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The pictures Shiro posted on FB looked pretty scaryWhat I Learned Yesterday: Impus Major is 19 years old and still weighs only 116 lbs... while wearing a leather jacket!!!
What I Learned Today: We can never move north of the Arctic Circle (nor south of the Antarctic Circle).
It's almost 3:00 pm, and it never got light. It's brighter now than it was before, but it's still maybe that "45 minutes after sunset" glow rather than any actual light. Even the sun's orb was never visible. And while the kids and I found the whole thing pretty amazing and cool, both GothBard and Shiro declared the day, "Depressing and oppressive". So I'm just guessing living somewhere where you get a least one day like this a year would be a bit much for either of them.(And interesting note -- I have a degree in physics but I'm not sure that's the definition of the Arctic Circle. I *think* it's the latitude where you get at least one day a year where the sun doesn't break the horizon, but I'm not sure...)
EDIT: Oh, look at me actually being (almost) right and everything!
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. It marks the northernmost point at which the centre of the noon sun is just visible on the December solstice and the southernmost point at which the centre of the midnight sun is just visible on the June solstice.It really was like nothing I've ever seen before. At 9:30 am it still seemed like nighttime. By noon it was predawn light. We never even managed to get to "a heavily-overcast day".
And it started off a deep blood red, then transitioned to jaundiced yellow.
We were living Book 1 of Strange Aeons.
The 360 pictures he posted really put it in perspective. Its the whole sky. There isnt even a light patch where the sun it.
The 360 pictures he posted really put it in perspective. Its the whole sky. There isnt even a light patch where the sun it.The pictures Shiro posted on FB looked pretty scaryWhat I Learned Yesterday: Impus Major is 19 years old and still weighs only 116 lbs... while wearing a leather jacket!!!
What I Learned Today: We can never move north of the Arctic Circle (nor south of the Antarctic Circle).
It's almost 3:00 pm, and it never got light. It's brighter now than it was before, but it's still maybe that "45 minutes after sunset" glow rather than any actual light. Even the sun's orb was never visible. And while the kids and I found the whole thing pretty amazing and cool, both GothBard and Shiro declared the day, "Depressing and oppressive". So I'm just guessing living somewhere where you get a least one day like this a year would be a bit much for either of them.(And interesting note -- I have a degree in physics but I'm not sure that's the definition of the Arctic Circle. I *think* it's the latitude where you get at least one day a year where the sun doesn't break the horizon, but I'm not sure...)
EDIT: Oh, look at me actually being (almost) right and everything!
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. It marks the northernmost point at which the centre of the noon sun is just visible on the December solstice and the southernmost point at which the centre of the midnight sun is just visible on the June solstice.It really was like nothing I've ever seen before. At 9:30 am it still seemed like nighttime. By noon it was predawn light. We never even managed to get to "a heavily-overcast day".
And it started off a deep blood red, then transitioned to jaundiced yellow.
We were living Book 1 of Strange Aeons.
GothBard got a great picture in Berkeley at 10:00 am where all the streetlights are still on and the streets are dark.
Aaaand, today it's, "You can see, but you can't breathe!"
The Air Quality Index is already 160 and going up.
Thank goodness we bought the air purifiers after the 2018 fires. I don't know what we'd be doing without them.
For those unfamiliar with AQI, here's the table:
Good 0 to 50
Moderate 51 to 100
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 101 to 150
Unhealthy 151 to 200
Very Unhealthy 201 to 300
Hazardous 301 to 500
Looking at end of life options for our dog.
He's a 12 year old beagle so it's something I've been preparing myself for but it still sucks.
damn. I'm so sorry.
Our furry friends age differently from us and it's always hard.
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Looking at end of life options for our dog.
He's a 12 year old beagle so it's something I've been preparing myself for but it still sucks.
Oof. Sorry to hear! 2020 really is the suck!
(The kids have apparently started playing "2020 Apocalypse Bingo" where they've put all the disasters on a bingo card, added a few more, and are seeing who wins. "Darkened skies" was apparently one of the slots, so one of the kids got to fill in a space yesterday.)
I've been TELLING you all the End was Nigh!
Not a single comment from Freehold about Woran being top-of-the-page and talking about 360° pictures? I am disappoint!
Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
Even before COVID-19, we all worked remotely, so we use an instant messaging client to keep in touch with each other. (And now we're being forced to migrate to the execrable Slack, but that's a tirade for another day.)
What I don't understand is the people who leave their computers on 24/7 and leave themselves marked as "available" that whole time. I won't go into the whole waste of electricity or Windows' tendency to go rogue when left running for too long, but it's really irritating to type at someone who's online only to find out that no, they really aren't, they just never bother to change their status.
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
There is a lot of IP surrounding detection of activity and setting status identifiers appropriately. Sadly, little of it ever seems to have been commercialized that I can tell. Maybe no one wants to pay the licensing fee.
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Always fun when I write a longer paragraph for feedback than the kid did for the project.
Not a single comment from Freehold about Woran being top-of-the-page and talking about 360° pictures? I am disappoint!
As agreed earlier, she is always naked unless she is at the top of the page, and moreover, she is still mourning her loss, and so being blinded by her natural beauty would be poorly timed.
Always fun when I write a longer paragraph for feedback than the kid did for the project.
that humbled me, as a lad.
There is a lot of IP surrounding detection of activity and setting status identifiers appropriately. Sadly, little of it ever seems to have been commercialized that I can tell. Maybe no one wants to pay the licensing fee.
Pidgin does it quite well.
So we're dumping Pidgin for Slack.
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So I've been gone a few days. A few of you already know why.
My mom is one of those older women in rural towns who decides to feed the neighborhood stray cats. She gets about a dozen at her back door every night. She also has one indoor/outdoor cat.
On Thursday she was letting her indoor/outdoor cat back into the house, and one of the wild cats ran in behind him. And then he freaked.
Eventually she got him out of the house, but not without getting bitten on the index finger.
22 hours later her hand and wrist were swollen to double size. Her doctor saw it and immediately called a surgeon.
She got released from the hospital yesterday, I've taken her back to her home, and I'm staying with her for a couple weeks. She needs IV antibiotics four times per day, which the home care nurse trained me on yesterday.
And I'm seeing the mental decline. Arguing with me over whether or not her coffeemaker is in fact, full of water.
And I'm trying to do my job from her house.
So...if I'm quiet or not my usual cranky-but-jovial self...that's why.
There is a lot of IP surrounding detection of activity and setting status identifiers appropriately. Sadly, little of it ever seems to have been commercialized that I can tell. Maybe no one wants to pay the licensing fee.Pidgin does it quite well.
Found it to be relatively reliable with Discord and Teams as well as long as the user didn't set their status manually to something like the above.
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It appears that the fire threatening Mom and Eve's town, which completely destroyed two small communities nearby, was deliberately set to conceal a homicide. A criminal investigation is underway.
I am so freaking pissed.
Huh that is interesting and kind of crazy. It sounds like the beginning of an adventure novel.
In that case it was more of an ending.
Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
Even before COVID-19, we all worked remotely, so we use an instant messaging client to keep in touch with each other. (And now we're being forced to migrate to the execrable Slack, but that's a tirade for another day.)
What I don't understand is the people who leave their computers on 24/7 and leave themselves marked as "available" that whole time. I won't go into the whole waste of electricity or Windows' tendency to go rogue when left running for too long, but it's really irritating to type at someone who's online only to find out that no, they really aren't, they just never bother to change their status.
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
I think that some communication/messenger programs consider that you are on when their app runs in the background on a smartphone.
On the other hand, it fits with the people not knowing how to turn off their computers in the first place as you, Vany, and Woran already established during your IT woes.
Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
So out if curiosity, how do you feel about the opposite, people who always leave their status set on DND or invisible?
Just asking for a friend. >.>
I know my job doesn't use this app, but at least at one point in time there were consequences for setting your status to anything other than in office, even if you weren't, unless you could prove you were on vacation that day.
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It appears that the fire threatening Mom and Eve's town, which completely destroyed two small communities nearby, was deliberately set to conceal a homicide. A criminal investigation is underway.
I am so freaking pissed.
...damn.
I know that massive fires like the ones we are experiencing cause some people to light fires of their own for a wide variety of reasons. I didnt know this was one of them.
I'm sorry.
