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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018

    Picture it... Summer of '95, USA.  Major heatwave across the whole country for weeks (700+ deaths in Chicago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave It was during that phenomenon that I was on my 'round the country motorcycle trip.  In Cleveland (Lakewood area) I discovered that road pavement could melt.  Slipped and slewed for several feet and paniced slightly but survived.  When I looked back, my path was clearly evident in the pool of tar in the middle of the main city street.  surprise  Later, in Dinosaur National Park in Utah I parked my bike (a brand new big BMW) in the parking lot only to find it laying on its side when I returned.  The kickstand had punched through the pavement. frown  Found me a chunk of flat iron tied to a leather thong that I used for years afterward as a kickstand pad when the same situation threatened. yes 

    The only advantage of a long motorcycle trip during a heat wave is that one doesn't have to deal with rain.  3000 miles across the country and not a drop of rain 'till I got to Dawson's Creek, Yukon, Canada and on my way back to Vancouver, BC, Canada,  Rain for 200 miles.  It was like the frog not jumping out of the slowly heating water until he is cooked.  The rain was just a continual heavy mist, but 200 miles of it makes one just as wet.  And after your underwear gets wet there's no reason to stop.

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,486

    Mine got confused with dForce

    ps1borg said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Mistara said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Please do not call me a *itch.   Please call me Bad Wolf but do not call me that other word.   I am being called that word by my housemates. I am tired of it.   I am tired of it.   I cannot tell them anything or talk to them as then that will encourage this bad behaviour.

     

    Now she is probably complaining that I am listening to some stupid music CD instead of her.  I have it loud so I cannot be bothered by her tv so I can focus on cleaning the area near my tank.

    *hugs*

    Thanks

    I find it odd I said CD when I was listening via an iPhone.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DAY DESCRIPTION HIGH / LOW PRECIP WIND HUMIDITY

    TODAY

    JAN 5    		 Partly Cloudy/Wind

    13°4°

    0%

    		 WNW 24 mph 52%

     

    can this really be Fahrenheits?  looks like celsius numbers.

    my fingers feel bruised from the cold. complaint
    couldn't climb up the snow at the bus stop, had to stand in the street with the traffic. complaint.

    non-complaint  strawberry banana smoothie and a hot morning bun 

    learned a new trick last night, smiley put my bodypillow against the baseboard to heat  up, dragged it back to my futon, omg felt so good

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i didn't shovel yesterday, my back twinges from walking on the sky dump stuff.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    100 in the shade at 10am by our back door oscar mike golf and getting hotter as a north wind picks up under a cloudless/pitiless bright blue sky :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    ...accroding to the weather serice I have, it's supposed to hit 107° there (60° warmer than where I am). Stay cool and out of the sun.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Picture it... Summer of '95, USA.  Major heatwave across the whole country for weeks (700+ deaths in Chicago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave It was during that phenomenon that I was on my 'round the country motorcycle trip.  In Cleveland (Lakewood area) I discovered that road pavement could melt.  Slipped and slewed for several feet and paniced slightly but survived.  When I looked back, my path was clearly evident in the pool of tar in the middle of the main city street.  surprise  Later, in Dinosaur National Park in Utah I parked my bike (a brand new big BMW) in the parking lot only to find it laying on its side when I returned.  The kickstand had punched through the pavement. frown  Found me a chunk of flat iron tied to a leather thong that I used for years afterward as a kickstand pad when the same situation threatened. yes 

    The only advantage of a long motorcycle trip during a heat wave is that one doesn't have to deal with rain.  3000 miles across the country and not a drop of rain 'till I got to Dawson's Creek, Yukon, Canada and on my way back to Vancouver, BC, Canada,  Rain for 200 miles.  It was like the frog not jumping out of the slowly heating water until he is cooked.  The rain was just a continual heavy mist, but 200 miles of it makes one just as wet.  And after your underwear gets wet there's no reason to stop.

    I remember that. Dallas was giving away window air conditioners in a poor neighborhood where I had just made a delivery.
    I was around the corner, buying them, until I ran out of cash. Sold them to a dealer for a 50% profit. Made quite a bit of money that day.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...accroding to the weather serice I have, it's supposed to hit 107° there (60° warmer than where I am). Stay cool and out of the sun.

    106 right now, very hot wind. Tomatoes in our garden ripening in front of eyes :0

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!  That means I can't give up and just accept a loss.  I've played solitare for 60 years.  Even back when it was played with real physical playing cards. (how quaint) surprise You just shuffle, deal, play, and just have fun at it.  Sometimes you win sometimes you lose.  Sometimes you think well maybe if I had played ... instead of ... I might have gotten further or even won, but it ain't worth worrying about.  You just say it was the luck of the draw and move on with your life.

    The game of solitare on Windows7 machines that I usually play keeps track of your wins and games played and I calculate my percentage of wins.  I'm currently at 14.55%  Up from 9% a couple years ago.  I'm developing a feel for how to play and remember which cards are available and will be playable on the next round, and plan my moves accordingly.  And with the computer version I can easily and accurately back up and try a different path to squeeze out a few more wins.  But it's still fun to play and sometimes lose.

