Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

Standard New York pizza is 18 inches in diameter. Divide that into 8 pieces. Here, good pizza is almost always that size.

Right, 2 slices of an 18 inch pizza is only slightly smaller than a whole 10 inch one, which is the size of one frozen pizza here (which I'll typically eat in one go).

 

[Zed Clampet]

Right, 2 slices of an 18 inch pizza is only slightly smaller than a whole 10 inch one, which is the size of one frozen pizza here (which I'll typically eat in one go).

Frozen pizzas are also 10 inches here. If you get a regular size toaster oven, the 10 inch pizza will fit inside perfectly. Coincidence? No. Proof of a higher power...the marketing department.

 

[Colif]

Had to do a security reference for a friend. Form full of questions I really didn't have the answers for as I don't give people the 3rd degree about everything they are doing... I don't want others asking me so I return favour.

They would have been better off asking another of his friends but then I don't know who they are. I don't really socialise with him, I just known him a long time.
I am not a nosy person. Most of the time I am not interested to begin with.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Had to do a security reference for a friend. Form full of questions I really didn't have the answers for as I don't give people the 3rd degree about everything they are doing... I don't want others asking me so I return favour.

They would have been better off asking another of his friends but then I don't know who they are. I don't really socialise with him, I just known him a long time.
I am not a nosy person. Most of the time I am not interested to begin with.

Usually there are only a few red flags that they are looking for. "I once had to bail this drunkard out of jail for embezzling $20,000 in drug money from the strip club" is usually a disqualifier.

 

[Colif]

Usually there are only a few red flags that they are looking for. "I once had to bail this drunkard out of jail for embezzling $20,000 in drug money from the strip club" is usually a disqualifier.

Oh, so I shouldn't have said that then...

I am sure he will be fine. Another of my friends may have told them more than I know.

 

[BeardyHat]

Had to do a security reference for a friend. Form full of questions I really didn't have the answers for as I don't give people the 3rd degree about everything they are doing... I don't want others asking me so I return favour.

They would have been better off asking another of his friends but then I don't know who they are. I don't really socialise with him, I just known him a long time.
I am not a nosy person. Most of the time I am not interested to begin with.

Had to do this a couple of times for an Air Force friend applying for higher security clearance jobs. Even had to be interviewed in person one time, most of my answers are always, "Not to my knowledge." for a variety of reasons.

Sickness still burning through the household here. I'm better, I think? Very tired, but my voice is still hella raspy and I'll be taking my youngest to the doctor today, since his cough was very aggressive and "barking" last night and still a bit of it this morning. Don't think it'll amount to much of anything, but we'll see.

Finally started pulling the weeds near and in my garden yesterday. Got plenty more to do, but it's nice to begin getting it cleaned-up, even if it's late in the season to be planting any seedlings; I'll probably pick-up some more mature plants when I'm finally ready, so I'll only be a bit behind.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Had to do this a couple of times for an Air Force friend applying for higher security clearance jobs. Even had to be interviewed in person one time, most of my answers are always, "Not to my knowledge." for a variety of reasons.

Sickness still burning through the household here. I'm better, I think? Very tired, but my voice is still hella raspy and I'll be taking my youngest to the doctor today, since his cough was very aggressive and "barking" last night and still a bit of it this morning. Don't think it'll amount to much of anything, but we'll see.

Finally started pulling the weeds near and in my garden yesterday. Got plenty more to do, but it's nice to begin getting it cleaned-up, even if it's late in the season to be planting any seedlings; I'll probably pick-up some more mature plants when I'm finally ready, so I'll only be a bit behind.

I've got some fairly well-grown tomato plants I needed to get outside and planted, so I was doing that yesterday when I suddenly heard "THUNK...THUNK...THUNK" So I went around the side of the house and Guido was cutting down a dead tree with an axe. I told him the chainsaw was in the shed, and he said the axe was more fun. Wish I could be young enough again for the axe to be more fun. Anyway, I looked at the tree and he was cutting it to fall in the right direction, had a nice little wedge going, but, being a dad, felt compelled to tell him that when it started to fall, he needed to get out of the way even if it was falling in the wrong direction. Don't try to hero a falling tree. I got a nice eyeroll for that, but if I don't assume my children will make mistakes and a tree falls on them, I'd literally never get over it. I think I got this neurotic worrying over my kids from my mother.

