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Not sure as I haven't got around to watching it yet, some of it is filmed in my local city, one particular old street I believe.
I saw most of it and it gave me steampunk vibe mixed with Christmas theme.
Signing out for maybe today. Will try to get on tomorrow or something
Ooh, ooh, I loved that song. But it wasn't until about '69 that I heard it. I was in the prime of my Hippiehood, big afro hair, bell bottom pants, paisley shirts, beads, ... Ah, memories.
I really should watch it, did you like it, think it was any good?
I need to watch the whole thing, I missed a chunk because I was watching it with friends and I got a phone call. They continue the movie without me but I saw the ending. I liked it though.
Hi!
Dana
need some brain bleach. smallville showed lionel luthor soaping himself in the shower.
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Nightwish be having a virtual thingie, I'm excite. 7pm GMT... That's about 11AM for me. I wonder if I can get the day off from work that day. Would need to let them know a few weeks in advance.
https://nightwish.com/#tickets
Non-complaint: Classical time again. A 3 minute quickie from Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", first performed (by Rachmaninoff himself) in 1934. The piece is a set of 24 variations on a short theme by Niccolo Paganini written about 100 years earlier. Most of the variations can be recognized in their various (sometimes heavy) disguises, but the 18th variation is special because it is "upside down" and has become one of the most beautiful and recognizable melodies in classical music and finds its way into many modern situations.
This YouTube clip is the entire 3 minute piano solo of the 18th variation but is preceeded by a few bars of the ending of the 17th variation.
This next YouTube clip is the entire 24 minute orchestral performance of the whole piece. The 18th variation begins at 15:40 (Note also that when played in full screen mode and directly from the YouTube site, the time bar is split and labeled so that you can easily find each variation). The last three variations, #s 22-24 (starting at 20:07) build to a typical Rachmaninoff climax with the notable variation #24 (22:49) being nicnamed the "Creme de menthe" variation which is, in typical fashion, a wild Rachmaninoff frenzied finale. It's said that Rachmaninoff himself had to steel himself before playing it by taking a drink of Creme-de-menthe which he kept under the piano.
New Year's Non-complaint: Wheee... I can't drink at night (tummy trouble) so I just opened my bottle of bubbly, laid out some cheese, prepared a good sized shrimp cocktail and am settling down in my comfy chair under my granny blanket and zoning out on Lord of the Rings.
Happy New Year. Wheee... It's gotta be better than 2020 !!!!!
...+1
Yeah have my bottle of Port, my herring in wine sauce, cheese, and crackers, ready for this evening.
Even without Covid I rarely went out to celebrate New Year's Eve as I'm don't enjoy being in crowds, it usually would be a drunkfest, and afterwards, I'd have to deal with all those pickled revellers getting behind the wheel during my walk home.. agh waiting in a CS chat queue once that's done want to take a walk to get out for a bit and get some exercise as the rains have abated and clouds parted for the afternoon and it's in the 50s.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Dana
I am thinking about buying Facial Vellus Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) but I hardly use Genes 3 female(s).
I still have a couple of paisley ties!
I just had a pinwheel flank steak with a big mess o' veggies. Hearing the fireworks outside now. I had some egg nog; thinking of doing a wine and shrimp thing too, 'cause that sounds good.
Debating on whether or not I should tear down my home office in the morning and start workikng on getting everything moved and rewired up. Big job, but I've ordered my sit stand desk and I can actually get started on reworking the office while I wait.
I have dozens. Paisley ties are my jam.
Rats! I missed the deadline to use my PC+ coupon! Not a great start to 2021.
Dana
Non-complaint: Good morning America! Welcome to 2021 the year after the year that lasted a decade.
And although over 3000 people in this country are dying every day because of an out of control pandemic and two new strains of the virus have popped up, and most of the "normal" people won't get anywhere near a vaccine until summer, the good news is that there are three(3) vaccines that are tested to be 95% effective. Yay! We just need to keep hiding in our bubbles for several more months, get our vaccination, and take-in the hard life-lesson that "Mother Nature is a bitch".
A fact that many of us have forgotten because of a century of good luck.
Complaint: My old sick computer failed to boot completely this morning. It booted to the login screen but the keyboard strokes didn't register in the login field.
I plugged in my spare keyboard and everything went back to normal. This is the 2nd time that I've had this particular keyboard issue. I'm wondering now if a dying keyboard could be the trigger for my random reboots. Because, now that I think of it, the reboots always happened while I was typing. Never out of the blue while idle or just computing.
