The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread
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What about The Stuff? That looked suspiciously like Fluff! I love Fluff! The inventor was a genius! Right here in Massachusetts, too!
Dana
I grow vegetables. Then I eat them!
In a salad, in a soup. Fresh off the grill or getting a suntan under the broiler. Raw, steamed, baked, grilled; there are no limits.
Carrots, tomatoes, broccolli, and my favorite: bell peppers. Stuffed peppers from the garden? Nothing more delicious! Grilled broccolli cookin' next to my steaks? Nothing can make me feel more wealthy. A salad that I picked half the ingredients that morning...from my own patch of land? Nothing more empowering.
One of the characters in the TV series "Farscape" was a plant. Sort of a walking talking Eggplant (Aubergine)
Non-complaint: Music to DAZ by. Lively, excitement, freedom, adventure.
Bedřich Smetana: "From Bohemia's Woods & Fields":
2 for tea, tea for two
neighbors are blasting hendrix. treating the whole neighborhood.
...nice day today, sunny low 60s Tomorrow chilly rainy with high winds..
Going to be near 70° middle of next week then more wet and cold temps by next weekend again.
Winter has to learn it's no longer welcome here.
Today I got a migraine (a real bad headache type thing) I took a pill for it but it just turned it into a dull headache which is just as annoying. Probably should take a tylenol soon, but not sure when.
I think I just changed my email address but I've not gotten a confirm email yet. Also Summers and Loki want me to feed my fish.
What is wrong with using a cordless phone during a thunderstorm? I thought it would be just as dangerous as me using this bluetooth keyboard during a thunderstorm. I know that the tv is connected into the wall which could cause a problem in a thunderstorm but the bluetooth keyboard I'm using is connected to the tv that is connected to the power strip which is connected to the wall. Isn't that just like a cordless phone connected to its base wirelessly and the base is connected to the phone line and the electrical outlet? One of my housemates was trying to tell me that it is a bad idea to use a cordless phone during a storm. I'm trying to figure out why, but I can't seem to find that answer our from her.
She might have grown up out of doors... that is where using a cordless phone is dangerous during a thunderstorm... but really only marginally and only if it's one of those 80s models with a telescoping metal antenna or if you tie a metallic kite string to it to recreate the time Benjamin Franklin invented getting electrocuted in a thunderstorm.
Of course if it's a really bad storm, not necessarily a thunderstorm, it could be a bad idea to use a cordless phone, because you'll need both hands to hold onto the heaviest person in the house to avoid being blown away.
What should be disconnected in a thunderstorm is the router that is driving the cordless stuff. there has to be a connection somewhere, even for a hot spot Surely
Not necessarikly so. It could use radio transmission to a satallite.
Ah never though of that. so you have to disconnect the satellite dish.
Actually I was thinking of smart phones and even some tablets which can transmit directly to the provider's tower and thence to a satellite. So there is nothing to disconnect on the user's end.
Hand held devices without hard connection to remote antennas or power have very little probability of being damaged in a lightning storm. If they are, then when you get out of the hospital where you were recovering from the same lightning stroke, you can think about replacing them.
However, that being said, as mentioned by others above, the base station for the wireless devices could be damaged because they are usually somehow connected by wire to something that could be a route for lightning induced power surges.
To the people who are telling you to stop using your wireless keyboard, remind them to unplug the TV during the storm. When you get right down to it, if lightning wants to damage your TV, then leaving it on is an open invitation and turning it off is not much protection either. That lightning bolt jumped a few thousand feet through air, it's not going to waver much when facing a sixteenth-inch gap in a switch. In fact, to be safe during thunderstorms we should all retreat to our underground caves where we can breathe the radioactive radon gas down there for a few hours. (you do have an underground cave system under your house, don't you?)
its shocking.
i unplug the tv and stereo, sensitive electronics, during lightning storms.
if my wifi router has no power, i'm not getting phone or internet signal. a land line phone will work if the power is out. i had a land line in the hurricane sandy blackout week. i was the only one with a working phone in the house.
theres a subway train in FG. it looks nothing like a new york subway train. the fg train seats are in rows. in ny the seats are sideways pushed against the walls. with straps people stand and hold on to. they called us commuters strap hangers. they also called us worker bees. i hated being called a worker bee. made me act like a delinquent and do no work at work. deep down i guess i'm spiteful.
rain is pouring like buckets outside
worried about the baby bunnies in their burrows
First, with regards to storms.
