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  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,381

    I got home at 4 pm and like N_R's cat, I decided to take a nap.  Then I woke up at midnight.  What a fabulous nap!  But now it's after midnight.  I suppose I could make a salad and do some budgeting.

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,381

    Okay, I just decided it's time for some Steely Dan while I clear the kitchen sink.  What exciting lives we lead, lol!

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Subtropic Pixel: Your schedule sounds like mine now. But a lot of times I will go to sleep at 10 am, or 3 pm, and wake at 7 pm or so. 

    Complaint: Yikes. I was in such a rush to check out that I bought something I had meant to take out of my cart. Oh well. It was only $2.  I will return it if any of these other items turn out to be broken and I am already filing a ticket. Testing everything right after purchase has become essential. Also: spent too much. There had better not be a better sale on Monday or my allowance is screwed. 

    Non-complaint: Lots of new handsome guys to work with! devil

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    Mystiara said:

    PerttiA said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I want something to eat other than chicken I guess.

    If you asked the chicken, they would also prefer that you ate something like pork. 

    if you ask Daffy, is rabbit season.  if you sak Bugs is duck season

    every time i see that promo of Rin with the blooberry pancakes, i'se like damm looks yummi 

    ...

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    PerttiA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Wheeee..., my kitchen lightshow has again surprised me.  The Sun keeps changing position slightly every morning and the direct rays that hit my windowsill prisms behave slightly differently every morning.  Today seemed like it was nothing special, the spectrum from the big triangular prism was in its typical place somewhere on the far wall, and the three little spots of red, green, and blue from the little cubic dichromatic mirror/splitter prism went their separate orthogonal directions.  Sometimes the blue spot gets projected through the kitchen door into the living room, which is kind of cool because it shows up brilliantly in the dark livingroom.  That was it's position this morning, but in addition to the "normal", it was positioned just right so that little beam of blue light passed just under the spout opening of my kitchen faucet.  When I turned on the water to make coffee, the top one inch of the aerated water column just below the spout was glowing brilliant blue like there was blue flame coming from the spout.  Cool!cool   Wheee... yessmiley  No proof though.frown  By time I got my camera ready, the sun had moved enough to make realigning everything difficult/impossible and not worth the trouble.  Just a pleasant memory.

    ...I need to get some prisms as my main window faces east.  Would be nice to wake up to a room of rainbows.

    smiley Getting sunlight in the kitchen that's on the north side of the house, everything would be fine if it just warmed up a bit (10-15C/50-60F during the day) 

    Sunlight on the North side of the house?  You must be on the bottom half of the planet.  Enjoy your winter.indecision 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited May 2021

    Contemplation:  Faced with the fact that I'm blasting my budget to build a computer around my unwanted motherboard, I'm trying to find a use for it.  One possibility is to turn it into a NAS-type of device.  The motherboard has RAID functionality, I could move one of the two 2TB hard drives from each of my other two big desktops to the new machine and configure them as RAID1 and take advantage of automatic replication of backups through the net to the NAS, and stop worrying about manually maintaining duplicate backups.

    I've worked with RAID on big mainframe machines (30 years ago) but never setup RAID on PCs.  Any advice or words of warning?

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670
    edited May 2021

    i forgot the name of a character that I bought.  I do remember what she looks like. now I need to browse through 50 pages of my product library to find the character.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    kyoto kid said:

    Mystiara said:

    PerttiA said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I want something to eat other than chicken I guess.

    If you asked the chicken, they would also prefer that you ate something like pork. 

    if you ask Daffy, is rabbit season.  if you sak Bugs is duck season

    every time i see that promo of Rin with the blooberry pancakes, i'se like damm looks yummi 

    ...

    poor Daffy  he doesnt stand a chance does he ?  and Fudd in the middle.

