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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    SlimerJSpud said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Hmmm, Thomas Beecham.  Must investigate him more thoroughly... yes

    Add him to my list:

    H. L. Mencken smiley https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h-l-mencken-quotes

    Dorothy Parker smiley https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52358/25-dorothy-parkers-best-quotes

     

    CLARIONET, n.

    An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.

    -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

     

    especially when squidward is playing it

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Wheee...  Used up my left-over ingredients for cookies.  Cookie jar is full again.  Made 46 big cookies.  All but three made it into the cookie jar.  Mmmmmm, warm cookies.smiley  (choc. chip, oatmeal, pecans, vanilla, flour, eggs, brown & white sugar, Crisco, salt, baking soda, +love)

    yummheartheartheart  BIG COOKIE  is chewier in the middle.

    achooooo

    nyquil cookies.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is getting harder to find stuff i want to watch for free in amazon prime.

    giving Eureka a try.

    btw  riddick is not a feel good kinda movie

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931

    ...been to Eureka. Nice quiet town in the better part of California with a good climate. Right by the Redwoods so lotsa big trees.

    Not a great place to go if you are still working and need a job, but if you are retired, a different story.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,301

    My coffee is too hot.  My computer will not connect to work WiFi.  I am having difficulty figuring out why,

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is too early in the day to be soo frustrated.

    explaining a relational database to a database admin, she prolly makes twice my pay,

    my nose won't stop runny.  shoulda stayed home, but i get no sick time.  can't take unpaid day, it's my destiny to have a thread ripper.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...been to Eureka. Nice quiet town in the better part of California with a good climate. Right by the Redwoods so lotsa big trees.

    Not a great place to go if you are still working and need a job, but if you are retired, a different story.

    couple more years.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    its only 12 cores. blush

    https://www.costco.com/cyberpowerpc-supreme-liquid-cooled-gaming-desktop---amd-ryzen-9---geforce-rtx-2070-super.product.100520135.html

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,301

    Trying to decide if I want to get fairy wings or angel wings for my boys.  Trying to decide also depends on how much my gift card balance is.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...been to Eureka. Nice quiet town in the better part of California with a good climate. Right by the Redwoods so lotsa big trees.

    Not a great place to go if you are still working and need a job, but if you are retired, a different story.

    couple more years.

    ...yes

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931
    Mystarra said:

    its only 12 cores. blush

    https://www.costco.com/cyberpowerpc-supreme-liquid-cooled-gaming-desktop---amd-ryzen-9---geforce-rtx-2070-super.product.100520135.html

    ...that's twice as many as I have in my old render box. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh wow,  saw Romi on a eureka episode

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  In another thread I read about 64-core CPUs and sigh in dismay that after decades of surfing the wave of computer technology from mid-'60s through 2002, I now am so far behind, floundering in the whitewater.  In my good times I had government or corporate money to spend and bought wonderful toys.  Now, I'm still spending government money but my Social Security check can't be equated with a NASA or MITRE or HP expense account.  In my present state I was recently thrilled to add a new computer to my home lab.  My new 6 core i5 joined a single-core Pentium, and a couple dual-core i3 systems and I thought I was in heaven.smiley  Now I read of 64 core CPUs and I wake up and realize I'm being tossed around in the technological whitewater and wait for the inevitable skin scrubbing swipe against the rough bottom sand or the bone breaking bash against the rocks. (*sigh*)frown

    But coming to my rescue are my memories.  I was there, back in the day, when streaming was still being tested in the laboratory and a simple audio broadcast would fill the buffer after 3 seconds.  I was there when wireless networking was being tested in the laboratory with a desktop computer being pushed down the hall on a gurney with car batteries for power and 200 pounds of electronics for the wireless do-hickeys.  I was there when my roommate came home and was talking about having access at work to an IMP in the ARPANET system before there was an actual internet.  I was there when computers didn't come with networking hardware and I had to build my own and create my own data exchange protocols.  I was there when the "Internet" was still new and I was tasked with evaluating it.  My report predicted many of the faults we currently suffer with.  I was there when we needed parallel processing power from only single thread processing boards, I put three of them into a VME chassis, designed an operating system to manage them and was able to process data fast enough for the project.  I was there creating an operating system that used a display screen and had floating windows of data to control and display information being processed in real time.  I even called my little operating system "Windows", only to find out later that some upstart in the northwest had just claimed the name for his little project. (*sigh*)  I was there when basic Internet protocols were still being invented.  I was there when secret research into submarine detection was unfunded and was turned to ways to count whales.  I was there when talking to a computer and getting it to understand speech was brand new and almost successful demonstrations to military generals invited to witness our progress were cause for much embarassment.  "I'm sorry General, speaking louder doesn't help.  Try enunciating more clearly.  Perhaps it's your accent.  Oh, you don't have an accent?" I was there predicting and detecting lightning strikes around rockets on the launch pad 25 years before lightning maps became a throwaway trinket on your evening weather report.  I was there drawing wireframe graphic objects on a video screen when most computers were still using mechanical teletypes as input/output.  It's these memories that make my old-man afternoon naps so relaxing.  Y'all may have some wonderful toys, but I was there...