A few years ago, my electrician showed me my breaker panel. He had removed the steel trim piece so that we could see all of the "bars and wires". They were beginning to show signs of arcing. Serious arcing that was leaving the metal discolored.
Arcing like that can come from thunderstorms (we have a lot here in central Florida during the summer), but they can also come from inconsistent power from your power company.
They wanted to install a "whole home surge suppression system" for $900. I agreed to it.
That was at least 5 years ago. The device was about $300 on Amazon, I think, so I paid $600 for the installation. In retrospect, I think that was fair. You know, high voltage and all. Besides that, losing an air conditioner, pool pump, TV, computer, washer, dryer, tablets, phones, oven, microwave, water softener, garage door opener, or audio equipment would have been super expensive and is probably not fully covered by homeowner insurance. I think the garage door opener is just about the only thing worth less than $400. So mitigating this risk was a smart thing to do.
The only time I shut off devices is when a hurricane is coming or if the lightning bolts are right on top of me, as evidenced by houses or trees being struck next door or across the street. Assuming that I haven't already vamoosed the state by that time.
I also haven't had any "brownouts". I used to have anywhere from 1 to 10 brownouts a week before having that surge suppressor installed at the main house junction. I also have a power conditioner in my audio device rack in the home office. Before the suppressor was installed, the meter on the power conditioner used to go up and down by 3 or 4 pips, pretty much all the time. It used to look more like an audio meter, but now it's rock solid and hardly ever moves.
And the arcing stopped. The junction box and breaker box bars and wires still have the original discoloring, but it's minor, hasn't gotten worse, and doesn't require costly repair.
All in all, I would very much recommend having a whole home suppressor installed. It's a 10 minute job and the device shunts surges to ground...and not through your electric blanket.
To LG:
There was also some issues in the past where electricity could come in through a phone line instead of the electricity ingress, and zap your router (and anything connected to it) from that direction.
I don't recall if my whole home surge suppressor protects against surges from the phone (or in my case, "fiber-to-copper") connection. But I generally don't worry about it. Maybe I should re-research the paths from my fiber connection.
The term "strap hangers" did have a somewhat mean-spirited origin. People hanging onto the straps in a subway car are just "going along for the ride" and not contributing directly to the movement of the subway train. So at some point, "strap hanger" became a term synonymous with people who were not contributing to the forward movement (of a society, company, team, project, etcetera).
I agree that the term is wrong on every level. First off, subway riders PAY for their fares. So they are contributing to the cost of operating the service. Secondly, subway riders who pay for their fares are also KEY to the success of a big city's economy; which pays for city services and contributes to the betterment of everybody in the city.
If riding the subway is now free and taxpayer supported, well then the saying has some meaning, especially if everybody can't benefit from it.
But "sayings" are just that; sayings. Sometimes they apply, but often they're just plain wrong.
I get breaking eggs to make an omelette. That's an apt saying and it's tasty too! But I have never yet found anybody who would think it was a good idea to sweep something under a rug or put lipstick on a pig. But lots of people mention those things. Regularly. What's going on there, I wonder?
My birthday is soon and so it Easter.
Non-complaint: Wheee... I just doubled the speed of one of my two SSDs (Samsung "970EVOPlus") in my DAZing machine. Wheee... Now I'm cooking with gas.
