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Re: Monthly staff meeting, it’s our turn to present - 3 days ago

Seconded. Don’t read the damn slides. And don’t put so much on the slide that people EITHER read the slide or listen to you. I see that more often than not, and I cannot abide it. Diana

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Re: furniture shopping - 3 days ago

I went furniture shopping with my mom and found that if the electric recliner she wanted was not in stock, or she needed to have it in some color or fabric they didn’t currently have, the lead time was 6-10 months. Not weeks, MONTHS. It didn’t matter the manufacturer nor the store, the answer was the same. That was perhaps 3 weeks or a month ago.

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Re: Refinishing old stained wood curio cabinet - 5 days ago

As far as the stain goes, odd things were used in the past to stain woods. I have an antique couch (hide-a-bed, now in pieces because it was slowly pulling itself apart) that was stained to resemble mahogany using poke berries. At least, that was the story I was told. Diana

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Re: Frustrated with Apple - 6 days ago

It’s supposedly a USB-C to USB adapter: Adapter Hopefully the link works … Quoteztirffritz It’s usb c to usb c. The old Air doesn’t have USB C. QuoteApple Support A supported USB-C to USB-C charge cable, such as the one sold by Apple (may not be available in all countries or regions) or a supported USB-A to USB-C cable

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Re: Frustrated with Apple - 6 days ago

USB-C to USB adapter, $19 from Apple?

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Re: Single vision vs. bifocals? - 8 days ago

I’ve worn glasses since a small child (about 3 years old, if Mom is to be believed) and went into bifocals in elementary school. All glasses have the potential to make you ill; if you are susceptible to motion sickness it is worse as what your eyes may see with the curvature of the lens and what the inner ear reports may not align. If you are needing to correct astigmatism it can magnify the pr

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Re: Once again ... Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 11 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 ....I also got ants......in my pants....... That must itch....

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Once again ... Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 12 days ago

We had a He-L-L-acious rain storm, about 3 inches of rain in just a few hours. The ditches next to my house overflowed across the road and so the city I live in closed the road to my house sometime during the night and only opened up when the water went down. Last night, the inter webs went down again. I was out and about today, and by the time I got home the ISP had called the spousal unit a

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Re: So, a video has been released about that senior who had her arm broken - 16 days ago

QuoteAcer It only takes one traumatic event like this to take someone elderly but reasonably independent and put them in the nursing home. They can't bounce back. And you've cheated them out of the precious time of independence they had left. No, they can’t bounce back. And often the time in the nursing home (old folks home) is a fraction of the time they would have had, if they had remained

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Re: Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 17 days ago

Quoteneophyte ...as they hadn't seen any traffic from us. They actually MONITOR your traffic? Well, I guess that resolves problems sooner than the way it works here; we phone in to report an outage and the tech responds "well I don't see any reported outages in your "area" (meaning no one else has called in a problem, yet), so we'll send someone out 24-36 hours". Meanwh

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Re: Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 17 days ago

QuoteRgrF Seems someone your ISP has an extraordinary interest in what you do - so what is it you do? Nothing more than what anyone else would do. They are in competition with Cox cable, billing themselves as better: "Tired of your internet provider? Yeah, we thought so..." is actually on their billboards around town. I work at a medical research institution as a staff member in

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Re: Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 17 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 ....what did the uncles do.....???? Stood by and did NOTHING!!!

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Re: Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 17 days ago

Yeah. Damn ants! I know how you feel. They got into the outside AC unit one year and necessitated a service call. Now that I know what to look for hopefully I'll remember next time. Maybe.

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Yesterday... ANTS cut mah inter webs! - 17 days ago

My internet service went down, for the first time in at least 8 months. I waited a few hours, as things happen sometimes and it might come back up, when I was surprised to get a phone call from the company providing internet asking me what was going on, as they hadn't seen any traffic from us. I told them that the service was down; it might come back up and I was waiting a bit before calling them

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Re: Not looking hopeful for missing Indonesian Navy sub - 20 days ago

Quoteraz QuoteRAMd®d It'd take some nerve, but I think one could safely make a buoyant ascent from that depth, especially with something like a Steinke hood. Maybe. It's been a while since my SCUBA days, but assuming the sub's interior is at 1 atmosphere, then the ascent should not require a safety stop. Basically, it's like coming up from a free dive. No? If I remember right (and it’

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Re: help me refinish this nearly 100 year old light fixture - 20 days ago

Quotemattkime QuotePaul F. Electrolysis only works on conductive metals. Works best on ferrous ones. The rust will "de plate" to the other piece of metal you hang in the bath from the other jumper cable (I forgot to add that part... I can never remember if your workpiece is the red wire or the black wire... the one with bubbles coming off it should be your lamp, the crap will collect on

