Posts by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
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Posted 29 Jun 2019 by  KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Scorched Earth policy? |
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(Message 1999951)
Posted 27 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Greylag Goose wants to be sure his head is clean... |
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, should have made sure the cement was dry before I put this on... |
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Posted 24 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A somewhat oversized Army helmet... |
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Posted 21 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: computer screen: you are scr##ed by Micro$oft - buy new computer... |
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(Message 1999067)
Posted 21 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no!! crashed into 110 baud, AGAIN!!! |
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Posted 20 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Eric sights the first possible message from an ET. "What will I do for a job for the rest of my life ???!!!" |
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Posted 19 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mona Lizard? No, Zombie Lisa... |
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Posted 16 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tricycle for the monster truck fanatic... or Someone has forgotten how to build a penny farthing bicycle... |
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Posted 14 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the world's only dirt ready recumbent Bicycle! |
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(Message 1997683)
Posted 10 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This truck shouldn't be hauling garbage, it should be hauled away AS garbage! paraphrase of a Klingon (re the Enterprise) in "The Trouble with Tribbles", Star Trek: TOS |
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Posted 10 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: CHP commercial enforcement officer: "Where to begin? This truck is overweight; it would still be overweight if it were a Semi... Only one working headlight, and one working wiper... Bald tires, by lots... that's all I'm going to write you up for, but you also need to check your clearance lights, your turn signals, and your brake shoes! |
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Posted 7 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm plotting revenge against the haidresser AND my owner! |
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Posted 5 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'm doing the best I can until the part comes in..." |
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Posted 4 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: is anyone working on the stuck downloads problem? It's been 4 days now. There seems to be some sort of cycle at work here, too |
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Posted 3 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can't be serious? "I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley!" |
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Posted 2 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom (gently): "You're supposed to sit facing AWAY from the lid..." BTW, Mr Kevvy, the rules state that judgement shall occur AFTER 24 hours, or (no later than) 48 if a quorum is not reached in the 24... I suggest a (re)-read of the rule summary at the start of the thread... your method would prevent that photo from getting more than 24 hours, but 24 hours would still be given! And (err...) I think the Admiral is a guy... |
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(Message 1996261)
Posted 1 Jun 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: just to throw a monkey wrench into the proceedings, I have machines that downloaded fine this morning, and others (I have 8) that wouldn't download for love nor money... |
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Posted 30 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fancy Feastâ„¢ for the vegetarian cat... |
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(Message 1995762)
Posted 29 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "How dare you put a tomato in front of me for a snack! You know I'm a carnivore!" BTW, Joaquin Miller was a Zorro-like outlaw in the mid-1800's, primarily active in the Oakland and Berkeley area... |
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Posted 28 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Joaquin Miller rides again! |
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(Message 1995382)
Posted 26 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is that the finale to the William Tell overture I hear in the distance? |
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Posted 25 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
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Even when that cruiser doesn't have the "Denver Boot"... (snicker) |
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Posted 24 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Honest, Sarge, I just stepped in to get some cash.... (translated for the non-Czech..) (CSOB is a Czech bank....) |
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Posted 23 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: duplication of effort... or The Chief is going to be p***ed! or The Czech parking police have it in for the regular force... |
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Posted 22 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where is my red topknot? |
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Posted 21 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a depressed moai |
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Posted 20 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Concrete? I thought that was mud! |
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Posted 18 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ThÃs won't work, unless the plane is below 10,000 feet... |
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Posted 17 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Toyopet Land Cruiser, for the wilds 0f Libya... Toyopet was an actual brand name that Toyota used, back in the 1960's |
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Posted 16 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mogadishu town car... |
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Posted 12 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: somehow, Taco Hell's "Spaghetti de Chili Taco" didn't go over well... |
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Posted 11 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Panasonicâ„¢ microwaves: not even nearby explosions dent them! not for the win... |
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Posted 10 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Mama mia, at'sa spic-y meat balla!" not for the win... Sorry folks, I arrived home to find the electricity off - which means no I-net! |
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Posted 4 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Night shift mainframe operator during backups... |
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Posted 2 May 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone likes Nicholas Cage... |
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Posted 28 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, with only three entries, that's a little underwhelming response... It's judgement time, in any event... In third place is the Admiral, for: "Currently outside the 'Stork Club'" In second place is also the Admiral for: "Maverick and Goose are ready for take-off" "STK472 requesting clearance to depart" remarkably similar to my thought, "(scrt) Stork134, taxi behind company to runway two-niner (scrt)" PM going out once this missive is posted... Take it away, Carlos... |
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Posted 26 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win and now I start perusing my stock of over 10,500 pix, looking for something that can take a funny caption... Well, that didn't take too long, so; staying with the bird theme, CAPTION THIS:  qStork DZ 4-7-17 5 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always with my pictures, Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved I'll give about 26 hours for the first "day", as I'm still a little messed up on time with jetlag... (I'm posting at 0430 local, where I am...) BTW, I was thinking on the last shot of a mass, gravity assisted, firing squad... |
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Posted 25 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ready... Aim... FIRE!" |
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(Message 1991238)
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Budge over a bit, we wanna see if we can bring down one of these lines! |
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Posted 23 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "you mean NONE of you know the way to San Juan Capistrano???" "No, but we know the way to San Jose..." |
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(Message 1991051)
Posted 22 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached the 55 million mark on Seti Production... |
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Posted 21 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: this is what I use to make "hummingbird egg over-easy"... |
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Posted 20 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is how we make "flatiron" steaks... or "FORE!!!!" |
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Posted 14 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Darth McBeth sets out a new course of Imperial agony... |
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(Message 1989676)
Posted 11 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thought the car carrier was moving... or Car 54, Where Are You? Err, Admiral, that's "...climbing high into the sky..." (Air Force family [including a Lt. General...] on my mother's side of the family...) |
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Posted 10 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Boeing mini goes Boing! or ♫♯ I believe I can fly I believe I can touch the sky---♫ |
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Posted 10 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lion tries counter-camoflage! or This guy never heard of the "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" story... |
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Posted 4 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The easy way to washboard abs! (not for the win, traveling...) |
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Posted 3 Apr 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: stare-down at the zoo... |
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: To ER nurse: My pet rolled over me... ER nurse: You've got five broken ribs and stress fractures to the pelvis... what kind'a pet can do that much damage? To ER nurse: my male baby elephant... |
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Posted 28 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pug: I'm so happy I'm wall-eyed with joy! Cat : He keeps me warm... |
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Posted 25 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bestseller: Donald Trump's Tweets... Location ¿Dublin? |
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Posted 24 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Page Dr. Steven Strange... |
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Posted 24 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ah, yes, a clear case of Pedem in Os Tuum* disease... * look it up! ...Try Google Translate - from Latin... |
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Posted 22 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Moon is a Balloon by David Niven... |
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Posted 20 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's not a sesame seed - nor is it a poppy seed! or [Homer Simpson voice} Mmm, Lunch! [/voice] |
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Posted 17 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New meaning to the term "foul ball"... |
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Posted 15 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, so maybe I'm a 56 short... or After this pitch, I'm gonna moon the pitcher and dust off home plate! |
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Posted 14 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here! |
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Posted 12 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Get me outta here! |
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Posted 9 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] They expect me to walk through THAT, barefoot??? [/thought bubble] (have you ever seen a real pigsty?...) |
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Posted 7 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Auto-Alpina Mohawk... or Car Pincushion with needles |
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(Message 1983444)
Posted 4 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: sorry for the delay... Seti was down, and then I went on a weekend trip, without a computer... It's Judgement Everyone that said molting is correct, (that's why there is no tail...) but from what plumage to what plumage? (which was the question - molting is a process...) My guess,(and it's only that, I am not from this species [Oriental Magpie-Robin] home range and (AFAIK) the species has not made it to the North American continent, where I'm based) is that this individual is molting from juvenile plumage into adult plumage, which some species do head to tail... (did anyone notice that the shot was taken in November?) In Third Place we have Carlos for: Have you seen my tail feathers? In Second Place we have a new entrant: Moomin for: Seems like I lost my tail... Where is it? And in first place Ta-DA! we have Carlos again, for: 4 and 20 magpies baked into a pie... PM going out as soon as this missive is finished. Although, as noted above, this is an Oriental Magpie-Robin. Copsychus saularis This specimen was seen on the Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, near Kowllon Park, in the plantings along Nathan Road. Err, doesn't that rhyme run "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"? BTW, for any Europeans out there, when posting pictures of Robins, Coots or Avocets, please preceed the name by "European" or "Eurasian", since there are distinctly different American birds of the same title over here. If you know of others of similar dual Identities, drop me a PM |
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Posted 1 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks to whoever noticed my note (12-14 pages back now...) that Beta was down, and brought it back up... |
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Posted 1 Mar 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only two so far, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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Posted 28 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Was getting "transient HTTP error" on trying download from Production... Also, why is Beta down? |
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(Message 1982644)
Posted 28 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, that took longer than I thought it would... Caption THIS:  Oriental Magpie-Robin HKKL 10-13-16 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved Bonus points if you can tell me what plumage this bird is in... |
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Posted 28 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: win noted. I'll be looking for another shot... |
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Posted 25 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I may be a Staffordshire, but where is my Yorkshire pudding? |
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Posted 22 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ginger man, no bread involved! |
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Posted 21 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Late thought: this is the foot of the man from Khlong Toei... (an actual district of Bangkok...) |
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Posted 18 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My, what a big toe you have! or this guy is hell to find shoes for! |
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Posted 15 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Permanent ladder to the dish... |
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Posted 14 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The sorting tree on a day off... |
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Posted 11 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Log cabin roof, without the walls... |
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Posted 9 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, I sleep in the daytime, lay off the noise! or My prey is asleep, and so am I. |
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Posted 7 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Congrats, Gary... Cwazy wabbit! |
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Posted 4 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no! CAR! or Gotta get this smell out of my nose! |
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Posted 3 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Peek-a-boo! or How did I get in here? This isn't where I fell asleep... |
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Posted 2 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RED CARD! RED CARD! |
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Posted 1 Feb 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Girl discovers boys' weak spot... |
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Posted 28 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone thinks he's a bat! |
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(Message 1977347)
Posted 27 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's judgement time... First, an apology, I forgot to close the parenthesis (which should go after "species list") in my original post, and didn't notice until it was too late to edit the post... on to the judgements... in Third Place is Carlos for his quote from the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy: "I'm walking here!" In Second Place is The Admiral for: "I didn’t sign a picture consent form." Err, how is a bird supposed to sign anything? (PM me if you have an answer...) ;-) And in First Place and next picture goes to Rob Smith for: "Home is where I lay my eggs" (except that is, I think, a male...) Nobody tried for the extra points - this Common Myna bird is in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. (which is part of the Myna's historic natural range...) but the species has also been seen by me in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is supposed to have been introduced to, and have a small population in, Los Angeles, CA. Reaching out and touching Rob via PM once this missive gets posted Take it away, Robert! |
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Posted 26 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only three posts in the first 24 hours, so another 24 are called for... |
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(Message 1976969)
Posted 25 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted, (and thank you, Gnu...) but you should mention a second and third place, just in case. Caption this:  Common Myna 4-1-17 4 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr™ Extra points available, if (without clicking thru to the Flickr account...) you can tell me where in the species NATURAL RANGE (because this species is in the top three on "the worlds most invasive bird species list" this picture was taken. As always with one of my photos: Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved |
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Posted 24 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My 3101th post to the threads... |
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Posted 24 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One lion to the other: "pick a leg and pull..." |
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Posted 23 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Either way I turn, I get roasted... |
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(Message 1976274)
Posted 21 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Nah, I'm full..." |
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(Message 1975795)
Posted 18 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Monarch cat... or First, I'm gonna get the guy that dyed my fur, Second, the idiot who cursed me with a horn, Third, get rid of these wings! (which may help me achieve the first two...) |
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(Message 1975603)
Posted 17 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is it the invisible man... The invisible SUV? :-] got a PM from Carlos, who will be posting soon... |
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(Message 1975434)
Posted 16 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, judgement time... In Third Place is the Gnu for: I want to be a Maserati when I grow up... in Second Place also goes to the Gnu, for: The salesman told me it was shrink proof...that's the last time I'll leave it out in the rain..... And First Place, and next photo, goes to Carlos for: Smart Car, but the driver is not. Which is about what I thought when I saw this, live. This car is parked like this, and has to back out onto one of Frankfurt's tram tracks! If another car, or, worse, an SUV or truck had parked on the same side of the car as the camera, the driver wold be backing, blind, onto that track! Need I say that in a Smart car vs tram accident the Smart will lose? That no parking sign (the red circle, blue with an X thru it) does not cover where this car is... PM going out as soon as this message is posted... |
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(Message 1975187)
Posted 14 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted, thank you Carlos; from my Flickr® account... Caption This!  Smart? car parking FRA 10-23-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr® As always with my pictures, Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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(Message 1974924)
Posted 12 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Managed to claw my way into the top ten for SETI production on my team, The Knights Who Say Ni!... Top 5 worldwide for Seti Beta... |
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(Message 1974919)
Posted 12 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Get well soon, Sirius... Caption: "My, that's a bright flame in that balloon!" or "Does someone have a needle?" |
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(Message 1974764)
Posted 11 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err, I think Sirius has had his 24 hours, it't Carlos' turn... Just trying to keep the contest moving... PM sent |
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(Message 1973826)
Posted 6 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Transportation for "The Old Woman That Lived in a Shoe", and her kids |
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(Message 1973403)
Posted 4 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Penny Farthing updated... or Brakes only on rear wheels... |
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(Message 1973214)
Posted 3 Jan 2019 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A Queen receiving her dues... |
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(Message 1972819)
Posted 31 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: some cosplayer mixed up his costumes, a Thor with a Ronald McDonald, and came up with this monstrosity! or Does the head of that Mjolnir indicate that Chicken McNuggets are as hard as Vibranium? |
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(Message 1972649)
Posted 30 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK judgement time! Sorry for the delay, yesterday turned into a "do nothing" day... Honorable mention to Sirius B for either correctly guessing (or clicking thru to read my original caption...) the location of this lovely lady... Third place goes to the Admiral for his Beatles song reference: "Here Comes the Sun" Second place goes to betreger for his color cooridinated comment. and First Place and next photo goes to the Admiral for: "I just feel so radiant after a day at the salon." picking up nicely on the sign in the background. PM will go out as soon as this is posted... What I am surprised at is that nobody picked up on the Cosplay possibility that this girl is trying to emulate Belle, from the animated Beauty and the Beast. This shot was taken on Halloween, 2016, outside a Tijuana movie theater showing the live-action B & the B… |
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(Message 1972331)
Posted 28 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There being only six entries, another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1972127)
Posted 27 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, now that the computer equipment is unpacked, caption This:  TJ princess 10-31-16 2 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always with my pictures... Copyright © 2017 Paul Sullivan, (AKA THE Holy Hand Grenade!) All rights reserved. |
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(Message 1972120)
Posted 27 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: win noted, it will take me a while to post, as I just got back from a month-long vacation, and still have to unpack various things, including my traveling laptop... will probably be posting pic on Dec 27, PST... |
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(Message 1971845)
Posted 24 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Exterminate the idiot who did this to me! |
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(Message 1971437)
Posted 22 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "That's it! Roswell, NM is on my permanent 'naughty' list!!!" |
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(Message 1971291)
Posted 21 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is why grandma got run over by a reindeer - a fugitive from this accident! |
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(Message 1970973)
Posted 18 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How to -Train Your Dog, Part 10,,, |
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(Message 1970564)
Posted 16 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If the Alpha hadn't just forbid me to cross this wall, there would be a lot less on that grill! |
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(Message 1970562)
Posted 16 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Any particular reason known why the replica database is almost 10 hours behind the Master DB, as of 4PM Berkeley time on 12/15/18? |
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(Message 1970387)
Posted 14 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yeah, she's got lots of speed, but can she corner on a dime? |
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(Message 1970048)
Posted 13 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd take the middle row, if not already gone when I get there... |
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(Message 1969724)
Posted 10 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK; Judgement time! Honorable mention to Gnu for his GPS remark... In third place (by a beak) we have Stargate with: "Damn..the North and South Poles flipped!.." (appropriate since this bird is an introduction to where taken [Honolulu, Hawaii]) In Second place, we have the Admiral with: "Are you from the National Audubon Society?" ... and the Oscar goes to (err, the Winner is...) [dramatic pause while the envelope is shredded...] Carlos for: "I have my eye on you." (which came closest to what I would'a submitted... " Is that a telephoto, a shotgun, or are ya just glad to see me?") (paraphrase of Mae West...) Carlos, next photo is yours... PM going out as soon as I get this posted... |
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(Message 1969412)
Posted 9 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 24 more hours called for, by the rules- |
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(Message 1969411)
Posted 9 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone needs to give the splitters another kick in the bum... |
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(Message 1969197)
Posted 8 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, what is this birdbrain thinking?  Spotted Dove HNL 6-16-17 6 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Sorry, I don't have a picture of a "Beeeater" species of bird... as always Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan - All Rights Reserved. BTW there is a typo in my winning entry to the last contest, it should have read "...our queen says this sign must be..." |
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(Message 1969031)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How many bees does it take to bend a traffic signpost? This hive is taking the empiric approach... |
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(Message 1968916)
Posted 6 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Our Queen says this sign mist be obscured! |
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(Message 1968633)
Posted 4 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tony the Tiger passes out after viewing his proposed mate... |
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(Message 1968126)
Posted 1 Dec 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Groan! I ate the fish in the prior picture... |
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(Message 1967967)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sacre bleu! Le Chump pardoned the turkey, and then did that to it???!!! |
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(Message 1967494)
Posted 28 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The item in the back of your drawer, that no one remembers buying, and sticks your drawer closed at the least excuse! (courtesy of Terry Pratchet, Discworld series...) |
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(Message 1967353)
Posted 27 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The ultimate tropical fish... |
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(Message 1967007)
Posted 25 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch has gone on Vacation... currently planning to blow up Vienna, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Bangkok, and Hong Kong, with ticking in London and Dubai... (where do you think I get all those pictures?) |
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(Message 1966775)
Posted 23 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, there're laws about privacy, y'know! |
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(Message 1966616)
Posted 22 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Where is Pumba?" |
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(Message 1966444)
Posted 21 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err, would someone PLEASE "hang a tape" (or whatever the modern equivalent is...) on Beta? There has been no work available there since Sunday, Nov 18 - and it is now Wednesday., Nov 21!... |
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(Message 1966061)
Posted 18 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Chump, Jr. as a baby--- |
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(Message 1965864)
Posted 17 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alien: I didn't know that the "Beatles haircut" was back in style... |
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(Message 1965614)
Posted 16 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's Judgement In Third Place is Lynn for: Girl in blue: Duh, think I belong in the other lane. The ticket lane is faster. err, Lynn, that's a guy!... in Second Place is betreagar for: Oh boy, I get to sit in tourist class! And First Place and Next Photo goes to (TaDa!) Lynn for: Attention Please! All passengers leaving Thailand, can't depart now because of incoming snow. Which struck this poster as funny as heck... Lynn got bonus points for correctly Identifying the location (even if by accident...) as this is the line at Thai Emmigration to get OUT of Thailand at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. (It's funny because most Thai citizens have not even seen snow , in person...) There is a Shakespear reference in my first line, from The Taming of the Shrew , a recommended read... PM sent... Lynn, I suggest starting a "Beet's contest 71"?, as this thread is now rather long.. (66 pages) Honorable mention to Gnu, who gets to post IF Lynn and betreagar pass... |
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(Message 1965391)
Posted 15 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only two captions in 24 hours??? Another 24 called for… |
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(Message 1965177)
Posted 14 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted, thank you. That said, thinking of travel, caption THIS:  Thai BKK 4-9-17 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always with my shots... Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved BTW, this location now has "No Photography / Videography" signs plastered on the walls... (but didn't when this was taken...) |
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(Message 1964840)
Posted 12 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, puberty! |
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(Message 1964180)
