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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    10TB surprise 

     

    sigh, lost lotto

     

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

    I'm unstuck!  Yea! smiley  Neighbor dug me mostly out yesterday.  I was then able to get my car moved a bit, and get the ice scraped from the windows and get my trunk open.  Snow shovel is now more accessible. blush

    Went uptown before the next storm hit, got my prescriptions and lunch and some groceries and got the car parked at home again before the snow started.  indecision

    ...excellent.

    Still treacherous here for old folks like us to walk.  Ended up taking the bus home last night from the market as it took me more than twice the normal time to walk to the there while trying to not slip and fall.

    Unlike Wisconsin where I grew up, there are no laws here about clearing the walkway in front of your residence or business (there if it isn't done within something like 6 - 8 hours after a snowfall you can be fined by the city).  So all that nice light fluffy snow we got on Wednesday got trampled by feet and packed down by cars, thawed, then refroze turning into a 2" coating of thick very uneven ice in many areas.  The day it snowed, all it would have taken was a broom to clear the pavement as it was the dry light kind. Letting it get packed down and then freeze made the job of removal at least ten times harder. Even though it was sunny all day Thursday and part of yesterday, it did little to help melt the thick icy layer on the pavement and streets.

    On my way to the market I saw some people trying to chip the ice away with whatever they had on hand (often making little progress and simply giving up). One fellow in front of his business was even using a large propane torch to melt it all away.

    Just staying inside today as there has been little improvement and more snow in the forecast.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    started up my desktopm hearing the hdd clicking away, dunno what it's doin, could swear i removed everything fom the task scheduler, if it wasn't offline i'd be worried.

    by default win7 puts defrag in the scheduler, but i untasked it

    i bought guardians of the galaxy dvd to be a christmas prezzie, but i wanna watch it tnite.
    hih, its pg-13  i should watch it might not be suitable for an 11 yo

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    edited December 2016
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...what gets me is this is older generation memory (only 1333MHz). Originally a 24 GB kit cost nearly 800$ when I first built my workstation several years ago, then the price began to fall and really plummeted after  DDR4 quad channel memory came out to where it was at 108$ for a full 24 GB kit.ony a couple weeks ago. Now it is 158$.

    ...and I also need an OEM of W7 pro which is another 140$.

    If you have the money, buy it.  When it is a certain distance from original release time, it starts to get harder to find...which starts putting the price up.

    Dana

    ...that's what I figured might be happening as it is most likely heading to "legacy" status as DDR4 has pretty much become the "norm".

    Yeah, I need a nice "prezzie" this holiday season so I can finally get this upgrade done. I know W10 Home is only 80$ and supports up to 128 GB of memory but I'd be totally at the mercy of MS as to when updating occurs and cannot disable a lot of the useless feature bloat I don't want like can be done in the Pro Edition.  Besides, if I really wanted MS to take my system over and have the "Spawn of Bob" on my system, I would have got it for free during the "upgrade" offer.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is official naos, i'se officially adopting gamma correction of 1.8 as my standard rendoperating procedure

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ahhhh hooked on a feeling

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,527

    Ugly Christmas sweater cookie

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    3200 x 2400 - 1M
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    gum drop buttons

    doo yoo know ... the muffin man?

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,527

    Trying to place an order on Amazon for my brother and his family's christmas presents but having difficulties.  So wish they would come to town for Christmas.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 2016

    my friend my friend

     

    we lost one of the good guys this passed friday, less light on earth to hold back the evil in the world

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. A mob of bright-winged parrots struggling and failing to make any headway against a stiff westerley breeze, isn't there some song about walking backwards for Christmas? Flying backwards? Maybe am still dreaming :)

    Granny got run over by a boomer.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    MistyMist said:

    10TB surprise 

     

    sigh, lost lotto

     

    What a nightmare that will be to back up!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I'm unstuck!  Yea! smiley  Neighbor dug me mostly out yesterday.  I was then able to get my car moved a bit, and get the ice scraped from the windows and get my trunk open.  Snow shovel is now more accessible. blush

    Went uptown before the next storm hit, got my prescriptions and lunch and some groceries and got the car parked at home again before the snow started.  indecision

    ...excellent.

    Still treacherous here for old folks like us to walk.  Ended up taking the bus home last night from the market as it took me more than twice the normal time to walk to the there while trying to not slip and fall.

