The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Well here's a complaint: So there's this stupid event taking place in my city on Thursday and Friday. It's gotten everybody riled up, especially since it follows a previous stupid event that occurred due to our stupid team winning some stupid game. The ball isn't even round. And due to the hundreds of thousands of people they're expecting to show up, there was some concern that it would be difficult to get in and out of our nearby workplace. So our bigwig decided to turn us into "work from home" employees for two days so we don't have to deal with it. Fine. Then an even bigger wig decided to close the building those two days. That basically means two paid days off for everybody... except the work from home employees... I dont actually think the events or the football team are stupid. But I was one wig away from a miniature vacation.
...finally spring arrived in the Northwest. today (Wednesday). After two aborted forecasts for good weather earlier this month, Winter finally lost it's grip on us as the high made itnot just into the 60s, but mid 70s for the first time this year. Hence I was out all day and a good part of the evening enjoying not having to be huddled under several layers of clothing.
Currently it's still in the 60s at 22:40 local time with summer like temperatures in the forecast for the next few days. Time to finally break out the Hawai'ian shirts.
Is that big sports event some sort of cup or plate or other tableware that I might have heard of?
Not that I care who wins, but at least I know where to avoid for a few days.
A little late to this comment, but I could use my centerstand only when the bike was naked. Once I'd piled my side saddlebags & top case, fueltank bag, tent, camping gear, photography gear, kitchen sink and furnace onto the bike it became very difficult to lift onto the center stand, involving escalating rocking movements, prayers and swears.
Although when naked (the bike, not me) it practically jumped onto the stand by itself if I looked at it funny.
It was a 1995 BMW R1100-GS. (the mother of all dirt bikes). First image below is not mine, but almost exactly the same (sans tent, tank bag, & camping gear). Second photo is me in Yellowstone National Park. When the bike was still only about 6 weeks old. Yep, I took it on a 11,000 mile journey in 9 months (minus the 5 weeks in Australia), essentially brand new. I bought it in Virginia near Washington, DC, specifically for the 'round the USA trip. I was told by the dealership to ride it gently at various speeds for 500 miles, then bring it in for it's 500 mile checkup to tighten screws & adjust things, and it would be ready for my once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I rode around the back roads of rural Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland for the weekend, eating up the 500 miles easily, took it back for the checkup on Monday, went home, packed, and left for Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, etc..... as depicted in the third image. Lots of little side trips too, amongst all that long distance travel. I left in early April, returned in late October. I wasn't in any hurry, stayed a few days in many cities, "soaking up the local culture".
The only schedule I had was pre-scheduled flight times in San Francisco to and from Australia, and avoiding winter snow. I later found out that lack of finances also qualified as a "schedule".
Prompting some tiringly long rides on those last few days to get home.
That bike handled rough roads very well (therein lies a tale or two) But on the Interstate, that bike cruised serenely over the road. Wheee... bugs in m'teeth
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Complaint: Arghhh... Oh noooo, poo. My pizza place has changed owners.
It was the only place that would deliver this far out of the city. Nooooo... 
Looks like you went right through were I am in Ohio
The map is representative, but isn't very accurate. However, I did make two trips from Jamestown, NY to Cleveland, OH in one week. You somewhere along I-90? or Routes 5 or 20 along lake Erie?
No, I'm about 50 miles south of Cleveland almost on the border of PA. I regularly travel to Cleveland Clinic for the 3 health specialists I see there.
Oh I saw a movie Tuesday about a guy with his violin long time ago. It was a good movie.
Near the Strothers, OH, & Meadville, PA area? I had relatives that lived in Strothers and I stayed with them for a week or so about 65 years ago.
More recently, I'd drive I-79 between Erie and Pittsburgh, PA quite often.
Complaint; Why does a company doing business and selling to customers around the globe, not have support people working during off hours?
Why would such company keep their customers unhappy just because it's night at the company HQ, while the customers have woken up, drank their morning coffee and would be ready to spend a fortune on what they are selling, except for a glitch in their system and now the customers are forced to wait until the support people at the company HQ wake up and get to work in 9-10 hours... That's like telling someone with a full bladder to hold it for 9 more hours...
...ah I see you came through Portland and Brookings. Did you ride down HWY 101 along the coast through Lincoln City, Newport, and Coos Bay? Love that route Used to take it to a major kite festival in Eureka, very scenic. Sadly "Running Dog" (Greyhound) abandoned it when the gutted service in the region several years ago.
