Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zed Clampet]

Did the Ye Olde Steakhouse thing today. I didn't want to bring anyone down, so I pretended to like my strip steak, but it was actually pretty unimpressive. Honestly, the only thing that lived up to my expectations was the bill, which I thankfully didn't have to pay.

However, for some reason I wasn't at all hungry, which probably impacted my opinion. I ate a small breakfast at 10 am and still felt full at the restaurant. I ended up bringing almost the entire thing home. Maybe I'll like it more tomorrow (or at 3 am when my body realizes how little its had to eat in the last 24 hours).

Oh, and naturally I only got the 12 oz. My wife seemed to genuinely like hers.

Another problem was that I ordered the steak 'medium' and got 'medium-rare' instead. Since I really wasn't planning to eat much of it anyway, I figured I could fix this at home when I got hungry. Medium-rare always arrives at the table at just slightly above room temperature, which I don't care for. The problem is, if I order a steak medium-well, it always arrives 'well done' and looking like they tried to turn it into charcoal, which I also don't like.

 

[Colif]

Random desktop pop up on a PC with no Dell parts

 

[Zed Clampet]

Random desktop pop up on a PC with no Dell parts

According to CoPilot, Windows has probably misidentified one of your components or peripherals as being made by Alienware and tried to auto-install Alienware Command Center.

 

[Colif]

co pilot would be better used finding and fixing the problem instead of just explaining MS incompetence

 

[Zed Clampet]

co pilot would be better used finding and fixing the problem instead of just explaining MS incompetence

CoPilot can't do much of anything on your computer. Best it can do is give you a walkthrough.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The sort of thing I hear every day (the first woman you see in the video talking about her Altima):

View: https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtu.be/Bl8ksfLfW6Q?si=kZEpUbx7sIH9TPKJ&t=135&pieshare=1

Honestly, these people are so fun to talk to that it doesn't really bother me.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@BeardyHat anyone/everyone feeling better yet?

 

[BeardyHat]

@BeardyHat anyone/everyone feeling better yet?

Doing better, thanks. Lingering cough and congestion for some of us, but looks like 2 of 5 kids managed to avoid it altogether. My youngest still has significant congestion, but that's because he doesn't understand how to blow his nose. So my wife and I have been "snorkeling" (as we call it) him, which is like torture for all of us. Basically, I hold him and pin his arms, he screams and cries while Mom squirts saline up his nose and sucks his boogers out with a tube. We all hate it, but it at least lets him sleep at night because he can breathe.

Haven't been posting much, just been busy with my sister in law in town. She's on vacation and given she doesn't come around except maybe once a year (it's a long, expensive flight from New Zealand), she's been keeping us all busy, busy, busy. Plus her kids are very athletic, so they require lots of tiring activities; mine are not, nor am I, so I'm exhausted.

Today I'm going to tell her we're just going to chill. I'll probably hit the grocery store, since we'll have family coming over for dinner + board/video games tomorrow night and perhaps take my kids for a haircut. I'm sure they'll be sad not to hang with their cousins, but it'll be nice to get them alone for a bit.

But I feel like with this many people in the house, in constantly feeding and cleaning too. My 1 1/2 year old niece has also taken a shine to me, which is fun, babies/toddlers are super fun and cute, but boy are they busy. I've forgotten how much work they are and I certainly don't miss that.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Gald to hear things are going better

My 1 1/2 year old niece has also taken a shine to me, which is fun, babies/toddlers are super fun and cute, but boy are they busy. I've forgotten how much work they are and I certainly don't miss that.

Uncles are usually a favorite. Kids are relentless, so it can be exhausting some times.

 

[BeardyHat]

The sort of thing I hear every day (the first woman you see in the video talking about her Altima):

View: https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtu.be/Bl8ksfLfW6Q?si=kZEpUbx7sIH9TPKJ&t=135&pieshare=1

Honestly, these people are so fun to talk to that it doesn't really bother me.

Kind of wish I had more of an accent. I think I do, as I definitely have certain ways to say words I feel are unique to my area (though I can't confirm that.)

Also, I've watched all of that video Accent 6 comes from. It was pretty interesting. Never been to the South and don't know much about it.

Gald to hear things are going better



Uncles are usually a favorite. Kids are relentless, so it can be exhausting some times.

I'm excited because it's the first time I've really gotten to be an Uncle. My kids are some of the youngest in the family; when my older nieces and nephews came about, I didn't really know how to act with kids. So the older ones (teens now), like me and we give hugs and talk, but it's not quite the same as it would be with a kid that you knew how to interact with and take care of as a small child.

