Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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I got a ten dollar fan for a dollar because it didn't have a clip or base. I used a pretty hanger to keep it on the wall. Might get some thumbtacks to give it a better standing on the wall.
I don't think thumb tacks will hold that fan. Maybe some good Command hooks.
Dana
Yep, it works!
Life been getting in the way?
I had a dream last night I found out someone sneaked a canary into a house with cats. I think it was a canary as I never saw the bird.
There were at least two cats, the momma cat and the kitten. It wasn't the kitten that found the canary, but the momma cat. In the dream I never found out what happened to the canary, but the momma cat seemed to be a little miffed. My guess that the canary and the cat got into an uneven fight that the cat won. The cat was miffed because she could not keep the bird.
...complaint:
Some dumba$$ smashed the key sensor on the side entrance of the building I live in which makes it impossible to enter . I usually use that one as it leads to the lift which is right by my apartment that is particularly handy when I'm laden down with groceries from my weekly shopping trip.
Need to inform the office of this tomorrow morning when they are open.
They probably thought it worked like keypads in movies, where when you smash them or shoot them, the door opens.
I hope they fix it soon.
I am visiting my old group home.
auto suggest recommended me saying old granddaughter. What? I guess I will have a granddaughter who finds time traveling because she knew that she would help make sure I marry her grandfather so I can have one of her parents. I'm not sure if it will my future son who would be her father or my future daughter.
or if it is just a figment of my imagination spirred by a strange auto suggestion.
Non-complaint: Wheee..., I'm so full of energy today.
This is energy like I haven't had for months. I've got the possibility of picky visitors coming next weekend so I've been tidying up my house. Bedroom is now pretty much presentable again. Yay! Then I tackled the bathroom (ugh). I decided to do a complete scrub down of everything. I started with the toilet and yuck, it was covered with black mold where moisture had condensed out of sight on the cold tank and bowl. What a yucky job cleaning that, but now it shines. And the whole bathroom now look civilized again.
My legs are sore from getting up and down so many times, but my body isn't tired. Although I think I will sleep well tonight.
Tomorrow it will be the kitchen.
I haven't moved the stove in 14 years, I'm sure there is a dried piece of diced ham down there somewhere along with a few escaped pills and a proper coating of dried grease spatter and a dusting of flour paste.
Perhaps I should let someone else move the stove someday.
It's gas and I have always been afraid of moving gas appliances.
Wednesday i'll be cleaning many of my displayed baubles and the livingroom/office area. Then finally, vacuuming and wiping the loose spider strands from the walls. I'm glad I live in a small apartment.
Complaint: Dear DAZ, your forum connection sucks royal swamp water.
Congratulations! I'm glad you are feeling better! Keep up the healing and recovery!
I have a headache, but no pain killers with me. I'm on a bus about to head to downtown bus station to get to the bus that takes me near home.
...@ LeatherGryphon,, good to hear you seem to be feeling much better.
I have to do the same as the annual inspection for my unit is later this month (based on I first moved in). Fortunately my place is even smaller than yours, but. unfortunately with all the tech stuff, my record collection, book collection and assorted keepsakes, there is a bit of "clutter". Wish I had one of the units that has hard flooring throughout as carpets are a pain to deal with. The carpeted area is not big enough to warrant an expensive noisy electric vacuum (which I have no space to store anyway) but just big enough to be a pain to sweep by hand (I have one of those carpet sweepers which does an "OK" job).
Because of the covid thing we also couldn't have any "routine" or minor maintenance attended to over the past couple years. Only emergency stuff (like if the kitchen faucet sprung a leak the fridge died, or the dunny backed up). There are a few small things like one set of blinds won't cycle open (something must have snapped in the control), When removed the bulbs in the hood above the stove after they both burned out, One of them broke off leaving the butt end still in the socket Not sure if it is on or off as it is a "double touch" control. so wasn't going to remove it with a pliers), All the cabinets have these cheap hinges and one broke after I leaned on it to steady myself when tossing something in the recycling bin under the sink. Yeah, little annoying stuff like that.
20 years ago it probably wouldn't have been much trouble to fix most of this myself but by arthritis has become so bad even some simple things like replacing the broken hinge with a new one form the local hardware store. or reaching up to the top of the window to try and free the blind control (crikey even changing the battery in the smoke alarm is a major endeavour for me as it's just a bit too high to reach from the floor so I have to get up on a chair to do it.- If I had full motion of my shoulders it would be a piece of cake).
So I've been setting up a timetable to go through the place and am making a list of the broken//malfunctioning things to take to the office..
...and yes the connection to Daz continue to be a pain in the bum. .I've seen better connectivity with the rabbit ears antenna on the old B&W television we had when I was a kid.
KK I read that you can use a raw potato to unscrew the socket end of the broken bulb ,cut the end off the potato ,and force it into /onto the broken bulbs base and then turn it until it's out ....
I went on a so called quick trip to d visit a friend for dinner and I think it was almost a seven hour toot. Most of it was traveling and missing buses with a case of a missing bus.
I just took a migraine pill as I feel like I needed one. Hopefully it will get into effect before I go to sleep or while I'm sleeping.
Sorta. I've had an irritated nerve in my right arm. Makes it a bit hard to write. A little better tonight , thanks.
Non-Complaint and.... I guess an Oddity that might be a Complaint later on?
So, I've had Hoffmeyer's Lernaean Hydra for a bit and thought I'd finally get it ported over to use in Cinema 4D buuuut with DAZ Studio currently refusing to export materials with the Bridge (Or trying to do a File, Export as FBX operation) I thought I'd have to eyeball it in both D|S and C4D to reconstruct the material selections by hand...
NON Complaint in that by a stroke of fortune, pretty much all the parts were isolated to begin with - Head, Mouth, Teeth, Neck, Eyes, etc - and all I had to do was pick a polygon and then hit Select Connected.