    Now, the latest Win10 version provides dealt hands that are guaranteed to be able to be won.  Oh, god.  Now I have to sit there and try all the possible ways until I finally win it.  I can't just say; "well, I just got a rotten deal" and give up.  It's no longer fun.  Yeah, yeah, I know... I can elect to not choose the "winable" option and play the old fashioned way but just the fact that I now know that they can rig the game like that is like finding out that there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.  It's like when machines finally learned how to play chess.  I haven't played chess in decades.  I just quit playing once the magic had been exposed.

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  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    edited January 2018
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    Post edited by agent unawares on
  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,485
    LeatherGryphon said:

    The game of solitare on Windows7 machines that I usually play keeps track of your wins and games played and I calculate my percentage of wins.  I'm currently at 14.55%  Up from 9% a couple years ago.  I'm developing a feel for how to play and remember which cards are available and will be playable on the next round, and plan my moves accordingly.  And with the computer version I can easily and accurately back up and try a different path to squeeze out a few more wins.  But it's still fun to play and sometimes lose.

     

    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    Complaint: I'm only at 61% on my windows 7 machine

    solitaire.jpg
    665 x 527 - 78K
  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    Charlie Judge said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    The game of solitare on Windows7 machines that I usually play keeps track of your wins and games played and I calculate my percentage of wins.  I'm currently at 14.55%  Up from 9% a couple years ago.  I'm developing a feel for how to play and remember which cards are available and will be playable on the next round, and plan my moves accordingly.  And with the computer version I can easily and accurately back up and try a different path to squeeze out a few more wins.  But it's still fun to play and sometimes lose.

     

    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    Complaint: I'm only at 61% on my windows 7 machine

    That's pretty impressive.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    That was Freecell. Game # 11,xxx. I kept the number on my desktop in case I ever ran across it. Never have.

  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513
    Petercat said:
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    That was Freecell. Game # 11,xxx. I kept the number on my desktop in case I ever ran across it. Never have.

    Ah, that's right. It's been a while.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    Petercat said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Picture it... Summer of '95, USA.  Major heatwave across the whole country for weeks (700+ deaths in Chicago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave It was during that phenomenon that I was on my 'round the country motorcycle trip.  In Cleveland (Lakewood area) I discovered that road pavement could melt.  Slipped and slewed for several feet and paniced slightly but survived.  When I looked back, my path was clearly evident in the pool of tar in the middle of the main city street.  surprise  Later, in Dinosaur National Park in Utah I parked my bike (a brand new big BMW) in the parking lot only to find it laying on its side when I returned.  The kickstand had punched through the pavement. frown  Found me a chunk of flat iron tied to a leather thong that I used for years afterward as a kickstand pad when the same situation threatened. yes 

    The only advantage of a long motorcycle trip during a heat wave is that one doesn't have to deal with rain.  3000 miles across the country and not a drop of rain 'till I got to Dawson's Creek, Yukon, Canada and on my way back to Vancouver, BC, Canada,  Rain for 200 miles.  It was like the frog not jumping out of the slowly heating water until he is cooked.  The rain was just a continual heavy mist, but 200 miles of it makes one just as wet.  And after your underwear gets wet there's no reason to stop.

    I remember that. Dallas was giving away window air conditioners in a poor neighborhood where I had just made a delivery.
    I was around the corner, buying them, until I ran out of cash. Sold them to a dealer for a 50% profit. Made quite a bit of money that day.

    ...Milwaukee WI hit 102° and 100° on consecutive days that year.  Rarely does it get above the mid 90s there because of the lake.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206
    Charlie Judge said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    The game of solitare on Windows7 machines that I usually play keeps track of your wins and games played and I calculate my percentage of wins.  I'm currently at 14.55%  Up from 9% a couple years ago.  I'm developing a feel for how to play and remember which cards are available and will be playable on the next round, and plan my moves accordingly.  And with the computer version I can easily and accurately back up and try a different path to squeeze out a few more wins.  But it's still fun to play and sometimes lose.

     

    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    Complaint: I'm only at 61% on my windows 7 machine

    ....playing solitare til dawn
    with a deck of fifty one
    Smoking cigarettes and watchin' Captian Kangaroo
    Now don't tell me
    I've nothin' to do.

     

  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,766

    Very Trivial Complaint As Follows! :

    Hyuna for Genesis 8 Female, the "Japanese" character with a Korean name and Looks (looks could pass for chinese too)!  To make it better, look at the preview pics for nails, eyes and makeup... Guessing her name was going to be "Izanami".

    Didn't stop me from buying her though.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,206

    ...what an annoying evening tonight.

