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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    What is the mystery with Red Pandas?  I've seen them several times at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.  In the middle of the day.  And they were never invisible.  I would have noticed if they were.indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    rice krispies bowl empty.  is a bit of a situation.  overslept a lill.  raining.  so far, is a ho hum day

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited May 2021

    TJohn said:

    I'm trying to pronounce Simvastatin (which is one of my meds) with 2 sylables, but I can't. For me it's 4 - Sim va stat in.

    "Simva" like "Simba" but without the simian implication.  And "statin" like "Staten Island" without the nautical implication.  Simva-statin.   You can say it with four syllables, but why?  I realize that naming of a new medical concoction is a cerebric parlor game but I'm sure the intention in the mind of the namer (or naming consortium) was that it was a "statin" type of drug and they liked the ease of the word "simva".  Thus "simva-statin".  And I am unanimous in that.cheeky

    OK, upon 2nd grade re-education on "what is a syllable?" it can be said that "simva" has two syllables "sim-va" based on the rule that each syllable has one vowel sound.  However, I'll counter with "sim" being OK, but "va" being a mangled consonant sound.  Likewise, I consider "statin" to be pronounced "stat-n", with the ending being silent "i" and a nasal "n".  So, based on lazy American pronunciation, the word for the medicine becomes "simv~statn"  Voila, two perceived vowel sounds, thus two syllables.  And if nobody agrees with me, then I am still unanimous in that.devil

    Regardless, it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that "statin" is the base meaning of the medicine's name and should be pronounced clearly and without obfuscation intended to avoid panic in the patient.indecision

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    I want a rice crispy treat. But I don't have any in my bedroom. I do have bananas and fish food. Does fish food taste good? I never tried it even though two of my friends love it.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,481

    I'm pretty sure that Simba and Statten are two syllables each.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    Richard Haseltine said:

    I'm pretty sure that Simba and Statten are two syllables each.

    See previous clarification and shifty justification. 

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Hmmm... The husband pulled out a bunch of mining profits. He bought Metallica tickets and a new bong. I need to find something I want and ask him for it before he spends the rest on Johnny Walker. devil

     

    p.s. Don't hate me! I had nothing to do with his decision to mine. I tried to stop him too. He wouldn't listen. At this point, I'm just making the best of it. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    My mum's feline friends Misty and Oscar seem to love to hunt birds and bring the dead or dying birds into my mum's house. Is this normal for feline friends?
  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    My mum's feline friends Misty and Oscar seem to love to hunt birds and bring the dead or dying birds into my mum's house. Is this normal for feline friends?

    I think it means they are trying to contribute by bringing in food. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    aww, tried to get a store credit refund on a dissapointing hdr set, but was over 30 days.
    it takes time to test render everything.  rendering animations ties up my carrara for days at a time.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    I saw at a 3D site that they were trying to sell a figure named Jazz. Oh 3D sites aren't in 3D but where 3D artists go to get 3D software and stuff for their software I guess. Some are addicted to collecting 3D goodies.

    I'm not going to tell you which online store is trying to sell a dude named Jazz. My secret and yours to find out.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    Subtropic Pixel said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...non complaint:  Put in the order for the 2 TB SATA III SSD and the 3.5 to 2.5 adapter for the drive bay which will hold both the C & D drives as it was "payday" and I had a discount coupon offer good until tomorrow  Should be here within the week and finally I'll have a much more zippy content library (getting a lot of wait times lately as the current drive is filling up as a good portion non library/runtime related stuff that will remain on the HDD when it gets moved to the "E" slot.

    Nice on the new drive.  Now, since I'm the "backup loon", I have a tip to share with you and anybody who might use the backup program Macrium:Reflect.  This could apply to other backup programs too, so whatever backup method you use, take a moment here.

    Whenever you add a drive, move partitions from one physical drive to another, change drive letters, or hide/reveal drive letters in your partitioning software, you should ALWAYS go back into your backup program afterward and make sure that your backup "jobs" still point to the drive letters/partitions that you expect them to.

    Many many times, I've made drive changes to one of my systems with ultimately NO DIFFERENCES at the end of the process.  For example, my C drive is still my C drive, but it just sits on a different physical drive now than it did before.  Or my P drive is still my P drive and still contains my DAZ library, but it's not at the end of physical device 2, it's at the beginning of physical device 3.

    And I'll go into Macrium:Reflect and will see that my C drive backup is now backing up F drive instead.  And P drive backup backs up drives J and K instead, while my F drive backup job is pointing to a drive partition identifier that doesn't translate to any valid drive partition, meaning that that job will fail upon next execution.

    It's easy enough to fix this, and I do.  But that's always a step I do whenever I just messed around with physical or logical drive partitions:  Check my backup jobs.  Or else I might no longer be backing up C drive, a content drive, or my documents drive.  Yikes!

