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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

     

    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

    tee hee

    Wow, that last guy basically guessed it!  Very funny!

    Dana

    The show was  "What's My Line?".  The host was John Daly (WWII war correspondent, CBS radio news reporter, and voice of Superman on early radio).  Many of us old farts remember that "that last guy" was Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House publishing, and author of joke books.  The other two regulars on the panel in that episode were Dorothy Kilgallen (Journalist), and Arlene Francis (actress).  I don't know who the other man was.  But missing regular from the panel was Kitty Carlisle (singer, actress,  & wife of playwright Moss Hart).

    Oh, I remember the show.  We watched it when I was a kid.

    Dana

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Does iray eat up the battery?

    You are thinking of electric rays, a major hazard for battery powered buoys at sea.

    ...well it does if, as DanaT mentions, you are using a notebook computer and renders are taking forever to complete.

    But...does Lectric Shave™ pose a hazard?  That's the real burning question.

    Space is big
    Space is dark

    It's hard to find

    A place to park

    ....Burma Shave

    You're revealing your age!   Are you nostalgic about "Mail Pouch" barns too? surprise

    Ah, the good ol' days.  I really miss the smell of leaded gasoline in the morning. frown

     

    I'm 58 and seriously occasionally nostalgic.  I miss travelling with my parents across the US, stopping at every Stuckys in middle America!  Let's get stuck at Stuckys!

    ...I'm 64 and totally wax nostalgic these days (comes with the territory).

    Yeah, I never thought I'd be nostalgic.  Boy, was I wrong!!!! :-|

    The light at the back end of the tunnel is sometimes more attractive than the one ahead.

    This, my friend, is true on many levels.

    Level tunnels are OK, but it works in tunnels on slopes too. indecision  But doesn't work so well around tunnel curves.  You're just kind of in the dark. frown

    Threre are many lights in Boston's Big Dig tunnel.  A lot of them are going too fast.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,361
    Mistara said:

    they want me to go for a bone density test.

    they didnt mention important details like, are there needles involved.  without those details, i not going.

    why do they talk like i'm not sitting right there?

    why do they talk about tests like the money for it grows on trees?

    cant even imagine what the national medical debt is like

    Well, to be fair (which doesn't happen in healthcare), they want to pick the money tree bare if possible.

    Dana

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

    Is this the thumbnail or the actual render?

    she's cute !

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I have several doctors in my extended family.  Nice lives, big houses, exotic vacations.  Nice people.  Smart people.  But politically naive and against anything that threatens their paycheck.  Prime belief seems to be that everything needs a test.  They make money somehow from tests, if only to charge for interpreting the results of the test whether it helps you or not.  Heaven help you when you go into the hospital, they call in doctors left and right to get opinions and order tests.  Then two months after you get out you start receiving bills from doctors you don't remember, and partially paid bills from insurance companies, and it continues for months afterwards.  You never feel comfortable that the bills are over and done with.  I've had bills come 6 months later.  I've heard stories of insurance claims taking years to settle.  It all seems like a giant shell game with an invisible pea. indecision

    A-freaking-men.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    so i'm not being unreasonable ?

    i agreed to the carrotidd test, they do it right there in the dr office.  
    but if they dont do the paratransit app papers in time, dunno, taxis will cost over 50 bucks.

    You are *NOT* being unreasonable.  You have a right to know why the test has been ordered.  Ask the doc, Google for information, and make an informed decision.  It's YOUR body, not the doctors!!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Mistara said:

    grapes dont put the ceasar in ceasar salad.  dunno what does, but is not the grapes

    are grapes citrus?  grapes not bringing harmony to banana pineapple salad

    ...maybe a dagger?

    grapes a yummi side to brie and cracked pepper crackers

    Ooooh, sounds super tasty! :-)

