Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zloth]

He was also hilariously really scared of any animal bigger than him, like horses. Told me why. Apparently he went to Spain on holiday and took a horse ride, but the horse got a bit panicky. 'So. I punched it in the side of the 'ed'.

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

 

[March's Ghost]

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I assume you called him "Mongo" from then on?

I believe the horse won, hence the lifetime fear of them. It was just they way he said it, like it was the most natural thing you would do.

He was actually a really decent kind of fella, not scary at all despite how it sounds.

 

[ZedClampet]

OH MY!

CoPilot just told me it didn't know the answer to a question.

That's a pretty significant milestone.

 

[March's Ghost]

OH MY!

CoPilot just told me it didn't know the answer to a question.

That's a pretty significant milestone.

Ha! I got that beat. I don't know the answer to a whole bunch of questions.

 

[ZedClampet]

Ha! I got that beat. I don't know the answer to a whole bunch of questions.

How often do you then fabricate convincing lies to tell the person who asked the question? We might need to get you into their training program. I'm signed up for the third week of March.

******

Speaking of AI, I wanted to see what it was like to make an AI video. I imagined it was awful, but you never know. So I wanted to try picture to video, so I made a picture of Santa Claus, and then I uploaded it to the video program. Very carefully, I told the AI to make Santa laugh and his belly jiggle. Then I hit generate!

90 minutes later I watched my new video. It was like something out of The Exorcist. Santa did everything but spit green vomit.

I decided I was done with AI videos.

 

[Zloth]

That's a pretty significant milestone.

It is! You would think they could slap some sort of confidence level on their responses, but I guess not. Still, there has to be something going on in the background to be able to say it can't give a response.

 

[March's Ghost]

How often do you then fabricate convincing lies to tell the person who asked the question? We might need to get you into their training program. I'm signed up for the third week of March.

I've never had to fabricate a convincing lie. I have a duffel bag full of convincing lies I found near some abandoned factory with all sorts of weird symbols painted everywhere and the phrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in several spots. Not sure what that means, but whatever.

Anyway, anytime I need a convincing lie I just pull one out of the duffel bag. Always seems to be just the lie I need and the bag hasn't run out even after 27 years since I found it.

 

[ZedClampet]

One time many years ago, I was struggling with severe depression. Several things had happened, and I was not just depressed, but very down on myself. I felt like a failure and was even embarrassed to be around my wife's family. One day I was sitting silently with my father-in-law in their kitchen, and out of nowhere he reached over, placed his hand on my back, and said quietly, "You're a good son-in-law," and then he got up and left the table, gently squeezing my shoulder as he left.

He didn't share any wisdom. He didn't give me any advice. But to this day I can remember those words and feel lifted up.

He passed away 10 years ago. I just felt the need for a little tribute.

 

[BeardyHat]

I hate my week.

It is completely full (at least, until Thursday, I'm pretty sure...) of routine breaking things going on. It (along with many other things) is causing me no end of anxiety; I absolutely hate breaking my routine and I'm trying to figure out just how I'll get through today, tomorrow and Wednesday without melting down.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, as I will just do it, but I'll be hella anxious leading up to all of it.

I've also started digging a tench in my backyard... I got really into this RC Rock Crawler Hobby a month or two ago, sparked by my oldest receiving one for Christmas, as they hadn't stopped talking about it all year and saying they wanted one. Rock crawling is something I've been into in general since my teens, so this wasn't a huge step for me, really. But my wife gave me the go-ahead to make some alterations to a little used portion of the backyard--and actually, has entrusted me to redesign the front yard for crawling--so I've begun to scrape away the river rock, cut through the weed barrier and begin digging. I'm intending to fill it with plastic, then rock on top and maybe get some larger rocks to run the sides of it. I'll then fill it with water and connect it to the rest of my course.

But I just want to sing the praises of my wife here; what a tolerant, loving, woman. Not only does she tolerate my numerous hobbies, but actively supports and encourages them. I was trying to keep my coarse to a smaller, out of the way location in the backyard when just the other day she said I should do this trench idea and use up some more of our available space that is just rocked over. On top of telling me to redesign the front yard around crawling, but "make it pretty" (of which, I have every intention). And again, this is further on top of the fact that she's been our sole breadwinner for the past 7 years so that I could be a stay at home parent. Not to mention, she deals with my constant anxiety and the days where I'm depressed and just completely useless. Dunno how I managed to find a woman like her and continually have her in my life the last 17 years.

