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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    g'mornin 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tempted to put packet of raw sugar in my coffee 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528
    MistyMist said:

    tempted to put packet of raw sugar in my coffee 

    Why do you have raw sugar in your house when you cannot have it (I think)?   I like cupcakes but they are not good for me.  Best option for me is to not have cupcakes in the house.  (Well none that are earmarked for me)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    MistyMist said:

    tempted to put packet of raw sugar in my coffee 

    Why do you have raw sugar in your house when you cannot have it (I think)?   I like cupcakes but they are not good for me.  Best option for me is to not have cupcakes in the house.  (Well none that are earmarked for me)

     

    it's a fight everyday. i will not eat sugar today, but then the other voice says, can start not eating sugar tomorrow.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    cant even imagine what content left to buy  lol

    trying to learn how to put avi file on a monitor screen in carrara

    well 1st i hafta record dialog. make my voice sound funny in screaming bee,  lipsync g3m in ds, create the animation file. then exort it to import it to show on a monitor in carrara.  a bunch of monitors to do 

    thinking of transformers movie - "send everyone"

    You need to structure the movie as if it was a UV texture following the screen's UV's, if you get/make a UV template for each screen you will see what you have to resize/rotate to keep the video aligned to the screen aspect ratio, um, I do that kind of stuff using Motion, maybe Fusion Free would get you there :0

     

    ratio math magic 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    oh my it is nine am.  I wonder if my mum will be here soon.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    McGyver said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I went to Starbucks for a cheese stick and a refill this afternoon.  They did not ask for my name but they still put my name on the cup.  Maybe I took a drink from another customer who liked their coffee the way I do and have my name. Wait what are the odds of someone else with my first name to get an ice coffee the way I like it?  Granted I do not have a common first name.

    Now I'm wondering what your real name is... I'm picturing something mythical or diabolical... 

    "Ereshkigal"... "Double Frappamachiato latte for Ereshkigal...? No ancient Sumerian goddesses of the underworld order one?... Ereshkigal?"

    Thats probably not your name... But it sounded cool at the moment.

    That moment passed.

    Did you stick around to see if you came around to pick it up... What if there are two of you? You could be part of a secret cloning project... It was very common in the 80s... You might be the last two left... Then the other you would be really lonely...  Or she could be deranged and trying to track down the last of her clones... 

    Hmmm... Proceed with caution.

     

    I am not sure that there are many who order ice coffee with Mango and Raspberry flavoring.  I did not drink it all last night but put it into the freezer for today.

     

    Raspberry 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oooo i like this

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    edited October 2016
    ps1borg said:

    ...

    MistyMist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    'Nother complaint:  For at least two years I've been noticing that my eyesight is getting worse.  Gradually getting dimmer, and more blurry.  I got a new prescription and glasses last year which helped the blurriness for a while but not the poor night vision.  Now in the last 6 months the deterioration has accelerated.  I see rings around bright lights, the world looks like I'm viewing it through cheesecloth and I can barely read road signs anymore even by looking through the very top of my progressive lens glasses. 

    Of course I went to the eye doctors (a couple of them) and it's confirmed to be cataracts.  Yellowing of the lens, developing of semi-opaque spots in the lens and now development of little bubbles on or around the lens.  I've known this for a couple of months and the surgery is planned for the 11th (left eye) and 18th (right eye) of October.  I'm hoping this works out OK and everybody says it will, but I'm probably not as relaxed as I should be.  I worry that my insurance company will screw me.  I worry that my doctor could be incompetent, I worry that the problems of a fixed focus lens will be a major setback in my life, especially for close work on the computer or reading.

    But everybody says my far focus seeing will be great and the world will seem much brighter again.  If so, I'm really looking forward to being able to see the stars again.  I haven't seen them clearly for many years.

     

    stars are pretty  {{hugs}}

    {{hugs}} +1 and wow, to see stars as if for the first time...

