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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    ps1borg said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Something is wrong with my internet but I am not sure what it is?

    The thing's hollow...it goes on forever...and...OMG its full of Ads...

    ...heheh...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    sleepy hollow s2 an unexpexted ending.  rumours season 3 will have a crossover episode with Bones.

    the headless horseman at the jeffersonian?  dont know if i could suspend belief that far

    I have mixed feelings about that rumor.  It's probably just a rumor, though.

    Dana

    Hah, I stopped watching Bones and Mentalist over 2 years ago.  They started to bore me.  Most television bores me now, and I won't go near reality shows.

    Yeah, I struggled and forced myself to watch the concluding episodes of "The Mentalist".   And each new season I have an internal conversation about "do I want to start watching another season of these programs ( "CSI", "Bones", and several other programs that are still programmed into my DVR to record all new episodes) or not?"  I think what annoys me about them is the ongoing plots.  I'd rather see a show that has a beginning, middle, and end.  I'm tired of cliffhangers.

    TV in general is beginning to bore me.  If it weren't for some really good programs from "BBC" and the "Science" channel I'd drop my DISH subscription immediately.  Why do I have to buy 200 channels when I only watch 3 or 4?  I long ago got over my fascination with the "History" channel and the "Discovery" channel when they started airing pseudo science and conspiracy theory gobbledy-gook.  Scripted reality shows are the worst.  Especially shows that are populated by moronic angry drunk women or beautiful bodied, bubble headed, Bozo, boys & bonnies in group home situations.  Then there are the reality show that are recreations of supposed real events.  I'm OK with them if they tell you they are re-enactments, but some of them try to pass off footage of "real" events as live footage but nobody explains how the photographer got there and wasn't also noticed by the antagonists."  However, I do like real reality shows like "Cops", "First 48 Hours", and the recent spate of forestry service personel in various parts of the country (Alaska, Colorado, Maine, etc.).  I think I like the cop type shows because of all the real, honest-to-goodness idiots and bad guys they expose. 

     

    ...the only "realty" television I deal with is sports, and that's even a sketchy assessment sometimes.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    LeatherGryphon said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    made it.  venti cappuccino to kickstart the day.  javajavajava

    a new beanie baby named screech to keep me company today.  pic hasn't come thru yet ..., has to email it to myself from phone.
    remember when a phone was a phone?

    Remember?  Mine still is mostly a phone.  It has a 2MP camera...I've had this phone for several years and have used the camera on maybe four occassions.  Once, photos of a friend I hadn't seen in many years...didn't really know how to use it and I lost that photo.  sad  It is capable of doing a little bit of Internet things, but I don't have a data plan...too expensive and just can't afford it.  I was hoping that would have changed by now.  Oh, well.

    Dana

    Yeah, I've got a phone like that.  It's a tiny Samsung and about 3 inches high and 1.5 inches wide and flips open when talking.  It has a 1 inch square screen and the two or three times I've used the camera, the images were about as big and detailed as the avatar icons here in the fourm.  Yeah, I could take pictures with it, but It hurts when I do that so I don't do that anymore.  In poking around in the menu I've found that it says it can send text messages, and I actually get text advertisements from somewhere that I've learned to quickly ignore but I've never sent a phone based text message in my life.  There is some sort of Internet presence... well it has an icon labled "Browser" but I've never figured out how it works, so I don't do that either.  Yep, I just use it as a phone, and I don't do much of that either.  I carry it with me on vacation.  But I also carry it with me whenever I go out of the house so that if I have a heart attack while driving or shopping or walking to the post office, or using a public toilet I can at least dial 911 and try to describe where I am.  However, since I rarely make calls, and I have no friends who have urgent needs to call me, the best part of this phone is that it only costs me $7 a month to feel like I'm still in touch with reality if not the 21st century! smiley  It actually came in very handy during my recent trip to Florida where I got lost in a gated community and needed a relative to come guide me out of the maze.

    As a side note, I've heard that there is a new app that you can get for these fancy modern smart phones.  The app is fantastic.  When you want to speak to someone you simply dial their number (hmmm... "dial their number"... there's a quaint expression) then speak into the phone what you want to say, then it's translated to text and sent to the receipient's phone and decoded back into speech and the receipient can instantly respond the same way.  It's almost like talking directly to the person over a regular phone, but requires much higher technology, costs more and makes the phone manufactures and phone companies lots of profit.  I also have a bridge I'm selling.

