quote:

Originally posted by planetaryplayer i wanted to become a strip club DJ

same, except specifically for disabled strippers.

Yard work consumed my Saturday, culminating in the death of my favorite weed eater, unfortunately. Up early today for CISSP CPE credits then Sunday house chores. We had a thunderstorm about 1:00 AM this morning that had some of the craziest lightning I've seen in probably a decade. Mostly cloud to cloud, fortunately.

EDIT: anyone seen this? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/review-the-green-knight-weaves-a-compelling-coming-of-age-fantasy-quest/

Last edited by Zoso on Aug-01-2021 at 12:29

quote:

Originally posted by Sushipunk Back into heavy lockdown, yay...

Do the restrictions there feel heavy-handed to you? If I understood correctly, you can't leave your home unless it's for something really essential, and they're deploying unarmed military personnel to help enforce the lockdown at least in Sydney. I know Australia's quite strict with many things, but looking from the outside and relying solely on news, the means seem almost draconian.

Edit: Then again, I secretly hope we'd do the same to contain this thing and force-vaccinate, if necessary, even the most stubborn of anti-vaxxers here.

I put together a home server for the sole intention of data backups. It has like 16TB...I use like a couple hundred gigs for document and pic backups. I'm too lazy to back anything up now that it is setup.

Is it the weekend yet???

Today as we strolled, buzzed, through our hood to walk to the store, I said "Happy Sunday!!" to one of our neighbours, to which my husband responded "It's Monday. "



Happy Sunday 2.0 errbody!

quote:

Originally posted by JEO Do the restrictions there feel heavy-handed to you? If I understood correctly, you can't leave your home unless it's for something really essential, and they're deploying unarmed military personnel to help enforce the lockdown at least in Sydney. I know Australia's quite strict with many things, but looking from the outside and relying solely on news, the means seem almost draconian. Edit: Then again, I secretly hope we'd do the same to contain this thing and force-vaccinate, if necessary, even the most stubborn of anti-vaxxers here.

The lockdown is pretty harsh, but ultimately it's necessary. Yes, we're only allowed to leave the house for essential reasons like healthcare, grocery shopping (including booze, lol), or exercise, and only within 10km of your house if possible. No visitors allowed in homes either.

With such a low rate of vaccination here (our government completely dripped the ball on the vaccine roll-out), outbreaks of the delta variant like what we're seeing in Sydney and now Brisbane could turn very bad very quickly. We don't have the military thing here like in Sydney (and it's worth noting -- they're not armed, they're just assisting the police force with manpower to allow them to spread further across the city), but if things get bad enough, it wouldn't be any different in Brisbane. The army gets used for a lot of things in Australia, disaster relief being one of them, which is essentially what the COVID situation is.

___________________

Last edited by Sushipunk on Aug-03-2021 at 03:02

I bought my first TV. I went all in and got one of those 75" juggernauts. Funny thing is, we bought it to lure my mother-in-law after the pandemic, but I can't stop watching the Olympics now, heh.

Brazil is not doing spectacularly well, but we're not too bad either. I guess it keeps the excitement when we win, heh.

quote:

Originally posted by Lews So I absent-mindedly hit my external hard drive with my foot and it fell over and is now broken, apparently? Fun times. Being extremely intelligent and holding a PhD from a prestigious university, I, of course, have no back up. Oops.

I feel your pain. I heard so many horror stories when I was a PhD candidate that I now have a couple of online hosting services syncing all the files in my external hard drives, in case they fail on me (or if the internet connection acts up, not an uncommon occurrence here).

quote:

Originally posted by JEO Then again, I secretly hope we'd do the same to contain this thing and force-vaccinate, if necessary, even the most stubborn of anti-vaxxers here.

I'd settle for less. As long as our president stops stoking the fire saying the vaccine may turn Brazilians into alligators and claiming chloroquine and ivermectin can do a better job, I'll be a happy panda. Or a happy alligator.

___________________
Indiana Clones Upcoming Sets
[ I May Upload Something Someday ]

Last edited by Lira on Aug-03-2021 at 05:18

quote:

Originally posted by Sushipunk The lockdown is pretty harsh, but ultimately it's necessary. Yes, we're only allowed to leave the house for essential reasons like healthcare, grocery shopping (including booze, lol), or exercise, and only within 10km of your house if possible. No visitors allowed in homes either.

That wouldn't change my life in any way, so it sounds pretty reasonable to me. On social media though you can quickly form a different picture of it. Lots of shady information spreading regarding the situation there right now.

quote:

Originally posted by Lira I'd settle for less. As long as our president stops stoking the fire saying the vaccine may turn Brazilians into alligators and claiming chloroquine and ivermectin can do a better job, I'll be a happy panda. Or a happy alligator.

Yeah.. I guess I should be happy for the relatively good situation here, but it does annoy me that, with slightly harsher restrictions, slightly smarter preparation and border control, and without some stunningly stupid, easily preventable mistakes, I think we could have far fewer cases, far more people vaccinated, and far fewer people protesting restrictions and vaccinations. The longer this drags, the more people are turning to the dumber side of this thing.