Thread "2016 Rant/Share/General Discussion Thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 18, 2016

And now I'm starting to wonder if anyone else owns a laptop that shoots out hot air when it is doing something CPU intensive… like playing a few minutes of Minecraft…

Anyways, how do you deal with long hair? I find that when I try to grow out my hair, my scalp becomes itchy. REALLY itchy. Like there's something crawling in it and sucking blood out of it… and at other times it feels like the hair wants to uproot itself and walk away… So I keep it short and get a crew cut every few months…

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 18, 2016

Ha! Good thinking Brvo! ;)

@Lonne- all laptops do that, if they have active cooling.
Long hair doesn't feel itchy like that, any more than short hair. I think the problem you face is living in a hot, humid climate. Everything feel itchy and uncomfortable in that weather XD

Posted at 7:05AM, May. 19, 2016

My VERY old laptop would get so hot I don't know how it kept working. It killed a cooling tray I got for it!! Finally ditched it for a tablet with attachable mini-keyboard!!

Posted at 3:05AM, May. 21, 2016

KimLuster wrote:
My VERY old laptop would get so hot I don't know how it kept working. It killed a cooling tray I got for it!! Finally ditched it for a tablet with attachable mini-keyboard!!

I wish I could do that. However, Clickteam Fusion only runs on Windows PCs… :(

Posted at 5:05AM, May. 21, 2016

Lonnehart wrote:
KimLuster wrote:
My VERY old laptop would get so hot I don't know how it kept working. It killed a cooling tray I got for it!! Finally ditched it for a tablet with attachable mini-keyboard!!

I wish I could do that. However, Clickteam Fusion only runs on Windows PCs… :(

You can get many Windows tablets now Lonne, running full versions of Windows 10.

Everyone ready for the meetup? EH? heeeey?

Unfortunately I'm really tried and have a headache floating around so I may not make the whole 10 hours, but hopefully other people will be able too. Who knows?

Posted at 7:05AM, May. 21, 2016

ozoneocean wrote:
Lonnehart wrote:
KimLuster wrote:
My VERY old laptop would get so hot I don't know how it kept working. It killed a cooling tray I got for it!! Finally ditched it for a tablet with attachable mini-keyboard!!

I wish I could do that. However, Clickteam Fusion only runs on Windows PCs… :(
You can get many Windows tablets now Lonne, running full versions of Windows 10.

Everyone ready for the meetup? EH? heeeey?

Unfortunately I'm really tried and have a headache floating around so I may not make the whole 10 hours, but hopefully other people will be able too. Who knows?

I'll be there! Definitely not for ten hours, but for an hour or two at least.

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 21, 2016

With all the hours I have been doing, talk is impossible. Just too tired to do anything but sleep and work.

I even came close to collapse the other day but I was able to eat in time. And I can weather incredible body aches and migraine headaches at work when necessary. Just don't tell my doctor. He'll insist I cut out any overtime. And I really should. Who am I kidding?

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 21, 2016

I missed it too, had brunch with a friend and it ended up being an all day thing, thought it would only be an hour or two haha. I hadn't seen her in years so this was good and bad. I am going to actually going to block off the whole day next time this happens! I hope we def have another meet up!

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 22, 2016

Gotta love Sci Show on Youtube. Just learned that there's a chemical called Azidoazide Azide (C2N14) that will explode if you do NOTHING to it. Sounds like the temper of a former supervisor I know (she would scream at you with a ton of rage even if you're doing your job…. for doing your job)… Well… and she's now more volatile ever since she got demoted…

Posted at 3:05AM, May. 22, 2016

@ Lonne. Lots of chemicals will do that. Even the simple ozone in my nick. Nothing more than O3. In its lovely dark blue liquid form it will react with most things quite explosively with no source of ignition.

ashtree house wrote:
I am going to actually going to block off the whole day next time this happens! I hope we def have another meet up!

Yep, there will be another on the 3rd Saturday of june, same in July and so on :)

Posted at 9:05PM, May. 22, 2016

ozoneocean wrote:
@ Lonne. Lots of chemicals will do that. Even the simple ozone in my nick. Nothing more than O3. In its lovely dark blue liquid form it will react with most things quite explosively with no source of ignition.

That's true, but at least according to this show C2N13 is the most explosive of these (scientists can't even measure it without an explosion).

As for sci show, I find Hank Green and Michael Aranda (the hosts) to be hilarious at times. It's nice to learn something about science and have a good laugh while you're at it. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc

https://youtu.be/ABeBqbBy2Lo?t=487

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvdiYg6ZN-U

edit:

HAHAHA!!! My car's brakes… broke… So I spent the morning (with careful driving with what little brake power I had) shopping for brake parts and tools (why are 10mm open wrenches so freaking scarce?!?) and then spent the afternoon bleeding them 'til the system had no air in it. Yep. This is something I'm able to do myself.

