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Fantasy Monster: Chestnut Golem Swarm
A seasonal creation. Literally, and metaphorically.
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I think that I have misplaced my chestnut shell cap myself...
Signs of being old: Buying stainless steel frying pan. Being tired after walking a few kilometers.
But mostly buying a frying pan.
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Signs of being old: ... Being tired after walking a few kilometers.
Hush, you! :)
I'm going to console lie to myself that it's because we're creeping ever closer to the dark of the year, so even a brisk, shortish walk in the afternoon leaves one in softer, cool-ish light that encourages the worst tendencies of one's lizard brain.
Well, that feels better. The whole family has voted. So we can ignore everything for the next few weeks.
It turns out my voting place is in the luxury hotel 3 blocks away.
Which beats the church a mile away they switched the old house too.
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I think the best part is that when I described our local candidates to the family, they wrote in Talky for both City Council (second choice) and School Board (first choice).
But then, of 4 registered school board candidates, not a single one mentioned teaching, teachers, or education anywhere in their materials.
When NONE of your candidates actually know what their job is supposed to be...
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I got to mcdonalds and back with the neice yesterday. I can barely get down the steps today. Worth it. The strawberry shake was good. Taught a little astronomy. Also saw some rats in the neighbors garbage hut. They seemed to appreciate the bird seed as a healthy snack to hold them over for a day or two.
I think the best part is that when I described our local candidates to the family, they wrote in Talky for both City Council (second choice) and School Board (first choice).
What if he wins?!
(we don't have write-in votes here, writing in response invalidates your vote)
Everything that's wrong with AI and automated systems in a brief, hilarious nutshell:
(1) My original manager (OM) resigned in March of 2022.
(2) My new manager (NM), director (D), and vice president (VP) were all laid off in August of 2022.
(3) Within a year, D managed to find a new position at Global Megacorporation.
So, we're moving to a new file management system. I had to put in a request for ownership of all of OM and NM's stuff so I could continue to maintain the archives. Since OM had resigned, the transfer went through with no issues. Since NM had been laid off, an automatic approval was triggered to NM's manager. The system checked, "Who was his manager?", found D, and assigned her the approval.
She's in a completely different division now, but system wouldn't proceed without her approval. Fortunately, she's good people and bemusedly approved the request. But neither automated systems nor AI handle, "This person was with the company, then wasn't, but now is again," well.
Go easy on him, young man, he’s not seen as winters as us. Mind you, I have probably seen too many!Oh, great, it is Roundheads vs Cavaliers all over again!Hey, look, I'm doing my best! You try coming up with something new after five thousand years!
Old enow to don ye buff coat of Scripture, pick up ye Backsword of Holiness, and strike a mighty Blow againft ye Wicked Legions of ye Popifh Antichrift for ye Good Old Cause.
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(even if a bowl cut is possible with Afro hair),
It is.
Don't ask me how I know.
(even if a bowl cut is possible with Afro hair),It is.
Don't ask me how I know.
Photos! Photos! Photos!
I am sick enough to stay home from school two days in a row and not care that I'm leaving my students in the hands of my n00b assistant and a sub.
And yet my husband asks me to drive to pick up Hermione and make dinner, because he has too much on his plate.
I got a hot chicken in a bag from the grocery store and told Hermione to make a salad.
I am sick enough to stay home from school two days in a row and not care that I'm leaving my students in the hands of my n00b assistant and a sub.
And yet my husband asks me to drive to pick up Hermione and make dinner, because he has too much on his plate.
I got a hot chicken in a bag from the grocery store and told Hermione to make a salad.
Wizard up some dinner lazybones!
Provided that his cooking would not sicken the entire household that is.
I am sick enough to stay home from school two days in a row and not care that I'm leaving my students in the hands of my n00b assistant and a sub.
And yet my husband asks me to drive to pick up Hermione and make dinner, because he has too much on his plate.
Words fail me.
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I am sick enough to stay home from school two days in a row and not care that I'm leaving my students in the hands of my n00b assistant and a sub.
And yet my husband asks me to drive to pick up Hermione and make dinner, because he has too much on his plate.
I got a hot chicken in a bag from the grocery store and told Hermione to make a salad.
