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...the letters are worn off of most of the keys on my keyboard making it a real challenge at times. I no longer am a touch typist due to severe arthritis and the even barely even touching a key on one of these cheap flat membrane keyboard sends text to the screen.
I wish IBM still made the original buckling spring model M as the ontly ones available anuymore are "vintage" ones that cost an arm and leg (and maybe even an internal organ). UnIcomp makes a moedern one but it is a bit smaller, not as "robustly" constructed (the original made a good home defence weapon in a pinch) and only comes in black. It also isn't all that much more affordable (about 190 USD). I figure with all the money I wasted on these cheap keyboards in the last few years I probably could have bought an original Model M in decent condition on ebay. that would have lasted until the sun went nova.
...I hear you on that,
I come from the old mainframe and later, DOS/PC days where when you booted up pr logged in, you didn't have this nice jazzy GUI with pretty pictures and icons, you had a blinking command line cursor and that was it. You wanted a shortcut, you had to write and save it i yourself. ..
If Linux had one standard version like MacOS and Windows, I feel developers would be more prone to support it. I've worked in Linux (Mint) while assisting in the setup of a start-up online shopping site and it is nice and very robust, but, it is one of several "distros" available a nd therin is the rub. Even a big software companies like AutoDesk or Corel don't have large development teams, so it becomes a question of which Linux version do you support and who do you lave out (even MacOS takes something of a "back seat" here)?
Yeah I'd like a native version of Daz for Linux Mint but it won't happen One can use a "compatibility layer" like WINE for anyone interested there is a a long running thread on this here:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/60901/daz-studio-and-linux/p1
I have an HP keyboard from the 2014 workstation I had at work, and the letter shapes are moulded through the keys. I used it for 6 years 37hrs a week, and only one key's a bit sticky. Then I used that machine at home until 2022 as my rendering machine. I wish my new machine had the correct round socket on the back so I could keep on using it. I looked into the cost of round keyboard to USB convertors, and it came to the price of a new keyboard - so that's what I have.
Regards,
Richard
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....the high flying Milwaukee Brewers have come back down to earth barely beating the DBacks today after a bit of a skid, losing 5 of their last 10 (3 to the rival Cubs and 2 to the sub .500 Giants). Prior to that they were the hottest team in the game with the best record in the Majors when they went on an unbelievable streak that started in July when they swept a back to back season series with the NL West leading Dodgers, as well as having both an 11 and 14 game win streak (the latter setting a club record).
The concern (mine included) is that they may have peaked a bit too early with more than a month yet to go. Sustaining that sort of energy for what would be a total of about two and a half months would difficult for any team to maintain. Would love to see them do it and bring home their first world championship. They came close in 1981 losing the World series to St Louis 4 games to 3 (the Brewers were in the American League back then).
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As to phone backround pics this is mine:.
Macaroons?
edit: no, wait, I know what you're talking about. The ones that are like Nutty Buddies without the chocolate.
Speaking of keyboards: I've got a collection of cheap came-with-the-system keyboards from HP, and others that are from repair customers old systems, enough that most of them are stuffed in a big box holding down the carpet. But there are a couple of oddballs. One has fancy lights under each key. Ooh, pretty, and was cheap, but is terrible at being a keyboard(random key bounce).
Another is a cyrillic keyboard from the days when I was actively trying to learn Russian. And I have a small portable keyboard that has seen use once for its intended purpose but otherwise been sheltered in its original box. And lots of my keyboards have PS2 connectors instead of USB. Every once in a while an opportunity arrises for me to give one away to a needy person.
However, back in the day('70s)..., I worked for Harris Intertype designing an early newspaper editing computer to take text directly from the news organization teletype lines (yes, teletype) and let the operator prepare the text directly for use in a newspaper phototypesetting machine. Cool!
During that time while working in the lab, someone came in with a gallon sized bag of random keycaps. The type where the letters are molded through in a different color plastic than the shell. Everybody in the lab dug into the bag and started playing word games. I went away with a set that spelled my name. I was going to make a name plate for my desk with them, but never did. They're around here somewhere, in a box, buried at the back of the attic.
Non-complaint: Today is doctor day. Yay, mini-adventure! Bus in 30 minutes (8:00AM) to doctor for 9:15 appointment, then waste some time 'til 11:00, then lunch in my favorite beanery at the decrepit mini-mall. While there, possibly pick up some Chinese take-out and/or a Subway sandwich before heading home. Temperature outside this morning is 46F. Summer is over.
Time for long pants again.
@SilverGirl your post just reminded me of when I wanted to make a Sunday by myself. I was about a preteen or teen. My dad, the engineer and also a cook took me in hand. He had me organize the menu, discussed what was needed, the times each food item would need to come to the table at the same time, and I ended up with a tech manual on meal planning. Then Mom took me shopping. I had done small dishes and things during meals up to that point, but this was the full monty. Meat, potatoes, veggies, salad, rolls, dessert, and drinks. The table laid out with cloth and china. I can't remember what the meal itself was, but I did it.
And my appreciation of my mother grew as I had watched her work a part-time job and still put a five course meal on the table every night.
Today, I hate cooking. Especially after my surgery three years ago and now that I can't really eat a lot. Diet has me down to 172.6 lbs this morning. Also got my walks up to over two miles, but it is killing my arthritic joints. I am having a procedure tomorrow for my spine.
