Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Paul B]

Hey @Paul B you should see my threads! I spend more time talking about 3D printing than fish. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Tbrown, I also have a 3D printer but it takes me so long to design something on it that I rarely use it.
My printer is a Resin printer and it makes beautiful and useful things (I don't make stupid dragons, Vikings or little Chinese guys carrying ducks) But I do make things I need like pot handles, knife handles or SteamPunk useless stuff.

I can draw what I want but making the CAD program do what I want eludes me. My computer is made of wood and is a Windows 7. I love the thing and won't get a new one because I am already 75 and it would take me 10 years to figure out how to turn it on so I would most likely throw it through my sliding glass door and those are rather expensive so my wife would divorce me and I would have to pay alimony and fish support.

I am not willing to go through that. Also my computer doesn't want to work with the Elego 3D printer because it doesn't have the memory and neither do I. I did add a "Memory or RAM" card. I don't know what it was but I added something. The computer company tells me I can't boost the thing up any more and need a new computer.

My wife has a new er computer and both of us can't hardly figure it out so we use it as a typewriter. I don't even know how to store a picture on it or print from it so I get frustrated and start yelling at it forcing my wife to stand in front of the sliding glass door so I don't throw the thing through it.

If I were to design a computer it would be very user friendly. When I walked near it it would say "Hello Paul, what would you like to do?"

I would say I would like to post on Reef2Reef and it would automatically bring up this forum without me doing anything. Then It would bring up this thread where the cursor would be blinking at the start of a sentence.

I would type something and I would say "POST" and the thing would automatically appear on the forum.

If I wanted to print something I would say "Print" and it would just print. It wouldn't ask me to input the password, or ask what is my Wi-Fi name or the "WPS" or WIPS, or whatever it is printed in miniscule letters along with 79 other numbers on my router.

It also wouldn't ask if I wanted it printed in landscape, or color, or if I wanted to save it in Google, Facebook , Twitter or Instagram because I have no idea what those things are.

I also want it printed on whatever paper I loaded into the thing so if I loaded a piece of cardboard from the back of a box of Cheeze Whizzes from Amazon, I want it printed on that.

If I say PRINT, I want to see exactly what I wrote in the same color and orientation I wrote it in and I want to see it on the printer in my house and I don't care about Facebook and all those stupid things. Just PRINT the thing I wrote as I wrote it.

 

[threebuoys]

Looks like you are an advocate for artificial intelligence wirelessly connected to your brain. The only time you would need to get out of bed would be to take care of bodily functions. Have you tried asking Alexa or Hey Google for help?

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Just here to enjoy all the laughter and wisdom! Have a great day Paul!

 

[tbrown]

Tbrown, I also have a 3D printer but it takes me so long to design something on it that I rarely use it.
My printer is a Resin printer and it makes beautiful and useful things (I don't make stupid dragons, Vikings or little Chinese guys carrying ducks) But I do make things I need like pot handles, knife handles or SteamPunk useless stuff.

I can draw what I want but making the CAD program do what I want eludes me. My computer is made of wood and is a Windows 7. I love the thing and won't get a new one because I am already 75 and it would take me 10 years to figure out how to turn it on so I would most likely throw it through my sliding glass door and those are rather expensive so my wife would divorce me and I would have to pay alimony and fish support.

I am not willing to go through that. Also my computer doesn't want to work with the Elego 3D printer because it doesn't have the memory and neither do I. I did add a "Memory or RAM" card. I don't know what it was but I added something. The computer company tells me I can't boost the thing up any more and need a new computer.

My wife has a new er computer and both of us can't hardly figure it out so we use it as a typewriter. I don't even know how to store a picture on it or print from it so I get frustrated and start yelling at it forcing my wife to stand in front of the sliding glass door so I don't throw the thing through it.

If I were to design a computer it would be very user friendly. When I walked near it it would say "Hello Paul, what would you like to do?"

I would say I would like to post on Reef2Reef and it would automatically bring up this forum without me doing anything. Then It would bring up this thread where the cursor would be blinking at the start of a sentence.

I would type something and I would say "POST" and the thing would automatically appear on the forum.

If I wanted to print something I would say "Print" and it would just print. It wouldn't ask me to input the password, or ask what is my Wi-Fi name or the "WPS" or WIPS, or whatever it is printed in miniscule letters along with 79 other numbers on my router.

