I remember something similar where my then (now ex) girlfriend was feeling pretty damn frisky while I was in the middle of doing some on-call work on a Saturday afternoon. Well things started happening and unfortunately at that point I had to call one of our data centre guys to eyeball something for me. I kept on the phone and tried to keep a straight face, all while there was some reverse cowgirl happening at my desk. Funny enough I managed to not cut the call short and we both burst out laughing the instant I got off the phone.
Frivolities were paused at that point until I completed my work and then we could continue on uninterrupted.
Agreed, unfortunately there are tragic individuals like myself & my missus whom slather it on. We go through one of the 220gram jars every 2-3 months or so.
When the taste of a beverage tempts me to drink something else to wash away the taste of the first beverage, no matter what it is, there's got to be something wrong with it.
"Fosters"? Puhleeze. From what I understand (and may well be wrong about), what you call "Fosters" is a product we call "Crown" (and it is still overpriced and not that great). The "Fosters" they offload on us poor convicts would be the fifth keg of the night at a frat party, at BEST. The last bar that honestly served "Fosters" in any seriousness was the one on the set of "Crocodile Dundee".
The others here know of what they speak. Blue Tongue, little creatures, cascade and many many others wipe their boots with Fosters.
Oh and VB is absolutely shit too and is only popular thanks to the assholes in their marketing department.
Is it a "standby" UPS or a "line interactive" ups?
If it is a "standby" ups then it basically does nothing to the power until it detects the power drop below a threshold voltage level and it then kicks the batteries into play to supply a correct voltage/sine output.
If it is line interactive then all power going in goes into the regulation/filtering circuits and won't have any of the fluctuations in voltage/sine wave that could potentially be present in the power.
I can't see why not, motorbikes have had this sort of thing for over thirty years and even brand new bikes with all the whiz bang electrickery & dual clutches, etc STILL have a manual kill switch that cuts the ignition.
I mean even if it's sitting on the top of the steering column so a dickhead passenger can't trigger it by going "what does this do", it's still a good idea.
I'm getting that feeling as well. Playing with my tablet/phone is merely a fun thing for the child to do. Bright colours, some cool noises as reward for a certain action. Done with supervision and in moderation ( i am talking 5 minutes at a time,every few days at most) it can't destroy or delay development.
Parking the kid in front of the tv for 5 hours a day on the other hand, cannot be good for it's health/development.
Our kid is 4 months old and an app which I have sometimes brought out for him to play with on my phone is "baby fireworks". Now I don't bring it out all the time or rely on it for him to be distracted/use as a plaything. It is just something that gets brought out that he is allowed to play with periodically
His lamaze toys, Sophie the Giraffe teether and various rattles and bright baby books do a sufficiently good job of amusing & distracting him. It is brought out as an occasional toy (think once every few days for a maximum of five minutes or so at a time), and is a toy that he is actually surprisingly effective at demonstrating hand-eye coordination on.
As to the drool factor, I've got a water/drool resistant case on my SGS2, as I do on my Dell Streak 7 (which is too big for him to interact on/with effectively anyway).
I figure that in moderation it's not doing him any harm, and the fact that it does appear to be helping with his hand-eye coordination is somethign that I am not going to ignore.
Correct, the only reason I'm not still using my first gen kobo is the fact I encountered the sql corruption bug one too many times (4 times in 3 years was enough) and I turfed it in favour of a kobo touch 4 months ago. I like the increased speed from the touch and the better interactivity the touchscreen afford, but ironically I am also not a fan of having to touch the screen to turn a page and much prefered the D button of the original for going back and forth from page to page.
This is all it is about, myself and my wife were both runners as children and frequently caused no end of grief in the street, in the shops, toy store, anywhere we could escape and explore for the sake of it.
The only "rights" that are managed are those of the guys creating the game. Everyone else is bending over and taking it with a smile, or is that a wince?
As my missus has said once or twice, "That hurts my brain". I'm just glad that i've managed to miss out on a lot of the "internet fads". When someone starts bringing out what i can only presume is "4chan speak" my eyes glaze over and i have to remind myself not to punch them in the face.
Oh and yeah, +11 here, so came across as an april 2nd joke, God bless timezone differences.
Right. So rocks, tiny holes, dog squeezing the Tabasco sauce out. You see where im going with this? That is unless your talking about putting tobasco in the pool, in which case you need about 20 gallons of it and the pinprick idea may not be such a hot idea.
Seriously though, stopping the dog's rock carrying habit is a good idea, especially as carrying rocks like that seriously screws up their teeth.
Funnily enough xkcd had a strip on "too much crap on the internet", i suspect this would be a similar job, and just as likely to attract assholes as in the comic.
Just remember that the USA gained independence from behind the barrel of a gun and the knife. Whereas Australia gained independence from a political stroke of the pen via British Parliament. Thisly i feel were mush more content as a country to roll along with a "yeah, whatever" apathetic attitude as opposed to going "hang on, that's not right" and fight it like so many populations are far more willing to do.
have a look at this link, yet another blog with info on the whole pesky internet censorship thing here in.au. There are also countless discussions including on the greens forum.
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This is what i read the grandparent post as.
I remember something similar where my then (now ex) girlfriend was feeling pretty damn frisky while I was in the middle of doing some on-call work on a Saturday afternoon. Well things started happening and unfortunately at that point I had to call one of our data centre guys to eyeball something for me. I kept on the phone and tried to keep a straight face, all while there was some reverse cowgirl happening at my desk. Funny enough I managed to not cut the call short and we both burst out laughing the instant I got off the phone.
Frivolities were paused at that point until I completed my work and then we could continue on uninterrupted.
Goddamnit, no mod points today.
Agreed, unfortunately there are tragic individuals like myself & my missus whom slather it on. We go through one of the 220gram jars every 2-3 months or so.
