Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I have a headache complaint.  I took a pain killer but about to get ready for the bus.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    harrr arrr shivrr me timbrrrs ... cept there no timber on space pirate ships

    unless the ship is made from one of those space trees you hear about cool

    Larry Niven's Integral Trees? 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I need to go to work but I cannot figure out this iRay thing complaint.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Got a replacement fish and now heading home.

    Did another fish take leave of this world?... Previously you seem to have had goldfish, but the last one appeared to be a Betta or Siamese Fighting Fish...  What size is your tank? Is it filtered? If so, power or just air/charcoal box? Do you change the water often enough?... I feel bad that you keep losing you fish... FYI about goldfish... They produce a lot more ammonia in their poops than most fish... A lot, to the point where they need special consideration, contrary to what most people think, they usually die from bad water conditions caused by rapid ammonia buildup... Even though you will often see hundreds in a tank, they are considered feeders, so they are so cheap if they die its no big loss, that and most pet store use more powerful filters with them... That and AmmoCarb which removes ammonia and helps clarify the water.  Fighting fish are not that tough either, they belong to the Gourami family and therefore are labyrinth fish, meaning they have a supplemental addition to their gill system called the "labyrinth organ" which helps them breathe air... But it's only meant to supplement their air supply at times of bad water conditions, not as a permanent means of breathing as many pet stores sell them. They also need clean water and the water should be between 73.5° F and 80° F conditions and when those conditions are not met at least 80% of them will have their health compromised and be more likely to die quicker... This is more likely as many are sold from tiny bowls of less than a pint of water and have been subjected to huge health stress... This would be the equivalent of selling rabbits out of a running clothes dryer playing death metal at maximum volume... You really wouldn't be surprised if they died a week later.   Anyway... Despite my idiotic comments and generally stupid demeanor, I actually know a bit about fish and if you are losing them regularly (to the grim fish reaper, not just misplacing them) maybe I can suggest something to help.

    Good luck.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I need to change the filter cartridge in the goldfish tank but I cannot remember the brand of filter I have at the moment.

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603

    Kulay,

    If you have a Gmail account, Google Docs - Google Sheets is a free, fully compatible Excel replacement. If you have a Windows Live (hotmail, Windows Live) account, you have access to Office online which IS Excel. The one caveat is that you have to be connected to use them. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Other then Excel, don't know companies that will pay a wage for spreadsheet skills.

  • Pet dogs, too hairy, too loud, too demanding.

    Pet cats, too hairy, too aloof, prone to fits of viciousness.

    Pet birds, too dirty, too demanding, and the big ones live too long and are prone to insanity without persistent attention.

    Pet fish, too demanding, deceptively effortless.

    Pet lizards, just eawwwwww....

    Pet turtles.  Why????

    Pet rocks.  Just right, no mess, no fuss, quiet, independent.  Perfect.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    i think people find me boring.

    How can you tell?

     

    no one wants to call to talk.  or sit for a chat.  or come over for coffee and crumbcake.  doesn't matter if it's store bought crumbcake or homemade baked from scratch with organic flour.  I'm too boring for anyone.  when someone says 'hi how are you' to me, they not interested to hear how i am. not even slow down eough for me to answer.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    i think people find me boring.

    What people? Easily bored people? You are interesting. laugh

     

    meowrr mrowwr meow meow mew mew meow

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Pet dogs, too hairy, too loud, too demanding.

    Pet cats, too hairy, too aloof, prone to fits of viciousness.

    Pet birds, too dirty, too demanding, and the big ones live too long and are prone to insanity without persistent attention.

    Pet fish, too demanding, deceptively effortless.

    Pet lizards, just eawwwwww....

    Pet turtles.  Why????

    Pet rocks.  Just right, no mess, no fuss, quiet, independent.  Perfect.

     

    lizards are handsome.  they know it too, they sit on their rocks and give profile. not-photogenically challenged, Pet lizards. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    I need to change the filter cartridge in the goldfish tank but I cannot remember the brand of filter I have at the moment.

