It’s my day off and I need to let off some steam, so come one come all to the Wednesday night zoom! See the spectacle and the terror!
Folks usually wander in around 7pm Central
CPRM
on December 27, 2023 at 7:45 pm
WTF? I had the zoom open. RJ stopped by and then left. The zoom started some kind of countdown like it was going to close. I thought maybe if I logged out and opened it again that might fix whatever that countdown was, Now it says ‘Waiting for host to start meeting’
R.J.
on December 27, 2023 at 7:49 pm
I don’t think it was me. Let me try to get back in.
I had a dream a couple weeks ago where I was skiing down sand dunes in a working shower, while being chased by teenagers who wanted to beat me up. This is tame by dream standards.
R.J.
on December 27, 2023 at 7:16 pm
“People don’t buy physical media anymore”
I just got a physical copy of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series for my daughter.
rhywun
on December 27, 2023 at 7:32 pm
Yeah… for movies and TV, I absolutely buy physical media.
PS. I still buy all my music on (DRM-free) mp3s too. Books are the only thing I currently “stream” (in effect).
Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.
on December 27, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Books are the one thing I refuse to stream. Stacks of hardbacks, I have, and not too few paperbacks and pamphlets.
rhywun
on December 27, 2023 at 7:43 pm
The Kindle is just too damn convenient.
Chafed
on December 27, 2023 at 11:31 pm
I’m completely with you on music. I’m often surprised what streaming services carry and don’t. For example, Spotify has Tin Machine (David Bowie’s band) but not Tin Machine II.
I also expect retroactive censorship to hit music just as it has books. I don’t think anything will be left of Steel Panther.
CPRM
on December 27, 2023 at 7:41 pm
I purposefully bought what I thought was a hard copy of Madden 19 because the shipping would be quicker than my download speed. They sent me a DVD case with a piece of paper inside with a download code.
R.J.
on December 27, 2023 at 7:44 pm
That’s priceless.
R C Dean
on December 27, 2023 at 10:18 pm
Also, common.
hayeksplosives
on December 27, 2023 at 7:31 pm
Whu…?? How can it be a dream episode without those vertical wavy lines and harp sounds in the background?
This is almost like physical media vs. download. Vivek has decided to pull all spending on traditional networks. I don’t know why he would ever buy an ad on someplace like NBC or CBS. Just go book ads on TUBI or Pluto. Way bigger audience, way smaller dollars.
The kids could care less about the presidential election, they already made up their minds to vote commie. He needs to reach intelligent people, Also I would find his ads to be more entertaining than vaccine ads.
Brochettaward
on December 27, 2023 at 9:28 pm
The youth vote doesn’t decide elections. Getting thee elderly out in droves does.
Chafed
on December 27, 2023 at 11:34 pm
I haven’t seen a single ad for him while watching Baywatch and Star Trek. He is going to lose.
slumbrew
on December 27, 2023 at 11:48 pm
I’m getting all sorts of texts from Nikki Haley – she’s shameless.
She’s also going to lose.
Chafed
on December 28, 2023 at 12:28 am
Sure, but before you block her get Tulsi Gabbard’s number.
Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.
on December 27, 2023 at 8:07 pm
UCS, I am guessing you picked up a FLUKE 12? I have one around here in a drawer, somewhere, but, anyway, if you want to test it, you need known values to test against. A good battery, a rated resistor, etc. You can check the resistance of the units leads by putting it on the lowest Ohm setting and touching them together, but that will only show that your battery is working, as you don’t know the resistance to check against. But, a new AA battery should have a VDC of 1.2, your outlets should read around 119VAC, if it has a thermocouple ice water should read 32*, etc. You can get a known resistor from Amazon or any electronic supply, not sure if HD has them or not.
These are good things to check every year or so, just to make sure it is in calibration (and it is basically a simple version of what any calibration shop will perform). The 12 isn’t going to be the most accurate MM, but will be good enough for almost anything you do. I doubt you will ever need to pull amps, so no need for any clamp on meters, or a horseshoe type.
Oh, that reading on your 9volt means it is dead, as it dosn’t have enough Volts to pass any test
I think the device is working correctly, and the issues were all user-related. As familiarity has improved, the numbers coming out of the machine match expectations.
whahappan
on December 27, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Fucking zoom kicked us out when it was still showing 27 minutes left, WTF?
Lackadaisical
on December 27, 2023 at 9:08 pm
I blame sugar free.