     

    pouring buckets since yesterday.  despite the hole in the bucket.  memorial weekend already.  holidays were like yesterday.

    treating myself to a 960 ssd drive.  my  c drive is giving me clear out of space warnings.  better order the drive before i look at my wishlist. 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LeatherGryphon said:

    PerttiA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Wheeee..., my kitchen lightshow has again surprised me.  The Sun keeps changing position slightly every morning and the direct rays that hit my windowsill prisms behave slightly differently every morning.  Today seemed like it was nothing special, the spectrum from the big triangular prism was in its typical place somewhere on the far wall, and the three little spots of red, green, and blue from the little cubic dichromatic mirror/splitter prism went their separate orthogonal directions.  Sometimes the blue spot gets projected through the kitchen door into the living room, which is kind of cool because it shows up brilliantly in the dark livingroom.  That was it's position this morning, but in addition to the "normal", it was positioned just right so that little beam of blue light passed just under the spout opening of my kitchen faucet.  When I turned on the water to make coffee, the top one inch of the aerated water column just below the spout was glowing brilliant blue like there was blue flame coming from the spout.  Cool!cool   Wheee... yessmiley  No proof though.frown  By time I got my camera ready, the sun had moved enough to make realigning everything difficult/impossible and not worth the trouble.  Just a pleasant memory.

    ...I need to get some prisms as my main window faces east.  Would be nice to wake up to a room of rainbows.

    smiley Getting sunlight in the kitchen that's on the north side of the house, everything would be fine if it just warmed up a bit (10-15C/50-60F during the day) 

    Sunlight on the North side of the house?  You must be on the bottom half of the planet.  Enjoy your winter.indecision 

    Actually the opposite on both accounts, not north enough to have sunlight 24/7, but in a month the night will last less than 4 hours 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    omg, why is it always the best sales when iz rent time?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited May 2021

    PerttiA said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    PerttiA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Wheeee..., my kitchen lightshow has again surprised me.  The Sun keeps changing position slightly every morning and the direct rays that hit my windowsill prisms behave slightly differently every morning.  Today seemed like it was nothing special, the spectrum from the big triangular prism was in its typical place somewhere on the far wall, and the three little spots of red, green, and blue from the little cubic dichromatic mirror/splitter prism went their separate orthogonal directions.  Sometimes the blue spot gets projected through the kitchen door into the living room, which is kind of cool because it shows up brilliantly in the dark livingroom.  That was it's position this morning, but in addition to the "normal", it was positioned just right so that little beam of blue light passed just under the spout opening of my kitchen faucet.  When I turned on the water to make coffee, the top one inch of the aerated water column just below the spout was glowing brilliant blue like there was blue flame coming from the spout.  Cool!cool   Wheee... yessmiley  No proof though.frown  By time I got my camera ready, the sun had moved enough to make realigning everything difficult/impossible and not worth the trouble.  Just a pleasant memory.

    ...I need to get some prisms as my main window faces east.  Would be nice to wake up to a room of rainbows.

    smiley Getting sunlight in the kitchen that's on the north side of the house, everything would be fine if it just warmed up a bit (10-15C/50-60F during the day) 

    Sunlight on the North side of the house?  You must be on the bottom half of the planet.  Enjoy your winter.indecision 

    Actually the opposite on both accounts, not north enough to have sunlight 24/7, but in a month the night will last less than 4 hours 

    OMG, how unsettling to not have the Sun go down at night.  Our Sun down here in the lower lattitudes is better trained.  We let it wander a bit but we make it go to bed for at least eight hours rest.  Nothing worse than a tired Sun.  They get all red and blotchy and irritable.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    I feel like my roommate is acting odd. She seems to refuse to sit at the table to eat food like the rest of us.
  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,490

    I can't do this "life" thing right now. My head is done in.  I'm being b*tched at from both sides.

    I miss you, Bro. It wouldn't be like this if you were still here.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085
    edited May 2021

    "I say It's rabbit season and I say shoot me now!"

    "You're...you're...despicable."

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085
    edited May 2021

    N_R Arts said:

    I can't do this "life" thing right now. My head is done in.  I'm being b*tched at from both sides.

    I miss you, Bro. It wouldn't be like this if you were still here.

    I hope things get better soon.

