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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    How much is one bar?  My guess you made a healthier choice 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint - halloween comin and no faeriewylde

    halloween hunks rendering and no nudie flags

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - halloween comin and no faeriewylde

    halloween hunks rendering and no nudie flags

    Put him in an itsy bitsy yellow polka dot swimsuit.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - halloween comin and no faeriewylde

    halloween hunks rendering and no nudie flags

    ...Rendo just opened their Halloween contest.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491

    My tablet's battery is 27% and going down.  I need to go home to charge it up.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - halloween comin and no faeriewylde

    halloween hunks rendering and no nudie flags

    ...Rendo just opened their Halloween contest.

     

    no nudies in their contests. >.<

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Kulay Wolf said:
    MistyMist said:

    complaint - halloween comin and no faeriewylde

    halloween hunks rendering and no nudie flags

    Put him in an itsy bitsy yellow polka dot swimsuit.

     

    well i guess if it haz enough cloth to autofit over the geograft, not sure how to

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Kulay Wolf said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    How much is one bar?  My guess you made a healthier choice 

     

    been paying 25 for 30. coulda bought like 90 bars heart

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    someone call a ciropractor for this poor girl, yowch painful condition

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Gentle rain falling from a luminous grey sky glossing brick and tarmac and mirrored towers with pale early morning shinning :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,294
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Why is it after four forty five but before five?

    It's all an illusion.

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    centipedes?  riggine one of those would prolly be tedious 

     

    >.< doh

    wasn't there a way in Excel, to make the formula in row2 populate down the column,
    rather than drag those suckers down the column 4,000+ records 

    >.< doh  timestamp field coming out of Oracle as a text string into Excel.  need to massage these into 'date' fields access will import as dates.
    dunno if they want the create date, or create timestamp zulu, doing both cuz which ever i pick will be the wrong one.

    What do they do?  Give you a file extract and say, "Work with this!"  You should have specs before you start the process.  That's no way to work.  It's a sure way to waste time and get it wrong, and of course it will never be their fault, it will be yours.  I always got specs for the desired output before I tackled the job!

    Dana

    This is probably a slight deviation from the general line of conversation, but there are two ways to work. smiley​  At least two.

    I always start with a vague idea and run with it.  The idea changes and refines, and what isn't working can be pitched to absolute oblivion.

    No final specs in mind.  Ever.  That is way too confining.

     

    Good morning, everybody.  :-)

     

    That's fine for art, but for writing code for a business application, it's terrible!

    Dana

    OK.  smiley​  I was going to ask "why," but I won't.

    No creativity in writing code.  That's a shame.

     

    No, there's plenty of creativity in writing code but usually clients don't want the risk involved.  A programmer on his own projects is just as much an artist as any fool with paint and brush.  But also code being commissioned is usually more objective than subjective.  Thus the finished product must be defined before starting.  Not that there couldn't be some creative means of getting to the end, but when a code writer unveils the finished product it damn well better be what the buyer wants.  Pretty bells & whistles don't sell well.

    And creativity in the art world sometimes backfires also.  This is what happens when the artist is trusted too much: (hint it's supposed to be Lucille Ball but was quickly dubbed "ScaryLucy" by the residents of Jamestown N.Y.)

    Note: you have to dig a bit to find the name of the artist.  Must be interesting to be known for this work.

     

    Scary Lucy says, "Take your Vitameatavegemin™ or I keel you!"

     

    ...on the other hand, the real Lucille Ball was instrumental in getting the original Star Trek to the small screen.  As head of Desilu studios she supported Gene Roddenberry's idea, using her position as chairperson to override the rest of the board's decision to cancel the then ambitious (and expensive) series before it ever aired in 1966 even though NBC decided to order the first season worth of episodes.

    So thank a former "ditzy redhead" for giving us one of television's most iconic and enduring series.

     

     

    Arness and Ball were great TV pioneers, reruns of I Love Lucy still running on our TV :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Why is it after four forty five but before five?

