Random Thoughts 7

[pinball1970]

Wonder if there's a polite way of asking some of my acquaintances: Who are you today, Jekyll or Hyde?

Sounds like at least three of my Ex's

 

[pinball1970]

Next door neighbour spent a lot of money constructing a pond, landscaped it, pump, filtration system and some impressive carp, which grew to a considerable size as the pond was large.
This was a while ago so he either, complained first that his Carp were going missing or I saw what I saw from a bed room window.
My ornithology skills are more book than twitcher but I recognise a heron when I see one, just sat on his fence, probably just had lunch and was letting it settle.
Huge, never seen one in the flesh.
They can grow to about three feet, beautiful impressive creature.
A fine mesh sorted my neighbour's problem, I was a lot less happy than he was when the heron moved on.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, somehow the population of Albania in 1979, at 2.59 million, was larger than the current 2.4 million.

 

[WWGD]

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Equally over-sanitized:

 

[WWGD]

Now I need to figure out how to start my Android in safe mode.

 

[WWGD]

The bridge between the two lenses in my glasses broke appart at a point of disconnection ( in blue)

That is too thin to crazy glue back in.
I have a gas stove. Could I use the stove to heat up the left side to melt the tip as to solder it to the other end? Any other ideas, to keep them attached at least for a few days?

 

[BillTre]

duct tape

 

[Tom.G]

With that style frame, the lenses are likely plastic, not glass. Plastics Soften, melt, or decompose at soldering temperature.

Melting temperature of solder is a few to several hundred degrees.
Depending on which Plastic, softening can start at 120F to several hundred degrees.
A natural gas flame is in the thousands of degrees. Oops!

Your situation is why opticians recommend using both hands to apply and remove glasses, using the temple bars. (ear hooks)

 

[WWGD]

Thanks. Well, at least I got my 8.5 years' worth of it. I bought it on January 2016.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

That is too thin to crazy glue back in.

If it is possible to release the lens on that side temporarily by unscrewing one or two tiny screws in the hinge of the arm, you may be able to wrap some tape (say insulating tape) around the side of the frame and also around the bridge to hold it together, then put back the lens.

(Three of my four current spectacle frames are from 1981, although the lenses have been replaced several times with different prescriptions).

 

[WWGD]

Is there anyway I can attach two small suction caps to the ends of a tube that twists inwardly to be attached at the lenses? Sort of the way the metal tubes that hold bathroom towels attach themselves to the bathroom wall?

 

[Tom.G]

Thanks. Well, at least I got my 8.5 years' worth of it. I bought it on January 2016.

That's pretty good life for the commonly used frames.

If you want longer life, get your doctor to prescribe "Industrial Safety Glasses." Here in the US, they are normally worn in industrial jobs, think machine shops and the like. Both the frame and lenses are much sturdier and substantial. The lenses are guaranteed not to shatter when hit with a steel ball dropped from 40 feet! (A Federal requirement here)

Every now and then I end up using a grinder or power saw to cut metal, so I always get Safety Glasses with Glass lenses. These days, plastic lenses are more common, but they tend to pit when sparks from a grinder hit them.

As of this writing, there seem to be only one or two labs in the country that can supply the glass safety lenses; you may have to spend time on the phone finding an optician that deals with an appropriate lab.

If it is possible to release the lens on that side temporarily by unscrewing one or two tiny screws in the hinge of the arm, you may be able to wrap some tape (say insulating tape) around the side of the frame and also around the bridge to hold it together, then put back the lens.

Those screws typically have the end of the threads deformed after assembly so they don't come loose and fall out. Often, if you look, you will find a small dimple in the end of the screw deforming the threads. Most of us do not have the tooling to repeat that after disassembly.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[skyshrimp]

I’m a fan of ALDI Vive diet cola. It has a nice spearmint taste to it. I wish there was a caffeine free version.

 

[WWGD]

I’m a fan of ALDI Vive diet cola. It has a nice spearmint taste to it. I wish there was a caffeine free version.

Strangely, I was looking for a way of putting caffeine on a cola that didn't have any. It seems there's powdered caffeine available at some " Chemists", as the recommender, who must be either British( only ones I've heard call it that) or around 100 years old.

 

[WWGD]

Tried 5 ways of correcting for my WhatsApp phone to allow sound from my side to the others, as I could hear others when they called me, but others couldn't hear me. None of them worked.

