The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Rainbow frames...nice.
...did it explode or was a nerdy square sponge wearing brown shorts and a tie living in it??
it was here, wrote it's manifesto
then vanished up my ...
spikey end and all
No pineapples in my dream last night! I did dream I went to a boring convention with terrible food.
I also dreamt I was trying to read an article about Anson Mount.
Peekaboo.
He's not here. But here's his brother.
(Query: Is that his tail or is he farting?)
Why can't it be both?
Complaint: Well, that was quick! The temperature went from 50F with dry bare ground at 1:00 this afternoon, to an inch of snow on the ground at 6:30 PM.
Non-complaint: It seems to have stopped.
Non-complaint: I figured out my coffee price conundrum.
My local grocery store has received a new stock of Folger's Instant Decaffeinated Coffee, and their price on the shelf now matches the 30% higher price at Amazon. So, I guess my local grocery had an old stock of decaf coffee, and I seem to be the only one in town buying it, so it took a while for them to need to order new, more expensive, stock. I should have known, when I had to wash the dust off the cap.
Non-complaint: WOW, just WOW, head blown!
This series "History of the Universe" is wonderful. Simplified, but excellent, non-mathematic, description of physical realities.
Watch as much as you need of this whole program to grasp the implications of what is said at the 44:30 minute mark through 46:33.
But if you already understand the basics, the short story begins at 43:50.
Curiouser and curiouser -- Alice
This Transactional Interpretation makes Particle/Wave Duality seem like childs play.
But rides in the same bus as Quantum Entanglement.
(Actually, I think they're all on the same bus, but we've got bags over our heads and can't see it.)
I went to a funeral today
and sang hymns, something I haven't done in some time
( I played the organ for church probably 20 years so rarely sang, not been to church for 4 years)
my voice struggled to reach high notes, I usually then drop into a harmony or down an octave
finally Amazing Grace which was in my register
then the organist tranposed it for the last 2 verses, drats
(felt maybe karma as with things with flats I was guilty of switching to sharps for the last verse too but I wasn't singing)
...complaint: just lost a skin texture I created with Skin Builder 8 that took quite a bit of effort to get right. I have no idea how it happened as everything was fine with the character when I saved and closed the programme the last time I worked with it. The character is an albino which took some time to get right due to the fact it requires having to manually adjust #a number of surface parameter settings..
The character's face is fine but the entire body looks as if a different skin was substituted even though in the surfaces tab it has the same labels as the skin builder texture the character had for each of the material zones (I even went to the folder where teh SKin Builder textures are stored through the surfaces tab and reapplied them, but no change. This leaves me with the only possibility that somehow the files were corrupted either while closing or opening the character, just not sure what.
Not looking forwarded to having to recreate it from scratch given how difficult it is to get an accurate match with the photo resources I have.
it's 01:10 and not about to to pull an overnight session to fix thjis
Rubbish this really dampens the creative muise.
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Bummer. Sympathies.
Non-complaint: Yay, big mini-adventure coming up next Tuesday morning. Dentist appointment.
But I get to ride a bus and an Uber or two, to get to the drug store and a proper grocery store, and I might even make it a bigger adventure by going all the way uptown to the WalMart or one of the local overstock stores, BigLots, or Ollies. Or even (dare I think of it?) JCPenney's for some clothes.
Wheee..., shopping at a real department store at a suffering but still alive shopping mall (a major excursion into the not so distant past)!
And if I get that far into town, I'll might have lunch at a proper restaurant like Arby's, McDonalds, or Wendy's.
No, I think if I'd spent that much money already, I'd treat myself to something other than the frozen dinners, canned veggies, sandwiches and soup I've been eating for a couple of months. Mmmm..., yeah, lunch at Red Lobster or Olive Garden. Mmmm..., lobster,... Mmmm..., olives..., Mmmmm..., real food.
Lost a texture file? Or lose some setting that define the texture? Would there be a place in the DAZ files that information is kept and would be on a backup, if you knew which file to look for?
Documents\DAZ 3D\DazTmp\textureConvert
maybe
..when I click on the tiny Mat zone icon in the Base Colour channel, the link in the Surfaces tab takes me to:
Sudio4,/Library/Runtime/Textures/SkinBuilderG8FMR/CreatedMatFIles...
...where the Skin Builder textures are saved and stored for each character.
Hovering the cursor over the icon gives other details like the SBP file "name" (which is a number followed by several ampersands and the identifier for the Mat zone which n turn is followed by a four digit number) What I noticed was first the number for the face mat was different from the maps all the body zones so I clicked on each body zone and searched for the same starting number the face map had. I then applied the maps with the correct number (to both the Base and Translucency colour channels and everything is where it was suppose to be.