    Wow!  That new app sounds great!  laugh  laugh  laugh    Mine is a Samsung Alias2.  I have texting turned off at Verizon.  I don't use it and early on I was getting "wrong number" texts and robo-call texts, so I asked them to lock it off.  I'm sure there are plans now that are better.  Back then it was costing me $.10 every time I got a text message.  I'm not paying for your stuby fingers dialing wrong!  (not you in particular, of course!)  I think Comcast/Xfinity has an online app that lets you send a text to someone's phone.  I don't know.  I'd rather just actually talk to someone if I can.  wink 

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    MistyMist said:

    COMPLAINTTTTTTT - day jobs plans to knock down walls turns iz blowing the budget.  so now they saying they'll put 4 desks into my office. 4!  4!! desks, 4 of us sitting on each other laps and breathing each other germs.  FRIKKIN crazy

    takin moi beanie babies home.

    ...yuk. Bad enough you have to ride on a rolling peti dish called a city bus each day. Yeah, I'd take anything you value back home.

    Al the more why I am pressing ahead with my SSA disability appeal. I got burned out on workplace politix at my last job and that was two and a half years ago..

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    Tjohn said:

     

    ...as they say, Soup is Good Food....

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    made it.  venti cappuccino to kickstart the day.  javajavajava

    a new beanie baby named screech to keep me company today.  pic hasn't come thru yet ..., has to email it to myself from phone.
    remember when a phone was a phone?

    Remember?  Mine still is mostly a phone.  It has a 2MP camera...I've had this phone for several years and have used the camera on maybe four occassions.  Once, photos of a friend I hadn't seen in many years...didn't really know how to use it and I lost that photo.  sad  It is capable of doing a little bit of Internet things, but I don't have a data plan...too expensive and just can't afford it.  I was hoping that would have changed by now.  Oh, well.

    Dana

    ...I still have one of those old "Star Trek" type flip phones.  Doesn't even have a camera and I'll be buggered if I could ever figure out how to text on it (yet people keep sending me texts).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...OK caught up here..

    Finally back online, felt like an eternity, had to slog through almost 4 pages of emails (which took most of the evening)

    Getting settled into the new digs.  Really nice big room and the house is so big I almost still feel like I'm living alone.  The room I have is huge literally about half as big as my old flat. sand it has WINDOWS (not the Microsoft kind) Natural light, what a concept. And hardwood floors, so much easier to keep clean. Have my computer work area set up really well now so I can more easily go back & forth between them.

    Still clearing out the last of my items, turned out U-haul stiffed my friends and rented out the truck they reserved to someone else so they got stuck with just a van . Couldn't get everything out in one shot like we planned so going to make another run tomorrow. waiting until the last of my stuff is out to do the big cleanup (easier to do when everything's out). Don't have to turn the keys in until Friday afternoon. 

    The area is pretty cool too just a block off a really nice street with lots of shops & such (counted four independent coffee shops in just a few blocks, not a Starbucks in sight).  Also closer to the market I like to go to (and no hills to deal with)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    kyoto kid said:

    ...OK caught up here..

    Finally back online, felt like an eternity, had to slog through almost 4 pages of emails (which took most of the evening)

    Getting settled into the new digs.  Really nice big room and the house is so big I almost still feel like I'm living alone.  The room I have is huge literally about half as big as my old flat. sand it has WINDOWS (not the Microsoft kind) Natural light, what a concept. And hardwood floors, so much easier to keep clean. Have my computer work area set up really well now so I can more easily go back & forth between them.

    Still clearing out the last of my items, turned out U-haul stiffed my friends and rented out the truck they reserved to someone else so they got stuck with just a van . Couldn't get everything out in one shot like we planned so going to make another run tomorrow. waiting until the last of my stuff is out to do the big cleanup (easier to do when everything's out). Don't have to turn the keys in until Friday afternoon. 

    The area is pretty cool too just a block off a really nice street with lots of shops & such (counted four independent coffee shops in just a few blocks, not a Starbucks in sight).  Also closer to the market I like to go to (and no hills to deal with)

    Sounds like a really good move.  I'm happy for you.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207

    ...thank you.  Indeed, I do feel a lot more "human" instead of like a modern day "cave troll".

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:
    Skiriki said:
    Meow.