Posted 9 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This orangutang needs a hug! |
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(Message 1963949)
Posted 8 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alright, who's got the 55 gallon drum of KY? |
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(Message 1963743)
Posted 7 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Smaller plane: "What happened to my wings?" Larger plane: "All the better to eat you, my dear!" |
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(Message 1963486)
Posted 5 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] If I play "cute kitty", they may feed me more tuna! [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1963290)
Posted 4 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Actually, in Arizona, that's the way it has been, for a long time... they never bought into Mountain Daylight time... Arizona keeps UTC-7 year round. |
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(Message 1963288)
Posted 4 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err this thread is getting kind'a long, maybe open a new thread? |
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(Message 1963146)
Posted 3 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ♪♫ You'll always know your neighbor You'll always know your pal If you ever navigated On the Erie Canal... ♪♫ |
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(Message 1962968)
Posted 2 Nov 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Nuns with guns" — and you thought they were severe with only punishment paddles! |
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(Message 1962688)
Posted 31 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "We're waiting... Where's the food?" [Great Dane in back, grumbling] "Yeah, and there better be lots of it... [/Great Dane] |
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(Message 1962437)
Posted 29 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "May the volts be with you..." |
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(Message 1961938)
Posted 26 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The morals of society went to hell in a handbasket! |
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(Message 1961490)
Posted 22 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The porta-johns saved the pilot's life, but he's taken 10 baths since, and still smells! |
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(Message 1961394)
Posted 21 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Does anyone else hate contestus interruptus? |
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(Message 1960952)
Posted 19 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "No, we can't hear the double-slide sewerhorn..." |
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(Message 1960800)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Fill it to the rim with Brim!" you Cunning Little Vixen... |
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(Message 1960665)
Posted 17 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Let's see what they think of this ´hole in one`!..." |
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(Message 1960073)
Posted 13 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not in competition, but... Sorry, Richard, but that video was taken down, probably for copyright violation... |
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(Message 1959925)
Posted 12 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What you do if your fork lift simply can't lift high enough... |
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(Message 1959786)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For everyone bellyacheing about the "No tasks available" tag when there are tasks shown as available: That full number (500k+) of WU's are not in a table in memory - the table in memory that the scheduler uses to fill requests for work is much smaller, (like 400 tasks, last time I checked...) and refills once a second. (at least, the last time someone explained this to me it was "refills once a second"…) When you get the "no tasks available" message, it's this 400 WU buffer that is out... and with the long (5 minute plus a few seconds) wait between honored requests for work, you may run into it repeatedly if demand for WU's is high... In short, SETI is showing the NORMAL behavior for itself when there is high demand for WU's... |
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(Message 1959777)
Posted 11 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone is out of his weight class... |
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(Message 1959537)
Posted 10 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: could someone bring Beta back online? I still have Beta work on some of my computers that needs reporting! |
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(Message 1959536)
Posted 10 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I think we've done this one, but here goes... I'm going straight ahead, try and stop me... or Akebono vs. The Flea |
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(Message 1959274)
Posted 8 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement time... in third place is Sirius B for thinking outside the box with: "Parachutist training room." in Second Place is JaundicedEye for: "If there's a 'Stairway to Heaven' there's obviously a 'Doorway to ?'......" and in FIRST PLACE, with the responsibility for the next picture, is [dramatic pause] Anniet for: "I'd take the lift, but that doesn't have a floor either." Take it away Anniet... PM to be sent once this is posted... My caption, you ask? If Heinlein had a Door into Summer, this is a "door into winter"... this was taken in a bus station in Cuidad de México — where winter is just a state of mind... I think what happened here, is that the door had stairs leading down when the station was built (in the 1960's...), but the stairs were removed in a subsequent remodel, and the door locked shut. |
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(Message 1959080)
Posted 7 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only three captions for this? C'm on, folks this is a funny picture! Another 24 hours... |
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(Message 1959075)
Posted 7 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone needs to give all the splitters a kick (I.E. a re-boot, or boot in the bum...) |
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(Message 1958879)
Posted 6 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted, (thank you, Betregar!) Caption this:  Door BT CDMX 11-3-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always: copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan - All Rights Reserved |
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(Message 1958607)
Posted 5 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The hills are alive with the sound of music.... no, the hills are alive with the sound of YAWN!!! |
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(Message 1958379)
Posted 4 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: An audience before the curtain opens... |
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(Message 1958272)
Posted 3 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, judgement in third place is Carlos with: You may approach in second place (by a whisker from third) is the Admiral with: I said whole milk. Not 2%. Now take it away. my cats didn't care... In First Place by a length is Betregar with: Be good or I will purr on you. so funny to me that I almost had my morning coffee come out my nose, the first time I read it! PM to be sent once this is posted, Take it away Betreger! Uh, no one tried to say whose cat this was - you all have heard of him and her - that's one of Eric Korpela and Angela's outdoor cats, in 2016... |
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(Message 1958171)
Posted 2 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Check out the current contest over on "beets contest 70"... |
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(Message 1958169)
Posted 2 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only three posts with 4 captions so far... another 24 hours called for... |
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(Message 1958168)
Posted 2 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, did anyone remember to bring Beta back online after the outrage?... or is there a reason (not obvious to this 10+ year observer...) that it's still down? (Oct 2, 2018 9:23 AM PDT...) |
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(Message 1958055)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Admiral, I thank you for the win. BTW, "Eminent" means "outstanding in a field", you meant "imminent" as in "about to happen"… (these two are often mixed up...) Caption THIS!:  Cats CV 7-6-16 02 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan - All Rights Reserved Bonus points for anyone (other than the persons involved...) who can tell me who the cat "belongs" to... |
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(Message 1957776)
Posted 29 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I wonder what the baby is going to look like..." |
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(Message 1957130)
Posted 24 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The new way to set a backfire... |
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(Message 1956962)
Posted 23 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's Judgement In third place is the Admiral with: "Anniet's "pigeon" before moving in." In second place is Betregar with: "Why is the pigeon crossing the road?" And First Place (and next picture...) goes to Carlos for his movie reference: "Aunt Ethel, I want you to meet Harvey..." from Harvey My caption would'a been another movie reference, from Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way But Loose: "Left turn, Clyde!" This Feathered Rat is in the (now closed) Dusit Zoo in Bangkok... PM to be sent as soon as this missive is posted... |
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(Message 1956824)
Posted 22 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only two captions, another 24 hours are required... |
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(Message 1956649)
Posted 21 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted… (thank you, Carlos...) That said, caption THIS:  FR DZ Bang 4-7-17 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As usual, Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved BTW, tackle football in the rain is FUN! (although not in a hurricane, which makes passing difficult-to-impossible!...) |
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(Message 1956341)
Posted 19 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The two in the background are out to play tackle football in the rain... |
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(Message 1955563)
Posted 15 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You two are arguing over the ownership of a chihuahua? I'll use the King Solomon solution! Bailiff, bring me a meat cleaver! Which way do you want to divide the dog, lengthwise or widthwise? And who wants what half? I know, not PETA approved... its a joke... ...and Kittyman had already used a cat in his caption... |
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(Message 1955439)
Posted 15 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Does it take anything to set Judge Judy off? |
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(Message 1954996)
Posted 12 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I went to New York City; and suddenly, my eyes shine all the time! or "Hey! Turn down the high beams, Felix!" |
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(Message 1954681)
Posted 10 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Even a fly can shatter glass at 600 M.P.H. … |
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(Message 1954265)
Posted 7 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mick STILL ♫"can't get no — satisfaction"♫! |
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(Message 1954091)
Posted 6 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Your Majesty, do You know what Your dog is eating right now?" |
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(Message 1953869)
Posted 5 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Corkie Butter. Shouldn´t that be Corgi butter? :-) |
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(Message 1953868)
Posted 5 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The last half inch is always the hardest to get out of the jar... |
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(Message 1953599)
Posted 3 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, still only 4 posts, but that´s 48 hours, so it´s Judgement In Third Place is Carlos for: Like my hair short and shiny. In Second Place is Kittyman for: Black is the new Orange, baby. Orange and black are the colors of my MLB team, BTW and in First Place, and next photo goes to... (ta da!) Rob Smith for: Human - this new "CatBoard" beats a hover board any day And I can call this guy/gal a "Siamese" cat because he/she lives in Bangkok, Thailand (AKA: Siam) PM going out to Rob as soon as I finish this missive (and get it posted, first try failed!) |
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(Message 1953402)
Posted 2 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only 4 posts, so far... BTW, why could I call this cat a "Siamese"? |
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(Message 1953205)
Posted 1 Sep 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ooops, I forgot it after I went into my daily routine! but better late than never: caption this:  Cat Suk Soi 11-1 Bang 4-5-17 2 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, all rights reserved |
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(Message 1953047)
Posted 31 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you, and I am looking... For my second caption, in the game "Trek73", from the early days, it was possible to both attack and retreat in negative warp, which confused the heck out of the Kingons/Romulans/Orions that you faced. For me, that first letter would be either a "Ch", leaving off the R, or a "G"... |
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(Message 1952894)
Posted 30 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why does this boat go backward, even with full forward power engaged, when I fire the weapon? or "Attack, Mr. Sulu, at warp -1!" |
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(Message 1952719)
Posted 29 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BMW does energy-efficient... |
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(Message 1952575)
Posted 28 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: NASA´s outrageous plan for the next moon buggy, prototype (quick, hide it; before the Chump sees it!)... (back from trip, can resume judging, if I win...) BTW, this was my 3000th post to the boards... |
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(Message 1951940)
Posted 25 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The peril of wet concrete the same shade of grey as the dry concrete next to it... |
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(Message 1951463)
Posted 23 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: cat: "Where is the scorpion?" |
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(Message 1951241)
Posted 22 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tlaxcala - the drink for Mexican cats... |
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(Message 1951007)
Posted 21 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I´m flattered, but have to decline, I´ll be on a plane when judging has to take place, if the ten captions are received within 24 hours. There also will be a time zone change in there for me... May I remind everyone that the rule is 24 hours (minimum) and if less than ten captions within that time, another 24 hour period (AND NO MORE!) is granted. (I.E. no more than 48 hours per picture, to keep the contest moving...) PM sent to the Admiral... |
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(Message 1950814)
Posted 20 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I-m sitting here watching the performance — ribbeting! |
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(Message 1950177)
Posted 16 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "Bud" frog comes back from the dead with a barley stalk... |
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(Message 1950034)
Posted 16 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Q. Why did the kitties cross the fenceline? A. To get back to their territories... |
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(Message 1949489)
Posted 14 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: White cat: "You are doing the wrong end!" |
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(Message 1949260)
Posted 12 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tom Jones: "♫She´s a Lady....♫" not for the win, still travelling! |
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(Message 1949082)
Posted 11 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Baby Groot make boom-boom--- |
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(Message 1948556)
Posted 9 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MOM! What did you eat/drink that makes your milk taste so foul? I´m complaining, and don´t think you can shut me up with the nipple! Not for the win - I´m travelling! |
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(Message 1948313)
Posted 7 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: oops -that should read "Maine Coon Cat"! |
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(Message 1948120)
Posted 6 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "How dare you take a shot at my Main Coon Cat!" "Hey, ease up on the claws, Tiger..." |
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(Message 1947835)
Posted 4 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the cure for incontinent chickens... or The Hound's favorite dish, on the "hoof" not for the win... |
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(Message 1947287)
Posted 1 Aug 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What happened to my milk bar? (not for the win... travelling!) |
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(Message 1946822)
Posted 29 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A third element to Yin / Yang! or ...And they all seem so happy! Not for the win, leaving on a long trip Wednesday... |
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(Message 1946278)
Posted 25 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pete Nelson goes wild! |
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(Message 1946010)
Posted 23 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "The Hut on Chicken's Legs"... Either the section of Pictures at an Exhibition or the painting it was based on... |
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(Message 1945753)
Posted 21 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Slave! Get this piece of rubber outa my mouth! |
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(Message 1945179)
Posted 18 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] How dare they wet me! put the shredders on alert... [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1944757)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somebody didn't watch the movie E.T. closely... |
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(Message 1944290)
Posted 14 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Mama says too both get your lazy a**es up, and do your chores..." |
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(Message 1944104)
Posted 13 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Forget about "Meals on Wheels"! This isn't "Meals on Wheels", this is "Meals With Wheels"! ;-) |
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(Message 1943543)
Posted 9 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [voice-over] ...and Rocky unleashes a devistating "Left from H**l"! [/voice-over] |
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(Message 1943304)
Posted 8 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "get that camera outta my face!" or "You are between me and my food bowl!" |
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(Message 1942898)
Posted 6 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: could someone "hang a tape or tapes" (old term, not sure what a newer term is for this - I'm from mainframe days...) on Beta? Beta is out of work to distribute... |
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(Message 1942895)
Posted 6 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My slave has arrived home from getting the catnip!" |
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(Message 1942640)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Upon sighting...] Liberals! or "Hillary for president???" |
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(Message 1942337)
Posted 2 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: what you get after a stomach staple... |
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(Message 1942229)
Posted 1 Jul 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat] "I'm bigger than him, the tuna is ALL MINE! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!"... [/cat} |
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(Message 1941809)
Posted 29 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Engineer Scott, I do not want to be looking at my a** the rest of my life! |
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(Message 1941670)
Posted 28 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who is the fool with the 3d printer? |
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(Message 1941517)
Posted 27 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pirelli, yes! - but who's the ape? |
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(Message 1941079)
Posted 24 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I got your Copa Mundial right here... BTW, a new thread should be started when this pic is done... (72 pages and counting...) |
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(Message 1940946)
Posted 23 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gives new meaning to the term "Photobomb"... or "Singed my tail hairs, that did..." for a "Yoda, the cat"... or I'll never eat beans again! |
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(Message 1940851)
Posted 22 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ich habe meine Augen auf dich, Katze! Translation "I have my eyes on you, cat!" |
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(Message 1940656)
Posted 21 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: People with glass floors shouldn't stamp too hard... or People with glass floors should wear opaque underwear... |
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(Message 1940458)
Posted 20 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, with 12 captions and the outrage out of the way, it's Judgement in Third Place is betreger with the rather obvious: This ain't gonna fly. In Second Place is Admiral Gloval with: [Doctor Who voice] It is bigger on the inside than the outside.[/voice] And JaundicedEye for: Diana Prince's other ride when the Invisible Jet is in the shop..... A PM will be on the way as soon as I complete this post... This is the salt/pepper shaker you get on certain Thomas Cook (and associated...) airlines (in this case, a Condor Air flight, FRA to LAS [Frankfurt, Germany to Las Vegas, Nevada]) As I usually fly economy, this was served there... |
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(Message 1940116)
Posted 18 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win, and CAPTION THIS:  TC AL S+P shcker by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr sorry, couldn't find anything on an animal theme As always: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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Call for political action against Micr$oft's Win 10 update policy and other Win 10 matters
(Message 1940113)
Posted 18 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is anyone else (I certainly am!) tired of walking away from their Win 10 computer(s), and coming back to find that Micro$oft has updated the computer (even though they've turned the Win update service off...) and they've just lost hours (if not days, if they were away from home/ work/other computer location...) of computer time crunching for their favorite BOINC project(s)? Join me in requesting from your Congressperson a Federal bill outlawing the provision in the Win 10 license (and give M$ minimal time to comply, with stiff MANDATORY penalties for non-compliance!) that allows M$ (or any other software company, for that matter...) to update your computer without your consent or knowledge. A return to the days of the Win 7 or Win 8.1 system, where YOU request the update, and do it when YOU want to, is required. I also think the "binding arbitration" clause should be invalid for violation of this, with consumer allowed to sue for damages in lost computer time... In addition, do you realize how much bandwidth M$ is using to send YOUR information to the M$ HQ? NTM that you have NO control over when that info is sent? I've noticed that about 100 Mb of info goes to M$ every day that my main (I have 8...) computer is online 24 hours. (typically every day, except when I'm on vacation) I wonder what they are doing with all that info from hundreds of thousands (if not millions...) of computers - and just what are they uploading to their computer, anyway? - NTM what are they doing with it, if any personal information is involved? Just how secure is/are the computer(s) that it is stored on? |
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(Message 1940065)
Posted 18 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, did I suddenly lose 25 pounds? |
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(Message 1939795)
Posted 16 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This dog needs a hug! |
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(Message 1939654)
Posted 15 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's not a mosquito, that's a crane fly! |
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(Message 1939484)
Posted 14 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caution: horror movie filming ahead! |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1939147)
Posted 11 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Joined the 50 million club of SETI production on the Seventh of June... I'm on vacation, and not checking every day... NTM that I have 25 million SETI Beta cobblestones... (mostly GPU...) |
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(Message 1939146)
Posted 11 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "That's the ONLY time for an inside loop!" |
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(Message 1938925)
Posted 10 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "See if I ever inhabit this racetrack again..." |
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(Message 1938837)
Posted 9 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, I have to pass, I'm on several flights in close succession, which both make posting and the judging problematic (I'm about to take a flight CUN to MEX [Cancún to Mexico City {aka: Cuidad de México, or CDMX for short...}]) |
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(Message 1938687)
Posted 8 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Err, I thought this was a NASCAR event..." |
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(Message 1938327)
Posted 5 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The whole family died, only the patriarch is in the hearse... |
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(Message 1938326)
Posted 5 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can take it with you. +1... |
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(Message 1938250)
Posted 4 Jun 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: frog porn! |
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(Message 1937832)
Posted 31 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well judging time has arrived, and there wasn't much to choose from... In Third Place is Carlos for: Hug me in public again and you will learn a lesson. In Second Place is The Admiral with: There was still some life left in that dog. Made me hurt my shoulder. (although that was probably a cat fight, Admiral - not many dogs where this cat is from!...) And the Oscar® goes to: [dramatic pause} Rob Smith for: Is that mouse I smell? (the cat just sighted prey, and it wasn't a mouse - it was a bird! (The local species of Crow...) This cat is prowling in Lumphini Parki in central Bangkok, (Khrung Thep in Thai) Thailand. For reasons I haven't figured out, the Thai don't keep many dogs - and most of the cats are strays, and at least semi-feral. This guy is probably fully feral. (and yes, it is a male - click through the picture and see # 1 or 5 in that photostream...) PM going out once this missive is posted. |
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(Message 1937676)
Posted 30 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only four captions, another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1937501)
Posted 28 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank the Kittyman, and keeping with the animal theme, and partially in honor of the Kittyman, say Caption THIS!:  Tomcat Lump 4-1-17 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always with my shots: Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan - All Rights Reserved |
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Panic Mode On (112) Server Problems?
(Message 1937499)
Posted 28 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, the Ready-to -send buffer has refilled, but how much it is due to the GBT splitters cranking up the output, or the introduction of a good amount of new Arecibo work (MB & AP), remains to be seen. I think it was the Green Bank splitters (at least one of them...) that FUBARed us in the first place... Seems to be OK now (9:45 AM Berkeley time, May 28...) but that could change... the SETI crew really needs to work on getting the GBT splitters to each work on a separate file, not all try to access the same one! |
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(Message 1937283)
Posted 26 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err, could someone step in and judge this, as the last winner apparently hasn't unpacked his/her computer from his/her move?... |
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(Message 1937118)
Posted 25 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I wouldn't say splitter output is better than it was, just that it's not as bad as it has been. That's why I suggested re-booting ALL the splitters... |
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(Message 1936963)
Posted 24 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Monochrome am Autobahn |
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(Message 1936962)
Posted 24 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pic bump Thanks Admiral.. caption: "Where's my water dish? This car is HOT! (and my being a black Lab isn't helping...)" |
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(Message 1936961)
Posted 24 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ity might be time to boot all the splitters in the bum (I.E. re-boot ther splitter program) as when I checked, there were only 2.4k WU to send out and the creation rate was only 24/sec... Normally with that few WU, the creation rate would be up in the 50/sec range! But at least some WU's are being created... |
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(Message 1936819)
Posted 23 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Getaway driver pretending to be bored... |
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(Message 1936684)
Posted 22 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] Bloody traffic! [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1936421)
Posted 20 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Doesn't my slave know that Aspartame tastes awful to the Master race? |
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(Message 1936296)
Posted 19 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yuck!!! Blueberry! |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1936163)
Posted 18 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: reached 190 million BOINC cobblestones with ~ 50 million (each) on both Milky Way and SETI... |
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(Message 1936162)
Posted 18 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: THIS is the cat that ate the canary... |
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(Message 1936048)
Posted 17 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Parley!!!" (and +1 on the "handsome cat"...!) |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1935662)
Posted 14 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My Alpha Bitch peed on this, get it away from me!" I'm afraid of her! |
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(Message 1935380)
Posted 12 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Medieval dead end alley... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1935150)
Posted 11 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Radio call: "Tugboat to SSN: DO NOT TURN TO STARBOARD!!!" That's "turn right" for the landlubbers out there... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1934833)
Posted 10 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "did anyone else notice - the lake is gone?" |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (112) Server Problems?
(Message 1934665)
Posted 9 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Remember, the buffer that actually sends you work is only about 400 WU long - when that runs out, it has to dip into the database for more WU's to send... This is why you will get the dreaded "no work to send" on occasion, when the status page says there are plenty of WU's... (also check to see that the "status" page is up-to-date...) |
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Panic Mode On (112) Server Problems?
