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I'm about to cook some Dino nuggets. For some reason. Tyson Dino nuggets taste just like chicken. It is almost like the Dino nuggets are chicken nuggets in the shape of dinos!
I think lunch will be readay faster if I cook the food instead of watch the bag of Dino nuggets on my table.
As chickens are dinosaurs, I think you're right! And cooking will be more effective than looking at the bag, I think ;-)
I am frying some home cut potatoes right now. I'm still in the kitchen. I heard a watched pot doesn't boil. Does that include a frying potatoes in a frying pan? I'm keeping alert on what I'm cooking.
Oooh, difficult one. In my experience, you're better off keeping an eye on what you're cooking...
Complaint: Issues upgrading to Win11: (*Sigh*) About a year ago I let my oldest of three Win11-ready computers upgrade from Win10 to Win11. It upgraded without issue. I've been playing with it now and then, and am semi-comfortable with the interface and behaviour. So today I decided to let my gaming machine begin upgrading from Win10 to Win11. Seemed to work fine for a while but eventually pooped out with the following: cFosSpeed Driver ; Your PC has a service that isn't ready for this version of Windows
No way to continue the upgrade from there. It just undoes what has already been done and terminates the upgrade. There is apparently a newer version of cFosSpeed (which I didn't even know I had, much less what it does) but the link to the supposedly official website for it seemed to be incomplete because it said so, when I got there.
More research on the Web indicates that it is most probably a networking speed enhancement feature installed by the motherboard company (Asus in this case) during original installation. Win11 apparently needs a newer version, but other people are saying that it is now redundant and unnecessary for people who don't push the networking speed envelope regularly. So I think I'm going to do a little more research and find a reasonable way to remove it. Of course I could always start over and just install Win11 from scratch and reinstall all my settings & games & familiar apps & utilities, and be careful when installing the Asus utilities. Groan, it couldn't have just worked, could it?
I hate to think of the issues I'm going to run into when I need to upgrade my primary everything-important-to-my-life machine that has had 10 years of accumulated apps and innumerable tinkerings.
But hey, I've got till October, right?
I want to make pancakes, but I thought all my mixing bowls were in the dishwasher. And I just started the dishwasher.
I found a small glass mixing bowl on my table. I just toolkit out of its previous home to find a safer place to store it.
Cfosspeed is not a network optimizer, its a traffic shaper - get rid of it and be hapy..
Complaint: I am now offically completely broke. I just spent $1500 to purchase this computer system to replace the one that was damaged by a lightning strike:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/405917733389\
Noncompaint: Hopefully with the RTX3090 it will eeasily handle all my scenes.
Complaint: It will take a lot of work to get everything set up and MY DS library downloaded
They're selling computers with an RTX 3090 for $150?
No it was a typo. I spent $1500 including shipping and handling.
I grew up on a farm with chickens. I learned to kill and cut up chickens, so I had first-hand knowledge of their anatomy. Then I went to college and majored in Biology, and eventually had a course in Ornithology which included learning about the anatomy of birds from a scientific viewpoint. I eventually received a B.S. in Biology. Yay for me.
All of which leads me to feel safe in asserting that THERE AIN'T NOTHING CALLED "NUGGETS" ON A CHICKEN!
Now on a dinosaur, I don't know, there could be nuggets. Lots of nuggets. Since modern birds don't have nuggets maybe they don't need them to live.
Hey, what the heck do I know about it, I'm retired.
..yeah I remember when there were still Drivers Ed courses in High School. Whet through them (the classroom component was mandatory) and glad I did..
Watching someone attempting to parallel park these days is almost "comedy". I've seen people in a small Honda or Subaru give up on a parking spot I could easily have put a 4-door 1970 Buick LeSabre into back in the day.(no backup cameras, no sensors, not even those old "curb feelers"). As I understand here in Oregon they don't even test for it anymore (that used to be the major failing point of the road test).
I feel things became worse since the pandemic ended as I'm still seeing more excessive speeding, rolling or running through stop signs, running red lights, not signalling turns, andjust plain aggressiveness behind the wheel.
I haven't ridden my bike (which I heavily modified for daily commuting) much over the last three or so years as it has become fairly "challenging" in the area where I live due to inconsiderate and careless motorists as well as "blind" intersections in many areas usually due to a big SUV, jacked up pickup, or van parked right at the corner.
Being older as well as retired, I am not in much of a hurry these days. I give myself plenty of time to get to the nearest transit stop and places I walk to. If a situation looks "dicey", like someone speeding down a street I intend to cross, I hold back and wait, A few more seconds isn't a big deal like it apparently is to that nut holding the wheel.
I was in my last two years of high school in California in 1968/69 and 1969/70. And the summer between to make up mandatory classes Oregon didn't think necessary for a girl or a high school graduation. My previous three years of schooling was in Oregon and let's just say that my little sister was using the same high school level books for her California middle school classes when she started there. I had to work my tail off taking classes over or jumping into courses without the base course. Math and Sciences were the ones I lacked the most.