     

    mrowwr  

    hoo hoo hoooo hoooot

    If he's a screech owl, the call is more like a scary ghost.surprise

    http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds

    Thank you!  I am pretty sure I've heard that on several occassions.  I've heard other owls, too, at night.  But that one is distinctive!

    Dana

    Owls screech when they hunt, is a real thing in the inky dark :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,289
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:
    Skiriki said:
    Meow.

     

    mrowwr  

    hoo hoo hoooo hoooot

    If he's a screech owl, the call is more like a scary ghost.surprise

    http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds

    Thank you!  I am pretty sure I've heard that on several occassions.  I've heard other owls, too, at night.  But that one is distinctive!

    Dana

    Owls screech when they hunt, is a real thing in the inky dark :)

    Oh, it's the owl?  I've always thought it was the shriek of terror of the mouse! surprise

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    When I'm working is normal to carry two smartphones, an ipad, whatever that crew uses to plug me into a schedule either their smartphone or often an ipad mini. Don't know whether it is an improvement on old school bricks and motorolas and runners but 21C sure has cut down on photocopying a lot, struggles with toner cartridges way to waste a bucketload of time :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the nocturnal world

    there lot o meeces round here for owls.  saw the neighborhood brown hawk couple years ago.  stinker took off before i could whip out camera phone.  one day will use camera phone to talk to somebody.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:

    ...thank you.  Indeed, I do feel a lot more "human" instead of like a modern day "cave troll".

     

    too easy to turn into a shut-in living in the boonies

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2015
    atticanne said:

    My crystal ball tells me that a certain someone (MM) will be throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into DAZ tomorrow.

     

    sanity returns, lol.  over night inflation.  

    did get the frock coat :joy:  Ebeneezer Scrooge muwahaha

    why am i thinking of gonzo all a sudden

     

    tee hee 

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

    301 Million   come on lotto, genesis baby needs a new pair of booties
     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,289
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...thank you.  Indeed, I do feel a lot more "human" instead of like a modern day "cave troll".

     

    too easy to turn into a shut-in living in the boonies

    You got that right.  This town is relatively big for the area.  It has a grocery store, an automobile service station (no gas), a post office, two churches, a bar, and a restaurant on weekends.  During the winter I get out about once a week to pick up mail at the post office and go to doctor's appointments.  During the summer it's twice a week and an infrequent 20 mile trip to Chautauqua for an evening symphony.  That's why my trip to Florida was such a big deal to me.  There are times I don't even open the door or look out a window for days.  If it weren't for TV and Internet I could easily pass for a hermit.

    Chautauqua: http://ciweb.org/chautauqua-vacation?gclid=CLTsjZr4nsgCFZWMaQodIxAEBg

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:
    Skiriki said:
    Meow.

     

    mrowwr  

    hoo hoo hoooo hoooot

    If he's a screech owl, the call is more like a scary ghost.surprise

    http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds

    Thank you!  I am pretty sure I've heard that on several occassions.  I've heard other owls, too, at night.  But that one is distinctive!

    Dana

    Owls screech when they hunt, is a real thing in the inky dark :)

    Oh, it's the owl?  I've always thought it was the shriek of terror of the mouse! surprise

    Owls here are rather large and  seem to prefer possums and cats, I imagine they call to each other when they stalk something. Oh man this text box doesn't format so well on an ipad :(

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    the nocturnal world

    there lot o meeces round here for owls.  saw the neighborhood brown hawk couple years ago.  stinker took off before i could whip out camera phone.  one day will use camera phone to talk to somebody.

    Been watching out for a pair of Powerful Owls hunting in our garden at night this winter, no idea how to go about photographing those they tend to blend into the shadows and fly whisper quiet for birds that large :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...OK caught up here..

    Finally back online, felt like an eternity, had to slog through almost 4 pages of emails (which took most of the evening)

    Getting settled into the new digs.  Really nice big room and the house is so big I almost still feel like I'm living alone.  The room I have is huge literally about half as big as my old flat. sand it has WINDOWS (not the Microsoft kind) Natural light, what a concept. And hardwood floors, so much easier to keep clean. Have my computer work area set up really well now so I can more easily go back & forth between them.

    Still clearing out the last of my items, turned out U-haul stiffed my friends and rented out the truck they reserved to someone else so they got stuck with just a van . Couldn't get everything out in one shot like we planned so going to make another run tomorrow. waiting until the last of my stuff is out to do the big cleanup (easier to do when everything's out). Don't have to turn the keys in until Friday afternoon. 

