My phone will not charge complaint thread

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaints 
    hearing the high pitched shoutings of children on the lawn,
    searching the interwebs for a red nosed reindeer not finding
    the silence of the turkeys

    non-complaint  carrot cake

    semi coplaint -
    today the pre holiday kitchen scrubbing.  needs the right music background, think paganini should do the trick. some zz top do doo doo do do doo doo sharp dressed man

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    heartheartheart

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,201

    There was an add on for a toon type deer, some years ago, but I never found the deer itself, so couldn't use the add on.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    how did they derive kris kringle from Saint Nickolus

  • Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,201

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

  • DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    That will solve the one problem... but not the other.

    Add-on "complaint": I've been accidentally vaping Worcestershire sauce while making chex mix for tomorrow. I don't recommend it.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,201
    DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    That will solve the one problem... but not the other.

    Add-on "complaint": I've been accidentally vaping Worcestershire sauce while making chex mix for tomorrow. I don't recommend it.

    laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    That will solve the one problem... but not the other.

    Add-on "complaint": I've been accidentally vaping Worcestershire sauce while making chex mix for tomorrow. I don't recommend it.

    laugh

    mystery to pronounce,  worse chester shaus

    is suspect, Stratford-upon-Avon

    Stratford was originally inhabited by Anglo-Saxons and remained a village before the lord of the manor, John of Coutances, set out plans to develop it into a town in 1196. In that same year, Stratford was granted a charter from King Richard I to hold a weekly market in the town, giving it its status as a market town. As a result, Stratford experienced an increase in trade and commerce as well as urban expansion.

    Bicester Village  bi chester?

    King Richard from Robihood was real?

    King Arthur wasnt real? mebbe i falsely assumed Camelot wasnt real?

     

    is there any part of Europe that isnt developed?  as in the same as it was in the BCs

    i think all the long island beaches are terraformed, asin not the same as when the pilgrims came

    The pilgrims are the people no one in Europe wanted around?

    complaint  i keep losing my coffee, cuz i dont put it down in the same place. dohh, bad habitses

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,030
    edited November 2019
    DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    That will solve the one problem... but not the other.

    Add-on "complaint": I've been accidentally vaping Worcestershire sauce while making chex mix for tomorrow. I don't recommend it.

    ...that'll clear the nasal passages.

    Doesn't that mean you have to get all three varieties of the cereal though (plus the pretzels, nuts, and other crunchies)? Last time I was at the market I saw a (small) box of Wheat Chex™ cost around 5$. .Add the other two cereals and ingredients and that sounds expensive.

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

    a new blonde character on Andromeda.  she's all in pink
    outfit looks a lil messy

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,030

    ...ah, Rommie's replacement. 

    Yeah, missed Rommie.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Rommie a bit skitsafrenic, she just a face in a box

     

    is magically 3am, lost track of the tick tocks while playing in carrara.

    had to weight convert Janna to use her in ca.  and playing with mascara, the carrara mascot smiley

  • Mystarra said:
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    That will solve the one problem... but not the other.

    Add-on "complaint": I've been accidentally vaping Worcestershire sauce while making chex mix for tomorrow. I don't recommend it.

    laugh

    mystery to pronounce,  worse chester shaus

    Woostershuh.

    Mystarra said:

    is suspect, Stratford-upon-Avon

    Stratford was originally inhabited by Anglo-Saxons and remained a village before the lord of the manor, John of Coutances, set out plans to develop it into a town in 1196. In that same year, Stratford was granted a charter from King Richard I to hold a weekly market in the town, giving it its status as a market town. As a result, Stratford experienced an increase in trade and commerce as well as urban expansion.

    Bicester Village  bi chester?

    King Richard from Robihood was real?

    King Arthur wasnt real? mebbe i falsely assumed Camelot wasnt real?

     

    is there any part of Europe that isnt developed?  as in the same as it was in the BCs

    i think all the long island beaches are terraformed, asin not the same as when the pilgrims came

    The pilgrims are the people no one in Europe wanted around?

    complaint  i keep losing my coffee, cuz i dont put it down in the same place. dohh, bad habitses

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited November 2019

    War Sester Shire cheeky

    Complaint:  I hate holiday sales.  I was happy with my latest computer hardware upgrades.  I had settled down into the warm fuzzy feeling of not needing any new gizmo to add to my electronic children.  Then, this morning, NewEgg sends me their latest sales e-mail and right there in full color in big letters is my exact RAM for my fastest, bestest computer and in just the right amount to fill the two empty slots to take me from 16GB to 32GB of RAM.yes  And for a major major discount too.surprise  Arghhh... Yes, I had considered, someday, adding more memory but didn't actually need it at the standard price yet.  But with the discount I can't afford to not take advantage of the opportunity to get exact matching memory.  Arghhh, "needs v wants", sometimes a tough mental battle.  Today I lost or did I win?  My budget lost, my gizmo itch won. frown

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    War Sester Shire cheeky

    Wur-shes-ter-shis-ter-shyster Sauce... Well, according to bugs bunny.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Happy Meleagris Gallopavo Day everyone!

