Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread

Richard Haseltine

LeatherGryphon said:

Such a waste of the limited supply of Helium.  A noble gas, the 2nd most abundant gas in the Universe, but extremely rare on Earth.  It floats away out of the atmosphere, remember?  Unlike Hydrogen, it doesn't react with other atoms so it doesn't form compounds to trap it on Earth.  The only reason there's any at all is as a by-product of radioactive decay of Uranium atoms one-by-one over billions of years mined out of the ground from deep oil & gas wells where we capture it and pump it back into underground caverns(supposedly helium proof) for storage.  Yet we discard tons of it every day for f'n balloons and flying dogs.  There's lots of it in space if we wanted to suck it out of places like Jupiter or Saturn, but still kind'a hard to get our hands on.  We need it for superconducting magnets, medical scan machines, inert atmospheres for manufacturing processes and   Yet millions of us try inhaling it to sound like donald duck, and otherwise treat it like it will never run out.  Monkeys are so bad at planning for the future.  And don't hold your breath waiting for nuclear fusion to make Helium from Hydrogen.  It was 50 years away when I was a kid 70 years ago.  It's still 50 years away.  And the amount of Helium produced probably wouldn't fill a single balloon in a day.

1. Build space elevator
2. Use He ballon to lift car up to the top
3. Fill ballon with liquid He harvested from gas giant
4. Let filled ballon coast down to the ground.

Sfariah D

My internet isn't working!  The home internet not the cellular network on the phone.

Wait!  If it isn't working completely, you can't read this as I can't post it?  Not using my phone right now.  On my iPad!

LeatherGryphon

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Such a waste of the limited supply of Helium.  A noble gas, the 2nd most abundant gas in the Universe, but extremely rare on Earth.  It floats away out of the atmosphere, remember?  Unlike Hydrogen, it doesn't react with other atoms so it doesn't form compounds to trap it on Earth.  The only reason there's any at all is as a by-product of radioactive decay of Uranium atoms one-by-one over billions of years mined out of the ground from deep oil & gas wells where we capture it and pump it back into underground caverns(supposedly helium proof) for storage.  Yet we discard tons of it every day for f'n balloons and flying dogs.  There's lots of it in space if we wanted to suck it out of places like Jupiter or Saturn, but still kind'a hard to get our hands on.  We need it for superconducting magnets, medical scan machines, inert atmospheres for manufacturing processes and   Yet millions of us try inhaling it to sound like donald duck, and otherwise treat it like it will never run out.  Monkeys are so bad at planning for the future.  And don't hold your breath waiting for nuclear fusion to make Helium from Hydrogen.  It was 50 years away when I was a kid 70 years ago.  It's still 50 years away.  And the amount of Helium produced probably wouldn't fill a single balloon in a day.

1. Build space elevator
2. Use He ballon to lift car up to the top
3. Fill ballon with liquid He harvested from gas giant
4. Let filled ballon coast down to the ground.

Great idea, space elevator, why didn't I think of that?  Although, I suspect we'd never get one to Jupiter.  But in theory, a space elevator to the Earth's upper atmosphere would take us up to where the Helium atoms are, for a while, on their way to being swept away by the Solar Wind.  Unfortunately, it might be difficult to catch enough Helium atoms to be useful.  They're kinda tiny, and far apart.  And I'm not sure you've noticed, but space elevators are still kinda unobtainium too.

LeatherGryphon

Non-complaint:  I'm free, I'm free, I'm free at last!  A couple days ago I got a call from my only remaining computer repair customer.  I fixed his machine two weeks ago.  He got frightened by a "scareware" that he stumbled onto and in his panic thought that he had boogered his machine somehow.  He brought the computer to my lab and I fixed it within a day.  Nothing really wrong with it, but I did a thorough virus/malware/corruption check and still nothing wrong.  I did a thorough hardware check, and nothing wrong.  So I charged him $20 for the checkup and all was well, he wrote me a check.  Then a couple days ago he called again with exactly the same problem probably because he went to the same website and touched the wrong button, again!  I told him to just yank the power plug and take it to someone else.  He wasn't happy.  I don't care.  The next day I sent him back his $20 check which I still hadn't deposited because I don't have a car.  What really bugged me is that for the last three times I worked on his machines, I'd been telling him I wanted to quit fixing computers and to be prepared for me saying no.  The day finally came, so I did say "no".   I don't expect to hear from him again.  Wheee...

 

starionwolf

i guess the login cookies that Daz Studio sets expires after a few days.  Gonna save the login info using Firefox Browser.

Sfariah D

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

carrie58

Sfariah said:

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

Probably because too many up tight adults got freaked out by the naked headless bodies laying around ,so now they won't be naked just headless

 

Sfariah D

carrie58 said:

Sfariah said:

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

Probably because too many up tight adults got freaked out by the naked headless bodies laying around ,so now they won't be naked just headless

 

True, but I am an adult collector.

 

is 7pm too early to go to bed? 

LeatherGryphon

Sfariah said:

carrie58 said:

Sfariah said:

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

Probably because too many up tight adults got freaked out by the naked headless bodies laying around ,so now they won't be naked just headless

 

True, but I am an adult collector.

 

is 7pm too early to go to bed? 

If you combine it with "early to rise" it's been said that that will make you "healthy, wealthy, and wise".