 

[Tom.G]

Tried 5 ways of correcting for my WhatsApp phone to allow sound from my side to the others, as I could hear others when they called me, but others couldn't hear me. None of them worked.

Approach #6

Not familiar with what it is, but if it is a physical device here is an approach that will likely work:

1) Take it to where you got it
2) Tell them it doesn't work
3) and that you want your mony back if they can't fix it

 

[WWGD]

Approach #6

Not familiar with what it is, but if it is a physical device here is an approach that will likely work:

1) Take it to where you got it
2) Tell them it doesn't work
3) and that you want your mony back if they can't fix it

The warranty expired a few months back; I've had it since January 2023. I suspect I may have damaged a microphone when I dropped it.

 

[skyshrimp]

I Googled caffeine powder and was surprised at how much it costs considering how it’s mass produced.

I’ve been playing with AI.

 

[Mayhem]

Academia will trick you into thinking you are stupid unless you do a Ph.d while most people think radiowaves are on par with ionizing radiation.

 

[WWGD]

A Far aday ( Cage) keeps the hackers away.
Will look into buying a RFID blocking slip for the wallet. Seems there are too, wallets made of protective material and which carry chips that can communicate with a mobile phone. Others have bluetooth or Gps trackers.
This post brought to you by Paranoia.

 

[WWGD]

Why not open up a Docker container when opening up an email program, isolate it from the host OS, and then doing away with the container when done?

 

[skyshrimp]

I fancy a tandoori chicken masala with a peshwari naan, a tandoori mixed grill, pilau rice and meat samosas with mint sauce, but I'm fasting. I started 4 hours and 10 minutes ago.

 

[WWGD]

I fancy a tandoori chicken masala with a peshwari naan, a tandoori mixed grill, pilau rice and meat samosas with mint sauce, but I'm fasting. I started 4 hours and 10 minutes ago.

Visualize roadkill to have your fasting go more smoothly.

 

[WWGD]

I'd say Kramer's idea of getting an (unpaid) intern to do things for him isn't so bad.

 

[WWGD]

Isn't the name ' Noel' ( No L) self-contradictory?

 

[Mayhem]

Isn't the name ' Noel' ( No L) self-contradictory?

It means Christmas in French (Noël)

 

[WWGD]

Why did I get an Asian language string in my search history?

 

[WWGD]

It means Christmas in French (Noël)

But Noel has an L.

 

[BillTre]

But Noel has an L.

But neither Christmas nor French do!

Also consider nor; no "R".

 

[jack action]

Last night I was dining with strangers and the discussion was a lot about personal growth, knowing oneself, and such. It then took a sudden turn towards astrology and numerology. You know "What's your number? Just add the ones from your birthday and find out who you are." There were some strong believers. Then you have people sort of agreeing with them (Are they just being polite?) and you just don't know how to get into that discussion without insulting everybody.

But I just thought of something.

With the decimal system, "your number" basically always ends up being between 1 and 9. (They apparently introduce complications with "master numbers" )

What if I suggested using the binary system instead? Reducing any number by summing up its constituents will always lead to 1! Wouldn't it be great to all be unified by numerology? We are all number 1!

 

[WWGD]

Last night I was dining with strangers and the discussion was a lot about personal growth, knowing oneself, and such. It then took a sudden turn towards astrology and numerology. You know "What's your number? Just add the ones from your birthday and find out who you are." There were some strong believers. Then you have people sort of agreeing with them (Are they just being polite?) and you just don't know how to get into that discussion without insulting everybody.

But I just thought of something.

With the decimal system, "your number" basically always ends up being between 1 and 9. (They apparently introduce complications with "master numbers" )

What if I suggested using the binary system instead? Reducing any number by summing up its constituents will always lead to 1! Wouldn't it be great to all be unified by numerology? We are all number 1!

I'm a Gemini, and we Gemini don't believe in Astrology.

I sometimes through such exchanges with bizarre questions that throw people of: " Cardi B, or Car Db? Is it a database of used cars? " or " Didn't cuba just invade Argentina?" Sometimes I just do it , though unintentionally.

 

[Astronuc]

At nearly 103 years old, World War II veteran Joe Schott said he believes he has a lot of service ahead of him.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fanwood-wwii-veteran-103-shares-100142949.html

Schott remembers back to 1942, only a year or two after he finished high school. He was working with Western Electric in Kearny at the time, testing sound-powered telephones and other equipment to be used on Navy ships.