Sick person doing food prep... did we not live through covid?
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Other disturbing autocorrects: "Fanime" becomes "Famine".
Don't know that I'd enjoy the famine convention nearly as much -- the food booths suck!
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Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)
"Automated systems" sounds like Workday - the bane of everyone everywhere if they work at a large corporation or government enterprise.
I'd heard nothing but bad things about Workday before, but at GothBard's new company she has to use it and she hates it, then I was at a Halloween party talking with someone who manages over 100 people and out of the blue she started going off about how terrible Workday is.
She said, "It must be great for HR people, because otherwise everyone I know hates it."
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I assume everyone at PF Changs hates it, although I'm indifferent mostly due to not needing to do a lot with it. The calls we get about it mostly stem from managers not knowing the process, but there are plenty of times the process seems to be broken and we have to send the ticket to the Workday team.
Physics and biology are truly marvelous, incomprehensible things.
Some of the kids' friends were in a collision yesterday morning. Three of them walked away with nothing but bruises. The fourth had to be raced to a medical center with two fractured vertebrae. So far the prognosis is "good" that they won't suffer any permanent effects from the injury and we'll know more after today's surgery.
Four people. Same age. Same car. Same collision. Yet one of them somehow managed to be injured far more severely than the rest. I'm waiting to learn more from the kids as they get news, but so far as anyone knows as of yet, there was nothing "special" about the injured kid's seating with regards to the collision, they just "got unlucky".
(The only additional data points are that they're extremely thin at maybe 5'6" and under 120 lbs, and they're always tense, which I know makes a huge difference in collisions -- though I don't see tense muscles as being able to fracture vertebrae.)
Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.
He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)
Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
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I assume everyone at PF Changs hates it, although I'm indifferent mostly due to not needing to do a lot with it. The calls we get about it mostly stem from managers not knowing the process, but there are plenty of times the process seems to be broken and we have to send the ticket to the Workday team.
There's a Pathfinder Chang's?!?!?
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Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
Our neighborhood is pretty quiet. He goes straight down the road from the corner of our block, and it's mostly residential. When I think about what my friends and I got up to after school in the 80s as latchkey kids with no supervision, this seems relatively minor.
Our neighborhood is pretty quiet. He goes straight down the road from the corner of our block, and it's mostly residential. When I think about what my friends and I got up to after school in the 80s as latchkey kids with no supervision, this seems relatively minor.Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
STORY TIME!!!!!!!!!
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I assume everyone at PF Changs hates it, although I'm indifferent mostly due to not needing to do a lot with it. The calls we get about it mostly stem from managers not knowing the process, but there are plenty of times the process seems to be broken and we have to send the ticket to the Workday team.There's a Pathfinder Chang's?!?!?
Yeah, he has profession cook and carries a wok on missions. He hopes to open restaurants all over Golarion.
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Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!
My parents did not believe in driving any of us anywhere for any reason. It was feet, bike, or bus. So yeah, in kindergarten I was walking alone the half-mile to and from class, rain or shine, and by middle school it was over a mile each way. Then to get to Lawrence Hall of Science (our favorite hangout when I was 9), we took the bus to downtown Berkeley, then the Humphrey Go-Bart up the hill, so you had an unaccompanied 9-year-old taking the public bus and campus transport system far into the Berkeley hills.
There's a great Japanese show that Shiro found where they assign tasks to 3- and 4-year-olds like, "Go 5 miles to your grandma's house, pick a cabbage, and bring it home," and they do it.
Kids are a LOT more capable than people give them credit for.
EDIT: And before anyone says, "But times are more dangerous now," I looked it up for my kids: 1991 was the peak of violent crime in the U.S., right when me and my friends were out and about. I'm sure there's no relation. But no, it's NOT more dangerous than it used to be. People are just telling you it's more dangerous so they can sell you something.
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I walked home from school some afternoons, thanks to the computer lab being open for a couple hours afterwards.
I still remember the joy of getting older (maybe 10 or 11) and deciding the bus took too long, so my friends and I would walk to downtown Berkeley (2 1/2 miles) to catch the Go-Bart. It was a lot of fun. I really don't understand the mindset of, "Well, we're on Albany Hill, so it's nearly 3/4 of a mile to the middle school, so we have to drive our daughter."