I had to sit here and think about that for a while. Without digging into my attic to get my box of adventure journal, treasures & maps, I believe I first came to Seattle by way of I-90 through Spokane, then up to Vancouver, British Columbia, then up the Fraser River valley and over the mountains to Dawson Creek, then back down the same way to Vancouver & Seattle again, then I-5 down to Portland and on to Grants Pass, Oregon where I rode a jet boat tour down the Rogue river. Wheee... Several miles of water & speed in a narrow river with many rapids, a quick turnaround, then back up the rapids. Wheeee...
Then I took Rt. 199 to Cresent City, California. So, I missed Brookings and the Oregon coast.
But I did catch US 101 from Crescent City down to Legget where I switched west to California Rt. #1 along the California coast to San Francisco, Hundreds of feet above the Pacific ocean for a few hundred miles on narrow, steep, wickedly twisty roads. Wheee? That in itself is a tale or two. It was interesting to notice how many places along that road had broken guard rails.
Somewhere around northern California I rode through a forest of giant Redwood trees.
Something that must be seen to be appreciated.
I do remember being frustrated by my trip from Seattle up to Vancouver. I took the back roads and quickly found out that Washington state didn't seem to take great pains to keep their rural roads adorned with road signs identifying which road it was, or where it was going.
Barely more than an ancient once-paved path through the fields. Which at any moment will turn 90 degrees for no apparent reason at all, or come to a "T" or a crossing with no signs. Arghhh..., I just kept trying to head generally north, and frantically searching my maps for a recognized place, until I found civilization again. (Yay for compasses! Remember, this was 1995, i.e. before smart phones & GoogleMaps. Although I did have a Motorola, analog voice-only cell phone with me, which found significant use in another tale.)
Non-complaint: You've got me reminiscing about that trip. The redwoods were the first day south of Crescent City. From there I bore west as far as I could go and took the California Rt #1 coast road down to where it rejoins US 101 at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. I even saw that spot where you often see photos of the bridge (like below). Except that all I could see was the tops of the towers above the fog. And when I got on the bridge (after a mile of steeply banked stop & go traffic on the bridge approaches) I couldn't even see the railing.
The fog was so heavy I couldn't even read signage, and could see only half the car five feet ahead of me.
But the slver lining to the cloud of fog was that the toll taker person waved me on through.
I don't know if it was because motorcycles don't have to pay, or I was taking too much time trying to dig out more money from my zippered pockets with wet, unlined leather gloves(fog), but I saved a buck or two.
However, at the other end of the bridge into the city, it was bright & sunny. San Francisco's micro-climate.
I'm having quite a time trying to figure out how to install a local copy of Stable Diffusion. First I downloaded a massive file that claimed to be an easy way to install it. I think it was called "Easy Diffusion". Windows blocked the install because the publisher was "unknown". I chose not to bypass the block. Then I followed part of a YouTube video that led me to install Git and Python. Then it seemed to point me to installing some third party software, which reminded me too much of Easy Diffusion.
I got the impression I was supposed to use Git to download a set of Python files from Github. But I can't find anything that will tell me what to type into Git to do this. Apparently I need a repository address and a repository name.
I also don't know what comes after that, as every informational page seems to direct people toward the tutorial writer's own variant of Stable Diffusion rather than an official one. Maybe there is no official one. The level of frustration reminds me of Kodi. Creating a Kodi plugin makes me wish I could find my old college professors and show them that I managed to figure that out. I'm not against using a fork of Stable Diffusion. I just have no way to know which ones are legitimate.
So I figured out how to download the files about 12 minutes after my previous post. I should just write down that I need help instead of typing it on the internet.
there is no official version just a repository
HuggingFace has the safest models
being open source it's up to people to compile their own binaries etc
one easy to use but limited binary is NMKD https://nmkd.itch.io/t2i-gui
Windows will ask if you trust it just like it does if I install a different build of Unreal Engine or a game etc
that one is self contained you just have to wait a while as it downloads and installs everything
I am using Automatic 1111 now, I was using Visions of Chaos
both require you to install python and git etc but have instructions
You should do what I do... write down the steps to whatever it is you are trying to do, so that the next time you need to do it you won't be able to find it because you named whatever document it is something moronic and filed it somewhere stupid too... eventually you'll look it up and rewrite it so many times you won't need any notes.
Its a brilliant system.
Actually it's rather dumb... don't do it.
It was my understanding that the whole thing is written in Python, which is a scripting language and doesn't have to be compiled. I don't mind using a command line to run it if it's good. I'm hoping to find a version I can train with my own images.
