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If we really thought like babies, we'd be too busy trying to eat the mouse to bother posting anywhere.
Did someone say cats? lol I remember the infamous chit chat cat threads fiasco!
I seem to remember a dog chased them all in here.
I seem to remember that DD was our chief herder of Lolcast:wave:
Incidentally, what are the attachment size limits these days? I was going to post a lolcat for old times sake but it wouldn't upload.
Steve? Help!
Maybe the file is infected with covid and has been confined :D. In France we have something called social distancing, maybe it is here upload distancing :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Lolcat distancing...it had to happen eventually.
^Ha! Cats more willing to conform than humans? Someone should check that hell hasn't frozen over.
I think they may be a whisker closer than six feet. While a pun like that might give you paws, you certainly can't say that it's a feliny.
No, that's eight feet between them. Not to mention two tails.
for cats, it's easy to impose distancing : just tell them not to go inside the white circle ;)
Set out boxes, at whatever distance you choose.
Whats up guys! :wave:
Death rates, the market and racial awareness.
Omitting oxford commas.
Alliteration
finally, the cat is in the box ( and ate all the potatoes :D)
I'm fairly certain that Schrodinger had a cat. The again, did the cat even exist?
Cats are dumb, they don't know how to think outside of the box.
They do prefer to think inside the box, but it's more a question of how to be most in the way.
it's not false ;) and that may explain a lot
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Cat selfie? Did they know how to do that back then?
Schrodinger is taking the picture to put the cat in the box
Well, he is and he isn't....
Fun times. At the end of this month, I get to ride a bus for several hours...while wearing a mask. The mask may be pointless. I'd be surprised if the bus has more than half a dozen people on it, and it's entirely possible that I'll be the ONLY person on it (aside from the driver), for some stretches. Still, it will be about six hours. That will be a funky mask by the end of it.
Gray Hound?
It is said that the mask is working for 4 hour max after you have to change it. You may need to take 2 masks (even more if you have to come back by bus)
the source for the 4 hours : https://www.afnor.org/en/faq-barrier-masks/#use
No, I'll be walking back.
Are you serious ? are you a trekker ?
Yeah, that hiker part is pretty legitimate. It will be about 200 miles across the wilderness to look at a variety of streams for their potential for salmon spawning habitat. Interestingly, I'll be able to get supplies at two different, very remote, backcountry ranches. At least one of them was a working cattle ranch a long time back...or maybe not, it was owned by a movie star back around the 30s, so was it a working ranch or not, I can't say. These days, they are recreational destinations for those who want to get away from it all.
I have to keep my average up. Counting only trips of 100 miles or more, I want to average 100 miles for every year of my life. Since I don't know how long I'll live, and assuming that I won't be able to do so much, eventually, I figure 10K miles would be a good goal.
That's impressive ! It is just for your job or do you combine business (salmon watching) with pleasure (hiking) ?
This one is definitely a combination. The first couple days I'll be trying to figure out why salmon are not using a very nice stream. It may be just that they don't agree with me, or it may be because there's a big waterfall somewhere downstream. I'll be finding out.
That will be followed by a couple days across the wilderness getting to another puzzle. A pair of streams that are thought to be salmon spawning habitat, but we really don't know. I'll be finding out. That will end up at a backcountry ranch/resort where I'll get a supply drop and take a day off (hopefully getting a hot meal, or two, as well).
From there I have a couple days to a nice, but annoying, creek. What's nice is the creek itself. What's annoying is the fact that I ford it 44 times in 20 miles, with most of those being in the top 12, or so. I'll be looking for spawning salmon in that one.
I'm then thinking of taking a side trip to another ranch for another supply drop, then on to survey another creek, briefly, then out to meet up with a bunch of people looking at salmon on a much more accessible creek. Those folks will be able to give me a ride home.
I assure you I won't touch it.Quote:
That will be a funky mask by the end of it.
You could steal it. That would make you a mask bandit.
Fun times, these days. We're slowly closing back down.
Are you again confined in Idaho ?