 

[Colif]

Had to do this a couple of times for an Air Force friend applying for higher security clearance jobs. Even had to be interviewed in person one time, most of my answers are always, "Not to my knowledge." for a variety of reasons.

It didn't help he asked me to do it the week before I made my PC, so I was distracted and never got around to it. Last Wednesday he said they would call me, and after I spoke them, they were going to call me tomorrow for an hour long call... I said I would try to fill it in this weekend.
As the form only took 30 minutes to fill in, easier than a phone call. I could change some answers that way. And no chance of follow on questions.

Some of the fields wanted an answer in text even when I said No to the answer. So I said Non applicable. Most of it was about private life stuff and I don't know him well enough to answer some of them. Just cause I known him over 30 years doesn't mean I know everything. Not a busy body.

 

[BeardyHat]

I got a nice eyeroll for that, but if I don't assume my children will make mistakes and a tree falls on them, I'd literally never get over it. I think I got this neurotic worrying over my kids from my mother.

I have this same instinct, also received maternally. Though, my kids are so young, they do make dumb mistakes all the time.

Most of it was about private life stuff and I don't know him well enough to answer some of them. Just cause I known him over 30 years doesn't mean I know everything. Not a busy body.

I've been friends with this dude for... 32ish years now? I couldn't tell you much about the inner workings of his life. My wife always mocks me for this, "How's his wife?" I dunno. "How's his kids?" No idea.

I was thinking about this on a long drive the other day, how there's often a difference between male relationships and female relationships. It seems Men's relationships are formed through shared experiences, projects, etc. Women's tend to be more through intimate conversations and dialogue.

This isn't 100% concrete, given I have a close male relationship that shares both the two components and we do discuss our inner lives, as well as more intimate details of our relationships and the like. But this is certainly not the norm, especially amongst my older friendships that were forged in childhood.

 

[Colif]

Its impossible to generalize as there are too many variables.
We not all the same. Some people don't want to share everything with others, even if we known them for years. Other people get on Twitter and tell strangers.

 

[Zloth]

Trying to imagine an 18" Chicago-style deep dish pizza... could I even lift it without risking back strain? I get a 10" and it lasts me 3 days!

 

[Zed Clampet]

Kind of funny 14 second video starring Liam "Psychopath" Doyle (the #1 ranked college baseball pitcher and finalist for college player of the year) and Tony Vitello (the highest paid college baseball coach). They are celebrating winning the regional tournament and advancing to the Super Regional in an attempt to get back to the World Series and defend their title.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1929716457690001488

View: https://x.com/BarstoolTenn/status/1929716457690001488

By the way, after starting Friday's game and throwing over 100 pitches, Doyle begged to come into this game on Monday when the score was tied 5-5. Wake Forest didn't score another run.

Trying to imagine an 18" Chicago-style deep dish pizza... could I even lift it without risking back strain? I get a 10" and it lasts me 3 days!

I was talking about pizza, not cake.

 

[Zloth]

I was talking about pizza, not cake.

Cheesy pepperoni, sausage, and garlic cake! Mmmmmm! (Though, mostly I get what amounts to giant pizza crackers. Stupid carbs.)

 

[Zed Clampet]

Cheesy pepperoni, sausage, and garlic cake! Mmmmmm! (Though, mostly I get want amounts to giant pizza crackers. Stupid carbs.)

I actually had a Chicago-style pizza about a month ago for the first time in many years and it was really good. Growing up, we had a restaurant in town that was just called "Chicago" and all they did was pizza, and I remember it as being fantastic. They brought the whole pan contraption to the table, grease trap and all (no one would ever do that now).

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I'm about sick of whatever keeps asking me if I want it to write my posts for me. What an idiotic world we're creating.

Edit: turned it off in Chrome settings

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm about sick of whatever keeps asking me if I want it to write my posts for me. What an idiotic world we're creating.

Edit: turned it off in Chrome settings

Yuck.

Chaos reigns at my house still. 5 kids, haven't had much time to do anything, between the general chair and all of us being sick.

But my sister in law did take all the kids out today, so I spent 3 hours doing yard work. Pulling weeds, trimming, mowing and raking up grass left behind by the mower because it was so long and wet.

Not my ideal way to spend 3 hours, but glad it's finished and better to look at.

Edit: just noticed I got 2 years here on the forum. Huh.