  • Does Meleagris Gallopavo Day require a special cake?

  • Chohole said:

    Cardboard boxes  are something I really hate to see going into recycling.  It used to be that you could flatten the large ones by simply slitting the packaging tape top and bottm and put the out in bundles for collection.   Anyone who needed empty boxes, especially those of a size useful for moving house, could go the the recycling depot and pay a small fee to get these.   Have you seen how much they charge for packing cases?

    I cut the big boxes (fitness equipment, grill, big TV, etc) and stack the cardboards in the garage.  That way, they're handy for laying down on the ground and keeping grease, paint, or other substances from staining the concrete or floors inside the house.

    Smaller boxes get saved (some) and/or cut up and sent out with recycling.

    Chohole said:



    And our council now gives instructions that boxes should be cut up to fit in the bins provided, but you can ask for extra bins,  Do they not realise how difficult it is for some people to cut up boxes? I am sometimes very uncharitable and wish for those who make the rules to suffer from arthritis in the near future, and then maybe understand and go back to collecting bundles of large boxes which have been simply flattened.

    I'm with you on that.

    Amazon is now using less boxes and more flat padded packages.  So, they're using less recyclable material and putting yet more plastic into the ground.  But it saves on postage. frown  Actually I like the "saves on postage" part as well as the "get it to you in 24 or 48 hours" philosophy and the "if it's wrong you can send it back for free" policy.  But it still somehow bothers me.  But I don't think I'll live to see the "we send it in 10 minutes by Star Trek transporter, right to your living room" policy.indecision

    This is a fallacy, especially in places where there is an Amazon distribution center.  I haven't received anything from Amazon in the US Mail for at least 6 years, maybe even 10.

    Stuff is always delivered by somebody driving a big Amazon van or their own personal vehicle.  I once ordered an SSD, and it arrived 6 hours later.  An older navy blue car pulled into my driveway and a pretty 18 year young lady jumped out, walked up to me, and handed me my SSD in its retail package within a flat-pack.  On the same day I ordered it.  On my porch.  With a smile.

    No US Postal Service hassle or fees needed.

    Mystarra said:

    posting thread titles in all caps seems rude to me

    I agree, but on the scale of "rudeness" I think it ranks way below "he didn't use his turn signal!", but just above "he didn't say please" or "she didn't say thank you".  I probably won't read it anyway, so "meh!"  wink

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Yeah, you got the UPS speech, so I won't repeat it here except to say that a good one is only a couple hundred dollars.  And with Windows 10, you can probably configure the computer to shift to low-CPU usage and even pause renders whenever it switches to battery.

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I agree; the rendering process should have a proper checkpointing, rollback, and recovery system built in.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

    Naughty good naughty, or naughty bad naughty?  cheeky

    DanaTA said:

    Complaint: My power has flickered twice today and I've lost the render I was working on twice. (No, neither time has there been anything in the temp folder and the render wasn't close to being useable. I've actually never found anything in the temp folder.)

    Related Complaint: DS needs to have a save progress and continue progress function. Because I don't have a farm to of computers and I can't always predict which renders will take a few minutes and which will take days.

    I've asked Santa to send me another fast rendering computer but... I'm not hopeful on my chances. I've been a naughty girl.

     

    What you need is a good UPS...one by APC.  

    Dana

    APC is not the only one.  There are other good ones too.  Everybody should research accordingly.

    War Sester Shire cheeky

    Complaint:  I hate holiday sales.  I was happy with my latest computer hardware upgrades.  I had settled down into the warm fuzzy feeling of not needing any new gizmo to add to my electronic children.  Then, this morning, NewEgg sends me their latest sales e-mail and right there in full color in big letters is my exact RAM for my fastest, bestest computer and in just the right amount to fill the two empty slots to take me from 16GB to 32GB of RAM.yes  And for a major major discount too.surprise  Arghhh... Yes, I had considered, someday, adding more memory but didn't actually need it at the standard price yet.  But with the discount I can't afford to not take advantage of the opportunity to get exact matching memory.  Arghhh, "needs v wants", sometimes a tough mental battle.  Today I lost or did I win?  My budget lost, my gizmo itch won. frown

    I pronounce it "War Chester Shire".  To a true food-lover, how it's pronounced is not important.  Now whether or not it has been properly applied to steaks, chicken, or fish before said food went on the grill or under the broiler?  THAT is the important thing!