No, not yet. Cases are rising, and rising fast by percentage, but the numbers were low, so a large percentage is possible without a large number. The new cases were less than 0.1% of the local population. Still, that's in either a day or a week (I'm not sure which, it might also have been a weekend), so it's getting a bit much, really.
I, on the other hand, am rather confined, but that's voluntary cause working from home is nice.
Well, as you have to do a long hike, you cannot also take the risk to be contaminated and become sick during your hiking.
I don't like to work at home, too many disturbing things around me and I prefer real life exchange with people than videoconferencing or audioconferencing
By the way, it seems I didn't understand well this sentence as I was thinking Idaho was taking confinement measure
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
We haven't really closed down much. The governor was pretty responsible early on, but he's dragging his feet with our recent uptick in cases. Compared to some other states, such as FL, TX, and AZ, Idaho has nothing. We're gaining rapidly, though, so shutting back down seems likely. What we had was four stages of reopening. Technically, there is a fifth, which is "fully open", but I don't believe that was ever classified as a stage. We got to stage four, with only about 25 cases/week. Since then, we've hit our highest rates of the epidemic, but we're still officially in stage four...except that some things have been ordered closed, which means that we have a bunch of the stage 3 restrictions, and possibly some of the stage 2 restrictions, but we're still officially in stage 4.
What we're seeing is the politics at work. Having opened back up, the political pain of reversing course is more than even a responsible governor has been willing to do, yet. If things don't improve, though, the reverse is inevitable.
I'm working on a legacy conversion from VB6 desktop application to angular/c# web application.
I find it tough to understand how people saw value in control arrays.
It was all they had.
So in this particular case, imagine a CRUD screen with multiple grids representing multiple entities. What they did was setup a controlarray for each CRUD button based on its entity, then from there (based on the index) perform the operation from a separate file. It makes it easily to confuse which control array you're on.
It wasn't always a good idea. The basic reason for a control array was so that a single handler could handle events from multiple controls. It was then abused for other reasons.
Just got my utility bill today.
Noticed the Electricity was significantly higher than this period last year.
I guess all the working from home adds up, with the extra lighting through the day, plus a monitor, or some times two, and also up to three computers running.
I assume with 65% of our company working from home, the electrical cost for the company must be down as well, although they have other added costs, with additional cleaning requirements, handing out masks, and other compensations for that 35% that have to work at the the facilities.
Yeah, I noticed that my electrical consumption was about 20% greater than the same month last year. That's probably all about computer use, but it could also be a whole lot more cooking at home.
We just got a new meter installed and for a couple of days our lights would flicker (in mid-day with no bad weather) and would sometimes go completely out for a few seconds at a time.
That's hard on computers.
That's hard on computers. Do you have a UPS?
If not, could you get one delivered?Quote:
Do you have a UPS?
Not sure what a UPS is (other than the delivery company).
UPS = Uninterruptable Power Supply
https://www.newegg.com/cyberpower-cp...82E16842102134
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Originally Posted by dday9
Ugly Polkadotted Sweater
Either one will work.
When I lived in the Florida Keys, the power down there was terribly unreliable. Flickers, brownouts, and spikes happened at least daily. It may have had to do with the fact that you could walk the streets before dawn and watch electricity arc from the high voltage lines to the local vegetation. High humidity, and lax trimming were the cause of that, mostly.
In any event, those power spikes could fry a motherboard quite suddenly. We had EVERY computer on UPS systems with line conditioners, because you'd otherwise lose all your work, and possibly the whole computer, at least once a week.
Oh, no I don't have that :eek:
Or any kind of polkdotted sweater!!!
Heck, down there, you probably don't have any kind of sweater, whether polka or jitterbug.
I haven't had a UPS on my system since I moved here. Eventually, the batteries wear out. Most UPS batteries are replaceable, so that's good. However, it takes years for the battery to wear out, by which time all the models have changed and the battery you need is no longer being manufactured. With the few UPS I have worked with, the number of times that the battery could actually be replaced has been 0, despite them all being technically replaceable.