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I think I saw a news video a few weeks back about how Guam is overrun with spiders because imported rats have killed the native birds that used to eat the spiders. I mean seriously overrun with spiders, like nightmare sizes and quantities. Or was that just a movie?... No, I'm pretty sure it was a news video.
Spiders,... brrrrrrr... yuck.
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/16/spiders-take-control-as-birds-fade-from-guam/
OK, so it was snakes, not rats that killed the birds. (*blush*)
I remember living in Florida where the spiders charge at you on hind legs AFTER you've hit them with the business end of a broom. Spiders... yuck!
Up here in NY State, I have 3" leg span spiders in my bathroom during the summer, but they are Daddy-Long-Legs spiders that have a body about the size of a match head and will practically die if you blow on them hard and are relatively easy to control and don't attack you.
But it's always entertaining to remind people that in your whole life you're never more than about 5 feet away from a spider. (unless you're SCUBA diving, and even that's not guaranteed.)
Win the Lotto.
Otherwise, I can't afford to retire.
n/m spiders. what about Florida size squeetos and cack-a-roches?
Well, ... consider the fact that when I retired, I moved AWAY from Florida! 8-o
I've heard that in Florida's pioneer days some people kept stables of Palmetto Bugs (giant cockroaches) as transportation and draft animals. And used hoards of trained or baited mosquitos to shield homesteads from the sun. And I also heard that they borrowed "Babe" the giant blue ox from Paul Bunyan and had it walk down the middle of the state to make all the sink holes and lakes we now find there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan
is it true Florida residents don't pay a state income tax?
leaning toward this apt. :) i just have to learn how to make a 790 credit rating.
Retirement!? HA!!
I plan on being a writer for a video game franchise until I get much older, then becoming a metaphysics workshop professor with a side job as a local spiritual consultant. I very much intend of having my last breath right onto a client's Tarot spread! ;)
They didn't when I lived there. However, Florida has it's downsides too. You really need to budget for pest control (mosquitos, palmetto bugs, termites, fire ants, fleas, spiders, Africanized bees, wasps, armadillos, opossums, snakes). You run up massive air conditioning bills, lawn maintenance is a bitch and the grass is that weird stuff that we would call weeds up here in the north. You don't roll around in the grass because it will cut you, or the sand-spurs will cling to you like tiny steel burdocks and leave invisible irritating spines in your skin for weeks, and the fire ants will eat you alive. However, in it's favor, the roads are usually in very good shape since they don't break up due to frost-heave. Unfortunately the roads (especially around the cities) are very busy and filled with 80 year old drivers and their mothers who can't see, can't think fast, and think the speed limit is 45mph or 90mph, never between. Then there's the need for hurricane insurance. Which, since the four hurricanes of 2004 has been sky high, if you can find it. Don't plan on leaving your house to your kids. Beach property is a poor investment unless you plan to sell long before the sea rises another foot.
Florida, a good place to visit, then go home.
forgot about the fireants. ouchhhhh
They didn't when I lived there. However, Florida has it's downsides too. You really need to budget for pest control (mosquitos, palmetto bugs, termites, fire ants, fleas, spiders, Africanized bees, wasps, armadillos, opossums, snakes). You run up massive air conditioning bills, lawn maintenance is a bitch and the grass is that weird stuff that we would call weeds up here in the north. You don't roll around in the grass because it will cut you, or the sand-spurs will cling to you like tiny steel burdocks and leave invisible irritating spines in your skin for weeks, and the fire ants will eat you alive. However, in it's favor, the roads are usually in very good shape since they don't break up due to frost-heave. Unfortunately the roads (especially around the cities) are very busy and filled with 80 year old drivers and their mothers who can't see, can't think fast, and think the speed limit is 45mph or 90mph, never between. Then there's the need for hurricane insurance. Which, since the four hurricanes of 2004 has been sky high, if you can find it. Don't plan on leaving your house to your kids. Beach property is a poor investment unless you plan to sell long before the sea rises another foot.
Florida, a good place to visit, then go home.
Yeah, I actually hear a lot about what's going on in Florida. It seems a lot of crime is over there (see George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony). I have a a few friends down in Florida, every single one of them are desperately trying to get out of there because the education system is incredibly poor with not many colleges there. Public transportation is almost non-existent over there from what I hear (that's actually quite a scary thought for me, where I live in Massachusetts, home of the very popular MBTA).
And yes, old people out the arse there! :lol:
Yeah, I actually hear a lot about what's going on in Florida. It seems a lot of crime is over there (see George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony). I have a a few friends down in Florida, every single one of them are desperately trying to get out of there because the education system is incredibly poor with not many colleges there. Public transportation is almost non-existent over there from what I hear (that's actually quite a scary thought for me, where I live in Massachusetts, home of the very popular MBTA).
