The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
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Your buddy across the bay beat you to it with a thread.
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Have you seen this Ex-Ascot?
I don't think you need worry too much in the immediate future!
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Evening all, spent a day on computer maintenance. Swapped out the upstairs WiFi access point for what used to be the main router, which I'd changed out some months ago. Hopefully that will improve the upstairs WiFi - I bought the original as the cheapest thing I could get some years ago to fill a gap and its performance is not as good as some.
Then it was a case of swap out the failing disk on the server machine. That told me a couple of weeks ago that it had unreadable sectors on it, so it's clearly on its way out. Manufactured 01/2012 so it's done well, something around 64,000 hours of service in that time. I purchased a small SSD to replace it, installed that in the machine alongside the old drive, booted from a USB stick and copied everything over, then did some tidying up to make the new one bootable, before taking the old drive out and rebooting from the new one. All seems to be running happily now.
Then it was a case of swap out the failing disk on the server machine. That told me a couple of weeks ago that it had unreadable sectors on it, so it's clearly on its way out. Manufactured 01/2012 so it's done well, something around 64,000 hours of service in that time. I purchased a small SSD to replace it, installed that in the machine alongside the old drive, booted from a USB stick and copied everything over, then did some tidying up to make the new one bootable, before taking the old drive out and rebooting from the new one. All seems to be running happily now.
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I envy you IT capabilities. I know just enough to be dangerous.
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GEOLOGISTS SAY A NEW OCEAN IS OPENING UP IN AFRICAricardian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:39 pmHave you seen this Ex-Ascot?
I don't think you need worry too much in the immediate future!
That article is slightly American in that it implies that fact that the Great Rift Valley, extending from the Afar Triple Junction (that encompasses the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon) southwards across eastern Africa, is opening up, is something that has only recently become clear, and then presumably only to American geologists!
Of course, in fact, the rift runs in trenches run all the way down Africa, through Mozambique and into the the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa, where strangely, the local inhabitants such as the Sotho and the Zulus (for example), and presumably all the peoples living along the trenches, have understood the geological rift since time immemorial!
Nonetheless for all the arrogance and the cultural tin ear, we must all thank our US brethren for reminding us what an extraordinary place Africa really is.
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What ho peeps.
After yesterday's Donner und Blitzen and deluge Mr Sun has seen fit to visit us this morning.
The plants all look suitably refreshed from their soaking.
As yesterday was Mrs HF's birthday we went to the pub and met up with friends. In our bit of the bar
all was suitably restrained and social distancing was in place. The other side of the bar was full of
youngsters with young kids who didn't seem to give a hoot. Looks like a second wave is inevitable.
After yesterday's Donner und Blitzen and deluge Mr Sun has seen fit to visit us this morning.
The plants all look suitably refreshed from their soaking.
As yesterday was Mrs HF's birthday we went to the pub and met up with friends. In our bit of the bar
all was suitably restrained and social distancing was in place. The other side of the bar was full of
youngsters with young kids who didn't seem to give a hoot. Looks like a second wave is inevitable.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
GG there was a time when I was pushing collections of rivets around RSA that I got to spend some time around the Blyde River Canyon. Made the Grand Canyon look like some paltry dried up creek bed.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:14 amOf course, in fact, the rift runs in trenches run all the way down Africa, through Mozambique and into the the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa,
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Now you are talking! I assume you were flying in and out of Mozambique as well.Alisoncc wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:24 amGG there was a time when I was pushing collections of rivets around RSA that I got to spend some time around the Blyde River Canyon. Made the Grand Canyon look like some paltry dried up creek bed.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:14 amOf course, in fact, the rift runs in trenches run all the way down Africa, through Mozambique and into the the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa,
Alison
As you know it is the largest "green" Canyon on earth... well worth a visit for those who might contemplate some tourism when this confounded contagion is past.
A beautiful place indeed. I had the luck (or perhaps misfortune) to be posted to Bourke's Luck (about as far as a Capetonian could be posted from home) during my army training.
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No, but do remember a most fantastic seafood meal in LM. Green salad and a ginormous plate of langoustines, prawns, crabs and mussels. The meat off the langoustines was unbelievably sweet with a nice chilly/mango sauce.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:41 amNow you are talking! I assume you were flying in and out of Mozambique as well.
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PS African langoustines were muchly different to skinny tasteless European aneamic lobsters.
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TGG, almost made for Hollywood. They would love the plates to split at 62 mph as the Chevy pick-up tries to escape at 63 mpg. Some luckless soul following at 61 mph. The molten magma bubbling to the surface shoot balls of flaming rock landing just clear of our charismatic long haired maverick scientist and a scared blonde haired beauty in a wet diaphonous dress . . .