    It's a simple "best practices" check and may only take you 5 minutes to complete, depending on the backup program you use.  But I highly recommend taking that time and doing it right.

    Good luck with the data transfer and getting your new drive up and running.

    ...thanks, and good advice on the backup targets.  

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    I found a plate with fresh poptart crumbs on it in my room on my desk.
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    edited May 2021
    What does Jazz 8.1 mean?
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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    My mum's feline friends Misty and Oscar seem to love to hunt birds and bring the dead or dying birds into my mum's house. Is this normal for feline friends?

    Don't know about normal, but mine did it with mice and he even stashed the corpses in places I couldn't see, like inside a rug that I had rolled away from the fireplace.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    McGyver said:

    Luciel said:

    Also why they made it on an island was so no one could ask for refunds. Why they'd want refunds? Simple, because the main attraction was apparently a dinosaur that was invisible. 

    "Hey look everyone, here's this reeeeeally great dinosaur"

    "what you can't see it?!? well thats because it's invisible!! Cool right?"

    "What, you want a refund!? Ha, you're stuck on an island!!!".

    Also it's something red pandas already do at every zoo ever so no one would care about invisible animals. 

    Same thing with New Jersey... "You want a refund? Ha, you're stuck in New Jersey!!"... Literally. Have you ever tried to leave New Jersey? It's free to enter, but if try to leave it's like $16 depending on how many axles you have... The trick for the park would be that all souvenirs are novelty axels making it too expensive to drive out, so visitors would either have to pay for a helicopter ride out of New Jersey or use the park's catapult system.

    Are you implying that the red pandas are responsible for the whole invisible/nocturnal animal scam?... It figures those little grifters would be responsible for that... I fell for the whole "Nocturnal" woolly mammoth and dozens of other "rare" or "medium-rare" animals at Nocturnal Park a few years ago... apparently everything was in their burrows "sleeping" because it was daytime... I knew I should have been suspicious because, One- the "guy" who took my money looked suspiciously a lot like a Red Panda as did all the park employees... and Two- the "park" was in a Home Depot parking lot and the animal enclosures where just roped off parking spaces with cardboard boxes in them marked "Woolly Mammoth Burrow" or whatever animal it was supposed to be... it seemed suspicious as hell, but it was a Thursday so I was a little more trusting.

    It's like my step-grandfather used to say before he died... "Never buy watermelons from a Red Panda!... Avenge Me!"... I'm still not sure what he meant, but it's clear watermelons had something to do with his demise.

    ...so does that mean figure skaters need to pay for at least three axels (four if they're really good) to get out of Jersey? 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    What's the difference between Fabre and Favre?
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    how   do you pronounce Micah?  mee kah,  mick ah,  my kah ?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    certaintree38 said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    My mum's feline friends Misty and Oscar seem to love to hunt birds and bring the dead or dying birds into my mum's house. Is this normal for feline friends?

    I think it means they are trying to contribute by bringing in food. 

    They want it cooked. 

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Mystiarra: Thanks for the reminder. I need to test a few of my recent purchases. 

    For years, I thought my sky-high utility bills ($450 for electricity in winter and $200 for water year-round) were because of the house I'm in. Bad windows and a leaky hose faucet or something. But I was talking to a cashier at the gas station and she told me that her bills are almost the same. Apparently, it is because of the town we live in. I guess the powers that be put in new processing plants and stuff even though everyone voted against it. Luckily, we get a very good deal on rent, and the landlord's mother (who lives in a guest house in the backyard) pitches in too. 

    Sent my shiny items request to my husband. Included puppy-eyed emojis. Now we wait. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    LeatherGryphon said:

    And speaking of muscian emotional involvement..., I remember a performance of Schubert's Symphony #9 in C major ("The Great Symphony in C") at the Kennedy Center where I was able to notice the oboeist, really getting into his solo.  I don't know if oboe has to be played with emphatic gyrations but it seems to be common.  Here's a 1 minute sample of the oboe solo in the Great C Symphony by another muscian.  He's not nearly as energetic as the guy I remember in Washington, but he does look like he's making love to the instrument.smiley

    Edited to note, if you're not familiar with orchestral instruments, the oboe and the clarinet look similar but the oboe is the one with the short straight "straw" mouthpiece the muscian blows through, the clarinet has more of a "duck bill" mouthpiece.  And in the video clip, the big instruments with the long curved "straw" behind the oboeist are bassoons.

    ...I remember back at college in Wisconsin when we performed JS Bach's Cantata #1 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern) one of the arias ("Erfrüllet, ihr himmlischen göttlichen Flammen) the lead soprano was accompanied just by the continuo performer (harpsichord) a single cello, and a hautbois (old term for oboe).  The oboist was also somewhat" animated" (particularly her eyebrows), however on several occasions she embarrassingly "squeaked" on the notes in the lovely flowing passages.

