Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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...some inmprovement today, there is smoke still high in the atmosphere but the sun looks to be its normal colour. Air quality has dropped form seriously unhealthy (159) to unhealthy.for sensitive groups (110) such as old timers like me.
Oh don't forget to keep one eye peeled to the south for the penguin revolt when the Ross Ice Shelf goes.
pretty smoky here too.. heavy haze, red sun... supposed to clear out later this evening..
I'm thirsty, but my hair is wet. Apparently just taking a shower won't quench my thirst.
It finally has rained a bit here... not enough to save some trees... lots of them along the highway and used in landscaping have died... fall seems to have arrived prematurely, but not in the usual way... lots of dead green leaves and ones that shriveled up straight to brown.
I seem to have lost a few small trees too... sadly, one my uncle gave me from Connecticut... a little Japanese maple.
Probably my fault for planting it where I did, but in my defense, when I did, we actually got rain.
I guess the sprinkler I set didn't reach it... the ground is so sandy and the conditions were so dry that the water falling three feet from it wouldn't provide enough moisture.
Its weird because now that it's finally rained a bit, the chlorophyll has washed out of many of the dead leaves still on trees, revealing how bad the damage is... I hope some come back next year... but it looks like a lot have croaked.
I think bed time is neat.
edit; I mean it is near, but it feels great.
If Misty (the one in the picture) had a chance to befriend a chickadee, I'm afraid she won't. Instead she probably would kill the bird. Is that normal?
So apparently today (or tomorrow, or however time works in Oz), in the semi-rural town of Redmond, in Western Australia, a man was killed to death by a kangaroo…
I didn’t really read the article in detail, but I did skim through the story rapidly on several news sites, while mowing my lawn with the tractor and despite driving into the bushes a few times, I believe collectively I got the gist of the story, which involves a man in his 70s who was murdered to death by a kangaroo who had been keeping him as a pet.
Apparently the man was a local consensual alpaca breeder and the kangaroo was holding him hostage to extort money from the alpacas.
At some point the alpacas refused to pay the ransom and the kangaroo decided to keep the man around anyway.
It would seem that at some time earlier in the day, the two had argued about a shipment of lamprey pie to Buckingham palace at which point the Dutch government decided to ban meat advertising on seaplanes in Seattle, regardless, at 82 feet long, the dinosaur skeleton was still one of the largest ever found in someone’s back yard according to the Department of Justice which said it was appealing the appointment of a special master to decide if AI generated art can be entered into the Colorado state rodeo championship as shown in the highest resolution imagery of the wreck of the Titanic so far…
That last part is a little fuzzy because that was where I fell off, but I think it’s mostly correct…
According to one of the alpacas that witnessed the event, the man lunged for the kangaroo’s gun and it discharged, at which point the kangaroo began to fire wildly, striking a fleeing Russian tank several times causing it to crash into a tree, at which point a sulfur crested cocky who’d been pushing bricks off a wheelie bin became alarmed and called the authorities.
I was still a little disoriented, but I’m pretty sure that’s how it went down…
Soon after when the police arrived, the kangaroo who had been texting violent threats to the paramedics, started to shoot at the arriving officers and a huge gun battle broke out, causing coal mine wastewater to spill into a creek south of Sydney Lazenby which stranded thousands of Qantas customers in Bali.
I’m still not clear on how that part worked, but apparently, the kangaroo was killed in the gunfight and now Australia is going to have an actual Australian on their fiver note instead of a psychedelic pink octopus named Lazlow.
An attorney for the kangaroo’s corpse would not comment fully on the incident before trial, but did confirm his client was charged with several serious felonies including unauthorized distribution of bullets into the atmosphere, disturbing a cockatoo, lewd behavior with an alpaca, murder resulting in death, and failure to yield at a blind intersection.
According to a local macropod caretaker, kangaroo based assaults have been on the rise since 2017 when a 67 year old woman was run over by a kangaroo driving a stolen Uber in Queensland, sparking fears that kangaroos may be planning another uprising such as the one that led to the Great Kangaroo War of 1936.
Citizens are being warned not to accept rides from unfamiliar kangaroos or wallabies who do not display proper credentials.
See… when I told people about that kangaroo that robbed the liquor store you all laughed, or sneered dismissively… but it’s true… kangaroos are dangerous and terrible drivers.
Remember… I warned you… sort of… I’m not quite sure what that was, but just consider it a warning or something and don’t trust that your alpacas will bail you out when the shiznit is going down.
EDITED TO UPDATE STORY... In an effort to maintain unbiased reporting and journalistic integrity, I've updated the story to include the Cockatoo's correct full name and mobile number as well as to indicate that the alpaca breeding was entirely consensual.