Not sure how they were swapped with a different Skin Builder texture. Still took a little time to figure this out and fix but not the many hours it would have to rebuild the skin from scratch and make all the minute adjustments again.
Closed the character then re-loaded her to make sure the glitch didn't occur again.
When I write something really long, by the time I take out all the sexual, violent, and perhaps psychotic parts, I usually have maybe one sentence left. Sometimes it's a whole paragraph. Anyway, your tirades are much more interesting and socially acceptable. There's got to be a way to type them without losing the whole thing. I think what worked for me was typing in a word processor, then copying that into a Notepad file to remove the unintended formatting, and finally copying that into the forum. As for the hallucinations, they can't be any worse than reality. I don't see why people like to focus on reality all the time. Maybe some of the time, but certainly not all the time.
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Non-complaint: Wheee..., I just watched the wind topple a tree in the neighbor's yard. I'm very happy it's not my yard.
I'd taken off my headphones and heard a roaring sound as if a train was going by. I looked out the window and saw the darkness and leavless trees waving. I stepped onto my side porch to get a better look and just then a moderate sized elm tree on the far side of two houses down the street, just simply snapped in half removing the entire top.
The roaring came from up the hill where the woods are thickest and they were all dancing in the wind and the roaring was quite loud. No rotational winds, just straightline continuous wind. It's still howling out there.
The only tree I'm worried about here is a huge Tulip tree across the road, if it fell just the right direction it might clobber the enclosed front porch on this house and possibly even break into my living room. Thankfully, today, the wind is not blowing this direction.
I haven't checked, but I think that the tree that toppled in the neighbor's yard probably fell on his car.
If I only had a brain. Oh, and a few million bucks.. I'm not greedy. Hmm... I should give this some more thought.
a gum tree decided to drop a massive limb on the footpath I had been walking on a minute before a few weeks ago
not my time yet
...was at a friend's place today, the skies turned greenish (like before a tornado) ",there was thunder, after which there was a deluge of pea sized hail that accumulated to over an inch. A few minutes afterward the sun came out
Made me feel like I was back in the Midwest.
I forgot to say I got the rest of my glasses. This pair gives me a 50's retro feel!
Ah, turquoise. Definite '50s look.
At least it's not avocado green like the appliances from the '70s.
I bought my first house in the late '70s. Yep, the whole deal, Florida ranch style, front yard, fenced back yard, 2-car garage, 3 bedrooms, lawn mower, car, motorcycle, several palm trees, hibiscus bushes, fire ants, a frequently clogged ditch, and avacado green kitchen appliances.
The house was 7 years old, and the first day after the papers were signed, the air-conditioning died. Luckily I had buyer's insurance that covered the entire thing as part of the house sales contract. Too bad the appliances didn't die too.
Yep, my first house. I was only there for two or three years and sold it with the appliances still green. Every place I've lived since then kept getting smaller, and smaller, yet my collections kept growing so the collectibles needed to be smaller and smaller. That's how I ended up collecting small mineral samples and semi-precious gemstones. The whole collection of those can be tastefully displayed in about 4 square feet of display area.
...same here went from a lovely old 2 floor, 3 BR Victorian home (that had centralised heat) and a big porch to sit on during nice weather, to what amounts to a modest hotel room with a aircraft sized galley kitchen, and bath along one of those in the wall money siphon electric heaters you see in cheap motel rooms. Did have to shed quite a bit before I moved to where I currently am.
I still have a few of my more treasured collections like my LPs, Sci-Fi books, "interesting" and commemorative coffee cups and glassware (including from Pat Obrien's in New Orleans and my set of drink glasses form the first NY to Miami "DC-8B" jet flights on Eastern Airlines), but that all sits neatly on bookshelves (that cover just about every centimetre of open wall space including under the window) while the LPs, are in milk crates.
More like living in a library and curio shop.
That really makes me wish I had kept my lapdiary equipment. was a pretty good cabber back in the day. Used a Rock Rascal combo set which back the cost me a grand $75.00...
Today a similar setup would run to around $1000-1500.. Loved working with Labradorite, Tiger Eye, and when I could afford the rough, opal.. There were lots fo good stuff to cut besides those,, snowflake Obsidian, nephrite, etc.. Currently in a two bedroom condo, at right about 1000 sq.foot...
in my best Homer Simpson impression: JC Penney? Do they still have that?
The last time I was in Kohls, it was super depressing. They're hanging on by a thread and some kid must have just pulled the last one. Their stock is so low, they've taken to hiding some of the empty shelving gondolas behind other gondolas to make it look like their shelves aren't bare.