    Thanks, smiley and I hope the procedure works that well.  Not seeing stars clearly for probably as much as 10 years has been so frustrating.  Now it's so bad that I can make out the three stars in Orion's belt but only as a hazy slash.  I know there are others with worse problems and I empathize, but this is mine at this time, and I dread hearing the surgeon say "Oops!". surprise

    On a brighter note.  Today's the day I go to Buffalo for the symphony!  Yea!  Blind man driving! surprise  Not so bad though.  After 60 years I pretty much know the way and I can see but just can't read the fine print on signs.  I've printed out and studied the map carefully and I've got my Garmin navigation device all programmed.  Unfortunately I can't find my opera glasses so I'll be watching blurry blobs play Tchaikovsky! sad  Should have gotten a closer seat.  At least they have Sunday afternoon concerts because I definitely wouldn't have attempted this trip at night.

    The event: An afternoon with Tchaikovsky: https://bpo.org/event/tchaikovskys-fifth-2/ 

    The composer: Tchaikovsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky

    1) Sleeping Beauty Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKy3QXQQPU (20minutes)  recognizable theme at 15:49

    2) Piano Concerto #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0Iu4kBTP4 (15minutes) 

    3) Symphony #5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ILDGl4a9w (51 minutes)  grand finish begins at 39:00

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited October 2016

    Complaint #87646253688-R: GPS apps...

    Observation: They all suck.

    I'll say this first... Yes, some are better than others, but on the same level, when being mauled by a pack of wild dogs, some bite softer than others too... It's just that when you need them, it's six of one a half a dozen of another...

    And yes, I realize that not everyone is good with actual maps, paper or digital, but knowing where you are (or rather should be) going is important... These idiot algorithms are beyond stupid.

    A few days ago me and my family went to party at a restaurant and I didn't have the time to look at a map or do the Google maps thing (First find it pick out a logical route and go to street view to see approximations of what the major landmarks may or may not still be/look like), so my wife narrowed it down to the town and we used one of the "better" apps to find it... It could not have been a worse, darker, more dangerous or convoluted and winding route if a chinchilla on crack scrawled it out in crayon... I'm pretty sure I almost ran over the headless horseman on a blind "S" curve.

    So I get to the place and I've got to look at this route to see what the hell just happened... It turns out it's one block in from a Main Street... Literally one block from a famous statue of Teddy Roosevelt in Oyster Bay... It took me four miles west past a direct route, one mile north past another direct route... Eh... Just lets says it was almost a huge crooked, backwards "G" shaped route through roads that were barely one car wide, for absolutely no reason.

     It took me half the time to get back once we left because I just went down one block to a main route and directly to the highway... Bam... Done.

    So last night, my wife's mom gets into an accident and is sent to a small hospital in that same general vicinity, once again the GPS app, a different one starts taking us on a grand tour of the lesser known areas of the island as hosted by the crack addled chinchilla algorithm... I didn't bite, I let the force guide me and used signs and common sense.

    I just have to wonder... Since this is common in my experience and every time I have used any GPS or GPS app, it is totally off... How many millions of gallons of gas are wasted by these idiotic apps... How many hours are lost wandering on backstreet detours... How many lives lost in accidents on dangerous roads nobody should have had to visit...

    My paranoid suspicious nature makes me doubt there is a accidental or innocent reason for these algorithms to pick these routes, and leans more to a nefarious monetary reason, but if it's not, then these things are the worst at just basic plotting... Especially when most don't even let you pick out a better route.

    Yeah... I'm just waiting for driverless cars, so I won't even have the opportunity to pick a route, just climb in the handbasket and enjoy the ride down...

     

     

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited October 2016

    I was looking at a lace dress but I forgot to bookmark the page.  I can't find the page in my browser's history.  Hmm.  Its a nice dress with short sleeves that is on sale.  I don't see to many dresses with short sleeves for under $30.  I normally see strap type casual dresses.  I'll keep looking for the web page.

    edit: forgot the word "casual"

    Post edited by starionwolf on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    McGyver said:

    Complaint #87646253688-R: GPS apps...

    Observation: They all suck.

    I'll say this first... Yes, some are better than others, but on the same level, when being mauled by a pack of wild dogs, some bite softer than others too... It's just that when you need them, it's six of one a half a dozen of another...

    And yes, I realize that not everyone is good with actual maps, paper or digital, but knowing where you are (or rather should be) going is important... These idiot algorithms are beyond stupid.

    A few days ago me and my family went to party at a restaurant and I didn't have the time to look at a map or do the Google maps thing (First find it pick out a logical route and go to street view to see approximations of what the major landmarks may or may not still be/look like), so my wife narrowed it down to the town and we used one of the "better" apps to find it... It could not have been a worse, darker, more dangerous or convoluted and winding route if a chinchilla on crack scrawled it out in crayon... I'm pretty sure I almost ran over the headless horseman on a blind "S" curve.

