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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Hate it when people say you need help, when discussing encounters one has had with ufos, bigfoot, ghost,shapeshifters......I`m like just imagine the shit i`m not telling ya if i`m so freaking open about this shit. This is why i Luv it here.

When I tell people about my UFO sighting I am met with "yeah Sure"
And "see any little green men lately?"
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Two things: can’t anyone get a decent photo of a UFO that is fairly close to the photographer? I dislike it when people get all hot and bothered about a speck of light in the sky. When I see a photo of a true craft shape up close and personal I will sit up and take notice.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I put this in another thread for a different reason but take a look at these pics - this is what an iphone can do. Or could anyway, not sure what generation phone it was in 2014 and 2019. Point is, the cameras we carry most suck for this sort of thing. They are great for close up and on slow moving objects under ideal lighting conditions. Look at how poor the aerial dogfight pics are, and the planes are maybe 1000 - 1500 feet up moving at 100 mph. Can't even get decent pics of low flying planes around my house and I have been trying. I can even get past the initial surprise most of the time and get the shot only to be rewarded with not a whole lot.

Hate to say I agree with Ray Stanford on one thing - you really have to have the right equipment with you at all times if you think you're going to get a clear pic of something in the sky at about any range.
 
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Standingstones

Celestial
I must be past my prime technologically. My wife and I were looking into purchasing a new laptop. The old one is way past its prime. I didn’t realize that the majority of laptops no longer have a CD drive in them. If you want that feature you need to purchase an auxiliary stand alone drive.

Because the manufacturers want to keep things slim and light they decided to cut out things such as a CD drive. I like that feature and I don’t want to purchase antiquated technology to keep the drive. Grrrr!

I do notice that finding the right laptop is a major production. You need to check dozens of computers to get just the right setup you desire. The prices are all over the map as well.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I put this in another thread for a different reason but take a look at these pics - this is what an iphone can do. Or could anyway, not sure what generation phone it was in 2014 and 2019. Point is, the cameras we carry most suck for this sort of thing. They are great for close up and on slow moving objects under ideal lighting conditions. Look at how poor the aerial dogfight pics are, and the planes are maybe 1000 - 1500 feet up moving at maybe 100 mph. Can't even get decent pics of low flying planes around my house and I have been trying. I can even get past the initial surprise most of the time and get the shot only to be rewarded with not a whole lot.

Hate to say I agree with Ray Stanford on one thing - you really have to have the right equipment with you at all times if you think you're going to get a clear pic of something in the sky at about any range.

I hate it when I mention a link and foget to post it

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Google Drive
 

wwkirk

Divine
I hate when emails from scammers pretending to be PayPal end up in my Inbox. It happens rather frequently. One would expect the algorithm to automatically dump a message into the Spam folder if PayPal is in the subject heading but it is not actually coming from PayPal.

Actually, I have suspicions that spammers actually pay to be allowed to get their messages through. Otherwise, why, in a number of cases, does the email provider ask if you really want to do that when you click to designate certain emails as Spam? If they're not getting paid, why should they give a hoot?
 

wwkirk

Divine
Yesterday I looked in my mailbox and there was a bunch of mail addressed to my apartment number, but to a different building. So I dutifully put a note on my box with a rubber band around the other person's mail. At the same time, I see a note on a different mailbox written by someone else with the same predicament.

This morning, my next door neighbor knocked on my door with a package for me that had been delivered to a different building. (Fortunate for me, as the package would have been virtually untraceable.)

This afternoon, the mail carrier comes and goes, and never touches the misdelivered mail. But he does discard the two notes.

I then decide that I ought to seek out the person from the other building, and when I bring him his mail, he reveals it was he who had dropped off my package.

1. I'm kinda pissed at the seeming nonchalant, "who cares" attitude of the mail carrier, But
2. It seems to be an institutional policy! USPS does not so much as offer a FAQ concerning this issue. Moreover, there is no option anywhere to request erroneously delivered mail be redirected. It's like their position is, "We'll give it exactly one try, after that work it out among yourselves." What crap!
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I hate it when I save fifty million ethernet patch cables - still new in the bag - and the one I decide to use and dress in has to be bad.