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    soo cold.  need some sauna time with a vodka

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the Bugs has nerves of steel

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    LeatherGryphon said:

    PerttiA said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    PerttiA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Wheeee..., my kitchen lightshow has again surprised me.  The Sun keeps changing position slightly every morning and the direct rays that hit my windowsill prisms behave slightly differently every morning.  Today seemed like it was nothing special, the spectrum from the big triangular prism was in its typical place somewhere on the far wall, and the three little spots of red, green, and blue from the little cubic dichromatic mirror/splitter prism went their separate orthogonal directions.  Sometimes the blue spot gets projected through the kitchen door into the living room, which is kind of cool because it shows up brilliantly in the dark livingroom.  That was it's position this morning, but in addition to the "normal", it was positioned just right so that little beam of blue light passed just under the spout opening of my kitchen faucet.  When I turned on the water to make coffee, the top one inch of the aerated water column just below the spout was glowing brilliant blue like there was blue flame coming from the spout.  Cool!cool   Wheee... yessmiley  No proof though.frown  By time I got my camera ready, the sun had moved enough to make realigning everything difficult/impossible and not worth the trouble.  Just a pleasant memory.

    ...I need to get some prisms as my main window faces east.  Would be nice to wake up to a room of rainbows.

    smiley Getting sunlight in the kitchen that's on the north side of the house, everything would be fine if it just warmed up a bit (10-15C/50-60F during the day) 

    Sunlight on the North side of the house?  You must be on the bottom half of the planet.  Enjoy your winter.indecision 

    Actually the opposite on both accounts, not north enough to have sunlight 24/7, but in a month the night will last less than 4 hours 

    OMG, how unsettling to not have the Sun go down at night.  Our Sun down here in the lower lattitudes is better trained.  We let it wander a bit but we make it go to bed for at least eight hours rest.  Nothing worse than a tired Sun.  They get all red and blotchy and irritable.

    at the height of summer here in the Portland, the sun goes down around 21:30 .  However if you look to the north even late at night, the sky is slightly light. 

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,381
    edited May 2021

    LeatherGryphon said:

    ...I've worked with RAID on big mainframe machines (30 years ago) but never setup RAID on PCs.  Any advice or words of warning?

    Modern storage arrays are very much housetrained, and consumer NASs are even better behaved.  They feed themselves too, don't scratch up the furniture, and don't burn down the house.

    So I do have advice:  Synology.  I have one and use it for replication.  You know, that thing that gets done automatically so that whenever I update a file in my "Documents" or "Downloads" folder structures so that when I go to another computer, "Documents" or "Downloads" on THAT COMPUTER also have the file I just now updated on the first computer.

    My Synology NAS does all the stuff you're doing with your dodgy Windows networking, only I'm using DSM and several apps that run on a Linux box (because that's what it is).  The bad part for you is that it'll cost money and you'll be done in a weekend's worth of hours or less.  You won't have to feed it, play with it, teach it tricks, paper train it, or make arrangements to get shots for it.

    That's good for me because it's not a pet in my house.  It's one of the many robots that does what it does and gets ignored most of the time, with an occasional review done by me to make sure that all the replication is happening correctly.  One day, I'll buy a second Synology NAS and set it up as a centralized backup platform, to keep that function separated from my replication function.

    But for you, this is probably way too easy and way too fast because as you've said before, you're looking for activities to keep you busy and engaged.  I get that, so carry on, good sir, carry on.

    Just promise me that you will back up the damned thing (if you're storing stuff on it).  Unless you're good with just redefining everything after a hard crash, which is a viable recovery method if you can afford to lose everything on it.  And with a replication machine where everything on it is just a copy of what's on all of your other machines, then that may actually be the case.  It is for me.

    Right now, my NAS has two 10 TB drives configured as mirrors.  There are spaces for an additional 2 drives, but right now they're not populated.  Synology's technology allows for unlike-matching of each drive in the NAS, but I still keep them matched because that gives you the best value for the largest drives in your RAID array.  As mentioned above, I plan to one day get a second Synology NAS and keep it purely for centralized backups; kind of like a cloud for backups in my home, and allow my 2 PCs and soon-to-be-later-this-year new Mac to write their backups to the second Synology device, with a separate weekly backup going to a hot-swappable HDD for storage in my safe or offsite.