    ...wall of text...super powers...fading...

    Mystarra said:

    harpsichord sound eviller devil  munches nuts snax

    That's only because you saw The Squire of Gothos.

    Mystarra said:

    started my Spring purging early. 4 jumbo garbage bags of clothes, socks,  hangars. towels.
    even the food processor cuz i fraid of the blades.

    i now have more storage conainers than stuff to store.
    cant bring this stuff if i retire overseas.   i'll leave my brown bettys to my cousin and buy new when i get there

    i makin a plan to use my tax refund to get a secured loan.  i'll build up credit and double the amount by the time is paid off enlightenedsmiley

    Debt kills dreams.  Just remember that.  Debt kills dreams and murders futures, and it doesn't matter if it's personal debt, corporate debt, or government debt.  I'm just trying to talk you off the ledge here...

    Mystarra said:

    is getting harder to find stuff i want to watch for free in amazon prime.

    giving Eureka a try.

    btw  riddick is not a feel good kinda movie

    I'm so disappointed in the TV and movie options for Prime, that I'm actually thinking of letting it lapse this year.  I think it comes due in June.  But yeah, the free stuff is so disappointing that I hardly watch anything anymore.

    kyoto kid said:

    ...been to Eureka. Nice quiet town in the better part of California with a good climate. Right by the Redwoods so lotsa big trees.

    Everybody I know is leaving California about five minutes after their retirement party.  Even the ones who live in the so-called "better part" of the state with a good climate.

    kyoto kid said:

    Not a great place to go if you are still working and need a job, but if you are retired, a different story.

    As long as you aren't retired from one of the cities that has unfunded pension liabilities.  This is a real problem.  Google "Stockton California Pension" and read the first two or three articles.  Real people lost their pensions when Stockton was allowed to do a Chapter 13 bankruptcy reorganization and cut them out.  City leaders should have gone to jail.

    Mystarra said:

    ...explaining a relational database to a database admin, she prolly makes twice my pay...

    I identify with your frustration.  It's also disappointing when people think their spreadsheet is a database.  surprise

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931

    ...agreed about what the State of California did.

    I'm on Social Security Retirement (like LG is), not a state pension, The state cannot take that away.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    puppers heart

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited February 2020

    free hard drive space on the C: drive went down by 20 GB.  Maybe I should check the recycle bin and temporary folders for useless junk.  No, I did not install the Daz runtime library/products onto the C: drive.

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  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    Not being political here, like at all, but when did California get as messed up and sad as it is now? 90s? 00s? 10s?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931
    Mystarra said:

    puppers heart

    ..the running of the Corgis..

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,368

    Hmmmmmm.

    /me looks at recent posts.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,120

    Non-complaint:  Wheee... it's good to hang on to good customers.  I've pretty much abandoned my computer fix-it services, but I have a couple of good customers that call me up about simple problems.  I don't charge but about half what I used to but I don't take on jobs that require oodles of research or involving things I'm not familiar with.  But yesterday one of the remaining customers that I take work from called asking about upgrading to a newer computer.  He'd been using an old 32-bit Vista machine for years & years.  The last time I dealt with him and had records of what I did to his machine was in January of 2016 and he's just now wanting to upgrade. surprise  His son or nephew or something gave him a "newer" machine so not being very computer literate he brought the machine to me to make sure it was functional and OK to use for another few years.