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Re: Once again, the 2015 MBP locked up .... - 26 days ago

Quotekj Man, if there is a program that works for you on windows, I would just buy a cheap windows laptop...It's not THAT bad. My wife has had similar problems (using MATLAB, etc.) with mass overheating, etc. with 3 different Macs. Like you, she just puts up with it. Maybe the M1 will take care of those problems, but who knows if the software will be available for it? Good luck though. I tr

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Re: Once again, the 2015 MBP locked up .... - 26 days ago

Quotespace-time ... and there is NO save and restart without just dumping the work that has been done and restarting it all over again. This isn't a 15-minute job, but something that takes days to weeks to get it done,... Can you please clarify this part??? I start by having Bookends search for duplicates It compiles the list, asking me what I want done with what it finds: (a) delete them,

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Re: Once again, the 2015 MBP locked up .... - 26 days ago

QuoteC(-)ris The crash log points to a graphics card issue, but it could be that it overheated in your bag and crashed. It isn’t a great idea to put a frozen laptop in your bag, if it can’t go to sleep because it is frozen it is going to roast. As far as your software issue....I’m guessing without knowing how the software works but it seems like a resource utilization issue. Either

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Re: Once again, the 2015 MBP locked up .... - 26 days ago

1. The software is Bookends. It is a reference manager. It allows me to put a PDF of a scientific paper into the computer, and be able to search the "database" and group the hits according to the search words. I started with Reference Manager for Mac, which dropped the Mac and went Windows only; then went to EndNote with a manual system of folders and physical paper articles; then to Se

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Once again, the 2015 MBP locked up .... - 27 days ago

.. and I got tired of waiting and closed the lid to bring it home ...and it rebooted IN THE BAG, and so I lost the work I had done. A little information is in order: I had started with one reference manager software; they dropped the Mac. I went to another one in grad school (expensive but I didn't have to pay for it) but it didn't do what I needed, and subsequently went to one that did. I pa

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Re: Reaction to Second COVID shot? - 27 days ago

Achey tired with a bit of a headache, muzzy head the day of, with arm soreness. Still bruised at the shot location; low back pain started 7 days out, and at 10 days it still bothers me. I haven’t done anything that would aggravate it, so either it’s a coincidence or a side effect. Otherwise I’m doing well.

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Re: Prime member? 12W USB Power Adapter for iPhone, iPad (2-Pack) $14 - 4 weeks ago

Quotejonny Link doesn’t work without downloading an app. It did for me. Sold out. Using 15" 2015 MBPro using 10.14.6 (MoJave).

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Re: Warning: Cuteness alert!! - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSpeedy X 2

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Re: any good books on dealing with aging parents? - 5 weeks ago

QuoteLemon Drop QuoteGGD A related topic to consider. I don't know how many children they have, but it would be good if one child could assist them with tracking their medical conditions and finances. Possibly even going to doctor appointments with them and understanding their conditions, and treatments, and make sure that they're following up. And understand what medicine they're supposed to

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Re: Passwords, don't do what I did - 6 weeks ago

Quotetestcase I expected you to report that you put ALL of your passwords into a "Password Vault" app and then forgot the "Master" password thereby locking you completely out of your "digital life". No, that would be my mom. I know her master password, and as long as it doesn’t get changed, she won’t be completely locked out. With her memory issues, though,

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Re: Pfizer, Moderna Covid vaccines 90% effective - 6 weeks ago

I got the first Pfizer shot two weeks ago (as of tomorrow) with the followup one scheduled Tuesday next week. My significant other is scheduled Wednesday afternoon for the J&J. Mine is through work, snd his is what he was able to find statewide. About two weeks ago, the state opened Stage 3 folks for vaccinations, and now, before the essential people that comprise Stage 3 here are able to fi

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Re: NPR: "It 'Might Take Weeks' To Free Ship Stuck In Suez Canal" - 6 weeks ago

Quotespace-time does anyone have an image showing a cross section to see what shape it is under the water and how deep it goes? Generic images: https://forshipbuilding.com/ship-types/container-ship/ As you can see they are not flat on the bottom, with a protruding keel that runs the length of the ship. Stats on this particular ship (from the Wikipedia article): Ever Given is one of

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Re: Apple Watch to measure Mother's heart rate - 6 weeks ago

Apple's Watch4 also does heart rate monitoring, if you can find one.

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Re: Dump Truck vs Mini Cooper - 6 weeks ago

Quoteztirffritz Reminds me of this story from a few years ago That's a rather large blind spot; I've nearly been that driver (edit: of the car) a time or two.

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