Now I have to keep an eye on them. I no longer trust the parts I buy (they're all after market after all). Especially when cheap after market brake pads come right off their metal brackets…

Posted at 8:05PM, May. 24, 2016

Hey Lonne
Read "A Tall Tale" by Charles Stross. It's free on Amazon Kindle, which will work on your Android or iOS device.
He talks about all the super dangerous oxidisers in there in reference to the space program. It's very interesting, you'd really like it. :D

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The big skype meetup of all the DD people was a huge success, go listen to a small portion of it here: https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/episode-272-dd-electric-people-community-meetup

I missed out at least two people from the full list, there may have been more too, it was hard for me to recall.

The next on will be on… the 3rd Saturday of next month. Or maybe another Saturday, depending on what else I have on but it WILL be a Saturday and there will be more so don't worry if you missed out.

Posted at 11:05PM, May. 24, 2016

The third Saturday of June is the 18th. Waterloo Day. Good day for a Skype meeting if ever there was one.

If I can get the day off, I would be up for doing it as long as I can stay awake. If not, I can't participate because it would be too tempting to blow off work.

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 25, 2016

ozoneocean wrote:
Hey Lonne
Read "A Tall Tale" by Charles Stross. It's free on Amazon Kindle, which will work on your Android or iOS device.
He talks about all the super dangerous oxidisers in there in reference to the space program. It's very interesting, you'd really like it. :D

I'll grab that before going to work. Should make for an interesting read. :)

edit: well, it's not free and I don't have $.99 to spare at the moment. Maybe in a couple of weeks…

Posted at 1:05AM, May. 26, 2016

It's $1 now? That's a shame. It's a really short thing. >:[

@Bravo- I don't know if we will actually have it on that date yet, I might be doesn't something then… Not sure. And unfortunately I'm the only one that everybody has on their contact lists :(
I am thinking about Google hangouts though… I have not been able to make that work in the pas but it's supposed to be great for big meetups? If so it would be a LOT easier for others to join without having to rely one one person who has all the connections.

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I now have enough skulls that I can have them on every part of my hussar uniform: one on my busby/colpak, one on a shako, one on my sabretach, one on my sword hilt, on on my cartridge box and one on my cross-belt.
So cool! :D

Posted at 1:05PM, May. 30, 2016

I had a dream last night that I thought Ironscarf was my cousin who lives in England. Not that he actually was my cousin, just that I mistakenly thought so for a while and then remembered that he wasn't.

Posted at 1:05PM, May. 30, 2016

Since it would be quite a lengthy process to establish that we're not cousins, I'm going to say we are and it'll take more than a dream to convince me otherwise!

Posted at 2:05PM, May. 30, 2016

Ironscarf wrote:
Since it would be quite a lengthy process to establish that we're not cousins, I'm going to say we are and it'll take more than a dream to convince me otherwise!

Haha! Totally plausible.

Actually, I recently had a friend of mine try to convince me that he was related to a famous historical figure because they had an ancestor from the same country that he's from. I was like "sure, if it makes you happy."

Posted at 4:05PM, May. 30, 2016

You already have relations around these parts don't you Hippie? Have I ever told you, you look suspiciously like my Nan?

Posted at 10:05PM, May. 30, 2016

Ironscarf wrote:
You already have relations around these parts don't you Hippie? Have I ever told you, you look suspiciously like my Nan?

I do! I have actual cousins over there, which is why it made sense in my dream. Apparently all Englishpeople are interchangeable in my imagination.

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 31, 2016

Ironscarf wrote:
Since it would be quite a lengthy process to establish that we're not cousins, I'm going to say we are and it'll take more than a dream to convince me otherwise!

That is quite true. Once you get out into sixth cousins and seventh and eighth degrees of separation it's hard to find people who aren't related.

Hawaiians call all fellow Americans "cousin" because we all have one uncle. Uncle Sam.

Though of course that doesn't apply to you citizens of the UK and its dominions.

By the way, my branch of my family are very distant cousins of the royals. We married into it back in the Tudor days. Yippee! Most of the population of England would have to die before the crown got anywhere near me. But there is a seat in the House of Lords I could claim after several thousand deaths.

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 31, 2016

And now I'm kinda hoping I'm not related to any of Magellan's men. Y'know… when he visited the Philippines and his men "relaxed" with the local female populace…

Posted at 3:05AM, May. 31, 2016

British people are all "subjects" ;)

Posted at 10:05AM, May. 31, 2016

My brother has looked into ancestry and has shared some of our tenuous ties. We're fourth cousins, five times removed from Davy Crockett, slightly more closely tied to Abraham Lincoln, and even more closely to William Penn.

The most fun factoid is that we are descended from some guy in Medieval France who was entitled "The Rude". I imagine that you can't get much ruder that someone the French deem rude.

Posted at 4:05PM, May. 31, 2016

ozoneocean wrote:
British people are all "subjects" ;)

I unwittingly gave them a promotion? Sorry guys but you have to remain subjects of HM Elizabeth II. ;)

And I can remain a citizen of a democratic Republic. So the government can't restrict various freedoms but every private institution can and does.