In school, I found that if I didn't write notes, I couldn't remember anything. And if I wrote notes, I remembered everything without the notes. So I ended up having to write notes I wouldnt use. It may be dumb but I did graduate and end up with a job that I had to do from home while all my workplace friends got two days off due to [stupid sporting event]. I do like being employed though. Now that I've stopped buying Genesis 8 outfits, I can afford to buy real clothes.
But do the 'real' clothes autofit?
I don't know diddly [squat] about code etc or the terms
I know you can run it in Anaconda environment like Nerdy Rodent does or on Google Colab
I need a prepackaged set up with step by step instructions because I am dumb
Dreambooth, Embeddings and Lora are the way you add your own trained models
I thought it was diddly squat... but honestly I'm adopting the down under version now as it's more in sync with my linguistic proclivity.
Shocking revelation... I frequently use "colorful" language in RL.
Hmm, corrected what I will assume was an auto correct faux pas in Wendy's post.
Not so much a complaint as a heads up for anyone interested, but I was perusing some older posts on a CG site and came across something about some free prehistoric creature models from the University of Oxford's Museum of Natural History...
The post was from 2020, but apparently at the time the museum had a virtual exhibition titled "First Animals" featuring 19 bizarre ancient creatures from the Cambrian Explosion, which was when trilobites invented the first antimatter reactor... things went really bad with that and now we don't have trilobites anymore which is a shame because they were very tasty... but anyhoo, the models are available free to download at Sketchfab...
If anything the only complaints are they are low poly, and they can only be used for non-commercial renders... (CC BY-NC 4.0) Creative Commons, Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license etc... So you can use them for you own amusement, but you can't use them in any capacity that earns you money... So I guess you can still post an image, but not for a contest or anything...
For that reason I didn't post this in the Freebie Forum because (non-commercial) is a bit of a letdown usually... but even just to look at on the download page at SF, they are interesting... they are viewable in 3D (pan,zoom and rotate) and many have a couple of anotation tabs that when clicked on tell you what the particular dangly or pokie bit was for or did... most have an interesting explanation of what the creature was, but nothing as interesting as if I wrote it... So even if you aren't interested in downloading them, they are educational or at least momentarily entertaining... or in my case, will remind you of the taste of a fresh Trilobite Cocktail... Mmmm... Trilobite-O-Licious...
Here's the link to the 19... https://sketchfab.com/morethanadodo/collections/first-animals-f7736e90b06a49669e34356b65fb2659
Apparently OU's Museum of Natural History has a total of 77 models there... the rest (not the First Animals) might not be downloadable, because I don't see any button for the couple I looked at which didn't have any recognizable DL button, but they are photogrammetry scans of fossils, bones and creatures you might not normally find in your yard or at the local park... so they may be interesting to gawk at and virtually examine...
https://sketchfab.com/morethanadodo/models
Enjoy... or not... I'd be happy if you were just grossed out by the ones with the dangly appendages and squooshy-squiggly bits.
Dang Richard, you made me look like I ratted Wendy out... also now nobody will get to enjoy that new take on an old saying...
I'm just going to have to use it more in everyday conversation (not here though) until it becomes a common phrase...
I invented the word for someone who has grossly inappropriate relationships with puppies back in the 80s and it's just about caught on now, so this one might take a while.
Also it's much easier to call someone a puppy_ _ _ _ er than to work diddly _ _at into a sentence.
I mispoke/typed I likely have said it as it's better than using the see you next Tuesday word so say the t word often
Hey, come on... What's the "See you next Tuesday" word?
Yeah... Inquiring minds want to know... ( <— that's a phrase that's aged badly, but for different reasons... mainly being the tabloid rag it was the tagline for)
Edited... Nevamynd... I got it... first two words are a phonetic pronunciation of themselves*, the next two, take the first letters of each word...
And there's a band that goes by that name too.
*There's probably a better way to say that but my brain ain't braining today.
...yeah, from Lincoln city trhough Newport to Brookings is a very beautiful ride. Even on Running Dog which I used to take to Eureka (a route they eventually abandoned) for an annual kite festival there, it didn't seem like 10 hrs and 30 min because of the scenery and ample stops along the way to get out and stretch the legs. There use to be two runs a day one during the day and the other an overnighter. (I always took the earlier run both ways).
For trips to San Francisco I either took a flight or the train so never came in from that direction in the photo. Interesting that Amtrak's Coast Starlight actually does not stop in the city proper but at Emeryville across the bay (there is a shuttle service provided by Amtrak into the city that meets the train which goes across the Bay Bridge - yeah, the one where a part of the span collapsed during the '89 quake).
I'd say most of them do. Maybe because I buy a lot of stretchy stuff. It's just easier than trying to measure anything. It's a shame they don't make stretchy hubcaps and door frames.