    Was at my usual hangout for a few pints where it normally is pretty relaxing, until this large group of fancy overly dressed upscale people showed up and effectively took the place over.  Most of them were total buttheads, leaning over people like myself sitting at the bar not just ordering drinks, but also pushing up against us and not getting out of the way when you needed to head to the dunny, and overall acting like total jerks to the regulars there. I lost count of how many times I was elbowed (including in my sore ribs) and leaned against like I was some piece of furniture.  A few of these people even had to be shown the door for creating scenes and getting into other customers' faces. I finally left disgusted with the whole scene. but before departing remarked to one of the staff about what arses these people were (and she totally agreed). I guess being affluent gives them licence to treat others like dirt. Really ruined my entire evening.

    At home now dining on a bowl of homemade poutine. Comfort food.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Wow rant worthy the Tennis ppl who show up here every year about now are like that sometimes. Much prefer the Grand Prix crowd they seem to know how to party without getting in the way :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...accroding to the weather serice I have, it's supposed to hit 107° there (60° warmer than where I am). Stay cool and out of the sun.

    Feeling cooler now a while after sunset but obviously 0 humidity and a little warm still :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,282
    edited January 2018
    agent unawares said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Microsoft's new solitare game now has guaranteed winable hands.  That's terrible!

    You can still lose guaranteed winnable hands, it's just your fault rather than being thrown into an unwinnable situation. Windows Solitaire had only one unwinnable game before.

    I don't know which game you were playing but I've run across many games of Windows7 "Klondike" 3-card draw that playout out in the first few rounds despite backing up and trying all alternate plays.  And the point of my complaint is that if the company claims the game is winnable then if I can't win, then I'm forced to admit I'm a failure rather than just blame fate.  It's no longer fun if I have to work at it.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complainnnnnt

    TIME DESCRIPTION TEMP FEELS PRECIP HUMIDITY WIND

    1:45 PM

    SAT

    		 Sunny/Wind -11° -21°

    0%

    		 38% WNW 37 km/h
    TIME DESCRIPTION TEMP FEELS PRECIP HUMIDITY WIND

    2:00 PM

    SAT

    		 Sunny/Wind 12° -7°

    0%

    		 38%

    WNW 23 mph

     

     

    grocery delivery over 2 hours late so far ...

     

    Winter storm's impact on product availability.

    Due to the effects of Winter Storm Grayson impacting the East Coast, many manufacturers are unable to make scheduled deliveries of product to our warehouses. This may result in higher-than-normal out of stocks in your order with the biggest impact on fresh chicken and fresh ground beef. We encourage you to opt-in to Product Substitutions in the event the product you have selected is out-of-stock. Go to Shopping Preferences within My Account; from here you can allow comparable substitutions for your order. You can see the suggested substitution in Item Detail. We apologize for any inconvenience . We are working on securing adequate supplies of products from all of our vendors.

     

    worst part, i'se craving red velvet cake, and i didnt order any cake, cookies, ice cream, or candy; all the things makes life worthwhile

     

    imagining hot sake, tempura veggies, miso soupcheekyheart

     

    nature trying to thin the herd crying

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    Web browser is showing weird pop-up windows.  I should scan my computer for adware.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...feel I'm already a few shy on those.

    All I have are a few old ball bearings.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've still got my marbles but I think right now they're behaving as waves instead of particles. indecision

    Dude, you need to collapse those before they go through your walls.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Mistara said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've still got my marbles but I think right now they're behaving as waves instead of particles. indecision

    photons?

    Marbelons.  I use them to cheat at Chinese Checkers. devil

     

    lololol!!!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sigh.  

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...trying to figure out Blender makes mine go critical mass.

    Vlender is insanely powerful but the UI was developed by engineer, not UU/Human factor people.   Last time I used it I got a headache from grinding my jaw.  Someone needs to redesign the UI, but that's a year-long full-time project.  Not to mention many users used to the UI have screamed when they threaten to revamp it.  Sad.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Snow still falling but lightly.  Although, the wind whips up now and then and blows it all around.  Drifts are starting to form.

    I'm beginning to wonder about my mid-winter symphony adventure on February 11.   Still plenty of seats available.  I may not be the only one waiting to see what the weather's going to be on that Sunday afternoon in Buffalo.  It may turn out to be a frantic ticket grab on Friday night after the weatherman makes his prediction for the weekend.  Or it may be a total bust.  Or worse yet, I get my ticket, and almost get to Buffalo but get trapped in a freak blizzard before I get there. frown  Must remember to take blankets, pillow, thermos of cocoa or coffee, ,water, snacks, extra gasoline, shovel, cell phone charger, and blizzard wear. enlightened Oh, and MUST get my exhaust problem fixed!!!!!

    The Melbourne to Sydney highway surface has melted in places cos of the heat, I guess it is a big world after all...  :0

    We get melted road tar here when it hits 105f, black tar has a lot of thermal uptake...

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Complaint: intestines hating on me and no idea why, it's weird.  Liyyle sleep due to cramps. Delivery date for my olive salad containers delayed until Wednesday.  Feh.

    No non-complaints today. :-(

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