It also wouldn't ask if I wanted it printed in landscape, or color, or if I wanted to save it in Google, Facebook , Twitter or Instagram because I have no idea what those things are.

I also want it printed on whatever paper I loaded into the thing so if I loaded a piece of cardboard from the back of a box of Cheeze Whizzes from Amazon, I want it printed on that.

If I say PRINT, I want to see exactly what I wrote in the same color and orientation I wrote it in and I want to see it on the printer in my house and I don't care about Facebook and all those stupid things. Just PRINT the thing I wrote as I wrote it.

I hear that! I was running Windows XP so I had to upgrade computers when I got mine since none of the CAD programs were compatible with my laptop.

 

[Paul B]

Have you tried asking Alexa or Hey Google for help?

I already have 2 Alexa's and they argue with each other so I had to put one in a room far away so they can't hear each other. Those "HELP" menu's are totally useless. It's like trying to call a Government agency like Social Security, Unemployment or the Veterans Administration.

The last time I called the VA, I waited on hold for 45 minutes, then a recording came on to tell me to call back another day because there is no one in the VA to answer the phone. Now, shouldn't thy have led with that.

When I got drafted in 1969 I showed up. Could I have waited a few days and told them, I'm sorry, I don't feel like showing up today. I wonder how would that have turned out for me. :anguished-face:

 

[threebuoys]

I've had a couple of arguments with Alexa. She's not all that bright.

 

[Paul B]

I just found this. I always built my Daughter Halloween costumes and she normally won whatever contest she was in. Virtually all her costumes were weird and most were mechanized or at least lit up.

Once right after she was married she wanted to walk in the Halloween Day Parade in Manhattan and she wanted something unusual.

I built her and her husband a Brooklyn Bridge since they live near it.
It was all lit up, about 12' long and had cars and trucks. There was also an accident that was smoking and a helicopter hovering above. Road flares surrounded the wreck.

They were interviewed on the news a few times. It was very cool.

 

[Debramb]

I just found this. I always built my Daughter Halloween costumes and she normally won whatever contest she was in. Virtually all her costumes were weird and most were mechanized or at least lit up.

Once right after she was married she wanted to walk in the Halloween Day Parade in Manhattan and she wanted something unusual.

I built her and her husband a Brooklyn Bridge since they live near it.
It was all lit up, about 12' long and had cars and trucks. There was also an accident that was smoking and a helicopter hovering above. Road flares surrounded the wreck.

They were interviewed on the news a few times. It was very cool.

Wow

 

[Cthulukelele]

I just found this. I always built my Daughter Halloween costumes and she normally won whatever contest she was in. Virtually all her costumes were weird and most were mechanized or at least lit up.

Once right after she was married she wanted to walk in the Halloween Day Parade in Manhattan and she wanted something unusual.

I built her and her husband a Brooklyn Bridge since they live near it.
It was all lit up, about 12' long and had cars and trucks. There was also an accident that was smoking and a helicopter hovering above. Road flares surrounded the wreck.

They were interviewed on the news a few times. It was very cool.

I need a Paul B halloween costume next year

 

[Paul B]

I got to admit, some of them were pretty cool. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
My Daughter once was a plate of Linguine and clams. They put her in the newspaper. And once a working New York City traffic light. She wore it to work in Manhattan and turned on the red light to cross the street. But most New Yorkers just tried to run her over. :grimacing-face:

 

[Nemo&Friends]

Bravo for the bridge....
I refused to have an Alexa. While at some friend's house who had all the electronic gadgets available, I said I did not want to be spied on by it. Alexa then cut in and said she was not spying and we can verify it by going to www.....something.
We just laugh, but if it interrupted...it proves it was listening all the time and spying.

 

[Paul B]

I have 3 of them and they can spy on me as much as they like. Sometimes I walk in front of them wearing my Speedo just to see if she turns red. I have a friend who won't get an easy pass because he says the Government will spy on him by knowing where he is. I told him the FBI agent can sit in the back seat of my car if he likes and go every where with me. But he is paying for the gas and oil changes.

 

[Nano_Man]

Hi Paul
What are your thoughts on how often you do water changes or do you only do a couple a year and do you dose to help with no water changes. Just thinking of your thoughts on the subject

 

[Paul B]

Good Morning Nman, I change water about 4 or 5 times a year usually using NSW. Lately my NSW sources seems to be loaded with nitrates which causes huge algae blooms.