(Message 1934249)
Posted 7 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello? Has the "prod" happened? Still not getting any CPU work, here... |
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(Message 1934224)
Posted 7 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pull the handles at the same time, and scald that nasty manager in the shower... |
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(Message 1933804)
Posted 5 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If I poke it just here, something else grows quite big... |
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(Message 1933403)
Posted 3 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat: "One bite, or whole, snout first?" |
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(Message 1933222)
Posted 2 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: mouse: "If I just freeze, the cat'll think I'm dead! To bad that I can't hold this pose that long..." |
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(Message 1932947)
Posted 1 May 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, I'd have posted: Come on, it's down here somewhere... |
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(Message 1932588)
Posted 29 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, I'm going to be traveling at judgement PM going out... I was thinking of Audrey the plant, from Little Shop of Horrors, BTW... |
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(Message 1932181)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: FEED ME! one rat or three mice should do it... |
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(Message 1931968)
Posted 26 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ahhhh... Nectar of the Gods!..." |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1931648)
Posted 24 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well that's 25+ hours and only one caption, so it's Judgement First, special points for Lynn and Carlos for recognizing that this is an Egyptian Goose (although the location is Frankfurt am Main, Germany...) Third place goes to Sirius B. for: "I'm supposed to swim in it, not get cooked." Err, Goose in pea soup? Second place goes to Lynn for: "Egyptian Goose says: I want my pyramids now!" Gonna be hard to do, Lynn, the goose is over 1000 miles from the pyramids! and First Place and next pic goes to Carlos for both: "Want to see a Swan Dive? Well you came to the wrong place." AND "(glyphs ) Translation: Cats don't deserve to be Gods." ...not sure why the goose would be thinking of cats... Pm will be on the way as soon as this missive is posted... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1931462)
Posted 23 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 8 captions, (plus some multiple caption posts...) so another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1931293)
Posted 21 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, what is this goose thinking?  Egyptian Goose WL FRA 5-21-16 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As usual: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1931288)
Posted 21 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win. For those that missed it, my reference in the first two captions is to the ballet Swan Lake. The Lohengrin reference supposedly once really happened. |
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(Message 1930785)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lohengrin after the swan boat pulls out without him: "When goes the next swan?" |
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(Message 1930759)
Posted 18 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Can it turn 32 fouettes within 32 bars of music? |
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(Message 1930758)
Posted 18 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Your Highness Odette, this girl Odile just turned up, applying for a job as your royal stand-in... |
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(Message 1930595)
Posted 18 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The DOG did it! - whacked it with his tail, he did... |
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(Message 1929380)
Posted 11 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Egg foo yung chief was retired and replaced with new automation. Egg Foo (too) Yung? :-) |
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(Message 1929379)
Posted 11 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pancake 'bot awaits your order... BTW, there actually is an automatic "pancake" machine - saw one in Frankfurt! (Holiday Inn Express, Hauptbahnhof...) |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1929197)
Posted 10 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, time for a winner... Dishonorable mention to Grant for "Regular price, $4, $4"... Grant, the price is a LOT higher nowadays... in third place, with the bonus points is The Admiral with: "One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free" In Second Place is JaundicedEye for: ...wow... and First Place goes to Lynn for "Why Thai women are picky" PM going out as soon as I finish this post... MY caption? It would be a thought bubble over the girl with the soccer ball/football on her top" "I hope that fat a## in the AC/DC shirt doesn't insist on missionary AGAIN..." |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1928767)
Posted 8 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: err, didn't he notice my "not for the win"? Thanks for the win... What are the girls on the left thinking in this:  ??? 3-29-17 2 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Bonus points for "where is this?" (hint: the poster is bound there...) and don't cheat by clicking thru the photo! As always with my shots: Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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(Message 1928542)
Posted 7 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Not the thread owner, but I refer you to the first post on the thread, which are a summary of the group rules... (hint: use the "oldest first" option, switch to page 1, once the rules are read, you can return to however you had that setting...) |
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(Message 1928253)
Posted 6 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...The underwires help with the reception... |
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(Message 1928065)
Posted 5 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...And when we see a second triplet at a location, Eric, you down the shot. Matt, you've got the second pulse, and I'll do the second Gaussian... Not for the win, I'm traveling! |
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Unexplained database slowness
(Message 1928064)
Posted 5 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I do think that making work units longer would help if that is feasible to do. Over the years computers have gotten a lot faster and can do more WUs at one time. That means lots of people trying to connect and trying often. Many folks spend a lot of money on powerful rigs and pride themselves on doing a lot of work. More time crunching and less time trying to get enough work makes sense to me. They recently (about 6 months ago, IIRC...) doubled the size of the WU, first on Beta, then on production. |
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Unexplained database slowness
(Message 1927886)
Posted 3 Apr 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...The tasks which make the database 'messy' will be the ones which hang around, and their wingmates - the errors, the failed validations, the ghosts, the users who walk away without clearing their caches... Speaking of ghosts: Is anyone working on removing the 71 ghost MB 7.0 WU's? That might clear up some space, as not only the space for those WU's could be re-allocated, but once they are gone, the entire set of MB 7.0 executables could be deleted... These ghosts have been bothering me ever since the number of "in the field" 7.0 WU's went to zero - and I'm on one of the ghosts! (as in: I processed the WU, and a wingman also came in, but the WU never got deleted!...) And as far as "Walking away without clearing the cache" goes: sometimes you have no choice about it - sometimes a computer will fail on you without warning, and you have to either buy or put together a new one, and let those WU's that were on the failed computer get picked up when they exceed deadline... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1927517)
Posted 31 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's with an Honorable Mention, we have Stargate with: "On the cat walk" In Third Place we have Carlos for: I'll get that mouse next time. (although the cat is stalking a bird...) In Second Place we have Betreger with: On the prowl And in First Place and next photo to caption goes to Grant for: meet the bad ass on the block. This feral "Siamese" tom cat (as in: He lives in Thailand, AKA: Siam) was brought to you by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, who will be taking a month's vacation, including 2 weeks in the hometown of this kitty (Bangkok), starting tomorrow. (April 1, PDT) PM sent |
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(Message 1927343)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I see only 7 captions, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1927117)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win: and sticking to the theme of the feline persuasion, Caption this!: Tomcat Lump 4-1-17 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr® As always Copyright © 2018, Paul Sullivan (AKA: KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!) |
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(Message 1926917)
Posted 28 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Garfield when he was Nermal's age... |
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Panic Mode On (111) Server Problems?
(Message 1926915)
Posted 28 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There's an issue with the splitters: the governor hasn't kicked in, so there's over 1 .2 million WU's available; and, when I first looked, the splitters were still going at 59 WU produced per second! (they've backed down to 8/sec, on a second look)... (Normally [unless they've quite recently changed something] the governor kicks in at around .5 million...) This may have something to do with why people are getting the dreaded "Project has no tasks available", as the "next to send " queue has only 400 slots (IIRC) available - and may not be filling them when empty, due to the excessive I/O of the splitters on the database. |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1926762)
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mouse! Attack! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1926577)
Posted 25 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now, there's the rear end I'd like on my water truck... (pun intended!) |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1926316)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just so everyone knows, Rob is at home, but sore, having had some "Replumbing" (his term) work done in hospital... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1926031)
Posted 23 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Three MIA judgings in a row... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1925835)
Posted 22 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: No, you are not drunk, nor are you stoned... |
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What next? (Mar 04 2018)
(Message 1925494)
Posted 21 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: @ Matt: Maybe a dedicated thread here in Tech news? That would make it harder for the SPAMmers, yet keep it here on SETI. And don't make it so that the 0 RAC people can post - why would they need to? @ Darrin Butts: As others have pointed out, FB (and the others mentioned) is/are commercial, data-gathering organization(s) that many people avoid, just because it/they is/are so popular with others... I avoid FB when I can, and don't belong to some of the others at all! ( 0 Twitter, 0 Instagram, comments only on YouTube...) |
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(Message 1925492)
Posted 21 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, to ward off the poachers, I'm willing to forgo the monochrome grey.... |
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(Message 1925355)
Posted 19 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This contestus interruptus is driving me up a wall... ...and in eleven days, I'll be AFK for an entire month (well, not really, I'll have a lappy with me), but the other crunchers will be on-line... (and a number of them are also laptops...) (as long as nothing happens that require personal intervention, that is, like Micro$oft deciding to pull another Win 10 "upgrade" and re-booting them... [even though I've disabled "windows upgrade" {I call it "Windose downgrade"...} ] ) |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1924740)
Posted 15 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err, can someone wake up Monday? it's time for a result... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1924232)
Posted 12 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Crock: you have bad breath! Your teeth need a cleaning... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1923984)
Posted 11 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lioness taking on more than she can chew... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1923792)
Posted 10 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where'd that hill come from? I don't remember it on the way here... |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems?
(Message 1923601)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone needs to give the splitters a kick (re-boot?) as we're down to less than 500 WU ready to send, and the splitters are only producing 30 wu's/sec. With the inventory that low, they should be up at 45-50/sec... Downloading and mounting some Greenbank "tapes" would also be nice... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1923596)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How to balance a unicycle... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1922962)
Posted 5 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We can haz picanic??? |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1922728)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life on this planet..." |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1921939)
Posted 1 Mar 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lady in pink: "which way to Kabukicho?" |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1921734)
Posted 28 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bathroom setup for the ultimate couch potato... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1921375)
Posted 26 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Road Closed to vehicles not having runners... or Cross-country skiers delight! or Oh, No! Here comes everyone from PyeongChang! |
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Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems?
(Message 1920897)
Posted 24 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Another request for someone to hang (or equivalent...) one or more "tapes" for Beta... perhaps Beta could use some Greenbank data? |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1920894)
Posted 24 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, only 4 captions, but the 48 hours have passed, so it's Judging Time! Honorable mention to Kittyman for his entry, points taken off for the external link... (this is a caption contest...) in Third place is betreger for: Tough day, I'll have a cat nap. In Second place is Stargate for: "You can't see what she is doing to me but it's divine"! In First Place, and next photo, is Rob Smith for: D-E-V-I-N-E catnip infused cat litter. as always, a PM goes out to Rob after this missive is posted... This cat is "Flash", the store cat at Seawood Camera in San Rafael, CA... That kitty box is right on the sales counter! That pink thing is a cat toy... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1920698)
Posted 23 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Another 24 are called for - only 3 captions so far... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1920481)
Posted 22 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win acknoledged, Caption this:  Seawood cat SR 12-18-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr! As always: Photo copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1920248)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oooooh! Meat cake! |
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Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems?
(Message 1919905)
Posted 19 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Speaking of Beta, could someone please hang a tape (or equivalent...) there, so we can crunch thru the outage? |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 69.
(Message 1919534)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] I'll wait till he hits the ball, then hop in and use the hole for my own purpose! [/thought bubble] [golfer] FORE! Angela, thanks for the compliment on my photography... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1919488)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgement Before I get to the judgement, these are Eric and Angela's cats... And (as i stated) they are litter-mates, brothers... And, Angela, Riddler is grooming joker... Third Place goes to Carlos, for: "Vampire Kitty" Second Place goes to Lynn, for: "A kiss cures everything!" And the Blue Ribbon for First Place (and next picture...) goes to Kittyman for: "(whispering) 'I finally found out how to get into the kibble cupboard.'" Take it away, Kittyman... PM going out after this is posted, SUGGESTING that Kittyman open "Beet's Give Us a Caption 69", as this thread has gotten rather long, if anyone is still reading this on a Dial-up connection... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1919258)
Posted 16 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only 5 captions, another 24 hours are called for, by rule - get your captions in, folks! Umm, these are litter-mates... |
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(Message 1918814)
Posted 14 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caption THIS:  E's Cats CV 7-6-16 08 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always for my shots: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) All rights reserved Bonus for anyone (other than the principals) who identifies the owners / slaves of these two... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1918813)
Posted 14 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Win noted. Thank you, and I'll start looking for a shot to post. Another caption for this shot... Tai Lung from the new production of Kung Fu Panda on Broadway |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1918088)
Posted 10 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr. Peanut turned kitty... |
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(Message 1918085)
Posted 10 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, I'm your worst nightmare... or Somehow, Disney's The Snow Leopard King didn't have the right ring to it... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1917888)
Posted 9 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Arise, zombies of the north! Ride to Winterfell and the wold's damnation! Apologies to T.R.R. Tolkien for paraphrasing one of Theoden's speeches... or "I'll get you, my pretty Rob!" [witch cackle] |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1917681)
Posted 8 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Canadian Geese cam be hunted in California - the problem is, that you can't hunt the birds causing the trouble in city parks or other well-populated areas, as there is too much chance of hitting people with your shot... A 10 guage or a 3" magnum 12 guage shotgun is the recommended choice... |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1917478)
Posted 7 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Canada Goose OIH 11-28-09 6 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr In California, you chase geese — In Canada, Goose chase you! photo copyright © 2009, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved With apologies for taking off on Yakoff Smirnoff's schtick... oops, pun not intended... |
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(Message 1917473)
Posted 7 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This is why we do anal probes - our hands are perfect for it! What, you don't like them?" |
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(Message 1917153)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: duck: "Why are you trying to steal our food source?" |
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(Message 1916897)
Posted 4 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, that was pretty much a bust... Judgement at Albany, CA is: bringing up the rear, in Third Place, is Grant for: In the Navy you learn to take off and land on the dry ground first and then the water. In Second place is Lynn for: Not Every Canadian is nice. which leaves Gnu in First Place (and next photo...) for After days of being on a wild goose chase...we finally got a gander at Goose Willis... My caption would'a been: In America, you chase geese; in Canada, goose chase you! (ok, I know I'm ripping off Yakoff Smirnoff's schtick...) PM going out to Gnu as soon as this missive is posted... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1916688)
Posted 3 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only three captions so far - so another 24 hours are called for... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1916281)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have taken notice of the win and will be searching for a suitable picture... [later] Well, that didn't take long... Caption this: Canada Goose OIH 11-28-09 6 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Copyright © 2009, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved BTW, Kittyman, not all cats love catnip - some (and I've had a couple...) ignore the stuff... |
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(Message 1916099)
Posted 31 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Squirrels are your friends, not food!" [aside] get 'em while they're young... |
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(Message 1915612)
Posted 28 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Sharkson - Tonight's guests - Dean Marlin and Don Rumpfish, with a special visit from that mystic from the East, Sharknac the Magnificent!" |
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(Message 1915097)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 200 people about to be blown away... (the jet blast from a 747 on take-off is the equivalent of a cat-1 hurricane!) (says one who's gone through same!) |
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Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems?
(Message 1914447)
Posted 21 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: getting back to the thread's actual purpose - I think one or more of the splitters need(s) another kick... 77,000 WU's available to send, but the splitters are only spiting out 26 WU/sec... |
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(Message 1914241)
Posted 20 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Honest injun, I just sat down for a long winter's nap..." |
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(Message 1914061)
Posted 19 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mutant bananas take over the bike shop... |
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(Message 1913542)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
if that's the case, they know the fix. (having done the same thing on Beta...) Let's hope it doesn't take them as long to fix production as it did Beta, though... |
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(Message 1913446)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where's the water dish? |
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(Message 1913444)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone needs to give the splitters a (re-) boot in the bum... 0 WU ready to send and only .7584 WU per second created (with 0 WU available, that should be in the 49-50 range!) It's time to give your alternate projects some love... (IF they aren't also down [hello, GPUgrid?]) |
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(Message 1913222)
Posted 15 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, how do I raise the visor on this thang? |
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(Message 1912851)
Posted 13 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And one for the ladies: Hey! I'm not in season! |
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(Message 1912850)
Posted 13 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OUCH! Who just gelded me without anesthetic? He/she is in for a stomping! |
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(Message 1912170)
Posted 10 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Having trained his cat to take his dog for a walk, Tom Thumb grew indolent and fat... |
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(Message 1911790)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do I have a pull-tab in my mouth? |
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(Message 1911521)
Posted 7 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: waiting for the "bomb cyclone" to go off... |
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(Message 1911143)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Plop, Plop, shmush, shmush, oh what a relief it is... |
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(Message 1910838)
Posted 5 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New York City resident contemplating the after-effects of the "Bomb cyclone"... |
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(Message 1910566)
Posted 4 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: AIIIIEEE! The mean veggie cleaver is about to attack AGAIN! |
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(Message 1910359)
Posted 3 Jan 2018 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You won't like what we do to your stomach..." |
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(Message 1909462)
Posted 29 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Evil snowman consumes next victim... |
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(Message 1909314)
Posted 28 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: About snow: Frankfurt got about 4 inches on December 6: I was there! it should be obvious: I love double-entendres. BTW the rules are: 10 pictures OR no later than 48 hours (to keep the contest moving!) I'm going to have to pass, somehow my Flickr (where I store my photos) account went "restricted", which means i can't refer people to a shot... Sending PM to Grant... |
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(Message 1908938)
Posted 25 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rudolf: "Where are those Ho, Ho, Ho's you promised?" |
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(Message 1908791)
Posted 24 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rudolf: "Santa, this is NOT what I signed up for, as a sled reindeer!" Santa: "Rudolf, with your nose so bright, can you find my ball tonight? ...And shuddup!" |
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(Message 1908444)
Posted 22 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fore! Aaaiiiiiiah! |
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(Message 1908348)
Posted 21 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Love to see Mick as the MickeyD's greeter in front of the Thai branches... NOT THE PHOTO TO BE CAPTIONED!!!! For anyone wondering what I was talking about, (and hasn't been in Thailand recently...) all Thai branches of MickeyD's have this at the front door...  Ronald McDonald doing a Wai Bang 7-15-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr I repeat: NOT the photo to be captioned! |
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(Message 1908163)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can't get no satisfaction - or inside seat! |
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(Message 1907903)
Posted 18 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Getting there. Needs another 24 hours. [24 hours later...] Well, that got a lot of response... |
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(Message 1907551)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Love to see Mick as the MickeyD's greeter in front of the Thai branches... caption: I still cant get no satisfaction! |
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(Message 1906767)
Posted 13 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New addition to the Hong Kong skyline, proceeding apace... |
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(Message 1906382)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: As long as the chipper is off, with the keys in your pocket, this isn't stupid... and Remember - If it is silly, but it works, it's not stupid! |
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(Message 1906128)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Probably Donkey from the movie... <G> |
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(Message 1905782)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Retired superheroes/supervillians playing "how many deaths and retcons are you on?" |
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(Message 1904513)
Posted 2 Dec 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The piñatagato was a new look for an old toy, but it didn't last long... |
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(Message 1903763)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote .I never liked win10 anyway... Justine[/quote] Does anybody else wish that Micro$oft had never gone in the Win 10 direction? Win 7 was the best version of Windows I've seen, as far as I can tell Win10 is a downgrade! |
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(Message 1902920)
Posted 25 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not for the win... Worf: "MORE BLOOD WINE!!!" |
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(Message 1901914)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rear legs to front: "why aren't you moving?" Head to rear legs: "Stop, immediately, if not sooner!!!" Front to rear legs" THAT'S why..." |
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(Message 1901567)
Posted 17 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: South Korean troops showing what the really think of the US Presdential Idiot... |
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(Message 1901364)
Posted 16 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know I was told that the Cape Verde Islands were laid back, but this is not what I thought it meant! |
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Panic Mode On (108) Server Problems?
(Message 1901197)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Results ready to send: 28" "Current result creation rate: 1.2/sec" ...someone needs to give one or more of the splitters a kick, they should be up in the 20 or 30 results created per second, when the queue is that low... |
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(Message 1901195)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "yeah, mon - park it over dere..." |
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(Message 1900920)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Vacuum hose to suck up the dust. I try to get the dust in a "dustbuster" type, but it doesn't work too well... My radiators have a fan on both sides (one pushing, one pulling...) so the vacuum hose solution doesn't really work... |
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(Message 1900732)
Posted 12 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The bubble is fine for air, but when do i get a real space suit? The micro-metors are killing me! |
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(Message 1900731)
Posted 12 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: since about 2 days it started it has become very slow Big can of pressurized air pointed in the reverse direction to the fan(s) on your radiator/heat sink (depending on whether you have liquid or air cooling...) always works for me... (every 6 months or so, my computers are in a dusty environment!) Of course, then my dust allergy kicks in... :-( |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1900542)
Posted 11 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd go with a woodchuck/groundhog... Do you live near Punxatawni, PA? ;-) |
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Database slowness
(Message 1900533)
Posted 11 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Have you checked with your ISP? Eric is talking about the response of the BOINC database, which is all in one location, on one computer... even if SETI was having a slow ISP responce, (they aren't!) the symptoms displayed would be different. I've set all my fast machines to what I call "pester" mode... (every time the machine updates, [which it does every time it finishes and uploads a WU...] it requests new tasks...) |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1900079)
Posted 9 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lovely photo! Where were you traveling that you saw a myna bird in the wild? The species is also in Honolulu, HI, and Hong Kong, by my personal observations... |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1899859)
Posted 8 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lovely photo! Where were you traveling that you saw a myna bird in the wild? Yes, that's in Bangkok's Lumphini Park, not that far from the site of the monitor lizard photo... |
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Large fire extinguisher recall........
(Message 1899561)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rechargeable extinguishers should be recharged every 5 years, and the base/can/vase (whatever the term is: the "bottle"…) should be pressure tested every 10 years. I was speaking for the home user... |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1899352)
Posted 5 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Getting back to critters, here's another, sometimes kept as a pet (but this one is photo'd in the wild...)  Common Myna Lump Bang 4-1-17 4 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Photo Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) All rights reserved |
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Large fire extinguisher recall........