    Well, when you are home, check the brand and model number usually located on the motor... If it's a power filter, which it sounds like, as there are no actual cartridges for bubble/air type filters... Write it down and look it up on the Internet and when you find it, make a fish folder on your computer and drop a note in it for future reference. Or email the note to yourself and you'll be able to access it from your phone... That's if you don't have some sort of notepad application on it... I have "Notes" on my iPhone and I have numerous "data" pages filled with specs, dimensions and model numbers for all sorts of devices and machines I own... Uber useful... Uber annoying that spellcheck tries to change serial numbers into idiotic words like "labor turtle Tom"... But I guess somewhere out there, there may be a Turtle Labor Union that has a boss named Tom... But anyway... One thing to note, most pet store people don't really think of it or mention it, but with goldfish, if you have a 10 gallon tank, you really should using a filter for a 20-30 gallon tank, not 10-20 like most suggest... That's okay with most tropical fish, but goldfish do best with at one to two filter sizes above recommend tank size... My daughters have two gold fish in a 30 gallon which is running a 50 gallon and 40 gallon filter with a small 20 gallon filter set up just for ammonia removal... And they still foul the water within two weeks if it's not changed. They are due for a new 50 gallon home as they are rapidly outgrowing the old one.  If you have not already done so, I suggest buying a water test kit for both Ph and ammonia... Not only is it vital for knowing what the water quality is, it's also fun to play CSI while testing the little vials... (I almost wrote "playing Quincy" but that's such a 70s TV reference)...  Goldfish like water that is slightly alkaline and has 0 ppm of ammonia... Actually all fish need that last one.  If you get a test kit and find the water often turns too acid, you can maintain better ph by adding a small bag of ground sea shells inside the filter... That can be found in the form of the special gravel for marine fish that is made of crushed coral and seashells... Unfortunately the bags are big and you'll only need a two or three tables spoons at a time, but it's still cheaper than buying the liquids ph adjusters. 

    Good luck.

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064
    MistyMist said:

    Pet dogs, too hairy, too loud, too demanding.

    Pet cats, too hairy, too aloof, prone to fits of viciousness.

    Pet birds, too dirty, too demanding, and the big ones live too long and are prone to insanity without persistent attention.

    Pet fish, too demanding, deceptively effortless.

    Pet lizards, just eawwwwww....

    Pet turtles.  Why????

    Pet rocks.  Just right, no mess, no fuss, quiet, independent.  Perfect.

     

    lizards are handsome.  they know it too, they sit on their rocks and give profile. not-photogenically challenged, Pet lizards. 

    True... You'd have to freeze most dogs in carbonite to get them to sit in a pose any lizard casually strikes.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    do i want cranberry bliss bar?

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393

    Got in contact with Indigo's support, they were able to send me a new link for downloading my License Key.  :)

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Pet rocks.  Just right, no mess, no fuss, quiet, independent.  Perfect.

    I don't know, all my pet rocks died... But on the plus side they are one of the few pets you can throw through someone's window without having animal cruelty charges tacked onto the vandalism and assault charges.  Negative- you shouldn't take them swimming with you. Plus- you can use them to hammer stuff into the ground. Negative- really fat ones will break your toes if you drop them on your foot. Plus- some can turn out to be made of valuable minerals. Negative- some can turn out to be made of fossilized dinosaur poop.. Or worse yet really dried out moose poo.  Positive- if they die you can just leave them on display and no one will think much about it.  Negative- they are really hard to breed.  

     

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064
    MistyMist said:

    do i want cranberry bliss bar?

    Magic 8 ball says.... "Better not tell you now"...   Sorry, the stupid 8 ball has spoken.

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Technocomplaint:  TC267-019-21674 version 4.0067.0006:

    You open a diagnostic window that takes five unintuitive enigmatic steps to figure out and then find a useless chart, list or graph and a highlighted "How to use this chart" button at the bottom... Which goes about describing the exact steps you took to get to that chart, list or graph in the first place... And nothing more.  Oh my god that makes me so crazy angry...  That's like asking for directions to a hospital and being given direction to where you are standing, which is not in, at or near a hospital. 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188

    As to breeding pet rocks? Hit one with a hammer to induce mitosis.

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603

     

     

    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    i think people find me boring.

    How can you tell?

     

    no one wants to call to talk.  or sit for a chat.  or come over for coffee and crumbcake.  doesn't matter if it's store bought crumbcake or homemade baked from scratch with organic flour.  I'm too boring for anyone.  when someone says 'hi how are you' to me, they not interested to hear how i am. not even slow down eough for me to answer.

    Misty, of all the adjectives I could come up with, boring was not one of them (and that goes for this whole den of characters); else, why would a stranger lurk around here and post occasionally (don't feel required to answer that... I know I have no life wink). As to the visits, chats, and vague greetings... it's not you, it's our entire society. I once tried to have a semi-meaningful dialog with my daughter, her response was "Can't you do, like.... random?" My boss says I'd chat up a lamp post if I thought I'd get a reply, so I feel your pain, but again, it's not you. For many, the effort to take a true interest in someone is directly proportionate to the effort and attention they perceive being spent on them. Also, they have the attention spans of a Jack Russell terrier ... Squirrel! Since your last name, or even screen name is not Kardashian (or is it? Hmmm, Misty Mist Kardashian... nah), you're already behind the curve. Likely, all your wardrobe malfunctions occur in private, the only red carpet is in the lobby of your building, you don't get paid to be seen drunk and disorderly. You, my dear, like the majority of us schmucks can't win. 

