Yes! It took over a year but I finally figured out how to pinch the screen to read the comic view statistics graph!
And Now if I could only figure out how to text with my thumbs. All those keyboarding classes keep getting in the way.
And just what tiny handed child are finger print scanners made for?
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I thought the same with the finger print scanners. They read off a partial print though , it's why you have to press it about 50 times when configuring your finger print. I never use it, or the facial recognition. I have formerly top of the range phone with loads of bells and whistles, but for what I do on it any smart phone could do. I do like the camera though.
I never used to bother locking my devices because it's such a hassle to unlock them.
The fingerprint scanners finally made it easy and practical. :)
Funny, because when they were introduced I thought they'd be useless thing… and they WOULD still be if you don't lock your things.
Some places require fingerprints. Any special identification or any job with special access usually get you fingerprinted for background checks.
Now they use these scanners with whole hand imprints that must have been designed with the hand of a twelve year old in mind.
bravo1102 wrote:
Some places require fingerprints. Any special identification or any job with special access usually get you fingerprinted for background checks.
Yup. I had to pay for fingerprints to be taken for a background check to work behind the counter at a CVS pharmacy. Made perfect sense to me when I was responsible for counting pills.
But considering 90% of my time was spent ringing up customer purchases, explaining that I couldn't honor a coupon that expired 4 months earlier, and getting reprimanded when I told some guy that referred to me as a girl that I'm not a girl, I realized I was smack dab in a retail job.
And I'm not a good fit for retail. Really, why do so many people think that cashiers are servants. Or worse
ayesinback wrote:My nephew had that exact same experience. 😏 My sister helped draft the legislation that set up the pharmacy tech program in New Jersey.bravo1102 wrote:
Some places require fingerprints. Any special identification or any job with special access usually get you fingerprinted for background checks.
Yup. I had to pay for fingerprints to be taken for a background check to work behind the counter at a CVS pharmacy. Made perfect sense to me when I was responsible for counting pills.
But considering 90% of my time was spent ringing up customer purchases, explaining that I couldn't honor a coupon that expired 4 months earlier, and getting reprimanded when I told some guy that referred to me as a girl that I'm not a girl, I realized I was smack dab in a retail job.
And I'm not a good fit for retail. Really, why do so many people think that cashiers are servants. Or worse
And our mom worked in retail for over 40 years and loved it so much that after retiring from Macy's she went back to work in Lord & Taylor. And I did my time in retail. Servants? Wage slave. I was screamed at and had things thrown at me. 😂 I can laugh at it now. Idiots on parade.
I finally got skinny again after trying and trying and it was so simple… All it took was eating less 😂
I halved my dinner and cut out lunch for most days.
So bye bye to the spare tyre and hello flat tummy 😁😁
Trouble is now all my trousers are loose at the waist, especially the most recent ones I bought. I hate that feeling!
And when do you know when to stop losing weight?
ozoneocean wrote:
Thunder and lightning, very, very frightening?
Zakly. The cats were quite unnerved.
Congrats on losing the weight you wanted to lose. I've been struggling with 15 lbs that have accumulated over the past four years, and so far they're winning.
My most successful strategy is to be very conservative with calories for 2-4 days, and then relax calorie restriction for a single day. Combine that with a daily walk of at least 1-1/2 miles and the pounds do come off.
But I don't have the will power to walk in heat or rain, and any kind of traveling just pounds the weight back on.
Btw, we bought the house! The home insurance Co. wants to inspect it's condition. They won't take my say so that it's very very bad.
ayesinback wrote:Congratulations!!
we bought the house!
A very curious thing about the fingerprint scanners–have you seen the news reports that told a story of a young child that used the fingerprints of their unconcious parent to unlock a phone in order to dial emergency OR make a purchase?
I used a cash register at work that used employee fingerprints in order to log into the system (open the register, operate the system), digital fingerprints were faster than having to type in an employee ID before each transaction, but what would happen if a bad person wanted to hold up the register at gunpoint near closing and had access to your fingerprint hand? It definitely raised personal concern for the safety of my hands!!
