-
Announcements
-
Welcome! 03/05/2016
Welcome, everyone, to the new 910CMX Community Forums. I'm still working on getting them running, so things may change. If you're a 910 Comic creator and need your forum recreated, let me know and I'll get on it right away. I'll do my best to make this new place as fun as the last one!
-
Don Edwards
-
Content count
2,497 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
82
Everything posted by Don Edwards
-
It does seem that Windows 11 has given a major boost to macOS and Linux... ... but... um... you got that nice big external drive in the plan, but you want to install software on it. First, while external drives are a lot faster than they used to be, they're still slower than internal. And second, but probably more important, I don't see anything about backing up your data. Is that in the plan but just not mentioned in this post?
-
Also, the standard basic design of a pickup truck - that level-top box on the back - works, and we have a fair number of related things designed to work with it. The Cybertruck has exceptions to that design, that don't work as well and that the related things don't work with. And in exchange for that lost functionality, it offers the benefit of... um... I'm drawing a blank here... It's a pickup truck for people who don't need a pickup truck. But for those people, any pickup truck will work at least as well.
-
The mammal skins are a decoration laid over the actual shield, which is wood or metal. The purpose of the decorations - of heraldry in general - is identifying people at a substantial distance. If you're at war, you really want to know whether that body of troops approaching you is led by an ally or an enemy. A lot of the rules of heraldry (not all of them) are really about that. The big example being that you shouldn't put a "metal" (formally gold or silver, actually yellow or white) on another "metal", or a "color" (any other color) on another "color" - metals go on colors, colors go on metals. In modern terminology, high contrast - that's what the rule is for, so you can see what's on that guy's shield when he's in the shade of a tree a couple hundred yards away.
-
If it's a really old version, the slippers will be made of vair, not verre. Verre is glass. Vair is a pattern of small animal skins stitched together. Most often, squirrel skins. Guess how much the pronunciation differs. But which sounds more plausible for making comfortable, dance-worthy slippers?
-
And here it rained off and on all day Thursday, but not enough to wet the ground. Officially, 0.024 inches (0.6 millimeter). That also happens to be our total year-to-date precipitation.
-
well, milking a marshmallow would probably be easier on the hands than milking an almond.
-
Wouldn't sound like much, but it would be music you could really feel.
-
Betamax was a better format in every way except one. They eventually got that one fixed, but it was too late - VHS effectively owned the market. That one problem: initially, maximum tape length wast 1 hour. Movies are routinely 2 hours. So Beta owners had to change tapes in mid-movie. (And for home recording off broadcast or cable, lots of VHS users accepted even lower-than-VHS-normal quality to get 6 hours on one tape.)
-
Does she get up on the table and try to play with the math rocks herself?
-
Well, you could open a single-person business of your own... and get a flexible schedule, you can work whichever 18 hours of the day you prefer. (And then if your business is successful enough that you need to hire another worker, you also need to hire a personnel department to take care of the paperwork and government regulations.)
-
Are you stating that as a chemist, or a dietician? Usually one can tell from context, but in this specific case the context is somewhat mixed. (It matters because 1 calorie as used by dieticians = 1000 calories as used by chemists. One of the more annoying cases of recycled terminology.)
-
AH... that article's a year old...
-
I've often wished for a bumper sticker (with really weak adhesive, so it comes off easily) that I could apply to other people's vehicles. One that says "Do these fenders make my butt look fat?" Also a variant on the fake-arrow-through-the-head gag, carefully designed to be quickly applied to .
-
I have the update manager set to check for new updates weekly. So it tells me about new updates at least every day, sometime several times a day.
-
There's an inverse problem too. People who know how to drive when the snow is packed inches thick on the road and the temperature is well below freezing, often don't know how to drive on half an inch of snow at just barely below freezing. (Because a really smooth surface is not nearly as slick as a really smooth surface with a molecules-thick layer of liquid on top.)
-
Places where water should go but doesn't, are usually less trouble than places where water shouldn't go but does. Exceptions noted for clogged drains for washing machines, dishwashers, and the like. (Also, it's amazing how tiny things that you'd think could easily pass through a drain, like shaved whiskers, don't.) Parts & labor for my toilets came to $160 each. Also got the dead drinking-water pump replaced, another $220.
-
Not that she meant it that way - basically there's this thing that is very important in her life and she's never been able to talk to anyone but her grandfather (if that) about it. She's had to keep it bottled up inside. Now she has someone that she can talk to about it, the cap can come off that bottle (and the effect will probably be similar to opening a well-shaken soda). But Susan didn't know that backstory at the time of that panel, and what it sounded like to her...
-
Forecast here is 75⁰F today, 58 tonight. And I just had a leaky toilet fixed a few days ago, and last night the other one sprung the same sort of leak. Only more so, and since I was already asleep it ran for longer. I'll be spending a big chunk of the day hauling things out of the basement and setting them out to dry.
- 2,853 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- earworm
- other drivers
- (and 5 more)
-
What do deities cry out when they climax?
-
I think that's more of a "stop hating yourself over it" bonk.
-
Every "flavored" medicine I've tried tasted like somebody showed a picture of some fruit to a chemical factory.
-
That last sentence reminded me of a bit from the story, Accidentally Adopted on Reddit.
-
NP Comic for Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025
Don Edwards replied to Darth Fluffy's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
Hope will fail in her intent. The magic will help Cinderted with the chores, but they'll use that to get more done rather than to get some time to themself or some rest. -
NP Comic for Thursday, Jan 23, 2025
Don Edwards replied to Darth Fluffy's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
Hm... I've known several females who were active in SCA - mostly bards, warriors, and warrior-bards. -
There seems to be no record of snow falling in this town. There have been a few times over the last couple centuries that the surrounding hills got enough of a dusting to be seen from town. I got a weather alert yesterday that the overnight low might hit 29⁰F in part of the county. I seriously doubt it got that cold in town. And yes, for this town 29⁰F would qualify as extreme weather.
