The Kracken ate my Lunch Complaint Thread
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all these years, confused Rumpelstiltskin with the one who sleeps 20 years.
plaint - no one wants to play
no wanna clean, wanna play
Congrats on 4th box :lol:
Thanks. I was beginning to think I would never get it.
Watch out, LG. The tocks are running rampant in the wild.
Where's TroutFace? He hasn't posted since p. 52. I know Oklahoma has had rain too. I hope he's just busy with his next album.
G'day works 24 hours :)
Is like "aloha". :)
Congrats on 4th box :lol:
I totally spaced and thought "Anne forgot to upload a picture." Duh...welcome to Addiction. I still think there should be one more level up. :lol:
Maybe he has a life and is doing things away from the computer this Memorial Day weekend?
I'm not. :down: It's a beautiful day out there here south of Buffalo and I haven't even opened the door yet. Been browsing YouTube following links to various performances of music. Then had lunch which took all of 3 minutes. Then I took a nap. Then I picked up my latest new book trying to teach myself Russian, and surprised myself by actually not struggling too hard through the pages and actually being able to read the various Russian words relatively quickly without sounding like a 5 year old just learning his ABГД... haltingly sounding out each letter and syllable before saying the whole word. Maybe I'm actually learning something after all! :gulp:
I've read that Rosetta Stone is a great way to learn. Expensive, though. I think it's what the State Department uses to get their employees up to speed quickly.
Dana
By the way, are you planning to visit Russia? Or planning for their invasion? :lol:
Dana
wheres the beer?
hear a kracken?
... can't remember where i found that lantern from ... punch bowl was a from christmas giveaway
Yeah, I've got the Rosetta Stone Russian full course and I did pretty well with it until it started expecting actual conversations. I then realized that despite passing all the sub-levels up to that point I still didn't have a firm enough grasp of the basics. So I went back and repeated the early sub-levels twice more and again when it got to the point of expecting actual conversations I fell flat on my face. So I took a few weeks off to let my brain percolate and then bought some other books and started from a different perspective. And I've found the BBC news site in Russian so I read the headlines and actually grasp a few new words here and there from that too. Rosetta Stone is OK but I need more than their programmed approach. I'm trying my best to immerse myself in a little Russian daily, just so that I learn to instantly recognize words without having to work them out. And the books about grammar also help me recognize the different word stems and endings and know their meanings without having to guess. I'll go back to the Rosetta Stone lessons when I feel comfortable again. But my old brain apparently doesn't work fast enough to glide along smoothly with Rosetta Stone. I have to plod along the old fashioned way.
It's a long process. My goal is a bucket list item, to take a North Sea Cruise to visit St. Petersburg and see the museums and attend a symphony. I figure I have to save at least $5000 and hope my body doesn't give out before then. I hope to do it before I'm 70, which gives me about 4 years to learn enough Russian to feel comfortable.
I've always wanted to learn Russian, it fascinates me. I think because it's easier than Chinese and when I was a kid Russia was the "evil empire" that we were taught very little about. I've been reading and learning about Russia for decades. I also currently have and am reading the biographies of all the Romanov Empresses & Tsars; from the time of Peter the Great.
I've studied Spanish and German but those were when I was young and had real possibilities of needing them and actually did use them a little. Now I'm learning Russian because I have the time and I don't have to, and it makes me a little bit different than the average Joe, which seems to be a psychological need of mine. %-P
Speaking of State Department. When I lived in Washington DC one of my best friends was a translator for the State Department. Amazing person! One of those delightful people whom everybody thinks is their best friend.
...no play fir me today. lots o' cleaning though.
...last I checked, they didn't even have Croatian.
...nah, it's just all those Tocks that went on a rampage when the Ticks were done away with
...last I checked, they didn't even have Croatian.
Why Croatian?
I want a mermaid scene but realize I have no background stuff for a mermaid scene
What is the name of the product that has ocean bottom with beautiful reef?
Are you talking about the Gardens of Poseidon http://www.daz3d.com/gardens-of-poseidon-super-bundle
Yes that is the one, thanks!
Oh, my God, that's expensive! Not for a hobbyist...unless it's a rich hobbyist.
Dana
Morning. For a workday the city is real quiet, sleepy even, save for a dramatic display of blue-black thunderheads and golden godrays in the eastern sky from the vigorous morning sun not yet risen quite above a languid mess of stormclouds :)
Oh, my God, that's expensive! Not for a hobbyist...unless it's a rich hobbyist.
Dana
There is a cyclorama backdrop that will do...
http://www.daz3d.com/heart-of-the-ocean-for-the-multiplane-cyclorama
The weather sure is trying to keep Austin weird. Saw this tidbit on our local newspaper site today: Must be summer out at the F1 track or could be the heat from all those race car engines. The other reporting stations were only reporting high sixties to low eighties.
Comforting to know that summer is out there, somewhere, just not here :lol:
eta 4 green dots wow gratz :)
rumplestiltskin and ripvanwinkle seem to have the same number of syllables :lol:
rumplestiltskin and ripvanwinkle seem to have the same number of syllables :lol:
And the same number of 'r's, 'e's, 'i's, 'n's, and 'p's,
Nope, Rumplestiltskin has only one "n".
But...separated at birth? :-P
Dana
...just testing a wireless keyboard I found in a box of old computer stuff. Put some new batteries in and fired it up. Seems to work pretty good No drop outs, and the space bar doesn't cut out like the previous one did. Also can put it anywhere on the desk so I can pull the notebook closer and actually see the screen read what I am typing. Nice key feedback as well.
Now if it only had a dyslexia filter I'd be in business.
Sounds a little like the perfect story pitch :lol:
Oh, my God, that's expensive! Not for a hobbyist...unless it's a rich hobbyist.
Dana
Yes indeed, unless you bought it when it first came out as part of the intro sale, when there were some good bargains to be had as it was part of a themed release.