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Morning all,
scorchio, 31.5 at 09:30, only a couple of hours after sunrise.
Anenome wind thing is gusting 0.0.
Target is a mere 32, I expect we will get there.
Don't think SM will be doing much gardening, her traditional Sunday pastime.
scorchio, 31.5 at 09:30, only a couple of hours after sunrise.
Anenome wind thing is gusting 0.0.
Target is a mere 32, I expect we will get there.
Don't think SM will be doing much gardening, her traditional Sunday pastime.
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No meds but hopefully money for you...Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:16 amTGG, almost made for Hollywood. They would love the plates to split at 62 mph as the Chevy pick-up tries to escape at 63 mpg. Some luckless soul following at 61 mph. The molten magma bubbling to the surface shoot balls of flaming rock landing just clear of our charismatic long haired maverick scientist and a scared blonde haired beauty in a wet diaphonous dress . . .
Must go and take my meds
I have passed your script on to Jerry Bruckheimer who likes it but thinks it is a little too complicated and detailed for the average cinema audience and asks if you could simplify the plot a little...
He loves the blond romantic interest by the way...
He also notes he is commissioning another crashing loud piece of music for the film with instructions to all movie theatres that it should be played at maximum volume with the bass setting at painful level...
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TGG, took the grand children to the Kinema in the Woods to see Shrek. They sat right at the front. The sound was very realistic, the seats shook
There was/is a film on Pluto it is a two part film each over 2 hours. It is about an oil major exploration in the Arctic where they are doing deep drilling. They breach the magna layer allowing uncontrolled release of lava to melt the ice cap. The blonde got wet too.
There was/is a film on Pluto it is a two part film each over 2 hours. It is about an oil major exploration in the Arctic where they are doing deep drilling. They breach the magna layer allowing uncontrolled release of lava to melt the ice cap. The blonde got wet too.
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Today's task is to clear out the guttering of the conservatory as yesterday's deluge provided evidence that the spring cleaning in that area had been overlooked......I blamed the lockdown. At least Mrs 4ma believed me.
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Morning folks. Interesting about our continent.
We do have pest control people but they probably can't get here as all the vans I have seen are two wheel drive. We put down racumin for the rats and squirrels. We also have electric traps which zaps them. Don't think pest control could do more. After my shooting spree, which didn't kill anything, we haven't seen one this morning. Hopefully frightened them.
Sun-dried tomato and bean casserole just gone in to the solar oven. A few beers at the safari camp first. The managers have been sent to their company bush camp right up north for summat. They are on 30% pay. Told them to tell HQ that they can only go 30% of the way.
We do have pest control people but they probably can't get here as all the vans I have seen are two wheel drive. We put down racumin for the rats and squirrels. We also have electric traps which zaps them. Don't think pest control could do more. After my shooting spree, which didn't kill anything, we haven't seen one this morning. Hopefully frightened them.
Sun-dried tomato and bean casserole just gone in to the solar oven. A few beers at the safari camp first. The managers have been sent to their company bush camp right up north for summat. They are on 30% pay. Told them to tell HQ that they can only go 30% of the way.
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Sun is out, a small 20 mile running in trip on the Interceptor 650 planned, a little light allotmenting followed by some Palmers at the Pub.
Pork Pie salad with giant prawns (Misty likes those) and some cheap Tesco red for lunch rounded off by a kip.
Pork Pie salad with giant prawns (Misty likes those) and some cheap Tesco red for lunch rounded off by a kip.
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Off to Guildford for a family birthday barbecue with my sister and her family. I assume that I can as part of the family bubble. If my assumption is wrong then all I can say is that I have been bubbled...
Weather 5 octas... cool with occasional showers!
Weather 5 octas... cool with occasional showers!
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Speed limits through road works are to be raised to 60mph.
Roadworks speed limits raised
As usual, the unions are not happy because, they claim, it puts their members lives at risk. How many feckn times have you driven through miles and miles of cones at 40/50 mph and there's no feckn workers in sight?
Roadworks speed limits raised
As usual, the unions are not happy because, they claim, it puts their members lives at risk. How many feckn times have you driven through miles and miles of cones at 40/50 mph and there's no feckn workers in sight?
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Used to fly into Phalaborwa and Skukuza with some regularity.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:41 amI had the luck (or perhaps misfortune) to be posted to Bourke's Luck (about as far as a Capetonian could be posted from home) during my army training.
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Missing from the cataclysmic movie outlined above is the emergence from below-ground of 'dinosaurs' (thought to be long-extinct, but in fact just 'shielding') including enormous snakes and serpents.
Maybe even King Kong too?
Maybe even King Kong too?