Loading...
> >

The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread

1…6465676970…100

Comments

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,381

    LeatherGryphon said:

    McGyver said:

    I remember when the Internet was more or less theoretical to anyone who wasn't in a lab or government facility. 

    My kids were weirded out by that 90s "connecting to Internet" sound you'd hear the modem make... the one that sounds like something horrible happened to Pac-Man. 

    Have they ever seen one of those telephone cradle boxes that you used to put the phone handset into when you were "dialing up" to a computer service?  Wouldn't work today.  Nobody has phone handsets.frown  But I think AOL is still in business somewhere?  Or have they faded away too?

    I used to drive past the AOL building/campus in Washington, DC area everyday.

    Ah nostalgic memories of AOL advertisement CDs sent to you in the post (snail mail) every couple of weeks trying to entice you to use their wonderful service.  I think at one time somebody collected a truckload of unwanted AOL CDs and dumped them on the lawn at the AOL building.

    https://www.wired.com/2002/11/return-to-sender-aol-cds/

    I didn't get into computers until AFTER the handset dialup thingie was dumped for its uncoolness.  Kind of like the same way I didn't get into being a nerd until the pocket protectors, lab coats, and flooder pants fell out of style and I could wear a normal suit.  Now it's t-shirts and jeans.  Shorts if you're working from home!

    I remember AOL, CompuServ, and Prodigy.  I had Prodigy because your computer didn't have to transmit data back and forth for the graphic images; instead, it just took instructions and executed/built the graphics locally.  Kind of like how MIDI works.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Nostalgia:  Kids these days don't know how good they have it in the Ethernet department.  I remember the days in the early '80s when Ethernet cable was coax cable the diameter of your finger and you had to place a vampire tap** onto the cable at only specifically marked distances on the cable to avoid tapping into a null signal section.  And then a thick multi wire connection ran from the cable tap to the computer.  And the data rate was something like 3Mb/s.  Wow, so last century.devil

    ** Physically pierce the shielding and drive a sharp pin into the center conductor.surprise

    Yeah... And if all the computers on the coaxial net were not getting "juice" to the same prong, weird things happened 

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Sick again. I wish this would stop happening. I have a doctor's appointment in a few minutes and then I have to go in search of gauze. Gauze has become hard to come by. I have already nearly wiped out the inventories of the closest stores, and judging by how the shelves have looked these past few weeks, they don't get a lot of shipments of it. So today I might have to drive farther than I usually do. Wish me luck. I am going to need a lot of gauze. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    It is like 85° outside.
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    certaintree38 said:

    Sick again. I wish this would stop happening.

    It was all that listening to Nsync music... I told you so.

    Also... I hope it's nothing serious... you mentioned needing gauze... that sounds like something leaky happened... I hope it's nothing, or two unrelated things.

    Feel better.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    It is like 85° outside.

    So... 29.444° Celsius?... That's not quite 85°F and when it's 29.444°C, I'm always like... "Dang, feels like it's 85°F"...

    Unless you meant 85°C in the first place... then I'm like "it feels like 185°F... Aaaaaaaaaah, I'm on fire!!"

    Remember... Stop, drop and roll.

    Unless the floor is on fire too... then that won't help... in fact I'm pretty sure it'll probably make matters worse.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Wait! Juno email still exists?

    Of course I knew mail still exists...

     

    Get it... "Juno"... "you know"... 

    No?...

    Its funny damn it!

    My superior wit is wasted on you mortals!

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675
    edited June 2021

    Thanks. 

    I hate the stop signs by my house. They are placed in odd areas. Roads that you would think to have the right of way have to stop, and places where you would expect to stop have the right of way. So of course I almost got hit by someone blowing through a stop sign on my way back from the doctor's. We were only going 25 miles an hour, so the danger was minimal, but it's still annoying.

    The doctor seems to think my various rashes are related to eczema and stress, or maybe an allergy. But I'm not stressed and I'm not taking much in the way of meds right now (certainly nothing new) so that left him kind of mystified. Luckily, I already have an appointment with a dermatologist on Monday. Hopefully, they will have a better idea. This appointment was mostly for my asthma, which is still pretty bad. So I'm back on steroids. Yay. The next time you see me, I will look like this:

     

    Note: The gauze is for the two rashes on my hands. They ooze and I have to change the bandages a lot. On the bright side, they aren't hurting nearly as much as they used to. 