Sean
on December 28, 2023 at 4:40 am
I blame his drug dealer.
kinnath
on December 27, 2023 at 8:48 pm
I have submitted an article. Use to fill gaps as needed.
Not sure I want to know how a tick got in a vagina. I mean, it could just be poor clothes planning, but still.
I put a teargas pellet up my nose when I was 5. I remember having to be strapped down to a gurney for them to get it out because I was fighting so hard. So there’s that.
Gender Traitor
on December 28, 2023 at 5:29 am
Not sure I want to know how a teargas pellet got in your little hands to be put up your nose… 😳
Sean
on December 28, 2023 at 4:40 am
OMG… 😂😂
Stinky Wizzleteats
on December 28, 2023 at 5:24 am
I don’t get the penis stuff-I went to a urologist a couple of times, involved a fiber optic camera, and it was very much not fun.
Brochettaward
on December 27, 2023 at 11:17 pm
Warning: Brochettaward has been known to spontaneously First and cause mass orgasms in everyone within a 6km vicinity.
Chafed
on December 27, 2023 at 11:40 pm
Pics or gtfo.
CPRM
on December 27, 2023 at 11:56 pm
If the drunk scale goes to ‘Drunk Enough To Dance‘, I don’t think I’ve achieved that since my late 20s
Sean
on December 28, 2023 at 4:33 am
Good morning you fine people! And the rest of you, I suppose…
I was trying out ABS as a filament material, and it has proven to be the worst I’ve yet used.
It has more trouble adhering to the print bed, it needs to be run hotter to the point that there are warnings that some printers might melt parts of their extruders, it is prone to warping and shrinking, and the printed items are weaker. Of the three items I printed, none came out without a break or a warp, and one shattered on me when I was cleaning up supports. The one that shattered printed just fine in both PLA and PETG.
Gender Traitor
on December 28, 2023 at 6:11 am
I’m guessing it’s the cheapest material available, yet too expensive, as it appears to be completely useless.
Not Adahn
on December 28, 2023 at 6:14 am
ABS is designed for durability, not ease of thermoforming.
It doesn’t matter how well the material performs in an unrelated context.
Not Adahn
on December 28, 2023 at 6:26 am
Right. And I said it’s not designed for ease of thermoforming. Your processing technique is fucking up an excellent base material. Like a shitty heat treat of good steel.
Or maybe it’s not really ABS in the package. Who can tell? (I can, I have an FTIR, a DSC, and a thermal extractor hooked up to a GC-MS).
Not Adahn
on December 28, 2023 at 6:27 am
I was akshually responding to GT’s
I’m guessing it’s the cheapest material available, yet too expensive, as it appears to be completely useless.
It’s not the cheapest thermoplastic out there, and it exists for a reason.
Hello AI, remember when they were saying the blue collar jobs would be the first to go and they were telling people to learn to code?
Ghostpatzer
on December 28, 2023 at 5:50 am
Doesn’t appear to be coders getting axed.
According to a report by The Information, the company is planning to reorganize a major portion of its 30,000-strong ad sales unit and align the work with the recent advances in AI.
The Goog is a lot of things, digital advertising is a major cash cow. Try turning off the ad blocker and check out the little bar at rhe bottom of the browser. Google Ad Services says hello.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on December 28, 2023 at 5:54 am
Whenever I turn off my adblocker the internet becomes damn near unusable. I don’t know how people do it.
rhywun
on December 28, 2023 at 6:17 am
Doesn’t appear to be coders getting axed.
Yeah, they probably have entire platoons of DEI wastrels and other dead weight.
Thanks. Had follow-up with surgeon Tuesday, I am doing better than he expected. Restricted activities for 6 more weeks, but otherwise OK.
Gender Traitor
on December 28, 2023 at 6:01 am
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Ghostpatzer
on December 28, 2023 at 6:14 am
Yo! Enjoying the holiday season?
Gender Traitor
on December 28, 2023 at 6:18 am
It’s been very quiet so far, as we won’t see my siblings until Saturday when we meet at a nearby restaurant. And we almost always do New Year’s Eve at home so…still quiet. So to answer your question – Yes! 🙂
Ghostpatzer
on December 28, 2023 at 6:26 am
Noice! We’ll be getting an early dinner at a sushi joint on NYE, then home for the night. Gotta check out the Times Sq. festivities, maybe some pro-Palestine “protestors” will show up. Must-watch TV.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on December 28, 2023 at 6:01 am
There aren’t any, this is a hive of scum and villainy. You may as well be hanging out in Bermuda with Blackbeard’s crew.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on December 28, 2023 at 5:45 am
It’s the parents’ responsibility to watch their children.
