Today

[Lorien]

I don't like the heat, it saps the strength out of me. I did work in a blast freezer for a while -46, touch any metal with bare skin and you are stuck there.

I suppose I can guess from the term, but what in the heck is a blast freezer for and how in the heck do they keep it that cold and who would ever work in one except a POW or someone like that? I mean, what can possibly need to be THAT cold (except maybe things like liquid nitrogen or things like that which I thought were even colder).

Your comment just reminded me of coming attractions for some comedy where someone does just that to an outdoor pole (maybe on a ski lift?) with his tongue and gets stuck there (possibly "Stupid and Stupider" but I'm not sure). LOL! That's about all of that I wanted to see of the movie - I'm much more the "Predator", "The Thing", "Star Wars" and "Night of the Living Dead" type of guy.

 

[Smurfyy]

Last night we had some sleet, nothing much.
Today/tonight costal areas are perdicted for loads, and we are right in that prediction area.
EDF are replacing the power lines in our area of the Island, so yeah, no power from 8AM till 6/7PM, we will be out of the house though, so that's cool.

 

[Lorien]

I have a generator with six 6-gallon cans of gasoline that will pretty much take care of most of our needs (except AC in the summer) for about 3 days - and we haven't had a power failure last longer than that anywhere I've ever lived. We do need to be a bit more conserving than normal - probably what we should always do anyway but don't - but otherwise it gets us by.

BTW, I'm just getting up for a few hours (or possibly for the day - haven't figured that out yet) here at a bit before 2AM my time. What a messed up sleep schedule. I wasn't as productive yesterday as the day before because I allowed myself to get trapped into researching a specific problem for several hours on two different threads and while I did come up with what I think are solutions to each, I spent way too much time on them and should have just bypassed them or "surrendered" and moved on - but that happens to me sometimes especially when the problem seems like one that shouldn't be that hard to answer but for some reason almost nothing about it can be found (or you need to ask the question in a way it takes a while to even consider it). And I do enjoy learning and the research - but I need to set some reasonable limits. I hope to do better (more) today.

 

[Imperfect1]

I don't like the heat, it saps the strength out of me. I did work in a blast freezer for a while -46, touch any metal with bare skin and you are stuck there.

There was a really funny (creepy) gag done on a tv Christmas holiday show a number of years back, where one of the stars put his mouth on a frozen streetlight and his tongue got stuck there! It was sort of funny, in an ewwwww kind of way. . .

 

[Chase]

Hope everyone has a great day with their families.

 

[ilikefree]

I don't like the heat, it saps the strength out of me. I did work in a blast freezer for a while -46, touch any metal with bare skin and you are stuck there.

I suppose I can guess from the term, but what in the heck is a blast freezer for and how in the heck do they keep it that cold and who would ever work in one except a POW or someone like that? I mean, what can possibly need to be THAT cold (except maybe things like liquid nitrogen or things like that which I thought were even colder).

Your comment just reminded me of coming attractions for some comedy where someone does just that to an outdoor pole (maybe on a ski lift?) with his tongue and gets stuck there (possibly "Stupid and Stupider" but I'm not sure). LOL! That's about all of that I wanted to see of the movie - I'm much more the "Predator", "The Thing", "Star Wars" and "Night of the Living Dead" type of guy.

Blast freezers are used to freeze things quickly. You can have say fish fingers getting cooked on one side of a freezer and a conveyor belt running through the freezer could have them frozen by the time they had traveled through, ready to be packed. One fool I was trying to teach tried to lick the frost off a metal frame and froze there. I had to get walm water to free him. Most people panic and try to pull their stuck body part away and end up leaving their skin behind. You also get freezer burns if you don't know what you are doing. I worked there for a few years and didn't need gloves after a while, still had to be careful though. They gave us mittens to work in but they made it hard to pick anything up. We kept a check on how long anyone was in there and had no problems. Not like later as a foreman I had to remove someone from an auger at 2am after they had climbed over a saftey rail and got tangled up in the machine. He only lost a foot and I had to wind the auger backwards with a big spanner to get him out. yuck.
I need to look at the joke page now.:D

 

[Imperfect1]

One fool I was trying to teach tried to lick the frost off a metal frame and froze there. I had to get walm water to free him. Most people panic and try to pull their stuck body part away and end up leaving their skin behind. You also get freezer burns if you don't know what you are doing. I worked there for a few years and didn't need gloves after a while, still had to be careful though. They gave us mittens to work in but they made it hard to pick anything up. We kept a check on how long anyone was in there and had no problems. Not like later as a foreman I had to remove someone from an auger at 2am after they had climbed over a saftey rail and got tangled up in the machine. He only lost a foot and I had to wind the auger backwards with a big spanner to get him out. yuck.
I need to look at the joke page now.:D

= OW! OW! OW! OW!

 

[MWRed]

Black Friday.....i'm not going anywhere near a store. Too many idiots.

Basketball and movies for me today.

 

[Smurfyy]

Today, I have managed to make my computer virtually silent!
The rubber trick also worked!

 

[Chase]

Today I played 18 holes of golf for the first time in a while. Spent the day with family.

 

[asullivan]

They gave us mittens to work in but they made it hard to pick anything up. :D

Ya, I werked in a place like that too..we made little pieces of ice outta' big pieces of ice....Know I know why they gave me two kittens!!!

Black Friday.....i'm not going anywhere near a store. Too many idiots.

I resemble that thar' remark!!!!

Today, I have managed to make my computer virtually silent!
The rubber trick also worked!

What would we do without rubber factories..... cause it sure just tha' hell don't grow on trees!!! only bubble gum!!!

 

[niemiro]

Today I started fiddling with those semi-documented dodgy tweaks to do with the RAM. The system is running like a beast, lightning quick, but now it has levelled at 0mb free memory, 100% usage. That was in 2 1/2 minutes. Ooops!

 

[niemiro]

LOLs! It has hit the upper end of the page file! I think I need to look at just how much I have actually told Windows to cache!

 

[Smurfyy]

Today,
The station RiseOne has changed to RiseNation... Idk why Lol.
I also went up in the loft to do some stuff, poked down the Ethernet cable, now I have about 20MB according to speedtest.net
Now I plan to clean my mum's computer cause she was moaning that it's really slow and keeps freezing up

 

[Chase]

Today will be a VF / family / golf / laundry / cleaning / eating leftovers / pie / tv / raining / Saturday.

 

[Shadowjk]

Today,
The station RiseOne has changed to RiseNation... Idk why Lol.
I also went up in the loft to do some stuff, poked down the Ethernet cable, now I have about 20MB according to speedtest.net
Now I plan to clean my mum's computer cause she was moaning that it's really slow and keeps freezing up

And thats why mums Buy Macs

 

[Chase]

Today,
The station RiseOne has changed to RiseNation... Idk why Lol.
I also went up in the loft to do some stuff, poked down the Ethernet cable, now I have about 20MB according to speedtest.net
Now I plan to clean my mum's computer cause she was moaning that it's really slow and keeps freezing up

And thats why mums Buy Macs

lol. I gave my mom an HP and she broke it in a week.

 

[tom982]

LOLs! It has hit the upper end of the page file! I think I need to look at just how much I have actually told Windows to cache!

I'm intrigued, how did you do that?

 

[Chase]

The day was good, barbecued, and relaxed with the family. Now time for some Black Ops and VF.

 

[niemiro]

LOLs! It has hit the upper end of the page file! I think I need to look at just how much I have actually told Windows to cache!

I'm intrigued, how did you do that?

The honest answer is probably a misunderstanding of what I was actually telling Windows to do!