Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zed Clampet]

CoPilot is an egregious mansplainer.

 

[Zloth]

Maybe half a foot to 8 inches of snow expected here, with temps dipping down to just above 0... or maybe just below. That should make for really light snow, so it should be easy to blow off on Sunday.

It's a pity the Miami Dolphins aren't in town. They love playing football in this sort of weather!

CoPilot is an egregious mansplainer.

CoPilot's response

 

[Colif]

I could hear this weird noise coming from mums room, it sounded like her cooling fan was rubbing against something... so i went in and woke her up - was going to use torch but I couldn't find one and I knew turning light on would wake her so I just called her name
The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I could hear this weird noise coming from mums room, it sounded like her cooling fan was rubbing against something... so i went in and woke her up - was going to use torch but I couldn't find one and I knew turning light on would wake her so I just called her name
The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

Reminds me of the horrible experience I had last time I had a bad chest cold. First time I've ever had a cold where I could hear my wind pipe rattle when I coughed. I'd heard of the expression wind pipe rattle before, but it's very painful and scary when it happens to you.

 

[Zloth]

The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

I remember as a kid going on vacation and being in a hotel room with my parents. They both snored. Sometimes, one would stop snoring, and I could hear the other's snoring become more... worried? until both were snoring again. (Or I could have just imagined it. I was terribly tired after a long, hard day of sitting in a car and doing nothing at all.)

 

[Colif]

Bureau of Meteorology website on my PC says temp here is 36.9c
Their app on my phone shows it as 35.8c

Its the same source, be nice if it agreed. Which one is accurate?

 

[Zloth]

Maybe 4 inches of snow here and the sun has already come out. The temperature is up to 6F (-14C). As expected, the snow blows off pretty easily. The cold turns my long extension cord for the snow blower into a giant spring, though! I didn't even try to wrap the thing back around its spool.

Its the same source, be nice if it agreed. Which one is accurate?

Neither. Given the coal fire going on in your PC, they are both lying to spare you the mental anguish of reality.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I feel like I had a sublime moment of advanced communication with my dog.

The kids were here for a few minutes Friday night before they and my wife went to spend the night in a hotel next to the airport since they had to be there so early. A few minutes after they left, my dog let out a quiet, forlorn whimper. I quietly responded, "I know, I feel it too." And she never made another sound the rest of the night.

I realize this is probably anthropomorphism, but dogs know more than we imagine.

I'm doing much better than I used to do, but I guess I will never truly get over not having my kids around.

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm doing much better than I used to do, but I guess I will never truly get over not having my kids around.

Well now I don't want my kids to grow-up.

Helped my sister in law move on Friday and today, she needed some help getting her internet setup. I managed to get things working pretty much immediately, but noticed her speeds were absolutely pathetic; standing next to the router, I was hitting 50Mbps and plugged in, similar speeds. Apparently she pays for 1Gbps, but the modem she has (which I gave her some time ago) only supported up to 343Mbps, which it wasn't seeing and the Router was like 450Mbps, but was just old and busted.

Told her she unfortunately needs to spend some money for updated equipment, so we went over to Microcenter and I picked out a new modem and router for her. Now she's getting damn near 1Gbps over Wifi next to the router and 600Mbps+ around the house over Wifi, which is just amazing to me.

Made me realize my own Wifi is fairly pathetic, given I'm only seeing about 500Mbps right next to my AP and generally around 100-150Mbps around the house on my laptop. So I found a new Wifi 6 Unifi U6 Pro at Microcenter, Open Box, for about $140 out the door; going to go pick it up tomorrow and see how it works in my non-optimal spot I currently have my AP.

If it doesn't work well, looks like I'm going to learn how to make ethernet cables and then do a few drops around the house.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Friend of mine is an astronomer. He sent me a couple of pictures. Apparently he just took pictures of the terminal he was using.

Andromeda:

Orion Nebula

He works at a park that has a large telescope, a space gallery and a planetarium.

I went there a lot as a kid. They have a little zoo, as well, with animals native to the area like black bears, wolves and deer. They have a lake and trails. When I was a kid, they also had an insect exhibit, including a massive bee hive where one side is made of glass so that you can watch the bees. They probably still have it. I just haven't been there in a very long time.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Maybe half a foot to 8 inches of snow expected here, with temps dipping down to just above 0... or maybe just below. That should make for really light snow, so it should be easy to blow off on Sunday.

It's a pity the Miami Dolphins aren't in town. They love playing football in this sort of weather!


CoPilot's response

That scene is so obnoxiously bad and so typical of Hollywood that I have no idea how they still get people to watch that crap. It's a toxic combination of Marvel dialogue with melodrama. I mean, you are apparently in a fight for your life, and you take the time to pull your helmet off and say a one-liner (very over-acted)? This sort of thing only belongs in comedies. For instance, this is wonderful:

View: https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtube.com/shorts/1D1dm5w6JAU?si=TfxWCZ7qbSNHVkoK&pieshare=1

And despite it being a comedy, when he speaks his one-liner at the end, the contrast between what he had been asking for--power and money--and what he really wants, but knows he can never have, is actually very powerful. And he only says it after striking the killing blow. There is a fine line between idiocy and art, and I think these two videos show that pretty well.

 

[BeardyHat]

Friend of mine is an astronomer. He sent me a couple of pictures. Apparently he just took pictures of the terminal he was using.

Andromeda:

Orion Nebula

He works at a park that has a large telescope, a space gallery and a planetarium.

I went there a lot as a kid. They have a little zoo, as well, with animals native to the area like black bears, wolves and deer. They have a lake and trails. When I was a kid, they also had an insect exhibit, including a massive bee hive where one side is made of glass so that you can watch the bees. They probably still have it. I just haven't been there in a very long time.

Really cool! I took my oldest to an astronomy night, hosted by our city maybe a month or two ago and there was an Astrophotographer there taking long pictures of Andrometa.

Was really cool to see that, as well as look through all the other telescopes there. I think it was a little beyond the 8 year old, but at least I had fun.