Also hate it when you stumble across a known issue with a product after you already bought it.

Our Sony Bravia TV will intermittently lose its wifi connection. Seems to be a known issue related to the Android OS. I drilled into their network connection settings and under saw something akin to Wake on LAN. Forget exactly what they call it but I think when the thing has been off overnight and I power it up for whatever reason the wireless nic fails to wake up. A power off/on reset makes it work again. The setting I changed warned me of additional power consumption so I think I'm on the right track.

I ran a lot of CAT 5E throughout the house and stuck a patch panel up in the attic. I set up a wired LAN connection for the TV and am just waiting to see if the problem reoccurs. I'll probably stick it on the wired connection eventually anyway but want to see if this actually fixes the problem or not.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I hate it when one of those little bitty screws falls out of your eyeglasses and the kit I ordered a kit from Amazon that has zillions of them yet not ONE of them fits !! :)

Went to Walgreens, bought one of their wee kits for a buck and guess what? Had the right one in it ..............
 
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nivek

As Above So Below
When the last serviceman to change the oil in my car tightened the oil drain plug so tight I had to use an air assist impact wrench to get it loose...Wtf...

Also to a milder degree, I hate changing the oil in a 30mph wind...I guess this is the new normal around here, steady 20-30mph winds day after day...Its Putin's fault like everything else...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
You hate it when your driveway motion light takes a dump and you have to buy a new one. You especially hate it when the new one is defective out of the box. You really, really hate it when the one after that only lasts 6 months. I might forget about the basic HD motion detector and stick a Wyze flood light + camera up there.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Was all set to jump in the shower and head to work. wife woke up and told me I'm off today.

She's right !!

It means I missed my shift on Wednesday. Ooops. We'll all get over it.

If they'd stop changing my days off constantly this wouldn't happen
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
My wife and I monitor our kids Facebook and Twitter. Last night on a Facebook post and tweet we learned of a major life event for our daughter Debbie. I wish she had come to US before splashing her private life to the world. She may be nearly 20 and heading to collage but we should at least told before she tells the world.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I make a point of being on time. Some people never are, some are ridiculously early, Which are you ?

We recently needed a new veterinarian and found a great one; with one exception.

The woman is chronically late. Been there three times. You show up on time and they immediately let you in to an exam room. And then sit there for 45 minutes, which is what happened on the first two visits. Yesterday was a quick minute puss-poke after our cat had a tooth out two weeks ago. We sat there for a solid hour for a four minute exam. No emergencies going on, the place is quiet. She also spoke some nonsense about his food which if were such a great concern maybe she should've mentioned two weeks ago ......
I miss my old retired vet quite a bit. I - very politely - mentioned that this isn't cool and she acknowledged it but you absolutely know it's just the way she is.

Had a medical doctor once keep me sitting an hour just to hand me a pamphlet - but I didn't say anything because she did a colonoscopy on me the next day and keeping quiet seemed the way to go on that one. Had a good friend who was physiologically incapable of keeping track of time. Interesting that those sorts seem to have an excuse generating ability that they actually seem to believe justifies what they are doing no matter how blatant. I always said he'd be late to his own funeral but he actually made that one on time for once because his sister brought his ashes in a box, otherwise it would've been a crap shoot. I have another friend who will be waiting for me a full hour before our scheduled time for reasons unknown but after close to 40 years of this I got used to it.

So which one are you ?
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I have another friend who will be waiting for me a full hour before our scheduled time for reasons unknown but after close to 40 years of this I got used to it.

So which one are you ?

I have a friend who is never on time, rather, he will run anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours late to any non-work related appointments...He will also be late to work once a week from oversleeping, sometimes on a weekend he will sleep an entire day away without a thought, even when he had activities with other people thereby leaving them hanging...

I'm not like him one bit, I'm always about 10 minutes early to any scheduled appointment or agreements with other people...I'm also at least 30 minutes early to work, I start work at 6am and I'm out of bed at 3am so I have time to tend to my dog and get ready for work before driving 45 minutes to get there...If I'm going to be late for some reason ill call ahead and reschedule or let whomever know I'm running late...I don't like waiting for people who are late and don't like making people wait on me...

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