(Message 1899340)
Posted 5 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rechargeable extinguishers should be recharged every 5 years, and the base/can/vase (whatever the term is: the "bottle"…) should be pressure tested every 10 years. In answer to one of the questions posted, rechargeable units have a virtually unlimited lifespan, PROVIDED that they are recharged and pressure tested as above... I've personally seen "wet" extinguishers that are over 80 years old in some of the older San Francisco buildings... My personal extinguisher (in my kitchen...) is over 20, and has been used once - and recharged / pressure tested. |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1899335)
Posted 5 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2800 posts to the message boards! |
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(Message 1899333)
Posted 5 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: No Iron Throne for me: it has too many claws! |
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(Message 1898869)
Posted 3 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Can't a cat get some privacy? |
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(Message 1898690)
Posted 2 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 4. Hate-ers! or 4. White paint that covers in one coat! |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1898521)
Posted 1 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
after end of video: dog goes "woof!", squirrel keels over, dead of a heart attack! |
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(Message 1898502)
Posted 1 Nov 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: big dog [Italian accent]: "You leave my bitch alone or I'll whack ya!" [/accent] |
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(Message 1898091)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [srch] We have a 413, dog mugging in progress at MLK and Uni! 1 Adam 12, respond...[srch] |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1897883)
Posted 28 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This be no ordinary Lizard, nay, this be a Komodo Dragon... Arr! This be a dangerous lizard! |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1897763)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Bother me, and I'll whip my tail across your ankle!"  Monitor Lizard Lump Bang 4-1-17 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Seen in Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1897758)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let's go find us that nasty Captain Hook!... |
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(Message 1897744)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gator: Why can't they try this without those rags that get stuck in my teeth? |
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(Message 1897451)
Posted 25 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's a good thing he is cold - I can get off and not get annihilated! |
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(Message 1896879)
Posted 22 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, I'm the Minister for Silly Walks... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1896399)
Posted 20 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cop: License, and proof of insurance... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1896150)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: middle puppy: "Does this seat make my a## look big?" |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68
(Message 1895982)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [puppy on left] Hey! Leave some water for me! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1895710)
Posted 16 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm glad I'm a Black bear, I blend in with the burnt California scenery better! |
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(Message 1895536)
Posted 15 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey! You're not supposed to look!" (off topic...) BTW, this thread is getting kind'a long... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1895127)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Watch the claws! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1894886)
Posted 12 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There may be a problem with Grant. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=81202&postid=1894690 ...suggest we wait the standard 24 hours to hear from Grant, then on to second... |
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(Message 1894666)
Posted 11 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The post-gnome rides his zucchini-mobile with the candy corn for Halloween across the glassy table-top sea... |
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(Message 1894116)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Me, my retriever cat, and my bountiful harvest of Zucchini... |
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(Message 1893670)
Posted 6 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Who cuts Spock's hair anyway? McCoy? |
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(Message 1893382)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The New York City Neuralizer shorts out... |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1892970)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 150 million total BOINC! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1892660)
Posted 30 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The fad of "Cheerios clothing and mask" failed to catch on... |
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(Message 1892190)
Posted 28 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How NOT to do the electricity and water combination... |
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(Message 1892016)
Posted 27 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Don't feed him after midnight , or get him wet... |
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(Message 1891786)
Posted 25 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [to wife] No, I don't know how to get him out, short of cutting the bottom of the can off and shoving his cute little rear... [/wife] |
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(Message 1891554)
Posted 23 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat: this is what the raccoon in the prior shot needed - a tongue vacuum! |
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(Message 1891362)
Posted 22 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why is this pipe set on "suck"? |
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(Message 1890959)
Posted 20 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yuck! Almond butter? Where's our normal grapes? |
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(Message 1890611)
Posted 18 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] Warm? check - Soft? not so much - Hidden? check - Dark? check, if the door is closed - Can I get up there? remains to be seen... [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1890399)
Posted 17 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What is this ketchup? ...and why do they pronounce it Catchup? Darn, no catnip... |
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(Message 1889766)
Posted 14 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Human: YIPE! or cat: hey, how about behind the ears? |
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(Message 1889562)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The nominees are: The Admiral for: "UPS version of crunching a WU" Richard Haselgrove for: "Hey, that must be the concertina I ordered!" Sirius B for: "OMG! I hope my Seti Toaster is okay." and Carlos for: "UPS 1 day select, Had to be stuffed into a smaller faster airplane." ...And the The Admiral! with second place to Richard, Third place to Sirius B, and Honorable Mention to Carlos, who lost points, because that was a UPS 3-day, not overnight, package. BTW, the contents DID arrive intact - a lens from B&H Photo/Video As a former UPS package handler myself, this appears to have been dropped at least twice, and possibly used on the bottom layer of a stack. All UPS air packages travel on the same planes (sorry, Carlos...) it's just what happens before and after the plane ride that determines how fast that package arrives at your location. UPS 3-day packages typically sit on the ramp at the destination airport for a day... PM going out as soon as proofread and posted... |
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(Message 1889552)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Some good ones here - judging imminent... |
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(Message 1889294)
Posted 11 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you and… Caption THIS:  Damaged Package 8-24-15 1 edit by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Judging will probably not occur until Wednesday, due to the weakly outrage... as (almost) always: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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(Message 1889083)
Posted 10 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: All for one, and one for all!!! |
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(Message 1888855)
Posted 9 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Z + Y = X |
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(Message 1888436)
Posted 7 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Low bridge, everybody down; low bridge, cause the BobbyWolves are in town.... |
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(Message 1888431)
Posted 7 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's a pretty kitty there HHG. I knew that when I took the shot... |
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The Train Thread 2
(Message 1888144)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...and I thought the hours of service regulations for truck drivers were arcane... |
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Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1888143)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When I post a picture, I change the https to http so that one does not have to be signed in to Facebook, I see that Google/Youtube won't allow that, where as Facebook will. I have to do that when I post something from Flickr, too... such as:  cat rat rd BKK 10-16-16 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Where I have to delete the "s" 4 times... This kitty is in Bangkok, Thailand, BTW... Photo copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan - All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1888057)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, only six captions, but I'll muddle through... Honorable mention for JaundicedEye for correctly identifying the sculpture: this is, indeed, a real, cast-in Rodin's lifetime, copy of The Thinker J.E. didn't say where it was, though... (there are 20 or 21 authorized casts, in two sizes, this is the smaller size...) In Third place, Carlos for: 1, 2, 3, 4, .......998, 999, 1000, 1001 – darn I think I counted that one twice. 1, 2, 3, 4,..... In Second Place, JaundicedEye for: At this point, perhaps a Proctologist might be in order. In First Place, and next pic post goes to Sirius B for: While waiting for Godot to appear, I stared at Medusa :-( ... although looking at the Medusa turned you to stone, not bronze... For the question I posed: This copy of The Thinker by August Rodin is in the garden of the Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is another authorized copy (much more local to SETIcentral...) at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA... and it's the larger size, too! Strange, when you think about it, that both copies of the statue that I've seen are near salt water... a PM will go out as soon as this gets prüfred and posted... ;-) |
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(Message 1887885)
Posted 4 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only three captions, another 24 hours are called for: as that would take us into the outrage, I may judge early... |
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(Message 1887746)
Posted 3 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Arrgh! time to find another one... my memory is going,, I used to remember these things... OTOH, I think it was actually another shot of the same guy on the same day that I used last time... that said, caption this:  Rodin Garden 10-25-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Bonus points if you can tell me where it is, without looking at the Flickr page... as always, Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, all rights reserved... |
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(Message 1887541)
Posted 2 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, found one... caption THIS:  photographer FSF 9-25-16 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan "All rights reserved" |
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(Message 1887525)
Posted 2 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win, Jaundiced... will commence looking as soon as I update BOINC in my 7 working computers... |
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(Message 1887345)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Thick Russian Accent] In Russia, ALL wires are red... [/accent] |
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(Message 1887119)
Posted 31 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Jaundiced Eye??? I think Mark is up next... |
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(Message 1886645)
Posted 28 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: reached 145 million total BOINC cobblestones - over 40 million of that SETI production, with another 20 million or so SETI Beta... |
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(Message 1886441)
Posted 27 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jerry, Tom wants to speak to you about your last escape... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1885815)
Posted 24 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: sniper: Hmm, he must be wearing body armor - time for the .50 BMG rifle, then... |
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(Message 1885597)
Posted 23 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pic bump... Photographer: No, I'm taking a picture of what's behind you! or Mexican stand-off... BTW, NEVER point a camera at a Mexican police officer on duty, unless he/she asks - they do NOT want their picture taken! |
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(Message 1884777)
Posted 18 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitten: I like the south end of a northbound dog... or Help! My claws are tangled in this dog's fur! |
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(Message 1884511)
Posted 17 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, Judgement time! Carlos is correct: this IS the "Bridge on the River Kwai" - except that the Thai spell it "Kwae" - and it didn't even have that name until the book (and the movie based on the book) came out. Before that it was just an un-named tributary of the Mekhlong River. The book (and subsequent movie) are almost entirely wrong about the treatment of the prisoners at this site,(actually treated rather well, for Japanese war prisoners...) as they were (mostly) engineers from the British Army, and would be needed further up the line for design work - the bridge itself is of Dutch design, having been disassembled by the Japanese from somewhere in Indonesia, (at the time, a Japanese-occupied Dutch colony) transported to Kanchiburi, and reassembled. (after the piers had been built...) A temporary construction bridge was first built, using the available wood. (jungle...) The Allies bombed the bridge several times, finally resulting in the destruction of a central pier and the two spans on either side. (no commandos were involved...) The Japanese hastily repaired the construction bridge (which had been abandoned after the completion of the iron bridge...) and used it for the rest of the war. The two angular spans are of actual Japanese construction, completed in 1949 as war reparations. On to the awards: There being only three posters (Carlos posted several captions...) the awards are Third Place Grant Nelson Second Place JaundicedEye and in First Place, and next post, goes to Carlos, for: "See what Obi Wan's pulled out of the water." ...except that it was Yoda that pulled something out of the water... (in the first trilogy, I haven't watched the prequel trilogy...) PM on the way as soon as I post this... |
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(Message 1884220)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, could someone mount a "tape" or two on the Beta machines? Beta is out of work! |
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(Message 1883903)
Posted 14 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OOPS! that one was posted only a few weeks ago... OK, caption this:  Kan 12-2-14 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan Bonus points for the FIRST person to point out what the bridge is, and why it's famous. (and what's wrong...) NO PEEKING AT THE LINK until you've answered... |
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(Message 1883825)
Posted 14 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... Let's see what can be done for captions with this: Eric's Cats CV 7-6-16 08 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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(Message 1883006)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Strange bedfellows... or [Raccoon Chiropractor]"Here, let me adjust that neck..."[/raccoon] |
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(Message 1882871)
Posted 9 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oski wears gloves? |
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(Message 1882101)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That bear is about to get an angry hummingbird in his ear... (or maybe somewhere even more sensitive...) |
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(Message 1881683)
Posted 2 Aug 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: PRESENT tush! Tail SALUTE! |
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(Message 1881410)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, do I smell that bad? |
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(Message 1881211)
Posted 30 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat] "MOM! Our cousin is here!" [/cat] [puma thought bubble] "Yum, lunch is served..." [/puma] |
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(Message 1880980)
Posted 29 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My newish (2 weeks old) cell phone is showing 1,234 SETI credits right now... |
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(Message 1880978)
Posted 29 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well I don't know what I did to be hated by a cartoon cat but if I see him I will wack him with a shovel. Pertuie! Actually he hates the epynomous day of the week - I was just trying to inject some humor into the body of my judging. |
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(Message 1880798)
Posted 28 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [hums] A judgin' we will go, a judgin' we will go...[/hum] OK, to answer the questions I posed: that's a Mamiya C-family TLR camera (my negative [and yes, it is on film...] isn't quite clear enough to say which one, as they're all quite similar - and I own a C3, so I know... ) so everyone stating one of that family was correct. (not a Mamiyaflex, though...) the other question, which only two persons tried (and failed...) to answer: this is at the 2016 Folsom Street Fair, and it's one of only two shots I got there (the other also of this guy) that falls within "family-friendly" guidelines... on to the actual captions: In Third Place is Monday (Garfield the [cartoon] cat hates you, BTW...) with: " I am not an anachronism. " In Second Place is Carlos with: "I am a photo medium, I can see the past." and in First Place, and next shot, goes to [TA DA!] Grant for his: "I shutter to think whats he's shooting." I can't post that here, Grant, (not family-friendly!) but it's available (for adults) on the Flickr site, click on the photo in the thread here, then go back a shot... (if you see another shot of this guy, you went the wrong way...) PM going out as soon as I post this... |
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(Message 1880590)
Posted 27 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only three actual captions: I'm giving it another 24 Hrs... |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1880418)
Posted 26 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: No killer rabbits please. or Trojan rabbits, either! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1880411)
Posted 26 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Found one: try to guess at what San Francisco event this picture was taken at: Clever variations welcome! Extra points if you can ID the camera in the guy's hands... photographer 9-25-16 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr® as always: Photo Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1880057)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [chicken thought bubble] Touch my children and I'll peck your eyes out! [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1879830)
Posted 23 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: EEK! a mousefish! |
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(Message 1879686)
Posted 22 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BELLYFLOP! |
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(Message 1879257)
Posted 20 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Beware attempting to fix the Chimney of Doom! |
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(Message 1878768)
Posted 17 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Feline Bird Inspector" wants to taste test a Feathered Rat for drugs... "feathered Rat" is the poster's name for city pigeons Columba livia |
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(Message 1878555)
Posted 16 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally reached 40 million. Umm, "Credit Screw"? |
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(Message 1878552)
Posted 16 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: FBI Siamese attack cat stands ready for orders to attack a Thai national... |
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(Message 1878266)
Posted 14 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 40 million 'stones on SETI production, chasing Eric for his spot on SETI Beta... |
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(Message 1878264)
Posted 14 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [kiddie sing song] "mine's bigger than yours..." [/singsong] |
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(Message 1878100)
Posted 13 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Simultaneous thoughts: [cat] I just can't wait till my folks get to meet lunch! (snicker) |
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(Message 1877975)
Posted 12 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... A well-fed cat will ignore the mouse, 90% of the time - but don't count on it! Welcome back, Kittyman |
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(Message 1877791)
Posted 10 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now kits, when Mark shows up, look hungry! |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1877738)
Posted 10 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I tawt I heard milk in a bowl... |
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(Message 1877621)
Posted 9 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Gato family awaits... |
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(Message 1877479)
Posted 8 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, with a grand total of 4 entries, i think Judgement Honorable mention to Carlos for at least trying for two places... Third Place goes to Lynn for: "Credit and Debit Cards Gladly Accepted." They are, Lynn - that's what the slot is for... Second Place goes to the Admiral for: "Time charities." And First Place and next photo goes to Carlos for: "Mechanical Panhandler." As always, a PM will go to Carlos as soon as I post this missive... BTW, the "meter" in question is in San Diego, at the America Plaza San Diego Trolley station. Take it away, Carlos! |
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(Message 1877295)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm going to give it another 24, just so I c an get a third place... |
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(Message 1877112)
Posted 6 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, that's new - 24 hours, and NO captions! will give it another24... |
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(Message 1876910)
Posted 5 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank one and all for the Second place, and the Admiral for ceding me the honor... I feel your pain, Admiral, having recently lost my mother... without further ado: caption THIS:  Meter American Plaza 7-8-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr®If you can't read the sign, click on the picture, and it will open in Flickr®, where the sign is transcribed in the caption. As always with my stuff: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All Rights Reserved |
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(Message 1876482)
Posted 2 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: His/her tramp stamp: "Opn other end e's are optional" <G> |
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(Message 1876261)
Posted 1 Jul 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tattooists: Draw first, then tattoo, only if the tat is centered! |
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(Message 1875742)
Posted 29 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgment in Third Place is Sirius B for the movie title: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in second place is Jaundiced Eye for: Mutual grooming is highly underrated. And First Place and the next photo post goes to Anniet fo: Ok. Ai got the phlea, now whot? even though she lost points for the "fake cat" spellings... For those who don't know (probably most of you...) those are our beloved leaders Eric and Angela's outdoor cats, shot when i was at their house when they hosted a dinner for a visiting SETI denizen from abroad... PM on the way... |
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(Message 1875510)
Posted 28 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, another 24 hours is called for, since the weakly outrage interfered... And just for your information, these are two brothers of the same litter... |
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(Message 1875271)
Posted 26 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Got a late start 2day... And thanx for the win! caption this:  Cats CV 7-6-16 08 by Paul Sullivan, on FlickrAs always: Copyright © 2017, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved... |
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(Message 1874875)
Posted 24 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Levitation made simple: look at the shark! |
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(Message 1874676)
Posted 23 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "mmm, Butt floss!" |
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(Message 1874491)
Posted 22 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Learn to fly here"... Landings? Learn that somewhere else! or How NOT to advertise your flight school... |
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(Message 1874285)
Posted 21 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Worlds largest Rock Pigeon Columba livia annihilates press box. |
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(Message 1873873)
Posted 18 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2700 posts! |
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(Message 1873871)
Posted 18 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Truth in Advertising" |
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(Message 1872943)
Posted 14 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [stork thought bubble] I hate it when they load the diaper at the start of the trip. or [still the stork] (Stink) bomb's away! [/bubble] |
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(Message 1872646)
Posted 12 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Airmail for Mr. & Mrs. Jon Snow...." |
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(Message 1872309)
Posted 10 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alien. That B**ch! |
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(Message 1872307)
Posted 10 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competition...) Alien: Ah, yes, the Anal probes... that's where OUR sex organs are, and we can't tell the males from the females of your species... |
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(Message 1871911)
Posted 9 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competition...) James: Darjeeling or Keemun? |
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(Message 1871653)
Posted 8 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competion...) "all I want for Chrismas is my two front teef..." or the big mama wonders where the snow is... |
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(Message 1870813)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not in competition, but "Now THAT'S what I would call 'brandy soaked'"! |
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(Message 1870614)
Posted 1 Jun 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competition...) The Maui Zowie, 0.0.9... |
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(Message 1870120)
Posted 29 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competition...) Cute Kitty to the rescue! |
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(Message 1869988)
Posted 28 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (not in competition...) Am I live or am I a very realistic furry? Rub me the wrong way to find out! |
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(Message 1869803)
Posted 27 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm not going to be participating for the next 2½ weeks, due to an overseas vacation: Thailand, The Phillipines, Hong Kong, Japan, and Hawaii... |
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(Message 1869380)
Posted 25 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: White rubber baby buggy bumpers... or A Dodge Neon has a slight predicament... |
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(Message 1868806)
Posted 22 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...why you don't park next to fire hydrants... My last, BTW, was referring to the Bill Clinton quote... |
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(Message 1868401)
Posted 20 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The donkey, on the other hand... |
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(Message 1868143)
Posted 19 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Something is wrong with the scheduler - there's over 700,000 wu's in the queue and I'm not getting any, on any of the three computers tried so far. (Multiple requests at varying times, too, so it's not the limited queue in the sched program itself...) Possibly a "boot in the bum" is called for... |
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(Message 1867948)
Posted 18 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm going to bite the ankle of the guy who dressed me like this! - Somewhere that hurts more, if he sits down... |
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(Message 1867842)
Posted 18 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just upgraded one o my computers from an nVidia gtx750i to a gtx 1080... watch out, # 9 in the world on Beta... (I only do CUDA for beta, most of the time...) also, that computer had been down for a week with over-heating problems, so my production score should rise, too... |
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(Message 1867841)
Posted 18 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2018 Arecibo tapes seems never coming to an end.. 2018 tapes? Are you seeing tapes from the future? (May 17, 2017) ;-) |
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(Message 1867466)
Posted 15 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 24 hours from Tulsa Nah, Oklahoma's flatter than that... ;-) my caption: Gotta get away? |
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(Message 1867278)
Posted 14 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: # 10 on my team (The Knights Who Say "Ni!") for SETI production and # 10 in the world for Seti Beta... |
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(Message 1867134)
Posted 13 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bear thought bubble: "pass on them, they're too bony... but I'll give 'em a good scare!" |
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Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67
(Message 1866744)
Posted 11 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: left kid to right kid: "are you sure this is big enough?" |
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(Message 1866569)
Posted 10 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Knock Knock… Apple sauce who? |
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(Message 1865870)
Posted 6 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Newton's door handle... And let me explain that the "Give us a caption" threads are typically restarted at about 60-65 pages (at 10 posts per page...)... and that I was only making a suggestion... This is a long-standing tradition with the Beets caption contest, dating back to when a lot of people were still using dial-up modems... |
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(Message 1865749)
Posted 5 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rob, when you post, could you start a new thread? This one's getting rather long in the tooth... |
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(Message 1865560)
Posted 4 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wow, french fries waiting for the fryer! or Forecast: cloudy with a chance of French Fries... |
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(Message 1865395)
Posted 3 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [deep entish rumble] Hmm, time for judgement, it seems... [/entish] In Third place is Sirius B with: Dumbo strikes again! In Second place is Mr. Kevvy with: The only known photograph of the Invisible Elephant and in First Place is Sirius B, again, with: Treebeard makes his move. Take it away, Sirius... This is an actual sidewalk in Albany, CA, just northwest of SETI central and is what happens when the wrong sort of tree is used as a street planting... Be careful walking around Albany, most of the sidewalks are at, or nearing, the century-old mark! PM going out as soon as this is posted... |
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(Message 1865038)
Posted 1 May 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you... (both from beyond the grave...) OK, Caption THIS:  crumpled walk xxx yyyy 1-15-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, the legal stuff: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, all rights reserved... |
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(Message 1864305)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, there's extra space in there - we need a longer-necked dog! |
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(Message 1863759)
Posted 26 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My dog, an alternative to the "Chicago Typewriter"... |
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(Message 1863488)
Posted 24 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: tuercas Umm, I believe that's spelled "tuccas" or "Tucas" (at least, it is in Yiddish...) My entry: Fool's result: a muddy faceplant! |
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(Message 1863226)
Posted 23 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm still underwhelmed by the response... but here goes In Third Place (out of three...) is Lynn with: "My dog has a pink mustache." That's not a pink mustache, Lynn, it's the dog shaking his head with the tongue hanging out, in a long exposure... In Second Place is Grant Nelson with: "See what your Master drags you into? a dog parts place!" Sorry, Grant, that's a camera store... and in an underwhelming First Place is the Admiral with: "Dog talking. This was once the face of a beautiful dog. After walking behind this windbag…" PM going out once this is posted... |
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(Message 1862993)
Posted 22 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Talk about underwhelming response! Giving it until 0100 UTC (1600 Pacific daylight time)... |
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(Message 1862570)
Posted 21 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Going back to an animal theme for this one... caption this:  Shepard mix LGP 12-21-16 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always for one of my pictures: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved... |
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(Message 1862569)
Posted 20 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: um, the Hollywood classic you're thinking of is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... MGM, 1954, starring Howard Keel and Jane Powell Looking for a suitable pic... |
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(Message 1862510)
Posted 20 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The female cast (with understudy, standing) for "Seven Brides for One Brother" (Christ...) |
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(Message 1862354)
Posted 19 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pfah, this is moose p###, get me some Klingon blood wine! |
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(Message 1861668)
Posted 15 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lludmilla, babushka, j'tame, J'tadore! |
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(Message 1861467)
Posted 14 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, to say that I'm underwhelmed by the response is an understatement... but in the spirit of the competition... in third place, Grant Nelson with: Someone was thinking what to do with that old garage roll up door. in second place, Jaundiced Eye with: Roll up, Roll up! For the Magical Mystery Tour! and First Place, and next photo (one that, hopefully, gets more entries...) is Betreger with: Looking at that chair has left everyone speechless. PM going out after this is posted. |
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(Message 1861240)
Posted 13 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, clearly no one can think of a caption for this - I will give it another 24 hours, but if no captions turn up, I'll have to post something else - I don't believe that this situation (no captions submitted) is covered in the rules... |
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(Message 1860971)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, caption THIS:  roll-up door bench TJ 4-20-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always: Copyright © 2017 Paul Sullivan, (AKA: The Holy Hand Grenade!) All Rights Reserved |
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(Message 1860967)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: sorry for any delay, I am recovering from a 20 hours of airline journeys and a time zone change of more than 8 hours... ( the winning caption was posted from Bangkok...) I'll get a new pic up asap... |
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(Message 1860420)
Posted 8 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the ultimate radiator of all things kitty... |
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(Message 1860186)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitten in middle: "Mommy, do I have the same daddy as the rest of the litter?" |
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(Message 1859540)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: {dog thought bubble] I'm well trained, so you won't be needing this... [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1859426)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hold still, this won't hurt a bit. should read: Hold still, this won't hurt ME a bit. [snicker] |
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(Message 1859425)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tax preparation is the #1 item on Ol' Pooker's honey-do list for the weekend. Well, that and giving his wife a world class foot massage... Any takers? Umm, not with toenails like that... ;-) |
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(Message 1859094)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dog uses cat's claws as toothpicks... |
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(Message 1859093)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well done!, now could someone bring up the assimilator(s) on Beta, (assuming, of course, that they were off-line for the same problem...) then hang a tape, once the Beta Assimilator(s) have caught up?(disregard if Beta has a different problem...) |
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(Message 1858246)
Posted 29 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The world's best view from a bathroom ... (and it comes with a bidet!) |
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(Message 1857635)
Posted 25 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Quick, dear, crawl under me! |
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(Message 1857449)
Posted 24 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Now THAT'S flexibility..." Admiral, as someone that has dislocated a hip, this girl would be in obvious pain... |
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(Message 1857152)
Posted 23 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Does this beak make me look fat? |
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Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems?