You're in fricking Albany. Get over yourself already.
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There's a great Japanese show that Shiro found where they assign tasks to 3- and 4-year-olds like, "Go 5 miles to your grandma's house, pick a cabbage, and bring it home," and they do it.
Kids are a LOT more capable than people give them credit for.
Japan is also a lot safer than most of the US? I'm in the burbs and that walk here would include cars moving at freeway speeds, marauding teenagers, Coyotes, crossing a creek that would be considered a river out west, bees, ticks, and the occasional bear. 5 miles thataway and you might start to add venomous snakes. I don't trust most adults I know not to do something stupid and run down a cliff when one appears out of nowhere with a BZTZTHTSHTSSTHSTHSTHSTHSTSTHSTHSTHSTSTSTSTHSTS.
The cars especially add a learning curve that you have to be over before trying that.
(the venomous snakes around here are timber rattlers. They are VERY picky about where thy live and only live in rocky hill sides. I have never seen them outside of the parks along the hudson)
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Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!
My parents did not believe in driving any of us anywhere for any reason. It was feet, bike, or bus. So yeah, in kindergarten I was walking alone the half-mile to and from class, rain or shine, and by middle school it was over a mile each way. Then to get to Lawrence Hall of Science (our favorite hangout when I was 9), we took the bus to downtown Berkeley, then the Humphrey Go-Bart up the hill, so you had an unaccompanied 9-year-old taking the public bus and campus transport system far into the Berkeley hills.
There's a great Japanese show that Shiro found where they assign tasks to 3- and 4-year-olds like, "Go 5 miles to your grandma's house, pick a cabbage, and bring it home," and they do it.
Kids are a LOT more capable than people give them credit for.
EDIT: And before anyone says, "But times are more dangerous now," I looked it up for my kids: 1991 was the peak of violent crime in the U.S., right when me and my friends were out and about. I'm sure there's no relation. But no, it's NOT more dangerous than it used to be. People are just telling you it's more dangerous so they can sell you something.
So I started walking to school while being 7, it is a bit over 400 meters, I had not to cross any actual street, but that was a local quirk. Some of the folks from my class had to cross one actual street (I am excluding here, a small streets inside neighborhood as they have different legal status and movement rules than actual streets).
At 15 I started walking to the high school middle school about 1.2 kilometer away, crossing a street or two, depending on the way I picked.
It would be ridiculously silly to be driven that distance. It would not be even worth waiting for a bus.
I was home schooled and didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was 9 but once I did I was riding all over the county.
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When I was in 6th grade my parents left me and my younger brother home alone. So I left my brother home by himself, stold borrowed my older brother’s 10 speed and rode 4 miles into town for the school dance. The bike had one of those little generators that runs on a wheel to power the head light. The faster you go the brighter the light. It was mostly uphill coming back from town so the light was pretty dim for a lot of it. The real danger was from cars though.
As far as I know, my parents never knew about that.
I used to hike into town (without permission) to go to the library, shoplift, and play video games at the little pizza joint. There was a good chance of running into friends from school at the pizza place, too.
Well, he let me sleep in this morning and drove Hermione to school, which is an hour round-trip during rush hour.He should have made you breakfast beforehand.
(Teensy Valeros usually walks, his school is only a mile from our house.)Whut.
Then again...I suppose I was a mile away from grandma after school...
Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!
My parents did not believe in driving any of us anywhere for any reason. It was feet, bike, or bus. So yeah, in kindergarten I was walking alone the half-mile to and from class, rain or shine, and by middle school it was over a mile each way. Then to get to Lawrence Hall of Science (our favorite hangout when I was 9), we took the bus to downtown Berkeley, then the Humphrey Go-Bart up the hill, so you had an unaccompanied 9-year-old taking the public bus and campus transport system far into the Berkeley hills.
There's a great Japanese show that Shiro found where they assign tasks to 3- and 4-year-olds like, "Go 5 miles to your grandma's house, pick a cabbage, and bring it home," and they do it.
Kids are a LOT more capable than people give them credit for.