    Post edited by Sera on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Have they ever seen one of those telephone cradle boxes that you used to put the phone handset into when you were "dialing up" to a computer service?  Wouldn't work today.  Nobody has phone handsets.frown  But I think AOL is still in business somewhere?  Or have they faded away too?

    I used to drive past the AOL building/campus in Washington, DC area everyday.

    Ah nostalgic memories of AOL advertisement CDs sent to you in the post (snail mail) every couple of weeks trying to entice you to use their wonderful service.  I think at one time somebody collected a truckload of unwanted AOL CDs and dumped them on the lawn at the AOL building.

    https://www.wired.com/2002/11/return-to-sender-aol-cds/

    I have one of those cradles somewhere... I'm pretty sure I showed it to them at some point, but they were pretty young at the time and probably wouldn't remember...
    I have lots of weird old tech in my shop in boxes... lots of weird things in general... I've got pressurized casting tanks, a vaccuum chamber, a medical centrifuge, a ceramic furnace... that's not even counting the decapitated cyborg head and the boxes of science fiction gadgets and parts... I'm pretty sure my wife isn't even going to bother to sell or throw that stuff out if I die, I think she'll just set the whole thing on fire... no way anyone would be suspicious considering how flammable the whole place is.

    Included in that collection... at least two large boxes of AOL CDs... maybe more... I used to make stuff out of them and people used to give me them all the time... I actually made a disc launcher gun based off the little kid's toy that shoots foam rubber disks... It was a damn dangerous thing because the disk trajectory was absolutely unpredictable and often the discs would shatter in the launcher... then again maybe I shouldn't have used a vaccuum cleaner motor. 

    By the way, recycled vaccuum cleaners motors are great for mad science batsh*t insane science experiments.

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    In other news, someone on DA contacted me with a five day old account pretending to be Jared Leto. I kinda want to mess with him, but I also don't want to make an enemy. Thoughts? 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited June 2021

    certaintree38 said:

    In other news, someone on DA contacted me with a five day old account pretending to be Jared Leto. I kinda want to mess with him, but I also don't want to make an enemy. Thoughts? 
     

    What if it was Jared Leto and nobody ever believes he's himself?
    Eventually he might start believing he's not who he's been told he is and have a major identity crisis...

    What if he starts thinking he's Jared Padalecki, or Jared Harris... or even Jar Jar Binks?

    That would be funny... but also probably unfortunate... or sad... I don't know... I'm pretty bad at pegging proper emotions in these circumstances.

    Why don't you want to make enemies...?

    Everyone needs a nemesis...

    Mine is a squirrel with a monocle... His name is Doctor Nuttbottom and we've been at war for quite a while.

    He's actually pretty old and decrepit at this point and I feel kinda bad throwing stuff at him because I keep hitting him... it's actually kind of hard not to, as he's gotten pretty fat too...

    That's not the extent of my thoughts on this subject, but I'm not sure what kind of input you are looking for.

    Edited to add...

    Actually, this has gotten me wondering if I'm actually Jared Leto... what if I've only been told I'm Victor/McGyver... ?

    They say "you never know who you are until it really counts"... maybe that's why I hate math... the counting...

    This could explain all my other alias... 

    Maybe the reason I like the gorilla costume is not just the mouse pee smell, but it's because I was once a gorilla that pissed off an old gypsy fortune teller and she put a curse on me and made me a human...

    Hmmm... I've got a lot to think about now.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    Who is Jared Leto?  Anybody you know?  Anybody I should know?  Why would you want to mess with him?  What kind of enemy do you think he would make, and why?  Why are you telling us your conflict with the purported Jared Leto?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Who is Jared Leto?  Anybody you know?  Anybody I should know?  Why would you want to mess with him?  What kind of enemy do you think he would make, and why?  Why are you telling us your conflict with the purported Jared Leto?

    Well, I'm not sure if I'm Jared Leto... I wasn't in conflict with him yet... assuming I'm not him... I am often conflicted though... so maybe I am him...?

    I would make a terrible enemy because I'm quite good at making booby traps and I'm very resourceful and extremely vindictive... Thats how I've managed to keep my war with Doctor Nuttbottom going for so long... I'm the one who made him fat... so he'd be a bigger target... see... very resourceful and I play the long game... 

     But that is a good point... Who is Jared Leto?... I thought he is an actor... or a musician... or the Subway guy... no, that was Jared Fogle... I think he is in jail... I think Jared Leto was in that movie... the one with the guy who went into some woods or got lost or something...