(Message 1857151)
Posted 23 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The current limits were an accident. It really wasn't supposed to be 100 Per GPU and CPU, it ended up that way because of however they coded it. The limit was supposed to be even less. (at least that is how I remember it being told to me) Maybe they could up that 100 to 200... I sometimes run through 100 WU's (particularly VLARS!) on my fastest (current) machine in less than 24 hours... |
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(Message 1857022)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The selfie that the prez will never upload to Twitter... |
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Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems?
(Message 1857021)
Posted 22 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Everybody that's claiming that there 620,000+ WU available: don't you see that those figures are 28 (when this is posted) hours old? Staff: a) Do something about the "Server Status" page being over a day out of date! b) give the splitters a kick in the rear... PANIC MODE: ACTIVATE! |
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Panic Mode On (105) Server Problems?
(Message 1856357)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, could someone hang a tape on Beta, so that some WU's could flow? There's been none for three days, now... Or did I miss something? |
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(Message 1856355)
Posted 18 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Time to wash out that hard drive, again... |
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(Message 1856040)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: still not ten, I'll wait to later today. Rules are "not more than 48 hours" - except when the weakly outrage interferes... |
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(Message 1855670)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [chihuahua] Hey, why is Babe in this canines-only obedience class? |
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(Message 1855530)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Split screen swimsuit... |
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(Message 1854809)
Posted 11 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Puff, the Magic Dragon's mobile cave... |
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(Message 1854133)
Posted 9 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: DIY mobile tent... |
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(Message 1853522)
Posted 6 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I am Siamese, if you please... |
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(Message 1853266)
Posted 5 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, It's Honorable Mention to Carlos for: "step, step, step, step, step, step, step , limp" but the spider, a Cellar Spider Pholcus phalangioides, actually has all 8 legs - and they're all the proper length, one is just foreshortened by the camera angle, having been in motion as the shutter went off. In third Place is Sirius B with: "Damn, no food, must be cleaning day :-(" points taken off for swearing... In Second Place is Carlos for: "Just wait until i evolve into a dark overlord." Aaand First Place and next photo goes to (dramatic pause) Rob Smith for: Just wait until you see my Mommy..... Frankly, I expected a few references to Shelob and/or Ungoliant from The Lord or the Rings (Shelob) and The Silmarillion (Ungoliant, [Shelob's mom, BTW]) PM going out as soon as this missive is posted to my satisfaction... |
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(Message 1852955)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I only count 8 responses, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1852601)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Ray, read the rules! you can only caption the current (i.e. last) picture! OK, friends, caption THIS:  Spidey BY 3-21-15 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr I'm returning to the critter theme here As always with most of the shots I post here: Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved |
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(Message 1852598)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Possibly my reference to the Songkram Festival went over a few heads - it's a Buddahist water festival in Thailand, during which Bangkok descends into what looks like an almost no-holds-barred water fight (there are some rules, the most important being: NO HOT WATER! Room temperature {or outdoor air temperature [typically around 90-100°F...]} water, or cold water should be tap or purified water, if possible. No big water rifles, [Super-Soaker] but water pistols are accepted...) I have yet to experience this festival in person, BTW - I'm going to be in Thailand just before the event this year, and still away from home on the day the fest starts (April 15, this year...) - but by then I'll be in Hawaii... (at least, by my planned itinerary...) I give thanks to Graham for my win, and will have a picture up shortly... |
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(Message 1852354)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey! The Songkram festival isn't until April! |
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(Message 1852162)
Posted 1 Mar 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My, this glycerine is viscous... or Albert, stop messing around with your mother's lube supply! |
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(Message 1851642)
Posted 26 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now THAT'S a "Deep Throat"!!! |
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(Message 1851330)
Posted 25 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Big truck thought bubble: "I just got new tires, too..." |
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(Message 1850841)
Posted 23 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You call that a diesel? THIS is a diesel!" (crunch) (with apologies to Crocodile Dundee |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1850604)
Posted 22 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: bliss! or Go find your own! |
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(Message 1850001)
Posted 19 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: WHO won???? |
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(Message 1849690)
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lynn, could you tell us what those are when you announce the winner? |
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(Message 1849392)
Posted 17 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mama dog: "OY VEY!" |
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(Message 1849103)
Posted 16 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "For that perfectly 'felt up' feel"... |
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(Message 1848379)
Posted 12 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Phalaenopsis horribilus |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1847824)
Posted 10 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Porky's cross-species transgression... |
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(Message 1847587)
Posted 9 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: YUCK! Kid drool! |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1847354)
Posted 8 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There's a reason the call it the eye-eye... |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1847083)
Posted 6 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey, in the cab! No sudden or heavy accelerations!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1846839)
Posted 5 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Rabbit Suicide Squad gets set for a mission... |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1846226)
Posted 3 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat] Who? Me?... [/cat] |
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(Message 1846225)
Posted 3 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now THAT'S a fat cat!... |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1845811)
Posted 1 Feb 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thought you said "beer bong", not "beer keg"... |
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(Message 1845473)
Posted 30 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Silly goose, Trix are for kids! |
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(Message 1844787)
Posted 27 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] How do I get myself into these dilemmas? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1844544)
Posted 26 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Chipmunks playing for poker chips... |
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(Message 1844417)
Posted 26 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, folks, my electric got cut off... (long story...) It's a dishonorable mention to Monday: There's no way I'd ever get a delivery from Australian Post, as I live in the USA, and have never ordered anything from that country... In Third Place is JumpinJohnny for: Delivered by Drone in Second Place is Admiral Gloval for the ironic (I assume...): Handled with care. and in FIRST PLACE and next caption goes to Lynn for: FedEx got excited over the content. Both for getting the carrier correct (that is a FedEx package...) and the fact that the contents (a bra and panties for the fianceé from Victoria's Secret online...) could get the delivery guy excited... as usual, per the rules, a PM is going out as soon as this missive posts... |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1844094)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank everyone for their good wishes, now caption THIS:  Damaged Package by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always, photo copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan |
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Beet's give us a caption #66: second of 2017
(Message 1843721)
Posted 22 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [shark] "Bless me lord, and these, thy gifts..." |
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(Message 1843212)
Posted 20 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Ryan Stiles imitating Scooby Doo] Woa-woe... [/imitation] |
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(Message 1843057)
Posted 19 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can't understand how that spark plug lead got loose... or I'm glad I had that new-fangled "Autopilot" installed... |
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(Message 1842634)
Posted 16 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We might be able to fit a baby camel through the eye of that needle... |
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(Message 1842409)
Posted 15 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: why is that needle pointing at me? |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1842188)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the classic: "Beam my up, Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1842086)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (both) Who's that goofy alien that just photobombed me? |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1841697)
Posted 12 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2600 posts to the message boards sent! |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1841696)
Posted 12 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There, I've righted your vehicle... What, it belongs on those four fat black things? Ooops! |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1841505)
Posted 11 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Babar's revenge... |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1841049)
Posted 9 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [sarcastic voice] I'd have to say that this doesn't work... [/voice] |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1840661)
Posted 7 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no! Dr. Moreau is at it again! |
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Beet's give us a caption #65
(Message 1840164)
Posted 5 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no!! it's the Donald, who thinks I'm Mexican! |
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(Message 1839951)
Posted 4 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Help, Ranger Rick! I'm STUCK!!! |
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(Message 1839623)
Posted 2 Jan 2017 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...How you get a locomotive to pop a wheelie... |
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(Message 1839149)
Posted 31 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, FIBER! |
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(Message 1838135)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, I'm just hanging around... (ducks the abuse for the pun...) |
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(Message 1837881)
Posted 25 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...And you wondered how he got to Hawaii... or (dude in back...) "That wave is too small for someone of your girth!" BTW, shouldn't the next winner start a new thread? |
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(Message 1837697)
Posted 24 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rob? Picture please... |
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(Message 1837207)
Posted 21 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Coq con vin... Jaundiced Eye: Flickr® works well for me, and as I have a Pro account, there aren't any ads... |
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(Message 1836959)
Posted 19 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, it's Judgement In third place is Sirius B with: This your 1st time for the "2 Step"? In Second Place is Jumpin Johnnie with: Swing yer partner round and round, doe-see-doe, now promenade. and in First Place, and next round, is Lynn for: Last Tango in Paris ...even though this doesn't match the action in the film, or occur in Paris. (or France...) My caption if, if faced with this, would'a been: Why do you keep going for my Frankfurter? (Broad hint to the location there...) PM going out as soon as this missive is posted... |
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(Message 1836826)
Posted 18 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count eight separate entries, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1836564)
Posted 17 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win, caption THIS:  Dogs playing FRA 10-31-15 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan. see Flickr site for license... |
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(Message 1836333)
Posted 16 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Excuse me, sir: Do you have any Grey Poop-on? |
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(Message 1835929)
Posted 14 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...after a trip half-way around the world, (north to south...) Santa arrives at his other headquarters, courtesy of the US Air Force... |
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(Message 1835395)
Posted 11 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, ME worry? |
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(Message 1835265)
Posted 10 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Santa on vacation in Curaçao... |
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(Message 1834851)
Posted 8 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The computer is getting coal for Christmas... |
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(Message 1834639)
Posted 7 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm confused — is she naughty or nice? (Or a little bit of both?) |
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(Message 1834327)
Posted 5 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, DC universe on the left - Marvel universe on the right! |
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(Message 1834091)
Posted 4 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Good thing he brought a broom so they can clean up after this stunt later They're gonna need a bigger mop... |
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(Message 1833903)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Shannock: it's ten posts or 24 hours, whichever occurs second - but no more than 48 hours. My entry: The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry pool on an atypically sunny day... |
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(Message 1833690)
Posted 2 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That ought'a stop that pesky cat! Why did I buy a door with a pet door installed, again? |
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(Message 1833522)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Firing squad for a rapist/murderer... |
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(Message 1833356)
Posted 30 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm too sexy for my shirt... I'm too sexy for my skirt... |
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(Message 1833174)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Cuba, apparently... |
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(Message 1833172)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "And now, welcome to the stage... The Flamenco Ballet! |
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(Message 1832982)
Posted 28 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Santa's sleigh, updated... |
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(Message 1832685)
Posted 26 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where did the user page go? Right now, I have to search for my username. and I agree with others here - this should'a been tried out on Beta before unleashing this design on the general SETI site![/code] |
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(Message 1832683)
Posted 26 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First I'll use this solid rolling pin, then my ravioli pin! |
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(Message 1832031)
Posted 23 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If I stare at this long enough, will I be permanently cross-eyed? |
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(Message 1831385)
Posted 19 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: one way to keep Arabella quiet... |
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(Message 1831251)
Posted 18 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd happily buy them a new RAID card (if that's what they need) out of the petty cash, but I think the global (if that's the right word) picture is bigger than that. I received this email overnight - I imagine most of you will receive yours over the next few days. Even if Arecibo quits, we still have the Greenbank data to sift through... |
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(Message 1831247)
Posted 18 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, the extra 24 hours have passed, with no additional entries: therefore let Dis-honorable mention to Carlos for "It's Obama's fault" I don't see the connection between Washington DC, and a city sidewalk problem in Albany, CA... Carlos does take THIRD PLACE, though, for: "Postman's Retirement Plan" SECOND PLACE goes to Jaundiced Eye for: "This really gives me a sinking feeling..." and FIRST PLACE and next post go to Jumpin' Johnnie for: "Bad plumbing causes bad sidewalks causes bad ankles causes less walking." (although I think this particular crumple is a tree root problem...) PM going out as soon as this missive is posted... |
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(Message 1830999)
Posted 17 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 7 entries, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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(Message 1830866)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm back - and now, for something completely different; Caption THIS:  bad sidewalk 926 Kains 1-15-16 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE holy Hand Grenade!) |
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(Message 1830843)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you, and will get one up as soon as I locate one... |
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(Message 1830842)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is the lack of a stats export from the last several days related to the download woes? (and the server needs a kick, again...) |
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(Message 1830585)
Posted 14 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...gives new meaning to the term "truck bed"! |
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(Message 1830339)
Posted 13 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, primary rule is 24 hours, so that the whole world has a chance... |
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(Message 1830337)
Posted 13 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One of the download servers needs a kick in the pants, again! |
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(Message 1829992)
Posted 12 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know these are low-priority, but... 1) the "science status" page hasn't been updated for over two years. I'd say either take it down, or get someone to work on it! 2) the "Client Connection Statistics" page was last updated in March of 2013! Same comment: take it down or get it working... this was (in the past...) usually an easy fix... 3) If Arecibo isn't going to share the data of where the telescope is looking, take that part of the Science page down. Look into getting that data from Greenbank, and/or the LOFAR array... |
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(Message 1829989)
Posted 12 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Shall we wallow in this sweet muck?" |
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(Message 1829984)
Posted 12 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One of the download servers is totally FUBAR, and needs to be reset or re-booted... on some of my computers the downloads come through as normal, on others I get the dreaded "transient HTTP error"... Some downloads getting through (especislly when they're on a different computer from one that "hangs"...) and others hanging, particularly when a whole batch hangs, is a symptom of one of the download servers hanging, and needing a kick in the pants... (10 year veteran of SETI hangs...) |
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(Message 1829869)
Posted 11 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One of the download servers is totally FUBAR, and needs to be reset or re-booted... on some of my computers the downloads come through as normal, on others I get the dreaded "transient HTTP error"... |
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(Message 1829866)
Posted 11 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Teaspoon of Thai girlfriend in your iced tea? |
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(Message 1829615)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Duck" is also an appropriate response to the US presidential election results... |
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(Message 1829000)
Posted 7 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "E.T., Message received..." |
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(Message 1828861)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the Tiny Town PD gets its first vehicle... |
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(Message 1828291)
Posted 4 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For the extra points, no one got the right city (Frankfurt am Main) nor the correct district (Bahnhofverteil). Those who got Germany were correct, but I asked you to pinpoint - and a country is hardly a pinpoint! (I would'a taken just the city...) As to the captions: Third is rob smith with: You are only envious [because] I can do this and your car is too long to do it. Second is the Admiral with: Parallel parking during Octoberfest. Sorry Sir, that event is in München and the photo is in Frankfurt; also the photo was taken in May 2015. In FIRST, and next picture is [Ta-Da!] anniet with: If you suddenly run out of road, stop. Anniet and Lynn, there's something wrong with your signature photo... PM going out to anniet as soon as I post this... |
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(Message 1827857)
Posted 1 Nov 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: thanks, and caption THIS:  Smart car parking 5-20-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Bousu points if you can pinpoint the location without looking at my Flickr® account... Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) all rights reserved |
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(Message 1827369)
Posted 29 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Elmer Fudd voice] Be afwaid; be wery, wery afwaid! [/voice] |
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(Message 1827196)
Posted 28 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pickup really "wrapped" the traffic light... |
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(Message 1826445)
Posted 24 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Am I great because I'm stuffed, or am I stuffed because I'm great? |
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(Message 1825106)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Psychadelic colors, man - what're you on... |
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(Message 1825105)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Zing! |
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(Message 1824567)
Posted 15 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I ran into one of those stupid Star Trek:TOS doors — that didn't duck out of my way — at full speed! McCoy couldn't do much, and was grumbling all through the operation... |
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(Message 1824327)
Posted 14 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I must decline as well, as I'll be on a plane (to Bangkok) in a few hours, and don't have the time to look for a picture, even among my own...(it's breakfast time, my current local time [Hong Kong...]) And that's THHG to the likes of you ;-) |
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(Message 1823899)
Posted 13 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jaundiced, did you send Rob an PM? |
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(Message 1823588)
Posted 12 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well then. Re: my previous post about a mounting bracket failure, it broke again, as everyone expected. There wasn't much material to hold onto, so it was a matter of time. I think your idea in the first post was better - although I'd make the bracket out of aluminum, (for head spreading…) not steel. |
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(Message 1823586)
Posted 12 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I notice that the stats export for Beta came back online, presumably after the outrage... may we hope that the production stats export will be similarly brought online? (stated by # 1 on my team and #13 in the world for Beta...) |
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(Message 1823290)
Posted 10 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: gives new meaning to "dirty dancing" not for the win... travelling... |
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(Message 1822511)
Posted 7 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Iphone 7 has even the aliens intrigued! |
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(Message 1821987)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Those Mexican jumping beans have a real kick! (I don't remember it, Carlos...) |
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(Message 1821529)
Posted 3 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Something had a run-in with a Gorgon... |
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(Message 1821332)
Posted 2 Oct 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Are we sure this isn't the Snark? |
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(Message 1820880)
Posted 30 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The bride wanted the bridesmaids to fade into the background... |
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(Message 1819924)
Posted 26 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (bad Edward G Robinson impression by dog...) You'll smell like me whether you wanna or not, see! |
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(Message 1819422)
Posted 24 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) new dog technique: smother the cat... 2) Stinkface! |
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(Message 1819178)
Posted 23 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The snow lemmings are coming! |
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(Message 1818928)
Posted 22 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey Andrew: that sign is supposed to be on Aisle 4, not Aisle 8!!! |
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(Message 1818694)
Posted 21 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Honey, don't get too close to the edge.... HONEY???? |
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(Message 1818026)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: CAT: Yes, left paw to the front of my ear flap — BLISS! |
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(Message 1817831)
Posted 17 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not after a 500 mile race, he doesn't! you could also read "24 hours of Le Mans" or "Grand Prix de Monaco" |
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(Message 1817720)
Posted 17 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Road leathers color scheme: banana Does the driver smell like a banana? not after a 500 mile race, he doesn't! |
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(Message 1817569)
Posted 16 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: did, indeed, reach 100 million 'stones - and continuing... |
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(Message 1817332)
Posted 15 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: should be hitting 100M BOINC overall sometime in the next 24 hours... |
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(Message 1817164)
Posted 14 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My home star system is over there... |
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(Message 1816167)
Posted 10 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hillary scandal #236: smashed telephone from the White house years, after Bill got one too many 4 AM calls... (with the taxpayers picking up the tab for the broken phone...) |
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(Message 1815946)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm already on the "Do Not Call" list!: your number is being reported for violations! |
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(Message 1815573)
Posted 7 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Huh? Oh, just posting a few pictures to Flickr® on your account... |
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(Message 1815219)
Posted 5 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: possibly start a new thread, this one is getting rather long... |
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(Message 1814657)
Posted 2 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New genetic engineered fruit/vegie makes it's store debut... the pluot crys foul... |
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(Message 1814383)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: sorry about the delay, I got caught by the surprise Wednesday outage... It's judging time! the HUH? award goes to Carlos for: Are you related to the dark overlords? Not many of us saw that movie, Carlos - that's why it's a blot on George Lucas's resumé. (as though Star Wars episodes 1-3 weren't enough of a blot!) In Third Place is Grant Nelson for: must be it's looking for a water spout. In Second Place is Carlos for: Have you seen Wilbur? Angela for: Sigh... these days, it is so much harder to get a job in web design. Dishonorable mention to Monday for ...World's boreingest photo. (you wouldn't think that if that was a Brown Recluse, or close relative!) PM going out to Angela as soon as this is posted... |
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(Message 1813478)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only TWO captions in 24 hours? C'mon folks, put on your thinking caps! |
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(Message 1813225)
Posted 28 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, folks, lets do this: see what you can come up with for this creepy crawler:  Spider BY 9-26-19 2 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan (AKA: KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!) All Rights Reserved |
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(Message 1812539)
Posted 25 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Extremely temporary eye protection. |
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(Message 1812286)
Posted 24 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Shocking! ________________________________ World's largest neuralizer temporarily off-line. (MIB 2 reference) |