 

[neogunhero]

Went kayaking Saturday. Same rental place we always go to, however this time they drove us about 8 miles up river to drop us off. Usually we start near the parking lot and get picked up later down the river, so it was a different route this time. Ended up taking way longer too, from start to finish it took our group about 5 hours to complete. Needless to say, none of us were fully prepared, we didn't bring the sunscreen with us nor enough water. Luckily we had enough Michelob's to hydrate us. It was an easy float, the current wasn't too strong, and there wasn't a ton of people like some of the busier weekends. Ended the night at a small town burger joint that's been open since the 50s. Overall it was a major success.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Luckily we had enough Michelob's to hydrate us.

Not to be a buzz kill, but anything with alcohol in it does the opposite of hydrate you. The fact that you pee so much after drinking beer is because the alcohol is making you eliminate more of the water in it than you use. I learned the hard way once when younger that downing one beer after another on a beach in hot whether was a quick way to get sick from dehydration.

 

[neogunhero]

Not to be a buzz kill, but anything with alcohol in it does the opposite of hydrate you. The fact that you pee so much after drinking beer is because the alcohol is making you eliminate more of the water in it than you use. I learned the hard way once when younger that downing one beer after another on a beach in hot whether was a quick way to get sick from dehydration.

Oh yeah, it wasn't our brightest moment . Luckily we had all sorts of waters and Gatorades at the car. Usually the float is only 2-3 hours so bringing just beers is fine with us. We park off the side of the river here and there and take small breaks. However, this last one was a new route taking nearly 5 hours, we were definitely not prepared for how long it was. It also doesn't help that kayaking takes a lot of you physically, we were certainly worn out by the end haha.

 

[BeardyHat]

Not to be a buzz kill, but anything with alcohol in it does the opposite of hydrate you. The fact that you pee so much after drinking beer is because the alcohol is making you eliminate more of the water in it than you use. I learned the hard way once when younger that downing one beer after another on a beach in hot whether was a quick way to get sick from dehydration.

This is why I pee constantly when I drink beer. I'm usually chasing with water, because I already drink a ton of water since I live in a dry climate, so it gets even worse.

If I drink a whole bunch of beer, I'm just up all night peeing.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Kind of wish I had more of an accent. I think I do, as I definitely have certain ways to say words I feel are unique to my area (though I can't confirm that.)

Also, I've watched all of that video Accent 6 comes from. It was pretty interesting. Never been to the South and don't know much about it.

The video I posted is way over-the-top for the most part. The accent of the Altima lady is somewhat common, but most of the people here have little to no accent anymore.

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FLUX hand training understanding breakthrough (for me)! I just realized that Flux can't identify hands/fingers unless it can see at least a part of the arm.

Now how do I use that knowledge?

Without fixing the problem, a work-around is simply to make sure all your training pictures have at least a small amount of arm connected to visible hands/fingers. Common examples of when that isn't the case would be a picture of two people posing together with their arms around each other. For instance you may just see fingers wrapping around someone's hip or shoulders. Another frequent problem are pictures where someone has their hand on their hip, but their body is turned so that you just see the hand.

 

[neogunhero]

The sort of thing I hear every day (the first woman you see in the video talking about her Altima):

View: https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtu.be/Bl8ksfLfW6Q?si=kZEpUbx7sIH9TPKJ&t=135&pieshare=1

Honestly, these people are so fun to talk to that it doesn't really bother me.

That's how people around here talk as well. Sometimes it's not as thick, other times I can't understand what some people are saying to me. I think #6 is closer to how people talk around here and the stuff she was saying is so funny. "I know a man by the name of Peewee and no one knows his real government name" is so hilarious to me because there's so many people around here like that haha.

 

[Zloth]

I remember wondering 20 years ago if forums would ditch the text and expect people to record audio or even do little videos. I guess they kinda did with social media, but that's not organized like a forum.

If they did, hearing everyone's accents would be interesting!

 

[Zed Clampet]

I remember wondering 20 years ago if forums would ditch the text and expect people to record audio or even do little videos. I guess they kinda did with social media, but that's not organized like a forum.

If they did, hearing everyone's accents would be interesting!

The only way videos would work for me would be if hitting "Reply" started recording from my web camera (which I don't have anymore) and hitting "reply" again posted what I just recorded. If I have to pull up recording software, make a recording, and then edit that recording to get the "perfect take" and then upload it, then you can just forget it. Oh, in addition to "reply" there needs to be a "start over" button.