(I don't collect water much in the winter. It is 25 degrees here now) :anxious-face-with-sweat:

I am on eastern Long Island and surrounded by farms and golf courses so they use a lot of fertilizer here.

Now I have been mixing NSW with ASW for changes. I normally collect 40 gallons of NSW at a time and thats how much I change for those 4 changes. I don't dose really but I do occasionally add some calcium and alk. Not much and I usually forget most times.

Now, after I eliminated encrusting, invasive sponge I don't keep any SPS so my corals are not very demanding and don't seem to care about parameters.

When I kept SPS I did dose more but not much which made my parameters swing wildly. My SPS didn't seem to care about that much either but I never kept sensitive corals because I also have a life and reefing is only one of my hobbies so I need a tank that kind of takes care of itself.

I do very little to my reef except clean the glass and feed. When the algae scrubber gets full I clean it and occasionally my skimmer needs a little attention but that is very rare. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Nano_Man]

Good Morning Nman, I change water about 4 or 5 times a year usually using NSW. Lately my NSW sources seems to be loaded with nitrates which causes huge algae blooms.

(I don't collect water much in the winter. It is 25 degrees here now) :anxious-face-with-sweat:

I am on eastern Long Island and surrounded by farms and golf courses so they use a lot of fertilizer here.

Now I have been mixing NSW with ASW for changes. I normally collect 40 gallons of NSW at a time and thats how much I change for those 4 changes. I don't dose really but I do occasionally add some calcium and alk. Not much and I usually forget most times.

Now, after I eliminated encrusting, invasive sponge I don't keep any SPS so my corals are not very demanding and don't seem to care about parameters.

When I kept SPS I did dose more but not much which made my parameters swing wildly. My SPS didn't seem to care about that much either but I never kept sensitive corals because I also have a life and reefing is only one of my hobbies so I need a tank that kind of takes care of itself.

I do very little to my reef except clean the glass and feed. When the algae scrubber gets full I clean it and occasionally my skimmer needs a little attention but that is very rare. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Thanks for the info Paul thinking of going down the same sort of route

 

[Paul B]

Not easy to get all 3 of these in the same shot

 

[Paul B]

Cold walk this morning. 22 degrees and windy. :grimacing-face:

People here now feel this is cold, especially the young people. In the 70s it never got warmer than 25 degrees in January. I used to walk to school, up hill both ways in 3' snow drifts. (My school was on the side of a volcano so the ground used to shift every few hours so it was always uphill whichever way I walked. )

Anyway, like I said, I met my friend yesterday morning and he had the day off because it was raining and snowing. And he is an "ICE" Agent! Really! My taxes are paying Federal Agents to stay home because it is cold and raining.

He was waiting for the school bus with his 12 year old Son. After my walk I noticed that he was still waiting so I asked him what happened to the bus. He said he just found out the school opening is 2 hours late because it's "cold".

We are now really raising a generation of "Girly Snowflakes". People get off from work because it's raining and kids don't have to go to school because it's cold. Really!!. This drives me crazy. Do the people living in Alaska have all the days off because it's below freezing? No, they don't. Then jump on their dog sled, go 15 or 20 miles through the tundra while evading Polar Bears and maybe harpoon a walrus on the way for lunch.

I worked as a construction electrician in Manhattan for almost 50 years and much of that was outside because "Construction" means you are "Constructing" something because the building someone wants isn't there yet so you have to build it. Most of the skyscrapers in Manhattan were not built inside a heated building so you had to build them outside, yes in the cold.
We could legally work outside if it was above 4 degrees or (I think) up to 96 degrees.



The top picture I am hanging off the roof of the Plaza Hotel and it was 17 degrees that day. That is frozen Central Park below me.

The bottom picture I am the foreman CAD welding (in the white hat) on a New York City garbage incinerator.

In the decades I worked I never I ever took off for weather, even 2' of snow and I can count on one hand how many times I took a day off sick and those times I was in the hospital for a broken bone or to have a cro bar removed from sticking out of some place on my body.

Now in the Army, the drill Sargent's are not allowed to curse at you or hit you and if it is raining, to hot or cold, they train you indoors.
Are we training people for combat or "Dancing With the Stars"?