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(Message 1811866)
Posted 23 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What the entings looked like... |
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(Message 1811078)
Posted 21 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The wonders of Bonsai... |
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Posted 20 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lamb chop stampede! |
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(Message 1810440)
Posted 19 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom? Whe-e-ere a-a-are you? _________________________ Thanks for the Third, BTW... |
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(Message 1810176)
Posted 18 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not really something to panic over, but with the V7 jobs in the wild down to zero, I notice that there still are 71 v7 "Results waiting for db purging". Someone should probably look into that, so that all the V7 programs can be deleted. That someone should also check that a similar accumulation isn't growing on the v8 db purge queue... |
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(Message 1809936)
Posted 17 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The barnyard celebrates the cow's return from jumping over the moon... |
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(Message 1808903)
Posted 13 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll hold her together, Cap'n, you just get that Klingon Red Baron! |
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(Message 1808745)
Posted 12 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And In First place and next post goes to Carlos for: New Eau de Gym room fresher. In Second Place is Jaundiced Eye for: S D D Stank Distribution Device (patent pending). In Third place is Rob Smith for: What did the chiller do to deserve that? and an Honorable Mention to Graham for: how to effectively cool your heels. which came the closest to my original title for the shot, "Cooling the Heels" I should mention here that the shoes are fairly new in the shot, and don't yet stink... I should mention that in the rules it is stated that the judge must award a second and third, in case the winner has been knocked off the 'net or falls ill or otherwise doesn't respond to the "winner" PM in 24 hours... the last two judges before me didn't do this! I should have posted something yesterday, but every time I looked, the SETI site was down... PM going out as soon as this is posted. |
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(Message 1808191)
Posted 9 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank Lynn... caption (or title...) this!  c. t. h. by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, copyright © 2016, Paul Sullivan |
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(Message 1807982)
Posted 8 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gives new meaning to the phrase "turn the other cheek"... |
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(Message 1807821)
Posted 7 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2500th post to the Seti@home site! |
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(Message 1807820)
Posted 7 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (to the inventor...) "Has anyone told you that the rear of your double blimp looks like something else?" |
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(Message 1807292)
Posted 5 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Dancing With My Dog" to the tune of "Dancing in the Dark" |
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(Message 1806487)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My friend thanks you, and I thank you... |
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(Message 1805296)
Posted 28 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Chelsie, ya gotta hide me - your mom is after me with her latest campaign gadget!" |
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(Message 1805136)
Posted 27 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Clearly answered the question, "Do I look fat in this", wrong! There is no correct answer to that one... |
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(Message 1804960)
Posted 26 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I wonder how he'll explain his "Foot in Mouth" disease to the CHP... |
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(Message 1804540)
Posted 23 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Quoting the rules: "After ten captions or NO LATER THAN 48 hours, the winner of the last round declares the winner of the current round - whatever caption strikes him/her as funniest: he/she also picks a second and third place (more on that below)" I.E. it was judging time when 7 were present, as it was 48 hours after the picture was posted... Come on, folks, we want to keep this game moving! |
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(Message 1803889)
Posted 21 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The God of Forced Perspective needs a cavity explored in the upper right canine... |
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(Message 1803540)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Aiiii!!! Mark, you didn't clean the cat box????? (joke!) |
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(Message 1802525)
Posted 14 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thick Mexican accent] My name is Alfonso Bedoya. You killed my brother. Now I kill you... and I don't show you no stinking badges, either! [/accent] |
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(Message 1802355)
Posted 13 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, you can't perform the "Ballet of the Neck"? |
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(Message 1801971)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mutated goat with 14 neck vertebrae... (the usual is 7) |
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(Message 1801738)
Posted 9 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Harry, the goat with the broken neck is doing it again!" |
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(Message 1801325)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The French Wizards and Witches Society response to Brexit... |
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(Message 1801324)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (on the beaches of Normandy...) "Well, United Kingdom, it was great while it lasted — but now that you are leaving, here's a few things to think on... We never liked you, and we resent you for winning WW2..." (Goes on for ½ an hour...) "... and you will lose out on Turkey's latest invention, which we will NOT license to you or anyone living in your confines..." |
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(Message 1801122)
Posted 6 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ♫ A whole new world, a whole new European point of view... ♫ |
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(Message 1800728)
Posted 4 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It got dragged off by a rip current! |
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(Message 1800600)
Posted 4 Jul 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Perhaps a new rule needs to be considered, re: when (after the 24 or 48 hours for captioning...) judgement needs to take place; and who judges, if the last winner fails (for any reason) to declare a winner within a specified period... For discussion... |
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(Message 1799448)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "These are not the droids you're looking for..." |
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(Message 1798651)
Posted 25 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: too late: Celtooth "mañana-itis" syndrome... |
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(Message 1797289)
Posted 19 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate unterbrochenen Wettbewerbe... VADE CUM EA! (interrupted contests... get on with it!) |
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(Message 1796644)
Posted 16 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The amazing triple-armed lady violating the "no Cell phone use" law... |
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(Message 1796556)
Posted 16 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New concept in hands-free: the "I wanna blow the cops mind!" device. |
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(Message 1795933)
Posted 13 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sandals by Gucci, dress Fiorucci, hair by the Atlantic Underestimated Gucci prices by 1000%... |
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(Message 1795875)
Posted 13 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why the iceberg wasn't spotted sooner... |
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(Message 1795424)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Albus Dumbledore after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... |
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(Message 1795304)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Certamen intermissione, iterum? Contest interruption, again? |
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(Message 1794744)
Posted 9 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: On the command, "S***", dive for cover, and do as it says.. Squad – WAIT FOR IT – S***! |
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(Message 1794481)
Posted 8 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hope this isn't a "Bouncing Betty"... |
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(Message 1794480)
Posted 8 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] If I don't expect this to go off, why are my fingers in my ears?... If I do expect this to go off, why am I stepping on it? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1793919)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, getting the two bits to ya is goin' to be a problem... |
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(Message 1793186)
Posted 3 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Terry Pratchert's Hogfather, as seen by the Dutch... |
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(Message 1793185)
Posted 3 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why yes, I do like smoking weed... |
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(Message 1792452)
Posted 1 Jun 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Must...tear...out...eyes... NOT for the win, still away from home... |
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(Message 1790457)
Posted 26 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the unprepared meet Mother Nature... |
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(Message 1790454)
Posted 26 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Woodstock 1.0, the stupid edition... |
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(Message 1789681)
Posted 23 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: her: "OUCH!" |
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(Message 1789332)
Posted 21 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First try at the Titanic pose proves problematic... |
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(Message 1789209)
Posted 21 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I made it! Top of the world ma! Top of – pthawh! dam bird sh##!" Cody Jarret |
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(Message 1788791)
Posted 19 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Neil Armstrong captured by the boob tube... |
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(Message 1787685)
Posted 15 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Back legs, two. Male equipment, one: Check... ...Not goin' for the win, off to Germany for a week, then Vegas for two days... |
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(Message 1787518)
Posted 14 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This pup is pooped... |
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(Message 1786990)
Posted 12 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mama Mia! Attsa spicy latte! |
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(Message 1786754)
Posted 11 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alas, my mother's breast milk has dried up... |
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(Message 1785776)
Posted 8 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Let's go surfing now, Everybody's learning how - Come on, safari with me...." Brian Wilson rides the curl... |
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(Message 1785564)
Posted 7 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: {cat thought bubble] Why does the human get the earphones? Am I too loud? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1785474)
Posted 7 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Two unlikely participants in a Sing-it-yourself-Messiah. |
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(Message 1784902)
Posted 5 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What Ricky Riccardo saw in the prior shot... |
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(Message 1784723)
Posted 4 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How did the Stay-Puft marshmallow scene wind up in Star Wars? |
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(Message 1784675)
Posted 4 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The scene on the street after the Ghostbusters blasted the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man... |
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(Message 1784286)
Posted 2 May 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What? They dared to use my catch-phrase in The Mask, without me in it? |
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(Message 1783672)
Posted 30 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "LUCY!!! You got some 'splainin' to do!!!" or ¡Ay Carramba! ¡Oy Vey! |
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(Message 1783169)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: YOU try looking good after your man has his way with ya... or One head job, just delivered. |
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(Message 1782939)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Football - football - burp, football - football Saturdays are so monotonous in the fall... |
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(Message 1782274)
Posted 25 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why is someone trying to turn my hard bed into a water bed? Who said anything about water? |
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(Message 1782273)
Posted 25 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, boys, see how long it takes to inhale these... |
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(Message 1781586)
Posted 23 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sign wabbit is holding: "Mine Field" Chinese sign in back: Demilitarized zone ahead, Caution: mine field! Korean sign: Proceed only on road. |
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Congratulations Paul!!!
(Message 1780768)
Posted 20 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: pic was deleted by me, as my fiancee is quite shy about her pic being on the I-net... here's the same shot with the face obscured, which she allows...  Jennifer TJ 6-19-14 web by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as usual: copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan, All rights reserved. |
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(Message 1780767)
Posted 20 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a now-fired person at the Sierra-Nevada Brewery tried to get creative... fired because he went all the way to label creation and printing without informing management... |
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(Message 1780167)
Posted 18 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is that a sloth on your head or are you just glad to see me? |
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Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1780165)
Posted 18 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, the raccoons that visit our feeders at night seem to be eating a lot more. I am now going through 40+ pounds of food a week, and the squirrels are the size of cats. The birds are so big they can barely fly. I see raccoons there almost every night, but I make sure I put plenty of food directly on the ground so they can get it. This is a bumper year for hungry critters. Tribble alert! |
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(Message 1779056)
Posted 14 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The rules state that if the winner of the contest doesn't post in 24 hours, (and she's had 48...) it's the second-place person to post. |
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Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1778993)
Posted 14 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Gatos TJ 11-2-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr |
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(Message 1778991)
Posted 14 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BTW, Monday, it may be time to start a new thread... |
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(Message 1778786)
Posted 13 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: but Monday now appears to be missing... |
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(Message 1778288)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Monday must be the new Tuesday. Nice of them to give us warning of this change... <snicker> |
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(Message 1778276)
Posted 12 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: See? the Great White could swallow me whole... |
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(Message 1777900)
Posted 10 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: why was this printed as a cyanotype? |
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(Message 1777564)
Posted 9 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, I'm underwhelmed by the response... but it's Judgement First, a few corrections: Admiral, the word you were looking for is paparazzo - "paparazzi" is plural (and implies mostly male) and "pavarazzi" isn't a word (en italiano) Lynn, the photo title is clearly TJ, IE Tijuana (although the same can be said about the place!)... and Carlos, the towels do match, just the red band is folded under, on the towel on the sink... Well on to the awards... in Third Place, with a bullet, (propelled, if you prefer...) is Monday with: Boringist picture ever posted. (I had to get this one up in a hurry - my last was a dupe!) In Second Place is Lynn with: Enough with the selfies, already. (clearly a portrait, Lynn - the mirror selfie is gravy...) In First Place and next pic post goes to the Admiral for: How to insert yourself in a picture without photoshop. This girl is my Fianceé, BTW, although she wasn't that (yet) when the pic was taken... |
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(Message 1777201)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not sure if this is related, but the stats export has been down for 4 days... |
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(Message 1777198)
Posted 8 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only four captions: another 24 hrs called for! |
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(Message 1776806)
Posted 7 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, I know that I haven't used this one before:  TJ 6-19-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr |
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(Message 1776684)
Posted 6 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, I don't know if I've already posted this one, but caption this:  skyscraper, Bang River 7-12-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan |
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(Message 1776488)
Posted 6 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You like me! You really like me!" I'll try to come up with something appropriate on Wed AM... |
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(Message 1776321)
Posted 5 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Purrrrrrrr sounds like a Cat. D9 (Caterpiller D9 bulldozer) |
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(Message 1776303)
Posted 5 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Androcles and the Lion Pt. 2 |
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(Message 1776302)
Posted 5 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: George Adamson plays with one of Elsa's cubs while she watches... |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1776220)
Posted 4 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 85 million BOINC 'stones... |
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(Message 1776216)
Posted 4 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tickle my foot, and I'll follow you anywhere... |
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(Message 1776011)
Posted 3 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Taco Bell chihuahua will do anything for: "¡No más Taco Bell!" |
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(Message 1775614)
Posted 1 Apr 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: He's holding his breath because she farted! |
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(Message 1775384)
Posted 31 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A child and his bride... |
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(Message 1775114)
Posted 30 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: NI! |
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(Message 1775078)
Posted 30 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The uploaders need a (re)boot in the bum... |
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(Message 1774910)
Posted 29 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ha! Let's see them come up with a clean caption for this shot! |
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(Message 1774392)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, I got the sugar and the spice — where's the "everything nice"? |
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(Message 1773875)
Posted 25 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Out, damnéd spot! Out, I say! |
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(Message 1773650)
Posted 24 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: G. W. Bush: "A wubber ducky wasn't big enuf for my ego..." |
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(Message 1773514)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rob appears to have gone missing... perhaps second place should give it a whirl? |
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(Message 1773208)
Posted 22 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Spear it with Neptune's trident... |
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(Message 1773083)
Posted 21 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I said "Hit the water", not "Hit the pier", you dunce! |
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(Message 1772848)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Killer Clowns from Outer Space" meets the SWAT team... |
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(Message 1772614)
Posted 19 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [both sides thought bubble] Who do these clowns think they are? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1772465)
Posted 18 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oy Vey iz mir! |
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(Message 1772187)
Posted 17 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Donald TRUMP? Whadda you want??? |
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(Message 1771968)
Posted 16 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Point of order: rules state "24 hours, 10 captions, or no more than 48 hours"... Caption: How to navigate a California mudslide... |
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(Message 1771424)
Posted 13 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Q: 007, how many times do I have to tell you? No playing with the equipment! Escaping from a real threat, that's a different matter... |
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(Message 1771017)
Posted 11 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...and that's how you drain the "Milk of human kindness"... |
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(Message 1771012)
Posted 11 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [fake Transylvanian accent] TEN! I have TEN fingers! (Why does that surprise me?) [/accent] |
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(Message 1770711)
Posted 10 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: other guy is Kelsey Grammer - who played Frasier Crane on Frasier. |
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(Message 1770564)
Posted 9 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Three comedians try to out-think a talk-show host... |
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(Message 1770491)
Posted 9 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, folks, got caught by the outage... Judgement In Third, we have the Admiral, with: "I heard that phone call to the vet. Just try and you will sing soprano!" In Second, we have Jaundiced Eye with: Move my litter box without asking, huh?..........just wait til he finds the little present I left on his pillow........I hope he thinks it's a Chocolate mint." And "thermometer...goes where?" Nobody correctly identified this cat's owners/slaves: Eric Korpela and Angela! (In Eric's house, yet...) PM going out to Lynn as soon as this is posted... |
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(Message 1770260)
Posted 7 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, not enuf captions, another 24 called for... |
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(Message 1769971)
Posted 6 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... but I thought my "little friend" was funnier... Caption THIS:  cat 1 10-24-14 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Photo Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan Try to guess who he/she belongs to: you've read the name (hint)... |
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(Message 1769663)
Posted 5 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [off-screen, Cuban accent] "Say hello to my little friend!!!" [/off-screen] |
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(Message 1769530)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ms. Clinton, you're trying to seduce me Aren't you?" |
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(Message 1769303)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: They just announced the start of filming for Scooby-Doo 2, with these three in the cast! |
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(Message 1769053)
Posted 2 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The ground effects wings are all wrong... |
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(Message 1768861)
Posted 1 Mar 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The new safety cage for NASCAR drivers who can't stop their cars from flipping... |
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(Message 1768692)
Posted 29 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New hovercar # 1 approaches turn 2... or Why is the rubber not meeting the road? |
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(Message 1768179)
Posted 27 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Who's this wierdo with the mechanical thingy, pointing a big piece of glass at me? |
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(Message 1768079)
Posted 27 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pix bump: |
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(Message 1767884)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why are you interrupting my "me time" with my slave? |
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(Message 1767719)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Good Afternoon, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. How may I direct your call?" Umm, I see the A and the F, but where's the T? and if that's supposed to be the beef, you need to call the FDA at 212 555-1212 |
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(Message 1767544)
Posted 25 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thick Sicilian accent] I was made an offer I couldn't refuse [/accent] Horse looks surprised... |
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(Message 1767294)
Posted 24 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's judgement time... In third place, by a whisker, is Clyde with: "I didn't do it! It was the Poodle next door." Would that poodle's name be "Puddles", by any chance? ;-) in Second Place, by a head, is Gnu, with: "Catastrophe!!! As feline felon is finally cornered..." I take that to be "A feline felon"... And in FIRST PLACE, and the honor of next picture, goes to: [dramatic pause] SARGE with: "Another example of evolving cats; now they can stand!" My caption for the shot would'a been: Dude, your finger is bent — and I don't like where its pointing! PM goin' out after this missive is posted! |
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(Message 1766932)
Posted 22 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, try this:  funny pictures by Cuc cu cu, on Flickr This one isn't mine: It is copyrighted, all rights reserved by "Cuc Cu Cu" |
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(Message 1766757)
Posted 21 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What you get when you comb your hair with razor-sharp claws... The dis-appearing act may be your browser purging it's file cache... |
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(Message 1766442)
Posted 20 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the beach... Me, too, BTW... |
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(Message 1766077)
Posted 18 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Amelie had an amazingly flexible spine... |
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(Message 1765146)
Posted 15 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...passed 25 million seti, and soon to pass 80 million BOINC overall... |
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(Message 1765144)
Posted 15 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully after the aliens got through with them... or The Amazing two-headed, rubber eating Camel! |
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(Message 1764927)
Posted 14 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Painter's "holidays" take on new meaning... |
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(Message 1764287)
Posted 12 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... and you thought M.C. Escher was screwy... |
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(Message 1764021)
Posted 11 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a "Volunteer tester" is someone who participates in the Seti@home Beta program... ...and holding the HHG is a sought-after privilege, currently held by Brother Maynard… |
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(Message 1763953)
Posted 10 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry about the delay... I got a late start, and like the butcher who backed into his running band-saw, got a little behind in my work... It's JUDGE In Third is Lynn, with: 'SUP, "We Care"' Obviously, not very much... In Second is Carlos for: Someone ripped the FRAGILE label off. Nope, it didn't have one... And in First Place and next pic post is Rob Smith for: "It said fragile, so we drop tested it a few times to make sure. Now it rattles properly." And for the subsidiary, (What was inside...) nobody (who tried) guessed the contents correctly, or even got the correct shipping company. This is a shipment from Victoria's Secret, arriving via Federal Express. Given the extent of the damage to this envelope, (there's a cut on the back, not visible in this picture!) I was pleasantly surprised that the contents (a bra and panties for my Fianceé...) were not damaged. I've sent an E-mail to the Victoria's Secret suggesting that they forward the photo to FedEx (along with a photo of the back, and a photo of another shipment from VS, also damaged when it arrived at my location.) and suggesting that they threaten FedEx with loss of the account. PM going out as soon as this is posted... |
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(Message 1763724)
Posted 9 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: after the "outrage": only 5 entries, giving it another 24 hrs... |
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(Message 1763510)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For a change of pace, caption this:  img012 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Also, try to guess what the package contained... |
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(Message 1763387)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Acknowledging win - I'll get somethin' up tomorrow mornin'... |
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(Message 1763214)
Posted 7 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: THIS you call a helmet??? |
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Panic Mode On (102) Server Problems?
