What You've Done Today - Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

[Gromnir]

10 hours ago, Gorth said:

My hair went through “phases” throughout life. As a kid I was white haired (almost like you would expect from an albino except I could get a tan, Danish summer allowing). As a young teenager I was platinum blond. Friends used to tease my dad because he’s dark haired and my mom a brunette

As and older teen and a young man, my hair was dark enough to give me a Mediterranean look. But in my mid twenties it started getting really grey and now it’s somewhere between grey and white mostly

have no reason to believe the following, but we nevertheless assume our hair is gonna go grey w/i a comical short period o' time. am in fifties and we got a few white hairs which you will notice if you are standing uncomfortably close to Gromnir.  however, 'cause our eyesight went from better than 20/20 to distinct far-sighted over the course o' a couple years, we irrational believe our hair will do something similar, going from almost uniform dark to colorless w/i a year. 

HA! Good Fun!

[Keyrock]

New best 10 yard grouping:

1 nasty outlier, but in a 15 shot grouping that's not too bad; better than 3, anyway. I'm still getting used to the trigger pull. I don't want to pull the trigger too hard since that's a recipe to jerk the gun back and fire high, but pulling the trigger too lightly means holding the gun outstretched for an extended period of time and the Glock 40 has quite a bit of weight to it (one of the down sides of a hand cannon). It will come with practice.

[majestic]

The 'rona caused a reduced sense of smell, and with it, reduced taste. Most foods that are not laden with salt or sugar, are swimming in fat or rich in glutamate taste like paper. Well, paper that's better chewable than paper, but still, not the most pleasant of sensations. On the bright side, I'm not able to smell sweat or any other unpleasant olfactory experience originating from (other) humans, so that is a plus.

What a wonderful disease, can only recommend it to everyone.

Edited August 10, 2022 by majestic

[Sarex]

13 minutes ago, majestic said:

The 'rona caused a reduced sense of smell, and with it, reduced taste. Most foods that are not laden with salt or sugar, are swimming in fat or rich in glutamate taste like paper. Well, paper that's better chewable than paper, but still, not the most pleasant of sensations. On the bright side, I'm not able to smell sweat or any other unpleasant olfactory experience originating from (other) humans, so that is a plus.

What a wonderful disease, can only recommend it to everyone.

I couldn't taste and smell anything, but it luckily lasted only a couple of days. Such a strange feeling, like having something stuck in your sinuses.

[ShadySands]

I miss not being able to smell sometimes

I glared at my farting dogs when I typed that

[Malcador]

Bored at work as I am winding down my time here, listen to one GTA 4 song and then Youtube tosses me into the Russian music.  Definitely on a list now, ended up on so pro-DPR video with Z's everywhere

[BruceVC]

On 8/10/2022 at 9:22 PM, majestic said:

The 'rona caused a reduced sense of smell, and with it, reduced taste. Most foods that are not laden with salt or sugar, are swimming in fat or rich in glutamate taste like paper. Well, paper that's better chewable than paper, but still, not the most pleasant of sensations. On the bright side, I'm not able to smell sweat or any other unpleasant olfactory experience originating from (other) humans, so that is a plus.

What a wonderful disease, can only recommend it to everyone.

I know people who lost there sense of smell for 12 months and others who recovered it after 2-3 weeks. And then some who never lost it at all. What an insidious disease around symptoms 

[LadyCrimson]

Not to make light of anyone's misery, but sometimes I've wished I couldn't taste anything, because then I wouldn't like chocolate/cookies - or "bored eating" - etc. anymore. And it'd be super easy, barely an inconvenience to stay no/low carb then. 

Different topic: not that anyone cares but me probably, but Jackson Galaxy is going to do another Stray live stream on YouTube today (Fri) at noon. Or it'll be a reg. upload at some point the next day. (Sat)  I can't wait to see him "suffer" some more trying to play the game. Plus I have nothing better to do then watch a cat guru play a cat game.

Edited August 12, 2022 by LadyCrimson

[Malcador]

Almost 40

 

[Sarex]

@Malcador Happy birthday!

[Keyrock]

I had a short and quick delivery today so I had time to go to the shooting range. I have a membership, so going often doesn't cost me anything extra... Except the cost of the ammo, but you don't get better by not firing a ****ton of rounds. Anyway, I'm a lot more comfortable with the Glock 40 now, namely the trigger pull and recoil. I managed this 20 yard 15 shot grouping:

I still want to tighten it up, of course, but not too shabby for some shmuck like me. That's 15 out of 15 definite kill shots, granted that shooting a still target while completely safe is not the same as a moving one while threatened.

