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

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    :) Elon Musk? Is that the dude with a car or a different dude?

    He's the cyborg* guy who created Tesla Motors, SpaceX and indirectly PayPal.

     

    *I can't prove the cyborg part now, but dang it I will eventually!

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    :) Elon Musk? Is that the dude with a car or a different dude?

    He's the cyborg* guy who created Tesla Motors, SpaceX and indirectly PayPal.

     

    *I can't prove the cyborg part now, but dang it I will eventually!

     

    Okay is that why he looks a tad odd in most of his pictures?
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    LeatherGryphon said:

    DanaTA said:

    TJohn said:

    Speaking of Tesla, well, McGyver was...

    https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons

    The bird in the photo at the head of that article is not a pigeon!  It is a Mourning Dove!  Nice research.

    Dana

    I thought that doves were just pigeon royalty. indecision 

    Actual pigeons are a small section of the dove community.  What most people call pigeons are actualy Rock Doves (also known as Feral Pigeon).  Carrier Pigeons are extinct.  There are also Red-Billed Pigeon, Band-Tailed Pigeon, and White-Crowned Pigeon.  They are all in the family Columbidae.  Pigeons are in the sub-genera Columba.  There are 14 species in 6 genera.  Many forage in tree tops and are sort of shy, unlike the Rock Doves and Mourning Doves, which feed on the ground.  Rock Dove seem to be least concerned about humans, from what little I know.  They also seem less concerned about our cars!  laugh

    Dana

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

    @Miss Bad Wolfie... Yes... There's something about the emotion algorithm too... 

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    kyoto kid said:

    Mystiara said:

    BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

    she's about to blow captain.

    Tropical Storm Warning is in effect

    https://weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/d0a2de41181f63121f10d4531d678a573d74188b19d409fd7a4dd2efdf1f95fb?phenomena=TR&significance=W&areaid=NYZ078&office=KOKX&etn=1005

     

    - THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for wind 39 to 57 mph - The wind threat has remained nearly steady from the previous assessment. - PLAN: Plan for hazardous wind of equivalent tropical storm force. - PREPARE: Efforts to protect property should now be underway. Prepare for limited wind damage. - ACT: Act now to complete preparations before the wind becomes hazardous.

    i got a few lawn chairs outside.  guess i should fold em up and pack em down.

     

    ..yeah saw vids of flooding in the subways this morning. Didn't look good. 

    Always a concern when traveling through the Big Dig tunnel in Boston.  I look at the walls and sometime see some water dripping down.  I hate it when the traffic stops inside the tunnel!  Fortunately, I only go through the tunnel twice a year...on the way to vacation in New Hampshire, and on the way back home!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    There are already too many people who are too gullible. Oh by the way gullible isn't in the dictionary.

    You must have a defective dictionary!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    McGyver said:

    DanaTA said:

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!


     

    You do realize that once this gets out in the Internet, there are people who will believe everything you said, don't you?    laugh  Somone will fail a history exam as a result!  laugh

    Dana

    Technically, there is a kernel of truth in most of that... the challenge is to figure out what is relevant to this timeline...

    Twain and Tesla were good friends and they never electrocuted a single elephant together... that was more of an Edison thing.

    Tesla's father (Milutin) was a priest...

    Elon Musk is a cyborg*...

    Tesla had a fascination with wireless power transmission and electromagnetism and some aspects of his theoretical research into these concepts did find their way into different applications such as the the US Navy's WW2 experiments with degaussing ships to make them less likely to trigger magnetic mines, and devices which could interfere with enemy radar...
    None of which proved practical, but did lead to the rumor of the U.S.S. Eldridge being the subject of a time travel/teleportation experiment more commonly known as "The Philadelphia Experiment"... additionally some claim links between Tesla's experiments at his Wardenclyffe laboratory on Long Island and the Camp Hero Air Force Station in Montauk Long Island, the site which was supposedly a military research lab conducting time travel experiments (it was also the original location for the events portrayed in Stranger Things, before they changed the location to Hawkins, Indiana)... Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory has lots of fascinating/crazy rumors and myths associated with it.

    Mark Twain's real middle name was Langhorne...

    In 1837 Charles Babbage first described his "Analytical Engine" which was basically steam (or water) powered mechanical computer... although it was never actually built due to disputes with the chief engineer of the project, as well a lack of adequate funding, it has been proven to be practical... additionally, the programming language which was to be employed would have been similar to Assembly Language and thus would have made the device Turing-complete.

    The young Samuel Clemens did work as a printer's apprentice in 1848.

     

    * I can't prove this yet, but I know it's true.

    Yes, and all these facts mixed in is exactly why some will believe it all!  laugh

    Dana

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

    DanaTA said:

    kyoto kid said:

    Mystiara said:

    BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

    she's about to blow captain.