When I was in the Army in 1969 the Drill Sargent's could probably run you over with a tank if they wanted to and hitting or punching you was considered mandatory. I was scared to death of Drill Sargent's while I was in basic . But after that, while I lived in the jungle for a year covered in mud, especially in Monsoon season, I was very grateful for that training and "toughening up. A Man really should get punched in the face a few times so he knows what it feels like. It makes you tougher and if the scariest thing that ever happened to you was a big accountant texted you a mean looking Emoji, then you are probably not that tough and may need some street smarts.
Just my opinion of course and I am very opinionated.

 

[Nano_Man]

Cold walk this morning. 22 degrees and windy. :grimacing-face:

People here now feel this is cold, especially the young people. In the 70s it never got warmer than 25 degrees in January. I used to walk to school, up hill both ways in 3' snow drifts. (My school was on the side of a volcano so the ground used to shift every few hours so it was always uphill whichever way I walked. )

Anyway, like I said, I met my friend yesterday morning and he had the day off because it was raining and snowing. And he is an "ICE" Agent! Really! My taxes are paying Federal Agents to stay home because it is cold and raining.

He was waiting for the school bus with his 12 year old Son. After my walk I noticed that he was still waiting so I asked him what happened to the bus. He said he just found out the school opening is 2 hours late because it's "cold".

We are now really raising a generation of "Girly Snowflakes". People get off from work because it's raining and kids don't have to go to school because it's cold. Really!!. This drives me crazy. Do the people living in Alaska have all the days off because it's below freezing? No, they don't. Then jump on their dog sled, go 15 or 20 miles through the tundra while evading Polar Bears and maybe harpoon a walrus on the way for lunch.

I worked as a construction electrician in Manhattan for almost 50 years and much of that was outside because "Construction" means you are "Constructing" something because the building someone wants isn't there yet so you have to build it. Most of the skyscrapers in Manhattan were not built inside a heated building so you had to build them outside, yes in the cold.
We could legally work outside if it was above 4 degrees or (I think) up to 96 degrees.



The top picture I am hanging off the roof of the Plaza Hotel and it was 17 degrees that day. That is frozen Central Park below me.

The bottom picture I am the foreman CAD welding (in the white hat) on a New York City garbage incinerator.

In the decades I worked I never I ever took off for weather, even 2' of snow and I can count on one hand how many times I took a day off sick and those times I was in the hospital for a broken bone or to have a cro bar removed from sticking out of some place on my body.

Now in the Army, the drill Sargent's are not allowed to curse at you or hit you and if it is raining, to hot or cold, they train you indoors.
Are we training people for combat or "Dancing With the Stars"?

When I was in the Army in 1969 the Drill Sargent's could probably run you over with a tank if they wanted to and hitting or punching you was considered mandatory. I was scared to death of Drill Sargent's while I was in basic . But after that, while I lived in the jungle for a year covered in mud, especially in Monsoon season, I was very grateful for that training and "toughening up. A Man really should get punched in the face a few times so he knows what it feels like. It makes you tougher and if the scariest thing that ever happened to you was a big accountant texted you a mean looking Emoji, then you are probably not that tough and may need some street smarts.
Just my opinion of course and I am very opinionated.

I would rather have the cold than rain. I like a walk on a crisp winters day

 

[Paul B]

I would rather have the cold than rain. I like a walk on a crisp winters day

Me too. I don't care how cold, hot or how much it is raining or snowing or how dark it is. And I'm 75 years old. :cool:

Thats why they make warm clothes. :grimacing-face:



It's like when people use to see me with my snow blower. They say, OMG you are so lucky you have a snow blower.

Luck has nothing to do with it. If you live in a place where it snows, you go to a store that sells snow blowers and buy one. They say the same thing in a blackout when I start my generator. Same thing. Go and buy one.

 

[Jekyl]

Me too. I don't care how cold, hot or how much it is raining or snowing or how dark it is. And I'm 75 years old. :cool:

Thats why they make warm clothes. :grimacing-face:



It's like when people use to see me with my snow blower. They say, OMG you are so lucky you have a snow blower.

Luck has nothing to do with it. If you live in a place where it snows, you go to a store that sells snow blowers and buy one. They say the same thing in a blackout when I start my generator. Same thing. Go and buy one.

Both pieces of equipment are must haves.