Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Colif]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours. Mum could hear it hitting the side of the house, and I could hear it hitting the wall behind me. I jokingly said during the rain that we were floating down the road now

We had a static thunderstorm that sat on us for 2 hours. It just appeared over us as I had been watching the weather. The First lightning strike was in our suburb and caused me to turn PC off fast.

It caused damage throughout the area, washed away a foot bridge over a creek here and tore up concrete on the same creek as the creek is generally controlled. Flash floods have killed people along it before

Flood - Woden Valley, ACT 1971 | Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub

On 26 January 1971, a super cell thunderstorm caused widespread flooding in the Woden Valley in Canberra's south-east. The rainfall started at approximately 7:30pm-7:50pm; up to 100 millimetres was recorded in one hour by private rain gauges in the suburbs of Farrer and Torrens.

knowledge.aidr.org.au

That one caused a complete redesign of all the roads along the creek so that they were all above it at all times. Cars got washed down the creek for a large distance. It was concreted along its entire length until the oval at the end of my street.

The amount of rain flowing from our gutters broke part of the downpipe

Mind you, we have it easy this week compared to others

I am wrong about two taps, we have a cold/hot choice but they all come through the one outlet. So we have to waste cold to get to hot. And be careful if someone just used hot when you expecting cold. And showers can be fun as well.

 

[Zloth]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours.

Did you lose a factor of 10 there? You can get flooding in a desert canyon with that level of rain, but...

 

[Zed Clampet]

When I say 'Dwarf', I speak of these. When I say, "Don't mess with the Dwarves," I also speak of these."

Spoiler: My idea of a dwarf....

@BeardyHat I taught Flux (via a LoRA) how to make Dwarves (my kind, anyway). I mention this because we were talking about flux making short people children. I'm doing halflings next.

 

[Zloth]

His chin is practically bald! Now this is a dwarf:

 

[Zed Clampet]

His chin is practically bald! Now this is a dwarf:

What's that from, Snow White? I would like for your dwarf to inform my dwarf that his beard is insufficient, and lets see how that turns out.

Dwarves have long beards so they aren't mistaken for children. Mine are a different kind of dwarf. No one mistakes them for children, so they don't need the comic relief of an enormous beard.

 

[BeardyHat]

When I say 'Dwarf', I speak of these. When I say, "Don't mess with the Dwarves," I also speak of these."

Spoiler: My idea of a dwarf....

@BeardyHat I taught Flux (via a LoRA) how to make Dwarves (my kind, anyway). I mention this because we were talking about flux making short people children. I'm doing halflings next.

Someday I'll figure out how to train.

What do you primarily use your image generation for? I would be curious to do more with mine, but the only thing I really ever use image gen for is to make stupid pictures to send to my friends.

I did recently get a new battery backup for my server though, after the last one failed, which prompted me to setup my Qwen instance to serve my entire network. It's cool to be able to talk to my local AI across my network on my phone. Next step is to get my VPN setup so I can get use my PiHole while I'm out and about, as well as talk to Qwen.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Someday I'll figure out how to train.

What do you primarily use your image generation for?

I'm actually more into training so that others can make pictures. There have been an ungodly number of pictures made with my training, which kind of makes me feel useful in retirement.

So I spend most of my time making digital art for training. It doesn't have to be good art. You can take my mediocre art and feed it into Flux (but now especially Flux 2), and if you are patient enough and iterate enough, you can turn your mediocre art into a great picture that can be used for training.

For the art I generate for myself, it's usually for one of my many game projects that I'm not going to finish. I started them before everyone started hating AI. Where we are right now, I don't plan to bother finishing them, even though no one would know the difference. I throw away anything that isn't perfect. I'm still working on them, but I don't plan to do anything with them.

 

[Colif]

Did you lose a factor of 10 there? You can get flooding in a desert canyon with that level of rain, but...

i was wrong. We actually got 83mm of rain in a 2 hour period. Over 3 inches
So it was solid rain

I would link an article on it but its almost like the local networks refuse to use Youtube as only way I would learn anything is on TV, and since I don't do that I will never know. Local paper wants me to subscribe to read their story. Nope.

Unexpected casualty of the rain on Saturday was the swimming pool I do hydrotherapy at, it is closed for the week while they do repairs. We have already paid for the next week so not sure how that works. Guess they can give a refund if necessary.

A helicopter was flying around our suburb today surveying the damage caused, and an excavator was down the creek moving concrete blocks to let water flow. They will need to reconstruct all of the concrete along there again.

I was only young in 1971 when it last happened, but I can vaguely remember it.
Not a lot of memorable events in my suburbs history... at least no one died this time.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Zloth seriously, though, all you need to do is tell it to make the beard longer. The problem is that if you do something more complicated than just standing and facing the viewer, I'm pretty sure Flux would screw it up.

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i was wrong. We actually got 83mm of rain in a 2 hour period. Over 3 inches
So it was solid rain

I would link an article on it but its almost like the local networks refuse to use Youtube as only way I would learn anything is on TV, and since I don't do that I will never know. Local paper wants me to subscribe to read their story. Nope.

Unexpected casualty of the rain on Saturday was the swimming pool I do hydrotherapy at, it is closed for the week while they do repairs. We have already paid for the next week so not sure how that works. Guess they can give a refund if necessary.

A helicopter was flying around our suburb today surveying the damage caused, and an excavator was down the creek moving concrete blocks to let water flow. They will need to reconstruct all of the concrete along there again.

I was only young in 1971 when it last happened, but I can vaguely remember it.
Not a lot of memorable events in my suburbs history... at least no one died this time.