    Lots of plans there that have to be executed on, but yeah, backups are important to me.  I don't want to have to excoriate myself for not having backups after a drive crash; that would just be embarrassing!  And yes, everything gets backed up today, and depending on the partition, some of it multiple times in one day.  cheeky

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited May 2021

    kyoto kid said:

    at the height of summer here in the Portland, the sun goes down around 21:30 .  However if you look to the north even late at night, the sky is slightly light. 

    I'm at the same lattitude as Anchorage Alaska and at the moment the sun goes down at 22:45 (DST) 

    Post edited by PerttiA on
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    What is with all the nested quotes?
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    What is with all the nested quotes?

    We're sitting on them waiting for them to hatch. 

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    the Daz store seems to be a bit slow.  i guess a lot of people are going shopping right now.  that or people in my neighborhood are watching movies on their computer while eating lunch.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    I feel like I can do no right. I asked for a yogurt but was called greedy.
  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    starionwolf said:

    the Daz store seems to be a bit slow.  i guess a lot of people are going shopping right now.  that or people in my neighborhood are watching movies on their computer while eating lunch.

    This time of the day seems to be slow quite often, not only at DAZ. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    What is TextNow and how did it get on my phone?
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited May 2021

    N_R Arts said:

    I can't do this "life" thing right now. My head is done in.  I'm being b*tched at from both sides.

    I miss you, Bro. It wouldn't be like this if you were still here.

    I'm not sure what exactly you are going through at the moment, but you should know that even though none of us have probably ever met you in person, and if we did, we probably didn't know it was you, or you know it was us and if it was me, you were probably surprised by a guy in a gorilla costume jumping out from behind a shrub, so I apologize for that... but even though we only know you from your posts, we all wish you the best and are here if you need to complain or vent...


    I'd love be able to distract you with one of my long stories about the crazy stuff that's happened to me, or my crazy theories about why I think there is a Bigfoot (Sasquatch-American) who's been peeing in the grass in a particular spot in my yard, or the one about why Amazon is eventually going to be renting human livers and installing them with drones, but I'm sure you are stressed out and don't want to be reading any of those sort of things...

    I'm not trying to minimize your distress by rambling on about stuff, but sometimes it helps to take your mind off whatever it is that's ripping it apart... unless it's some sort of parasite, in which case it's always good to seek professional medical attention and not ignore it because things like brain borers or neural hook worms can really become a problem if you keep ignoring them and eventually you'll end up like me and become bats**t insane which is kinda tiring and often a lot more work than anyone wants to put in...
    Thats really most of the reason I hide in shrubs wearing a gorilla costume...
    Well, half the reason is I care and the other half is the insanity...

    You see, I like to wait until someone who looks like they've had a really, really bad day wanders by and then I jump out, screaming and waving my axe (I forgot to mention and apologize for the axe)...
    Usually the person will completely forget that their boss yelled at them earlier or their dog was arrested by homeland security and instead they focus on running and their appreciation of living a tiny bit longer. 
    Granted, some just instantly take a nap... I guess it's more like they collapse in a twitching pile, but the point is they are getting much needed rest so they can recover from their stressful day or worldly troubles and hopefully have nice dreams...

    After all, as they say, "Caring is scaring" and if you don't take the time to frighten the living hell out of your fellow human beings are you really caring about their health and well-being? Or are you just ignoring their needs because your gorilla costume smells a lot like mouse pee?

     I think it was Aristotle or Gertrude Stein who said "Often it is only when being chased by a gorilla waving an axe, that we can focus on the moment and not our woes and the myriad insults life throws at us, and in so doing, chose to carry on with a clearer purpose and faster step"...