Not Adahn
on December 28, 2023 at 6:13 am
That’s the POINT! How are they going to watch them without backup cameras? Or protect them without sufficient airbags? Or keep them from getting motion sickness without gyro-stabilized holographic entertainment systems and advanced automatic transmission and preemptive deceleration braking assistance? Or find their school without satnav?
If it saves JUST ONE LIFE then adding $25k of mandatory equipment is worth it!
Don escaped Texas
on December 28, 2023 at 6:52 am
example 2,035,790,832,934 of why big government is bad for us
I think this is the only hope: to collect and calmly share all the ways that government is a net evil in our lives. I think we should list and share these over and over.
it’s also example 2,035,790,832,934 of why party B and president B are no better than party A and president A: when B had the White House and both houses, not a single whit more was done to undo the nonsense
The weapon has also become a staple of American culture, being included in rap songs by the Wu-Tang Clan, Tupac and others, and seen in films and television shows wielded by actors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It has also been present in the United States gun crisis, being used in mass shootings, with the Violence Policy Center stating in a 2022 report that the weapon has been in the arsenals of “some of the most infamous mass shooters in the United States.”
Cho Seung-hui was armed with a Glock when he killed 32 people and injured more than a dozen others when he went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech in 2007. Jared Lee Loughner used a Glock to shoot 18 people, six fatally, in 2011 as he attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabby Giffords. And Dylann Roof used a Glock in his fatal shooting of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
When I write obituaries, I always reach out to antagonistic activist groups. My pre-written Bibi obit quotes extensively from CAIR and Al Sharpton.
It’s my day off and I need to let off some steam, so come one come all to the Wednesday night zoom! See the spectacle and the terror!
Folks usually wander in around 7pm Central
WTF? I had the zoom open. RJ stopped by and then left. The zoom started some kind of countdown like it was going to close. I thought maybe if I logged out and opened it again that might fix whatever that countdown was, Now it says ‘Waiting for host to start meeting’
I don’t think it was me. Let me try to get back in.
I got the same message. Waiting for host.
Let me back in now.
Run! It’s going to blow!
Damn zoom closed again. Moving to a different link.
Gator? Shoe soup?
Trippy.
I had a dream a couple weeks ago where I was skiing down sand dunes in a working shower, while being chased by teenagers who wanted to beat me up. This is tame by dream standards.
“People don’t buy physical media anymore”
I just got a physical copy of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series for my daughter.
Yeah… for movies and TV, I absolutely buy physical media.
PS. I still buy all my music on (DRM-free) mp3s too. Books are the only thing I currently “stream” (in effect).
Books are the one thing I refuse to stream. Stacks of hardbacks, I have, and not too few paperbacks and pamphlets.
The Kindle is just too damn convenient.
I’m completely with you on music. I’m often surprised what streaming services carry and don’t. For example, Spotify has Tin Machine (David Bowie’s band) but not Tin Machine II.
I also expect retroactive censorship to hit music just as it has books. I don’t think anything will be left of Steel Panther.
I purposefully bought what I thought was a hard copy of Madden 19 because the shipping would be quicker than my download speed. They sent me a DVD case with a piece of paper inside with a download code.
That’s priceless.
Also, common.
Whu…?? How can it be a dream episode without those vertical wavy lines and harp sounds in the background?
Because in universe that is for flashbacks.
I went looking for a Young Ones clip to illustrate, but didn’t find it. 😒
I had a Dreamcast and loved it.
It was a great system.
I still contend NFL 2K5 on the Dreamcast looked and played better than any Madden game even to this day.
I still have mine somewhere around here. I don’t know that I could play it on anything though…the cable was three pin audio/video.
https://www.amazon.com/Sega-Dreamcast-HDMI-Converter-Supports/dp/B08JGD74NB/
Oh!
This is almost like physical media vs. download. Vivek has decided to pull all spending on traditional networks. I don’t know why he would ever buy an ad on someplace like NBC or CBS. Just go book ads on TUBI or Pluto. Way bigger audience, way smaller dollars.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vivek-ramaswamys-campaign-halts-idiotic-tv-ad-spending-ahead-iowa-caucuses-new-hampshire
The kids are watching tha yootoobs and tiktaks.