    It's all an illusion.

     

    A reflection in a dewdrop caught on a blade of grass :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Jan19 said:
    ps1borg said:

    ...

    Jan19 said:
    ps1borg said:
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    centipedes?  riggine one of those would prolly be tedious 

     

    >.< doh

    wasn't there a way in Excel, to make the formula in row2 populate down the column,
    rather than drag those suckers down the column 4,000+ records 

    >.< doh  timestamp field coming out of Oracle as a text string into Excel.  need to massage these into 'date' fields access will import as dates.
    dunno if they want the create date, or create timestamp zulu, doing both cuz which ever i pick will be the wrong one.

    What do they do?  Give you a file extract and say, "Work with this!"  You should have specs before you start the process.  That's no way to work.  It's a sure way to waste time and get it wrong, and of course it will never be their fault, it will be yours.  I always got specs for the desired output before I tackled the job!

    Dana

    This is probably a slight deviation from the general line of conversation, but there are two ways to work. smiley​  At least two.

    I always start with a vague idea and run with it.  The idea changes and refines, and what isn't working can be pitched to absolute oblivion.

    No final specs in mind.  Ever.  That is way too confining.

     

    Good morning, everybody.  :-)

     

    That's fine for art, but for writing code for a business application, it's terrible!

    Dana

    OK.  smiley​  I was going to ask "why," but I won't.

    No creativity in writing code.  That's a shame.

     

    Oh I dunno 'bout that, this is all MIDI and embedded C...and oh yes Java3D and C++...spaghetti (clicky)

    Nice work, whoever did that. smiley​  A little freaky, but very interesting.

     

    *coffeesplutter* Us or the robot ?

    http://stelarc.org/?catID=20244

    Either.  Or.  Both? smiley

    I was talking about the robot. 

    Please don't confuse me this early in the morning. :-)

     

    haz sorry nao :0

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    maken emergency mac n cheese, starving of a sudden.  hungree, turning into a zombie


    should i check if this autofits gianni6?


     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2016
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

     

    never heard the jingle. >.< mars bar is satisfying, holds tummy comfy for hours
     

    earworm jingle - hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders dont upset us 

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

    is there a word for a male enchantress?

    mr.enchantress, enchantresso, enchantresseur, enchantresser

    guanni6 needs mascara eyelashes

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

     

    never heard the jingle. >.< mars bar is satisfying, holds tummy comfy for hours
     

    earworm jingle - hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders dont upset us 

     

    used to work at the same agency as the guy with the voice at the end, jingle is stuck and won't be forgot :0

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    maken emergency mac n cheese, starving of a sudden.  hungree, turning into a zombie


    should i check if this autofits gianni6?


     

    heres some backless

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

     

    never heard the jingle. >.< mars bar is satisfying, holds tummy comfy for hours
     

    earworm jingle - hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders dont upset us 

     

    used to work at the same agency as the guy with the voice at the end, jingle is stuck and won't be forgot :0

     

    is a poweful jingle smiley  hmm seeing a link to a cadbury gorilla.

    they dont give us the better cadburies here.  in Ireland i ate butterscotch  heart

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    no understanding the iray.  looks like sunburn except his arms.  is the default leo7 skin

    tee hee autofit g2f's silky pjs

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    MistyMist said:

    is there a word for a male enchantress?

    mr.enchantress, enchantresso, enchantresseur, enchantresser

    guanni6 needs mascara eyelashes

    ...enchanter.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

     

    never heard the jingle. >.< mars bar is satisfying, holds tummy comfy for hours
     

    earworm jingle - hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders dont upset us 

     

    used to work at the same agency as the guy with the voice at the end, jingle is stuck and won't be forgot :0

    Was Milky Way over here.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    Kulay Wolf said:

    It is after five now but where is my taxi?  I scheduled a five pm pick up.

    Here ya go:

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  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016

    OMG, I worked on that stopped up sink for hours.  It's almost 4 in the morning and I can't go to sleep.