    I don't know... maybe he's actually a gorilla who's been curse by an old gypsy lady...?

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Jared Leto is a fairly big movie star and musician. I seriously doubt the real Jared would be interested in my mediocre-at-best renders, but this supposed Jared thinks I "have great talent." You could throw a tissue and find someone with more talent at DA, and tissues don't go very far. 

    I want to mess with him because I don't like liars and I think it would be funny. I don't want to make an enemy because people do crazy things when they get their egos bruised. So I am torn. Maybe I will dig up some dirt about Jared Leto and give him a hard time about the actor's scandals while pretending to believe it's him. 

    But in regards to gauze, I managed to find a good deal of it the first place I looked. But seven boxes later, they are almost sold out again. And this will only last a week. Maybe less. I did leave a few boxes, but I don't want to go back for them. Someone without reliable transportation might really need some.

    Thinking about putting in an online order for more today. It should get here in time if I do that, but they limit how many you can get, so it would only last a couple of days. It would help at least. I am also vaguely concerned that my hands will get rapidly better after Monday if the doctor prescribes something effective. This would be great for my well-being, but I might be left with a mountain of gauze that doesn't get used, and this is getting to be expensive. 

    But hey, at least I managed to also get a decent supply of coffee. Sweet, sweet coffee. 

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    LeatherGryphon said:

     What kind of enemy do you think he would make, and why?  Why are you telling us your conflict with the purported Jared Leto?

    I have been hacked before. Not saying that is going to happen, but that kind of thing makes a person cautious. It's true you don't really know who is only the other side of the screen or what they might be capable of. And I just thought you guys might have some ideas. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,484

    McGyver said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Have they ever seen one of those telephone cradle boxes that you used to put the phone handset into when you were "dialing up" to a computer service?  Wouldn't work today.  Nobody has phone handsets.frown  But I think AOL is still in business somewhere?  Or have they faded away too?

    I used to drive past the AOL building/campus in Washington, DC area everyday.

    Ah nostalgic memories of AOL advertisement CDs sent to you in the post (snail mail) every couple of weeks trying to entice you to use their wonderful service.  I think at one time somebody collected a truckload of unwanted AOL CDs and dumped them on the lawn at the AOL building.

    https://www.wired.com/2002/11/return-to-sender-aol-cds/

    I have one of those cradles somewhere... I'm pretty sure I showed it to them at some point, but they were pretty young at the time and probably wouldn't remember...
    I have lots of weird old tech in my shop in boxes... lots of weird things in general... I've got pressurized casting tanks, a vaccuum chamber, a medical centrifuge, a ceramic furnace... that's not even counting the decapitated cyborg head and the boxes of science fiction gadgets and parts... I'm pretty sure my wife isn't even going to bother to sell or throw that stuff out if I die, I think she'll just set the whole thing on fire... no way anyone would be suspicious considering how flammable the whole place is.

    Included in that collection... at least two large boxes of AOL CDs... maybe more... I used to make stuff out of them and people used to give me them all the time... I actually made a disc launcher gun based off the little kid's toy that shoots foam rubber disks... It was a damn dangerous thing because the disk trajectory was absolutely unpredictable and often the discs would shatter in the launcher... then again maybe I shouldn't have used a vaccuum cleaner motor. 

    By the way, recycled vaccuum cleaners motors are great for mad science batsh*t insane science experiments.

    It's good when a couple has a shared hobby.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023
    edited June 2021

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    It is like 85° outside.

    ...61° and drippy here  Summer will be back by midweek next week. 

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Wait! Juno email still exists?

    Of course I knew mail still exists...

     

    Get it... "Juno"... "you know"... 

    No?...

    Its funny damn it!

    My superior wit is wasted on you mortals!

    laugh   laugh   laugh   

    Dana

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,737

    certaintree38 said:

    Jared Leto is a fairly big movie star and musician. I seriously doubt the real Jared would be interested in my mediocre-at-best renders, but this supposed Jared thinks I "have great talent." You could throw a tissue and find someone with more talent at DA, and tissues don't go very far. 

    I want to mess with him because I don't like liars and I think it would be funny. I don't want to make an enemy because people do crazy things when they get their egos bruised. So I am torn. Maybe I will dig up some dirt about Jared Leto and give him a hard time about the actor's scandals while pretending to believe it's him. 

    But in regards to gauze, I managed to find a good deal of it the first place I looked. But seven boxes later, they are almost sold out again. And this will only last a week. Maybe less. I did leave a few boxes, but I don't want to go back for them. Someone without reliable transportation might really need some.