My son graduated high school in California in 1995, I think he had Driver's Ed and Training in school. I know I wouldn't allow him a learner's permit without them when he was 16. Nor behind the wheel of my van or on my car insurance. And living on a military base with no bus service, you were stuck without a car.
When schools stop teaching reading and writing because AI can do it all for you, will be too late to fix the situation. The AI will have figured out that we're really not necessary.
Non-complaint: Yay, micro-reunion over and enjoyed. Five ancient high school nerds (2F, 3M) having lunch at Olive Garden restaurant. And my ride (BFF from NYC) drove me to drugstore, grocery store, and even to a roadside veggie stand where I picked up my fresh this morning corn-on-the-cob. More mischief managed.
'Nother non-complaint: Wheee... a new building is going up next to the Olive Garden and it's going to be a Popeye's chicken place. Mmm... "Love that Chicken from Popeyes"!
And it's that time again: At the micro-reunion I found out that there will be another proper high school reunion (our class's 60th) next year. And it will be at a restaurant.
Anything, anywhere, except another cheap buffet at the rodeo grounds.
complaint: Filling out the form that's the next step in applying for a Developmental Disability Waiver for little dude. One of the questions: "Do the child's impairments affect the child and family? (Y/N)"
No, not at all. That's why I'm applying for this: because everything is rainbows and roses and sparkle confetti. I just love filling out paperwork and trying to navigate the government assistance program for fun!!
Bonus points: the follow up question is "please explain." The box to explain is the height of the first joint of my thumb (and I have small hands). And there's no electronic option for filling this out, so I have to do it by hand.
The first sentance of my response was "More than will fit in this box."
....wondering when AI will determine us older broken down folks to be "unnecessary" and order us to report to a "sleep shop".
Not as fast a runner as I used to be
Since A.I. is basically a series of if/then statements. I ain't that worried.
Yet.
The problem is that a load of very simple statements with a few decision points can be developed into something that appears to be different from the sum of its parts (either more, or occasionally less). The 'Internet' is one. AI is another. Especially as the way AI is coded allows the decisions on which its actions are based to be obscure even from the last programmer.
I am more 'interested' than 'alarmed', but like any tool I think its application must be reined in to reduce harm and maximise benefit. Like a machete. In a cane field, a machete can be a good thing. In a packed Mall, a machete would be classed as NOT a good thing.
Regards,
Richard
I am figuring out that necromancy is something in the real world, but without the creation of zombie hoards to fight for their masters. It actually has nothing about a way to create zombies at all. Nothing at all what I thought it would be.
I remember another thing necromancy is used for, reviving a long dead thread on a forum.
However that is not what real life necromancers do.
Non-complaint: Kitchen window entertainment: Wheee..., the town road crew is back and this time they're cleaning the sidwalk and ditch area on the property next door. I currently avoid it because it has 3-foot high weeds growing up between the cracks and filling the ditch too. I'm at the extreme end of the village boundary and it's debatable whether that sidewalk and the final segment of sidewalk in front of this house are actually within village limits. The sidewalk snowplow doesn't clean either one.
The story I got was that it's too narrow and ground would have to be widened to fit the plow through.
The sidewalk all the way from the center of the village was completely renewed last year, and widened down to this remaining narrow section. However, the lady of the house in the other apartment in this building has three elementary school age children who need to walk that sidewalk. She is known for her candor. So, perhaps she's made noises at the right people and they're fixing the issue.
I think my ceiling fan has been set too high in speed. Either that or ac is on at the wrong temperature.
When I was growing up, there was a length of dirt road that neither my city nor the next one over would claim. It was maybe half a mile long or so, and not much was on it: on one end there was an old 1-room schoolhouse that had been converted into a home, plus one old house about 2/3 of the way down. (Now there's also a church/daycare, but that came later.) The potholes on that thing would get HORRIFIC, which all us schoolkids thought was kind of awesome because that was the route the bus took to get us onto the highway on the other end, and from there to the school. (There was one within walking distance of me. We weren't sent to that one. Or the three others that were in the same suburb... We were sent about 20 minutes away by bus. Because that made sense.) But still, neither city wanted to pay to have it surfaced because nothing was on it, and there were other ways around if you were willing to go a little out of your way. Finally one city had some slag left over from a road construction project, and they called a truce with the other one and split the costs of paving it with the leftover materials. (Late 90's/early 2000's? I was driving by 1993, and I remember driving on it dirt...)
And then, once that was done, the potholes were still awful and nobody wanted to fill them for the same reason no one had wanted to pave it to begin with.
The highway got widened and upgraded in the late 2010's when another highway project crossed it and they needed to connect the two up, and at that point the poor ignored street finally got some love because it turned into a minor-but-still-important exit.