    What got into me?  I took all the pipes loose under the sink and found a leak.  My mama's snake won't work.

    The plumber couldn't come Saturday because I got sick.  Now I'm too mad to call again.  Damn that sink, damn it three times over.

    Five and a half bottles of Drano, right down that sink.  And none of it got anywhere near a clog.

    I can't figure out which emoticon would fit this situation.

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Tjohn said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    halloween peaking out from witchy bonnet

    thinking bout how many mars bars i coulda bought with what i spent on the sales this weekend

     

    More than one Mars a day then - Oscar Mike Golf that jingle is such an earworm :)

     

    never heard the jingle. >.< mars bar is satisfying, holds tummy comfy for hours
     

    earworm jingle - hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders dont upset us 

     

    used to work at the same agency as the guy with the voice at the end, jingle is stuck and won't be forgot :0

    Was Milky Way over here.

     

    Yes 1986 sounds about right Oscar Mike Golf was that really 30 years ago ?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited September 2016

    ...

    MistyMist said:

    no understanding the iray.  looks like sunburn except his arms.  is the default leo7 skin

    tee hee autofit g2f's silky pjs

    Too much blue, or not enough green, is there a headlight on the camera that needs turning off? Use the colour of the light from some emissive geometry to adjust skin tones, high K's are blue-er K's, say 10000K. Lower Ks are orangy-er K's, say 2900K or if you can[t adjust the Ks use the colour of a matte surface instead. eta make sure any "white point" setting is whatever Studio defailts to :0

    Post edited by ps1borg on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,294
    edited September 2016

    Non-complaint:  It's been exactly two months since I cancelled my DISH-TV.  I don't even have an antenna so all I get for TV is NetFlix and NetFlix DVD.  What I've noticed is an increase in my peace and quiet and lack of random noise in the background.  No commercials!  Nobody screaming "0% Financing", no "full story at 11", no drug hawkers trying to convince me that I should buy their product despite the over-clocked disclaimer that essentially says "taking this might make you dead".

    Occasionaly I feel that I need to catch up on news (although I don't know why) and I log into a website to see if the world has ended yet.  The static ads are an irritant but the articles are usually sufficient to allay my fears (or stoke them). However, when I click on a video, every freakin' one of them is preceded by a loud fast advertisement assaulting my calmness, and I'm thrust back into the screaming world of 0% financing.  I tend to believe that one of their purposes is to numb us to the news that will follow.

    But that said, since having abandoned DISH-TV I've discovered a whole new world of commercial free drama, mysteries, comedies, bad cartoons and old long dead shows, that I can search through to find something viewable.  Yes, many of them are pure crap.  But when I find a gem and especially a series of gems like "Doc Martin", "Vera", "Wallander", to name just a few I add it to NetFlix's "MyList" which has now grown long enough to last me through the winter.  Some of those shows were originally on the high price networks like HBO or STARS or SHOTIME.  A lot of them were on the BBC-America that I had to pay extra to DISH to get their 200+ selection.  The biggest advantage of this type of viewing is that you can watch the series in order, from the beginning, on demand if you have adequate Internet service.  I can go back and find old episodes of my favorite shows that I know I missed 20 years ago.  It's a virtual smorgasboard of TV.

    I'd had enough.  I couldn't afford $100/month so bye-bye DISH-TV.  I'm already paying for adequate Internet service so the extra cost of the combination of NetFlix and NetFlix-DVD is only about $20/month.  I save $80/month and I have peace and quiet in my home without continual blathering in the background.  The TV runs only when I am sitting in front of it and nobody is telling me to buy anything.  And when I tell you that I also listen to the Buffalo classical radio station "WNED" (via internet) http://tunein.com/radio/Classical-945-s21414/ that is essentially commercial free, you can understand that my brain has been de-commercialized and I didn't even go through any prolonged period of withdrawal symptoms. smiley

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