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited November 2019

    WTF forum software? Seriously... several months ago I deleted a post I never completed... I ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY deleted it... I hate having unfinished posts in my "drafts" so I usually delete them in a day or two... a few days at max... but somehow it lives...

    So I was just writing a post, actually a long one and noted the forums doing its "draft saved at _:_ _" thing... I accidentally closed the window and the WHOLE post was gone... 

    So... either the post should be gone entirely or some earlier point in my writing of that post should have been saved to my drafts... if it was gone entirely, there should NOTHING in my drafts as I routinely clear them...

    What do I find?... A unfinished post I deleted back in the mid part of the summer.

    This is not the first time this has happened, but it's the first time I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my drafts were positively empty.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited November 2019

    Something weird is going on with the forum software...

    I'm not sure that draft was mine... unless maybe I was quoting someone... because I haven't written those words in any recent memory... definitely not this year as I haven't lost any renders due to power failures in recent memories...

    I thought that draft was one about the power being off for a day or two...

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,498
    edited November 2019

    Non-complaint:  It's only noon-thirty and I'm already enjoying my 2nd Thanksgiving Dinner. surprise

    (We had our principle T-day dinner yesterday because of visiting relative's schedules and travel weather concerns).  So, my lunch today is the take-home leftovers that I was given last night.  Actually it was presented to me in my own plastic container that I'd used to take my contribution of food to last year's T-day.  They wanted to return it to me earlier in the year but I said "no need to return it empty."devil

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Happy Guiltfree CAKE Day

    CAKE should deserve all the CAPS

    i'm gonna pop the question to my cousins, if one of them would take me to northshore animal league for christmas
    time for me to adopt a puff ball with teeth

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:

    Something weird is going on with the forum software...

    I'm not sure that draft was mine... unless maybe I was quoting someone... because I haven't written those words in any recent memory... definitely not this year as I haven't lost any renders due to power failures in recent memories...

    I thought that draft was one about the power being off for a day or two...

     

    need a  draft stopper? 
     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Non-complaint:  It's only noon-thirty and I'm already enjoying my 2nd Thanksgiving Dinner. surprise

    (We had our principle T-day dinner yesterday because of visiting relative's schedules and travel weather concerns).  So, my lunch today is the take-home leftovers that I was given last night.  Actually it was presented to me in my own plastic container that I'd used to take my contribution of food to last year's T-day.  They wanted to return it to me earlier in the year but I said "no need to return it empty."devil

     

    smart thinkin  lol

    would it be uncouth to bring a empty container with me to guiltfree cake day?  lol

    am not atually empty handed, bringin some o'that pennsylvania eggnog, the one with the whiskey in it

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    Mystarra said:
    McGyver said:

    Something weird is going on with the forum software...

    I'm not sure that draft was mine... unless maybe I was quoting someone... because I haven't written those words in any recent memory... definitely not this year as I haven't lost any renders due to power failures in recent memories...

    I thought that draft was one about the power being off for a day or two...

     

    need a  draft stopper? 
     

     

    Maybe in the form of a stuffed full size hippopotamus... it be winnnnnnnnnnnnndy out there!
    Seriously, there's stuff blowing over out there that normally never moves... even in the nor'easters. That also could be because of the big oak tree that came down this summer... missing trees sometimes cause changes in wind patterns and frell up everything when there's a storm.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited November 2019

    Fun facts about Meleagris Gallopavo...

    -There are six subspecies of wild turkey, all native to North America. The pilgrims hunted and ate the eastern wild turkey, Tyrannosaurus gallopavo silvestris, which today has a range that covers the eastern half of the United States and extends into Canada. These birds, sometimes called the great forest monster, are the most numerous of all the turkey subspecies, numbering more than five million.

    -The Aztecs domesticated a subspecies, Cthulhu gallapavo terriblus, the South Mexican Demon Turkey, and the Spanish brought those turkeys to Europe where they attacked the city of Madrid and burned it to the ground. The pilgrims then brought several of these domestic turkeys back to North America to fight off woolly mammoths.

