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Um, just how old IS that photo?
Ugh... I'd hate to try to move a place like that. Those are the types of places that grow haphazzardly in place over decades and would be easier moved with a bulldozer and just about as organized after the move.
Non-complaint: Wheee... today is my Social-Security payday. Yay!
I'm rich again, for about 20 minutes.
Also, happy because I found someone to take about five empty, big, cardboard boxes off my hands. I can walk in my kitchen again.
I've whittled the box inventory down to a point where I think that if I cut them up into pieces I could stuff all the others into one or two of the bigger boxes. Small enough collection to get into the back of a friend or relative's car to take to the recycling station.
Complaint: Back when I was a kid (mid'50s), we didn't have plastic. We always burned unwanted packing & shipping material like cardboard boxes. Now, burning rubbish is forbidden. Also, back when I was a kid, everybody had wood & coal burning furnaces and nearly every adult smoked cigarettes so we kids didn't notice the extra smoke from burning rubbish barrels. But we also had worms in the dirt, frogs in the creek, toads in the garden, bats in the barns, butterflies & lightning bugs in the bushes, and mosquitos everywhere. I don't know which we lost first, the toads, mosquitos, or bats. Probably all at the same time.
I don't think I even saw a butterfly or moth this summer.
Thank you~
My complaint for da day is I slept real poorly last night and have work in an hour x')
Apr 27, 2014 is the upload date on DeviantART, but I'm not sure if I uploaded it as I took it or not - I'd imagine I did though but even if it wasn't that's still six years at the least.
One of the things that I wonder about is how the lack of brick and mortar stores will effect the future of creativity...
I suppose in some ways everything only being available through online purchase will make things easier for folks in small towns, but there is a vast difference between buying stuff in a store and online.
I'm not even getting into ordinary consumer products... that's it's own dumpster fire... you often have to hope it's what you think it is and bite the bullet.
Making things and repairing stuff super-sucks now... I suppose if you just do one thing it's fine, eventually you find a store or vender to purchase from and it settles out... but when you are crossing over a bunch of different fields it's a raging garbage dump inferno.
Back when I worked solely as an industrial model maker, you'd be doing an aerospace project one week, a medical project next, with maybe a toy industry project, or special effects thing thrown in here and there... Somewhere I have a picture of my desk/work table at work which I took for my wife (then girlfriend) where there was a mock-up of a BFN unit for a military contractor, an RTV rubber mold for a small super soaker prototype, a pile of innards for a bunch of endoscopes we were making, a couple biblical figures I was sculpting for a client and a bunch of castings for alarm panel housings... that was all stuff we were working on that month...
I can't imagine having to do that kind of stuff where you bought supplies on the internet solely...
I'll give you a good example of the dilemma... I recently needed some unique thermoforming plastic... for some reason the name of the material I was familiar with is no longer in existence... okay, I search the internet looking for a material that is comparable... but manufacturers websites are useless as they only mention the product exists give the most cursory information and suggest you speak to a salesperson... in this case I did and I'm pretty sure I could have slipped a telephone headset on the neighbor's cat and he would have given me more intelligent answers.
My guess is the only thing people are used to answering is how many tons of the material you are buying and if you can get it tomorrow... specs? No.
Modulus of elasticity? No... what temperature is the material stable up to once formed... long term shrinkage after forming? Nope.
Even though the website said they have authorized resellers and I knew one was in my state somewhere, the person couldn't tell me where because they couldn't find the information... although they could find me one in Ohio... yeah thanks.
Eventually, I was able to piece together a possible lead for a material that apparently was being used by cosplay hobbyists to make costumes... but again, anyone selling the stuff online had the same bullet point information...
• Available in Black
• 6 mm
• Great for making costumes
• Formable at low temperatures
Yay.
But that's not helpful in any way... especially since this was not on amazon, but on a plastic distributor's website. Actually a few of them... apparently none of them have working phones anymore or answer them in a timely fashion...
So this was going on the two hour mark...
At that point one distributor I found did have a material that sounded similar, had a slightly more informative description, but only sold the material in prohibitively expensive bulk quantities... and of course the name of the material was different so I still didn't know if the stuff available in smaller quantities was the same stuff, since I obviously wasn't buying $5k worth of the stuff from them.
At three hours, I gave up and purchased some stuff from amazon that seemed good enough to experiment with...
It came two days later than prime promised, and ultimately it was rubbish... fine I suppose for making a cosplay gauntlet or something, but rubbish for what I needed.
I ended up finding a sheet of suitable material amongst my dwindling collection of plastic sheets... so that worked out.
A few years back, I could order from a paper catalog or actually talk to a sales person who knew stuff... or even visit a shop that sold plastic supplies.
Now... it's just a random dice roll to find stuff.
Here I knew a material existed (several different types with different properties)... imagine if the only example of the material was the one I got on amazon... I'd be like, "well, that's it"... the whole technique is trash, try something else.
