What are you doing today?

[Oldspartan]

I never tire of remodeling/redoing the rooms in my house. Unfortunately, my wallet tires easily.

 

[Alice B]

I spent $18k getting the foundation fixed and this vinyl flooring has needed replaced for about 10 years but, couldn't do it without doing foundation first. Restore has the laminate planking I want.

 

[gwand]

I’m picking my puppy up from her first stay at our kennel. The kennel owner told me that my puppy is bossy. I told her to tell me something I do not know.

 

[jaylach]

Yesterday I broke out some ANCIENT Wii games from when I was a wee lad. Half the game discs were really scratched (Forbidden Frisbee) but miraculously this one just needed some cleaning.

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I had the scratch issue with some PS1 disks. Picked up a disk cleaner that included abrasive polishing compound and it restored all of them. I have several consoles but not physically as they are all emulators on my computer but you can't tell the difference from the actual consoles. Let's see... I have the original Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PS1, MAME and emulators from my first two computers. BTW, MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It does probably over a thousand old arcade games.

 

[Back in the fold]

Also, just ordered some mosses from some guy named @connorlindeman who seems to think he's a big kahuna.

Actually , I have heard that Big Kahuna thing about him somewhere . I’m thinking about some plants from him too just to see if it’s true . He’s probably never heard of Water Sprite though .

 

[Alice B]

I had the scratch issue with some PS1 disks. Picked up a disk cleaner that included abrasive polishing compound and it restored all of them. I have several consoles but not physically as they are all emulators on my computer but you can't tell the difference from the actual consoles. Let's see... I have the original Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PS1, MAME and emulators from my first two computers. BTW, MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It does probably over a thousand old arcade games.

will that scratch stuff work on CD's?

 

[jaylach]

Watching the newest version of the movie Dune on MAX. Watching the first part before the second to remind me as it was like close to three years between the two releases. Only about one quarter through the first and starting to remember why I was a bit disappointed. It is just too far away from the books. Still I'm going to watch both halves this evening as I have yet to see the second half to give the whole thing a fair chance. Personally, in my opinion, the version with Sting came the closest as to accuracy.

Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying that the movie is bad. Actually, if you had never read the books, it would probably be a REALLY good movie. My problem is that I am a BIG fan of Frank Herbert (author of Dune) and have read every book and many multiple times. Shoot, in total, there are probably 12-14 books. I actually have an eBook copy of his first rendition of Dune which is totally different yet sets the basic concepts.

 

[jaylach]

will that scratch stuff work on CD's?

Ahhh, depends on the level of damage but, yes, it only works on a CD or DVD. Probably would work on a Blu-ray but I've never tried. Not sure but I am thinking that you are asking about audio CD's.

Scratches on a CD/DVD cause the laser to lose tracking which results in skips or a total failure. The thing is that the actual layer that holds the info is really thin and protected by a relatively thick layer of plastic. The abrasive polishing removes layers of the plastic to remove scratches but never touches the actual data layer.

Oh, if you ever clean a CD/DVD my hand just use water with a light detergent (actually Dawn works well but mix with water first) and always wipe from the center to the edge. NEVER do such cleaning in a circle around the disk as, if there is anything that could scratch, you wipe out an entire track of the disk causing a fatal failure.

 

[JackGulley]

Watching the newest version of the movie Dune on MAX. Watching the first part before the second to remind me as it was like close to three years between the two releases. Only about one quarter through the first and starting to remember why I was a bit disappointed. It is just too far away from the books. Still I'm going to watch both halves this evening as I have yet to see the second half to give the whole thing a fair chance. Personally, in my opinion, the version with Sting came the closest as to accuracy.

Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying that the movie is bad. Actually, if you had never read the books, it would probably be a REALLY good movie. My problem is that I am a BIG fan of Frank Herbert (author of Dune) and have read every book and many multiple times. Shoot, in total, there are probably 12-14 books. I actually have an eBook copy of his first rendition of Dune which is totally different yet sets the basic concepts.

What, in your opinion, is far from the books? I also love the book (although I only read the first) and, other than the omission of the mentats, I thought it was one of the most faithful book->movie adaptations I had seen. The sci-fi equivalent of LotR.

 

[jaylach]

What, in your opinion, is far from the books? I also love the book (although I only read the first) and, other than the omission of the mentats, I thought it was one of the most faithful book->movie adaptations I had seen. The sci-fi equivalent of LotR.

Well just for starters thee was a lot in the newest movie that just never happened in the books such as the fleeing through the tunnels to get to an escape vehicle. Never happened and the only time, in the books, that Paul and Jessica were on such a vehicle was when they were being taken to the deep desert to die.