EDIT: And before anyone says, "But times are more dangerous now," I looked it up for my kids: 1991 was the peak of violent crime in the U.S., right when me and my friends were out and about. I'm sure there's no relation. But no, it's NOT more dangerous than it used to be. People are just telling you it's more dangerous so they can sell you something.
I am Gen X. I just lived in a much rougher neighborhood than you.
Yeah, my neighborhood wasn’t rough at all. Not being sarcastic either.
In the days of, "Amazon will let you return anything for any reason," you'd think that companies would try a lot harder to distinguish their products; for example, "printer line alpha, printer line beta, printer line delta," and so forth, with all printers in a line using the same parts.
But nope.
So, Impus Minor uses 3D printers a lot. With surprising regularity, one of them encounters a minor glitch and encases the entire print head in hardened resin. Two or three times a year, he needs to order a new print head. Fortunately, 3D printer manufacturers recognize this and print heads are remarkably inexpensive and easy to get. Unfortunately, they're coded along the lines of CX-1103400 or CX-1103401, so of course Impus Minor finally messed up and ordered the wrong head. Since he has to get them through Amazon, he simply filed a return with "ordered by mistake" and he gets a full refund. But the printer company is eating a loss simply because they didn't use MUCH more distinguishing codes for their printer heads.
Just musing at 6 in the morning...
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Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!I am Gen X. I just lived in a much rougher neighborhood than you.
That honestly surprises me. Richmond and Oakland had insane crime rates in the late 70s and early 80s, and gang violence was rampant. But there was an unspoken rule of, "Don't mess with little kids," so you'd see kindergartners with backpacks walking to school through some of the nastiest neighborhoods you could imagine. Yes, once the kids were middle-school aged that was no longer an option, but the little ones could walk those neighborhoods safely.
In the days of, "Amazon will let you return anything for any reason," you'd think that companies would try a lot harder to distinguish their products; for example, "printer line alpha, printer line beta, printer line delta," and so forth, with all printers in a line using the same parts.
But nope.
So, Impus Minor uses 3D printers a lot. With surprising regularity, one of them encounters a minor glitch and encases the entire print head in hardened resin. Two or three times a year, he needs to order a new print head. Fortunately, 3D printer manufacturers recognize this and print heads are remarkably inexpensive and easy to get. Unfortunately, they're coded along the lines of CX-1103400 or CX-1103401, so of course Impus Minor finally messed up and ordered the wrong head. Since he has to get them through Amazon, he simply filed a return with "ordered by mistake" and he gets a full refund. But the printer company is eating a loss simply because they didn't use MUCH more distinguishing codes for their printer heads.
Just musing at 6 in the morning...
I actually am interested in getting something important to me 3d printed. Will PM.
That honestly surprises me. Richmond and Oakland had insane crime rates in the late 70s and early 80s, and gang violence was rampant. But there was an unspoken rule of, "Don't mess with little kids," so you'd see kindergartners with backpacks walking to school through some of the nastiest neighborhoods you could imagine. Yes, once the kids were middle-school aged that was no longer an option, but the little ones could walk those neighborhoods safely.Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!I am Gen X. I just lived in a much rougher neighborhood than you.
Im pretty sure I told you about watching the neighbors house getting broken into on a Saturday morning because there was nothing on TV, jumping from crack vial to crack vial on the way to school for fun, the first time I saw a naked woman(that wasn't mom) before on here. It's just different types of bad, maybe.
Weird youtube thing. On one account, logged in into one browser (Chrome+NoScript), when I click on the YouTube and go into the main page, it doesn't show me any videos saying that search history is turned off.
On another account, on another browser (Firefox+NoScript), in the same circumstances, with the same privacy settings (as far as I could find with a cursory check), I get a list of videos proposed to me, based on recent viewings...
Im pretty sure I told you about watching the neighbors house getting broken into on a Saturday morning because there was nothing on TV, jumping from crack vial to crack vial on the way to school for fun, the first time I saw a naked woman(that wasn't mom) before on here. It's just different types of bad, maybe.That honestly surprises me. Richmond and Oakland had insane crime rates in the late 70s and early 80s, and gang violence was rampant. But there was an unspoken rule of, "Don't mess with little kids," so you'd see kindergartners with backpacks walking to school through some of the nastiest neighborhoods you could imagine. Yes, once the kids were middle-school aged that was no longer an option, but the little ones could walk those neighborhoods safely.Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!I am Gen X. I just lived in a much rougher neighborhood than you.
