LadyCrimson

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Still as charming/fun and absurd as ever. Well, except for some schmaltzy songs, but that's ok, it's the era. 😄 The dance numbers are still marvelous.

Based on hubby and what others on the 'net talk about a lot, I've decided most non-retail/customer service jobs consist of being in a meeting 80% of the time. "Meeting at 9am. Meeting at 11pm ... time for lunch/a store run, then another meeting at 3pm." <----this was also true before covid/work from home, where it then instead went: "Gotta get up early for the Monday/thurs meeting. Gotta get back to the office for a meeting. I'm meeting (insert boss/co-worker) for a lunch meeting." "What are all these meetings for." "I'm not really sure."

Just like many animals, it's an instinctive begging food/warmth "where'd mom go" thing. That familiar/stereotyped "hey mom, mom, mom, MOMMMM!" meow type vocal- that is kitten behavior/communication, which "we" as humans reinforce them to keep doing forever, albeit with their adult vocal tonal range.

I have like 4 of those things already, as well as an HDD reader device (for old HDD's removed from no longer existing PC's), although most of such are largely used for repeating file/system backups (I'm a "backs up twice" sort as well as liking to separate storage disc into different categories vs. smorgasbord discs). Which (can) leads back to the issue of too many USB devices to hunt for. I dunno if I quite need a server, or if that's a method I'd even like (maybe if I built two or three), but even if I had four internal 4TB sata SSD's, I'd still need double that just for the backups and plenty of temporary massive video writing space and ... Edit: ... when did I become like this...

Has someone posted this before? For some reason I can't see half the posts in this thread (maybe my noscripts). Whatever, it's adorable/funny.

Poor hedgehog. 😕 Hope it survived. Left field: I don't find Tom Holland at all attractive in any way...not even remotely...except for some reason when he's doing that Umbrella lip sync in drag routine. I can watch that video and he suddenly becomes a little hot. ...I saw a comment under one dance group video: "every man that can dance automatically becomes handsome." Seems sorta true - at least for that 3 minutes they're dancing. Kind of like the drummer/musician or a few other cliche similar things. I'm going to assume this is true (the instant hotness) for females too. It just speaks to our lizard brains in some way I guess.

Oh? I could swear I saw ... but regardless, if that's the case and that nice FS score was because it was "only" 1080, that's even MOAH REASON that I need a new rig. Ah. Poor "design" haha. Basically sounds like that whole wall/area needs to be redone/updated. Either in the rational but requires a little work way like Sarex suggests, or in that "crazy blonde guy from Die Hard 1, hey chainsaws are wire cutters aren't they" way.

I saw that movie "Old" on HBOMax today. I wasn't expecting much from it, but I neither fell asleep nor turned it off. *shrug* Still, maybe a 4/10 at best. ...for some reason the thing that stuck in my mind the most was the excuse they made up for why their finger/toenails and hair were not growing at the same accelerated rate (eg, not at all) - which I think was supposed to be about 2 years for every hour - to paraphrase: "maybe it's because those things are dead cells and aren't affected....." ...but, but, they are connected/extended from the live cell nailbeds/hair roots, which would "age" and keep going, so hair/nails would still get longer, see, and ...then I started imagining this group of folks just sitting in a circle passing a pair of nail clippers around, where by the time it reached back to the first person they'd have to cut their foot long (or more) nails again, and that would be the entire movie. Actually, with some snappy dialogue, that might've been a better movie.

Me: "Do I trip constantly over anything? No? I have perfect cable management." ...I did notice in that pic you posted tho, that there seemed to be a lot of tangled wires or something behind that setup. I don't like that....there's an order to my personal chaos. Tangles aren't allowed.

^ I'm still waiting for teleporters/transporters ... which I will be too old, and fearful curmudgeonly to use, but will marvel that I lived long enough to see them in existence. ...also, I am not really playing anything - just to kinda/sorta be on thread-topic. Mostly I think about playing something, but then I don't. Maybe it's time for another 2 day run of Diablo 1.

