OT - What are you doing right now?

CPFC1905

lousubcap said:

Just finished the annual review/update of my draft obituary (been doing it for 20+ years).  Given my age and the wasted (yet another) year, it was quick.  
Perhaps I'll get to do it again in 2023.  

I didn't;t know that was a thing.  Naturally, I anticipate your contribution to the forum and as guardian of the 3rd rail on our calls for many years to come.

Can I ask, have you deployed any depth charges in the text?   I know I would.
"In 2018 Ed concluded many decades service to his local Wicca sect, frustrated at the deteriorating quality of local virgins"  etc

Eoin

JohnInCarolina said:

LOL, just noticed the meat thread got nuked.  That's a shame.  If you're going to throw up a troll thread that's political, you might want to avoid using the current President's name in the thread title.  Just a pro-tip.  

It was a poor effort anway.

nolaegghead

Ed the quality/virgin relationship is probably interrelated. 

Canugghead

JohnInCarolina said:

LOL, just noticed the meat thread got nuked.  That's a shame.  If you're going to throw up a troll thread that's political, you might want to avoid using the current President's name in the thread title.  Just a pro-tip.  

Damn, that was priceless, disappointed when I couldn't find it this morning. Too bad most folks probably missed it given it was in the wee hours, would love to know what I missed after 2am. Thanks nola!

nolaegghead

@Canugghead

JohnInCarolina

Reading about the awful traffic jam on I-95:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/01/04/i-95-shutdown-virginia/

A friend of mine got stuck in this.  Was in it for more than 18 hrs, and counting.  Good Lord.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Reading about the awful traffic jam on I-95:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/01/04/i-95-shutdown-virginia/

A friend of mine got stuck in this.  Was in it for more than 18 hrs, and counting.  Good Lord.  

Aarrgghhh.  Paywall.  18hrs!  That's nuts.  I suspect lots of cars without fuel and dead batteries are on the horizon.

Canugghead

Brandon's fault

MasterC

Sous vide some eggs per doctors recommendations 

nolaegghead

MasterC said:

Sous vide some eggs per doctors recommendations 

The egg part or both were recommendations?

MasterC

Weighted on the anova side

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Reading about the awful traffic jam on I-95:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/01/04/i-95-shutdown-virginia/

A friend of mine got stuck in this.  Was in it for more than 18 hrs, and counting.  Good Lord.  

Aarrgghhh.  Paywall.  18hrs!  That's nuts.  I suspect lots of cars without fuel and dead batteries are on the horizon.

Here's a story from Buzzfeed that's not paywalled:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/virginia-i95-traffic-jam-snow

I think they just got slammed with a ton of snow over a relatively short window of time, then add a few crashes in and it all went to heLL in a handbasket.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Reading about the awful traffic jam on I-95:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/01/04/i-95-shutdown-virginia/

A friend of mine got stuck in this.  Was in it for more than 18 hrs, and counting.  Good Lord.  

Aarrgghhh.  Paywall.  18hrs!  That's nuts.  I suspect lots of cars without fuel and dead batteries are on the horizon.

Here's a story from Buzzfeed that's not paywalled:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/virginia-i95-traffic-jam-snow

I think they just got slammed with a ton of snow over a relatively short window of time, then add a few crashes in and it all went to heLL in a handbasket.  

Yikes!  That is an ugly situation.  Hope everyone is ok.  Snow, cold, and stuck for 10s of hours is not good.

Battleborn

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Reading about the awful traffic jam on I-95:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/01/04/i-95-shutdown-virginia/

A friend of mine got stuck in this.  Was in it for more than 18 hrs, and counting.  Good Lord.  

Aarrgghhh.  Paywall.  18hrs!  That's nuts.  I suspect lots of cars without fuel and dead batteries are on the horizon.

Here's a story from Buzzfeed that's not paywalled:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/virginia-i95-traffic-jam-snow

I think they just got slammed with a ton of snow over a relatively short window of time, then add a few crashes in and it all went to heLL in a handbasket.  

I lived in the Norfolk area for five years and 95 was always awful. I cannot imagine getting stuck on it during a bad storm like that. 

Battleborn

Finally got my test results back from Friday. Came back positive, as expected. Pretty much over it now, just a little congested. Luckily it wasn’t much more than a few days of the flu for me. 

Botch

Huh.  When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.

Nobody tells me anything.  

nolaegghead

Botch said:

Huh.  When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.

Nobody tells me anything.  

Did you know you can get to the calculator without unlocking your phone?  Drag down from the top right corner and there's a menu with flashlight, calculator, network stuff and some basic controls like volume, brightness (or dimness in the case of lilrascal), etc.

See?  I told you something, maybe new.

lkapigian

Botch said:

Huh.  When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.

Nobody tells me anything.  

just noticed that the other day 

nolaegghead

I'm new to the iPhone, learning it myself.  The learning curve is pretty easy on this thing.

saluki2007

If you hold the power button and top volume button it does a print screen. If you are in the middle of typing something you can hold the space bar down and then slide that finger around like a curser. 

Eoin

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Huh.  When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.

Nobody tells me anything.  

Did you know you can get to the calculator without unlocking your phone?  Drag down from the top right corner and there's a menu with flashlight, calculator, network stuff and some basic controls like volume, brightness (or dimness in the case of lilrascal), etc.

See?  I told you something, maybe new.

Does the dimness control go up to 11?

nolaegghead

Eoin said:

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Huh.  When you call up the Calculator app on your iPhone, then tip it sideways into Landscape mode, it becomes a scientific calculator.

Nobody tells me anything.  

Did you know you can get to the calculator without unlocking your phone?  Drag down from the top right corner and there's a menu with flashlight, calculator, network stuff and some basic controls like volume, brightness (or dimness in the case of lilrascal), etc.

See?  I told you something, maybe new.

Does the dimness control go up to 11?

Easily

Botch

saluki2007 said: 
If you are in the middle of typing something you can hold the space bar down and then slide that finger around like a curser. 

Just learned that one too, from the same video.  

SamIAm2

@Botch - when you get done dealing with your BitUpender issue on you new Mac, check out the calculator app. Open it and select view if you are a menu driven user. You can choose between Basic, Scientific, Programmer, or Reverse Polish Notation. Or just open the app and hit Command 1, 2, 3, or R to make the same choices.

Botch

SamIAm2 said:

@Botch - when you get done dealing with your BitUpender issue on you new Mac, check out the calculator app. Open it and select view if you are a menu driven user. You can choose between Basic, Scientific, Programmer, or Reverse Polish Notation. Or just open the app and hit Command 1, 2, 3, or R to make the same choices.

Yeah, I have RPN set on my desktop computer; just didn't know you could get it on the phone.  

Gulfcoastguy

Dang, I miss RPN from engineering school. And the first few years after until nobody sold Hewlet Packard calculators locally any more.

alaskanassasin

Got the smart booster, need to update my nano thingy’s 

Ozzie_Isaac

I'm waiting for the abacus app. 🧮

Foghorn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I'm waiting for the abacus app. 🧮

https://www.intellibricks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Abacus-for-classes.pdf

Ozzie_Isaac

Foghorn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I'm waiting for the abacus app. 🧮

https://www.intellibricks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Abacus-for-classes.pdf

My dreams have been answered!!