Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Slack is such a piece of crap. It has one job! And fails at it. Start typing and whole thing just locks up and you have to wait so you can keep typing.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Charmonium
Lifer
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I really hate being brain dead. I've had the "new" set top box linking me to the ISP's video servers where everything gets recorded. One of my primary complaints has always been, no frame-advance for when I want to look at something more closely. I'm also not a fan of the lag time but you adapt quickly enough.
Anyway, I have had this system for at least 10 years and purely by accident, I discovered how to do the frame advance. And it wasn't a real stretch from the POV of any advanced logic skills. SMH
Anyway, I have had this system for at least 10 years and purely by accident, I discovered how to do the frame advance. And it wasn't a real stretch from the POV of any advanced logic skills. SMH
Charmonium
Lifer
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Well, after several years of having a dry basement, it's now flooded twice just this season.
In the past, that probably would have been snow which would have taken several days if not weeks to fully melt. In the distant past (last century) it might not have melted completely until Spring - just freeze over and turn crunchy.
My personal theory on this is that the AMOC (gulf stream, essentially) is decaying so instead of transporting warm water up to the N. Atlantic where it would sink to depth and animate deep ocean currents, a significant amount just piles up at lower latitudes like along the N. American coastline.
This became clear looking at the recent forecast map for the NE. The closer to the coast, the more likely it was to rain rather than snow.
I'm not that close to the coast but being near a large estuary and being only a couple hundred feet above sea level means coastal weather will have more of an impact than otherwise.
In the past, that probably would have been snow which would have taken several days if not weeks to fully melt. In the distant past (last century) it might not have melted completely until Spring - just freeze over and turn crunchy.
My personal theory on this is that the AMOC (gulf stream, essentially) is decaying so instead of transporting warm water up to the N. Atlantic where it would sink to depth and animate deep ocean currents, a significant amount just piles up at lower latitudes like along the N. American coastline.
This became clear looking at the recent forecast map for the NE. The closer to the coast, the more likely it was to rain rather than snow.
I'm not that close to the coast but being near a large estuary and being only a couple hundred feet above sea level means coastal weather will have more of an impact than otherwise.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Yikes sorry to hear. That is probably my worse nightmare short of a house fire.
Charmonium
Lifer
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@Red Squirrel - I suppose I should have explained a bit more. Since the house is built into a hillside, the basement is only about 2 inches lower than the garage. So "flooding" in this case just means maybe a half inch of water. And with few exceptions, everything is off the floor either on shelves or pallets.
It's still a pain in the ass though. I need to wear some sort of foot coverings or my feet get cold and wet. And I have to run the squirrel-cage fan for a few days to help with evaporation.
It used to be much worse though. Building on a hillside means that you get a lot of underground runoff. But when the town forced us to put in a sanitary sewer line, we put the trench on the high side of the house. Ever since, the trench seems to do a remarkable job of catching the runoff and directing it toward the street.
So the flooding is only an issue if there's a lot of rain or the interval between storms isn't enough to give the water table a chance to recede.
It's still a pain in the ass though. I need to wear some sort of foot coverings or my feet get cold and wet. And I have to run the squirrel-cage fan for a few days to help with evaporation.
It used to be much worse though. Building on a hillside means that you get a lot of underground runoff. But when the town forced us to put in a sanitary sewer line, we put the trench on the high side of the house. Ever since, the trench seems to do a remarkable job of catching the runoff and directing it toward the street.
So the flooding is only an issue if there's a lot of rain or the interval between storms isn't enough to give the water table a chance to recede.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Oh ok, still a pain if you have any finished flooring though or drywall as that can be ruined.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Ugh day shifts at the office when everyone is here are so long. Got spoiled working basically alone in the other building. Even pre covid it was only a few of us. I hate having this many people around me now. I'm right by the entrance so I get all the in and out traffic all day too and lot of noise from the door opening and slamming non stop. Thankfully it's only Tuesdays and Thursdays that everyone is here but I think that will change next union agreement and they'll want everyone back full time. They've been pushing for that for a long time. WFH was one good thing that came from Covid, at least we do get hybrid.
I miss the private bathroom at the other building too.
I miss the private bathroom at the other building too.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Charmonium
Lifer
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One IT consulting job I had, they moved me from a spot near a window to one right by the entrance from that floor. It was the data center for a brokerage, so they tended to be a little squirrely about security.
The standing joke forever after was, 'well, it's not a good sign but you don't need to really worry until they move you to a bathroom stall.'
Yeah, yuk it up guys - yuk it up.
Charmonium
Lifer
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The heated mat I put out for the black feral a couple of weeks ago has a soft, synthetic shell. I really do need to figure out if it's removable - assuming I happen to be by that way when he's not sleeping. Fuckin' cats.
It's under some eaves so it's not going to get direct rain or snow unless there's also wind. And that's precisely what happened recently. Of course the mat got wet, so he was a evicted for a couple days until it dried back out. Being heated helped immensely with that of course. Otherwise, by now, it would probably already have it's own little ecosystem.
It's under some eaves so it's not going to get direct rain or snow unless there's also wind. And that's precisely what happened recently. Of course the mat got wet, so he was a evicted for a couple days until it dried back out. Being heated helped immensely with that of course. Otherwise, by now, it would probably already have it's own little ecosystem.
bigboxes
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Made a veggie pizza tonight. Changed a variable in the cold fermentation of the pizza dough. I'm liking the results. I'm getting more bigger bubbles in the dough and better gluten structure. You can tell with the chew. Got a decent amount of char. Only challenge was with all these veggies. They have lots of moisture and there's this balance between cooked veggies and burnt crust. Go too far and you've burned the crust.
Mini San Marzano tomatoes, baby bella mushrooms, red onion, green pepper, black olives, my own tomato sauce, garlic, oregano, parmesan and asiago, low moisture whole milk mozzarella, provolone. Drizzled extra virgin olive oil on the pie as it was cooling.
This was amazing! Soooo good. I'm trying to show some restraint. Kept it to three slices. Super yum!
Mini San Marzano tomatoes, baby bella mushrooms, red onion, green pepper, black olives, my own tomato sauce, garlic, oregano, parmesan and asiago, low moisture whole milk mozzarella, provolone. Drizzled extra virgin olive oil on the pie as it was cooling.
This was amazing! Soooo good. I'm trying to show some restraint. Kept it to three slices. Super yum!
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