Thanks for the day in review, McGyver!
Dana
Thank you! To maintain my high standard of journalistic integrity, I've updated the story to include new details and grammatical errors.
CPU fan runs loud randomly after I visit a website in Firefox and Google Chrome. Can't wait to get a desktop computer to replace my mini PC.
Yup that is perfectly normal for a predator ,it's what they do
Semi funny squirrel story... (It gets funnier the more you've had to drink)...
Earlier today we discovered that the five gallon (19 liter) bin my mother-in-law has been using to store flour in has a rather large hole in it where the handle attaches and because of that it was filled with grain moths... lots... like probably over a hundred... not counting the ones that got out.
I'm assuming the spiders will get those ones...
Anyway, I immediately took the bin outside away from the house and ran back inside to try and eradicate some of the errant moths, but after a few minutes I came back outside to find a squirrel with half his body inside the flour... his entire head covered in flour... it was kind funny because he didn't run away he just stood there with his face caked in white blinking his eyes until I was about three feet away, at which point he slow left and lazily scampered up a nearby tree.
I dumped the flour in the trash, which I'm sure was disappointing to the squirrel.
That was a couple of hours ago and I just saw the stupid squirrel and he still has flour all over his head... you'd think he'd do something about it... maybe he likes the look... like some retro 18th century French aristocrat with that white pancake makeup... Maybe I should catch him and glue one of those fancy wigs on his head?
Eh... writing it out loud, it doesn't sound as funny.
I should probably drink some beer and see if that helps.
Oh well.
Hope he gets the flour out before it rains or he' gonna have a glue head ........
Does anyone else have to replace their mouse more than once a year? The right button is no longer working on the one that I was using. Thankfully, I have a back-up, I can get through 3-5 in a year.
We have a kitten. He's called Toby - he's a tabby, and likes to chew on fingers. I've been trying to get him to stop, but it's just not working. Although I'm now a worried that it's getting to a point where it's too late to change his behaviour (especially when the person instigating the behaviour won't stop - he's doing it now!). On top of all of that, the vet found a heart murmur. Apparently it's common in kittens, but it's the first time that we've come across it.
I've seen the end result of heart disease in one cat (via saddle thrombus), so I REALLY hope that the vet is right, and Toby's heart murmur will clear/is benign.
Most of the soap opera fans are moaning. They want to be thankful that it's only 10 days of official mourning. In November, the World Cup starts. Which means their tv schedules will be interrupted for about a month (or so)...
Oh, and a certain social media site has stopped me from liking content.
My cat Felix had a heart murmur, I had him Euthanised at 18 because he had a stroke apparently and couldn't figure out how to eat, where he was or walk properly etc
Lynx on the otherhand who seemed perfectly fit and healthy right up within a minute of his sudden death this year at 7 had no medical issues detected by the vet prior.
so yeah no indicator
...wondering if the Kangaroos are gearing up for the rumoured invasion from the south by penguins displaced after the Ross Ice Shelf melts.
My money's on the kangaroos.
...penguins are sneaky buggers though before you know the entire southern coastline could be theirs. Within their ranks could be thousands of Aptenodytes Detonatus, the feared Exploding Penguins. The best defence is to turn the television off, but not sure kangaroos will heed the warnings as they are avid viewers, particularly of wombat and sitcoms. and drop bear thrillers.
I've replaced my input device 2 or 3 times in the last 20 years.
If the penguins can convince the emus to help them, the kangaroos haven't got a chance. As far as I know, the emus are the only force to win a war against the Australian army.
Maybe you need to buy better mice! Sometimes you get what you pay for. I use Logitech mice. Wireless and rechargeable, currently using the Performance MX mouse. Great mouse! Had it for several years already. The previous model had a built-in battery...eventually died. But it, too, lasted several years before that happened. Good quality, comfortable in the hand, and the scroll wheel has a speed mode that can make quick work of a very long document or web page!
Dana
I'm working through the Udemy course on Houdini, and it's surprisingly amateurish. The presenter kind of mumbles and has a fairly thick Indian accent, he makes no attempt to normalize his volume from video to video, and he doesn't seem to plan the lessons for feasibility; he certainly never does a second take. I'm not that far in, and multiple times already, he's tried to do something and it didn't work, so he has to troubleshoot in real time what went wrong. He also says "guys" as a tic, but that's neither here nor there.
Something that's surprised me with a number of tutorials I've watched is when the presenter doesn't seem to know (or at least doesn't use) fairly rudimentary operations that make things easier to do.