    So, while it's not pleasant to feel lonely, take solace in the fact that you have (most) of your pride and reputation intact, you can open any magazine or newspaper safe in the knowledge that your embarrassments won't be posted on page A3, and random strangers won't try to photo bomb your pictures. I'm pretty sure that you're appreciated in this loosely knit band of outliers.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sometimes playstation company isn't enough.  my social skills are getting rusty, i go days talking only to buppies and the occasional 4yo.  don't know how to talk to grown-ups, or co-workers.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    MistyMist said:

    sometimes playstation company isn't enough.  my social skills are getting rusty, i go days talking only to buppies and the occasional 4yo.  don't know how to talk to grown-ups, or co-workers.

    In my past years of experience, talking to grown-ups is overrated.  indecision  Sometimes, it's downright frustrating.

    Dana

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    MistyMist said:

    sometimes playstation company isn't enough.  my social skills are getting rusty, i go days talking only to buppies and the occasional 4yo.  don't know how to talk to grown-ups, or co-workers.

    I get that! However, in my experience, 1 in 10,000 (made up statistic) co-workers will have enough in common with you (other than work) to hold a conversation. For example, I hate TV sports (football, baseball, etc.) but, every morning I had to read and remember the sports section in order to have any conversation with my co-workers. As I read often in Dear Abbey and such, you should find a real-time group with similar (non-digital) interests, take a class, teach a class, form a book-club, join a church group, work with a support group, be a volunteer visitor at a hospital (they're looking for adult talk too). Something outside this virtual world we have created for ourselves. Like the little guy in your signature block; you might fall flat on your face, but the ride down will be fun. My job involves talking "adult-talk" all day (frikin) long. So, those hours I spend in silence (the cat doesn't say much and if she does, food silences her) are welcome, then again, I could join a monastery and be quite comfortable (I imagine they'd frown on DAZ, though). 

  • MistyMist said:

    sometimes playstation company isn't enough.  my social skills are getting rusty, i go days talking only to buppies and the occasional 4yo.  don't know how to talk to grown-ups, or co-workers.

    I find that many grown-ups aren't.

    Sometimes I feel like a Bonobo lost on the wrong side of the Congo River in the midst of a troupe of Chimpanzees.

    Social rules prohibit casual discussion of religion and politics but those are in fact topics that need rational discussion most.  The problem is that chimps grab big sticks when you don't make the same noises they do.

     

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    edited December 2015
    MistyMist said:

    sometimes playstation company isn't enough.  my social skills are getting rusty, i go days talking only to buppies and the occasional 4yo.  don't know how to talk to grown-ups, or co-workers.

    I find that many grown-ups aren't.

    Sometimes I feel like a Bonobo lost on the wrong side of the Congo River in the midst of a troupe of Chimpanzees.

    Social rules prohibit casual discussion of religion and politics but those are in fact topics that need rational discussion most.  The problem is that chimps grab big sticks when you don't make the same noises they do.

    I believe you have the crux of the issue right there, LeatherGryphon, Many (my opinion) humans stopped maturing at 15-17, and simply carried on aging. I repeatedly see the same dynamics among "adults", especially in office situations, as I see on my student-filled bus every morning. That not withstanding, we Bonobos have to co-exist in some way amongst the Chimpanzee clans we've been dropped into. Since the greater society (at least in N. America) has become increasingly polarized, reactionary, and self-absorbed (i.e. "I speak my truth, thus anything you say that counters that, must be heresy and combative), there isn't much chance of a rational discussion about anything as important as politics, religion, or social advancement. I find myself, increasingly, adopting an observer's stance in public; and, I am so grateful to be the age I am, for I really don't want to see where these trends ultimately lead. 

    edited to finish my sentence.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    Can Monique work in poser?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    look at dat face dawwww 

    http://www.polarcruises.com/antarctica

    i like this boat.  well, guess it's more a ship than a boat. lol

    built in Finland.  

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I just got connected to Saks fifth avenue WiFi and do not know how I did that. I just know because they require a sign in.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    I just got connected to Saks fifth avenue WiFi and do not know how I did that. I just know because they require a sign in.

    Starbucks has free wifi.

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438
    MistyMist said:

    I just got connected to Saks fifth avenue WiFi and do not know how I did that. I just know because they require a sign in.

    Starbucks has free wifi.

     

    Yeah but home now.

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