The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread
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..52°F and sunny here. So far no snow or ice this winter. Hoping it stays that way.
-37° F right now in Fairbanks AK, 32°F in my old neighbourhood of Milwaukee WI. 29°F in my old college town of Stevens Point WI, and 62°F in Melbourne AU with a high today of 85°F and 90s for the next couple days.
One of my daughters had a school project... She had to visit a north shore beach and south shore beach to complete it... 25 miles between Long Island Sound on the North (Huntington) and Fire Isand on the South... Usually “the sound” is very calm and the Atlantic is... well, “The Atlantic”... but today the atlantic wasn’t very turbulent...
Sunken Meadow State Park, Huntington
Robert Moses State Park, Fire Island
Cutie Deer Butts... (White tailed deer on Fire Island)
Surly Seagull... (Snootier than South Shore gulls)....
One of my daughters took these pictures.
I was hoping for the kind that “fell off the back of a truck”... wink-wink, nudge-nudge... academically... of course.
want the warms
seagulls not liking thedegreeses as much as we do
I worked for that laser company in Orlando back in 1982 for one year before I moved to Washington, DC to work for a think-tank. I just now googled the laser company and it seems that they no longer make (or at least don't advertise) those mega lasers anymore. (hmmm, I wonder why) They are however continuing with their lines of medical and small industrial lasers. The big lasers were impressive though. I don't remember the exact dimensions but the lasing tube was two inches in diameter and about 12 foot long. It sat in an extremely heavy & rigid metal frame and the whole apparatus, frame and all was mounted on vibration damping pads so that the two ends of the lasing tube wouldn't vibrate out of phase due to traffic on the roads outside the building. The lasing tube was stationary but its 1 inch diameter beam was directed down the robot arms to a front surface flat mirror at each the joints and eventually to the focusing optics at the end. All mirrors had to have continual air streams pointed at them blowing the dust away. A speck of dust on the mirror would vaporize and damage the mirror. And a damaged mirror would cascade and absorb even more heat and explode or melt. Unfortunately, I don't know how they handled the focusing optics or even if they were mirrors or glass or quartz (probably concave front-surface mirrors).
I dreamed that Everyone around me thought I was pregnant and kept touching my stomach.
i also dreamed I checked the mail and it was full of cockroaches
Considering the chances of exploding mirrors, perhaps that should read "fortunately".
Cockroaches, the new spam.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
When will the snow stop?? I don't want to reschedule the appointment to see my specialist. I'll need to wait on hold for half an hour to speak to a receptionist. Maybe the snow will melt on Monday when the temperature is 35 degrees F.
Watched the Arnold Schwartznegger Conan movie ("Conan the Barbarian") where they played the "Oh Fortuna" piece from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" opera (scenic contata). Such a momentous, throbbing, fearful, awe inspiring, wonderous piece it is. Although it's been used in so many movies now that its lost some of its shock value.
Here's the music and both the Latin and English lyrics. Carl Orff: "Oh Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-fya3vutQ
I remember one hot sweaty Summer afternoon Driving down past Buck House towards HydePark Corner Roundabout, in the outside of two lane moving slowly towards the raoundabout. As O Fortuna came on the vehicle stereo My son (who had been assisting me that day) turned the stereo up as loud as it would go. Obviously, due th=o the heat all vehicles had their windows open and we noticed that A London Black cab was keepin pace with me, driver totally into the music. Qw proceeded down Constitution hill next to each other, until he saw that he had a free run onto the r'about to turn left, so gave us a cheery wave and drove off. Was quite amusing.
For those who don't know London England Hyde Park Corner is one opf the busiest and worst places in London, always crowded.
those roundabouts is hard to escape?
sag harbor had 1 of those, go round and round all day long
Certainly not really recommended for learner drivers.
Riverhead has a couple and Ocean parkway has two... I hate roundabouts, not because they are difficult, but because for about ten percent of the driving public, its “game over man”... And that person is always the guy in front of me. Not a lot of fun, especially the guy who was going the wrong way near Robert Moses a few months ago... stuck in the middle going around and around while people were dodging out of the way... finally figured it out after four loops.
It’s also one of the main ingredients too...
Washington, DC has a few traffic circles. The biggest are:
DuPont Circle in a prime commercial area at the intersection of P Street, 19th St. NW, Connecticut Ave, Massachussets Ave and New Hampshire Ave.
And Logan Circle a few blocks away still on P Street in a prime residential area at the Intersection of P Street, 13th St. NW, Vermont Ave, and Rhode Island Ave.
I was always fascinated by the mansion at 1 Logan Circle that was originally built for the twin Smith Brothers of cough drops fame. It was a single square mansion but divided down the middle and oppositely symetrical on either side of the divide. One brother lived in each half.
When I lived in Washington DC I lived on P St. NW at the intersection of P and 6th St. When driving in Washington I'd go out of my way to avoid DuPont Circle. Getting caught in it was like playing bumper cars with maniacs and real cars. The only way to go through DuPont Circle with clean underware was to be on Connecticut Ave and take the middle lanes UNDER the circle to get to the other side.
The worst "wrong way" I have ever heard of was friends of ours who were driving down from Liverpool to SE england we told them to get onto the M25 road (The London Orbital) and then come off at Junction 29, so they joined the M25 at junction 21 and drove all the way round to junction 29 the wrong way so junction 20 to 30 then finaly junction 29. so pretty much drove the whole of the 117 miles to travle a distance of just a few miles.
I was thinking about that scene! And they say Boston traffic is tought to navigate!
Dana
what a job, cleaned my place, through out 3 big garbage bags of crappe from my closets, was able to fit my whole drum set in the freshly emptied closet
>.< clinging to books i cant read no moars, why is it so heartaachie to chuck books
Because Books become friends ........ don't chuck them donate them so they can make more friends .......
Some neighbors are shoveling snow at 11:45 at night. The sky is dark and cloudy.
...I flew a sport kite performance to it at a kite festival. got a lot of "wow"s from the audience.
...we have a major roundabout in the near northeast area of Portland OR (with a statue of Joan of Arc on the middle). Motorists here have no clue how to deal with it.
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Back in the mid 80s when I was much more ignorant of classical music I went into the biggest record shop in downtown Washington DC (remember record shops?), into the big room at the back where they had all the classical records and asked the classical records department steward to help me. "What is it you're looking for?" he asked. Unable to remember the title I said it was in one of the "Conan" movies (there were only two at the time). He replied that he wasn't familiar with the movies.
Then, for some unknown and probably mystical reason I blurted out "The title sounds like Anna Karenina" (the novel by Leo Tolstoy) 
A look of confusion crossed his face for a moment then he asked timidly "Do you mean Carmina Burana?" "Yes" I uttered in glee, and we both laughed. Isn't it interesting how the brain works! 
Apparently the cadence of both those phrases was enough to jog memories.
It seems this particular forum thread is about complaining about non-Daz items. Does this sound correct? Where do I complain about Daz items specifically the user gallery.
*rant*
I'm frustrated that people can post a bunch of photo's in one dump (I see someone had called this shovelware or something like that) . For example I see 16 images just shoveled up to the gallery just ten minutes ago by one artist. Last night the same person did 59 images in about two minutes time! I believe if there was a limit of say one per hour or X amount per day would be fair so that everyone gets a chance to be on the first page. It's like internet search results where anything on page 2 is barely seen and anything on page 3, or on, is dead. Needles to say that 59 image in a couple of minutes dooms everything to page 2 and 3 in a blink of an eye. This limit would force people to be more selective in what is uploaded AND put more work into ONE image rather than a minimal amount of work into ten images.
*rant over*
@ junk Sending you a PM