Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 2875

badgoodDeb · 06-02-2021, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

In diamond painting I really don't care if it's colour blocks or confetti. Although with confetti I often miss a couple, but it's much easier to get the right colour and put them in with plastic stones than with floss which you have to thread.

Nice current project!

I have occasionally just stitched an X right over another one, where I discovered I had erred the first time. Once you view it at a distance, you can't tell.

Pooh - I'll look at my stack of previously done stuff (not on any wall). I was poking around recently, in case I need to move soon, so at least I DO know where they are!

timebug · 06-03-2021, 03:48 AM

Planning route for tomorrow. I have the funeral of an old friend, and there are several viable routes to travel there, but intense roadworks on some of them!

Hitch · 06-03-2021, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by timebug

Planning route for tomorrow. I have the funeral of an old friend, and there are several viable routes to travel there, but intense roadworks on some of them!

I'm sorry for your loss.

And the bloody roadworks!

Hitch

timebug · 06-05-2021, 01:40 PM

Trip was a doddle. I took a circuitous route, maybe three miles longer than the direct one, but no roadworks to speak of (Although there often seems to be a few blokes and a bunch of cones generally doing not much!)
Wonderful funeral, as much as these things can be; smoothly run, eulogy by a friend rather than a hired 'celebrant' and we were all there for our friend,and not the artificial ceremony of it all.

cromag · 06-05-2021, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by timebug

Trip was a doddle. I took a circuitous route, maybe three miles longer than the direct one, but no roadworks to speak of (Although there often seems to be a few blokes and a bunch of cones generally doing not much!)
Wonderful funeral, as much as these things can be; smoothly run, eulogy by a friend rather than a hired 'celebrant' and we were all there for our friend,and not the artificial ceremony of it all.

Sorry to hear about your friend, but I'm glad things went well.

Rumpelteazer · 06-08-2021, 05:18 PM

Last week I was able to finally book my vaccination appointments. I'm getting my first shot tomorrow. I can remember whenever I had to get vaccinated when I was a child my mother would take, afterwards we would go out and have a drink or ice cream somewhere and I was allowed to pick out a present at the toy store.

To keep this tradition partially alive, I can't go out for a drink since I have to work after getting vaccinated, I decided to treat myself to a new backpack. I got my current Fjallraven Kanken just over six years ago, and it has been my go-to bag. It's starting to look a bit sad and the brown green colour isn't my style anymore. So I just ordered the more fancy Kanken No. 2 (with leather handles) in deep garnet.

My sister's birthday was allowed to book their appointments from yesterday. My sister couldn't get through to the website, so she called for an appointment. She was really lucky, she lives around the corner from the big vaccination site and they had an opening in 10 minutes after she called. So she got her Moderna yesterday.

I'm getting either Pfizer or Moderna. In five weeks I'm getting the second dose.

DNSB · 06-08-2021, 05:55 PM

Patching the backup data center for CVE-2021-21985.

badgoodDeb · 06-08-2021, 06:22 PM

Yay Rumpel! Yay for vaccines!

Rumpelteazer · 06-13-2021, 03:25 AM

It's Sunday morning and I was woken up early by the two jays that have taken up residence somewhere nearby. They start cawing (?) around 6am at the moment and waking up everyone living on this block with a bedroom at the back of their house/apartment.

I've just treated myself to a couple of books and entered them into Calibre, cleaned up the metadata of a couple of other books, transferred some books to my Kindle and before continuing with my current read I will need to put a bunch of book in the right collections, since it's become a bit of a mess on the front page.

This afternoon I have to clean, normally I do this on Monday morning, but tomorrow it's a lot warmer than today, so it seemed like a good idea to do the cleaning a day early.

timebug · 06-14-2021, 04:29 AM

Contemplating what a hot day it is promising to be! Thinking of all the small gardening jobs that need doing, but won't get done because it is way too hot!

Hitch · 06-14-2021, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by timebug

Contemplating what a hot day it is promising to be! Thinking of all the small gardening jobs that need doing, but won't get done because it is way too hot!

It's meant to be 114°F here today. (sigh).

Hitch

badgoodDeb · 06-14-2021, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Ooohh ... got any pics of the Winnie the Pooh creations?

Let's see if this upload works. If not, I'm asking over on the Tech Vent thread!
Ahh - I tested with a smaller upload, and that worked. (I was getting a blank screen after I hit the upload button) So I've divided the pics into three, instead of one. Bonus, they now look bigger, too!

poohbear_nc · 06-14-2021, 08:54 PM

Thank you for remembering!

I love them! Very nicely done!

I have neither the talent, nor the patience, for such detailed creations.