Yeah, there's probably some obscure message in a well hidden log file somewhere that gives a totally unintuituve and undecipherable pointer to what the cause of the reboots are. But I've looked in all the usual places at all the usual suspects and not had it slap me in the face. So, after a couple months of diagnostics and having decided several weeks ago to give up on this 12 year old HP desktop and build myself a replacement I now have received almost all the parts necessary to build both a super, everyday, personal-use machine and also upgrade my already wonderful one year old DAZing machine even more. That leaves the old sick HP available for serious diagnostics and tinkering (I don't want to completely discard it because it is actually a quite nice machine despite its age, limited speed and RAM, and spontaneous fainting spells.) Perhaps in the end I'll discover that the keyboard was the problem all along (*sigh*). Regardless, I wanted a second new machine anyway. So, in a few weeks I'll have two very nice machines to last me the rest of my life. (unless by some miracle I live longer than another decade. At which point I probably won't remember how to use a computer anyway.)
I won't ask for a PB&J at your house.
Sigh: Well, I've just watched my sick computer, while it was sitting idle, spontaneously reboot.
Well I'm getting use to my time being wrong so HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY .......
an online store used "VI" as an abreviation for Visa on the summary page. I thought VI mean Virgin Islands. I was about to edit my order because I entered the wrong "state". Confusing web design/text choice phrase.
First post of the New Years!
Happy new year to all.
Something on my mind here. A lot of people are saying, "good riddance" to 2020, it was a bad year, a bad decade, and the epitomy of all things horrible. I'm here to suggest that 2020 was just one year in our lives and that we look back on it as such.
And 2021 will be just the year AFTER 2020.
I lost a lot of family members over the last 5 years or so. In 2018, I lost some cousins and two very dear aunts. Not from Covid, no. But does it matter? I lost them. I lost my mom at the end of that year. What a whallop in the head and heart that was, but it didn't hurt me as bad as it hurt my dad. And then my dad passed in 2019, followed in short order by the passing of one of his brothers. None of these deaths were related (like multiple people dying in a car crash or anything) or due to Covid, as far as we know, although I suspect that my dad may have had the flu or Covid, but there's no way to know.
My point is, that if it WERE Covid, it wouldn't matter so much to me. When somebody is gone, they are gone. It feels better having faith in God and knowing that I will see all of these dear people once again when my time one day comes.
But my point here is not about Covid, not about faith or God or belief in an afterlife. Instead, I suggest to all of you that none of us knows each day if that will be our last day in this life. And the question we might be asking ourselves is, "what am I doing to make a difference before my time comes?"
For some of us, we can make that difference without leaving the house. But for a lot of us, we MUST leave the house every morning (or many mornings), in order to do right and make a difference, or as in my case because I don't WANT a check from the government. As a result we know we're taking risks. Risk of Covid, getting food poisoning or Hepatitus at your lunch place (yes, here in Florida, we are OPEN and serving hungry people!), having an accident on the road or in our workplace, or just getting struck by lightning or swallowed up by a sinkhole (both of those things happen here in Florida).
So that's all I wanted to say. Make a difference. When I die, it won't matter so much "why" or "how". The true importance of my life and my love is what I did and the difference I made in LIFE, and all without asking for anybody's permission. Because when I think of the devastating impact of so many family members passing away recently, I don't find myself dwelling on anything EXCEPT how each of those amazing human beings made a positive impact in my life or in the lives of others.
Food for thought. Happy New Year, all!
Finding something to use for pc coupon on an iPad isn’t very easy.
Confusing indeed, how could they abbreviate an abbreviation in the first place?...
I guess very few people know VISA actually stands "Verified International Sardine Authority", the acronym for a small chain of fish themed banks acquired by what we today know as “Bank of America” in the mid 1920s.
Bank of America, which at the time was still known as "Banca d'America e d'Italia" (Bank of America and Italy) had a long history with VISA going back to 1904 when Bank of Italy (the original name of Banca d'America e d'Italia) founder Amadeo Pietro Gianinni, was outbid for a prime location for his new bank by VISA founder Rupert Endicott Wigglesworth III... Because of this, Giannini swore he’d one day get the best of Wigglesworth.
Fortunately for Giannini by 1925 he managed to acquire VISA from Wigglesworth though a cleverly played game of Rock-Paper-Cantaloupe (this was before “scissors” caught on).