Hopefully everything gets repaired quickly. We probably have this type of weather a lot more frequently over here. At least once or twice a year, you would literally need a boat to get to our house. The worst in recent memory was Hurricane Helene in 2024. We'd had 5 inches of rain already when the hurricane hit and suddenly dropped 10 more inches and then, more slowly, 6 more inches. Then a dam failed and the water destroyed everything in its path from roads to towns. The main highway from Tennessee to North Carolina, which winds through the mountains, collapsed and slid into the river. It's not expected to be fully reopened until 2028. Final death toll was about 250.

 

[Colif]

Since the 1971 storms they built storm water drains and manage the water in such a way that the only people under threat are on the bike paths that ran alongside the creek and there is a small chance someone could have been on them. But no one was as it happened at night. The roads were elevated above the level of the creek. It would have to be really high to cross the roads.

I think most of the damage apart from to individual homes was mostly the concrete on the storm water drains. It did its job dumping all the water out of the system

Much of the flooding was caused by leaf build up in gutters but the local govt had been sending street cleaners out in the weeks before to clean ours. We live on a bus route so I expect they complained.

TBH I haven't gone looking. Maybe tomorrow.

We rarely get storms like that one. Hence I am remembering back to 1971. Once in 55 year storm.
It didn't seem that bad at the time, I didn't even realise it was that heavy as it happened between 10pm and 12pm, so couldn't really see much.

 

[Frag Maniac]

It's official, our Seahawks have won the Super Bowl! We had a small watch party in our apt building last night, viewing it on a Samsung 85" TV in our community room. We were up 9 to 0 at the half, and the Hawks continued to hold the Pats scoreless for 3 quarters! The Pats D is pretty good too though, so it took until well into the game before we got a TD.

Right after our first TD early in the 4th quarter though, the Pats quickly scored one of their own. The Pats also managed what started out as a decent drive mid 4th quarter that kept us on the edge of our seats where they could have come within 4 points were it not for a heartbreaking pic. It wasn't until late in the 4th quarter where the Hawks scored their 2nd TD off a strip sack by Witherspoon (caught by Nwosu) that it became an insurmountable lead.

The Pats managed to score another TD late in the game, but it was too little, too late. The final score, 29-13, which was over 3 times the 4.5 point spread predicted by betting houses. In fact on average it was also a higher spread than most analysts predicted. Our kicker Jason Meyers set a record for most field goals in the Super Bowl, and our back Ken Walker won MVP.

There's going to be a Super Bowl parade Wed on 2/11, and it goes along the avenue I lived on prior to moving to my current location. It's predicted to be about 25 degrees warmer than it was with our 2013 Super Bowl parade on that route though, and I again expect to see a ton of fans from all over come to see it. I had a guy and his kids from Vancouver BC next to me last time.

The embedded version of the highlights is not permitted externally, so I had to post just the link.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksG9O8PHXbI

 

[BeardyHat]

It's official, our Seahawks have won the Super Bowl! We had a small watch party in our apt building last night, viewing it on a Samsung 85" TV in our community room. We were up 9 to 0 at the half, and the Hawks continued to hold the Pats scoreless for 3 quarters! The Pats D is pretty good too though, so it took until well into the game before we got a TD.

Right after our first TD early in the 4th quarter though, the Pats quickly scored one of their own. The Pats also managed what started out as a decent drive mid 4th quarter that kept us on the edge of our seats where they could have come within 4 points were it not for a heartbreaking pic. It wasn't until late in the 4th quarter where the Hawks scored their 2nd TD off a strip sack by Witherspoon (caught by Nwosu) that it became an insurmountable lead.

The Pats managed to score another TD late in the game, but it was too little, too late. The final score, 29-13, which was over 3 times the 4.5 point spread predicted by betting houses. In fact on average it was also a higher spread than most analysts predicted. Our kicker Jason Meyers set a record for most field goals in the Super Bowl, and our back Ken Walker won MVP.

There's going to be a Super Bowl parade Wed on 2/11, and it goes along the avenue I lived on prior to moving to my current location. It's predicted to be about 25 degrees warmer than it was with our 2013 Super Bowl parade on that route though, and I again expect to see a ton of fans from all over come to see it. I had a guy and his kids from Vancouver BC next to me last time.

The embedded version of the highlights is not permitted externally, so I had to post just the link.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksG9O8PHXbI

We went to a party for it yesterday. Though I admit, I could not care less about sports, so I was just there for the wings, the beer and the company. I did end up sitting on the couch in front of the game, but I was just playing Dragon Quest 3 on my handheld the entire time...

I'm in a bad way the past three days. My doctor prescribed a new med and I deliberately didn't look at the side effects, because I didn't want to psych myself out and assume I'm getting the listed side effects, which I've definitely done before.

However, since I began the med on Friday night, I have had awful insomnia and restlessness. Finally at 4am this morning after another night of not sleeping, I decided it's probably the med and looked up the side effects. Common side affects: (amongst many others) insomnia and restlessness (especially in the legs. Which I've noticed...).

I emailed my doctor and told him I'm stopping immediately. I'm taking the med to help blunt my overactive anxiety and I gotta say, anxiety isn't going to make me kill myself, but not sleeping definitely will. Obviously that didn't come across in text, but that's dark humor...

 

[Zed Clampet]

OWWWW! OWWWWW! OWWWWWW!

That's the pain I felt when I found out my daughter's cat is in an animal hospital ICU. He'll be fine, but my wallet is going to feel true agony. Until they move her off of "Seasonal" status at work, which should happen next month, she's not making nearly enough money to pay for something like this. I really don't care, but I do hope that the bill doesn't get up into 6 figure territory. It's like $10,000 a day. I told her we needed to get the cat out of there the very second he's obviously okay. The hospital is actually in Knoxville, so I told her to let me know when he's fine, and I'll go get him, and she can pick him up later. I don't want to pay an extra 10k because she's tired and will go get him in the morning...