Oddity in that in doing so I discovered a single instance of the hydra's neck has a whopping 293,533 polygons! If you can believe this, 234,000 those are from the teeth alone. Just the teeth! Checking in D|S, there's no Subdivision levels going on either - that is indeed its base resolution. :O Multiply that by seven and ouch that's a lot.
I guess this is a job for the Remesher that C4D recently imported from zBrush haha, at the cost of destroying the UV's, but doesn't seem like I'd be needing anything more than procedural shaders for them anyway.
Acck that's no good D:
Hopefully it feels better in not too long?
I'm sure, quite safe if the power is off. But since a potato is moist, it might cook (or explode) with a live connection.
It all depends on the conductivity of the potato. But if true, then putting your hand in a plastic sandwich bag while turning the potato would be extra insurance against, flying across the room or being spattered with hot potato schrapnel.
@ KK: Thank you.
Something you did or said? Perhaps if you were to take it out to dinner, and give it box of chocolates to apologize?
Complaint, but about myself. xD
So the past few days I've been scratching my head over importing figures from D|S to see them come in with no materials. Only just now, did I think to check in Cinema 4D's Preferences and take a gander at the Import/Export preferences. Under FBX Import what do I see? <Materials: None> Switching that to anything else and wham, just as things should be!
It's embarassing it took me this long to think of checking that
it's like shopping in a large grocery store, too many options.
I've been there aaahah, and walking past the product you were looking for several times to boot! :P
Non-complaint: Yay, the kitchen is clean(ish) again.
I didn't move the stove, but have cleaned all the reachable parts. Same with the refrigerator. A long slender broom has cleared out all cobwebs in narrow places. I did manage to retrieve a hard rock like cube that I think was originally a piece of diced ham from under the stove. That, and two plastic forks, and other miscellaneous unrecognizable detritus. The pot & pan cabinet has been dusted, and the dusty pans all cleaned again too. The floor has been washed again but is pathetic, I think the linolium flooring has reached the end of its "look, I'm pretty" stage and is now in the "ignore me, life is tough on beauty" stage. It's not ugly, or broken, just uneven, yellowed and not sparkly anymore. (like me)
Tomorrow, the office/livingroom area. Mostly just dusting and vacuuming*.
The reason for all this cleaning is because of the family reunion this weekend to be held at my brothers home in another part of town. Many of them are from Florida and haven't seen where I live either ever, or since I really got back on my feet. I want to show it off and claim, "See, I'm not a total loser".
Oh, and the weather for the reunion is predicted to be mondo gorgeous, dry, 70s, partly cloudy.
*Note: I was so happy when I finally broke down a few years ago and bought a new vacuum cleaner. It's one of those Dyson, cordless stick vacuums, it's not meant for long sessions but for my place it is perfect. It came with a motorized floor head as well as an assortment of simple hollow nozzles. Yeah, Dyson can be expensive but I bought the lowest model of that type at the time, ("Dyson V7 Motorhead") on a deep sale at NewEgg or Amazon. It's amazing what it sucks out of clean looking carpets.
And it's marvelous for slurping up spiders and their webs.
Congratulations, you've discovered a Hamalith!... These are fossilized ham or pork products formed under the intense pressure of layers of dust and high heat usually associated with conditions found under stoves and refrigerators.
Before mankind ever started using diamonds and other precious stones, Hamaliths were one of the first forms of decorative jewelry.
When polished to a glossy sheen a Hamalith can be quite attractive, in fact over 12 of the 23,000 priceless jems attached to the Crown Jewels in London are in reality ancient Sumerian Hamaliths.
Archeologists believe that the massive statue of Athena, the Athena Parthenos was decorated in precious polished Hamaliths, which due to their highly flammable nature (and the fact the statue was routinely rubbed with oil to make the ivory shiny) led to its destruction by fire.
Enjoy your find and display it cautiously.
Don't rub it with oil!
Dana
...like I mentioned the power switch is one of those double touch buttons on the panel of the microwave which don't indicate if the power is "off" or "on". Checked the breaker box and don't have a clue as to what circuit handles that as only a few are labelled (like the stove and main room, neither which control the MW). Need to fix this before the inspection. What I'll do is get a couple bulbs at the hardware store at my own expense and put one in the good socket to make sure that the power's off first. Then I can extract the butt of the other one.
...you must have got that one on an incredible sale as the cheapest of those I can find "new" is 400$ Even the refurbished (meaning used and somewhat repaired) ones are around 300$.
Even higher priced over on Amazon.
I suppose you've heard of Fordite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite
$215.99 on 6/10/20 at NewEgg, new in the box. Every morning for at least the last 10 years I've been reading the NewEgg sales emails. Once in a while there is "treasure for tuppence". (looked up the actual invoice. It was $199.99 + $16.00 NY State sales tax.
Thats pretty funny, I never heard of that, but it's kinda cool... at one of the places I worked at, we used to use huge caulking cartridges to injection mold resin parts in RTV rubber molds... for big parts, the resins used to have to be mixed in big buckets using static mixer impellers on a big drill press... there were usually several buckets that we'd allow the resin from the impeller to drip into and since we'd color the resin there would be many colorful layers that would build up, sort of like that "Fordite". especially when we were doing prototypes for toy companies.
Eventually you'd end up with a disc the diameter of a 5 Gallon bucket and about two inches thick.
At some point I sliced a few up into eighth inch thick strips which I sanded and clear coated... they sat around hanging from a shelf for a couple of years with all the other weird stuff that resulted from the various weird projects I worked on, but I never did anything with them, but I thought they could have made cool or psychedelic looking jewelry... especially the sections where multiple colors were dripped into each other before they hardened.