Old Man Posted July 18, 2017 Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 My pot pie attempt turned out edible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 Been a good few days for British sport. Tom Daley won a Gold medal and a Silver in Diving at the World Championships. The England team won the Women's Cricket World Cup despite Wikipedia saying India won it before the match had even taken place. And Christopher Froome won the Tour de France despite not winning a single stage. It was close up to the time trial when the second place rider lost ground. Simon Yates won the Young Rider and this mirrored what his twin brother won last year. Froome has not won a race this year as well. But he now has won four Tours the most since Indurain discounting Lance Armstrong, and has now won three in a row not done again since Indurain tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 The England Women's Football team is through to the semi-finals of the European championship. They beat France to get there and this is the first occasion they have defeated the French in 43 years. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 My wife's a genius. And she has cousins in central Idaho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 I'm apparently still alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted July 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 GOOD! The Ewoks were getting cocky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 I went dumpster diving today and salvaged a few hundred feet of barbed wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 I went dumpster diving today and salvaged a few hundred feet of barbed wire. Okay, I've gotta know the story behind this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 I went dumpster diving today and salvaged a few hundred feet of barbed wire. One of the highlights of my youth was being an 8-year-old in Berlin, playing war games with a dozen others of my tribe, in real bombed-out cellars, with real coils of barbed wired wire lying discarded in some places in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 The ankle I sprained on Sunday is less sprained today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2017 Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 A third hummingbird on the feeder. The first one was a female, and she was here for three weeks. Second one last night was a male. The males are a lot more vocal. This third one today is either female or a young'un: there's a little pink spot on the throat but nothing like a full gorget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 Okay, I've gotta know the story behind this. I'll tell this story soon. I really will. I've just been busy lately. On a related note: I got to use a jackhammer today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 Yesterday was a good day. A. was in the neighborhood, and there was fika, lunch, slight sightseeing, and a looong walk. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 The job is done, the pipes didn't explode, and I got paid! Old Man and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 My head is now staple free! lemming and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I made the mistake of pricing new computers this morning, and caught a sale. It's a Ryzen 7 1700 with an RX580 graphics card. The system's easily displaying at 4K, and offered either 7.1 or Atmos for the speaker setup for the audio. I transcoded an album from FLAC to MP3 in about 15 seconds. It's currently chewing on some video transcoding, but it's happily outperforming my old Core i5 by a factor of about 3x to 4x. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 I managed to get to 100 likes from people here on various of my posts without looking at the button top right to see what was being liked. This was the third occasion I tried this as I got to 80 plus twice and then looked by accident as there was also Personal Mails and the buttons are together. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 After almost a week of temperatures in the 95°F (35°C) range without it, our swamp cooler was finally replaced yesterday. The house was actually a little chilly when I went to bed last night. It was glorious. Nolgroth, Burrito Boy and tkdguy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 James Anderson has become the first English bowler to take 500 wickets. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 On a lark, I decided to move my 56" 4k Television over to my desk and try it out as a monitor. Fallout 4 has never looked so glorious. I have not noticed any real screen lag. I was worried that the response time would cause tearing or such. The only difference, mechanics wise, is that my video card runs about 7-10 degrees warmer than it used to. It is still far below the manufacturers warning though. Just as an example, I'm uploading a photo of my latest character. Scratch that. The forum keeps resizing it down which sort of defeats the purpose. Here is a link to the screenshot posted on my One Drive: https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArYRi_6-m_1vxGQ3z9rxjFo01RDo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 On a lark, I decided to move my 56" 4k Television over to my desk and try it out as a monitor. Fallout 4 has never looked so glorious. I have not noticed any real screen lag. I was worried that the response time would cause tearing or such. The only difference, mechanics wise, is that my video card runs about 7-10 degrees warmer than it used to. It is still far below the manufacturers warning though. Just as an example, I'm uploading a photo of my latest character. Scratch that. The forum keeps resizing it down which sort of defeats the purpose. Here is a link to the screenshot posted on my One Drive: https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArYRi_6-m_1vxGQ3z9rxjFo01RDo My old computers couldn't manage more than 1080p resolution to the 4K TV, but the new computer's video card is very happy to output 4K. I've tested it with Skyrim with everything set to high, and was seeing detail that I had never noticed before. Audio-wise, my receiver's 7.1/Atmos, while the old computer speakers are 5.1. Playing with the audio settings on the new computer yesterday, Windows took me to a free Dolby Atmos plugin in their store that upconverts to 7.1/Atmos (kind of similar to the DTS Neo: 6 or Dolby Digital processing, from what I can tell). I have a few games that don't scale well, so it's hard to read text onscreen. Civ V will display at full resolution, but I can't really read the text comfortably from my chair. The workaround that seems to be on various forums is either to set the game to a lower resolution, or (for the brave), hand editing some configuration files to modify the fixed font sizes. I tried the former, and it's playing well at just slightly above 1080p. Civ VI will play fine at maximum resolution, but I'm still not sure I like the game mechanics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 Christopher Froome has won La Vuelta the Spanish Grand Tour cycle race. He is the first Briton to ever win the race. He becomes the first person to win the Tour de France and La Vuelta in the same year since it was moved to late Summer from early Spring in 1995. And two other riders both French are the only others to have won La Vuelta in the same year as they won the Tour de France. So it is some achievement. Alberto Contador who has won all three Grand Tours at least twice retired at the end of La Vuelta. He restored Spanish pride with a win on Stage 20 (yesterday) as no Spanish rider had won a stage in this year's race until then. The last time that had happened was 1996. Contador was allowed to lead the peleton into Madrid for the last part of the race. He set off on a lap of honour to the adoration of the crowds. He has had the support of the crowd ever since the start of the race and the fact he had announced that he was retiring after this race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 Now reached 150 likes without looking at the button. Have now got to level 850 in Diamonddigger, 830 plus in Farm Heroes and over 600 in Candy Crush. Received last night a piece of art. Have not made a commission in 2 years and this one was one of the last outstanding ones. It was a nice surprise to see it. It's not up on Deviantart yet but it will be. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 Extra hour in bed as the clocks go back. Don't you just love the end of Summer ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 My Amazon order was supposed to arrive today, but ended up arriving yesterday around noon. It took me a little bit of fiddling to get everything installed, but now the new Ryzen 7 tower has a Blu-Ray writer in the full size drive bay, and a WD Black NVMe 512GB SSD card in the M.2 slot. The OS has been cloned onto the SSD, and it's awesomely fast. Booting is much faster than my old i5 with a SATA III SSD, and most applications load in a fraction of a second. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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