    The area is pretty cool too just a block off a really nice street with lots of shops & such (counted four independent coffee shops in just a few blocks, not a Starbucks in sight).  Also closer to the market I like to go to (and no hills to deal with)

    Wow sounds great :) And close to a market is always good :)

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925
    kyoto kid said:

     

    Getting settled into the new digs.  Really nice big room and the house is so big I almost still feel like I'm living alone.  The room I have is huge literally about half as big as my old flat. sand it has WINDOWS (not the Microsoft kind) Natural light, what a concept. And hardwood floors, so much easier to keep clean. Have my computer work area set up really well now so I can more easily go back & forth between them.

     

    Am so happy you found a living setup that you really like! Sorry the move didn't go quite as planned but at least you're settled in. With all that natural light, you'll feel more refreshed when you are at the computer and work area. I don't drink coffee so could care less about that, but shopping in general is always good! Good for you!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,289

    I was surprised by a big black spider (well, "big" for this area of the country) in my bathtub.  Fast little bugger but it couldn't climb out of the tub.  Rather than squash it, I doused it in anti-spider spray and let it die (muaa-ha-ha).  Later I went in and turned on the shower and flushed him down the drain but now discover that he's clogging the drain! sad  Karma!

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,098
    edited September 2015

    I have sooo many complaints today...

    One... I hate video tutorials.   Before you try to convince me otherwise, I'll say this- there are ten good ones out there and if you like video tutorials, yours are probably one or all of those... Now that I've acknowledged that not all are bad, I can say the rest are... They could be good, but for some reason most are not... They suck, sucking while sucking at sucking.  Why does every person who does one have to try to do it in one take without editing and what looks like zero planing?

    "Okay... I'm Tom Fartburger and welcome to Understanding Wombat 3D Suite... Okay, let me turn on the computer and sip some water while it boots up... Ooh, there's a dead fly in my water... I guess I better not drink it... Why is this not turning on?  Oh the power strip is off... I'll just go under the desk and reach in back... Aaaaaaah spiders!!    Ow... I banged my head... There... It's on... Now we go over to the icon for Wombat 3D... The version we'll be using today is Version 2.678.311100868.97, but the newest version is 30.2 and the UI looks nothing like 2.678.311100868.97, but this is just to give you an idea that there is something called Wombat 3D that runs on computers and makes 3D models... So, now we take the mouse and use it to point to stuff... Oh by the way, sorry if you are having trouble understanding me... I have two carrots stuck in my nostrils and I also have carrot allergies, so bear with me... grrrr... Get it... Bear... Grrrrr... "

    Then on top of that people insist on having the window open in the back... I understand you live in Death Valley and you apartment is hot, but do you have to make the video while there is a full on bank robbery and hostage siege or a reenactment of the whole damn French Revolution going on across the street?... There are these two videos I came across yesterday that I'd swear were recorded with either the Cloverfield monster or the Kaiju from Pacific Rim destroying the city in the background... So every other sentence is drowned out by some loud thud or bang and the guy just droned on thorough it all...

    Then there are the new (not ten years ago when this was excusable) videos that are shot in 64 x 48 resolution... And the guy just goes right on pointing to the stuff like you can see what the hell it is he is doing, "click here, click there... And we do this..."  I didn't even see a cursor... for all the hell I know, he could be playing Super Mario Brothers with the sound turned off. And then there is the guy who makes a new (recent) video with a hand held camera, not screen capture software... And it always has to have at least some amount of fingerprints or Vaseline smeared on the lense and the guy has to be going through nicotine withdrawal and overdosed on caffeine simultaneously...

    Which by the way, leads me to a quick side complaint... Have you seen "Unboxing" videos yet?  I really want to murder most of the people who make those... They pollute searches for "how to open" stuff... Like how to open up a hard drive or an Android phone... The video usually has some moron opening a box to show you some device inside, like since he is proud he opened it without killing or seriously wounding himself in the process, he has to share his accomplishment with humanity... Each of these is shot by someone who has no clue how to use the camera, and is opening the box at the same time or possibly a pet is holding it for them, but either way the camera is all over the place... And they take forever to do it, are not prepared and are really, really stupid... I keep coming across them while looking for real stuff and I end up watching these train wreaks, hoping a cobra will leap out of the box and bite the guy in the face. They all seem to be shot in the dark too... They are completely worthless and yet at the end the guy making it (it's always one guy, who has no friends) always says "well... There you are... That's the new _ _ _ _.... I hope you liked the video..."  No!  No, I did not... You suck!...    