 

[March's Ghost]

90 minutes later I watched my new video. It was like something out of The Exorcist. Santa did everything but spit green vomit.

I decided I was done with AI videos.

Dude, that was worse than staring into the abyss. That was winking at the abyss and inviting it to dinner.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I hate my week.

It is completely full (at least, until Thursday, I'm pretty sure...) of routine breaking things going on. It (along with many other things) is causing me no end of anxiety; I absolutely hate breaking my routine and I'm trying to figure out just how I'll get through today, tomorrow and Wednesday without melting down.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, as I will just do it, but I'll be hella anxious leading up to all of it.

I've also started digging a tench in my backyard... I got really into this RC Rock Crawler Hobby a month or two ago, sparked by my oldest receiving one for Christmas, as they hadn't stopped talking about it all year and saying they wanted one. Rock crawling is something I've been into in general since my teens, so this wasn't a huge step for me, really. But my wife gave me the go-ahead to make some alterations to a little used portion of the backyard--and actually, has entrusted me to redesign the front yard for crawling--so I've begun to scrape away the river rock, cut through the weed barrier and begin digging. I'm intending to fill it with plastic, then rock on top and maybe get some larger rocks to run the sides of it. I'll then fill it with water and connect it to the rest of my course.

But I just want to sing the praises of my wife here; what a tolerant, loving, woman. Not only does she tolerate my numerous hobbies, but actively supports and encourages them. I was trying to keep my coarse to a smaller, out of the way location in the backyard when just the other day she said I should do this trench idea and use up some more of our available space that is just rocked over. On top of telling me to redesign the front yard around crawling, but "make it pretty" (of which, I have every intention). And again, this is further on top of the fact that she's been our sole breadwinner for the past 7 years so that I could be a stay at home parent. Not to mention, she deals with my constant anxiety and the days where I'm depressed and just completely useless. Dunno how I managed to find a woman like her and continually have her in my life the last 17 years.

Thankfully the only routines I have to worry about breaking anymore are my own personal ones, as I'm retired. Still though, as I'm trying to get back in shape for mt biking, I have found the planned routine at the local gym isn't going to work out for me, as they are definitely the shame, blame and suck you into hr sessions game type place, not for me. So now my routine lately has become using one of my rather stout 10mm carabiner clip equipped bungies I bought a while ago. I use it to do resistance band exercises each morn for upper body while I wait for the spin bike I bought to arrive. The bungie is a temp get me by while I wait for the resistance band set I want to get back in stock. I have no shame btw in using the stainless steel senior grab bars on the bathtub wall to hook the bungie to for some of the exercises. I DO use them as well for grab bars while bathing anyway. LOL

It's basically planned to be 15 min of resistance band workout ,then 15 min of spin bike intervals, after my morn stretch routine. I must say, even though the stout bungie is a get me by, it's worked out my shoulders enough to cause a fair bit of scapular pain in my right shoulder, the one I suffered a separation in years ago from an OTB crash on one of my previous mt bikes. It makes it very hard to do long gaming sessions, as the inflammation causes pain from my shoulder blade to my elbow and even Ulnar nerve in my right (mouse) hand. It makes the frequent spawnings of hostile patrols in STALKER 2 aggravating enough to cause cussing fits.

None the less, I continue with the bungie workouts daily, and just received a nice little hot/cold shoulder wrap I bought yesterday. I also should be getting the spin bike today. However it won't be for another month and a half or so before I get the resistance band set. I'm hoping the shoulder wrap and setting ADS to toggle will help immensely in heavy fire fights.

Shoulder Wrap

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HY1V9M7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Resistance Band Set

Product details-Bodylastics

app.gohighlevel.com

Spin Bike (I paid $175 for it)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RRKJQR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

RC Toys are getting to be pretty cool lately. I found a video the other day of a guy that was testing one of the better stunt trucks, at a pretty elaborate stunt track, and was doing some very good stunts. He was doing effortless double back flips, largely because the thing had so much torque he could fine tune the rotation in mid air with throttle bursts.