I used to have a similar problem... mostly back when they had the little trackball inside... the ball used to break a lot, but sometimes the infrared sensor would break or the scroll button would collapse on the newer ones... I also noticed that the wireless mouse flew further because it wasn't tethered to the computer, so more parts would come off on impact... you definitely can't slam newer mice into the desk as much as the old ones, the plastic housings are much thinner and the screw bosses snap right off after one or two poundings...
Especially with the wireless mice, if the window is open and it clears the top of the shrub outside... if it lands on the concrete part of the patio and you start wailing on it with a crowbar, it's toast... and it's definitely toast if it lands in the fire pit and you pour gasoline on it and toss a match in there.
At least with the old trackball mice you could swing them over your head like a bolo and get some really good distance... if you managed to somehow dislodge those old PS/2 plugs without the whole plug and faceplate ripping out... but once you did... boy, those babies could fly... sometimes I could get them a good thirty feet if a bird didn't get in the way... and slamming... the cinderblocks on the garage have marks on them from those...
Not like new mice that just evaporate like hamster tears in the hot sun.
You can't even hop up and down on them or put on your stomping boots and give them the business...
But yeah... I had to stop doing that...
Not that I stopped smashing stuff that pisses me off, it's just that mice are more expensive now.
One mouse I'd never pass up smashing, that doesn't even have to do anything more than merely exist, is the old Apple G3 mouse...
This abomination...
If you see one kill it... instantly.
I f*****g hate that thing... it's right up there with Hitler's mustache in my opinion, and about as useful too... Technically, mustaches aren't that useful for much to begin with and I'm sure if you just had Hitler's mustache in a jar or something, it would be even less useful, and then of course if you did have the real mustache, some lunatic nazi mad scientists would definitely want to steal it from you like they did in that movie "The Marathon Boys From Brazil", or whatever the name of that movie was... the one where Dustin Hoffman finds a mustache in Central Park and his dentist turns out to be a Nazi who wants to clone an army of Hitler mustaches to take over Brazil...
That doesn't sound right... maybe it wasn't Brazil...
Whatever... The point is that mouse sucks and you should destroy it on sight.
But yeah... it used to happen a lot, but not so much anymore...
I'm not more calm or zen now, I just smash other stuff instead when I get angry... I'm not wasting perfectly good anger or meditating to calm down... that's bad for me... I just end up getting angrier when I meditate... I literally just focus on what made me mad in the first place... like I push everything else out of my mind except for that thing and next I know I'm beating a washing machine with a sledgehammer.
The caffeine probably doesn't help either... I think the coffee I make would kill normal people straight out... I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I make coffee three gallons at a time... I brew it in a huge pot and it's super concentrated... not like espresso, that's too damn weak... this stuff is a combination of several dark coffees and espresso, which I brew for like two hours until it's so dark, light bends when it passes near it.
Any stronger and it would rip a hole in space-time and suck the planet into the netherverse.
But, yeah... the three gallons last a couple of days, since I refrigerate it in these big jars I have specially for that... it's a huge pain to make, but they don't make coffee percolators that allow to to stuff that much coffee in them... not even industrial ones have a big enough basket... most of the big consumer models (for like parties and small events) have auto shutoff features... which is stupid, because how are you going to over cook the coffee to boil out every last molecule of caffeine?
Why am I talking about coffee?
Well... this started out about mice and here I am talking coffee.
Life is strange.
Mine usually cost anywhere from $50-$80 and last a good 6-8 yrs. Kinda mad cause my new one got destroyed cause one of our cats threw-up on it and shorted it out. I payed $76 for that one.I only buy programmable one though that have several channels and macro's. My favorite one which I may get again was the Logitech G700. That one lasted for what seems like forever.
Ooh cat vomit? Sometimes my mum finds cat vomit with her bare feet.
Nasty but me too. I only sleep about 2 hours a night and I'm not all there when I get up and have a habit of finding it with my feet all the time. Just happen to step in that one spot. Not sos bad now cause I started wearing my slippers as soon ass I get out of bed cause the cold floor has been bothering my feet. They throb enough without the shock of ice cold kitchen tiles.
AH! Klatchian Coffee!
I don't know how much quality control there really is on Udemy. The IT courses I took were really good, but I've come across some writing advice classes that seemed rather amateurish to me. Usually, there's a preview video long enough to estimate whether you'll like the course - it stopped me from buying two where the presenters also had such thick accents that I 1) couldn't understand a word, and 2) hated every minute of it ;-) Maybe you can return thr course if you're not happy?
Cool idea, anyway, a Houdini course!
i'm thinking of buying a bluetooth mouse to replace my current mouse. The right mouse button works intermittently. I have owned this corded mouse for two years I believe.
A proper mouse has a tail