"Western Electric kept telling me that due to the nature of my work, I would be deferred from the draft. I'd be more valuable working at Western on the things I did. I would transfer that information to the man at the draft board, and I remember him saying to me, 'Don't believe them. You will go in!'

"So, sure enough I did get word that I would be drafted [into the Army]. I was just about to be. So on a Sunday morning I went to the Navy recruiting office station at the post office in Newark. They were open seven days a week. I remember going there, and I sat down at the desk. There was a man, and I showed him the letter I got about the draft, and I said, 'I'd rather go in the Navy.' And I remember he looked up at me and he said these words: He said, 'You're in the Navy now.'"

Well done, sir!

 

[Borg]

Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.

 

[WWGD]

Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.

I've done searches for movies, just to get results from movies that had played years prior. Just who would be interested in any such thing? I've essentially given up google for ChatGpt. I guess SEO's don't help either.

 

[Ibix]

Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.

When we bought our house its garage door was dark blue and in some disrepair, with one of the panels actually half out of place. We replaced the whole door with a white one fairly quickly after we moved in.

The garage looks along our road. When Street View next updated the photos must have failed at one spot or something, because for a while if you moved the viewpoint along our road you saw our shiny white garage door on a sunny day suddenly change into the old blue broken down door on a dark grey day, then flip back to white and sunny. It's updated again since, but it was surprisingly creepy while it lasted.

 

[Borg]

I had a similar thing with the regular map view. I always parked a red SUV that I used to have in the garage. There was a single day once where I was working in the garage and parked it across the street. That was on the map for a few years until it updated.

 

[WWGD]

When we bought our house its garage door was dark blue and in some disrepair, with one of the panels actually half out of place. We replaced the whole door with a white one fairly quickly after we moved in.

The garage looks along our road. When Street View next updated the photos must have failed at one spot or something, because for a while if you moved the viewpoint along our road you saw our shiny white garage door on a sunny day suddenly change into the old blue broken down door on a dark grey day, then flip back to white and sunny. It's updated again since, but it was surprisingly creepy while it lasted.

Wonder if google maps bleeps out security details from its maps.

 

[Rive]

There are places where you go to see things new and places where you go to see things still just as before.

 

[skyshrimp]

I like a cold pint of Guinness. It's apparently good with a drop of blackcurrant cordial.

 

[WWGD]

I borrowed my friend's boots, walked around a mile in them. I still don't understand him any better than before.

 

[Rive]

You should have opted for his boat instead.
Dunno if that helps with understanding, but more fun anyway.

 

[WWGD]

You should have opted for his boat instead.
Dunno if that helps with understanding, but more fun anyway.

" Rowing for a mile in his boot". Ok, I'm up for an update of the original.

 

[skyshrimp]

I'm thinking about what sauce goes with fried chicken wings. I think tomorrow I'm going to buy mango puree and mix it with hot sauce.

 

[Mayhem]

Phil Collins on "I can't Dance" sounds more like Bon Scott era AC/DC than Bon Scott era AC/DC does.

 

[pinball1970]

Phil Collins on "I can't Dance" sounds more like Bon Scott era AC/DC than Bon Scott era AC/DC does.

"In the air tonight" outro he is rocking it also.

 

[pinball1970]

The guys at XENONnT in Italy look fully motivated, up to the challenge in the search for Dark matter

 

[WWGD]

"In the air tonight" outro he is rocking it also.

He/Genesis had songs had what I thought were 180 from each other, seemed to be from different bands. Specifically, intense "ABACAB"vs sugary " You can't hurry love"

 

[WWGD]

The guys at XENONnT in Italy look fully motivated, up to the challenge in the search for Dark matter

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"Vamo mangiare pizza obscura" ( Any Italian speaker to correct my Grammar?).

 

[Klystron]

I borrowed my friend's boots, walked around a mile in them. I still don't understand him any better than before.

Perhaps you forgot about the conversion to metric system with SI units. Now you only need to walk a kilometer in his boots lest you learn too much about your friend.

Unless they are seven league boots or bottes de sept lieues in French.

 

[Rive]

I'll need a new keyboard. Again.
This time preferably with a reinforced CTRL key.