Can you imagine if someone made the mistake of bringing a hyperactive dog along with them while doing such stunts.

 

[BeardyHat]

Thankfully the only routines I have to worry about breaking anymore are my own personal ones, as I'm retired. Still though, as I'm trying to get back in shape for mt biking, I have found the planned routine at the local gym isn't going to work out for me, as they are definitely the shame, blame and suck you into hr sessions game type place, not for me. So now my routine lately has become using one of my rather stout 10mm carabiner clip equipped bungies I bought lately to do resistance band exercises each morn for upper body while I wait for the spin bike I bought to arrive. The bungie is a temp get me by while I wait for the resistance band set I want to get back in stock. I have no shame btw in using the stainless steel senior grab bars on the bathtub wall to hook the bungie to for some of the exercises. I DO use them as well for grab bars while bathing anyway. LOL

It's basically planned to be 15 min of resistance band workout ,then 15 min of spin bike intervals, after my morn stretch routine. I must say, even though the stout bungie is a get me by, it's worked out my shoulders enough to cause a fair bit of scapular pain in my right shoulder, the one I suffered a separation in years ago from an OTB crash on one of my previous mt bikes. It makes it very hard to do long gaming sessions, as the inflammation causes pain from my shoulder blade to my elbow and even Ulnar nerve in my right (mouse) hand. It makes the frequent spawnings of hostile patrols in STALKER 2 aggravating enough to cause cussing fits.

None the less, I continue with the bungie workouts daily, and just received a nice little hot/cold shoulder wrap I bought yesterday. I also should be getting the spin bike today. However it won't be for another month and a half or so before I get the resistance band set. I'm hoping the shoulder wrap and setting ADS to toggle will help immensely in heavy fire fights.

Shoulder Wrap

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HY1V9M7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Resistance Band Set

Product details-Bodylastics

app.gohighlevel.com

Spin Bike (I paid $175 for it)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RRKJQR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

RC Toys are getting to be pretty cool lately. I found a video the other day of a guy that was testing one of the better stunt trucks, at a pretty elaborate stunt track, and was doing some very good stunts. He was doing effortless double back flips, largely because the thing had so much torque he could fine tune the rotation in mid air with throttle bursts.

Can you imagine if someone made the mistake of bringing a hyperactive dog along with them while doing such stunts.

I feel you on the shoulder pain and the fact that it interferes with a hobby is damn frustrating. I've had arthritis in my knees since I was a teen and while it can be excruciating at times, I've started developing RSI or Carpel Tunnel in my hands this last year and it's made it more difficult to game. My sister is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, so I've got some exercises from her I can do, but I continually forget to do them; I need to get on it though, as I fear being able to continue my hobbies of painting minis, working on cars (and RC cars) and gaming as I age.

My brother(s) in law have some basher style RC cars like that and yeah, the dogs hate them! I'm more into the slow stuff, personally. I really enjoy the strategy of tackling obstacles and being able to think through my lines and tire placement, plus I don't need a ton of space for my little mini crawler!

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn05ogkqD3Q

 

[Frag Maniac]

I feel you on the shoulder pain and the fact that it interferes with a hobby is damn frustrating. I've had arthritis in my knees since I was a teen and while it can be excruciating at times, I've started developing RSI or Carpel Tunnel in my hands this last year and it's made it more difficult to game. My sister is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, so I've got some exercises from her I can do, but I continually forget to do them; I need to get on it though, as I fear being able to continue my hobbies of painting minis, working on cars (and RC cars) and gaming as I age.

My brother(s) in law have some basher style RC cars like that and yeah, the dogs hate them! I'm more into the slow stuff, personally. I really enjoy the strategy of tackling obstacles and being able to think through my lines and tire placement, plus I don't need a ton of space for my little mini crawler!