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Brie (*shudder*).  I'm sorry, I can eat, and in fact, love Blue Cheese with patches of slimy blue mold, yes but I cannot stomach Brie.  For me, it's like what I imagine licking great globs of day old horse snot would be.  (*Ewww ewww... shudder*)   Cheese can crumble, and flake, and sweat and even stink, but I'm sorry, cheese should not jiggle and ooze. frown  (with the exception of Velveeta but we all know that's not really cheese anyway indecision)

    Thanks, you saved me the trouble of wanting to eat :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Well, the legs are cramping again so it's aspirin and a nap.  Probably eat when I wake up if I don't have nightmares of being smothered in horse snot (thanks LG) :-P  Maaybe spicy horse snot I MEAN NOODLE soup.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,221
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Brie (*shudder*).  I'm sorry, I can eat, and in fact, love Blue Cheese with patches of slimy blue mold, yes but I cannot stomach Brie.  For me, it's like what I imagine licking great globs of day old horse snot would be.  (*Ewww ewww... shudder*)   Cheese can crumble, and flake, and sweat and even stink, but I'm sorry, cheese should not jiggle and ooze. frown  (with the exception of Velveeta but we all know that's not really cheese anyway indecision)

    Thanks, you saved me the trouble of wanting to eat :-|

    You're welcome. indecision

     

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,389
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I have several doctors in my extended family.  Nice lives, big houses, exotic vacations.  Nice people.  Smart people.  But politically naive and against anything that threatens their paycheck.  Prime belief seems to be that everything needs a test.  They make money somehow from tests, if only to charge for interpreting the results of the test whether it helps you or not.  Heaven help you when you go into the hospital, they call in doctors left and right to get opinions and order tests.  Then two months after you get out you start receiving bills from doctors you don't remember, and partially paid bills from insurance companies, and it continues for months afterwards.  You never feel comfortable that the bills are over and done with.  I've had bills come 6 months later.  I've heard stories of insurance claims taking years to settle.  It all seems like a giant shell game with an invisible pea. indecision

    I know doctors too, and they don't live high on the hog.  One got out of private practice because people weren't paying, and it was making it difficult to pay even just the malpractice insurance premium.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    went into bios on my old pc,  it wasnt telling me what speed or type of ram was installed.  

    so primitive, mouse didnt work.

    all it says about the hdd is ata

    it looks like ddr 3 slot, 

    what happens to the mobo if i put a 1600 ram in there and the spped doesnt match the other ram.  does it toast or it just doesnt boost? 

    old pc has ds4.8 on it.  want to test things with carrara smart tab

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109

    ...it will function at the speed of the old memory.  So for example, if the memory on the board is 1333 GHz that's the speed it will run at.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    okay tysmiley

    oh 1am, howd that happen.  4.5 hours to alarm clock

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    edited March 2018

    ...yeah 23:30 here.  Been working on a new scene.  Wasn't it only 20:00 when I was cooking dinner?.  Just sort of happens that way I guess.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418

    Has anyone here heard of lynda.com?  I am found it interesting.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    They updated the weather to thunderstorms.  It's still laser bright and totally cloudless.  :-|

    Nap, then time to bbq.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    NVIATWAS said:

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

    Beware of bloody clouds.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,221
    edited March 2018

    OT (as if anything could be off topic in this thread): I've mentioned previously a few times that once in a while NewEgg.com has a good one-day sale on Norton Security products.

    Today 3/27/18 is one of those days.  At the NewEgg.com website click on "Deals & Services" then click on "Email Deals" and scan down the page.  You should find Norton Security Deluxe 5 license deal for $19.99  if you enter the promotion code shown there when you check out.

    If you're interested.   These offers don't come very often.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,221
    edited March 2018

    Complaint:  I just realized that I bought $19.44 worth of cleaning supplies last Thursday and I don't remember unpacking them from the car and they are nowhere in the car or house.  I think I left them in the store. Arghhhh.....sad  I do however, remember entering the expense into my budget spreadsheet so I have my receipt and an exact computerized record of how much money I lost! frown 

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    NVIATWAS said:

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

    ...I wonder if the person writing those forecasts doesn't come from Portland because that's been the case for the last several weeks here (last Sunday was first first dry day in a while).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    edited March 2018
    LeatherGryphon said:

    OT (as if anything could be off topic in this thread): I've mentioned previously a few times that once in a while NewEgg.com has a good one-day sale on Norton Security products.