 

[Alice B]

Watching the newest version of the movie Dune on MAX. Watching the first part before the second to remind me as it was like close to three years between the two releases. Only about one quarter through the first and starting to remember why I was a bit disappointed. It is just too far away from the books. Still I'm going to watch both halves this evening as I have yet to see the second half to give the whole thing a fair chance. Personally, in my opinion, the version with Sting came the closest as to accuracy.

Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying that the movie is bad. Actually, if you had never read the books, it would probably be a REALLY good movie. My problem is that I am a BIG fan of Frank Herbert (author of Dune) and have read every book and many multiple times. Shoot, in total, there are probably 12-14 books. I actually have an eBook copy of his first rendition of Dune which is totally different yet sets the basic concepts.

I thought it was closer than the 1984. when they made it rain on Dune 1984 at the end that killed it for me. I read the first 5 books, then my twins were born and became toddlers and I had to give up reading for pleasure - same now, I work too much. I liked the 2021 Dune, watched about 10 days ago preparing to catch the new one. But it has been a good solid 35 years since I read any of the books. I picked up Chapterhouse dune and found it confusing about 10 years ago. One day I will start at the beginning, again

 

[jaylach]

I thought it was closer than the 1984. when they made it rain on Dune 1984 at the end that killed it for me. I read the first 5 books, then my twins were born and became toddlers and I had to give up reading for pleasure - same now, I work too much. I liked the 2021 Dune, watched about 10 days ago preparing to catch the new one. But it has been a good solid 35 years since I read any of the books. I picked up Chapterhouse dune and found it confusing about 10 years ago. One day I will start at the beginning, again

Agreed as to the rain at the end of the 1984 version as they basically did well but went many books further in like the last minute of the movie. Still that version was still MUCH more in line with the book than this newest version.

For instance at the end of the new movie Jessica, Paul's mother, is still pregnant with Alia who is Paul's little sister who became a 'reverend mother' while still in Jessica's womb when Jessica took the water of life. Paul killed the Baron Harkonen in the movie but it was actually Alia that stuck the Baron with a Bon Jabar causing his death in the book.

Then there is, in the new movie, when Fayd Harconen takes out the supposed last three of the Atriedes family in an arena. Never happened in the book as Paul and Alia were the only existing Atredies left at that time.

The last I'll bring up here, although I could do more, would be Paul taking the water of life. Ya, in the new movie, he took it but that is all that was in relation to the book. In the movie he was close to death but Chani, his love interest, saved him by mixing her tear with a drop of the water of life and put it on his lips to save him. Never happened as in the book she actually bound him in preparation out in the desert and fed him the water of life which he beat on his own. The important difference here is that was the moment when he became a 'god head' and the worms paid homage by surrounding him without attacking. For those that don't know the story the worms are like 3-4 hundred meters in length with very nasty teeth.

Bottom line is that I'm not going to say it is a bad movie if you are not a fan of the books. Even if a fan of the books it is an OK movie but the 1984 version, except for the very end, is much closer to the books. For me this is a bit of an odd movie as my normal complaint is things left out of a movie that I liked in the book. In this case my biggest complaint is things they added that never happened in the book.

 

[GaryE]

I can do excellent drowned rat imitations today. Mabel the dog and I just went for a walk, hoping to beat the rain.

We failed. I got home with puddles in my shoes.

So my today will be working - first editing for someone, then doing the voice parts for a video. I'm having surgery next week, which should, as a side effect, give me back close to my old voice. I used to do a lot of voice work for language learning projects, but I have a country singer nose thing going these days. That should be gone by mid June. I can't carry a tune in a bucket, and singing never worked. But the speaking voice is a good tool I want to be able to use again. Now that print work for fishkeeping is history, I can pivot around to video. I like to keep working around 10 hours a week.

 

[Essjay]

Your rain sounds like that we've had here recently. My son complained that after his 8 minute walk home from organ practice his backpack had a puddle in the bottom and his organ playing shoes were soaked. Luckily his music was inside a music case in the backpack.


I've just had the second of two shingles vaccines. I hope this one doesn't give me a sore arm as bad as the first. Even if it does it's worth it not have shingles again, or at the minimum not as bad as when I had it 9 years ago. I do not wish to go through shingles again.

 

[GaryE]

Shingles on the roof, okay. On us, no. I have never had them, but I've seen them, and I too have had the vaccine. It only makes sense.

A key reason I could afford my house is it's in the "fog zone", and a lot of locals don't want to be close to the sea. I don't mind the fog, which is a good thing today. We got pelted with rain and now I can barely see across the road. Atmospheric fog, a graveyard across the road - I really missed my calling back in the 80s. I should have been a goth.