(Message 1762959)
Posted 6 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm not getting any GPU work, either for nVidia or ATI... ...And problems with Beta should be reported on the Beta site, as Eric rarely reads the forums here, according to him... |
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(Message 1762705)
Posted 6 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Shop? |
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(Message 1762521)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: B..u..r..r..p..p!!! |
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Panic Mode On (102) Server Problems?
(Message 1762519)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: upload server still needs a kick... |
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(Message 1762273)
Posted 4 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mojo's caption come from two different movies, only one of which starred Clint Eastwood: the "You want a piece of me, punk" part is from Taxi Driver and was said there by Robert DeNiro... |
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(Message 1762008)
Posted 3 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mirror, Mirror, in my hand, who's the fattest in the land? |
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(Message 1761360)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: No, this ain't the Mikado, and you didn't get three little maids from school..... Yes, this is The Mikado, your name is Koko, and you just married Katisha! As William Schwenk Gilbert turns in his grave... |
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(Message 1760837)
Posted 30 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, my name is Thor Obama... |
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(Message 1760836)
Posted 30 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Michelle: I didn't know the Pope wore a bustle... |
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(Message 1760442)
Posted 29 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: water ski one: I need more line! Your afterburner is a little too literal! Obama: "Bless me, father, for I have sinned" Pope: "what did you do,my child?" Obama: "I have committed the sin of pride by running for President..." |
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(Message 1759270)
Posted 25 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: captionus inturruptus again? |
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(Message 1758683)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sarge's selfie gets photo-bombed. |
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(Message 1757848)
Posted 21 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: kitten about to learn not to mess with the human's cables... |
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(Message 1757686)
Posted 20 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since ProcicalMan seems to have disappeared, mybe Rob Smith could do the honors? I hate Captionus interruptus... |
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(Message 1756042)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: cherchez la femme! |
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(Message 1755918)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It |
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(Message 1755917)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: and off to Dublin beach we go... |
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(Message 1755617)
Posted 11 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: City outing wear in Bangkok, during the rainy season... |
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(Message 1755037)
Posted 9 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How do I get out of this cold, frozen hell? |
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(Message 1755001)
Posted 9 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [owl thought bubble] You're not a lemming... [/bubble] |
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(Message 1754900)
Posted 8 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My spider could take on your VelociRaptor... |
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(Message 1754560)
Posted 7 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I will give up my Raptor when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!!!" |
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(Message 1754094)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...how the world saw Ronald Reagan... And that's outside my back door, Ang... And, Celttooth, I bloody well hope not – and I live outside the range of that species, although they do occasionally turn up in California... |
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(Message 1753938)
Posted 4 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's Judgement time, not that there are a lot of choices... In Third Place is Lynn for: "I tried to kill the spider with hairspray. He's still alive, but his hair looks Fabuuuuulous!" In Second Place is Carlos for: "Spidermite or arachnophobitta" "Let's see what my radioactive @$$ can do to you." My caption would have been along the lines of: "The Spider That Ate Albany!" The actual spider seen is quite small, though, around ½ an inch (12.5mm) across the legs - the photo was taken at 1:1 on the image sensor. This guy/gal is seen outside my breakfast room window from below with a 105mm macro lens. PM going out to the Admiral as soon as this is posted... |
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Seti@home v8
(Message 1753707)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Incorrect: Green Bank V8 tasks have "guppy" in the file name, but there are Arecibo V8 tasks, too (in fact, I've yet to see a Green Bank task on production SETI, just on Beta...) |
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(Message 1753705)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not enuf responses, another 24 hrs called for... |
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Seti@home v8
(Message 1753459)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I don't have quite that many, but a lot of them are currently cold, as they don't have any work... And now they aren't splitting V7 work anymore, as far as I can see... |
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(Message 1753308)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caption THIS:  Spider BY 9-26-19 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan - All rights reserved Time for some creepy crawlies! |
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(Message 1753136)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win, and I'll get something up in the AM, Berkeley time (where it's 0037 as i type this...) |
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(Message 1752953)
Posted 1 Jan 2016 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rodent: "PARTY! PARTY!" Man: "Could you keep it down? I'm hung over..." |
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(Message 1752720)
Posted 31 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rodent: "It's my ground and I'll hog it if I want to..." |
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(Message 1752525)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How much of Chuck could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Chuck? |
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(Message 1752104)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alien winds up dead in Sunburn City... |
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(Message 1751903)
Posted 27 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: To keep things moving, it's judgement time... Dis-honorable mention to those who identified these as ducks - they're Canada Geese. Honorable mention to Carlos for the idea of Florida — but these are in California (Oakland, to be exact...) Third to Monday for: "Yawn" Second to Chris S, for his "Stop eating Daisys" I leave out the rest of his caption as non-"Family-friendly". First to The Admiral for "Poor Dave... His goose was cooked yesterday." My caption at this time of year would'a been: "We Survived Christmas!" PM going out, very soon after this is posted... |
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(Message 1751692)
Posted 25 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, I'm a little late: I overslept and there were a few domestic crises that hadda be handled... Caption THIS:  Canada geese OIH 9-13 3 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always: Copyright © 2013, Paul Sullivan |
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(Message 1751609)
Posted 25 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win, I'll get a shot up in the AM, Berkeley time... |
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(Message 1751554)
Posted 24 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whoever substituted this huge honker for my red nose is on the "naughty" list — for LIFE! |
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(Message 1751401)
Posted 23 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who's the joker that dressed me in the body suit while I was asleep? He/She is going on the "naughty" list! And really, a hip flask? I stay warm the ol' fashioned way — by working! |
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Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1751044)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: re: Crows The "crow"s in Europe are a different species than the American Crow, Corvus corone (in 2 sub-species...) vs. Corvus brachyrhynchos (Unless you live in the Pacific Northwest, where there is another species, C. caurinus...) I have, BTW, seen all three of the species mentioned! |
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(Message 1750898)
Posted 21 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Richard Trethewy has a nightmare... |
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Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1750525)
Posted 20 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: @Zoom314: perhaps you've never seen a live roadrunner...  Greater Roadrunner DVVC 10-22-13 4 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Well, now you have... |
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(Message 1750465)
Posted 19 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: entry on Ask This Old House's "What is it?" segment, from Trethewy... |
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Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1750060)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Raccoon shirt 2 9-14-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Yes, that's a selfie, taken with a camera older than I am... If you click thru to the Flickr page, you can see my explanation of technique. shirt from Clothingmonster.com... |
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(Message 1749930)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Did you see where he shot him? |
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(Message 1749844)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd suggest starting a new thread, this one's at 72 pages... |
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(Message 1749841)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Raccoon shirt 2 9-14-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Discuss... |
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(Message 1749286)
Posted 14 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now that I found the pot —I really don't wanna look for the "gold"... pix bump 
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(Message 1748896)
Posted 13 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Brooks: give my regards to Zsa-Zsa, dahlink... |
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(Message 1748618)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Arnold Ziffel: Mr. Brooks, get away from me before your breath ignites! Dean Martin's breath and yours would make a flamethrower! |
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(Message 1748178)
Posted 10 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The snuff tin, recycled... |
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(Message 1748087)
Posted 10 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cop: Is that a pie tin on your nose, or are you just glad to see me? Guy: Why are you in the Darth Vader garb? |
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(Message 1747656)
Posted 8 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where'd my banana-cream throwing pie go? |
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(Message 1747655)
Posted 8 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...And now for something completely different... WHAAATTTT???? or Those ants are getting really industrious... |
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(Message 1747290)
Posted 6 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK Judgement Honorable mention to both MS Attler (for the skewed Poe quote...) and JaundicedEye for the Taxi Driver quote. In third is Celttooth for: "Here!" (see below) In second is Lynn for: Black car, white poop! White car, black poop! What about a silver car, Lynn? In First is Mike Roberts for: Watch out, girls: Paul's got his camera out again! Both for realizing that this is a male, and for realizing that the photographer (your humble poster...) regularly shoots birds. (with a camera - shotguns aren't used for this!) Dis-honorable mention to everyone who though this was a raven - Ravens don't have a yellow eye, and have a thicker bill than this Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus. They are also much larger, but there's no scale indication in the photo, so I'll let that slide... Oh, and what the blackbird is really saying is: Here I am, girls, I'll make a good mate! - see my iridescence? I'll be a good food provider for our chicks! PM going out very soon after this is posted... |
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(Message 1747096)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only 3 entries, so another 24 hrs are called for... ...and, folks, think smaller, the bird isn't a corvid. (ravens and crows) |
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(Message 1747095)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The problem may be that all the working splitters were all working on one "tape" - maybe the staff should look into having each splitter work on a different tape... |
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(Message 1747084)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Starting to run low here. Perhaps they should try turning it off and on again? Called a "power reset" by computer nerds... |
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(Message 1746883)
Posted 4 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win!, even though only two participated... OK, caption THIS:  Brewers BB AB 5-12 1 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always, Copyright © 2012, Paul Sullivan: All rights reserved. |
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(Message 1746061)
Posted 1 Dec 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The White Knight tries to keep Humpty-Dumpty on the wall... |
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(Message 1745891)
Posted 30 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I just thought, you know like ...not if Hillary wins the next Presidential election... |
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(Message 1745810)
Posted 30 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One schwantz to rule them, One schwantz to find them, One schwantz to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them! |
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(Message 1745555)
Posted 29 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "stirred, not shaken, please..." |
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(Message 1745297)
Posted 27 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You did want this pose, Mounsiur Manet? |
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(Message 1745296)
Posted 27 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Arkansas accent] Ah did have sex with that woman... [/accent] |
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(Message 1745100)
Posted 26 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whar'd that muskrat go? |
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(Message 1745098)
Posted 26 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ah got some nice chuckles so far. I'm going to give it a bit more time for thanksgiving because I know you will do better pouncing on this cat-tastrophe when you are stuffed with turkey. :) more likely asleep;-) another caption: I'm stuck, and I'm havin' trouble falling asleep in this position... |
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(Message 1744773)
Posted 25 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When they said the walls were paper-thin, they weren't kidding! |
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(Message 1744709)
Posted 25 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Boy, am I glad that door wasn't all the way open! |
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(Message 1744182)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You done scrapin' the bottom yet, Jed? |
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(Message 1743899)
Posted 21 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The easy way to climb the mast... |
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(Message 1743813)
Posted 21 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, 911? I'd like to report a boat sinking... (…or 112 for the Euro crowd, 066 for Mexicans...) |
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(Message 1743353)
Posted 19 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, presumably the GB fix either worked, or didn't and the old splitting software is back - but Beta is STILL not online... |
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(Message 1742949)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bluto: "FOOD FIGHT!!!" |
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(Message 1742948)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Did someone forget to bring the Beta Scheduler online after today's outrage?... all the other functions seem to be online, from just B4 I wrote this... |
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(Message 1742345)
Posted 15 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr Royce, Mr Rolls wants to see you... |
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(Message 1741763)
Posted 13 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Over 70M total BOINC! |
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(Message 1741563)
Posted 12 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's the range on that thang? |
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(Message 1741333)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone should give the splitters a kick - I see 0 for "results ready to send" but the "result creation rate" is only 1.8 per second... which won't satisfy current requests, let alone build up a queue... |
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(Message 1741322)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: back to photographic absurdities:  photo not mine, believed to be public domain... Note that that is a Nikon F camera being dwarfed by the lens, a Pen FT would be even smaller! |
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(Message 1741321)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: carlos has been PM'd... |
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(Message 1741154)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Admiral, since that Sigma is available in Nikon-mount, I could mount it on my Pen FT - if I had the $ 26,000 (us) to buy the lens! (and wanted to carry around a 15.7 kilogram [35 lbs] lens!) |
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(Message 1741111)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Admiral, in that astronomical vein, think "5 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope", married to a camera... I figured that both Lynn and Angela were probably joking... but I couldn't be certain! ( a :-), ;-), or LOL emoticon would'a changed my opinion...), |
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(Message 1740928)
Posted 9 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: well, I've got the lens to spot it... (snicker...) |
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(Message 1740925)
Posted 9 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement time! First, dishonorable mention to both Lynn and Angela for failing to realize that that is a film camera, with texts and watermarks not being a function of the camera. (a 1960's era Olympus Pen FT…) Honorable mention to Anniet for recognizing that it's a camera - especially the "nose selfies" line... (it doesn't focus that close, Anniet...) Third place goes to Protical Man for: "PRO / PTII Pro / Peeping Tom Mark 2 "For those hard to reach 'Models'" " Second Place goes to Carlos for: "Half frame blow up" It is, indeed, a ½ frame camera - one of only two SLR ½ frame cameras ever made (both by Olympus...) (his "Would you like some camera with that lens?" is in a tie for second...) And (Ta-Da!) First Place and next photo post go to Rob Smith for: "My lens is bigger than your lens" This example of photo absurdity is a Pro-Optic 500mm ƒ 6.3 mirror lens on an Olympus Pen FT, with a 35mm equivalent angle of view of 625mm; mounted through three adapters: a T-mount to Nikon F mount, an F mount to Canon EOS mount and an EOS mount to the Pen FT mount. Yes, there are larger mirror lenses out there (I have an 800mm, too...) with a 2000mm ƒ 10 (think '10" reflector telescope'...) being the largest I've heard of... PM going out as soon as this is posted... |
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(Message 1740658)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, 24+ hours and not enuf captions... another ~ 24 are called for... |
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(Message 1740359)
Posted 7 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanx for the win... For those who don't know, "Wrong Way" Corrigan was an early aviator who flew the Atlantic, even though his plane had only barely been granted permission to fly back to Los Angeles, from New York. He claimed that his compass was faulty, hence "Wrong way"... That said, caption THIS:  pro-optic 500mm ƒ 6.3 on Pen FT by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr as always, Photo Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan, all rights reserved |
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(Message 1740203)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [lion] So I'm a "ho-hum, we've seen that before" species, eh? Remember that I out-weigh you, and can run faster than you - if there is a next time! [/lion] |
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(Message 1739974)
Posted 5 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gripe: that the "Science Status Page" hasn't been updated for over a year... Perhaps the new lady can look into it? Or take the page down if you're not going to update it anytime soon? |
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(Message 1739767)
Posted 5 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Wrong Way" Corrigan does it again... or [lion] I'll just stalk in a little closer and scare the c*** out of them! [/lion] |
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(Message 1739561)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Bike to Work Day" in Singapore... |
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(Message 1737455)
Posted 27 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, I found TWO pairs of panties... |
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(Message 1736322)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pic bump... Durn claws get in the way... |
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(Message 1736254)
Posted 22 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...The Chihuahua will never know what's coming... |
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(Message 1735864)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hilary, glad the makeup finally came off... Donald, your hairpiece would like a word... |
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(Message 1735833)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: reached 20 million SETI production just before the outrage... And still under 10 years crunching... |
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(Message 1735809)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll leave this until Wednesday evening (Europe). Incidentally, it is not compulsory to insult politicians in this round, the picture was taken at a Halloween party in Mexico. ...but the politician in question is so open to comic satire... |
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(Message 1735669)
Posted 20 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: May the Day of the Dead be with you, always... |
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(Message 1735341)
Posted 19 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: is the lack of a stats update export related to the replica being offline? |
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(Message 1735207)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Smashing pumpkins, no — smashed pumpkins, yes! |
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(Message 1734875)
Posted 17 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cannibalism amongst the vegetables... |
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Posted 16 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: thanks for the second place... |
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(Message 1734595)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: from the air it reads: "Don't have a cow!" |
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(Message 1734429)
Posted 15 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: grass gatherer for the cow with a sore neck... |
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(Message 1733663)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Why yes, I can slice a section from the tree — but not yet!" |
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(Message 1733366)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Run!!! He's ready to blow!"... |
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(Message 1733114)
Posted 9 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Shampoo for the bald! |
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(Message 1732929)
Posted 8 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [photographer, on seeing this] "I knew I should'a used bounce flash, not direct..." [/photographer] |
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(Message 1732109)
Posted 5 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Howard the Duck has a few choice words for critics of his movie... |
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(Message 1731874)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, THAT's why it's running rough: some idiot pulled a spark plug wire on the right cylinder! Now how do I re-start this puppy in the air? |
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(Message 1731471)
Posted 3 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Shaddup, or I'll slobber on yez! |
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(Message 1731242)
Posted 2 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Order in the courtroom, here come de judge! |
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(Message 1730698)
Posted 1 Oct 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Here come de Judge... in Third Place is Uli with: "Yes, I am a bit small for a tree hugger, but I count too. Don't I?" In Second Place is Sarge with: "This is me, a squirrel, after a weekend around Mark's cats!" And in First Place, with next post duties, is Rob Smith with: "...I know its up here somewhere...." Congrats Rob... PM going out as soon as this is posted... I'm suprised that no one came in with a variation on the classic "Hang in there, baby!" Taken only 5 miles from UC Berkeley, BTW... |
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(Message 1730407)
Posted 30 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not a DNS issue... Now I'm getting "Couldn't connect to server", where before it was "Failure receiving data from server"... |
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(Message 1730214)
Posted 30 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only nine entries (and with the outrage...) so another 24 hrs are called for... |
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(Message 1729860)
Posted 28 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The choice having devolved to me, CAPTION This!:  Eastern Grey Squirrel A 9-19-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Photo Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan, all rights reserved... Must be a really long weekend, Mark, if it starts on a Monday... [snicker...] |
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Posted 27 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just one pinprick and he'll blow! |
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Posted 26 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sagwa takes her revenge on the Sleeve Dogs... |
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Posted 24 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The couch that made a ham of itself... |
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Posted 23 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry Angela, but I can't see the pic from here. +1 |
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(Message 1727809)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Do these boots make my posterior look big? your classic trick question! |
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Posted 21 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr Corbyn is ready for his first PM questions as opposition leader... |
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Posted 20 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What happens when the liquid nitrogen runs out! |
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Posted 20 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You said you wanted how many Core I7 4770K's working in parallel? |
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Posted 20 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where the data center fire started... |
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(Message 1726919)
Posted 18 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Woz: "This will revolutionise male entertainment for ever!" umm, given the age of the picture, shouldn't that be "Annette Haven"? |
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Woz, think of the liability lawsuits! |
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Posted 16 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jack (and extended family) in the Box... |
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Posted 14 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Elsa and cubs... |
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Posted 14 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's only right: in an African zoo, the people are in the cage! |
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(Message 1725453)
Posted 13 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Synchronized sky-dive team, the plane does a barrel roll to start the dive... Oh, and when opening a new Beets contest thread, please post a note in the one you're closing to that effect! |
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(Message 1724790)
Posted 11 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, time for some Judgement! In third place, is Mike with: "Do you really think me iz happy in here ?" In Second Place, Celttooth with: "Darn, they won't let me eat the cat!" In First Place, and next photo to post goes to Lynn for "Sorry. The bed's full." Dis-honorable mention to the Admiral for "Yo Quiero Taco Bell"... everyone's sick of that slogan - and it's bad Spanish! No one even got close to my thought: "That cat really dis-agreed with me... " Which can be taken more than one way! ;-) PM going out to the winner as soon as this is posted... |
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Posted 11 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ¡Non más Taco Bell! |
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(Message 1724299)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks, Angela... I have a sick sense of humor, too... A late thought on my part was: World's most elaborate kitty-litter pan disguise... but onward! Caption this:  Oscar sleeping H 10-14-12 2 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always, should you or any of your team be captured or killed, the secretary will dis-avow any knowledge of your actions...Good Luck, Jim! Oops, wrong disclaimer! Photo Copyright © 2012, Paul Sullivan... |
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(Message 1723759)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Frodo was delicious - thanks for the tip, Smaug... |
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(Message 1723065)
Posted 7 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "We work this hard to keep Canadians on our side of the border..." |
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(Message 1722847)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...and if you though I was racist about the Mexicans, wait'll ya hear what I think of the Canadians!... |
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Posted 5 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tax the RICH? Are you crazy???? |
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Posted 5 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Donald uses the wrong finger for his expression, again... |
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Posted 3 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Who you calling FAT? |
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(Message 1721649)
Posted 3 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, Pennsylvania 6-5000? I'll be there Tuesday on the Chattanooga Choo-Choo... |
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(Message 1721647)
Posted 3 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The beat sits where the bear WANTS 2 SIT! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1721454)
Posted 2 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "mouse in a box" trick, in an Arctic setting... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1720943)
Posted 1 Sep 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ET finally shows his face... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1720650)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's Judgement day – err, time... Nobody got the extra points, the one entrant for that had clearly looked at the Flick® page, as he/she was echoing the language used there... In Third Place, we have Celttooth, with: Photographer thought: "Come on you damned bird, smile!" In Second Place, we have Chris S with: RH bird to LH bird: "Hey Cedric, this unisex salon isn't half bad actually!" And in First Place, (and next photo post) we have Lynn with: We are wilting. Take the picture already. Congratulations Lynn... PM going out as soon as this message is posted |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1720313)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm underwhelmed by the response, so far... Another 24 hours are called for... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1720076)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the Win! Caption THIS:  Flower Peacocks, 7-9-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Bonus points for identifying the specific location of the shot without looking at the Flickr® page… As always: Picture Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) Subject of the last shot looked a bit like my Aunt May, BTW... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1719654)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ellanor Rigby, just before the song... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1719474)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You say cigarettes will kill me... I say WHEN???? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1719471)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...how long I've been waiting for Godot... |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1717841)
Posted 24 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Recently achieved 60 million total Boinc, and (more recently) 17 million SETI production. Getting close to 10 million SETI Beta... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1717839)
Posted 24 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What Hillary wishes she could do to Monica... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1717410)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Zeus's revenge on the dumb blond... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1716544)
Posted 21 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Do they call it a boom box because if you lean on it like this, you fall down and go boom? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1716422)
Posted 21 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I can't get no... Satisfaction.." |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1716087)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What are ya doin', ma? Ya wanna make me deaf before I'm 2? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1714612)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Smoking causes cancer? What do I care, my life expectancy is only 2.2 years (total) anyway..." |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1714605)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ahhh! The perfect blend of Hash and tobacco... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1714330)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late thought; "Car insurance is HOW MUCH?" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1713207)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Did someone try to use this poor beast as a rocket holder? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1712774)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: what I've always looked for - a transparent dog! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1712394)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, rules require a second (at least) and a third place, in case the winner is unable to post... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1712217)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, that's for when no picture is posted... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1712161)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The solution I came up with is to have the prior-to-current winner judge... which happened not so long ago... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1712021)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We know we aren't allowed on the counter – but we aren't on the counter, are we?... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1711810)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you for the new warm bedding, slave! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1710764)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: rock origami |
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Panic Mode On (99) Server Problems?
