Insert rant from Ricardo Montablan in Wrath of Khan directed against squirrels.
Those damn things. I have three nut trees. And the tree rats are all fat and happy. With 2-3 nests per tree. And they store nuts in my shop, and leave half eaten jagged nuts all over the ground. They do give my dogs exercise, and the occasional extra snack though.
They sound even worse than the rock chucks here. I am frustrated that the rock chucks keep eating my garden.
So I had to move some of my wood stores since weâre blowing out the back wall of my shop, my actual walnut wood is chewed on⌠Beautiful boards, with the edges chewed. Thankfully itâs only a few boards, but this crap is $10+ a board foot.
Yeah, I was unhappy to find a rat nest in the pile of stickered boards in my garage when we moved. Same issue, but with boards that are even more dear.
Happened again, so I do a search and find out itâs the bios password screen. Now I have to figure out whatâs going on thatâs causing it to appear, especially since I donât have one set.
I lost more text files I was working on because I had gone back to using the Windows Notepad and hadnât saved them yet. EditPad Lite and Notepad++ do have recovery in them, but neither of them support running multiple instances of the program, or dragging the tab of one file out of the window to create a new instance.
For my workflow, I need what Iâm working on to be in separate windows so they can be visible at the same time. The Windows Notepad can be run as many times as needed. If I save them at some point, I donât lose as much, but they may not be in the same folder, so it becomes a hunt to find out which ones I was working on. Notepad only remembers the most recent path it saved to, regardless of how many instances are open. If I do a file search of my entire computer for text files saved in the past few days, I may find them.
LibreOffice has a similar problem. It can recover documents that have never been saved if the program crashes or I end its task in Task Manager. But if it shut down is part of a Windows Update, it isnât recoverable because Windows Update tries to do a graceful end for programs and thereâs no human around at the time to say, âYes, I want to save this document and hereâs a name for it.â So unsaved data go bye-bye.
Itâs the classic lesson I need to learn of âSave early, save oftenâ, coupled with âWindows can crash or update at any timeâ.
Thatâs when you enable the autosave function (if the program or application have that sort of function).
I learnt from my DOS days, especially when programming (most notably in Assembly language) that you always save before executing your new codeâŚ
Pssshhht. Autosaving is for the weak.
Burt Gummer once said, âPlastic is not an oxygen barrier.â I just learned that itâs not a barrier for the smell of movie theater popcorn. I had a lot left over from when I went to the theater last week, so I took it home and put it in a plastic bag. I think some kind of osmosis effect is taking place now, as I can smell it from 20-30 feet away.
Why am I the only person in the family who knows we have assigned seating in the lounge?
Iâd be amused if someone started putting labels like this on their products, but changed it to MADE IN OCCUPIED USA
This is a little nicer. I have an apple cinnamon air freshener in my car, but itâs just sitting on the ledge where misc stuff can sit. If I put my face masks on top of it, the apple cinnamon scent gets into them at a pleasant level when I happen to wear them.
Related to this, the air freshener can I bough a few years ago that I said created a âwall of pumpkinâ when itâs used, is still around. Not used much because of how strong it is. The can has started rusting at the seams. Iâm wondering which will happen first: I use it up, or I come home to a âhouse of pumpkinâ if the seam is breached.
In January, Diamond Distributors filed for bankruptcy. They were the worldâs largest distributor for comics, graphic novels and role-playing games. They had big companies as their clients: Marvel, DC, Paizo, Wizards of the Coast.
Like Walmart and Amazon, Diamond operates on a consignment basis. Stock is sent to them and stored in their warehouses. When orders came in, they shipped the materials, then paid the companies and people that sent those items to them.
After the filing, they announced they were going to sell the items in their warehouses in an auction. Their reasoning was because over 125 consignors didnât âperfect their interestâ in the consigned inventory by filling out a Uniform Commercial Code-1 statement. In other words, because the consignors didnât try to reclaim their stock, it became Diamondâs property.
A month later, they stopped honoring NCR requests. NCR = Non-Conformance Report. Itâs kind of a statement of âThis is whatâs in our contract and youâre not conforming to those conditionsâ. Diamond tells publishers they canât legally give the stock back to them.
As stated at the end of the âBattle for Inventory as Bankrupt Comics Distributor Seeks To Sell Off Consigned Merchandiseâ article on FindLaw, thereâs speculation Diamond is trying to get the consignment stock liquidated to appease its creditors, leaving smaller publishing houses without any recourse. If Diamond can do that, then those publishers will also lose sales as people go for the lower-priced liquidated option instead.
If you do a search on YouTube for Diamond Distributors, thereâs plenty of videos about what this has done to the companies and the comic book industry as a whole. One publisher Iâve been a fan and supporter of for a very long time is Studio Foglio, creator of Girl Genius, the artist for the MythAdventures books and one book called Illegal Aliens by Nick Pollota, and going all the way back to Whatâs New with Phil and Dixie in Dragon magazine.
The Diamond drama has also hit them and added to the other financial issues theyâve had this year. They created a GoFundMe fundraiser today, and as of right now, theyâre about to reach the goal they set.
NOOOO, not Studio Foglio!
Now this is what weâll call Expropriation without Compensation.
And I think that most small studios will now be more careful and will absolutely try and protect themselves as best as they can.
Itâs never been more true that the only ones who win in the end are the lawyers.
Sadly. The courts have been weaponized.
So. Top members of Manglement got new puff jackets and assorted tat, while we still struggle with antiquated serverers and the suchâŚ
Not going to say much, but Iâve seen it happen before.
Manglement splurges, company tanks.
Not gonna worry about it, if it happens, it happens.
And Iâll take a pull on the hellhorn if it happens.
Iâm not sure whatâs more alarming: The spots on the metal divider where the paint has been eaten away thatâs close to the urinal, or the areas on the other side of the divider is even more eaten away about where soap from the dispenser would fall.
This could go in the useful information category. Jerry OâConnell and Rebecca Romijn have been married for 18 years now. Theyâve made some very sensible financial arrangements.
The first is that when one of them gets an acting job, the other stays home to take care of the girls. They trade back and forth. Sheâs currently on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and sheâs started filming as Mystique in Avengers: Doomsday, so Jerry is the stay at home dad for now.
They decided to keep their finances separate, and they each contribute to a pool of money that is used for raising their kids. The contribution factors in whether one or both is working at the time. If one isnât, they chip in less and the other chips in more.
I cannot imagine a partnership where our finances werenât combined. Itâs all our money.
Me too - actually from when we were engaged and planning the wedding.
My wife was a stay at home mum, and the thought of âgiving her an allowanceâ is actively repugnant.
Having said that, I can see how that might be different for the permanently impermanent in Hollywood.