Fingerprints are basic biometrics, more convenient than pin numbers or passwords, but still not perfect. They're a transition technology while other biometrics are introduced and improved: 3D face scans, iris etc…
Or you could do something crazy… like the vagina prints of burlesque performance artist Betty Grumble XD
I got one from her at a show last year. I loved her video of Peaches' song "Dumb Fuck" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMbzE7Bk-4 and just HAD to see her live during the Fringe arts festival. I saw a lot more that I expected.
a LOT.
I hesitate to describe it XD
@Oz, I HAD to click on the link after you described the event you attended and then I found myself reading about Emma Maye Gibson and her alter ego, Betty Grumble. My favorite part of that music video (which is fantastic, by the way) is the unshaved armpits. It is good to showcase that aspect and not being embarrassed about it. I would say based in thst video alone, WA is ahead of the game in body positivity for women in the media.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:It's a great vid, better than Peaches' original. I was glad to be able to tell her in person. I think she wanted me to ask her out but I jumbled the signals XD
@Oz, I HAD to click on the link after you described the event you attended and then I found myself reading about Emma Maye Gibson and her alter ego, Betty Grumble. My favorite part of that music video (which is fantastic, by the way) is the unshaved armpits. It is good to showcase that aspect and not being embarrassed about it. I would say based in thst video alone, WA is ahead of the game in body positivity for women in the media.
Yup, she had body hair, and not just under her arms. Very unusual Burlesque show!
I think she's from Sydney.
I am incredibly happy because there is now a baby grand piano in my home that I can play and practice with just like in high school. Today I played "The Scientist" by Coldplay, still ironing out tiny little kinks, but I love how I can record myself playing and then listen to it to see where my timing needs the most improvement.
Are there any other ducks that like playing an instrument? It would be cool to have a hidden talent, talent show quackcast where we could showcase our musical abilities.
Why haven't I been updating very frequently this summer? It's because I have been dedicating more time to marketing and promotional materials, rather than generating new pages. On that note, the trailer for Mindfold is finally completed, and it's up on Youtube now:
Super amazing work man! Excellent art!
@Kawaii- that's cool about your piano! Amazing! Must be expensive?
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I'm flying off the Greece tomorrow night! Yay!
I'll say hello to Tantz and then in a few weeks I'm off over to Serbia.
5 week holiday.
I will be popping in here as much as I can though so please keep it lively so I've got something here to see ;)
@FC: Now that is one awesome promo.
@Ozoneocean: I got three hours with Tantz and you get at least three weeks! Oh to live in a country where you actually get real vacation time.
Hey, you'll be there for her birthday and name day! Enjoy and just pause to give a thought to a poor dumb American.
Americans overwork and under achieve. We put in all these hours and only manage to to do what other western countries do with shorter workdays, no overtime and four weeks vacation every year. We're doing it wrong America!
The wife is going to a genealogy seminar out in Indiana for a week. And my mother turned 89 years young.
bravo1102 wrote:Congrats to your mum!
Americans overwork and under achieve. We put in all these hours and only manage to to do what other western countries do with shorter workdays, no overtime and four weeks vacation every year. We're doing it wrong America!
Our annual holidays are about the same here actually: 4 weeks or so.
I work less hours than most people because I need more time for my creative stuff, but still get the same holiday time.
I'm taking 5 weeks long service leave- when you work for the same company for 10 years you get an extra 8 weeks to use whenever. So I'll have another 4 weeks normal holiday time around Christmas and 3 weeks saved up for whatever.
With my work I could take extra time off if I wanted (in addition to my regular holidays), but it would be without pay. They're happy to let me do that because they need me too much to deny me, but most people couldn't reliably do that.
I will definitely spare many thoughts for you ^_^
You're one of my fave people on the site man.
bravo1102 wrote:
@Ozoneocean: I got three hours with Tantz and you get at least three weeks! Oh to live in a country where you actually get real vacation time.
Hey, you'll be there for her birthday and name day! Enjoy and just pause to give a thought to a [redacted due to self deprecation] American.
The wife is going to a genealogy seminar out in Indiana for a week. And my mother turned 89 years young.
There's no day we won't think of you Bravo! And congrats to your mom! May she live to be 100!
Tantz_Aerine wrote:Kawaii will be able to help too ^_^
Soooo starting today and for 5 weeks, I'm standing in for Oz as far as admin stuff here on the duck is concerned, while he flies to places!
She's a super admin as well :D
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