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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint  been listening to muzakk over half hour  on hold waiting for optimum online ordering wifi

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    they installing wifi this Saturday.  eek 40 bucks a month, but hopefully won't have to deal with flaky up and down wifi no moars.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    kyoto kid said:

    ....have an appointment with one in a couple weeks (accident follow up).  Don't think it will change much though as it's other things making me feel this way than the injuries.. 

     

    I hope all those things are better ssoonest.

    Mystarra said:

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

    crying

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,336
    Mystarra said:

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

    Did we do or say something wrong?

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    Mystarra said:

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

    Did we do or say something wrong?

    Dana

    or maybe something we didn't say.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint  taking a long time for posts to submit

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,265

    I gotta go, but I will be back.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i is watching danny phantom, cute cartoon

    just caught on to the school name casprt highlaugh

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,265

    I am looking for how to get iray for free.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,265
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am looking for how to get iray for free.

    I think I meant materials and shaders.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,336
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am looking for how to get iray for free.

    I think I meant materials and shaders.

    Try ShareCG.com.  There are some by Will Timmins, AllenArt, and maybe others.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857
    edited January 2019
    Mystarra said:

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

    ...last I recall, some major work assignment was up coming.  That was a while ago. Hope he's OK.

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

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:

    i guess ps1borg no coming back.  the pear tree prolly in full spleandour by now, lorakeets everywhere.

    ...last I recall, some major work assignment was up coming.  That was a while ago. Hope he's OK.

    +1

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    Here here! I've watched the ancient alien garbage shows a few times for giggles. I say "no" a lot during those because they insist on asking "Could this have been ancient aliens?" over and over and I feel obligated,as a man of science to answer truthfully.

    I actually attended a lecture by Von Daniken in my younger days. It was crap then and it's crap now...but entertaining crap. laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Tjohn said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    Here here! I've watched the ancient alien garbage shows a few times for giggles. I say "no" a lot during those because they insist on asking "Could this have been ancient aliens?" over and over and I feel obligated,as a man of science to answer truthfully.

    I actually attended a lecture by Von Daniken in my younger days. It was crap then and it's crap now...but entertaining crap. laugh

    remembers leanord nimoy narrating 'in search of' episodes, suggesting the pyraminds were built by aliens.   the mysery of mocha pee chuu

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited January 2019
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    dee evolution. have we peaked?  is it over? 

     

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited January 2019

    was on our local news. student in Huntington deported for wearing blue sneakers.  
    http://longisland.news12.com/story/39747756/huntington-school-board-holds-meeting-on-deported-student

    we should be flying our flags at half mast

    social ills, rokkin pneumonia and the boogie oogie flu

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,015
    edited January 2019

    I think pop-culture and science signed their divorce papers when Bill Nye put that song on his show. I can't link, because it's pretty obscene, but the clip on Youtube is one of the most downvoted videos of all time. nonono

    Post edited by WinterMoon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    TigerAnne said:

    I think pop-culture and science signed their divorce papers when Bill Nye put that song on his show. I can't link, because it's pretty obscene, but the clip on Youtube is one of the most downvoted videos of all time. nonono

    Bill Nye the science guy?

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,015
    edited January 2019
    Mystarra said:

    Bill Nye the science guy?

    Yep. The performance in question happened at his new show, Bill Nye Saves the World, in which he is more of a Politics Guy, apparently. I'm not all that familiar with him, really. The only reason I even know about the awful song and dance routine that happened in one episode, is because everyone was cringing and laughing at it all over the place.

    (It was really bad, trust me.)

     

    Post edited by WinterMoon on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,265

    Some scammer called my work as if I am getting a summons.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    TigerAnne said:
    Mystarra said:

    Bill Nye the science guy?

    Yep. The performance in question happened at his new show, Bill Nye Saves the World, in which he is more of a Politics Guy, apparently. I'm not all that familiar with him, really. The only reason I even know about the awful song and dance routine that happened in one episode, is because everyone was cringing and laughing at it all over the place.

    (It was really bad, trust me.)

     

    he may have been a victim.

    and being a weak helpless half blind old lady who can barely walk is no protection from vultures and predators. there is no safety in a hospital bed.

    they tattooed numbers on holocaust victims?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,094
    edited January 2019
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TigerAnne said:

    A while ago, I read an article about why the Earth is flat, to try to get some kind of insight into why this is suddenly something people believe in again. Long story short, I didn't understand a thing, because the "evidence" was in the form of a whole lot of diagrams and explainations about physics far beyond my schooling. So I'm simply too uninformed to believe in the Flat Earth. indecision

     

    Hey, isn't this a Freebie Monday? I'm feeling greedy.