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn05ogkqD3Q

Yeah, you definitely need space and a fairly elaborate track for the stunt stuff. I like the crawling too, and it reminds me at times of the nasty forestry roads I've encountered while doing mt bike rides. There was a ride I wanted to do in Oregon on a 6000' high trail called Gunsight Ridge. I had planned to drive up the forestry road to a campsite at a meadow as a better starting point. The staff at the nearby ranger stationed warned they recommend only high clearance 4X4s on that road, as it hadn't been maintained since the 20s.

As gung ho as I'd been with my little '79 Corolla though, with it's truck-like leaf spring rear suspension, I wanted to try it anyway. I basically took it real slow and made sure my tires were up on the ridges on either side of the ruts. There was one tricky spot where I got a small dent in my gas tank, but other than that, smooth sailing and no traction issues. I stopped on the shoulder of a paved road after finishing the ride and coming back down to look under the hood, just to make sure my hoses and stuff were not leaking, as there was a bit of twisting and jarring at times. A sheriff vehicle pulled over and told me they don't allow people to stop on the shoulder to check their vehicles. It's OK I thought, as I'd already verified there were no leaks.

 

[neogunhero]

I’ve been using the Brave browser on my phone for little over a month, and I’m still loving it. For all of the minor quirks and inconveniences it gives me, it more than makes up for it with a much better web browsing experience.

Other browsers probably has the same features, but I've never used a browser that has built in adblock, tracking prevention, and paywall bypass. I'm able to read every news site without ads and without being annoyed that I have to pay a sub to access it. It has honestly made browsing the web so much easier for me, not to mention faster as well.

 

[ZedClampet]

I'm going to build a pen for my garbage and recycling cans. The weather is getting progressively more violent here every year, and last night the winds picked up our giant garbage can (provided by the city) and it rolled down the driveway and then went airborne and flew into the side of the house across the street. I only heard the can bouncing down the driveway, but the neighbors have security cameras that capture their driveway, their front yard, the road and part of my driveway and yard, so I got to see it, too.

The good news is that it was my empty garbage can. There was no visible damage to her house, and had the winds picked up my equally huge recycling bin, I'd probably still be picking up recyclables. Fortunately, I'd left my recycling bin right outside my front door, so the house had blocked the wind.

For now I have them tied together and to the basement door with two 50 foot dog chains, but that's really annoying, so I'm going to have to build a pen with a gate to keep them in. I could put them in the backyard, but it's elevated, and there isn't any easy access to it except through the house, and the can's won't fit through the doors. I'd need to put a gate in the fence and build a ramp. It will just be easier to make a small pen. They sell prefabs, but they are pretty ugly.

 

[BeardyHat]

Yeah, you definitely need space and a fairly elaborate track for the stunt stuff. I like the crawling too, and it reminds me at times of the nasty forestry roads I've encountered while doing mt bike rides. There was a ride I wanted to do in Oregon on a 6000' high trail called Gunsight Ridge. I had planned to drive up the forestry road to a campsite at a meadow as a better starting point. The staff at the nearby ranger stationed warned they recommend only high clearance 4X4s on that road, as it hadn't been maintained since the 20s.

As gung ho as I'd been with my little '79 Corolla though, with it's truck-like leaf spring rear suspension, I wanted to try it anyway. I basically took it real slow and made sure my tires were up on the ridges on either side of the ruts. There was one tricky spot where I got a small dent in my gas tank, but other than that, smooth sailing and no traction issues. I stopped on the shoulder of a paved road after finishing the ride and coming back down to look under the hood, just to make sure my hoses and stuff were not leaking, as there was a bit of twisting and jarring at times. A sheriff vehicle pulled over and told me they don't allow people to stop on the shoulder to check their vehicles. It's OK I thought, as I'd already verified there were no leaks.

I have a very similar story going up to a lake in the mountains here, but it was wet my 96 Accord. It was damn funny to reach the parking lot and see only SUVs and trucks as I park next to them in my bone stock sedan.

I'm going to build a pen for my garbage and recycling cans. The weather is getting progressively more violent here every year, and last night the winds picked up our giant garbage can (provided by the city) and it rolled down the driveway and then went airborne and flew into the side of the house across the street. I only heard the can bouncing down the driveway, but the neighbors have security cameras that capture their driveway, their front yard, the road and part of my driveway and yard, so I got to see it, too.