The kids could care less about the presidential election, they already made up their minds to vote commie. He needs to reach intelligent people, Also I would find his ads to be more entertaining than vaccine ads.
The youth vote doesn’t decide elections. Getting thee elderly out in droves does.
I haven’t seen a single ad for him while watching Baywatch and Star Trek. He is going to lose.
I’m getting all sorts of texts from Nikki Haley – she’s shameless.
She’s also going to lose.
Sure, but before you block her get Tulsi Gabbard’s number.
UCS, I am guessing you picked up a FLUKE 12? I have one around here in a drawer, somewhere, but, anyway, if you want to test it, you need known values to test against. A good battery, a rated resistor, etc. You can check the resistance of the units leads by putting it on the lowest Ohm setting and touching them together, but that will only show that your battery is working, as you don’t know the resistance to check against. But, a new AA battery should have a VDC of 1.2, your outlets should read around 119VAC, if it has a thermocouple ice water should read 32*, etc. You can get a known resistor from Amazon or any electronic supply, not sure if HD has them or not.
These are good things to check every year or so, just to make sure it is in calibration (and it is basically a simple version of what any calibration shop will perform). The 12 isn’t going to be the most accurate MM, but will be good enough for almost anything you do. I doubt you will ever need to pull amps, so no need for any clamp on meters, or a horseshoe type.
Oh, that reading on your 9volt means it is dead, as it dosn’t have enough Volts to pass any test
It’s a Fluke 101.
My known resistors will be arriving tomorrow as part of a breadboard kit.
OK, same basic procedure then. Soon it will be common as punch to use it.
I think the device is working correctly, and the issues were all user-related. As familiarity has improved, the numbers coming out of the machine match expectations.
Fucking zoom kicked us out when it was still showing 27 minutes left, WTF?
I blame sugar free.
I blame his drug dealer.
I have submitted an article. Use to fill gaps as needed.
An article on Zoom issues is needed.
ATTENTION ZOOM WANTERS: USE THE PERMANENT MEETING:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
How meta would it be if an article about that article was written ?
“buy a waffle from the chinese midget” ?
On the one hand, I feel a great truth has been told to me.
On the other, I think I need a beer.
My cowpokes (Oklahoma State) are leading aTm 24-6 at the half in the “TaxAct Texas Bowl”.
Nothing really at stake. Kinda boring. Perhaps I should check out the zooms…
….and then the Pokes throw a pick and the Aggies are going to score off of it.
FML.
Sorry. 😔
To be fair, you chose Pokie State.
You knew what you were getting into.
This is the only bowl game I watched:
lol
Nearly killed ‘um.
I love the “explanations” like, sat on ____ in the shower. Or “alcohol was involved.”
At least “was curious” seems accurate on how a screwdriver might be involved.
Where’s Mojeaux with the codes for all of these?
They’ve already been coded. That’s how they could compile the list.
I’m genuinely laughing out loud. 3 cellphones! 2 dildos!
“POOL NOODLE”
Good lord.
It was an accident!
Not sure I want to know how a tick got in a vagina. I mean, it could just be poor clothes planning, but still.
I put a teargas pellet up my nose when I was 5. I remember having to be strapped down to a gurney for them to get it out because I was fighting so hard. So there’s that.
Not sure I want to know how a teargas pellet got in your little hands to be put up your nose… 😳
OMG… 😂😂
I don’t get the penis stuff-I went to a urologist a couple of times, involved a fiber optic camera, and it was very much not fun.
Warning: Brochettaward has been known to spontaneously First and cause mass orgasms in everyone within a 6km vicinity.
Pics or gtfo.
If the drunk scale goes to ‘Drunk Enough To Dance‘, I don’t think I’ve achieved that since my late 20s
Good morning you fine people! And the rest of you, I suppose…
🌄😒
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v27TRan1SBI
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean & NA!
Please don’t tell me in which category I go.
Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
Annoyed at myself.
I robbed myself of sleep to watch over print jobs.
Well, you know if you aren’t vigilant, they could just keep right on going and take over the whole house.
I was trying out ABS as a filament material, and it has proven to be the worst I’ve yet used.
It has more trouble adhering to the print bed, it needs to be run hotter to the point that there are warnings that some printers might melt parts of their extruders, it is prone to warping and shrinking, and the printed items are weaker. Of the three items I printed, none came out without a break or a warp, and one shattered on me when I was cleaning up supports. The one that shattered printed just fine in both PLA and PETG.
I’m guessing it’s the cheapest material available, yet too expensive, as it appears to be completely useless.
