Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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Have you ever niticed the similarity of cricket bats to Tudor washing paddles? Draw whatever conclusions you wish..
The conclusion I drew was that Tudor crickets must have been effing huuuuuge... My crickets can easily be dispatched with a large crowbar...
trying to figure out how to do my programming homework for class.
Kind of like the one frame near the end of Jurassic Park where the Velociraptor disappears from the T-Rex's mouth.
Somehow, someway, the rig I had set up for The Constrictor managed to break even worse. Now the head won't follow the body whenever its posed ::weary::
I don't even know what went wrong or how and the whole not knowing is just ANGY Dx
Sitting in my car listening to the Hotel California in the parking lot of the volunteer ambulance corps... it's warm and the late summer insect sounds work with the song.
I just realized I'm bored and tired.
Long day...
We need rain... I'm starting to worry about brush fires... I just realized the woods ahead of me look very wilted in my headlights.
There are a hell of a lot of Pitch Pines on Long Island and they are no fun when they catch on fire.
...@McGyver, excellent proposal there. Made my evening.
Oh and there's a new type of detergent in town "laundry detergent sheets"
These are not fabric softener, they are actually sheets said to be made of detergent.that supposedly dissolve.in the washer.
What will the boys at the lab think up next?
Sheets made out of detergent, which dissolves in the wash... So, they are disposable sheets... Why would one want to wash them?
Happy Birthday, TJohn!
Dana
Happy birthday, tjohn!
nhoJT ,yadhtriB yppaH!
Oops... I said that backwards... but I meant it frontwards...
Happy Birthday nhoJT!
Dang it...
TJohn!
Happy Birthday!
Actually, I have no idea if today is your birthday or not... I instantly cave to peer pressure in these instances since I usually have no idea what day, date or year it is... I just assume other people have a better handle on that than I do...
I have enough of a hard time deciding what is reality and what is a bad leftover script from a failed 80s science fiction B-movie that never made it out of development because the writers all blew their minds out on coke... Not even cocaine, I'm talking C&C or RC Cola... the cheap ones... you know how much of that you have to drink to blow your mind out?
Probably not as much one might think, especially if you were so bad at writing you could only afford expired cans from the 70s... you know, the ones in those steel cans that had the uncomfortable pull tabs which if they broke you'd need a punch chisel to tap the contents... I wonder if they still make Tahitian Treat... I used to love that... it tasted nothing like Tahiti... not even Mo'orea...
Maybe a little like John LaFarge's painting "Diadem Mountain at Sunset in Tahiti"... if you could sneak in a few licks before the security guard grabs you and throws you out for "touching the artwork", which is totally BS, because touching and licking are two different things...
Granted licking is a form of touching, but it's on a whole different level... like if some stranger in the grocery store touched you elbow accidentally while you were reaching for the bananas, you'd probably be ok with that, because most likely they'd say "excuse me" or something and that would be that...
But if you were reaching for the bananas or worse yet, a pineapple and you noticed that stranger licking your elbow, it wouldn't really matter how accidental it was, or how much they apologized, you'd be mortified, if not a little turned on possibly, but still it's not acceptable behavior amongst humans even though there are at least seven advanced species in this galaxy alone that value a good licking as part of a reasonable greeting or salutation... dogs do it all the time and half the people out there think it's adorable, so I don't know why people get so freaked out when someone who is licking the fruit to see if it's actually "organic" and "pesticide free", accidentally misinterpretes their bare elbow as a kiwi fruit... friggin' shave your damn fuzzy elbows if you don't want to be confused with hairy fruit...
But anyway...
You shouldn't lick other people in public... or artwork... Though licking artwork is a bit of a trip... especially the older ones with the crazy ingredients in the paint... some of the paintings might even have some of the artist's actual sweat and tears on them... that's almost as good as licking Leonardo da Vinci or Claude Monet...
But anyway...
Happy Birthday!
...a year seems to pass by faster and faster the older you get..
...anyways....
Happy B'Day TJohn
...
Thanks everyone for remembering my birthday (I'm 69 now)!
Here's my birthday present
The one the left is Earl Grey (my kitten), the one on the right is Pearl Grey (my brother's).
I'm wondering if I was supposed to support tomorrow's tech leaders today too, or was that just if you didn't support them yesterday... not that I supported them yesterday, but I feel if I did, that orange banner would be ignoring that and I'd feel like I didn't support them enough... technically I morally support anyone who is studying technology up to a point... like if you are studying technology to make the world a better place, fix global warming, use technology for medical advancements, help feed the world and end famine using less threatened resources, reduce poverty and stuff like that, then I'm all behind you, but like if you are studying technology more or less for your own enrichment or to create an army of robots to rob people's underwear from the laundromat so you can sell them new ones at twice the cost or using those robots to steal the moon or something dastardly like that, then I'm not ecstatic about supporting that goal.