The good news is that it was my empty garbage can. There was no visible damage to her house, and had the winds picked up my equally huge recycling bin, I'd probably still be picking up recyclables. Fortunately, I'd left my recycling bin right outside my front door, so the house had blocked the wind.

For now I have them tied together and to the basement door with two 50 foot dog chains, but that's really annoying, so I'm going to have to build a pen with a gate to keep them in. I could put them in the backyard, but it's elevated, and there isn't any easy access to it except through the house, and the can's won't fit through the doors. I'd need to put a gate in the fence and build a ramp. It will just be easier to make a small pen. They sell prefabs, but they are pretty ugly.

Those are some damn strong winds, it was pretty gusty here yesterday too.

Pens are nice though at least, many of my neighbors have them and many of them look quite good. We also have a neighbor who goes around with a clipboard and notes all the people she sees with cans on the side of the house and then goes to the community meetings to report them to the President, as it's against our covenants.

Thing is though, I don't care, plus we don't have the volunteers to enforce it and coupled with I don't care, I was the President for two years. Now my wife is and she also doesn't care. But really, I've just repeatedly told her to contact the city, because we only have like 4 people that consistently come to the meetings, two of which are my wife and I and you can be damn sure neither of us are going to go around and whine at our neighbors that we can't see their garbage cans on the side of their house.

 

[ZedClampet]

I have a very similar story going up to a lake in the mountains here, but it was wet my 96 Accord. It was damn funny to reach the parking lot and see only SUVs and trucks as I park next to them in my bone stock sedan.




Those are some damn strong winds, it was pretty gusty here yesterday too.

Pens are nice though at least, many of my neighbors have them and many of them look quite good. We also have a neighbor who goes around with a clipboard and notes all the people she sees with cans on the side of the house and then goes to the community meetings to report them to the President, as it's against our covenants.

Thing is though, I don't care, plus we don't have the volunteers to enforce it and coupled with I don't care, I was the President for two years. Now my wife is and she also doesn't care. But really, I've just repeatedly told her to contact the city, because we only have like 4 people that consistently come to the meetings, two of which are my wife and I and you can be damn sure neither of us are going to go around and whine at our neighbors that we can't see their garbage cans on the side of their house.

We've had 3 tornados so far this year, although they say there wasn't one last night.

Almost everyone here keeps their cans somewhere visible from the street, sometimes even in the front of the house at the carport (yes, it's an old neighborhood). It's not a low-income neighborhood, but I'd guess it's whatever the next step up is. It was all we could afford when we bought our house in the 90s, and it was a great deal because it needed a lot of repairs. Has almost 3500 square feet and that's not including the basement. I can't imagine what buying a house that big would cost now.

 

[BeardyHat]

We've had 3 tornados so far this year, although they say there wasn't one last night.

Almost everyone here keeps their cans somewhere visible from the street, sometimes even in the front of the house at the carport (yes, it's an old neighborhood). It's not a low-income neighborhood, but I'd guess it's whatever the next step up is. It was all we could afford when we bought our house in the 90s, and it was a great deal because it needed a lot of repairs. Has almost 3500 square feet and that's not including the basement. I can't imagine what buying a house that big would cost now.

Most people do that here as well, which is why this person is so crabby about it.

I get the impression ours used to be a little nicer (not that it's bad now), but it's kind of been turning over for the past 15 years with a lot of the elderly folks who owned since the hood was built, leaving or dying. It could still be nice, but no one really wants to participate to make it nicer. My big push and now my wife's was to get more community engagement and involvement, but most people just laugh and go back to looking at their phones. Jokes on them though, cause if we have to disband due to lack of engagement and paying (voluntary) dues, they'll get to see exactly how much we did around here.

I had one guy text me awhile ago, bitching about something, only to basically kindly tell him to F*** Off (I'm actually very diplomatic.) Dude is complaining about a thing, but has never been to a single meeting, nor came to the event we organized earlier in the year to address the problem he was complaining about. Everyone wants something for nothing.

Boy, I'm crabby today... Just made a post on another forum where I trash talked Pacific Drive because everyone was on about how amazing it was... Anyway...