    Tropical Storm Warning is in effect

    https://weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/d0a2de41181f63121f10d4531d678a573d74188b19d409fd7a4dd2efdf1f95fb?phenomena=TR&significance=W&areaid=NYZ078&office=KOKX&etn=1005

     

    - THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for wind 39 to 57 mph - The wind threat has remained nearly steady from the previous assessment. - PLAN: Plan for hazardous wind of equivalent tropical storm force. - PREPARE: Efforts to protect property should now be underway. Prepare for limited wind damage. - ACT: Act now to complete preparations before the wind becomes hazardous.

    i got a few lawn chairs outside.  guess i should fold em up and pack em down.

     

    ..yeah saw vids of flooding in the subways this morning. Didn't look good. 

    Always a concern when traveling through the Big Dig tunnel in Boston.  I look at the walls and sometime see some water dripping down.  I hate it when the traffic stops inside the tunnel!  Fortunately, I only go through the tunnel twice a year...on the way to vacation in New Hampshire, and on the way back home!

    Dana

    NYC installed gigantic flood doors on the tunnels after hurricane Sandy completely flooded them... although the one I go through the most (Midtown Tunnel) has several concrete highway dividers being stored directly in front of the doors... I sure hope they don't need to close them in a hurry only to find nobody has the equipment to move them on hand... that would totally be so NYC.

     

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    DanaTA said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    There are already too many people who are too gullible. Oh by the way gullible isn't in the dictionary.

    You must have a defective dictionary!

    Dana

    One moment
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    Here is my defecting dictionary. Wait the dictionary doesn't define dumb but shows an example of it.
    IMG_20210709_183923.jpg
    1200 x 1600 - 1M
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    I see what just happened there.   twist, twist, twist.   Wheee...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    weaher page not red any more.  worried for nothing.  purple page not so scary.

    the people eater was purple i think

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    aww.  just found out my brother in law just passed away.  my poor sister.
    knew it was soon, he had stage4 lung cancer.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    Mystiara said:

    aww.  just found out my brother in law just passed away.  my poor sister.
    knew it was soon, he had stage4 lung cancer.

    Sorry, my condolances!

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    DanaTA said:

    Mystiara said:

    aww.  just found out my brother in law just passed away.  my poor sister.
    knew it was soon, he had stage4 lung cancer.

    Sorry, my condolances!

    Dana

    thanks. 

    i'm so tired but i dont want to fall asleep on her.  36 years together.  cant even imagine how it feels 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hollywood squares trivia interesting.  lol

    i think Ford was president?  one question was recently geralsd ford ...

    i keep forgetting to not start typing til the forum page finishes loading.  doh

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    Mystiara said:

    aww.  just found out my brother in law just passed away.  my poor sister.
    knew it was soon, he had stage4 lung cancer.

    ...{{{{{hugz}}}}} 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085

    "gudby krewl werld"

    Cat actors are such hams. They stretch dying scenes out so long.

    Happy Caturday.

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675
    Sorry to hear it @mystiara.
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I found out recently that someone I knew online died. She was like a mix between a grandma figure and a friend. My friend from Wales was known as Cho. She would have had fun posting cat photos and also looking at the cat memes posted. I miss Cho.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Girl cows have horns

    i never noticed before

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2021

    a lot cooler out.

    • Feels Like72°  WindNNE 11 mph  Humidity84%

    storm passing brought some fresh air

    i should do some housekeeping chores while its cooler

    oh who i'm kidding. dont wanna get up.  mini apple pie snax
    cuppa barry tea, then back to futon. lol

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    cant really reason with someone whos grieving.

    know she's saying things she dont mean.

    sometimes just have to be the silent punching bag.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    looking for a new recliner chair, that reclines.

    dont think i'm quite ready for the power chair, vertical lift.  

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    certaintree38 said:

    Sorry to hear it @mystiara.

    Thanks for the sympathies. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    kyoto kid said:

    Mystiara said:

    aww.  just found out my brother in law just passed away.  my poor sister.
    knew it was soon, he had stage4 lung cancer.

    ...{{{{{hugz}}}}} 

    Thanks.

    He passed at home in his own bed, his family there.  theres a comfort in that.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaint, the 2 month period new releases go into no sale zone.  it doesnt help anybody.  it certainly doesnt make me spend money i dont have on a new release when its new.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sigh.  i wish the church was close enough to walk.  they dont even play the bells any more.  used to hear it occasionally on weekends.  St Francis, my favorite of the saints.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,009

    Mystiara said:

    sigh.  i wish the church was close enough to walk.  they dont even play the bells any more.  used to hear it occasionally on weekends.  St Francis, my favorite of the saints.

    I was a police officer for a while so naturally mine was St. Michael and St. Christopher. Both for hte job. I also carried a St. Christopher penant in my wallet. I still wear both of them and they are always on me at all times and never come off for anything except medical tests or surgeries.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i wear a Mary medal. it settles right over my heart.  I gave a St Christopher to my sister, she drives the paratransit bus for a living.

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