[eric strt6]

I could use another night of sleep.

Ruth heads off to a horse show this morning, I will join her Friday night. Just avoided a serious meltdown. realized I have about 1 weeks worth of espresso beans left on hand. just ordered more....

carry on punks

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Sunny, supposed to hit low sixties. Consuming coffee.

 

[sunringlerider]

Taxes all sent to the accountant. Well see how that goes.

Our office at work is a total shit show. Owner/boss seems to have checked out. He has tried to make two personal lines agents "managers". I'm surprised these two idiots can "manage" to put their clothes on correctly. Might be time to do some looking.

 

[Adventurous]

Supposed to head into the office later this morning. Show face, talk to people, generally get absolutely nothing done cause that's what happens at the office. But hey, at least I'll do that in an atmosphere that fosters collaboration so nobody else can get anything done either.

 

[pigboy]

grumpily completed the "voluntary" company survey last night. god how I hate the "voluntary" but lots of pressure to get everyone to participate activities. I'm fairly confident that my written feedback will be discounted by the powers that be. they seem fairly happy with the illogical and soul sapping things that they have wrought.

on the bright side of life, I have a cup of coffee in front of me that I am consuming. my hometown hockey team is having a lights out excellent season that has been fun to watch. and I don't seem to have hurt myself going on a run yesterday.

happy hump day y'all

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Not enough sleeps, humph.

 

[I Are Baboon]

 

[stevew]

greetings and salutations

 

[Nick]

all the sleeps.

have a great day, people.

 

[jacksonpt]

55° this morning, could hit 80 this afternoon... so last minute decision to ride the bike to work. Not yet sure what, if anything, I forgot.

 

[6thElement]

Power is supposed to be out from 8-3pm for repairs from the recent wildfire today. That will make work tricky.

Was planning on riding this afternoon but there's suddenly possible thunderstorms in the forecast from 2pm onwards...

 

[jimmydean]

Morning Monkeys.

Due to poor sleep the night before, I went to be promptly at 8 and was wide awake at 3:30, ugh. So here I is, in the office before 6. I have a meeting to go over the test plan I haven't written yet, so I might work on that a bit. I now understand why I was hired, I just wish they would have done it like 10 years ago. Sifting through 15+ years of shit is exhausting.

 

[4xBoy]

Rode bikes and drank some last night.

Today I hope will be similar.

 

[Toshi]

Power is supposed to be out from 8-3pm for repairs from the recent wildfire today. That will make work tricky.

You are welcome to mooch off of my gigabit internet down on the eastern plains if it comes to that

/me is wfh today. Was supposed to have a tv mounted but the contractor spazzed and rescheduled. Going to drop off Baby Aya via e-bike soon

 

[HAB]

Woke up at 5am for no reason, WTF. At least the weather looks nice today, Imma go ride a bike this afternoon.

 

[jimmydean]

Added a test plan, outlined 10 new test cases I will flesh out with the dev on Friday and created a test run example in this awful application (TestRail). I'm hoping with a few changes I can clean this all up. You know where to find me.

 

[Sandwich]

everybody gets fancy until it gets fixed.

It is gorgeous out today, so I rode my bike in to work. Absolutely amazing commuting on the bike path. A little scary before and after, but chirping birds, sun reflecting, happy people. 12/10 five stars would ride again. Also I forgot my underwear so I got that going for me.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I should go ride a bike. Chasing allergy pill with espresso.

 

[jimmydean]

They were talking possible snow today, WTF. It's not nearly cold enough, but the weather still sucks.

 

[jonKranked]

Was supposed to have a tv mounted but the contractor spazzed and rescheduled

people pay to have that done?

 

[slyfink]

in the office day. first nice biking weather of the year @ 10°C (50°F). swapped out my studded tires for 'normal' ones yesterday, it's astounding how much smoother the ride is. it's like I had the wind at my back!

 

[jonKranked]

an old buddy / coworker reached out to me last night. he finally got his adaptive ebike (he's paraplegic) and is looking for some local trails to ride, and for people to show him around. gonna get him connected with some other people i know to show him around too.

for anyone curious this is what he got:

BOWHEAD REACH | Bowhead Corp

The Bowhead Reach is an adaptive electric mountain bike that is custom designed for it's rider.

www.bowheadcorp.com

 

[Toshi]

people pay to have that done?

'tis a big boi TV, and moreover the wall mounting service via Handy (what a name) was included gratis with the TV purchase as part of a pre-order promo.