DMcCunney · 06-14-2021, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I've been to a couple of virtual concerts in the past year. A cousin of mine is a singer with the Blacksburg Master Chorale in Blacksburg, Virginia, and she alerted me to them in a text. It was an interesting experience. Normally when people say the singers phoned in their performance, it's a bad thing, but they wanted to play it safe with the pandemic still reading, so that's literally what they did. I'm assuming they used Zoom or some similar technology to coordinate the results so seamlessly. The concerts were wonderful.

I help run SF cons, and they have had to go virtual. Zoom is the technology of choice for presenting programming.

A popular item at SF cons is Filking. Folks play and sing till all hours, generally performing material written by them with an SF/F theme. Some of them are very good indeed. A friend of mine is a Filker who tends to run that part of an SF con. The filkers have been doing this for a while, and can do good solo performances.

What they can't do is play together. Synchronizing the different performers into a seamless whole isn't possible. (Technically, the issue isn't latency, it's jitter.) There's at least one software package that tries to address the issue, but it requires a high bandwidth broadband link for all parties, and is very fussy about the hardware the individual performers have and its setup. This is very much a work in progress.

OTOH, rock musician Peter Frampton has videos up on YouTube of performances with his band, and they are all playing from home. My impression is their contributions get sent to a server where a mixing engineer can combine the streams and sync everything, and that is what gets sent to YouTube. Not quite real time, but effective. Something lake that may have been in the process for that choral work you mentioned.
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Dennis

timebug · 06-15-2021, 03:52 AM

About to visit a relative,with a one year old daughter who I only actually 'met' properly a couple of weeks ago, owing to the lockdown restrictions!

06-03-2021, 03:48 AM	#43112
timebug Ancient Sage Posts: 14,585 Karma: 15493448 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Derby U.K. Device: Kobo Reader	Planning route for tomorrow. I have the funeral of an old friend, and there are several viable routes to travel there, but intense roadworks on some of them!

06-05-2021, 01:40 PM	#43114
timebug Ancient Sage Posts: 14,585 Karma: 15493448 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Derby U.K. Device: Kobo Reader	Trip was a doddle. I took a circuitous route, maybe three miles longer than the direct one, but no roadworks to speak of (Although there often seems to be a few blokes and a bunch of cones generally doing not much!) Wonderful funeral, as much as these things can be; smoothly run, eulogy by a friend rather than a hired 'celebrant' and we were all there for our friend,and not the artificial ceremony of it all.

06-08-2021, 05:18 PM	#43116
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,348 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Last week I was able to finally book my vaccination appointments. I'm getting my first shot tomorrow. I can remember whenever I had to get vaccinated when I was a child my mother would take, afterwards we would go out and have a drink or ice cream somewhere and I was allowed to pick out a present at the toy store. To keep this tradition partially alive, I can't go out for a drink since I have to work after getting vaccinated, I decided to treat myself to a new backpack. I got my current Fjallraven Kanken just over six years ago, and it has been my go-to bag. It's starting to look a bit sad and the brown green colour isn't my style anymore. So I just ordered the more fancy Kanken No. 2 (with leather handles) in deep garnet. My sister's birthday was allowed to book their appointments from yesterday. My sister couldn't get through to the website, so she called for an appointment. She was really lucky, she lives around the corner from the big vaccination site and they had an opening in 10 minutes after she called. So she got her Moderna yesterday. I'm getting either Pfizer or Moderna. In five weeks I'm getting the second dose.

06-08-2021, 05:55 PM	#43117
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,978 Karma: 169810634 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Patching the backup data center for CVE-2021-21985.

06-08-2021, 06:22 PM	#43118
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Yay Rumpel! Yay for vaccines!

06-13-2021, 03:25 AM	#43119
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,348 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	It's Sunday morning and I was woken up early by the two jays that have taken up residence somewhere nearby. They start cawing (?) around 6am at the moment and waking up everyone living on this block with a bedroom at the back of their house/apartment. I've just treated myself to a couple of books and entered them into Calibre, cleaned up the metadata of a couple of other books, transferred some books to my Kindle and before continuing with my current read I will need to put a bunch of book in the right collections, since it's become a bit of a mess on the front page. This afternoon I have to clean, normally I do this on Monday morning, but tomorrow it's a lot warmer than today, so it seemed like a good idea to do the cleaning a day early.

06-14-2021, 04:29 AM	#43120
timebug Ancient Sage Posts: 14,585 Karma: 15493448 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Derby U.K. Device: Kobo Reader	Contemplating what a hot day it is promising to be! Thinking of all the small gardening jobs that need doing, but won't get done because it is way too hot!

06-14-2021, 08:54 PM	#43123
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,715 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Thank you for remembering! I love them! Very nicely done! I have neither the talent, nor the patience, for such detailed creations.

06-15-2021, 03:52 AM	#43125
timebug Ancient Sage Posts: 14,585 Karma: 15493448 Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Derby U.K. Device: Kobo Reader	About to visit a relative,with a one year old daughter who I only actually 'met' properly a couple of weeks ago, owing to the lockdown restrictions!