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  • in reply to: Plugins #3107

    Sounds good. 🙂

    in reply to: The Long Hall of Hilarity #3103

    So we charge a small entry fee just to get them going! 😀

    Marbles, too! Can’t lose them otherwise!

    😀

    in reply to: Sounds and Music #3102

    Almost Halloween so we need to kick it off!

    😀

    in reply to: Content #3101

    And published! Now we can think up the next topic!

    in reply to: The Thread That Broods #3096

    Sorry, had to take a break from this topic to cool off. I got pretty infuriated so I had to avoid it for a few days.

    Yeah, the HoA here has been inconsistent about the common grounds. There were some changes to the laws over the summer regarding HoAs but I haven’t read them in full yet.

    I swapped it out with a wire fence about a foot high and enclosed the front half of the bed. Never did get any acknowledgement, good or bad. /shrug

    Honestly, it sounds like a strong sense of entitlement and a lack of wanting to take responsibility. They even admitted to not paying attention. I also caught them using my driveway as overflow parking, keeping me from getting my bike out if I wanted to use it and keeping my own guests from being able to park. Going to need to sigh again. 🙁

    I’m tempted to put a “No Parking” sign up on my driveway, if only to confuse people. Would be fun when my friends ask me where they’re supposed to park 😛

    Oh, you’ll like this: this week, I’ve been redesigning and rebuilding a wheelchair for a kitten whose back legs are weak. The wheelchair it has is too big so I’ve had to come up with a way of making it work since it’s what the rescue group has. Finished the bulk of it yesterday and the kitten was able to walk again! 🙂 Still have some tweaks to do but we’re in business! 🙂

    in reply to: Content #3095

    Sounds good. I’ll go ahead and make that addition and get it published 🙂

    Then we can start brainstorming for the next one!

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3091

    Huh, never knew they also released a Backyard Skateboarding game. Looking at Wiki, it looks like they’ve been trying to get it going again. They could definitely try making at least adding one sport to the series: lacrosse. Wasn’t popular back then but it’s now popular enough to warrant a game. Could be fun.

    Not familiar with that feature. Is that a new one? Mostly live in Linux land 😛

    CodeProject will be missed. Used to use it often when I was just beginning to learn C++ 🙁

    They may just be upset. Reddit isn’t exactly the friendliest of sites. Certain boards are better than others but it’s still there.

    What’s the best way to remove a stuck entry in the Install/Uninstall programs list in Windows? Updated a piece of software and it added a new entry for the new version but kept the entry for the old version, which is now a broken link. Tried to remove it using Settings – Apps but it just says the link is broken and won’t remove it.

    Side note: I still haven’t gotten Power Toys set up :/ One day!

    in reply to: Random #3090

    Not sure what the current quality is like but Cracked used to be a fun read. But, yeah, it’s going to be hard to fill the MAD hole.

    Yeah, looks a bit pricey. May be worth checking a sample out at the newsstand first. Wikipedia has a pretty good list

    Yuck! You could try something like OdoBan if they sell it over there. We use it over here and it does wonders for getting smells out of things.

    New No Man’s Sky update! It’s mostly just a Halloween event with nothing major but does include a few bugfixes. Very pleased to see the butterfly wings sound being tweaked. When I first heard it, I thought there was something wrong with my speakers 😛

    in reply to: Content #3089

    Okay, added a closing section. Is it ready to go live?

    in reply to: All Things Site and Organizational #3086

    Agreed. Now that things are beginning to ramp up, the search function would be wonderful 🙂

    Certainly. We can use Walrus for all things Walrus and another category for other odds and ends. But not for odd numbers. Maybe for odd balls, though, like American footballs. They’re shaped like bullets and can hurt! They’re certainly an odd shaped ball!

    What did you have in mind?

    in reply to: Comings, Goings, Doings #3084

    Yeah, the cold front caused it to weaken significantly too so Tampa didn’t get hit as hard as expected. 🙂

    Sounds good. Will keep giving advice as I think of it. 🙂

    I do recall my dad having a lot of issues with his HP twenty-five years ago. We were never able to get them resolved so I tossed Fedora on there for him and that seemed to do the trick. 🙂

    Sorry for the long time between posts myself!

    in reply to: Content #3081

    Great, thanks. Will tweak that over the next couple of days and get it published 🙂

    Then we can move on to a new idea!

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #3079

    Ad Astra was incredible. It focused almost entirely on the journey with a slight dash of the politics involved, giving us a nice and relaxing space film. The ongoing narration as opposed to current interactions really sold it as a narrative. You could actually feel the distance and tension it was trying to portray in lonely space. The visuals and music were icing on the cake. Will definitely put that in the list for a physical copy 🙂

    Yeah, the international market has it much better. Over here, I think they use us as guinea pigs. 😛 Roku doesn’t have proper categories and only shows a snippet of what’s on the service. In order to find the other stuff, it’s a matter of searching for a title and hoping it’s available. Tubi keeps recommending stuff I’ve already watched on the service and even puts those at the top of the categories. Fortunately, they do have proper categories. Amazon Prime doesn’t have categories at all, which is weird for a paid service. It’s pretty frustrating 🙁

    A lot of stuff isn’t even available to rent, such as the aforementioned Woody Allen films. Why they’re not available anywhere is mind boggling.

