What are you doing today?

[Fishmanic]

I cant believe that a raccoon just cut off the electricity at the office...

I called on site and the electricians found a roasted raccoon at the foot of the electric pole, He fused the protection on the link.

That’s shocking.

 

[jaylach]

That’s shocking.

Actually the same thing happened in Sheridan Wyoming several years ago but it was a large bull snake that got into a electrical sub station. Knocked out power for around 4000 customers.

 

[Oldspartan]

I was in Pennsylvania many years ago doing some equipment troubleshooting. It became necessary to move some vending machines to gain access to a wall. The maintenance fella brought us a hand truck then cautioned us about moving the machines. Seems rattle snakes would crawl into the back to lay next to the warm compressor. We moved the machine and there it was, a 3 to 4-foot rattler. That was it for me that day.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Does anyone know about a good image hosting service on the Internet? I have used Flickr for a few years, until about 2014, when they ruined the interface. So, I went to Imgur. Now the hosting service has bugs. I have several hundred images. Facebook has been the best for now. I do not know if there is a free hosting service. If not, I will have to develop all the photos, as if I were still in the 2000s...

Some new photos.
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Several Dero sp.

I keep a blog post on blogger.com to dump photos on so I can share them on forums and such. Google photos is OK too. Not great.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I was in Pennsylvania many years ago doing some equipment troubleshooting. It became necessary to move some vending machines to gain access to a wall. The maintenance fella brought us a hand truck then cautioned us about moving the machines. Seems rattle snakes would crawl into the back to lay next to the warm compressor. We moved the machine and there it was, a 3 to 4-foot rattler. That was it for me that day.

Snakes gotta stay warm too, I guess...

 

[Back in the fold]

We moved the machine and there it was, a 3 to 4-foot rattler. That was it for me that day.

That experience would have brought me instant fame as the first man to fly without wings .

 

[GaryE]

We moved the machine and there it was, a 3 to 4-foot rattler. That was it for me that day.

I'd be rattled by that too.

Mess with them, and they can become cold blooded killers.

 

[jaylach]

Does anyone know about a good image hosting service on the Internet? I have used Flickr for a few years, until about 2014, when they ruined the interface. So, I went to Imgur. Now the hosting service has bugs. I have several hundred images. Facebook has been the best for now. I do not know if there is a free hosting service. If not, I will have to develop all the photos, as if I were still in the 2000s...

Some new photos.
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I actually host an image site. No bells or whistles just storage although you can have all the albums you want as sub albums to your main. Yje UI would likely also look a bit odd. It was put up for some photographer friends and does zero compression on uploaded images so what you put up is what you see,

Jaylach Photo Gallery

 

[anewbie]

Gave my discus some fresh-water. They always hate when i am actually doing the water change but afterwards they seem more chippery.

 

[gwand]

Drove six hours back from Raleigh after watching grandkids while my daughter and son in law took a week’s vacation. During the car trip I listen to a book entitled The Cello Suites that described how the cellist Pablo Casal discovered 6 previously unknown cello suites composed by J.S. Bach in a small music store in Barcelona. The books describes the life and times of both musicians. Once home I fed many hungry fish and performed water changes on 4 of my 8 tanks. I’m whooped.

 

[connorlindeman]

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Just got back from a music/art teacher get together. There was no sing-along at this one, but much good food and many good hunting stories.

 

[GaryE]

I have 4 daphnia tubs in low ground, a ditch of sorts behind the fishroom/garage. They have screens over them, and I allow grass to grow tall along the top of the ditch to shade them. I did a quick net sweep of two of them yesterday, and was able to feed all my tanks. That is a lot of fish fed.
To maintain them, I have a rainwater butt in the sun, so the water is very green. I scoop a 2 gallon bucket daily and feed half a gallon of green water per tub daily, via a highly sophisticated bucket dumping through the screens as I walk by method.
I had very few mosquito larvae, which is good. They are great food, but I don't want my neighbours being bitten to be part of my live food set up...
Today, I'll fish the other two tubs, then tomorrow, everyone gets brine shrimp nauplii. I hope I can keep that rhythm going into the Fall. If it does, 66% of my fish feeding will be free til it gets cold. Even at less than that, the food is better than prepared options. There have been summers where I have fed almost exclusively live daphnia, mossie larvae and bloodworms (midge larvae). It all depends on weather.

 

[MaloK]

Today, since my new Laptop has a roaring Wifi6 interface... I went trough with my network upgrade and replaced a good old faithful Wifi4, AC1200 2x2. To a WIFi6E AXE7800 3x8. and was able to reach 115 megabytes on the said Laptop.

It accepted a wifi7 device and loaded files at 260 megabytes per seconds on internal network from ssd to ssd.... Loll... Not megabits... megabytes. At this point I have a couple hard disks slowing things down.

I contacted my internet provider and took their fastest unlimited data connection. Seriously, I must keep closer look to these things. I went from 100 megabits to 1 gigabits. bi-directional for 13$ more per month.

So as a carer computer technician for the first time in my life, I have gigabit speed on all planes of my network and beyond.

I eliminated every old devices, all computers are nearly win11 now, there's one w7 laptop left, and a precise beer spill will take care of it soon.

I also replaced the old iphone4 that was stamped to the wall of the shop, it's my radio... Played music for the last 6 years, for a model 7... Not because the old stopped working... But there's only meteo left working on that. That should last more than 6 years this time, that little kit sounds great.

Should be it for a while. Maybe some more Hd's turning to ssd next winter. Or much bigger hd's somewhere... Or maybe a top class raid10 NAS...

Edit: a pic of the new Access point.

Weather is good, There's no clouds in the sky.

 

[jaylach]

Rather odd evening. If there is anyone out there that knows building electric wiring I'd love to know if I'm thinking right.

Power went out in the building this evening but not exactly... Lost all power in my living room but my bedroom was still fine. In my kitchen my fridge stayed fine but my stove was totally out as was my chest freezer.

Here is what I think. The main breaker in the box is a dual breaker. I figure that the box has actually two feeds and one was affected while the other was OK. This would explain why part of my apartment had power but part was out.

Make any sense as to my thinking?