When the taste of a beverage tempts me to drink something else to wash away the taste of the first beverage, no matter what it is, there's got to be something wrong with it.
"Fosters"? Puhleeze. From what I understand (and may well be wrong about), what you call "Fosters" is a product we call "Crown" (and it is still overpriced and not that great). The "Fosters" they offload on us poor convicts would be the fifth keg of the night at a frat party, at BEST. The last bar that honestly served "Fosters" in any seriousness was the one on the set of "Crocodile Dundee".
The others here know of what they speak. Blue Tongue, little creatures, cascade and many many others wipe their boots with Fosters.
Oh and VB is absolutely shit too and is only popular thanks to the assholes in their marketing department.
Is it a "standby" UPS or a "line interactive" ups?
If it is a "standby" ups then it basically does nothing to the power until it detects the power drop below a threshold voltage level and it then kicks the batteries into play to supply a correct voltage /sine output.
If it is line interactive then all power going in goes into the regulation/filtering circuits and won't have any of the fluctuations in voltage/sine wave that could potentially be present in the power.
I Hope this helps you in some way.
I can't see why not, motorbikes have had this sort of thing for over thirty years and even brand new bikes with all the whiz bang electrickery & dual clutches, etc STILL have a manual kill switch that cuts the ignition.
I mean even if it's sitting on the top of the steering column so a dickhead passenger can't trigger it by going "what does this do", it's still a good idea.
I would have said it was more like a service station attendent having a mapp torch blazing away next to him while doing a propane tank refill.
I'm getting that feeling as well. Playing with my tablet/phone is merely a fun thing for the child to do. Bright colours, some cool noises as reward for a certain action. Done with supervision and in moderation ( i am talking 5 minutes at a time,every few days at most) it can't destroy or delay development.
Parking the kid in front of the tv for 5 hours a day on the other hand, cannot be good for it's health/development.
Our kid is 4 months old and an app which I have sometimes brought out for him to play with on my phone is "baby fireworks". Now I don't bring it out all the time or rely on it for him to be distracted/use as a plaything. It is just something that gets brought out that he is allowed to play with periodically
His lamaze toys, Sophie the Giraffe teether and various rattles and bright baby books do a sufficiently good job of amusing & distracting him. It is brought out as an occasional toy (think once every few days for a maximum of five minutes or so at a time), and is a toy that he is actually surprisingly effective at demonstrating hand-eye coordination on.
As to the drool factor, I've got a water/drool resistant case on my SGS2, as I do on my Dell Streak 7 (which is too big for him to interact on/with effectively anyway).
I figure that in moderation it's not doing him any harm, and the fact that it does appear to be helping with his hand-eye coordination is somethign that I am not going to ignore.
Unfortunately that is the same story for mine too. It's less a lack of motivation & more of a lack of free time that has hamstrung my efforts.
Correct, the only reason I'm not still using my first gen kobo is the fact I encountered the sql corruption bug one too many times (4 times in 3 years was enough) and I turfed it in favour of a kobo touch 4 months ago. I like the increased speed from the touch and the better interactivity the touchscreen afford, but ironically I am also not a fan of having to touch the screen to turn a page and much prefered the D button of the original for going back and forth from page to page.
Yeah it's not an inline picture, but does this count?
http://cassandraparkin.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/quizzical-cat.jpg
This is all it is about, myself and my wife were both runners as children and frequently caused no end of grief in the street, in the shops, toy store, anywhere we could escape and explore for the sake of it.
We are both dreading when our little bloke can walk/run as he is almost certainly going to return the favour to us. Keeping him on a harness is the main way we will try to keep things in check, but something like the following two bits of gear are certainly worthy of considereation too
http://dx.com/p/mini-gsm-gps-personal-position-tracker-for-car-child-elder-white-116908/
&
dx.com/p/mini-gsm-gps-personal-position-tracker-for-car-child-elder-pet-white-117009
They would be there not for us to keep an eagle eye on our kid a-la helicopter parenting, but as a bit of a safety net in case he repeats whar me and my wife did to our parents.
The only "rights" that are managed are those of the guys creating the game. Everyone else is bending over and taking it with a smile, or is that a wince?
Heh, now that 6 pages of complaints is pared down to just a 1 post 2 reply/mod closed thread. Was surprised it didn't happen earlier
As my missus has said once or twice, "That hurts my brain". I'm just glad that i've managed to miss out on a lot of the "internet fads". When someone starts bringing out what i can only presume is "4chan speak" my eyes glaze over and i have to remind myself not to punch them in the face.
Oh and yeah, +11 here, so came across as an april 2nd joke, God bless timezone differences.
You sir, are awesome!
Thankyou for the link.
Western Digital is based out of Illinois? That's news to me.
Right. So rocks, tiny holes, dog squeezing the Tabasco sauce out. You see where im going with this? That is unless your talking about putting tobasco in the pool, in which case you need about 20 gallons of it and the pinprick idea may not be such a hot idea.
Seriously though, stopping the dog's rock carrying habit is a good idea, especially as carrying rocks like that seriously screws up their teeth.
Funnily enough xkcd had a strip on "too much crap on the internet", i suspect this would be a similar job, and just as likely to attract assholes as in the comic.
mmmm, i look forward to reading about the "great crisco firewall of Australia"
Just remember that the USA gained independence from behind the barrel of a gun and the knife. Whereas Australia gained independence from a political stroke of the pen via British Parliament. Thisly i feel were mush more content as a country to roll along with a "yeah, whatever" apathetic attitude as opposed to going "hang on, that's not right" and fight it like so many populations are far more willing to do.
have a look at this link, yet another blog with info on the whole pesky internet censorship thing here in .au. There are also countless discussions including on the greens forum.