We lucked out with our house too. We've bought twice and both times we were sure we were buying at the top of the market, but it's only gotten more crazy since then. The house next to me sold last year and it was 3 younger (only about 5 years my junior,) professionals that had to go in together to actually afford it. I think there's about 5 or 6 people living there just to make it work.

Granted, we're in a tough spot now where I'm going to need to go back to work. With the new changes to the Dept. Of Ed and student loans, my wife had the rug pulled out from under her, so we're going to need my income.

 

[ZedClampet]

If anyone read my post about Microsoft and github, I apologize. The information I had was incorrect. Apparently it was just someone's speculation because I went to github and all that stuff was still there except for the face-swap, which is understandable why they got rid of that.

But I still think it's a conflict of interest for a commercial software company to own the largest open-source repository on the Internet. If someone created an new operating system and it started to outpace Windows, would Microsoft take it down? You have to think so.

 

[ZedClampet]

Well darn.

My nephew turns 5 next month and I was going to make a comic of him as a superhero who fights bad guys and rides dinosaurs, but the company I train AI with says it's against their terms of service to train the AI on children. I get it, but it's still disappointing.

I could try to face swap him, but that's not so great. If he can't recognize himself, it's pointless. It might work because 5-year-olds aren't that different in terms of facial structure, or I could draw him and have the AI make it look like a photograph, or I could try to train the AI on my laptop, which probably wouldn't survive running hard non-stop for 72 hours. Or better yet, I saw a guy who was running his own training server. He'd probably be more reasonable than a company. Maybe I could do a mockup of the comic to show him.

 

[Pifanjr]

Well darn.

My nephew turns 5 next month and I was going to make a comic of him as a superhero who fights bad guys and rides dinosaurs, but the company I train AI with says it's against their terms of service to train the AI on children. I get it, but it's still disappointing.

I could try to face swap him, but that's not so great. If he can't recognize himself, it's pointless. It might work because 5-year-olds aren't that different in terms of facial structure, or I could draw him and have the AI make it look like a photograph, or I could try to train the AI on my laptop, which probably wouldn't survive running hard non-stop for 72 hours. Or better yet, I saw a guy who was running his own training server. He'd probably be more reasonable than a company. Maybe I could do a mockup of the comic to show him.

I got a personalised book when I was a kid and I loved it even if the drawings didn't really look like me. The important part was that it used my name and the names of my friends and I got to be a knight in the story.

As an alternative, maybe you can get the AI to generate an adult version of him.

 

[BeardyHat]

As an alternative, maybe you can get the AI to generate an adult version of him.

My thinking exactly. My almost 5 year old would love that, especially the power fantasy of being a big, tough adult.

They would probably want to ride kittens though. Giant kittens, I guess.

 

[BeardyHat]

Spent all day yesterday upgrading my RC Crawler with a new motor. Unfortunately, the new battery I ordered for it ended-up being way too enormous for the old battery tray, but I managed to find some lower center of gravity trays that were 3d Printable, so I went ahead and did a few last night and at least one of them works great! So today I finally finished my reassembly, which also took moving around all the electronics in the rig, because I'm added a couple, as well as the motor has a different orientation, so some old mounts didn't work.

https://imgur.com/a/6rLqxzd

The wires do end-up being a bit of a mess, but everything is working...mostly. My gear mesh sucks, so my new motor is extremely loud and not working as well as it should; unfortunately, I'm completely new to this stuff, so my initial attempts to figure it out didn't solve the issue, but at least I know what's wrong. I've asked Reddit for help or tips, but we'll see if anyone actually responds. But, it means I'll have to tear pretty much everything down again and see if I can't get the motor pinion to mesh better with the transmission gears. The only issue is that I'm out of time for today, so I'll hopefully have the energy to pick it back up and do it tomorrow evening.

No better way to learn, I guess.

 

[ZedClampet]

My thinking exactly. My almost 5 year old would love that, especially the power fantasy of being a big, tough adult.

They would probably want to ride kittens though. Giant kittens, I guess.

@Pifanjr I wonder if I photoshopped his face onto adult bodies if that would get me past the censors