It's probably wrong of me to say that because we are supposed to support tomorrow's leaders today, presumably so they don't have us committed to an asylum later on, but I feel what if they suck as a leader later on... sure they are all wonderful as a kid, but I'm pretty sure there were a lot of people who were disappointed they bought those candy bars from Attila the Hun when he was a kid, or supported Stalin's lemonade stand when he was little...
I'm not sure I want to risk that.
Underwear are pretty expensive as it is, and what if they do that and work towards making cryptocurrency replace regular money... like one pair of underwear could cost $30 one day and $1000 dollars the next... that's crazy... it's too much of an unknown.
I'm going to continue to support whales instead... they are adorable with their little blowholes, spurting water and whale snot all over... and the odds of them building underwear stealing robots are much slimmer.
I've got a 1300W EVGA PSU in my computer. Shortly after I added an RTX A5000 to the system, the system did a hard shutdown that also appears to have destroyed the USB port on my recording interface. The hard shutdowns continued at completely random intervals for longer than I should have tolerated before I decided to try solving it. Removing the A5000 didn't resolve the issue, for which I was somewhat thankful, but I eventually tried replacing the PSU with one from an older system. That solved the problem, so I sent the current PSU back to EVGA for an RMA. I hadn't been experiencing the shutdowns since I got it back around a week ago....but then, today, the computer shut down and the UPS everything is plugged into shut down and beeped continuously. I looked up the error message it was showing me, which indicated that the battery backup system was being overloaded. So I unplug the computer's PSU from the UPS, and it starts back up. So I try plugging the PSU into one of the non-battery outlets on the UPS, and the breaker to my office trips. I try plugging everything including the PSU into a different power strip, and THAT trips the breaker. So the conclusion seems to be that, for no reason I can think of, the PSU (just replaced by EVGA) has suddenly started drawing more power than it was before, and the ancient wiring in this house can't handle it. It's currently running off the old PSU again until I can figure out what the hell is happening.
If your office circuit has a 10 amp breaker, 1200 watts is the max load it can handle.
That's good to know, but it doesn't explain why I'd been using this PSU for so long with the same UPS in two different houses without overloading the UPS or the breaker until just now.
This probably is not your problem, but I thought I might mention this, just because it's an electrical system issue most likely.
My main house is a hundred plus years old and most of the wiring has been replaced over time* and about ten years ago my in-laws built an addition, basically a smaller house attached to ours, they both share the same service, but it's broken into two panels.
Obviously their side is all new wiring, where ours is a mix of various ages.
A few years ago a problem arose where randomly, but usually in the middle of the night, the PSUs would start screaming and need to be reset... at the time we were still experiencing a side effects from a shakeup at the power company, the old one was run by in incompetent board that was letting the system fall apart for lack of maintenance and repairs, but after two hurricanes exposed the depth of damage they'd done, a different company took over and started fixing the system, but there was so much work to be done across the whole island we got used to all sorts of power issues, so we just wrote that off as power surges and the PSUs doing what they were supposed to.
There were three PSUs and they'd all go off semi-simultaneously or within a few minutes of each other (which in itself was odd, but I actually only noticed that after a while), and one was located on my father-in-law's side.
Gradually over a few months the events increased, and we noticed groups of recessed lights (LEDs) in the new house either dimming or dying prematurely, so we called an electrician who found damaged breakers in both houses... that temporarily solved the problem. But after a few months it came back worse... in the meantime I had color coded and mapped out all our electrical lines which had presented a bit of confusion because the breakers individually serve weirdly random sections of the house (if a breaker trips random outlets or lights throughout the house might be affected, so I traced all of them to their respective breakers)...
I actually finished that the day the electrician came back to see what was going on, and it should have been obvious to me, but apparently on my side and my father-in-law's side only one phase of the panels were being affected.
The electrician, once he looked at the panels and the notes I had made laying out where lights were dimming, instantly noted that it was a transformer problem outside the house... apparently sometimes one phase of a dying in-line transformer can cause problems, and in this case as it turned out, the transformer was doing it intermittently because of a specific type of physical damage that caused it to trigger randomly... this affected only breakers attached to that particular phase of the service panels.
We didn't know that there were appliances that were damaged by this too... overall pulsing power fluctuations killed or damaged the three PSUs, a big TV, a relatively new refrigerator, a laptop, and numerous small appliances and lots of CFL and LED bulbs.
If this had happened in a house with all new wiring and a logically laid out setup, it would have been obvious right away... but between that and the fact that the transformer wasn't always malfunctioning, it made it harder to figure out.
I only mention it because it's something that because of particular circumstances was easy to diagnose, but might present an issue worth noting if one lives in an old house with wiring added to rooms randomly over time.