    So I get to the place and I've got to look at this route to see what the hell just happened... It turns out it's one block in from a Main Street... Literally one block from a famous statue of Teddy Roosevelt in Oyster Bay... It took me four miles west past a direct route, one mile north past another direct route... Eh... Just lets says it was almost a huge crooked, backwards "G" shaped route through roads that were barely one car wide, for absolutely no reason.

     It took me half the time to get back once we left because I just went down one block to a main route and directly to the highway... Bam... Done.

    So last night, my wife's mom gets into an accident and is sent to a small hospital in that same general vicinity, once again the GPS app, a different one starts taking us on a grand tour of the lesser known areas of the island as hosted by the crack addled chinchilla algorithm... I didn't bite, I let the force guide me and used signs and common sense.

    I just have to wonder... Since this is common in my experience and every time I have used any GPS or GPS app, it is totally off... How many millions of gallons of gas are wasted by these idiotic apps... How many hours are lost wandering on backstreet detours... How many lives lost in accidents on dangerous roads nobody should have had to visit...

    My paranoid suspicious nature makes me doubt there is a accidental or innocent reason for these algorithms to pick these routes, and leans more to a nefarious monetary reason, but if it's not, then these things are the worst at just basic plotting... Especially when most don't even let you pick out a better route.

    Yeah... I'm just waiting for driverless cars, so I won't even have the opportunity to pick a route, just climb in the handbasket and enjoy the ride down...

     

     

    Sometime in 2003 I had a gps unit that plugged into a laptop, via serial port. I went to New Hampshire with a friend and we checked it out one day.  It was pretty accurate.  There was one point where the road on the map differed a little from the actual road, but the pointer that showed where we were was right on the money...and off the road on the map.  laugh  It was by DeLorme.  Other than that item, which I no longer use because it was serial, and the new laptops don't have serial, they have USB, is usually just go to Google maps and get my route plotted and print out the directions and maybe a portion of the map with the route highlighted.  Recently I tried the Google maps in my new smartphone, while up in New Hampshire, and it worked well.  I've never had one of those stand-alone GPS units, like the Garmin, so I don't know what they're like.

    Dana

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I had a friend who liked to drive on the backroads instead of the big local highway.  One time we drove from his house to the mall near his house.  He took the back / neighborhood roads. Taking the backroads added 25 minutes to the trip.  He had to drive slowly because of the hills and winding roads.  There are lots of trees too.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    all trips take longer in new jersey.  no left turns 

     

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,263

    Sounds like our downtown

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221

    Loud neigbors?

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    McGyver said:
    I just have to wonder... Since this is common in my experience and every time I have used any GPS or GPS app, it is totally off... How many millions of gallons of gas are wasted by these idiotic apps...

    Perhaps the GPS apps are written by oil companies...   :-o

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    It seems that my computer is doing a major update.  I thought it was a minor update to install and restart but it is taking its time 

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    cant even imagine what content left to buy  lol

    trying to learn how to put avi file on a monitor screen in carrara

    well 1st i hafta record dialog. make my voice sound funny in screaming bee,  lipsync g3m in ds, create the animation file. then exort it to import it to show on a monitor in carrara.  a bunch of monitors to do 

    thinking of transformers movie - "send everyone"

    You need to structure the movie as if it was a UV texture following the screen's UV's, if you get/make a UV template for each screen you will see what you have to resize/rotate to keep the video aligned to the screen aspect ratio, um, I do that kind of stuff using Motion, maybe Fusion Free would get you there :0

     

    ratio math magic 

    If you think of a UV template as a page then you position the video inside the UV guides on the page, hopefully they were set up thoughtfully for that but if not you can make a plane with UVs that is setup nicely and position the plane immmediately in front of the other geometry, might be a bit easier for you :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. A mob of songbirds out before dawn, perhaps the forgot to reset clocks for summer time yesterday :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. A mob of songbirds out before dawn, perhaps the forgot to reset clocks for summer time yesterday :)

    No change here until Nov. 6. Or 6 Nov. whatever you prefer. smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    in the midst of some rdj luv.   Ironman3

    but then, do i hazta follow with Transformers3 or can i go to Transformers2.

    after T2&3,  Lexx or Starship Troopers, oddly, both about bugs.