And yes, old people out the arse there! :lol:
Yeah, public transportation is piss poor. There are pld people buses in the retirement communities, there are taxi's in the bigger cities, a very limited Metro train in Miami, and the Monorail at Disney World. That's about it. You really need a car. However, since the roads are quite nice and the speed limit is 65 or 70 almost everywhere outside the cities you can zip over to half a dozen other cities in 1 or 2 or 3 hours. (Orlando, Tampa, Sarasota, Ft. Myers, Naples, Daytona, Melbourne, Cocoa Beach, Vero Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Hollywood, Miami, Jacksonville, Gainsville.) And if you want to see an example of the "Paradise Lost" syndrome make a pilgrimage another 4 hours south to Key West and see what happens to a once beautiful island accessible to rich people in cars.
However, I was very very happy in Melbourne with a bicycle. Great mid-sized city to bike around in. Beaches, rivers, lakes, parks, most major city streets have an adequate bike path, and it's easy and relatively safe to cut through most neighborhoods.
When I left my retirement party, I was yelling in my car the words from the Beatle song: "Oh that magic feeling, no place to go" . But it took a year before I quit dreaming I was still at work, LOL! The only thing about being retired is I did not count on the weather becoming hotter and drier in my area of So. Cal. Our city imposed higher water rates, so neighbors and I cut back, which has caused a lot of brownage. I burn instantly in the sun unless shrouded in hats and gloves, which is ok, but not over 80F. So gardening was on the back burner, waiting, waiting, waiting for cooler weather, waiting for the good rains from the ocean. What the heck? It was brilliant, cloudless 80F yesterday, on Christmas! I broke my puter power connection, but Santa brought the hubby, who is also retired, a new tablet, so I got his puter and installed DAZ 4.6 and now I probably will spend a lot of my retirement learning the new DAZ Studio.
Well, ... consider the fact that when I retired, I moved AWAY from Florida! 8-o
I've heard that in Florida's pioneer days some people kept stables of Palmetto Bugs (giant cockroaches) as transportation and draft animals. And used hoards of trained or baited mosquitoes to shield homesteads from the sun. And I also heard that they borrowed "Babe" the giant blue ox from Paul Bunyan and had it walk down the middle of the state to make all the sink holes and lakes we now find there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan
Well, no they didn't use Palmetto Bugs for draft animals. Gives a new meaning to the term, Flea Circus, though. :lol: I used to live in New Orleans, La. They have the big black "water bugs" in NOLA. I used to tell people visiting not to try to step on them, it just makes them mad. If you make a water bug mad, it might take wing. Having an inch-and-a-half black cockroach dive bombing you is rather frightening. When they take wing, they sound exactly like a B-17 bomber! :bug:
Before New Orleans, I lived in Mississippi. One year, they had such a problem with mosquitoes, they were killing cattle. I saw the sky dark at noon with mosquitoes. I had to put on a winter jacket, hat, scarf and gloves to go outside in 90-degree weather to take out the garbage.
And Louisiana has other critters to keep you jumping. They have Tarantulas that come off the banana boats. They also have Nutria. A 20-lb rodent scurrying across your path might make you jump, right? Then there are the alligators, but they seem to be more aggressive in Florida. Let's just say, I don't plan on retiring to Florida. Retirement seems a distant dream for me...
Perfect health, God-like physique, gorgeous French maid.
A new machine I just invented that turns the most gorgeous digital girls into living breathing biological beings who think I am God's gift to arrdvarks and want to cater to my every whim.
A PC which has 48 Xeon cores.
No winter ever. All my friends.
And no war.......
I am just a little self centered :)
After all, even IBM severs top out at 16 Xeon cores, and they make the Xeon chips.
After all, even IBM severs top out at 16 Xeon cores, and they make the Xeon chips.
That's funny :)
I thought you might comment on the god-like physique, or the gorgeous French maid, but no, no..... like a true nerd :) you comment on the Xenon processors :)
I love your sense of humour.
Merry Christmas.
Randy
After all, even IBM severs top out at 16 Xeon cores, and they make the Xeon chips.
No, Intel makes the Xeon chips. IBM rolls their own. Remember, IBM invented "Not Invented Here."
Actually, there are servers with more than 48 cores, but they have to be in separate nodes, or blades. No problem if you can do distributed rendering. Of course, you'll need industrial hearing protection to work near the bloody thing...
No winter? Easy! just move to Singapore. :coolsmile:
No, Intel makes the Xeon chips. IBM rolls their own. Remember, IBM invented "Not Invented Here."
Actually, there are servers with more than 48 cores, but they have to be in separate nodes, or blades. No problem if you can do distributed rendering. Of course, you'll need industrial hearing protection to work near the bloody thing...
No winter? Easy! just move to Singapore. :coolsmile:
Yes, the "No Winter" is a tough one.
And, shocker to everyone, I actually enjoyed shovelling the driveway today, it was simply so beautiful, very brisk, dry, with abundant crunchy snow under a perfectly clear blue sky, the sun hanging there like a foreign star in an alien sky... like some great real world render .................. I wax... my skies, perhaps :)
OH... are there new Xenon processors with 22 cores now?