    -Turkeys have been known to be jerks and become aggressive toward humans and pets in residential areas. Wild turkeys have a social structure and pecking order and habituated turkeys may respond to humans and animals as they do to another turkey. These turkeys may attempt to dominate or attack people that the birds view as subordinates and may call them by demeaning names or ridicule them or steal their cars and drive around mocking them. Some towns in Massachusetts recommend that humans pick fight with turkeys or make fun of them first to establish dominance.

    -A turkey’s gender can be determined by its droppings... Males produce spiral-shaped poop and females’ poop is shaped like the letter J.

    -A turkey dressed as Gerald Ford was actually responsible for Richard Nixon's pardon in 1974... the turkey was returning the favor as he was pardoned by Nixon a few years earlier... the turkey went on to write an autobiography about his time as Nixon's personal chauffeur.

    -Benjamin Franklin never proposed the turkey as a symbol for America, but while drunk, he did once praise it as being “a much more respectable bird” than the flying dachshund.

    -No turkeys participated in the invasion of Normandy and because of this, in 1946, the North American Turkey Treaty which had originally been signed into law by president George Jefferson in 1789, was torn up and millions of turkeys were deported to a small pacific island where they live today, plotting their revenge.

    -Turkeys can grow to the size of a double decker bus if exposed to gamma radiation.

    -Turkeys don’t swim often, it seems, but they can, by tucking their wings in, spreading their tails, and kicking. In 1831, John James Audubon wrote, “Holy crap, I just saw a turkey whizz by on a jet ski, and then it fell off and swam away after it attacked and ate a great white shark!” Some scholars believe the sea monsters depicted on early maps, may have actually been giant sea turkeys.

    -Alexander Hamilton loved riding turkeys. In fact, he thought riding turkeys was practically a god-given right, and once remarked that "No citizen of the U.S. shall refrain from riding a turkey on Thanksgiving Day." In his original version of his play “Hamilton” there were many turkey riding scenes, but they were removed for the Broadway version because of the danger to the audience should the turkeys run amok.

    -Teddy Roosevelt was deathly afraid of Turkeys... He believed they were every bit as challenging to hunt as velociraptors. In his 1893 book "Hunting Trips of a Funky Soul Dude and the Jive Dino Hunter", he wrote, “The wild turkey really deserves a place beside the velociraptor; to kill a wary old gobbler with the small-bore cannon, by fair still-hunting, is a triumph for the best sportsman.”

    -The country of Turkey is actually named after turkeys who once ruled the Ottoman Empire and built fashionable footstools.

     

    Happy Meleagris Gallopavo Day and I hope these facts have given you new found respect for the majestic turkeys that rule our world!

     

    Edited to add....

    I forgot to mention that some of these facts may be incomplete or even possibly absolutely totally inaccurate, as the original document I had accumulated these facts in was inadvertently deleted and I'm too lazy to recover it, so I just wrote this from memory... and I may have been drinking... a lot... so... yeah... But don't let that stop you from starting a new tradition of reciting these as true fun facts and helping to make mankind that much dumber. I mean its really not that far to go anyway.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,030
    Mystarra said:

    Happy Guiltfree CAKE Day

    CAKE should deserve all the CAPS

    i'm gonna pop the question to my cousins, if one of them would take me to northshore animal league for christmas
    time for me to adopt a puff ball with teeth

    .....mmmm...cake.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,030
    McGyver said:
    Mystarra said:
    McGyver said:

    Something weird is going on with the forum software...

    I'm not sure that draft was mine... unless maybe I was quoting someone... because I haven't written those words in any recent memory... definitely not this year as I haven't lost any renders due to power failures in recent memories...

    I thought that draft was one about the power being off for a day or two...

     

    need a  draft stopper? 
     

     

    Maybe in the form of a stuffed full size hippopotamus... it be winnnnnnnnnnnnndy out there!
    Seriously, there's stuff blowing over out there that normally never moves... even in the nor'easters. That also could be because of the big oak tree that came down this summer... missing trees sometimes cause changes in wind patterns and frell up everything when there's a storm.

    ...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,030
    edited November 2019

    ...curmudgeon time.

    Ugh some holiday, woke up resembling a character from a cold medicine advert. Chemist is closed for the holiday so can't get any Theraflu™.  Safeway overcharges for it, and being the end of the month, have to watch the nickels and dimes. May have to rely on the brandy and lemon I have, though need some honey which means bundling up to walk to the market.

    ...The All I Didn't Want for Meleagris Gallopavo Day Was A Head Cold Complaint Thread.

    ...The I want to Hibernate Until Spring Complaint Thread.

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