    Its also kinda possible I may have said that after having drank too much, as I'm often prone to making up sayings and giving wildly inaccurate medical advice, especially when I'm dressed up like a doctor. 
    So, I'm sorry if I recently accosted you while dressed as a gorilla-doctor you when you where experiencing a bad time, but the rest of my gorilla costume kinda got chewed up by the mice who were constantly peeing in it when I stored it in one of the sheds in my yard... and the head was the only part not messed up, so I had to combine it with one of my other costumes and the Viking or pirate ones seemed less impactful, and the ballerina one was not very believable, so I figured for full effect a gorilla doctor waving an axe was probably going to have maximum results... hopefully that old lady who got taken away in an ambulance got all the rest she needed and is now back to enjoying hiking, knitting or penguin wrestling or whatever it is old ladies are into these days... 

    I'm also sorry if you are feeling left out because I haven't chased you down a dark deserted alley waving an axe and screaming in Gorillaese (or is it Gorillaian?)... I'll gladly try and distract you from whatever it is that is troubling you... But maybe you aren't the kind of person who walks down deserted alleys late at night or waits for the bus next to shrubs...
    I could try and distract you remotely... usually I do that on a forum by drawing some poor bastard into a long confusing conversation about my old hobby where I dressed up assorted species of rodents in accurate period costumes and had them reenact various battles of historical significance or I offer them long essays on alternate historical possibilities or questionable scientific theories... usually by the time the person has gotten a few sentences in their brain starts to fold in on itself and whatever it was that was troubling them gets shoved to the side as their brain tries to run away from whatever it is I'm throwing at it... usually most people's eyeballs are too stupid to look away and they continue reading which causes the brain to shed even more baggage as it tried to survive the onslaught of stupidity their eyeballs are subjecting them to and before they know it they are either in a temporary coma, or their brain has erased whatever it was that was previously troubling them in a it's fight to survive... so technically even though I'm writing this, it's not really my fault if your brain is hurting, it's your very irresponsible eyeballs that are subjecting you to this nonsense, just because they are curious to see if this eventually makes any sense, which I assure you, as you should have long ago realized, it never, ever will.

    So there you have it...

    BOO!

    How was that? Do you feel like you've forgotten any troubles?... Sorry, I was trying something new...
    I've been thinking of using it for online distraction... it probably needs some work...

    Anyway... I shouldn't keep you any longer, I've been told that too much of my writing can cause permanent brain damage and diarrhea in laboratory animals and some giraffes, so since I don't know if you are a giraffe, I shouldn't risk giving you diarrhea... I've been told it's a pretty explosive type and it lasts several days... I don't honestly know the science behind any of that, but hopefully you'll see that even if you haven't been distracted from your troubles there are people out there who do understand and empathize with you and even if they aren't scaring the living s**t out of you by chasing you with a chainsaw (I was trying something new), that they do care and you aren't alone in this often sh**ty world...

    The "alone" part probably isn't helpful, especially since obviously there are people annoying you, but I think you probably understood I mean "alone" as in being ignored or you pain and aggravation not being understood... 

    BOO!!

    Anything?... Megh... I'll keep working on that... Maybe scary clown pictures...?

    Anyway... please feel better... and stay away from shrubs.

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  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    McGyver said:

    N_R Arts said:

    I can't do this "life" thing right now. My head is done in.  I'm being b*tched at from both sides.

    I miss you, Bro. It wouldn't be like this if you were still here.

    I'm not sure what exactly you are going through at the moment, but you should know that even though none of us have probably ever met you in person, and if we did, we probably didn't know it was you, or you know it was us and if it was me, you were probably surprised by a guy in a gorilla costume jumping out from behind a shrub, so I apologize for that... but even though we only know you from your posts, we all wish you the best and are here if you need to complain or vent...

    +100

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Also, is it possible to have moths if you never see any in your house? Sometimes I find clothes with holes in them and I don't know how they got there. Some pieces seem to be worse off than others...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    third straight day of pouring rain.  havent walked in a few days.  exer bike is too boring when no fresh air coming in the window.  is soggy muggy air.  is gonna take a major cuppa barry to cure the damp chills.  a little hellp from ole mr jamieson.

    nothing in the larde i want to eat.  is it a type of eating disorder?  nothing appetizing.  a few months ago i loved beef n brocolli.  today is meh.  eggs, meh  pizza, meh

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