hot plate just fine. Of course nowadays you can get plug in ones as well

Gas Percolator sounds vaguely steampunky

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