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Yeah, today's decision: Whether to walk to the corner store with an AQI of 170+ to get ingredients for tonight's dinner.
Amusingly enough, today is "picture day" for Impus Minor where he's supposed to show up on campus just to get his picture taken for the yearbook/so they can sell it to me at exorbitant prices.
Somehow, I just don't think he's going to make it to picture day this year.
EDIT: Though if they were doing it outdoors so the background was the apocalyptic yellow we're all getting used to around here, then I might do it. But apparently they're taking the pictures indoors. Where's the fun in that?
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I was on yearbook for junior high. Our pictures were taken outdoors. I was also the last person photographed for a variety of reasons. The camera guy had one more picture left on the roll of film, so he "let" me pose hanging upside down from a fence on the border of the school property.
That was the photo I insisted be put into the yearbook.
good times.
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Someone made a drone video of San Francisco made yesterday with Blade Runner music. Blade Runner SF 2020 edition..
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Not a single comment from Freehold about Woran being top-of-the-page and talking about 360° pictures? I am disappoint!As agreed earlier, she is always naked unless she is at the top of the page, and moreover, she is still mourning her loss, and so being blinded by her natural beauty would be poorly timed.
You can always be blinded by me freehold, its ok.
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So I've been gone a few days. A few of you already know why.
My mom is one of those older women in rural towns who decides to feed the neighborhood stray cats. She gets about a dozen at her back door every night. She also has one indoor/outdoor cat.
On Thursday she was letting her indoor/outdoor cat back into the house, and one of the wild cats ran in behind him. And then he freaked.
Eventually she got him out of the house, but not without getting bitten on the index finger.
22 hours later her hand and wrist were swollen to double size. Her doctor saw it and immediately called a surgeon.
She got released from the hospital yesterday, I've taken her back to her home, and I'm staying with her for a couple weeks. She needs IV antibiotics four times per day, which the home care nurse trained me on yesterday.
And I'm seeing the mental decline. Arguing with me over whether or not her coffeemaker is in fact, full of water.
And I'm trying to do my job from her house.
So...if I'm quiet or not my usual cranky-but-jovial self...that's why.
*hugs*
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Someone made a drone video of San Francisco made yesterday with Blade Runner music. Blade Runner SF 2020 edition..
Yes!!! That's NOT A FILTER!!! That's what it looked like yesterday!
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Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
Even before COVID-19, we all worked remotely, so we use an instant messaging client to keep in touch with each other. (And now we're being forced to migrate to the execrable Slack, but that's a tirade for another day.)
What I don't understand is the people who leave their computers on 24/7 and leave themselves marked as "available" that whole time. I won't go into the whole waste of electricity or Windows' tendency to go rogue when left running for too long, but it's really irritating to type at someone who's online only to find out that no, they really aren't, they just never bother to change their status.
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
I think that some communication/messenger programs consider that you are on when their app runs in the background on a smartphone.
On the other hand, it fits with the people not knowing how to turn off their computers in the first place as you, Vany, and Woran already established during your IT woes.
MY LAPTOP IS SLOW FIT IT I NEED A NEW ONE
*checks uptime*
*258 days*
Maybe you should reboot it...
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Hello John!
To everyone in this thread, from sudden allergies to the loss of our furbabies to our parents' decline or our own serious maladies, adulting is freaking HARD. I seriously hope everyone is doing ok today.
On the positive, my kids started school this week and even though they're both in HS and going online they both let me take traditional first day of school pics.
When I have days where the a-hole in my brain is winning and things seem... kinda bleak, it's nice to glance at my phone and see my girls standing in front of the garage with laptop bags and new "school" clothes on.
Sending those vibes to y'all.
Aw, that is adorable <3
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I know my job doesn't use this app, but at least at one point in time there were consequences for setting your status to anything other than in office, even if you weren't, unless you could prove you were on vacation that day.Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
So out if curiosity, how do you feel about the opposite, people who always leave their status set on DND or invisible?
Just asking for a friend. >.>
I admittedly don't mess with my status on Teams at work. I probably should've specified that I was talking about personal stuff rather than professional, that's on me.
On Discord, which I only use for personal communication, I leave my status set to DND because I'm usually in the middle of three or four different things and can't always respond immediately. And I know Scint and a few other people who are always set to Invisible so people don't know if they're on or not.