    Amazing find! Futurama is definitely worth it! I may pick up a 4k Blu-Ray player next month during the holiday sales. 🙂

    Haven’t seen the film but I did read the books. Probably need to watch them at some point. I never did understand the relationship between the psychedelic spice and space travel. It was never properly explained in the books! 😛

    Is it explained in the films?

    in reply to: Styles #3077

    And something caused the width on the blog posts to mess up, as well. Will add that to the list of things to look at. It would be so much easier if I didn’t need to keep bludgeoning it! 😛

    in reply to: Content #3076

    Got the start of the hurricane post up: https://stearnvault.com/?p=3074&preview=true

    Never been good at a conclusion though 😛

    in reply to: Random #3069

    I remember old cartoons used to riff on that design by making it a hamster wheel or the like. 😀 Would be quite fun, though. Set it up with a gyroscope to keep you centered in the middle while the rest of with rolls around you. Attraction idea for the theme park thread?

    Ah, didn’t realize that musical organs were that popular. Yeah, I see them at estate sales periodically for pretty cheap. Even the pianos tend to be more popular at the sales. Now, if someone had a pipe organ…that would be a bit more difficult to sell and move 😛

    Not exactly. The Sentinels are essentially robots from an alternate universe that think it’s their job to make sure planets’ resources are untouched. They’re fine if you explore (except on planets where they’ve gone haywire) but will attack if they see you doing anything else. If you keep at it and attack them, the alert level continues to climb until they bring out the big guns: giant mechs and robot dogs. In space, they’ll start with a squadron of fighters and escalate from there to a giant capital ship. You find out the lore by reading old logs left behind at crashed ships (usually destroyed by Sentinels) or abandoned buildings.

    Speaking of, do we need a comic thread or do we not have enough discussion yet to warrant one?

    Yep. It used to be easy to tell an AI voice from a human. Usually they were very monotonous. Now, it’s very difficult. On the phone, there are a few tell-tale signs, though, such as pauses at certain points. Eventually, they’ll get things to where we can’t tell the difference at all!

    in reply to: Sounds and Music #3068

    Been a while 😀

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #3067

    Was thinking about Porky’s for this week but it’s not available for streaming over here. Think I may watch Ad Astra instead. Been a while since I watched a killer space film 🙂

    Streaming is getting annoying. It’s getting harder and harder to find stuff on the platforms as the services are beginning to forgo traditional categories and sorting algorithms in favor of “recommendations”, half of which I’ve already watched on said platform. That and a lot of stuff is simply disappearing, such as a lot of Woody Allen films. I’m probably going to start going back to physical media soon. More expensive but at least I’ll be able to find what I want to watch! Either that or simply move back to the antenna 😛

    in reply to: Content #3066

    Sounds good. I’ll see what I can come up with. May need to start using Feedly again to help generate ideas. 🙂

    Not a whole lot going on in Pokemon land these days, other than TCG releases. The most recent batch of games was pretty short and underwhelming but we should be getting another Legends game soon so that may help things pick up a bit

    Last time I looked at the old Teams database, I could access the content by clicking fast enough to confuse the overlay but I was still blocked from doing much due to the overlay not going away. It made it hard to click the expand buttons. I can certainly take another look, though.

    Even though I had posted about Stellarium, it had slipped my mind! 😛 Yep, can try to do a bit on exploring it. 🙂

    in reply to: The Thread That Broods #3060

    Whelp. Neighbor issues again. A little backstory before the recent issues. There’s a small garden plot between our two driveways that originally was filled with plants that I liked. A few years ago, after they moved in, they pulled out all of these plants and put in their own stuff and a bunch of tacky yard art without consulting me or the HoA. This plot is owned by the neighborhood, not either one of us. They were told to restore the area and remove their stuff. They did the latter but not the former. After waiting on them for a few months to do it, getting excuse after excuse from them, I went ahead and did it on my own and never got reimbursed. A few months ago, the lawn crew thought part of it was weeds so they weed whacked some of the plants so I put a tomato cage around them, which is what I had available and the same size as some of their yard art in the same place that they had it. No complaints from them. A month ago, they started pulling the plants out yet again so I alert the HoA. They’re told to stop. The neighbors then yell at me for reporting them and call me a liar even though I replanted the plants from the pile they had. They also tossed the remaining pile of weeds in my personal garden bed for whatever reason. Fast forward to now….They’re now threatening me personally with legal action over the tomato cage, claiming that they’re tripping over it. It’s not in a hazardous location at all and they can simply avoid it. Again, it’s the same size as their former yard art and in the same location. I’ve been meaning to replace it with something that’s not as much of an eyesore, which I’ll try to do this morning, but I’m still going to reach out to the HoA about it. The easiest solution is to simply force them to restore the area as they were originally supposed to. Clearly, all of this is in response to them being called out for their behavior.

    I’m getting really tired of dealing with them. /sigh

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