Ever since I built my new DAZing machine it has had two identical NVMe M.2 1TB SSDs installed. But I had been noticing that one of them seemed to be slower than the other. Significantly slower. So I checked with the "Samsung Magician" diagnostic app and sure enough one would read at approximately 3500MB per second (sequential) but the other would do only 1780MB/s.
I dug into the manual for my motherboard (Asus: "Prime Z490-A") and rediscovered the little asterisks that refered to littler footnotes that declared that the second M.2 socket shared bandwidth with SATA sockets 5 & 6 and would be used in "x2" mode. But if the M.2 was used in "x4" mode then the SATA sockets would be disabled completely. OK... I didn't plug anything into SATA sockets 5 or 6 and I put my M.2 NVMe SSD into the M.2 socket and the BIOS configurator for the M.2 socket was set to "AUTO". I expected everything to be OK, after all, why would they have an "AUTO" setting if it couldn't figure out the situation automatically and give me maximum bandwidth for the M.2 socket if nothing was in the SATA sockets?
Nope. After some trial and error and manipulating non-productive BIOS settings I kept getting a performance value of around 1780MB/s for that device. I gave up last night. But during the night the lightbulb in my head finally turned on (although in these latter years my lightbulb is noticeably dimmer) and I realized that I probably had to not use "AUTO" mode and should set the configuration for the M.2 slot specifically to the desired "x4" mode.
Yep, that worked. Now both my SSDs are zippy fast. Wheee.....
...sadly us renters can't take advantage of modifications homeowners can, so we have to do what little we can. Oh there are a number of modifications I would like to make (such as converting more efficient central heating/air conditioning or installing a heat pump, having a fibre optic connection, or full unit surge protection) but which are either against the rules of the lease or are just not practical as this is a multi unit building I'm in.
Yeah, I know, there's headaches a homeowner deals with as well, like property taxes/assessments, insurance, repairs, and maintenance, but to have a place I could set up the way I would like it would be nice.
Alas, at my age and being on a fixed retirement income I'm pretty much stuck with flushing money down the rental dunny every month with nothing to show for it and no building equity (not even a front porch to sit on), unless I score big on a lotto or a wealthy relative I didn't know I had (who is not a Nigerian prince) leaves me a nice fat inheritance (yeah I know, for wither to happen it's far less of a chance than being struck by lightning while in the depths Cheyenne Mountain).
I finally got the Arby's shake I wanted last week. I ordered Arby's though doordash and they got the order right this time. I didn't realize the larege shake was so big, but that wasn't their fault.
...the last real malted milk shake I had was back in the late 80s at the old Spar Restaurant in Olympia WA which was made with real ice creme, not soft serve, milk and of course, malt all blended up in one of those old style shake mixers.. Sadly they were taken over several years ago by a regional; craft brew company and their menu was eventually changed to the new owners' more standard pub fare (they also had a great open face meatloaf sandwich smothered in mushroom gravy with a heap of mashed potatoes that alas, is no longer on the menu as well).
There is one outfit here where I live which still makes real ice creme shakes to order (instnead of using a premade mix dispensed from a machine), a local chain named Burgerville which has been in business since the early 1960s and is found only in southern Washington and parts of Oregon. Their burgers are made with 100% fresh organic range fed ground beef (not pre frozen) and their fish sandwich along with their signature fish & chips, is made with halibut, not some cheap grade fish such as pollock (or worse). In a way they are a bit more like burger joints of the past and everything they serve is locally produced/grown/caught (within a 200 mile radius). Their menu also varies slightly with the seasons. (my fave are the Wall Walla sweet onion rings which usually appear in mid summer through fall) and there is a "hidden menu" for those in the know.
'lipstick on a pig' is one i never heard before.
"Lipstick on a pig" implies usless attempt to make something beautiful.
The pig saying I like goes like this: "Arguing with him is like wrestling with a pig...you both get dirty but the pig likes it,"
Yes.