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...tell me about it. Seems each week I go to the market prices jump by 5 - 10¢ on everything.
At my age I try to eat healthy but it isn't easy on a tight budget these days.
Most of the "inexpensive" items are over processed, loaded down with additives and ingredients like high fructose syrup, MSG, and canola oil which I try to avoid.
I've been told to shop at one of the "discount" high volume markets but all their meat, poultry, and fish is prepackaged and usually in amounts larger than I need which usually ends up spoiling before I get to use it all (I don't have a large or standalone freezer). Also, most of the commercially prepackaged/frozen meats, poultry and fish are raised in industrial farms rather than pastures/ranges, or in the case of fish, high density fish farms rather the open ocean and lakes. With fruits and veggies there is the question of pesticides.
Finally The markets I shop at, while a bit pricier that those "food warehouse" types, are within a short walk or bike ride whereas the large megamarts are all out in the burbs and require a 5$, 3 hour (minimum) round trip to get to by transit. I'd rather spend that extra 5$ on higher quality items and the extra three hours to cook up and sit down to a good dinner.
Here is a wip of something I am working on.
Hehe the Flash Gordon rocket is a real nice touch :)
hey nice frock and nice looking :)
Can't eat pasta sauce with sausage in it, since childhood for some reason it just feels wrong :lol:
Josie 6 doesn't render correctly. The OpenGL preview window looks fine. I'm going to open an old backup to see if her skin renders correctly.
the cost of food shopping is ridiculous
we're lucky to have a farmers market most Saturdays, most packet food tastes funny when you're eating fresh veg with it :lol: Apparently though Melbourne is one of the world's most expensive cities, where did it all go wrong :lol: ?
the best skydome ever :coolsmile:
it might be the renderman SSS bug
reopening studio often fixes it
the best skydome ever :coolsmile:
It is a real nice day, warm and just enough breeze to stir the leaves on our trees
it might be the renderman SSS bug
reopening studio often fixes it
Is that 'cos a point cloud needs to be baked again?
Restarting Daz Studio 4 cleared the issue. Thanks.
Observation: Daz Studio 4.6/3Delight and two copies of Genesis use a lot of RAM. One scene uses about 1,700,000 bytes total according to Process Explorer. Daz uses half of my physical memory; I only have 2 GB installed.
...yeah Portland is heading that way as well. Not just food, but rent, utilities, home prices, and transit are all skyrocketing out of the means of the average person.
Traditional "blue collar" occupations have almost disappeared, being replaced by low paying service jobs on one end and high paying executive and technical jobs (that require extensive specialised training and credentials) on the other.
Used to be the Burbs were the place to live to avoid the troubles of the inner city. With all the "gentrification" and upscale development going on here, demographics have almost done a complete "about face".
Restarting Daz Studio 4 cleared the issue. Thanks.
Observation: Daz Studio 4.6/3Delight and two copies of Genesis use a lot of RAM. One scene uses about 1,700,000 bytes total according to Process Explorer. Daz uses half of my physical memory; I only have 2 GB installed.
That's impressive memory management performance from windows with 2 gig of available RAM, over a million page faults - most other OS"s would just fall over :lol:
It is a real nice day, warm and just enough breeze to stir the leaves on our trees
OK, I'm jealous! We had a high of 52 F today. Right now it's 33, but it has gone up from 31. Cloud cover is providing the warmup. Unfortunately, it's going to rain tomorrow.
Dana
...sounds more like it could snow with those temperatures.
Nah...the high tomorrow will be about 60. Thursday will be a bit warmer, maybe 63. Then it goes downhill again.
Dana
...been pretty dreary here for the last several days. "Nicest" day of the week will be tomorrow at 57 with just clouds, then back to rain and the mid 40s to around 50 for the next week (get's' my "ugh" rating).
all your sun belong us
...OK, I need an SR-71 Blackbird stat! Nuts to this gloomy cold wet stuff!
:-) :lol: :lol:
Bon voyage Mangalyaan, hopes you make it
...cool. Nice they had a successful launch.
Interesting that the booster used is smaller than what we use here in the US. The probe will orbit the earth for 25 days at an increasing orbital height then use the planet's gravity to slingshot it on the way to Mars.
They haven't had much luck with their low density fuel and cryo engines in the bigger vehicles this year
...I've seen.
Been watching other space programmes since ours is pretty much D.I.T.W for now.
I woke up and now I want to go back to bed but at the same time I do not want to sleep.
I'm sleepy but is not dark yet zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sheesh! Page 90 already? This thread iteration just started October 16.
The Faster Than A Speeding Bullet Complaint Thread
Added Look At My Fur™ presets to this old thing. :)
...yes, however three launches are from Baikonur with the Russian Space agency using their launch vehicles and facilities. That leaves only three "actual" NASA launches, the one of note on December 8th being the first commercial flight with the new Orbital Sciences Antares booster to the ISS.
Planetary missions are best accomplished with remote and semi autonomous probes instead of a manned crew. True it doesn't have that "wow' factor of watching someone step out on a different planet for the first time does, but even after Apollo 11, public interest in the Moon programme began to wane (save for Apollo 13). The "big" event was over and by Apollo15, the missions were seen as being almost anticlimactic, overshadowed by pressing issues here on earth.
Manned planetary missions are at best, short duration stays limited by the duration of the spacecraft's and EVA suits' life support systems. On the other hand robotic probes and vehicles have the advantage of not requiring life support, food/water, or remaining both physically and emotionally fit during the long months of lonely travel in microG. Also, as we have seen with Curiosity and even Voyager, these robotic explorers can function for years after their "primary" mission is completed, continually sending back important data and images thus extending the mission at little extra cost and risk.
True, we've had have long duration missions in Skylab. Mir and the ISS, however those facilities were/are constantly supplied from Earth on a regular basis and there was always a contingency plan should something go awry. That will not be the case with a Mars spacecraft which will take nearly seven to eight months to reach it's destination and be expected to remain serviceable to make the lengthy return flight home. Such a craft will need to constantly maintain a trouble free livable environment for about eighteen months without any resupply and carry enough supplies for the crew for at least a the outbound voyage (provided one or more unmanned "supply" craft are launched as well). It will require a formidable leap in technology on several fronts as well as in funding, the latter which could make the cost of the entire Apollo programme of the 1960s/70s pale in comparison.
A much better and more cost effective approach would be a series of unmanned sample return missions. The technology is already available (the Russians had several successful unmanned sample return missions the moon over four decades ago). It may not be as "exciting" or "headline grabbing" but it is more practical and efficient.
...and this is from someone who grew up during the "space race" with predictions back then that we'd have large orbital stations, installations on the Moon, and even commercial orbital shuttle service (like in the film 2001) by now.