    So, today he brings in a home-built Windows7 machine. frown  Well, yeah, it's better than a Vista machine but...  So, I examine the system and it's not a bad machine.  Full size ATX case, but microATX motherboard first manufactured in 2013.  8GB of DDR3 RAM but only in one of the two available slots, so it could be expanded to 16GB (I checked the specs).  Quad-core 64-bit AMD CPU, and a nice gaming graphic card.  It has a valid Win7 license so it's elegible for free upgrade to Win10 but where he lives he has very poor network access.  I suggested upgrading to Win10 but he uses the computer very sparingly and opted to not go that route yet.   The machine had apparently been through a couple of hands of gamers and torrent downloaders so there was lots of games and unsurprisingly oodles of malware.  Also, the Win7 hadn't had a successful update since 2015. frown.  I spent all day yesterday and most of this morning cleaning things up, de-virusing, updating, reconfiguring and making it behave properly.  I only charged $35, but when the owner came to pick it up, he gave me a $65 tip.  surprisesmileyyes  Thinking it was a mistake I pointed out the pile of five $20s yet he said "no, you earned it".  Nice customer to have. cool  I guess he's not as skint as I thought he was.  And "yes" I explained all the issues with Windows7 but he wanted to continue with Win7 but might be back in a couple of years if he ever gets decent network access out where he lives.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,301

    My computer can connect to the WiFi but not to the internet.  I try connecting my iPad to the same WiFi and it connects to the internet.  I am trying to figure out what is wrong without restarting the router itself.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,931

    ..ugh, my State ID has expired.  I am a senior citizen on Social Security, yet I have to pay 41$ to renew it (I'd hate to see what it costs for a new one).  I don't drive, so why should it be so stupid expensive?

    Bloody bureaucratic robbery. No wonder so many poor people don't have ID.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ..ugh, my State ID has expired.  I am a senior citizen on Social Security, yet I have to pay 41$ to renew it (I'd hate to see what it costs for a new one).  I don't drive, so why should it be so stupid expensive?

    Bloody bureaucratic robbery. No wonder so many poor people don't have ID.

    thanks for the reminder  mine expires the 20th.  it;s my driver's license,  but no way i can pass the eye test. gonna have to get the state id.  feelin blue about it.  not that i'd try to drive, is a symbol of independence.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,301
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..ugh, my State ID has expired.  I am a senior citizen on Social Security, yet I have to pay 41$ to renew it (I'd hate to see what it costs for a new one).  I don't drive, so why should it be so stupid expensive?

    Bloody bureaucratic robbery. No wonder so many poor people don't have ID.

    thanks for the reminder  mine expires the 20th.  it;s my driver's license,  but no way i can pass the eye test. gonna have to get the state id.  feelin blue about it.  not that i'd try to drive, is a symbol of independence.

    I understand because I need to renew my driver's license or state id.  I have no car insurance because my only cars are, well, for Poser or Daz studio.  They have no vin so no insurance to drive with.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..ugh, my State ID has expired.  I am a senior citizen on Social Security, yet I have to pay 41$ to renew it (I'd hate to see what it costs for a new one).  I don't drive, so why should it be so stupid expensive?

    Bloody bureaucratic robbery. No wonder so many poor people don't have ID.

    thanks for the reminder  mine expires the 20th.  it;s my driver's license,  but no way i can pass the eye test. gonna have to get the state id.  feelin blue about it.  not that i'd try to drive, is a symbol of independence.

    I understand because I need to renew my driver's license or state id.  I have no car insurance because my only cars are, well, for Poser or Daz studio.  They have no vin so no insurance to drive with.

    Poser or Daz cars is economical.  no worries of oil changes and tune ups.  and clown invasions.

    i know people who never tlc their car and then they complain when they get stuck on road.

    how many clowns can come out of a herbie luv bug?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    this looka cute https://www.daz3d.com/ireal-animated-butterflies-and-wisps

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,301

    It looks like either rain is soon or it is raining.  I am not outside but there are big windows in the food court of the mall I am at.

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    Complaint: I'm so freaking old that I've hit the point where I'm having trouble finding new music to listen to that I enjoy. Everyone says this, but I didn't think it would happen to me. I thought I'd stay open minded about music, and become a punk-rock grandma down the line. However.... When I was in my teens and early twenties, most of the really popular musicians were somewhere from their early thirties to early fifties. Now I'm in my very late 30s, and most of the popular performers are in their teens and early 20s. When did adults get cancelled?

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