Yeah, and thinner, but basic shape/texture. I don't even know if they make them anymore or not. I haven't been shopping for packaged cookies in an age, but I remember exactly where the store that isn't there anymore had them. Mom had to hold me up to reach.
Congrats on you diet progress, and good luck on your procedure! May it go smoothly and you recover swiftly!
Complaint: Well, today didn't go as planned.
Caught the bus on time, got to the doctor's office right on time, checked in at the window and said "I'm here" and gave my name, to which the receptionist asked "Why? You're not scheduled until September 25th."
To which I replied, "But, I'm here now". To which she replied "But nobody wants you here now."
We laughed it off and she printed off an appointment page for forgetful me and suggested that I toddle across the street for breakfast at a nice little breakfast place next to the hospital. I did, then with my schedule already boogered, I decided to take an Uber trip farther uptown to the Walmart and mall area and make a bigger adventure of the day. Unfortunately at that time of day Uber wanted $82+ dollars for the 4 mile trip.
So, it didn't happen.(duh!) So, I checked the Uber price for a 4 mile trip the other direction, to the grocery store half way toward home, and it was only $13+. Go figure! Meh, OK. Got my groceries bought and while shopping ran into my cousin, who lives in my same town, and figured I could get a ride home with her. But no cigar, she was just starting her trip and going the other direction, up to the mall.
Unfortunately, I had frozen stuff in my grocery bags, so back to Uber it was, to complete the last 4 miles home for $22+.
I think Uber prices are in a state of quantum flux.
Conclusion: No doctor visit, no Chinese take-out, no Subway sandwich, no lunch at my favorite beanery, but at least groceries got bought.
Well back from the doctor's and he was pleased with my progress too. And then I had to go ask him to check my height again. Shoes off and I came in at 5' 4.8". Lost 1.5 inches since I was last measured. He had to put an explainer in my chart that he was happy with the progress but the BMI stayed still because of the adjusted height. I have had to buy a cushion for my computer desk and also use it at the dining table now. Heck I used to be 5' 8.5" and never had to worry about this. I struggle to get things off the top shelf of the kitchen cabinets I used to easily grab. We have one-step collapsible stool in the pantry closet, like the one that was in one year's PAs Christmas gifts, along with a full ladder in the apartment.
Happy Birthday, Tjohn!
Well, all the Bone Marrow results came in. Nothing wrong with it. So, the doctors think my immune system is consuming my platelets. More tests, yeah, starting to feel like a pincushion. Aliens are here and they go by the Title Doctor. Poke proding probing, and we pay them for this treatment.
@SilverGirl yes they still make those cookies, all kinds of minor brand names. Also sugar free versions.
Complaints: 1. We went to my husband's uncle's funeral Monday. Very touching.
2. This is the time of year I get sinus problems. Including an all day headache yesterday.
Non-complaint: finally found wonderful headache remedy: 2 doggos, snuggled on each side.
I really hope you and your medical team can track down the source. I would wish you my care team, but you would need to move to Denver CO to see them. But don't give up. Never give up.
Re: Poke, probing, and ... they now have me doing it to myself. Two different injections at different times of the month/week. I HATE needles of any kind.
Mary
...ah, Sugar Wafers
Keebler still make them
I'm down to one injection a week. It took me years to achieve that; my last A1C was 5.6. My first A1C was 10.
... been a year already? My, time goes by fast these days.
Yes! Those! I'm glad they're still in production, even though I really, really need to not buy any because it'd shoot a hole right in the foot of the healthy eating changes I'm trying to make.
Congratulations!!!!!
Adding my wishes to the heap! Hope it's a great day!
Complaint: I feel deeply disadvantaged.
In the UK we really only have 'Pink Wafers' in this style of biscuit (that I've seen). No brown, no yellow. Only pink. Huh.
Regards,
Richard
Happy birthday tjohn
@ TJohn: Considering that 50 to 70 billion of your cells die each day, the fact that you made it through another year indicates that you couldn't be doing too badly. Congratulations.
Voortman makes some sugar-free versions, different flavors...vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, lemon.
It might be a different brand, but didn't they used to have a picture of the Pink Panther on the packaging?
Complaint: I'm working on a new freebie for Daz, but Blender is being a real pain. It's probably going to be easier to start from scratch *facepalm*
Sorry, for your lack. I don't recall seeing anything but the pink/pale beige (depending on brand) vanilla in the States until I was grown - or maybe didn't notice until Son decided he liked them.
There is a different brand with Pink Panthers on them, and there is usually a store own brand available too. But always in pink. There are, admittedly, lots of other biscuits too. Bourbons are brown & Custard Creams fulfil the yellow requirement and I think all are out of copyright so anyone can make them.
I was amazed to come across 'Chocolate Digestive Biscuits' being sold as a luxury item in Canada in 1987. However, luxury items or not, they went down very well around a campfire in the falling snow in the Whitehorse (Yukon) municipal campground on 31 August 1987. Everyone there at that time had tents, so it wasn't too warm.
Regards,
Richard
This would've been early 1980's... I remember they came all three colors to a pack.
Unfortunately they threw artificial sweeteners at them instead, though. :(
Interesting that they have an orange variety, though. I'd never heard of that one.
Thanks Dana!