But their shelves are bare.
Oh and if you're still eating fast food, Burger King still makes the best old-school burger. I have taken to saying "heavy tomato" on mine. But if the BKs near you have closed, maybe you have a BurgerFi near you. You should really consider that. Just don't let that "not a meat simulated meat" fool you. Get the Angus or Kobe.
Got news for you. Red Lobster and Olive Garden? I'm not certain they're NOT frozen dinners re-heated. But still delishious. <<---- how did my spellcheck miss this?
Yeah, that Kohls thing above is really depressing.
I need to buy new jeans. I'm down to one pair that fits, conceals all that which should be concealed, and doesn't have a rip in its space-time continuum.
It looks like I may have a lot of time on my hands this summer. Which means I'll end up busier than ever, hehe.
...I am still saddened that the old Gimbels store in Milwaukee went out of business back in 1980s. It was purchased by Marshal Field of Chicago and kept operating under that name until 1997 when it officially closed its doors for good.
Gimbels Milwaukee was the first and founding store of what would be eventually expand top tow other cities when they Gimbel Bothers branched out to New York (where the headquarters was also moved) and Philadelphia. In Milwaukee, the main store was a classic 1920s Beaux Arts structure of 8 floors that took up entire block on the west bank of the Milwaukee River. Even into the 1960s it still maintaines the original lifts with ornate brass framed glass doors and a real live operator who would call out the floors (as a kid it was fascinating to look through the doors to see the chains, cables, and counterweights all in motion)., During the Yule Holiday they elaborately decorated windows on the street level and it was the place to go for holiday shopping. . The store also had a large restaurant on the first floor with full soda fountain where you could get phosphate sodas and real chocolate malted milkshakes. Yeah it was a different experience. Gimbels also opened a few branch stores in the suburban "open air" shopping centres but the downtown store was still the biggest and always the best. I feel fortunate to have experienced it when growing up.
Gimbels' two major competitors were the Boston Store and Schuster's, both which were also home grown The Boston Store which was couple blocks west of Gimbels was the other major downtown department store. Schuster's on the other hand opted to locate in three neighbourhoods just outside of downtown rather than in the city centre, with it's main store on N. Third St about 1.3 mies to the north of downtown at the time (Schuster's merged with Gimbels in 1962 and for a while the stores carried both names).
The Gimbels building still stands but has since been renovated and repurposed into a Marriott Residence Inn with shops on the ground level and river walk.
The Boston store was to have a clock tower.added in the 1920s but that was never built It would have defintly been distinctive had they gone ahead with the plan
I remember my mum shopping at both but she preferred Gimbels as she had a charge plate there and they had what was known as the "Bargain Basement" (usually last year's name brand styles that were resonably discounted). I remember one year she bought me three pairs of new Wangler jeans for 15$ in the "BB" (Crikey you can't get a deal like that even at Goodwill today for worn out ones).,
Yeah it was almost like a different world back then compared to today. On a visit to Milwaukee back in the late 1980s, downtown seemed like a very lifeless and depressing place compared to how I remembered it when I grew up there.
Wheee..., old department stores. Yep, we still have a hanging-on JCPenney store. Only old-time department store left in this area. Sears left years ago.
Both Sears and JCPenney used to be located in the center of the city (Jamestown, NY), in proper multi-story buildings like a proper department store. But that was back in the 50's before the invention of malls. There was something about going Christmas shopping in the downtown of a city, with the holiday lights, snow and slush, and the repeated entry & exit of buildings back into the snow to walk in the weather to the next store down the street. Ah, memories.
Jamestown had it's own family owned department store, "Bigelows". It was the 2nd tallest building in the city*, with seven display floors. Ooh, seven!
Two pictures below. It was originally hideous red brick, but was remodeled in hideous '60s fashion during the '70s. However, inside it was hardwood floors, expensive, carved wood paneling and door frames, gold ceilings, chandeliers, the whole ostentation bit. It even had an old wooden escalator. But shortly later went out of business and completely torn down when shopping traffic in the city died because of the new mall.
In Washington DC there were two main old-family department stores. "Woodward & Lothrup" (called "Woodies"), and "Garfinkel's" in the downtown area. Garfinkels went out of business first, probably about the late '80s, then Woodward & Lothrup a few years later in the '90s. The W&L building, now repurposed, sits on top of one of the entrances to the Washington DC Metro "MetroCenter" station.
* (tallest building was the Hotel Jamestown, next door). The Hotel Jamestown is now an ancient people's pad/crib/stable/home.