    A "proper" performance of the work.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i shoulda checked the weather before i opened the windows.  is 54F, no wonder i'se shivering

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    What does Jazz 8.1 mean?

    i think is the undercover brother movie

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    What's the difference between Fabre and Favre?

    ...Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. 

    ...Brett Farve was a rookie Quarterback drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 1991 who traded him to the Green Bay Packers in 1992 and was noted for his "giunslinger " style of play where he threw 508 touchdowns but also setting the all time record for interceptions with 336. He also appeared briefly in the film There's Something About Mary.

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,488

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    My mum's feline friends Misty and Oscar seem to love to hunt birds and bring the dead or dying birds into my mum's house. Is this normal for feline friends?

    "In the wild, cat mothers teach their young how to eat their food by bringing home dead or injured prey. ... By leaving a dead animal on the back porch, your cat is acting out its natural role as mother and teacher. You, her loving owner, represent her surrogate family."

    (Taken from Google)

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I don't think I've turned my computer on in a week. I've lost confidence in using it. I'm just waiting for the next "random restart". 

    The seller said the DVD was in a "good condition". The disc has a bloomin' great big scratch on it! How in the heck is that in  a "good condition"?! 

    I want my bed. crying

  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    McGyver said:

    I'm starting to wonder if we come from the same cloning facility... You didn't grow up in Astoria/Long Island City in Queens N.Y. did you?

    But yes, all good points... especially the stolen socks part... but my step-grandfather didn't pass away for quite a while after that... he was just prone to shouting to be avenged and he had a animosity towards red and purple pandas.

    I've never been there once as far as I know, so that probably rules out growing up there, though I might be able to say I did on a technicality*. Speaking of technicalities I once killed a guy from Astora, which I assume might be nearby. Now that sounds bad and illegal but i'm fairly certain it wasn't as he was back the next playthrough and he was a bit nuts (not that killing is people is fine, but he did try and murder me).

    *I suppose the technicality being i'm not sure where I was actually born so it could have been anywhere. Though weirdly I have an adopted brother (it's a thing people do in some countries). He's one of those people who gets angry about random things and there's often no pleasing them. The classic example is something i'm sure everyone has experienced at some point and can relate to. He got annoyed by the terms of reference other people used with me (basically they used a respectful title which for ease of translation we'll translate as "lady"). As they were "showing me more respect than him" or something (he's older than me). So I tried to call him "lady brother" to appease him and he got angrier for some reason. People are confusing.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited May 2021

    Non-complaint:  Wheee..., I just won the lottery at NewEgg!  I've been applying daily for the "Shuffle" lottery at NewEgg.com for whatever limited selection of RTX 3060 graphics cards they were offering that day.  I kept trying for the basic RTX-3060, 2-fan models at about $330 - $399 but would also put my mark on any of the 3060 models available.  Today I was notified by e-mail that I was "selected".  YAY!  Wheee..., I've got a new graphics card.yes

    Complaint:  It isn't a true lottery, I did have to pay for my winnings and of course I didn't win the lower cost $399 version, but I did win the combo deal of a $509 3-fan version AND a $94 AMD motherboard, for a total of about $653 including tax and shipping.  More money than I wanted to spend, and I didn't want to get involved with AMD motherboards & chips (I'm an Intel guy for decades).  But the card is a better version and the cost was only about $220 more than I had planned on and I'll find some way to make use of the AMD motherboard someday.  And besides, it's future money that I'm spending (credit card) so it will only hurt later.  Right now I'm doing handstands & cartwheels.  Wheee...smiley

    Graphics Card: https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-rtx-3060-tuf-rtx3060-12g-gaming/p/N82E16814126501?Item=N82E16814126501

    Motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/asus-tuf-gaming-b450m-plus-ii/p/N82E16813119358?Item=N82E16813119358

    **SHUFFLE at NewEgg:  Type "shuffle" in the search field at the NewEgg.com website to register.enlightenedSignup is only active for couple hours.  While the Shuffle is active you have a chance to select the items you're interested in, and then a few hours later they have the drawing and notify winners but you have to purchase within a couple hours of being notified or you forfeit your chance to purchase.

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  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    LeatherGryphon said:

    What is the mystery with Red Pandas?  I've seen them several times at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.  In the middle of the day.  And they were never invisible.  I would have noticed if they were.indecision

    If you saw a red panda, they were probably cats or raccoons used as stand ins while they were off doing illegal things. It's the only way to explain it. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    Watch out for fungi.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited May 2021

    Complaint:  I've hurt myself and broken a window and a table doing handstands and cartwheels.devil  Not a thing that ancient out-of-shape people should do regardless of the reason.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
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