3DMark (freebie version) tests: DX11/Firestrike/1440p - Score: 26,500/better than 95% - all right! I don't even overclock or anything like that. My rig ain't too bad, yet! DX12/Timespy/1440p - Score: 12,800/better than 77% - CRAP I need to build a new PC, like, right now! ...*uninstalls 3DMark* ...I think I was better off not knowing.

Ok, apparently 80 of those full-auto archers is maybe ... 70-75 too many. A million units didn't even get close. But...I laughed like a loon. $17 well spent. 😛 Gotta try 5 on a hill against 2 million Chuck Norris'....or maybe custom-make a still powerful but not god-tier archer unit.

🥺 - if you don't hear from me ever again it's from eating too many of these at once. ...I haven't had my fave cookie ( a real cookie) in forever. Today I couldn't resist. At least it's not a ginormous box. Hubby saw them in the basket and tried to toss them back into an open meat freezer section but I fished them out again. HAHA. ...btw, Wal-Mart's grocery section around here isn't all that much cheaper or particularly impressive in any way (average, name brands) but I was "amused" that their produce selection was fresher and more varied then the local Raley's. Usually Raley's is ok but the one close to our house, it's small and often wilted/not much choices. I'll have to go elsewhere for produce. ...the warm weather is starting. After getting home I'm just sitting near the pool under the patio watching the treetops wave in the breeze. I think I'll remain here a while.

IIRC, you are sooper tall, so isn't almost everyone child-like to you? Sounds like the opposite problem with what I usually get re: desks/chairs etc (too high, wide, whatever). I also have issues re: mouse usage/shoulder because my short arm wants mice to be "below" the keyboard position, not even with it, so the shoulder/elbow isn't always thrust forward/off the arm-rest to reach/circle with it. Anyway, I would definitely use books, a small plastic monitor riser thingie, or similar, because you can stack them on the floor/to the side and just use them when you're using it/there and remove them again before you leave, for your less height-endowed co-workers. 😄 Edit: although I suppose if you only sit down for a minute or two at a time, repeatedly all day, that wouldn't work. But other than that...

I do not care if this is a one-trick pony that would entertain me only for a handful of long afternoons and/or never get polished up much ... I am buying it. ...there are no beavers, but apparently there are ducks. (1:48)

I saw this: ....which of course meant I had to immediately sub/week free trial of PBS thru Prime ($2.99/month after that 7 days, or cancel) to see it, because, MISHA. (if you don't know, Castiel on Supernatural). ....as adorable as he is in interviews/fan conventions however, he's a bit socially awkward/hesitant re: being a host/asking questions/riffing. Could use more practice. Show focused a bit more on culture and the cook's personal and/or political history vs. the food itself.

I've decided my gut doesn't like too much cabbage. A little is fine but constant large amounts, not so much. Bloat/gas city. >.> SEARCH: *simple, common, easy to get, not "exotic for the US" ingredients, quick, inexpensive to moderate pricing, meals* ..."1 pound of potatoes" ..."1 box of pasta" ..."lots of rice or flour, bread, etc" ..."baked beans/kidney beans" (don't like starchy beans/legumes, or most starchy root vegies either) ...remember I can't eat lots of carbs or high insulin index foods (which is/can be quite different from high glycemic index). Excessive protein in a single meal isn't great either re: insulin. So while a little in a soup is fine I can't have, say, corn/beans etc be a big staple filler etc. ...any suggestions for meal fillers so I don't feel like I'm eating nothing but thin soup and salad all the time? I mean it was fine for a year or so but ... >.> So far it's mostly broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant and certain small squashes (moderate quantities), spinach....with a little meat ... EDIT: green string beans are acceptable but not my fave - those don't bloat me like a balloon at least. Anything else?

