The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread
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grrr was about to check out my loaded cart and the flash sale ended.
was 2 minutes away from spendding 108bux.
guess i should be grateful.
Someone's been in a hurry and taken the corners in a slide?
A Camellia from our backyard. The bush has been blooming since February (which is normal). It will stop blooming sometime this month.
non-complaint. I got the first vaccine shot today. Yay.
I never thought of that, you could be right! If someone locked the wheel and then the cart pusher just powered through, that would be like rubbing the wheel on coarse sandpaper.
Dana
Am I the only one who has noticed this lately... I keep seeing textures on models that in real life should have maybe the surface texture of blackboard slate, but as models have the appearance of rough poured concrete or heavily rusted metal... I don't want to point out any models in particular, and it's no one person, but if you noticed this and it seems like a trend, you'll know what I mean...
I'm guessing the normal maps are ramped up too high or something, but I keep seeing really nice beautiful models looking kinda weird with super heavy surface pitting and roughness... Has anyone mentioned this before?
I don't want to start a controversy, but recently several really nice models seemed to suffer from this "inappropriate roughness" to the point where I'm like, "that's pretty bad"... I really cut people slack because I don't like criticizing other's work, and I appreciate the work that goes into making models, but jeez, a sidewalk shouldn't look like it's made of coral or pumice and asphalt shouldn't look like gravel.
My guess is either DS or iRay is screwing up the normal maps which might look good wherever the model was being textured... or people are using pre-generated materials without tweaking them...
I know it's hard to wrangle that, I've textured lots of stuff that looked fine in 3D Coat and once in DS, what was a nice rough plaster or slightly weathered surface suddenly looks pitted and scarred.
I dunno... just an observation and an opinion nobody asked for.
I don't know about prop textures, but I see a lot of people with the bump/normal way too high. Looks crazy.
I got a DNA test done from Ancestry. Apparently, I am 1% French and that is very unexpected. In the past, I was less interested in my heritage and more interested in things like "am I sensitive to caffeine." I guess I was hoping to be entertained and surprised and maybe to get a little insight on how to take care of my body (some traits supposedly can tell if you need more vitamin D than most people for example).
But... and I am not exaggerating... every single "Trait" prediction was dead wrong. Every single one!!! Despite what Ancestry thinks, my hair isn't thick, I don't avoid caffeine or sweets (on the contrary, I have more than most people) and I REALLY love cilantro. Ugh!!!!
I don't think they got the sample mixed up, because a lot of my heritage markers lined up. So the "science" is probably to blame. What a letdown.
Edit: I guess you could argue that I go for sweets and caffeine more because I am sensitive to them, and the reward is so strong that it encourages me to seek these things out. But that is not what the description said.... It said I was sensitive to them, therefore I would likely avoid them.
Or perhaps the things they got wrong were outside the boundaries of what could reasonably be called science.
Sigh... Yeah.
fast moving zombies again. on grimm.
munro asked rosalie out for a picnic. they are so adorable, my favorite tv show couple. meh joanie luvs chachi
my friend call her lawn ornaments chachkees. not sure how to spell chachkee in spanish.
still feeling miffed about the flash sale. since i was gonna blow a 100bux anyway, thinking of spending it on a bottle of highland park. jamieson, and irish cream. for a belated st pat's treat. much tastier than a druthers bundle. i never tried makin mai tais at home. blue curacao is a pretty blue.
Yeah, too often when someone starts spouting absolutist science about human desires and psychology, it's really just mumbo jumbo.
The only absolutist science you can count on is Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Chromodyamics, because the fuzziness is built-into the theory.
My nickname IRL is Fuzzy, so I really got a kick out of that.
On an unrelated note: I find Amazon invoices to be pretty frustrating. They have lump sum totals for your purchases, but each item is charged individually. So charges to your account will not be the same as what's on your invoice. Even in the details, things are listed before tax, so you have to figure that out yourself to make sure you are getting charged the right amount, especially if you are buying more than one thing in the same price range.
Also, there is suddenly way too much quantum money in my account and it's making me really nervous.
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...had I still been working at the multimedia development company (where I actually earned very decent salary for part of my working life - and thus how I developed my taste for fine Single Malt Scot's Whisky and good cigars) I would have gone for it. Crikey, the company may have even sponsored the idea, and there was no shortage of geek co-workers who'd be interested in being on the team.
As to the RC demo derby cars, that's humorous. You should tell Elon he stole your design and you want royalties.
...yeah mine kept timing out this morning for about an hour, My connection was fine (not WiFi), I cleared cache and restarted the browser, but nothing worked. I couldn't even get on the ISPs site to see if there was an outage or other issue in the area as tahtwould time out. Calling them is an exercise in extreme frustration as the number rings up one of those automated "assistant bots", sort of like a "bargain basement" Cortana or Siri (complete with fake keyboard sound effects while it said it was "checking") that you couldn't bypass just by pressing "0" (to get a living human), but had to verbally interact with while it runs you around in circles and finally tells you it is going to restart the modem thus cutting all your connections for at least 15 min. .
I really hope things like driverless cars, trucks, and pilotless aeroplanes remain only in the realm science fiction .
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...I've noticed that a s well, particularly on the smaller trolleys which single people like myself use as we don't have a family (or army) to feed.
...hmm, supermarket drifting.
...or it's a scam.
I honestly felt like telling my family and friends it was a scam. But since someone bought me the base test as a Christmas gift, I decided to keep it to myself (unless it comes up in conversation). I don't want to crap-talk their (fairly expensive) present.
So now the quantum money is gone. This is proof that the charges listed in my account are not all properly reflected in my balance. $15 unaccounted for is bad enough, but when it gets into the hundreds it's seriously worrisome. Oh well... at least my account is back on track.
Yeah, my data was choked yesterday too. Perhaps it was a truck parked on a cable in a data warehouse?
It's funny how the frequency of Fridays seems to increase the older you get... It's like the weeks are getting shorter and shorter all the time.
Non-complaint: Music to DAZ by. I've probably mentioned this one before, but ran across it again. It has particular meaning for me because the beginning of it was the theme song of a '60s mystery TV show, not crime mystery, but mysterious mystery, but for the life of me I can't remember the title of the show.
The music is one of Antonin Dvorak's numerous Slovonic Dances. This is the 2nd piece in his opus* 72. Enjoy 5 minutes of gliding beauty.
*Note: An "opus" is a published book of composition of a single, or a collection of a number of musical pieces in one book.
to serve mankind.