Paper catalogues were written by people who knew the materials or the parts and products... most websites are so frustratingly devoid of vital information it's baffling... I see people going bonkers over DAZ's store and I'm like "yeah, imagine the product description for say Handmaiden Poses had the description: • Great poses for your 3D figure • Includes several interesting poses • Render on your home computer • Can be used to make still images and much more... And that's all the info..." But that's almost the general equivalent you face trying to buy supplies now.
Megh... enough kvetching... I'm going to go do something productive now... or failing that, something obnoxious.
They miss the nicotine. Hard to get nicotine patches for butterflies.
Whew, I was afraid that was taken about 70 million years ago.
So, basically what you have there is a mutant modern chicken?
I have seen all of the above, except bats and fireflies. I know we have bats in my area, but I just haven't seen one in a while. Haven't seen fireflies in several years. Pond across the street with frogs, turtles, fish. Between the frogs and the birds that catch flying insects, we don't see many mosquitos around the house.
Dana
I've lost 10lbs via projectile vomiting thanks to those ads.
DECAF!?!?!? Criminal! BRING THE TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS!
..or something like that..
Complaint: An AMD Ryzen CPU is no match for Uberenvironment and complex shrubbery. Will have to spend hours playing with distant lights.. le sigh..
Non-complaint: BACON!!!!
Secondary whine: Vicky or Aiko? Poor Steph doesn't have what I'm looking for ( no offense Steph)..
I think the lack of mosquitos in town is caused by the lack of weedy lawns and ditches. Most of the ditches have been piped and covered over. Also, we no longer have any active farms on the edges of the downtown area. Although there are lots of farms surrounding us, the ones that bordered the town's primary streets are now just big lawns, and the old barns have been torn down so that took care of the bats. The creek still has mosquitos along the banks, but even though I live across the street from the creek, the creek is far enough back from the road, and sheltered by trees, that the mosquitos don't often leave their happy place with plenty of mice, rabbits, woodchucks and beaver to suck blood from, and adventure into the town unless blown here by errant winds. One of our persistent problems though is "Amish exhaust". The piles of aromatic well digested hay pop up in on the streets, and in the grocery store and town government building parking lots with annoying frequency.
Non-complaint: Progress on the Windows10 file sharing conundrum: Yay, I've satisfied myself that I can resolve my file sharing issues reliably. However, the problem reliably returns after my computers have been shut off for a while. I don't know yet what is going wrong but the symptom seems to be that when the computers turn back on, they forget who had the ball, and don't agree among themselves who should be the coordinator for file sharing. But, if I perform a "RESET Network" on each machine that I want to behave properly, and make sure that when they come back up, that each machine is in "Private" mode (as opposed to "Public" mode) then those machines that have been reset will see each other. And it appears that if I do a RESET operation on other machines in the network that are confused, then they too seem to catch-on to who's in charge and who's in the game. This seems to work reliably, although the RESET operation requires admin privileges as does the switching from default Public mode to Private mode, and if after the reboot, you log in as a standard user and try to switch to Private mode, nothing happens until you notice the flashing security shield icon in the taskbar, because no security window pops up on the desktop until you select the icon in the taskbar.
Point being that I've found enough hoops to jump through to get a couple of machines to reliably share files. Yay!
Keeping them that way is another issue.
Note: Remember I'm using Windows10 version(s) 2004 and 1909, if you are not, then your milage may vary.
Note 2: Also, keep in mind that I'm assuming that after a RESET Network operation that all the default sharing parameters are set correctly so that by default, file and printer sharing are enabled, 128-bit encryption is enabled, and password protection is enabled, and the users on each machine have the same name. I've given up tinkering with them. I leave them alone, and now just do a RESET and put the network in "Private" mode. I've effectively reduced my number of variables to the bare minimum.
Note 3: And I still have no clue why "George" always works properly and can see the file shares of everybody else, and the other's don't see George until I also RESET him.
Something happens during "RESET Network" that doesn't happen during boot-up.
So they found phosphine on Venus...
Interesting... living things produce it here... even one of the articles mentions this..."Here on Earth, phosphine is found in our intestines, in the feces of badgers and penguins..."
Odd that they would chose both badgers and penguins as an example.
So now my Illuminati Ninja Space Penguin Peanut Butter Conspiracy theory is starting to flesh out... Its just that I was misidentifying the Venusian Space Badgers as Ferrets...
I wonder if it matters which computer is booted first. Is there a "master" computer that acts as the head of the group? Maybe if that one is booted first, all others will fall in line. Just a guess.
Dana
I think you've got the right idea. During this process I found this really helpful article http://woshub.com/network-computers-not-showing-windows-10/ that talked in part of it about the "MasterBrowser" in the "ComputerBrowser" services which keep track of which computers are on the local share network. (nothing to do with web browsers). I took a screen shot of one small part of that article and include it below.