If I play a modern "big graphic" game for an hour or two the overall ambient temp of my room (closed door) goes up 7-12 degrees (F), maybe more if it's warm weather/longer play time. Sacramento is going to have a lot more 90+F/32+C days then where we were, as well, so a single AC unit may be hard pressed at keeping (gaming) ambient room temp at or below 78F/25.5C. Not sure yet. I know further south, when it did occasionally reach 90-100F, AC helped but it does not make the room "cold" either, then add all that PC/game heat and.... 😄

I already have what feels like a bajillion external USB "things" that could fill 2-3 bookshelves or 3-4 deep drawers in a tangled piled up mess and the last thing I really want is yet more that I always have to hunt for when I want them. But yeah I've noticed for a while that "no drive bays" has become dominant in case designs. Pfft. The one I bought in 2019 was this Corsair Obsidian 750D one, at the time about $150USD. It was perfectly fine/seemed awesome for six months or so until it started the bzzzzzt vibration stuff. I think the HDD drive bays rattle too much - I don't feel like those plastic pinchers everything uses now, or the actual thin material bays keep them stable or level enough - which makes the warped side panel ( which got more warped every time I took it off etc) buzz. I suppose I could just get all SSD's now and maybe that would solve that aspect, but they're still so expensive for a lot of TB's. Am I going to need whatever those are any time soon. Nothing I have at the moment cares about anything other than what's on that Corsair and I'm not especially concerned with super-uber-speed USB. Whatever I have is already "good enough".

^ Only need one kidney, or so I've heard.

For the first time, I was unable to fully scroll down this - edit: or the previous - current page on my phone without the tab crashing. If I let the page load for a couple minutes than very very slowly scrolled, I could get almost to the bottom of the page/images but then it would still crash before all images were viewed by my eyeballs. (desktop it's fine). I blame Bokishi. Glorious.

Oh...I did notice the swing door but didn't expect one would need to have it open for airflow on heavy usage. Thought it was just a way to access the fans without having to remove a panel off-case entirely. If heavy duty gaming on such cases would mean you'd want that door swung open all the time I wouldn't like that. I'll look at the Meshify 2. I currently have 1 nvme, 1 sata SSD and two HDD's. Next rig I'll probably have all SSD's and no HDD's but not quite yet. And I do have a bluray/DVD player (hardly ever used but I want it there) so has to have a spot for that etc. eg, I don't need 3 front intakes. And an internal sound card, adding to the height/space between hardware slots a little bit. If high end GPU's get too much "fatter/taller" I'm going to need an even taller/higher case. >.>

Hmm, I like the no window antec look. I'd rather have the USB ports be on the front panel itself vs. on the top (wire angle thing) but I suppose I could live with that. I probably should have mentioned that it does need to remain about 9" wide because I use one of the huge double wide Noctua cpu cooler thingies and much smaller it would hit the side panel or something. But I think most full (mid?) towers are like that now anyway. One of the two front intake fans of current case has been sporadic lately. I could just replace it but since the side panel vibration intermittently annoys me - leading me to bang on it like a drum, desperately stick foam around the edges and tape it to make it stop until it decides to randomly override all my efforts and do it again - I was thinking I would just get a whole new case instead. >.>

Not reading it but I randomly came across some video re: "the banned Stephen King book", where the topic was the out of print/pulled from publication Bachman story "Rage." And I was all "what?" I guess years and years and years ago, so it'd be sorta hard-ish to get a legit copy of it now - not impossible or anything, but ... I had no idea. I still have my slightly tattered orange-cover US paperback of the four-book compilation (1986 or 1987) that has it in it. I guess I can understand why King pulled it but eh. Glad I never tossed that paperbook. Not that Rage was one of my fave stories of his. Of the Bachman novels the only one I liked a lot (a lot) was The Long Walk, which I read from a copy that my highschool library had, before Bachman was outed as King. I wonder if that movie based on Long Walk will ever happen and if it does, if it'll be any good. Since Frank Darabont lost the film rights/someone else has it now, probably not. >.>

...guess we need Elon Musk to save us. ...course, still need the foundation, utility hookups, and ... the land. I would also wonder how durable (and/or expensive) they are in terms of repairs needed over decades and decades. And ofc, most of them are a little small. Edit: ones priced more like 50k are more roomy but yeah...still small.