OK, yeah. That's definitely different. I know that these days there are streets that the kids can't walk down due to homelessness/drug addicts, but that's "relatively" new in that it didn't come along until I was in my college years. But that kind of stuff? Yeah, you can't let kids walk through it.
OK, yeah. That's definitely different. I know that these days there are streets that the kids can't walk down due to homelessness/drug addicts, but that's "relatively" new in that it didn't come along until I was in my college years. But that kind of stuff? Yeah, you can't let kids walk through it.Im pretty sure I told you about watching the neighbors house getting broken into on a Saturday morning because there was nothing on TV, jumping from crack vial to crack vial on the way to school for fun, the first time I saw a naked woman(that wasn't mom) before on here. It's just different types of bad, maybe.That honestly surprises me. Richmond and Oakland had insane crime rates in the late 70s and early 80s, and gang violence was rampant. But there was an unspoken rule of, "Don't mess with little kids," so you'd see kindergartners with backpacks walking to school through some of the nastiest neighborhoods you could imagine. Yes, once the kids were middle-school aged that was no longer an option, but the little ones could walk those neighborhoods safely.Wow... learn how Gen X lived, Freehold!I am Gen X. I just lived in a much rougher neighborhood than you.
It could also be not just different sides of the country but different sides of the Gen X gap. I am almost a millennial in terms of age(though I am not one of them). By the time I was around and living in the area I speak of(late elementary school as opposed to early elementary school, which is when i was going to grandmas house), and you were probably 14 or so, crack was indeed king, cops showed up....rarely, and most people were quite aware of their local crackheads and more scared of them and the petty crime they brought with them as opposed to gangs and the more organized protection-esque rackets they ran at the time(which eventually just turned into robbing people).
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Predating home computers, I am still most comfortable with big, thick, "You can use this as a bludgeoning weapon," keyboards.
Last night I spilled about half a cup of water on mine. While trying to wipe up the water, it woke up my Mac Mini and powered up the keyboard. I figured it was now toast. Nevertheless, I unplugged it, dried it more thoroughly, and let it sit overnight.
Today I plugged it back in, and the net result is that I have a clean(er) keyboard.
Old school is the best school.
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I should know better than to answer the phone at all, but sometimes it's from an area code that might be important, such as Seattle. Why my mother's caretakers turn off Caller ID I'll never know, but I've learned that there are some calls from some area codes that I really should answer. But I've learned a "handy life hack" (and you really should understand how much I loathe that term, because it's typically something either illegal, for sale, or so dumb you can't believe anyone would actually do it).
But if I pick up the phone and say, "Hello," really quickly and then go silent, people who are calling me directly say, "Oh, hi! I'm calling about..."
A bot or anyone at a call center is on multiple lines at once and has a lot of trouble determining which line just picked up, so I get a, "Oh? Hello? Is anyone there?"
At which point I hang up.
Works like a charm.
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I have installed Valheim again, to see how it works at the new computer (but before I get a new gfx card). Also, because the board game looked fine.
I really want to like this game, but there is a lot of subsystems and elements that feel inconvenient for inconvenience sake...
Camp building? Yeah, it allows you freedom to construct both utilitarian and weird buildings, but I feel like I am constantly struggling against control. A few weeks ago, V Rising had free access days so I played for... 60% of the game over a weekend? And the base building felt much better there - much less customizable and more restricted - because of strict square-based grid on which you placed floors and walls, but because of that it was much more convenient. Less misclicked placement of objects, less things falling apart because they lack proper support.
Harvesting resources seems to be a slightly better in Valheim, though, thanks to destructible environment. As is the movement (third person is much better than sort-of-isometric view), and you can actually jump (which is apparently a skill beyond capabilities of ancient vampires, who can only jump down from cliffs).
Both could really use an option for "automated storage space" allowing me to craft items in camp from whatever is in storage, instead of having to wonder where I put those damn stones again, out of half a dozen chests...