Random thoughts... - by Tocky
heywood on 4/12/2024 at 16:22
I feel the same, especially every year around this time when people are busy buying so many disposable gifts.
Azaran on 4/12/2024 at 16:39
Quote Posted by Harvester
It's like this cheap tablet that my father has by Lenovo. He already had to reset it to factory setting multiple times because stuff wasn't working or it became too slow. It has stuff like Dolby Atmos which my iPad Air doesn't even have, but the speaker sounds so crappy and tinny that my iPad ends up sounding way better in comparison.
And with that in mind, we can no longer say 'X brand is good, Y brand is bad'. I'm sure Lenovo makes good tablets too, but their cheaper segments are garbage (like HP above).
Surprisingly, I bought a $180 tablet as a gift for a friend a year ago, took a risk on a Blackview (a budget phone/tablet brand), with decent advertised specs (I think 8 GB of RAM), and it was really snappy when I tried it. Last I heard, still works great (he uses it mainly to display designs to draw from, but still)
DuatDweller on 5/12/2024 at 10:02
About HP, there was a nice performing Laptop model, it was a bit older by now, but it was ok, until HP forced a Bios update and the nice machine became a nice dead brick.
So while tempting specs of machines and whatever HP may offer I would say no thanks, I want to use them (Laptops) until they die of old age.
Tocky on 22/12/2024 at 03:46
Nice to see Steve Vai and Richie Kotzen included on the face shredders. I was ashamed I knew less than a quarter of the rest though.
Anyway I feel trepidation about giving my 1973 official Boy Scout knife (with BS symbol emblazoned into the blade) as a present to my granddaughters boyfriend but how could I not when I found out he collects scouting paraphernalia? I remember my dad buying that for me on the Oxford square at Neilsons department store, the only place one could get such things back then within a hundred and more miles. It was expensive even then. A very well made knife. And now it is a rare one. It has always been one of my treasures. So many memories of my scouting days are in it. My love of my father is in it.
But Will is an Eagle Scout, the highest one can go, and he invited me to his Order of the Arrow induction ceremony this past fall, a secret one only for scouts and past scouts. So many accolades were announced for him during the elaborate presentation that he put the rest to shame and they all had many accomplishments. If he does marry into my family it will pass to my blood anyway. I just never give up my treasures. I hope he understands this and treasures it himself.
His ceremony- he is second from the left in full Native regalia-
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https://i.imgur.com/acsIslq.jpegThe knife-
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https://i.imgur.com/Bzf7LL0.jpegDuatDweller on 30/12/2024 at 21:38
Would you believe me that Xmas day I was alone at home as usual, and I saw a white presence to my side, and later a flash of light behind my back? The lights were all on tough, so I have no explanation for it, as I never saw the phenomenon again, so you can discard retinal detachment as the cause. I don't know, angels, dead family members, hard to tell.
This weird things, always happen to me, to the point I'm accustomed to them.
Doors that open all by itself, and close back, a knock on the door, at the same time my friend died by a shot to the heart.
A black dressed white man crossing the house from my room to the living room, in that case my mother saw it together with me.
I don't know what is going, one time I was shooting an enemy and before I press the mouse button the guy got shot and died.
It was then when I realized we're in a simulated reality.
Tocky on 31/12/2024 at 08:39
I just clearly heard the doorknob rattle, and it set the dog barking, so I immediately got up to see who was at the door. Nobody. What is worse is that the storm door was closed so there is no way it could have been rattled from the outside. Yeah. I understand. Mice don't rattle doorknobs like they are trying to force them open. But simulated reality? Nah. Strange shit happens is all.
On the subject of mice though, what do you do when one of your cats catches one? They like to play with them and that is cruel. Poor beggars. You have to go get your hammer and act like the farm boy you were raised to be. But my heart is with the mouse. Best you can do is be quick. And who knows? Maybe the ghost that fucks with you will see you acting decisively and decide not to knock anything off the table tonight. I hope not. My wife's flowers and card are on there for her birthday when she wakes tomorrow. But you can never tell. The one thing ghosts are is unpredictable.
DuatDweller on 31/12/2024 at 10:38
I remember once my cat brought me a rat, it was already dead, so I got a plastic bag and put it in the trash can.
Pyrian on 31/12/2024 at 20:47
Our former cat Sophie was a skilled hunter but smol and couldn't kill rats, so she'd bring them into the house for the Schnauzer to kill.
Our current cat wouldn't hurt a mouse. Like, seriously, he'll catch a mouse and carry it around the house and stuff and put it down to play with some more, and as far as I can tell, the mouse is totally uninjured, and this will continue until the mouse and cat get caught in a sticky trap. He's not a very smart cat, but he's totally sweet.
Nicker on 31/12/2024 at 21:18
Please don't use glue traps for rodents. They are a cruel, lingering death. Use a quick kill trap.
Pyrian on 31/12/2024 at 23:52
Quote Posted by Nicker
Please don't use glue traps for rodents. They are a cruel, lingering death. Use a quick kill trap.
I have tried many quick-kill traps and found exactly zero that are both effective and compatible with having a cat around. ...With the vast majority being neither.