    The reason we have all these flat-earthers is that main stream entertainment especially on TV has glorified stupidity.  It's chic to be stupid these days.  And it's SOOO much easier to believe in nonsense than learn real facts. That, and the distressing facts that stupidity isn't as fatal as it used to be and you don't have to be smart to breed. indecision

    About eighteen years ago I started to notice that a lot of programs on what were supposed to be educational channels were having a decidedly stupid dramatic way of presenting their subjects... I think the one that sticks in my mind was one where the show was about finding the giant squid... the beginning of the show implied they had actually caught a live giant squid... the whole show kept on building up to the reveal and quickly diverting to some side nonsense about biologists with different opinions about the squids and then back to guy who wasn’t actually a but apparently caught one because he had a theory on where to find them... then a side bar on sea monsters... back to the hunt... another side story about the kraken and if giant squid are the source of that legend... back to the hunt... sidebar on whether giant squid could have attacked sailors in the past... back and forth until the last four minutes where they revealed the giant squid... a tiny larval form that could have actually have been a totally different species and because it came from a great depth it died fairly quickly... no friggin conclusion, just jerking the audience around for an hour.

    You had the Discovery channel, the History channel, the Nature channel, the Science channel and National Geographic channels...

    One by one they all sold out and became something else... I think the worst are the History channel, which is essentially the Bigfoot channel and Discovery which became mostly reality show nonsense and ghost chasing.

    Then on top of that you have this new trend in advertising called “Native Advertising” in which an ad is made to look and feel like an article native to the site, so basically if it’s news or information it looks like an actual article, but it has a tiny (usually in light grey lettering) disclaimer “Sponsored Content”... You’ll be reading science articles on a respectable website and see an article titled “A new program brings hope to future scientists”... the image suggests it’s some school program for middle schoolers... but the sponsorship turns out to be a bank that has of recent been found guilty of all sorts of fraud and deliberate misdeeds... and the article barely talks about the program which turns out to be at one school and tiny thing at best, but goes on to imply that one day there may be more of these sort of programs, maybe, but the bank is the most innovative and greatest bank ever and they love you, trust them and maybe they’ll donate a few more dollars to something like this, maybe...

    Between turning fiction and myth into faux science, dramatizing history, speculating on conspiracy theories, dramatizing proven hoaxes and pseudoscientific “theories” (“I’m not saying it was aliens- but it was aliens”), advertisements intended to look like news to fool people into reading them, and lots of other little tricks and deceptions it’s no wonder there is a great “dumbening” going on.

    I think it was Carl Sagan that refered to science and rational thought as a “candle in the wind” which can easily be extinguished... it’s a scary thought, because every day the wind of nonsense and deception grows stronger.

    crying Thank you. You said it so much better than I did. yes

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,094
    edited January 2019

    Wasting my last few minutes of being able to sit at my computer to complain that I can still only sit at my computer for a few minutes because my back is still wonky.  However, only about 80% as wonky as Monday when I went to the Emergency Room yelping everytime I breathed.  They gave me a butt shot of pain killer in the hospital but that's worn off now. frown

    Complaint:  It's now snowing again.  The ground has been almost bare since the day after Christmas but now it's snowing again and there is about 2 inches on my porch which is NOT going to get swept away because I'm not in the mood to aggravate my back anymore.  Also, snow shoveling, trash runs, restaurants and  grocery shopping are definately off the menu for a while too. sad  Just think of all the money I'll save (temporarily).

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,265

    This is why I like to 3D art.  I cannot draw.

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    3264 x 2448 - 2M
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  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,015

    You're better at teeth than me!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sketch book?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Wasting my last few minutes of being able to sit at my computer to complain that I can still only sit at my computer for a few minutes because my back is still wonky.  However, only about 80% as wonky as Monday when I went to the Emergency Room yelping everytime I breathed.  They gave me a butt shot of pain killer in the hospital but that's worn off now. frown

    Complaint:  It's now snowing again.  The ground has been almost bare since the day after Christmas but now it's snowing again and there is about 2 inches on my porch which is NOT going to get swept away because I'm not in the mood to aggravate my back anymore.  Also, snow shoveling, trash runs, restaurants and  grocery shopping are definately off the menu for a while too. sad  Just think of all the money I'll save (temporarily).

    wincing in sympathy

    ixnay hetay hovelsays

    >.<

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