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Hey! Awesome! There's a really faint dusting of snow on my deck!
Oh, wait... that's ash.
*SIGH*
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Oh, and after being chastised for dumping a bin of PlayMobil in the trash, I put two bins of Legos and Megablocks out front. Gone in under 15 minutes. Turns out my neighbor's daughter 2 doors down is hugely into Legos, but not into pirate stuff, so all the pirate stuff reappeared...
...only to be picked up by a young boy from a block and a half away.
So 2 more bins just went out today. Those two are happy kids.
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Tried to fight a parking ticket online and they decided against me.
I am displeased.
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Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
Even before COVID-19, we all worked remotely, so we use an instant messaging client to keep in touch with each other. (And now we're being forced to migrate to the execrable Slack, but that's a tirade for another day.)
What I don't understand is the people who leave their computers on 24/7 and leave themselves marked as "available" that whole time. I won't go into the whole waste of electricity or Windows' tendency to go rogue when left running for too long, but it's really irritating to type at someone who's online only to find out that no, they really aren't, they just never bother to change their status.
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
I think that some communication/messenger programs consider that you are on when their app runs in the background on a smartphone.
On the other hand, it fits with the people not knowing how to turn off their computers in the first place as you, Vany, and Woran already established during your IT woes.
MY LAPTOP IS SLOW FIT IT I NEED A NEW ONE
*checks uptime*
*258 days*Maybe you should reboot it...
IT says that rebooting laptop will make it go faster?!
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Tried to fight a parking ticket online and they decided against me.
I am displeased.
Did I mention the one where I was asleep in the car when they ticketed us, so GothBard took a picture of the trees that were obscuring the No Parking signs?
They trimmed the trees, took a new picture, told us, "See? The signs were perfectly visible! Fine upheld!"
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Have you tried defragmenting the hard drive?Pet Peeve of the Day: Always-in employees
Even before COVID-19, we all worked remotely, so we use an instant messaging client to keep in touch with each other. (And now we're being forced to migrate to the execrable Slack, but that's a tirade for another day.)
What I don't understand is the people who leave their computers on 24/7 and leave themselves marked as "available" that whole time. I won't go into the whole waste of electricity or Windows' tendency to go rogue when left running for too long, but it's really irritating to type at someone who's online only to find out that no, they really aren't, they just never bother to change their status.
What good is a status indicator if you never set it and never shut down?
I think that some communication/messenger programs consider that you are on when their app runs in the background on a smartphone.
On the other hand, it fits with the people not knowing how to turn off their computers in the first place as you, Vany, and Woran already established during your IT woes.
MY LAPTOP IS SLOW FIT IT I NEED A NEW ONE
*checks uptime*
*258 days*Maybe you should reboot it...
I'm more in favor of fragmenting it. With explosives. And then painstakingly collecting the fragments and melting them down with thermite.
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NobodysHome: You know, Impus Major, there are very few things I out-and-out forbid you to do, but you are not to go jogging today!
Impus Major: Aw, man, Dad! But the smoke searing my lungs, the jaundiced yellow sky, and the kiss of ash on my face just makes me feel alive!
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Looks like the AQI topped out at 195 today. Shiro claims that a few days ago Fremont hit 400. I know Fremont's been running about 100 higher than us, but I'd think 400 would have resulted in a shelter-in-place order for the county (which I'm in), so I'm thinking it was a misreading.
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And now, for the next in a long line of beloved children's books to be horribly mangled in the film adaptation, hey, they're making a series of The Westing Game!
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I'd think 400 would have resulted in a shelter-in-place order for the county
Why do you assume that? Does the county have public criteria for those kinds of decisions?
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Someone made a drone video of San Francisco made yesterday with Blade Runner music. Blade Runner SF 2020 edition..Yes!!! That's NOT A FILTER!!! That's what it looked like yesterday!
It took me too long to piece that together. That's because of the fires. Wow. 2020 man at least after this year provided we survive we will be ready for anything.
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I'm sorry about your dog, cap. That really sucks. I always thought beagles were particularly long lived breeds, though? Either way you know your own animal. If you need to talk hit me up, amigo.