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Thinking about doing actual leatherworking as a hobby.

@scottalanmiller said in I’d rather be....:

@penguinwrangler Dry Tortugas looks really cool.

I am a huge history buff, I am actually only a semester away from my history degree (maybe I will finish someday). Dry Tortugas (called dry because there is no freshwater there) was where the conspirators of the Lincoln Assination were kept. I grew up and still live in Illinois and anything to do with Lincoln I find interesting.

@rojoloco said in Weekend Plans:

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@murtlap Yeah today is my birthday so happy birthday to both of us lol. Have fun!

Hooray for all the July birthdays! Mine is Saturday!

July has some good birthdays in it, but it really is just the prelude to the best month. It's all downhill after August.

@travisdh1 we are just using our Unifi Controller.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Everyone, please welcome my daughter Diana into the world.

She arrived at 7:26am today!

Awesome Congrats

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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

How It Ends on Netflix.

That sounded interesting.

It was ok but I wouldn't spend a dime to go see this at the theater.

Frankly I'm getting tired of the steady diet of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic movies/tv shows.

They come and go in cycles like everything from Hollywood. Most suck.

Revolution was an interesting concept. But the science behind it was so horribly unbelievable.
Nanites suppressing EMF? How do the maintain their own power? How do they communicate with the satellites and each other? Just WTF.

Then the whole magic pendant that suppresses them locally. When it turns off to check in generator that has not run in years can suddenly run on? WTF?

Most apocalyptic movies deal with the most prevalent fears at the time. This can be seen in Zombie movies for example. What causes people to become Zombies has shifted over time. When I was growing up during the cold war it was always radiation, i.e. a fear of Nuclear war. Then it shifted to biological causes, i.e. fear of a bioweapon in the hands of a terrorist. Read a great paper by two grad students, one was studying psychology and one was a film student who highlighted this trend, this was years ago. Applicable to all disaster/end of the world movies? Probably not but still it was pretty easy to see the trend they highlighted.

Woke up and thought today was Friday till about 10 minutes before I left for work. I hate that.

Maybe Angel Sense it looks like they are aiming at exactly what you need. https://www.angelsense.com/protect/gps-tracking-for-kids-n/?tap_a=14876-c779a9&tap_s=117718-aa3976&utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=danielbagwell1

Gatlinburg, TN

I am actually looking at starting a furniture business with my Dad. Making custom furniture. We are starting it in my spare time and hopefully can move to it full time in about 10 years.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Holding my daughter while she gets ready for bed.

Cherish those times. My daughter is full on moody teenager mode and it is those times I remember to keep me from going insane.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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Reminds me of a prison story! When I was a prison guard one of the offenders was believed to have swallowed drugs from his visitor in the visitation room. So he was put on what is known as a dry cell. Which basically means he is in a cell with no running water or toilet. If he needs a drink a guard will hand him a bottled water and if he has to use the toilet he has to do it in a special toilet designed to capture anything that comes out. The guard is pretty much sitting in the cell with him staring at him to make sure it doesn't come out and go back down the throat, and yes that has happened. To get to my point the man went 27 days without going #2 and finally the DOC had to obtain a court order to put him under and have a doctor extract everything out because the doctors were beginning to have concerns for his health. Yes, the doctor found several bags of cocaine.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Well. . . that's Florida for you. Man arrested for tranquilizing and raping alligators.

Seems like the best punishment would be to just leave him to it.

But secretly switch out his tranquilizers with a placebo first.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

On season 2 of Voyager.

I think Voyager is underrated. I really enjoyed it. My ordering of Star Trek Shows is as follows:
1.) TOS (It started the whole thing and deserves to be #1)
2.) STTNG
3.) Voyager
4.) Enterprise (Such a shame it was canceled when it was, it was really getting good and had huge potential)
5.) DS9

Too soon to classify Discovery.

Nostalgia aside, TOS is pretty bad. I'm not surprised it got cancelled.

Yes but when you look at the TOS storylines relating directly to the hot-button issues of the 60s, plus the fact that they had the first interracial kiss during the whole civil rights movement, it was damn ballsy. So yes it gets #1 for many reasons. Was it over the top and cheesy, sure, but you have to look past that. A lot of TV shows from that era are cheesy, Gilligan's Isle, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, etc. So the cheesiness wasn't unique to TOS. Take that into consideration and then coupled with my first points it is easily #1.

DS9 - I just didn't like the whole space station idea. Exploring the stars to me seems inseparable from Star Trek. So being stationary never set right with me. Also one of the reasons I like Voyager so much.

Enterprise, I like the whole people struggling to overcome and we weren't these badasses with super technology like the other shows get portrayed as.

It is 5 O'clock somewhere!

Sitting at my desk in pain. Going to Doctor tomorrow. I think I have a herniated disc in my upper back. I ruptured a disc in my lower back years ago when I was a prison guard and it sure does feel similar. Really not motivated to do anything other than sitting still and stare at my screen. I could have called in sick but I just don't see the point. I can be in pain at home or I can be in pain at work, just don't want them to say the word "surgery". Which is what they always want to say with my lower back.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well we have power this morning, that's a start.

There is a business that I support, he is a friend of a friend. My friend and I support his business. They were without power and their CAD machines of course just cut out because he didn't have a battery backup on them, even though we suggested it. So he called my friend and was asking why we don't have battery backups because they lost hours of work worth x amount of dollars. My friend told him "well, if you remember our conversation we had about this, you said no you didn't want to do that" well now we are installing battery backups. Some people only learn the hard way.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Season 2 of Ozark is available on Netflix

Being close to the Missouri Ozarks, and a frequent visitor to the area, there are too many things wrong with the show for me to watch it. What really got me was the whole scene how they couldn't get Pistachio Ice Cream, because it was such a backwards rural area, which had me rolling my eyes, believe me, you can find that in the Ozarks. The grocery store they would go to was hilarious too, it looked like a grocery store from the 1970s. I just couldn't keep watching it after that. I thought this is a show about the Ozarks from people who are not from the Midwest and are putting their views and biases of the Midwest in full display. I found it to be insulting and ignorant, which is a shame because it has good acting and I liked the storyline. Lake of the Ozarks is very close to both Kansas City Metro (2.1 Million people), St. Louis Metro (2.8 Million People), and Little Rock Metro area (738,000 people) three bigger areas feed people into the Ozarks all the time. It is the go-to place if you have a three day weekend or more and you want to get away and relax without having to go that far. So they have all the modern conveniences that you would expect to find in any major metropolitan area, such as modern grocery stores with Pistachio Ice Cream.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Nice try Fry's, but no that is NOT a DVI port!

There are two DVI names there lol
Also SATA is not even close!!
And there is a mist of USB 2.0 and 3.0 lol!

The resolution of the picture makes it hard to tell about the 'SATA' port... On my screen, it first looks like a Display port. But the longer I look at it, the more I think it's an eSATA port, but I don't recognize the little icon over it.

It might be but an eSata looks like these

@dbeato That is a dual port, esata and usb. I had to deal with a few computers here with these dual use ports before i replaced them.

They are on Dell Latitudes, at least the E6410s and I know I have seen them on other Latitudes as well.

@dustinb3403 The voices in his head deserve to be represented.