    Unlike Wisconsin where I grew up, there are no laws here about clearing the walkway in front of your residence or business (there if it isn't done within something like 6 - 8 hours after a snowfall you can be fined by the city).  So all that nice light fluffy snow we got on Wednesday got trampled by feet and packed down by cars, thawed, then refroze turning into a 2" coating of thick very uneven ice in many areas.  The day it snowed, all it would have taken was a broom to clear the pavement as it was the dry light kind. Letting it get packed down and then freeze made the job of removal at least ten times harder. Even though it was sunny all day Thursday and part of yesterday, it did little to help melt the thick icy layer on the pavement and streets.

    On my way to the market I saw some people trying to chip the ice away with whatever they had on hand (often making little progress and simply giving up). One fellow in front of his business was even using a large propane torch to melt it all away.

    Just staying inside today as there has been little improvement and more snow in the forecast.

    Get a grip!  http://www.duenorthproducts.com/

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Ugly Christmas sweater cookie

    That's funny!  laugh 

    Dana

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,221

    My bank debit card was hacked, and of course I have to lock the account just before traveling for Xmas.  My credit union account was hacked just before Thanksgiving. Aaaargh. Other than Daz, and automatic bill pay for utilities, I don't do much online.  Aaargh. 

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    MistyMist said:

    10TB surprise 

     

    sigh, lost lotto

     

    Forgot to buy ticket. On the plus side, I'm 2 quid up! laugh

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    edited December 2016
    MistyMist said:

    10TB surprise 

     

    sigh, lost lotto

     

    That's a mighty big basket to put all one's eggs into. surprise

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    edited December 2016

    (*sigh*) It's snowing again.  It hasn't been cold enough, long enough, yet to freeze the Great Lakes so everytime snow comes from the West (which is almost always) we get "lake effect" snow.  Which is winter speak for "frozen downpour". frown

    It's been warm enough the last couple of days that all that snow we had previously has turned into 10 inches of stuff the consistency of a gray 7/11 Icee.  When it does really freeze hard around here again we'll have an ice base till spring. sad

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009

    I was sweating late yesterday (75F) moving my potted plants inside.  The Real-Feel right now is 13F.  Typical weather change for Texas.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complainnn  refreshed my cart, all the discounted items went up couple bucks each

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    diomede said:

    My bank debit card was hacked, and of course I have to lock the account just before traveling for Xmas.  My credit union account was hacked just before Thanksgiving. Aaaargh. Other than Daz, and automatic bill pay for utilities, I don't do much online.  Aaargh. 

     

    totally complaint worthy surprise

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tee heeeee

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    atticanne said:

    I was sweating late yesterday (75F) moving my potted plants inside.  The Real-Feel right now is 13F.  Typical weather change for Texas.

     

    (waves) smiley

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    Tjohn said:
    atticanne said:

    I was sweating late yesterday (75F) moving my potted plants inside.  The Real-Feel right now is 13F.  Typical weather change for Texas.

     

    (waves) smiley

    ...same here. 

    75°?  Would love to have some of that here to finish melting off all the ice on the walkways. Sun can't seem to do it alone when the temp is still hovering around freezing and the angle is low to where a lot of areas are in shadow all day.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:
    atticanne said:

    I was sweating late yesterday (75F) moving my potted plants inside.  The Real-Feel right now is 13F.  Typical weather change for Texas.

     

    (waves) smiley

    ...same here. 

    75°?  Would love to have some of that here to finish melting off all the ice on the walkways. Sun can't seem to do it alone when the temp is still hovering around freezing and the angle is low to where a lot of areas are in shadow all day.

    Talking of melting ice.   I discovered a rather strange thing.  It is apparently against european law to use salt to clear the weeds from the patio, because salt is not a recognised weed killer.   However it is permissable to use salt to melt of the ice on the patio, so it isn't slippy.    So if anyone asks I am melting the ice,  OK.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ...OK, mum's the word.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,527

    I feel sick.  I do not know what to do about it.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    edited December 2016

    Hmmm... why is "goal" pronounced "go'-al", and "gaol" pronounced "jay'-al"? surprise  I find the word "jail" (jay'-il) quite satisfactory

    "My goal is to avoid gaol."

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,027

    Blame the Normans...

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Hmmm... why is "goal" pronounced "go'-al", and "gaol" pronounced "jay'-al"? surprise  I find "jail" (jay'-il) quite satisfactory.

     

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