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    I like iron man 13

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    MistyMist said:

    g'mornin 

    ..mornin'...er afternoon. Was up late-early playing with my new 3D stuff and developing new characters.  Defiantly No Brows and Real Brows for G3F were good purchases though missed seeing Wow Brow as I though it was only makeup. I wonder if I can exchange the two.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    McGyver said:

    Complaint #87646253688-R: GPS apps...

    Observation: They all suck.

    I'll say this first... Yes, some are better than others, but on the same level, when being mauled by a pack of wild dogs, some bite softer than others too... It's just that when you need them, it's six of one a half a dozen of another...

    And yes, I realize that not everyone is good with actual maps, paper or digital, but knowing where you are (or rather should be) going is important... These idiot algorithms are beyond stupid.

    A few days ago me and my family went to party at a restaurant and I didn't have the time to look at a map or do the Google maps thing (First find it pick out a logical route and go to street view to see approximations of what the major landmarks may or may not still be/look like), so my wife narrowed it down to the town and we used one of the "better" apps to find it... It could not have been a worse, darker, more dangerous or convoluted and winding route if a chinchilla on crack scrawled it out in crayon... I'm pretty sure I almost ran over the headless horseman on a blind "S" curve.

    So I get to the place and I've got to look at this route to see what the hell just happened... It turns out it's one block in from a Main Street... Literally one block from a famous statue of Teddy Roosevelt in Oyster Bay... It took me four miles west past a direct route, one mile north past another direct route... Eh... Just lets says it was almost a huge crooked, backwards "G" shaped route through roads that were barely one car wide, for absolutely no reason.

     It took me half the time to get back once we left because I just went down one block to a main route and directly to the highway... Bam... Done.

    So last night, my wife's mom gets into an accident and is sent to a small hospital in that same general vicinity, once again the GPS app, a different one starts taking us on a grand tour of the lesser known areas of the island as hosted by the crack addled chinchilla algorithm... I didn't bite, I let the force guide me and used signs and common sense.

    I just have to wonder... Since this is common in my experience and every time I have used any GPS or GPS app, it is totally off... How many millions of gallons of gas are wasted by these idiotic apps... How many hours are lost wandering on backstreet detours... How many lives lost in accidents on dangerous roads nobody should have had to visit...

    My paranoid suspicious nature makes me doubt there is a accidental or innocent reason for these algorithms to pick these routes, and leans more to a nefarious monetary reason, but if it's not, then these things are the worst at just basic plotting... Especially when most don't even let you pick out a better route.

    Yeah... I'm just waiting for driverless cars, so I won't even have the opportunity to pick a route, just climb in the handbasket and enjoy the ride down...

     

     

    ...it's all a plot by the petrol companies.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    Some websites are not tablet friendly.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    edited October 2016
    MistyMist said:

    all trips take longer in new jersey.  no left turns 

     

    ...pretty much the same in downtown Portland, to go one block can take six to eight. 

    Crikey even the bus stops for a particular bus route are 5 - 6 blocks apart on the downtown transit mall because they added the LRT tram (they used to be every two blocks apart) and the new shelters are useless when it comes to protection from the elements.

    Old Shelter

    New alleged "shelter":

    [...but the mall redesign did win an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects so I guess that's significant even though function took a seat in the back of the bus to form.]

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:

    all trips take longer in new jersey.  no left turns 

     

    ...pretty much the same in downtown Portland, to go one block can take six to eight. 

    Crikey even the bus stops for a particular bus route are 5 - 6 blocks apart on the downtown transit mall because they added the LRT tram (they used to be every two blocks apart) and the new shelters are useless when it comes to protection from the elements.

    Old Shelter

    New alleged "shelter":

    [...but the mall redesign did win an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects so I guess that's significant even though function took a seat in the back of the bus to form.]

     

    thought the point was to wait without the raindrops and snowflakes makin wet cold and miserable.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    non complaint, hot cuppa tea, pumpkin pie, and ironman

     

    Loki is a bad boy

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    It seems that my computer is doing a major update.  I thought it was a minor update to install and restart but it is taking its time 

    No, it's taking your time! surprise

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