The timing could not have been better, as the banking industry had just started to show interest in small fish like sardines and pilchard as a form of currency due to their high phosphorus content which was an important component in the manufacture of certain explosives.
War seemed to be looming on the horizon in Europe and the short lived theory that fish could be used as lethal weapons had just caught the attention of industrialists and lunatics everywhere, making VISA a very hot investment.
But the hype and excitement soon gave way to cold soggy reality after scientists proved fish can’t be used as explosives and Banca d'America e d'Italia/Bank of America realized customers were not interested in carrying around rotting fish instead of cash.
Instead they decided to experiment with another unique idea VISA had pioneered which was the "Sardine Card", a credit system where people could borrow money based on their ability to correctly guess how many sardines were in random barrels in the bank's vaults.
A client would guess how many sardines were in a barrel and based on the inverse percentage of their accuracy, they'd then be issued a temporary credit line using a small fish shaped nitrocellulose card which the bank would punch holes in if the client returned the money... the lending rate was based on the accuracy of their guess and when they had all the holes in their card punched, they would earn a free fish sandwich if the highly unstable nitrocellulose card didn’t explode while the last hole was being punched.
The concept was supposed to work something like a fishier version of bit coin, but since practical computers were decades away, the complex algorithms required to manage such an endeavor were entrusted to hundreds of thousands of counting chickens pecking data switches which operated much like logic gates in modern computers.
It is believed this was one of the main factors that led to the stock market crash of 1929, but this would also eventually be the seed idea behind virtual currencies like Bit Coin and Squid Quid, which are only slightly less ridiculous.
Soon the name Verified International Sardine Authority faded from memory and it was not until 1958 that the recently renamed “Bank of America” decided to create a sardine shaped credit card named “BankAmericard” to compete with the tuna shaped MasterCard credit card.
Eventually by 1976 a rectangular card was introduced and the the name was changed to VISA in honor of the mildly deranged alternative credit system that helped cause the stock market crash which led to the Great Depression, one of America's most amusing and inspirational time periods.
Somehow this interesting chapter of financial history has remained relatively unknown, so unusual it is, that it is hard to tell where reality ends and folklore and insanity begins... I mean it's actually not... it's pretty clear... but some people might be confused...
Some of it is actually real... I just forgot at what point I started drinking when I originally wrote that, so I suppose it's up to the individual to figure out what's true or truish.
Anyway...
Merry New Year and Good Riddance 2020!
Out of boredom I was watching TV this afternoon/evening and out of the corner of my eye I caught my sick computer doing it's spontaneous "reboot" thing while sitting "idle", several times. I'd come over and login in again but within a half hour it would reboot again. Having previously removed the Graphics card, and the USB3.0 card, replaced the CPU, and now down to the motherboard, RAM, SSD, HD, DVD, Blu-Ray and power supply. I've gone ahead and removed the HD (used for backup only),and the DVD & Blu-Ray and have just now replaced the power supply with the new one for my new computer. So, we'll see if the few things left (motherboard, RAM, SSD and software) survive for more than a few hours.
Note: one thing that led me to suspect the power supply is that I think I noticed a pattern of reboots coinciding with the household water pump or furnace blower turning on or off. i.e. power fluctuations. Possible but unlikely, because it's a 500w, half decent brand replaced only a couple years ago and the computer is connected to a good 1000-KVA UPS with surge suppression with a new (1 year old) battery which is, I assume, in working order (because the internal logs say it is). I'm just stabbing in the dark now but hey, I was bored and I had a brand new 850w PS sitting on the shelf just begging to be opened and admired.
Note2: I'd replace the RAM if I had any, but it's been through hours and hours of a diagnostic test without so much as a blip. And I'm not going to buy replacement for it if I don't have to. Although, I could remove one of the two 4GB modules and try them separately. But I'll leave that for some bored winter's afternoon when the snow is 3 feet deep in February.
Note 3: It's been about three hours and the computer hasn't rebooted yet. I'll give it a good workout tomorrow and if it still hasn't done a reboot, I'll start adding things back in until it does. I now realize that I have reason to suspect the 2TB hard drive because I had some swap space on it in addition to the backup files. And although the disk diagnostics haven't reported an error it's more likely to fail than the DVD and Blu-Ray which were never in use when a reboot occured. But the old 500w power supply is now the prime testable target in my sights so if I get no failures tomorrow I'll unplug the temporary PS and reconnect the old PS as my next variable to see if the reboot problem returns.
If I see "VI" my first thought would be Roman numeral 6.