 

[Frindis]

Did 1000 meters breaststroke today with personal record of 16 minutes. If you can beat me, I'll give you a respectful nod and a handshake

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsxB_VxWn0

 

[Colif]

Its not the right weather for swimming. Max today was 7c

I had 6 harder questions to do this weekend on my course, already done 3 of them... took about 90 minutes. Most weeks there are two or so questions that require thinking... rest are mostly answered in the materials they provide.
They don't mark units until they end, so I knew I didn't need to rush them.
This is the last weekend so I had to do them, I just have no idea how long they will take until I start.

Probably do the other 3 tomorrow. Brief scan of them shows they not that hard really. If I do them now I won't have anything else to do tomorrow.

Hardest part was one question asked me to do something you can't do on Windows 11 Home. Encrypt a folder. You need Pro or Above to access that. I just showed a screenshot showing its greyed out.

Fans I ordered 2 nights ago seem to be having a holiday in Queensland... its 13c there now... they probably think that is cold.

 

[Colif]

Impatience strikes again

1. Sent email on Thursday 29th May
2. Don't get a reply for a week...
3. Without checking order the items from another store assuming first one ignored message
4. Friday get reply from first store... and the items you ordered from 2nd store appear to have gone awol as they haven't moved in 2 days.

I had to reply to first store and explain I had gotten impatient. And thank them for reply. It could be worse, they could have sent the items already... don't need them twice.
Now I just wait for postal service to figure it out next week, nothing will change before then. They have misplaced my items before, last time was around Xmas and they went awol for 2 weeks. I assume they are quicker normally.

 

[neogunhero]

All this talk of swimming made me make plans to go kayaking tomorrow. I don't own my own, but since I rarely ever go, renting it for $30 a day isn't too bad. We go maybe 2-3 times a year. There's a chance it might rain tomorrow but what the hell we'll be out in the water anyways.

 

[Zed Clampet]

All this talk of swimming made me make plans to go kayaking tomorrow. I don't own my own, but since I rarely ever go, renting it for $30 a day isn't too bad. We go maybe 2-3 times a year. There's a chance it might rain tomorrow but what the hell we'll be out in the water anyways.

I prefer rafting to riding in something designed to flip over, slam my head against a rock and drown me. Tubing is good, too, if you want to get wet.

 

[Zed Clampet]

My next personal game project that will never be finished is called Cozy Folk.

I made some digital art for it, and then I put it into Flux to clean it up. Now I'm getting Flux to make variations on building set pieces. I need a ton of different buildings because I want the city to be impossibly large and dense. I want to get no more than 10 FPS when I play my game.

I still have a lot more digital art to make. That's the hardest and most time-consuming part. I'm not a great artist, and I'm super slow.

After I get all my digital art made, I'll go back to getting Flux to clean it up and make variations of it. Then I have this free AI made by Tencent that I'm going to get to turn this art into 3D models.

Once I'm done with that I'll probably quit and do something else I mean, who wants to put all that stuff together in Unreal and actually make a game? Not me. But doing the art is the fun part and that should keep me busy for awhile. When I'm done, I'll post a couple of pics.

 

[neogunhero]

I prefer rafting to riding in something designed to flip over, slam my head against a rock and drown me. Tubing is good, too, if you want to get wet.

I'll be clear and say our kayaking isn't is white waters or anything. The river we go to is shared with tubers, so we are often having to maneuver and dodge around them. We try to take it slow, but even if you went at a decent pace it can take you well over an hour to get to the drop-off point. We bring a waterproof cooler bag full of drinks and maybe a joint or two, but you gotta watch out for the game wardens.

 

[Pifanjr]

Before we got married, I visited my wife in the US and she took me on a float trip. A float trip in this instance meant floating down a river on an inflatable raft with a large cooler of beer, basically drinking and lazing around for a couple of hours on the water.

Very enjoyable, I can recommend it, but if you decide to do something like that you must remember to use sunscreen and use it well. I did apply sunscreen, but I apparently missed my feet and lower legs and got one of the worst sun burns of my life.

 

[Frindis]

Floating down a river sounds like a lot of fun!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84655u6nOI

 

[Zed Clampet]

Floating down a river sounds like a lot of fun!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84655u6nOI

Is it just me or were you wanting to see what happened when they went under that pedestrian bridge at about 50 seconds? I was betting on foul language, but then the scene switched.