    Today 3/27/18 is one of those days.  At the NewEgg.com website click on "Deals & Services" then click on "Email Deals" and scan down the page.  You should find Norton Security Deluxe 5 license deal for $19.99  if you enter the promotion code shown there when you check out.

    If you're interested.   These offers don't come very often.

    ...thanks for the information.

    Got it, though after having to go through a bunch of hoops several times over because the site kept defaulting my old address for billing and shipping (which forced me to re enter all my card info by hand) even after I updated all my information (also had to deal with password recovery as my auto login no longer worked and the password locker with it is on the dead notebook). 

    Talked with Norton tech support and unfortunately they don't offer downloadable installers.  I am not fond of direct download only as I like having backups and with something as critical as an AV, I like having it installed and active before I go online the first time with a new system.   I remember that time when I still had McAffe and I was hit with a virus that piggybacked on an MS auto update on what was supposed to be a "secure connection".

    What I may do is download and install it on this system (which for some reason still has the ISP's Norton active even though that account was closed almost a year ago) as it still will be protected.  Once that is done, I will allocate an install slot to the second system before wiping the C drive on this one to do a clean install of W7 Pro (which will of course wipe the what I have installed here out) and then allocate a new install slot to this machine so I don't leave any doors open even for a few moments.  That still leaves me with two installs for the two notebooks.  Yeah I may be a bit paranoid but one infection was one too many and back then, we didn't have rubbish like ransomware that effectively kills your system if you don't pay up (and I cannot afford the average ransom demand on my income).  Before I do any of this of this I will back up my scene files, rendered image files, and runtime/library on the new 1 TB drive (I have a powered external enclosure for it). 

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Tjohn said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

    Beware of bloody clouds.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

    Weird!!! :-O

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,418

    I got a headache and I am not sure what to do about it.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  I just realized that I bought $19.44 worth of cleaning supplies last Thursday and I don't remember unpacking them from the car and they are nowhere in the car or house.  I think I left them in the store. Arghhhh.....sad  I do however, remember entering the expense into my budget spreadsheet so I have my receipt and an exact computerized record of how much money I lost! frown 

    :-/

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

    ...I wonder if the person writing those forecasts doesn't come from Portland because that's been the case for the last several weeks here (last Sunday was first first dry day in a while).

    Hard to say.  I think it's a gnome or something.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Two mesquite drumsticks slow cooking!  This mesquire bbq sauce sure tastes good...!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Good morning everyone!  Bright, sunny and warm out, despite the forecast calling for rain.  Not a bloody cloud in the sky, if there's rain it's hundreds of miles away.

    Finally put the guitar up for sale - despite months of trying, there's just no way I can play it any more.  I miss fretting strings I can't feel, I can't feel the pick, I drop it.. it's not a matter of hand strength, it's neuropathy. :-( Time to become a composer, and let the computer do the actual playing!

    BBQ time again!  I have 4 HUGE drumsticks I'm going to slow-and-low today, just washed my bbq brush, broke out the grill rack for the air fryer, I'm ready to go!  Yeeeeee-hawww! :-)

    Time for more decaf argh...

     

    ...I wonder if the person writing those forecasts doesn't come from Portland because that's been the case for the last several weeks here (last Sunday was first first dry day in a while).

    Hard to say.  I think it's a gnome or something.

    ...a friend of the "bone gnomes' no doubt.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,109
    NVIATWAS said:

    Two mesquite drumsticks slow cooking!  This mesquire bbq sauce sure tastes good...!

    ...OK now you are making n me hungry.  When next month's benefits are deposited in my account, finally going to go out and get an air fryer. 

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