Also, there's a significant advantage to letting people's imaginations guess what you look like...

But, you know, the more I think about it the more the reply/reply method seems like it would make for an interesting forum. Of course, you couldn't keep posts forever on a large forum. Too much data to store.

Also, whatever site builds this forum will put 20 second ads at the beginning of each response, which would kill it.

Finally, it's a lot faster to skim through posts you aren't interested in than listen to somebody get carried away and talk about Guido for 45 minutes. Maybe we could provide a transcript for each video.

 

[Frag Maniac]

This is why I pee constantly when I drink beer. I'm usually chasing with water, because I already drink a ton of water since I live in a dry climate, so it gets even worse.

If I drink a whole bunch of beer, I'm just up all night peeing.

It's a big part of the reason I gave up drinking altogether. I never took to hard alcohol due to a stomach condition I have that it aggravated, and my bladder is too small to allow me to be sociable when drinking beer. Sometimes I think I was oddly blessed to keep me from such vices.

 

[BeardyHat]

It's a big part of the reason I gave up drinking altogether. I never took to hard alcohol due to a stomach condition I have that it aggravated, and my bladder is too small to allow me to be sociable when drinking beer. Sometimes I think I was oddly blessed to keep me from such vices.

I haven't, but it's very much worth it (to give up drinking, I mean). It's expensive, messes up your buddy, gets you poor sleep, generally just all downsides.

I go through fits and spurts where I drink more and then not at all. I ended up having two beers last night, which was an alright amount, but I definitely didn't need to have any; just felt like a good night for it, since everyone was out and I had just put my niece to bed.

 

[Colif]

I haven't drunk any alcohol since approx 1999; I can't be exact, it may have been before that. I never really enjoyed it, and I also didn't appreciate waking up and not knowing what I did the night before. that and wasting a weekend getting over the hang over, such a waste of time.

At least Hangunders are only fictional

Hangunder - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki

wiki.lspace.org

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm allergic to alcohol. Not deadly allergic. I just break out and itch. I don't care for it anyway. I drank a few times when I was younger. While I could appreciate a nice, relaxing buzz every now and then, it's not a big deal to me.

Weed is illegal here, so I don't do that, either (although, again, I did a few times when I was younger). For a brief time, cannabis oil was popular around here, but I tried it, and it was basically snake oil and didn't do anything at all. Without the HTC, or whatever it is, it's basically just vegetable oil.

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm allergic to alcohol. Not deadly allergic. I just break out and itch. I don't care for it anyway. I drank a few times when I was younger. While I could appreciate a nice, relaxing buzz every now and then, it's not a big deal to me.

Weed is illegal here, so I don't do that, either (although, again, I did a few times when I was younger). For a brief time, cannabis oil was popular around here, but I tried it, and it was basically snake oil and didn't do anything at all. Without the HTC, or whatever it is, it's basically just vegetable oil.

I had a medical license for awhile due to my arthritis in my knees and I did buy some of the topical CBD cream and yeah, snake oil was exactly what it is.

Oversharing probably, but I was a very heavy Stoner for about 8 years probably. I finally quit when my oldest was a year old and I realized I was missing out on a ton of his life because I was out in my garage smoking weed. Haven't missed it since, what a massive waste of time money and mental resources.

Of course, now I have entirely too many actual hobbies, so win-some-lose-some? 🤣

 

[Frag Maniac]

It's expensive, messes up your buddy, gets you poor sleep, generally just all downsides.

And one of the worst parts of it besides the expense on your budget and health is knowing you're supporting businesses that make huge profit off it, and all you get out of it is an occasional humorous Superbowl commercial.

Times they are a changin' though, they can't even show people drinking beer in their commercials anymore. It's odd too, when I saw that Bud Light commercial where one guy is telling the other you can't drink it during the commercial, then they start counting down, I couldn't help but feel the joke fell flat, and I was thinking it probably did for a lot of people. They may have finally made a commercial that demonstrates how pathetic it is to cling to alcohol so much. Be careful what you wish for Budweiser! We are definitely not living in the same times anymore, people are very health conscience now. Anymore it's the cool thing.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The average heart of a thoroughbred race horse weighs about 8.7 pounds. Fifty-two years ago today, a horse with a heart that weighed 22 pounds (naturally, not because of a disorder), entered the Belmont Stakes, part of the Triple Crown, and put on a performance that will likely never be matched, is likely not even possible to match.

Secretariat at Belmont:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932460243369525742

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