ABS is designed for durability, not ease of thermoforming.
It fails at durability.
I should not be able to snap a reinforced box structure with my bare hands.
Can you do that with Legos(R)?
’cause that’s what they’re made of.
Most Lego are not 3D printed.
I started my rant with “As a filament material…”
It doesn’t matter how well the material performs in an unrelated context.
Right. And I said it’s not designed for ease of thermoforming. Your processing technique is fucking up an excellent base material. Like a shitty heat treat of good steel.
Or maybe it’s not really ABS in the package. Who can tell? (I can, I have an FTIR, a DSC, and a thermal extractor hooked up to a GC-MS).
I was akshually responding to GT’s
It’s not the cheapest thermoplastic out there, and it exists for a reason.
And yes, I have broken Lego bare handed as a child, but that’s besides the point.
But why are you so worked up in defense of an inanimate substance?
Look, I’m tired, I got very little sleep, so I’m a bit over-antagonistic.
I wish I could just go to sleep, but I’m at work.
Somehow, sleeping at work is still something you can be fired for.
…unless you have a friendly MD that can get you a narcolepsy diagnosis maybe?
I was gonna drive the GTI in this morning, but the news commies are talking about flooded roads. 😕
What? VWs no longer float?
They do but as a cost cutting measure small paddles are no longer included in the standard car tool kit.
Obligatory.
https://www.theretrosite.com/national-lampoon-ted-kennedy-vw-ad/
That’s fantastic.
Google’s going to lay off 30K people looks like:
https://www.gulte.com/trends/273886/google-likely-to-let-go-30000-employees
Hello AI, remember when they were saying the blue collar jobs would be the first to go and they were telling people to learn to code?
Doesn’t appear to be coders getting axed.
According to a report by The Information, the company is planning to reorganize a major portion of its 30,000-strong ad sales unit and align the work with the recent advances in AI.
The Goog is a lot of things, digital advertising is a major cash cow. Try turning off the ad blocker and check out the little bar at rhe bottom of the browser. Google Ad Services says hello.
Whenever I turn off my adblocker the internet becomes damn near unusable. I don’t know how people do it.
Yeah, they probably have entire platoons of DEI wastrels and other dead weight.
Mornin’, reprobates! Who are the “fine people”?
Just because you delight in insulting us for no good reason doesn’t mean we don’t know better.
Fine. Good morning to you, sir!
Good morning.
Hope things are going well with your recovery.
Thanks. Had follow-up with surgeon Tuesday, I am doing better than he expected. Restricted activities for 6 more weeks, but otherwise OK.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Yo! Enjoying the holiday season?
It’s been very quiet so far, as we won’t see my siblings until Saturday when we meet at a nearby restaurant. And we almost always do New Year’s Eve at home so…still quiet. So to answer your question – Yes! 🙂
Noice! We’ll be getting an early dinner at a sushi joint on NYE, then home for the night. Gotta check out the Times Sq. festivities, maybe some pro-Palestine “protestors” will show up. Must-watch TV.
There aren’t any, this is a hive of scum and villainy. You may as well be hanging out in Bermuda with Blackbeard’s crew.
Average new car cost is $48,000 now?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/visualizing-growth-new-car-prices-us
That’s just nuts.
And used cars are 5 figures. You will use public transportation and like it, kids. No cars for you!
Even the entry level cars from most manufacturers are ridiculous now. Please bring back a modern Toyota Tercel.
It has no backup camera! You want toddlers to get killed?!?!
It’s the parents’ responsibility to watch their children.
That’s the POINT! How are they going to watch them without backup cameras? Or protect them without sufficient airbags? Or keep them from getting motion sickness without gyro-stabilized holographic entertainment systems and advanced automatic transmission and preemptive deceleration braking assistance? Or find their school without satnav?
If it saves JUST ONE LIFE then adding $25k of mandatory equipment is worth it!
example 2,035,790,832,934 of why big government is bad for us
I think this is the only hope: to collect and calmly share all the ways that government is a net evil in our lives. I think we should list and share these over and over.
it’s also example 2,035,790,832,934 of why party B and president B are no better than party A and president A: when B had the White House and both houses, not a single whit more was done to undo the nonsense
RIP, Gaston Glock.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/12/28/austria-Gaston-Glock-dies/7191703741657/
When I write obituaries, I always reach out to antagonistic activist groups. My pre-written Bibi obit quotes extensively from CAIR and Al Sharpton.