*As far as I can tell, at this point, the last old section of wiring was replaced a few years ago when I discovered 30s era cloth covered wire running through a defunct acetylene gas line (the house used to have gas lighting).
my power was dipping frequently from 250V down to 190V (Australia average is 240V) my lights dimmed using appliances and my UPS screamed everytime the fridge kicked in until one day the fridge died.
I couldn't use my air conditioner as lacked power.
was convinced my house needed rewiring so let this go on for 2 years tossing out appliances that didn't work and using an Esky for keeping my food cold (still had a functioning freezer)
then one 40°C heatwave I had enough and rang SApower networks and asked if they could check my line
it was 45°C that day they checked my meter and earth leakage found issues said too dangerous told my neighbours and cut the power to my street came with the cherrypicker and I sat outside under my veranda watching as my house too hot no fan.
basically the line was shorting on the connection to the pole, they stripped it back stuck it back in, perfect continuous 250V ever since.
69... that's nothing... well, not nothing, but it's not that bad... actually if you were a Giant Macedonian Hamster, that would be a truly extraordinary accomplishment, since they rarely would live past 3 or 4 years, mostly because of their fierce combat with the Spartans, but even those that lived to a full 5 years were ancient by their standards and would be treated as gods... sadly they are all extinct now thanks to them locating their entire civilization within the crater of what was a not so extinct volcano... but if you were a Giant Macedonian Hamster, you'd be over 2,500 years old and likely lava-proof, which would be pretty cool...
I forgot what my point was...
Oh yeah, congratulations on the new blanket!
Did you notice there were two small Meowian children hanging out on it?
Actually, I can't tell if they are Meowians or not, but if they came with the blanket, it's a good idea to keep them...
Just in case...
If they are real good at math then they are probably Meowians, but if they just hang out in cardboard boxes and chase laser pointer dots, they are probably regular earth cats... technically Meowians would do that too, but they'd more likely mount the laser pointer on a sniper rifle...
If they are Meowians, they'll definitely be good at doing your taxes... and if there was ever a problem, you could blame it on them... the IRS would probably just wave all the penalties because regular cats are bad at taxes... just don't explain what Meowians are.
Anyway, congratulations on the acquisition of the blanket and those two little furry kids!
Non-Complaint: Monsoon season is here! That means that hot days are often somewhat negated by a cloudy or even rainy late afternoon. Fall is almost here!
Complaint: Dog-sitting for folks who very casually announced that they were running five hours late.
When I used to be in Malaysia, there was a monsoon included a ton of rain which caused crazy flooding.
@ McGyver.
...were you ever compensated for the damaged electronics (particularly the television and refrigerator) as apparently it was their equipment that the drops and surges?.
Fortunately the area of Portland I am in (and the building) has relatively new wiring and all of the transmission lines are underground so some careless impatient motorist (of which there are many here) can't hit a power pole after they lose control and black the neighbourhood out. Still good to have precautionary surge protection to prevent spikes from blowing up my PSUs. The one that popped a couple years ago happened a couple weeks after we had a very rare outage (something to do with the substation).
Speaking of failures, last night I was awakened by a loud boom at around 03:00. Apparently there was a food cart that exploded at a cart pod in downtown shattering windows in the surrounding area. Wonder if someone forgot to turn the propane off after they closed up..
...just saw the Traffic Patterns Script and Props promoi in store and someone apparently had a little fun with a couple scenes inspired by the cinema and one from the news.
I see that Victoria 3, Michael 3 and gang are in the Daz store, but I can't find Victoria 1/2 or MIchael 1/2
...whoa, while going through the store I noticed that Daz+ items were 10$ or more and older DO's are now full price. So i went to my account and according to the Daz+ page my membership that is supposed to expire tomorrow on the 29th at 23:59, has already been "cancelled" this evening before 18:00 Daz time. That was sudden.
Yep appears they had another "time zone glitch" like happened near the end of the last Stack up offer..
...which would have been 17:00 my local time today.as I'm one hour behind Utah here on the "left coast". Currently it is 20:20 in Utah not 02:20. Also usually when an expiration date is posted for anything (like a coupon or sale her) it means the end of day on that date, not the before, so technically it should have been 23:59 Daz time tomorrow.
No point in submitting a ticket as it is Sunday.
So much for any purchases until after Friday when I can renew it (and miss out on adding any more discounts to the stack up bonus).
Fortunate that I used my coupons earlier.
I did an image search for "dog" in my Apple photos. I really like this photo of two "dogs". Something is strange about them if they are dogs?
They have been locked away in the vault
I understand somewhat but bummer. I might have them in my product library.
edit haven't checked for Victoria 1 but I have Victoria 2. What is the difference between Victoria 1 and 2?
also do you like my Cyclops emoji? He doesn't want you to see my order number!
edit 2 here goes nothIng