[majestic]

Well, back at work, already confronted with the fact that literally everyone else at the company is a complete dweeb incapable of critical thinking and problem analysis, and I'm back at doing what I sadly am best at: fixing someone else's mess. Yay...

[Gfted1]

Got back on Monday night from a 9 day vacation in Cabo San Lucas and it feels like I was there for a month.  We stayed at the Riu Palace Baja (Riu Palace Baja California | Adults Only Hotel Cabo San Lucas) and the view and amenities were vastly nicer than Playa Del Carmen or Cozumel. I guess West coast is best coast! Several hundred work emails were waiting for me upon my return though.  

[Malcador]

Starting new job next week, eager to see what fresh hell I've decided to jump into.

[Sarex]

1 hour ago, Malcador said:

Starting new job next week, eager to see what fresh hell I've decided to jump into.

I feel like you are going to be disappointed if it turns to be a chill and easy place to work at.

[ShadySands]

Wife and son get home today after three and a half weeks in Estonia

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

32 minutes ago, Sarex said:

I feel like you are going to be disappointed if it turns to be a chill and easy place to work at.

Be the change you want to see (by making it hell yourself).

[Malcador]

57 minutes ago, Sarex said:

I feel like you are going to be disappointed if it turns to be a chill and easy place to work at.

My life is defined through suffering

Found some ancient text based game or something I was making when learning C#, at least I had the good sense to make as much OO as possible.  Looks like I had some idea of use function pointers but C# lacks that it seems.  Always fun to look at old code, well or any old work, it's like someone else wrote it

Edited August 17, 2022 by Malcador

[majestic]

54 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Always fun to look at old code, well or any old work, it's like someone else wrote it

Yeah, sometimes when the mood strikes me, I'll grab my old backups and flip through them. The stuff I wrote at school, no wonder my teachers hated me.

[Malcador]

On 8/17/2022 at 4:20 PM, majestic said:

Yeah, sometimes when the mood strikes me, I'll grab my old backups and flip through them. The stuff I wrote at school, no wonder my teachers hated me.

Well for me it's no wonder I got the grades I did.  I talked to myself in the comments, pretty sure the TA's thought I was schizo..

 

[ShadySands]

Spent the day scripting my job away

[majestic]

6 hours ago, Malcador said:

Well for me it's no wonder I got the grades I did.  I talked to myself in the comments, pretty sure the TA's thought I was schizo..

Yeah, so my stuff was mostly uncommented and intentionally as arcane as I could manage to make it. Which is fairly easy to do in C, especially if your target operating system is Novell-DOS.

typedef unsigned int (far *s_arrayptr);

struct mainscreenstructure
{
  int x;
  int y;
  s_arrayptr screen[80];
} mainscreen;

void screenOutputxy(int x, int y, char *out, long ATTR)
{
  for (int i = 0; i <= strlen(out); i++)
    mainscreen.screen[y][x + i] = out[i] + ATTR;
}

void main(void)
{
  _DL = 1;
  _DH = 1;
  _AH = 0x02;
  _BH = 0;
  asm int 10h;
  
  for (register int i = 0; i < 25; i++)
    mainscreen.screen[i] = (s_arrayptr) ((void 0xB800 + i * 0xA * )( 0xB800 + i * 0xA ) + ( void near * )( 0 ));
  
  mainscreen.x = 0;
  mainscreen.y = 0;
 
  screenOutputxy(0, 0, "Hello World", 0xF000);  
  
  _AX = 0x0700;
  _asm int 21h;
}

Heh, that CODE tag is kind of hard to read. In case it's not totally obvious ( ), this clears the screen, then builds a struct full of pointers to every character on a DOS 80x25 screen and writes Hello World directly on the screen, then waits for an input. Because only lamers use printf().

[BruceVC]

My brother-in-law went for a 4 day hike in Czech in a place called the Sumava park that reaches into the Bavarian forest, it was 70 miles and they did about 18 miles/day. The scenery looks amazing 

 

 

[Gfted1]

Walk...18 miles...per day?! Hard pass.

Seriously though, it looks beautiful and its interesting to see the padlock-on-a-fence thing is multi-national.

[BruceVC]

2 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

Walk...18 miles...per day?! Hard pass.

Seriously though, it looks beautiful and its interesting to see the padlock-on-a-fence thing is multi-national.

What !! I thought when you use to do your daily walks you did 18-20 miles/day ? 

But I agree, 18 miles/day is not my idea of a reasonable or achievable hike