LeatherGryphon

Non-complaint:  Yay!  I finally disconnected my primary machine (not my DAZing machine) and set about the simple task of inserting the little M.2 WiFi card that I bought for the bracket and socket on the motherboard in that machine a few weeks ago.  I made sure that I bought the correct one that was the complete kit with WiFi M.2 card, antenna terminals, and cables.  Yeah, "simple", right!  It took me three hours.  I'd mounted the WiFi bracket onto the motherboard's back panel when I first built the system.  Now I find out that it's absolutely impossible to get the WiFi card into its slot under the bracket, or to get the antenna terminals mounted into the holes on the bracket without removing the motherboard. Arghhhhh....  Then even with the motherboard removed, and the bracket and the WiFi card in my hands, I still struggled to get the #@$#@%## tiny antenna wires to clip onto those impossibly small connectors.  I literally could not see that small connector.  I had to set up an extreme magnifying lens and dig out some tiny tools, three goose neck lights, a flashlight, and still I ended up sweating and swearing, and bleeding from my knuckles but I finally was able to put everything back into the case, wire up all the connections again, and yay, it works.  "Aye, Admiral.  Thar be WiFi here.".

DanaTA

LeatherGryphon said:

Sfariah said:

carrie58 said:

Sfariah said:

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

Probably because too many up tight adults got freaked out by the naked headless bodies laying around ,so now they won't be naked just headless

 

True, but I am an adult collector.

 

is 7pm too early to go to bed? 

If you combine it with "early to rise" it's been said that that will make you "healthy, wealthy, and wise".

I have reservations about that saying.

Dana 

Gordig

I'm glad I looked this word up, because it sure as hell sounded like he was singing "life is MILFy". 

LeatherGryphon

DanaTA said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Sfariah said:

carrie58 said:

Sfariah said:

I hate the painted on clothes look for 3D figures, but why do they do it for Barbie?

Probably because too many up tight adults got freaked out by the naked headless bodies laying around ,so now they won't be naked just headless

 

True, but I am an adult collector.

 

is 7pm too early to go to bed? 

If you combine it with "early to rise" it's been said that that will make you "healthy, wealthy, and wise".

I have reservations about that saying.

Dana 

Good for you.  I didn't have reservations and when I got there, the "wealthy" slots were all taken.  Well, I guess two out of three isn't bad.   Although, the "healthy" part is losing its shine in the last few years.

Sfariah D

I prefer early to sleep, early to rise with a modifier of take a nap after breakfast.

Sfariah D

What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing? 

PerttiA

Sfariah said:

What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing? 

It's 11:12PM... Almost bedtime 

McGyver

Sfariah said:

What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing? 
 

My first guess would be that at that moment typing "What am I doing?"... But I could be wrong and you could have been riding a unicycle while juggling ferrets and had previously typed that question several minutes beforehand and were waiting to post it much later, but a stray ferret landed on your keyboard, accidentally causing your query to post.

PerttiA

Non complaint; The longest day of the year is here 
Sunrise today 3:59. Sunset today 23:11. Length of day 19 h 12 min.

Complaint; The longest day of the year is here... The days are getting shorter from now on.

starionwolf

my cardiologist couldn't find anything wrong with my heart.  He thinks that I have lung problem.  Now I need to see my primary care doctor.

DanaTA

starionwolf said:

my cardiologist couldn't find anything wrong with my heart.  He thinks that I have lung problem.  Now I need to see my primary care doctor.

I hope it's nothing serious!

Dana 

Sfariah D

Now I am making dinner and a grocery list, but the burner I was using didn't work.

DanaTA

Sfariah said:

Now I am making dinner and a grocery list, but the burner I was using didn't work.

Get it fixed.  If it's a natural gas range, pull the knob off so you don't accidentally turn it on and fill the house with gas!

Dana 

Sfariah D

I am confused because someone didn't like my "tone" in a coupld Facebook posts.  That person must have read what I said wrong.  Oh, well, I guess there is no way to win that game.

Sfariah D

Butter seems to be very difficult to clean.  I am trying to get the butter residue out of a certain item, but that isn't easy.

LeatherGryphon

Butter is so nosey.  Always getting surprised in places where it shouldn't be.  Bad butter, bad!

Sfariah D

LeatherGryphon said:

Butter is so nosey.  Always getting surprised in places where it shouldn't be.  Bad butter, bad!

lol!

I think it is time to put iPad down and close my eyes to sleep. 

kyoto kid

...well finally we escaped the last of old man winter's grasp and getting more seasonable temperatures for this time of year that will hang around (fingers crossed). 83° today then back onto the mid 70s until the weekend when it spikes into the 90s (same weekend we and the 100° plus weather last year). After that back into the mid 70s to low 80s. 

Not related (or is it?), but dealing with more loud mouthed druggies/drunks on the street below my window tonight than usual and it's only Tuesday.

Sfariah D

Non complaint:  My vocational specialist came by with some groceries I requested.   She got me a lot of things for me to eat.  Mainly meals not snacks.

Complaint: I forgot to request fries to go with my chicken tenders.  I can get them later.

Non Complaint I got some brats in the fridge!  All beef ones!

kyoto kid

....but are those brats beefcakes?

PerttiA

Brats in the fridge... What did they do?