    Sorry... I got sidetracked...

    And then you have the guy who is making "an introduction to" video, but instantly forgets to explain any of what he is doing... "So we click on the TFI, drop down the BFD menu and click on this but remember you don't want to accidentally click PIG or bad stuff will happen..."  Or better yet, he is making a video for FREE entry level software and in addition to the above he keeps not showing how to do stuff but saying "we do it just like in Maya", or some other high end expensive software... Why would I be using Wombat 3D Free if I have or use Maya?  And the cursor is flying everywhere clicking crap here and there at light speed...

    And then there is the guy with a ten minute introduction that Industrial Light and Magic would be impressed and confused by, but the whole tutorial is only three minutes and badly explained at that, followed by a ten minute flashy credit roll and coming attractions for the next video... Instead of hiring Foreigner (yeah, 70s-80s Foreigner) to do your theme music, how about focusing on the point of the video?

    And worst of all is when you have all of the above and more and it's not some dumbass without a plan, but an actual company... With software that you pay for... But they are usually the kind of software company who has a site with NO explanation of what the software is or does... Just "Wombat 3D"on the homepage, a logo and a video... The video usually starts with some intense crazy music which is way over the top for what it's being used for and continues through the whole video, and it goes on as a light speed gloss over of stuff being made, gallery turntable shots, more making stuff, flash-bang-boom it's over... Buy the software....      Yeah, maybe if you explain what the hell I just saw... Maybe?   I love the "if you didn't get what you just saw, this isn't for you, mentality" 

    Okay, I'm not done... But I'm sure you are... I'm gonna go now, while you rub you eyes and regret reading this... Have a great day everyone.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    edited September 2015

    McGyver, I truly feel your pain. You just described a DAZ tutorial I watched last week. This is what happens when a tutorial/training video uses the actual programmer to present. Most programmers can't teach, or even guide, It's "click here, there, select this (but not that), ctrl 9 for whatsis." All that in 2.3 seconds while you're looking at your screen trying to find the icon to start the damn program. But, now I know why I'm an under-employed tech writer.  No one wants to sit and read the damn book. Books are great, you can even set it beside your keyboard and review/practice to your heart's content. /rant angry

     

    Oh, and to the cell phone thread. I too have a flip style Samsung... I've taken lots, and lots of pictures... all of the inside of my pocket. indecision

    Post edited by Etrigan on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,289

    Yep, seen those! sad It's all part of the modern concept of let's let everybody be video makers.  The trouble is we forgot how many of us should ever be video makers.  As I've said many times before.  "Letting the common man get their hands on computers was a big mistake."  Or, "Computers were a terrorist plot to destroy western civilzation".

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,843

    I can't quit giggling at that. "Man Killed to Death"

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:
    Skiriki said:
    Meow.

     

    mrowwr  

    hoo hoo hoooo hoooot

    If he's a screech owl, the call is more like a scary ghost.surprise

    http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/sounds

    Thank you!  I am pretty sure I've heard that on several occassions.  I've heard other owls, too, at night.  But that one is distinctive!

    Dana

    Owls screech when they hunt, is a real thing in the inky dark :)

    I was talking about that odd, what they called a shrill I think, sound.  I thought it was some loud insect or something else.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,207
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...thank you.  Indeed, I do feel a lot more "human" instead of like a modern day "cave troll".

     

    too easy to turn into a shut-in living in the boonies

    ...which is why I don't want to end up out there. Transit is lousy, everything is miles apart, and where I live there aren't even sidewalks or many thru side streets (so you usually have to go out of your way and walk along the busy roads with 40 - 50 mph traffic shooting past you) in many areas

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the nocturnal world

    there lot o meeces round here for owls.  saw the neighborhood brown hawk couple years ago.  stinker took off before i could whip out camera phone.  one day will use camera phone to talk to somebody.

    Been watching out for a pair of Powerful Owls hunting in our garden at night this winter, no idea how to go about photographing those they tend to blend into the shadows and fly whisper quiet for birds that large :)

    Maybe look into a hunters camera?  They fasten to a tree and are motion activated I think.  I don't really know, but I've seen them.  Some may be video cameras.  I don't know how detailed they get, though.  And they may use night vision and give monochrome images.

    Dana

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