Non-complaint: Successfully upgraded my gaming/DAZing machine to Win11. Yay!
By uninstalling "TurboLAN" I got rid of the "cFosSpeed" driver error that previously would terminate the upgrade.
"TurboLAN" was something installed by the utilities that came with the ASUS motherboard. It's a "traffic shaper", i.e. a filter in the network stack that decides which packets go through, and when. Purpose is to balance the throughput based on priority. It is less important these days than it was even just a few years ago.
So, now I have my old primary machine (Baby-Bear) and my big gaming/DAZing machine(Poppa-Bear) converted to Win11. All that's left is my new primary everything-important-to-my-life machine (Momma-Bear) with it's long accumulation of apps, tools, databases, patches & tweaks
, to get upgraded to Win11 before the deadline later this fall.
Complaint: Egads! My brand-new fanciest computer (Poppa Bear) is now three years old.
I began replacing my three 10+ year old machines back in 2019. I built a new one about each year through 2022. Now the three old ones are around 14-16 years old, but still functional with Win10, and the three new ones are reaching maturity and graduating to Win11. Time marches on.
And I even have two WinXP machines from the early 2000s, still functional, but mostly serving to keep the carpet on the floor.
I dreamt last night I was part of a movie or book that has monsters from the oceans attacking areas on the coastline type story.
I was part of the team to get those monsters back into the ocean or something like that.
Somehow someone on my support team drove out to the coast to bring me back to Raleigh. I wanted to save NC but I was not allowed to be on the coast while monsters are attacking.
Somewhere in the dream, I was looking at 2 art sets. Neither were completely there.
I'm happily down to just one -- my new CPU I got to start my Daz journey in November of 2023, replacing my previous from 2013 that had been... well, what was in the budget at the time. It didn't even have a write feature on the DVD drive because that had been deemed a luxury. It still worked well enough for most stuff, just wouldn't run DS. That computer went to Teen Kiddo, who was excited to have a "big" computer for their own (they have a laptop my grandparents gave them for Yule previous to that).
When I was married, there were computers and bits of tech EVERYWHERE. The ex- was in I/T and any time he saw anything decomissioned, he grabbed it. It just needed some tinkering with, and it'd be up and running again! ...except as far as I know he never did anything with any of them. They just accumulated. Including several huge server-type things that sat in our garage for an age, plus a CRT monitor he refused to part with "because you never know when you'll need it." And the cables and cords that filled multiple plastic storage tubs.... a lot of which were power supplies to things we might not ever have even owned.
Per the divorce decree, he was supposed to take all of his belongings with him when he lost the legal right to be in the house. Sadly, that did not happen. My parents and I rented a giant dumpster -- and filled it. The computers I wound up taking to Best Buy in multiple trips because there was a limit on how much one could drop off at once. (Dad kindly wiped all the drives first, as we didn't know what was on them, and at least two of them had been his personal computers at some point before they died.) The server-level stuff went to an acquaintance from high school who was excited about the whole thing, and I don't even care if he just turned around and sold it. It was out of my house with minimal effort on my part, and that was priceless.
Dude was seriously weird about some of the stuff he kept/left, though. Took a giant, aged amp (band gear) he'd gotten as a hand-me-down that had not worked the 15-ish years he'd had it, but left a rather nice mixing board I sold to a friend for $200. Left several musical instruments, but threw a tantrum at several times during the divorce process demanding I return his cello... which I never had. My best guess is he took it to a music jam and was so drunk that he not only forgot it, but forgot he brought it in the first place, but I'll never know for certain how he managed to lose an instrument the size of a small adult. It's become kind of a running joke around here. Anything we can't find... maybe it's with his cello.
I frequently use an android tablet to view the site, and in the mobile view, I can't get any form of formatting unless I type the 'greater than' and 'less than' symbols and the html instructions myself. In desktop mode, it's all there, just very small. I think the answer is to use a proper computer.
Regards,
Richard
Complaint: I followed up on what the town road crew were doing to the sidewalk in front of the neighbors yard. Not much.
I hadn't been out of the house for the last couple of days but this morning I toddled up to the grocery store and saw that they did make a piss-poor attempt to whack the three foot tall weeds growing in the cracks of the sidewalk, and they did reshape the 18 inch high plateau on the hill side of the walk, and it looks like they reseeded it and covered it with straw. But no widening effort was apparent. And absolutely nothing was done to the hayfield growing in the ditch. It seems as if their big project of the day was the installation of a STOP sign at the intersection.
Although, the "street", probably more accurately called a "semi-private driveway", at that intersection is only about 100 feet long and dead-ends half way up the hill at the first of two houses at the end of that street. In my 76 years, there has never been a STOP sign at that intersection. I'm glad to see that our tax money is going to the important things.