 

[jonKranked]

'tis a big boi TV,

psh. our largest is a 71" and i did the wall mount myself.

gratis

i'll allow it.

wife has asked more than once now if we should get a bigger one. i told her when we finish the basement yes. our basement is dark enough that a projector would be a viable option, especially when getting into those larger sizes.

 

[junkyard]

Good morning monkey men and women. Dusting of snow on the ground, but it’s sunny out. Coffee is tasting extra good. Walking the kids to the bus stop in a bit then maybe chores but maybe not.

 

[Poops McDougal]

Coffee and studying this morning, now it's time to strap it on for work.

Did a light 45 minutes on the trainer last night. I've come to absolutely hate the trainer, so I'm actually going to ride a bike tomorrow evening.

 

[canadmos]

THE SUN IS OUT MY LOVES AND WE'RE GOING FULL BIKE GANG ON THE PATH TONIGHT WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO





In other news, I'm on day x+1 of trying to explain to people that you don't have to download Power Bi reports every single time the data changes, refresh and then publish the report again. I think some people just like wasting time....

Anyways, coffeeing it now. Oh look at that, its already almost 12pm.

 

[mandown]

It’s whatday?

 

[jonKranked]

raised garden fixing continues. one of the walls was starting to tilt over. pulled dirt back, removed boards, re-leveling stone cloumns

 

[maxyedor]

Fog and copious amounts of women's underwear still in the street infront of work.

Haven't had tacos since yesterday, I'm jonesing

 

[Toshi]

wife has asked more than once now if we should get a bigger one. i told her when we finish the basement yes. our basement is dark enough that a projector would be a viable option, especially when getting into those larger sizes.

OLED is The Way. such black blacks. and the fancy new G3 gets bright, too.

 

[jonKranked]

OLED is The Way. such black blacks. and the fancy new G3 gets bright, too.

finishing the basement is at least a year or 2 out, we'll see where prices & tech are at the time.

 

[Toshi]

finishing the basement is at least a year or 2 out, we'll see where prices & tech are at the time.

things to consider:

- projectors are inherently a bit noisy even when nicely ceiling mounted
- don't have the black blacks
- none have Dolby Vision afaik

Physical 4K disc + Dolby Vision enabled Blu-Ray player + Dolby Vision enabled OLED.

(if you haven't been following along with the standards, HDR10 == high dynamic range but one set of metadata regarding gamut levels, etc. for the whole movie. HDR10+ is a 10 bit per the name attempted extension to have dynamic metadata, such that different scenes can have different lighting and thus be handled better by TVs that can't render the entire gamut, which is all TVs. Dolby Vision is a proprietary but fairly widespread 12 bit system with dynamic metadata, the better technical solution and one that actually has discs available in its format, etc.)

 

[jonKranked]

things to consider:

- projectors are inherently a bit noisy even when nicely ceiling mounted
- don't have the black blacks
- none have Dolby Vision afaik

Physical 4K disc + Dolby Vision enabled Blu-Ray player + Dolby Vision enabled OLED.

(if you haven't been following along with the standards, HDR10 == high dynamic range but one set of metadata regarding gamut levels, etc. for the whole movie. HDR10+ is a 10 bit per the name attempted extension to have dynamic metadata, such that different scenes can have different lighting and thus be handled better by TVs that can't render the entire gamut, which is all TVs. Dolby Vision is a proprietary but fairly widespread 12 bit system with dynamic metadata, the better technical solution and one that actually has discs available in its format, etc.)

like i said, i'll look into things when its time. might just come down to whatever is on sale at costco

 

[4xBoy]

things to consider:

- projectors are inherently a bit noisy even when nicely ceiling mounted
- don't have the black blacks

Being noisy does suck.

Black really isn't a problem with current movies, they are so dark you can't see half of the movie anyways.

 

[Toshi]

Being noisy does suck.

Black really isn't a problem with current movies, they are so dark you can't see half of the movie anyways.

 

[4xBoy]

 

[Toshi]

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This one might not be bad with sufficiently low ambient light in the room and a bright display to make those lights on the diving suit pop.

 

[canadmos]

Damnit, whoever owned this VW before me seems to have dumped maple syrup down the front window weather stripping, where they retract into. Stupid sticky mess in there, now that the sun is out heating everything up.

I'm guessing they had the windows tinted at one point and then removed it, leaving behind some sort of residue right at the edge? Maybe? Either way what a pain, the drivers side window seems to think there is a kid with its hand in the window every time I try to roll it up.

 

[Toshi]

sounds like pretty typical VW eh