I did try the command listed and was able to find the machine that currently held the "MasterBrowser" status, so the information given in the article is functional. How, the MasterBrowser floats around or gets known (or forgotten) is still out of my ken. But even if I figure out what's going wrong, it doesn't fix the problem permanently. Microsoft has to do that. I'm not holding my breath. But at least I've found a reliable way to get a couple machines on my net to share folders when I need them to. A little work, but at least it's doable, and doesn't require editing the Registry.
More ideas on File Sharing: Re-reading the article I mentioned above, and thinking more deeply about it. It seems that one relatively easy experiment is to do as it says in the truncated last paragraph of the screen shot. Since all my computers are Win10 newer than version 1709, I can either setup a Win7 machine as the ComputerBrowser for the network, or I can enable the SMB v1.0 service on ONLY ONE of my computers in the network and let it always serve as the MasterBrowser. The gotcha is that the SMB v1.0 service is insecure which is why it is being phased out. Actually I do have a Win7 hard drive that I can slip into "George". And that would give a purpose to George, at least when I need to do network file transfers. (George is a power hog and goes into overdrive on the fans if asked to twiddle his thumbs.)
...yeah granddad would use cardboard, paper shopping bags, and old newspapers as kindling for the coal furnace.
All cold beverages whether beer, pop, juice, or milk, were either in cans, glass bottles, or cardboard cartons (including quart and half gallon volumes) and many items like jams, honey, peanut butter, condiments. pickles, & such in glass bottles/jars instead of plastic tubs/containers. Even corner the corner grocery store had a fresh butcher counter so all meats and poultry were wrapped in butcher paper instead of cling wrap and Styrofoam.
About the only plastic containers we usually dealt with back then were tubs for items like cottage cheese, sour creme, and chip dips in the dairy section (yoghurt wasn't popular back then and in Wisconsin, oleomargarine was a "no-no"), premade salads from the deli counter, as well as liquid personal (such as shampoo and mouth rinse) and household cleaning supplies (bleach, dishwashing soap, Mr. Clean, etc).
As to butterflies only have seen the small white ones Monarchs have all but disappeared, and only onrare occasions do I see a Tiger Swallowtail anymore (used to be more common years ago). The only "lightning bugs" I've seen since I left the midwest 40 years ago are the ones by AntFarm in the Daz store and the Fantasy Glowflies by Sveva & Propschick over at Rendo (I have both).
.."The Master Browser", sounds like a good name for a super hero or villian.
Remember the "Master Cylinder" from Felix the Cat?
One of the questions I saw when I first Googled "master cylinder" was "what if the master cylinder goes bad?"
Well, he tries to kidnap Poindexter, of course.
We used to cook steaks in the wood/coal furnace. We had a long handled wire wicket thing that we could press a couple of big steaks between the paddles and stand in front of the open door of the furnace and cook the steaks over the nice bed of red hot coals in there. Ah, the good ol' days.
Get enough computers together and they start messing with you.
One can be obstinate, but when in gangs they get down right conspiratorial.
Well I've had to wait since March to get my chest freezer fixed ,today I found out it's dead dead ....... now I have to start looking for a new freezer .... cause there just isn't enough room in my fridge freezer ,when I start cooking my meals ahead like big pots of stew or soups ,.....
I hear you... our fridge croaked (well, technically... it was still able to maintain 62° F in the freezer, so that's a plus if ya' like warm soupy ice cream)...
It took a month and a half for a guy to show up to diagnose the problem and a week and a half for the parts to come... luckily it was still covered by LG...
Also luckily, we have a backup fridge in the basement.
Also... Mmmm... Stew... I'm a sucker for yankee pot roast or a hearty beef stew.
..same here.
beef stew with dumplings yum!
I dunno... what kinda dumplings are we talking about?
Edited to add... Dang it, your reckless dumpling talk made me want some of the Korean pork dumplings that occasionally inhabit my freezer...
I'm all out!
This time of year ,I start making beef stew ,loaded with veggies and barley, that I divide into portions ,and freeze .but when I thaw them I can add the bisquit type dumplings or egg noodles ,or I can serve it over rice .......but I also make pork stew and veggies ,or chicken stew , or big batches of beans,pinto beans ,red beans ,and a fish stew/soup base that I thaw and add some fish fillets to ....... oh and batches of chili portioned out ..... For me it's just an easier way to make sure I get my veggies other wise I'm content with meat and a carb ... not a well balanced meal .and I just made 15 bean soup with spinache and barley add and that made 8 servings and took up 1 shelf in the fridge freezer ,and there are only 3 shelves .....drat made myself hungry...
....save for the potatoes, my Thai curries are pretty much like a stew as they are loaded with veggies and I used a thick coconut milk as the base. However there is Massaman curry (which I have made before) which does use potatoes.