    Thinking about putting in an online order for more today. It should get here in time if I do that, but they limit how many you can get, so it would only last a couple of days. It would help at least. I am also vaguely concerned that my hands will get rapidly better after Monday if the doctor prescribes something effective. This would be great for my well-being, but I might be left with a mountain of gauze that doesn't get used, and this is getting to be expensive. 

    But hey, at least I managed to also get a decent supply of coffee. Sweet, sweet coffee. 

    Sorry to hear about your rashes and the gauze problem. Did you know that quite a few kinds of gauze are washable? Then you wouldn't have to keep buying new supplies all the time. We do it and the bandages usually turn out just fine. Try to handwash them first if you're unsure. Hope you'll be better soon!

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,979

    certaintree38 said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

     What kind of enemy do you think he would make, and why?  Why are you telling us your conflict with the purported Jared Leto?

    I have been hacked before. Not saying that is going to happen, but that kind of thing makes a person cautious. It's true you don't really know who is only the other side of the screen or what they might be capable of. And I just thought you guys might have some ideas. 

    I would say don't give any real personal information  ,and don't give any money or gift cards ,but just having a chat shouldn't hurt just be careful

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    ...yeah I have very sensitive skin which is prone to rashes as well. Not as serious as certaintree38's sound but still fairly irritating and annoying.  This is why I don't have any tats and why I must use natural, unscented laundry powder, dishwashing liquid, shampoo, and soap (which tend to be more expensive).  Yeah it's no fun.  Cold weather actually aggravates it more.  For cleaning and mopping the flat, I have a pair of industrial rubber gloves.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,221
    YouTube refuses to play videos on my TV. I tried everything I could think of to troubleshoot it. I turned my power strip off completely for both the TV and TiVo streaming device. I unplugged and replugged in the TiVo from its power source. I uninstalled all YouTube updates and reinstalled them. I restarted the TiVo device many times. I cleared YouTube cache and data. The only things I didn't do is to do a system reset of the TiVo or unplug the HDMI cable between the TiVo and TV and/or plug the TiVo directly into the TV.

    I was at the end of my ropes aka very frustrated. I went to TiVo website and tried chatting with a real person. They recommended me calling in before 5pm PST I think. It was just after 7pm EST when I reached out to the chat. At least as for today 7pm EST is before 5pm PST. The person on the phone seemed happy that I did most of the troubleshooting steps. He did suggest resetting the whole TiVo and I said no. I didn't want to tell him I would have if I really thought that would fix the issue. Since Disney plus works fine but YouTube doesn't I assumed the TiVo doesn't need a factory reset for a YouTube issue. I guess some of you already know that I'm not afraid of doing system resets and have done it too many times when a simpler method could have been used I guess.

    now I wait till TiVo fixes their issue with YouTube. Until then I do have some movies on bluray to watch. I also have HBO max for right now I think. I do know I have Disney plus. A plus about YouTube not working on my TV is that I think I only have 4 episodes or so left of WandaVision and I can't watch any spoiler videos about that on YouTube on my TV. Or watch any Loki theory videos or any video on YouTube on the TV. I could watch YouTube on my phone though. But the TV is easier for me to watch videos on it.

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675
    edited June 2021

    @tsroemi Thanks. I will check that out. 

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

    i remember when rock was young, me and suzie were having a blast

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Ha! This is great. I made a joke about one of Jared Leto's scandals and this guy has no clue. 

  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,606

    What scandals, I haven't heard of any with Jared Leto.

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    Faeryl Womyn said:

    What scandals, I haven't heard of any with Jared Leto.

    Yeah, there really wasn't much to go on, so scandal is really overstating things. But there is a rumor he gave a used condom to a costar and he has had to answer questions about that in interviews. Other than that (and giving someone a rat or bullets) there's only the high prices he charges for retreats and meet and greets as far as I know. So I made a joke about the condom. 

  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,606

    LMAO ya I can see how that would grab headlines.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085

    Jared Leto played the Joker in Suicide Squad (the movie is better known for Margot Robbie's role as Harley Quinn). The movie was OK but that's true of most DC films, Marvel's are better for the most part.

     

    Jared Leto is the lead singer for the band 30 Seconds To Mars. You might have heard their song The Kill (Bury Me)...you might not. I like it.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    got the call, going back to the office in next 2 weeks.

    dont know what they gonna do when they realize i'm too blind to read a packing slip.

This discussion has been closed.