(Message 1709960)
Posted 8 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Don't you have backup projects???? Why not? SETI never promised 100% availability... |
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Panic Mode On (99) Server Problems?
(Message 1709910)
Posted 8 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For everone that was kvetching about the lack of WU's: Don't you have backup projects???? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1709763)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yeah, I know - work unit production at SETI is down again ! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1709225)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Are you as sad as I am?" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1708894)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First prize in the "Ironic License Plates of the Year" contest. |
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Panic Mode On (99) Server Problems?
(Message 1708890)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Set Beta: the feeder shows as "up" on the feeder page, but you get a "Feeder not running" tag if you try to update... Production SETI: I'm getting intermittent problems trying to download WU's: on some computers, they sail right through, and on other computers (I have 8) they get stuck in "retry" hell... The second download server (vader) is down, explaining the problem... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1708083)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where am I? That wasn't synthahol in that last Raktajeno... Why do I have a walker? WHO IS THIS WOMAN??? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1706700)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: my Teddy Bear wants your Teddy Bear as bride... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1706343)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In Russia, girl bring flowers, men shy... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1706210)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Admiral: that's "Here, fishy, fishy, fishy..." :-) |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1705967)
Posted 28 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Soldier muttering: "I knew there was a reason it was called 'Fish Road!' " |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1705578)
Posted 27 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Can you say: "Cross-species love story?" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1705411)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, my dear: I will love you and hug you... |
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Panic Mode On (99) Server Problems?
(Message 1705410)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not really a server problem, nor is it something to go into "Panic Mode" about, but GPU tasks used to be separate from the CPU tasks when calculating your limit for "Tasks" - and now (apparently...) they aren't... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1704952)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I received the following missive from Celttooth when I asked for judgement...: "I apologize to all, I will be off the internet for a little bit. Please call the beets thread moot, and continue on with out me. I'll be back in no time! celttooth" Perhaps Michael Roberts, being the winner prior, can make the call... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1703649)
Posted 21 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Catherine deNeuve!... oops! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1703648)
Posted 21 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Distracted driving: not good... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1703265)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Two of Napolean's soldiers, later in life... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1702828)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Arrangement in Black and Grey" And I was thinking of Stella, Blanch's sister... (before marriage) "STELLA!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1702526)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stella DuBois, I presume? |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1702177)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You have a crane? we're gonna need it... or "we're gonna need a bigger crane!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1701765)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know someone has to go for the pun... I thought you said you wanted a "compact sub"... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1701101)
Posted 13 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My, what big sunglasses you have... All the better to see you with, my dear... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1700806)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Beer? I want Tabasco! |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1700494)
Posted 11 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "are you sure that I'm facing Mecca?" late entry... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1700121)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop fit to drink - though I'll try... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1699778)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: hello... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1699461)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I always look this weird when I swim... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1699252)
Posted 7 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: To each other: "What's making those flashes? They have canned lightning?" |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1699012)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's WINNERS time! In Third Place is Celttooth, with: "Lilliputian Air-002, this is Vancouver Tower: ABORT, ABORT, ABORT!" Points taken off for mis-identifying both the 737 (it's a Southwest) AND the location: SFO (San Francisco International) In Second Palace is Carlos with: Baby airplanes take several weeks to ween. And In FIRST PLACE and next post goes to Angela for: Hey! You! Get off of my cloud. Although that's a mis-quote of a Rolling Stones song - the actual line is: "get offa my cloud!" (or at least that's what it sounds like to me...) Oh, and the 747 is on Runway 28 left, lined up and holding for take-off, and the 737 is landing on Runway 28 right. From my point of view, the 737 is on the OUTside lane, Chris... PM going out as soon as this is posted... I was waiting for something along the lines of "747-400 - long enough to land on..." |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1698716)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Nine million points on Seti Beta... (and 56 million overall BOINC...) |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1698707)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I only see six entries, so another 24 hrs... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1698478)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, continuing on the Aviation theme, Caption THIS:  B-HUI & N659SW SFO 8-30-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr As always: Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1698448)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, I'll get to it soon... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1697426)
Posted 1 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "KoreanAir 568, Kai Tak is closed! I repeat: Kai Tak is closed! DO NOT FINISH YOUR APPROACH!" "KAL568, oops, sorry... I haven't flown into Hong Kong for a while..." |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1697248)
Posted 1 Jul 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, after getting caught by TWO outrages, here's the judgement: In 3rd place is Chris S with: Right: you lot, enjoy your hen party, church tomorrow for the wedding, 11am sharp! (get me to the church on time...) In second, by a tail feather (rather large for a turkey...) is R. Smith for: Of course they won't recognise us. We've still got our feathers on! and in FIRST PLACE (in a dead heat with himself!) is DG66580004 with: Sheik Anon bin Turkey and his entourage arrive for the premier... and Turkey trot boogie PM going out |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1696815)
Posted 29 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count only 7 responses, so another 24 hours are called for... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1696488)
Posted 28 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caption this:  Wild Turkey BY 2-12 05 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr Copyright © 2012, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) Steve, that's UTC -7 hrs during Daylight Savings... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1696487)
Posted 28 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, I got caught by the outage... Who knew (outside the Berkeley computing community) that it would start before 0630 PDT? (the time I noticed that SETI was down...) |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1696113)
Posted 27 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks, and I'll start looking - will probably post early tomorrow morning, Berkeley time... |
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Beet's give us a caption #61
(Message 1695867)
Posted 26 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whale thought bubble: Bellyflop! Captain: "That's gonna leave a dent..." |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1695606)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: may I suggest that it's time for a new thread? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1695540)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Scalpel!!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1695075)
Posted 24 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You are getting sleepy...." |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1694813)
Posted 23 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Leave it, son, it's only a 486..." "But I can upgrade the motherboard!... All my programs are on the hard drive!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1694608)
Posted 22 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Omm, Ommm, omne padme lemur omm..." |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1694358)
Posted 21 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lemur Buddah |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1693977)
Posted 20 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Brotherly / sisterly love... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1693166)
Posted 18 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's not a tank mine, it's a tank mire! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1692705)
Posted 17 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: out of frame, bottom: "¡Buena Suerte!" (Spanish:"Good luck!") 60 Kph=37 Mph |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1691787)
Posted 15 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Oh, no! The killer bees have cross-bred with a Bugatti!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1691180)
Posted 14 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Blue car: "Get off, you're heavy!" |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1690180)
Posted 11 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The BNSF has a small problem at milepost 438, Bakersfield sub... pic bump:  or: EMD down! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1688016)
Posted 5 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...But we used condoms - Every time!... |
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Mid May Update (May 21 2015)
(Message 1687739)
Posted 4 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If everthing's working, how about getting the science page back online? - or if that's too low priority, how about taking that page down altogether? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1687614)
Posted 4 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no!, I'm not pregnant... I'm just fat... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1686686)
Posted 1 Jun 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A participant in a legendary "Smoke-filled room"... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1685917)
Posted 30 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the one on the right looks somewhat larger than 157 Fl Oz... |
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Panic Mode On (97) Server Problems?
(Message 1685625)
Posted 29 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have 8 boxes, and I got a grand total (when I uploaded this morning [Berkeley time]) of one WU! Somethin wrong with work distribution: the server status page states that there over 311k WU available, yet almost every work request comes back "no work available"... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1684956)
Posted 28 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The beer bomb dropped. |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1684712)
Posted 27 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's super-ugly, but delicious! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1683602)
Posted 24 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oy vey! Angela forgot to get grapes! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1683540)
Posted 24 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alberecht's workers (from the Ring) let him know how they feel about his stealing the Rheingold, and making them re-work it... (not part of caption:) Hello from Amsterdam... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1682523)
Posted 22 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, Geico? You aren't gonna believe this one... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1682522)
Posted 22 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The miners are on strike! (this is a manager's car...) |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1679957)
Posted 15 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yeah, Mom, I asked you to use up the yarn ends — but a toilet cozy for a public restroom? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1679866)
Posted 15 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The cure for the "cold toilet seat" blues... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1679492)
Posted 14 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
umm, stripes? bees don't see color... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1678138)
Posted 11 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: pregnant bee keeper trying to fit in? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1675088)
Posted 8 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: don't ya just hate gamus interruptus? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1673462)
Posted 3 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How you test your Samsung Galaxy S3 for watertightness - and that it's wildlife-proof! |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1673086)
Posted 2 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached 14 million 'stones Seti today, and should reach 50 million 'stones total Boinc tomorrow... |
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(Message 1673081)
Posted 2 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is this how Fred Astair danced on the ceiling in Royal Wedding? |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1672482)
Posted 1 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: picture bump Coast guard plane over runway one one, buzzing the field is NOT Allowed! Come out of inverted flight, rolling left! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1672480)
Posted 1 May 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Coast guard one four niner, I said RUNWAY one eight! |
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(Message 1671374)
Posted 29 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Lighthouse, lightship, what's the difference?" "You don't get seasick in a lighthouse..." |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1670763)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Medical series: Carry On... Nurse, ...Doctor, & ...Matron... ... and that should be "De Plane, De Plane" if you're referring to Fantasy Island... |
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(Message 1669834)
Posted 25 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, FAA? I'd like to report a crash... |
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(Message 1669833)
Posted 25 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Da NOISE! Da Noise! |
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(Message 1668831)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: no, I won't marry you... |
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(Message 1668829)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Penalty - two minutes for cross-checking... 18 Blue |
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(Message 1668346)
Posted 22 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Please GOD! No more ping pong ganmes! at least not with the lid up! |
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(Message 1667974)
Posted 21 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who had the toilet stopper on the kiddie throne? |
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(Message 1667243)
Posted 19 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We have a winner in the "Unsafe Bike of the Year" contest!!! (Umm, Octocycle?) |
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(Message 1665679)
Posted 15 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Volkswagen Beetle, as designed by Barney Rubble... |
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(Message 1665123)
Posted 13 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: new sport: Road Bouldering! |
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(Message 1663984)
Posted 11 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone mentioned a river crossing? |
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(Message 1663696)
Posted 10 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...always splashes down on the water jump... |
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(Message 1663445)
Posted 10 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RE the new visualization: (and not meaning to hijack the thread...) Couldn't the time spent programming this have been better spent on other problems currently infesting both Seti and Beta? (like parts of the website that don't work: the "Science Status" page, for exmple...) Just askin'... (runs for cover...) |
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Workunit shortage
(Message 1663444)
Posted 10 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well that answers my question,I had no running tasks,when sometimes I would have 2.Does anyone know how much data is left to process?Im sure its some unearthly amount. Actually, it's a near-infinite amount, limited only by the time that Aracibo turns on one specific receiver (which Seti piggy-backs on) and how many "Tapes" (used to be, now disk drives...) are available at Aracibo... In the process of debugging are processes for "tapes" from Greenbank and (further away from production...) from the LOFAR array |
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Workunit shortage
(Message 1663441)
Posted 10 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Seti@home isn't dead, merely resting between acts, long live S@H ;-) Right comedy group, wrong sketch... |
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(Message 1662879)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Barkeep: I hope I can get out'a here before this guy burps! |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1662780)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Elephant: Do you know how much Stella Artois it takes to make an elephant my size drunk? - And how much that costs? |
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Panic Mode On (96) Server Problems?
(Message 1662777)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: did someone forget to bring Beta up? I'm getting the ol' 4/8/2015 4:55:59 PM | SETI@home Beta Test | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance even tho' everything on the beta server page says it's up... |
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(Message 1662498)
Posted 8 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Listen, you IBM downgrade, OPEN THE #@!$!@#$ POD BAY DOORS! or listen to the entirety of The Ring, sung (all parts!) in an off-key baritone... |
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(Message 1661798)
Posted 5 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Some people's approach to the lack of a stats export from Beta for 5 months... :-) |
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(Message 1661759)
Posted 5 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The ostrich approach to Life, the Universe and Everything… |
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(Message 1661125)
Posted 3 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That'll leave a mark... |
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(Message 1660816)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Same rules as Bull Riding? 8 seconds in the saddle?" The trick is the successful exit from the ride... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1660177)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: True courage: riding an alligator in alligator leather shoes... |
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(Message 1659651)
Posted 31 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: CSI Nick Stokes discovers that bike knobby tires leave distinct marks... |
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Beet's give us a caption #60
(Message 1659646)
Posted 31 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Face plant! |
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(Message 1658224)
Posted 28 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I said "drop the puck", NOT "drop your pants"! |
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(Message 1658142)
Posted 28 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Carlos, perhaps the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is: "How many times do the mice have to (re-)build Planet Earth?" (42 times...) everyone else: we're referring to the Hitchhiker's Guide series by Doug Adams... |
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(Message 1658013)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The mice will have to try again. 42 |
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(Message 1658012)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You see, traveling at the speed of light is possible... (Glad I'm in an alternate universe...) |
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(Message 1658010)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why did everyone on Antartica fart at the same time? |
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Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
(Message 1657800)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hurry up and siddown - you're letting the cold air in! |
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Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
(Message 1657707)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: opening a window doesn't help when it's 90° outside and no wind... |
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(Message 1657598)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I knew we shouldn't have gone on Apollo 666... |
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(Message 1656766)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dude, your head is heavy! |
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(Message 1656764)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Puppy love can be a bit overwhelming! |
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Terry Pratchett of Discworld dies
(Message 1656762)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have never read Tolkien... Read the books - the movies are skillful adaptations, but they aren't the original... |
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Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
(Message 1656759)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, my post was a ground squirrel... they don't eat nuts... |
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Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
(Message 1656615)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For a change of subject: consider  Ground Squirrel BM 3-1-10 04 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
(Message 1656613)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RE: skunk ownership... Certainly not in California, the State can come in and put down your pet, NTM fine you... in your state if it is not CA? See here |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1655700)
Posted 22 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Shredder did it! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1655475)
Posted 21 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "We're not just DOGS, we're Irish Setters!" …so get the Irish Setter Training for Dummies book... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1655474)
Posted 21 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: dog on right: "Whadda ya mean, WE'RE in trouble? YOU'RE in trouble! I'm outta here..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1654451)
Posted 19 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ballet Fu! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1654064)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Lay's potato chip ad man just got fired... |
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Panic Mode On (96) Server Problems?
(Message 1653609)
Posted 16 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MB assimilator(s) need a kick, or a re-boot - there's over 2 million WU's waiting for them (it)! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1653484)
Posted 16 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bill Gate's bodyguard... (you really thought that schmuck in part VI was the Emperor?) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1653483)
Posted 16 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Star Wars, Part VII - The Empire Strikes Texas Oil... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1652813)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Manxmouse and Manx cat go at it... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1652516)
Posted 13 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: and the Oscar® goes to... (ahem) next picture and runners up are,,, in third place is Michsel Roberts with: Yeah - last time I was in Bangkok I thought that was leaning. Mike got the extra point for correctly identifing the location as Bangkok, Thailand. (on the Chao Pria (sp?) River...) In Second place, Julie with: Sieg what? and the winner is,,, Graham Middleton for: I think that the guy balancing one on his head is a lot more impressive! for noticing something I didn't! PM going out... my caption? "Help me balance this stupid building... it weighs 1000 tonnes!" BTW, the "Nazi salute" isn't quite the gesture that is implied here - the Nazis had the hand in line with the arm, raised 15-20 degrees above the horizontal. The Italian Fascist salute is closer to the gesture pictured... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1651983)
Posted 12 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: get yer final captions in, I'll be judgin' around 0800 Berkeley time... (even though I'm in Chula Vista...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1651382)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd like to thank my mother, my father, my teachers [music blares...] [rushed]Please caption this...  Proping up skyscraper, 7-12-14 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr as always, photo copyright © 2014 Paul Sullivan, AKA THE Holy Hande Grenade Extra point available if you identify where this was taken... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1650478)
Posted 8 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Clown keeps second face on the back burner... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1649891)
Posted 6 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Expecto Patronem!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1649890)
Posted 6 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Eh, Pedro! I dropped the faux tiger rug! I'm not going down there to retrieve it... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1649160)
Posted 4 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat stays where she can't be trod on... |
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Panic Mode On (96) Server Problems?
(Message 1649159)
Posted 4 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Very hard to get through to the scheduler, and when you do get there, you don't get any WU's... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1648568)
Posted 2 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stealth attack on the Feathered Rats! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1648250)
Posted 1 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Monorail! |
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Panic Mode On (96) Server Problems?
(Message 1648241)
Posted 1 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Uploads are slow as molasses, too... I think the whole SETI system needs a (re)boot in the bum... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1648153)
Posted 1 Mar 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually I was thinking Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the books, not the TV show, or the film)- where it is described as an emu... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1647772)
Posted 28 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Crikey! Why don't I have a beer glass (amusingly) halfway down my gullet? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1647769)
Posted 28 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the Third... French is not really my language, coming in after English (of course), Italian, and Spanish in my quintalingual repertoire... (German brings up the rear...) The rhyme was accidental... The film, for those that missed the allusion, is The Quiet Man starring John Wayne. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1647450)
Posted 27 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Thérèse, mon cher, shall we repair to tus boudoir?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1646278)
Posted 25 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Martha: "That's it! Get all your aggression out!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1645582)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ya think ET will see this?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1645424)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Picture bump |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1645421)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stormtrooper on right: "What am I doing in this shot?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1644529)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I make my planes to go, not stop!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1643963)
Posted 19 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I said RIGHT, not LEFT!!! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1643785)
Posted 18 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgement The camera the guy is holding is my Nazi-era Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta 531/a, a folding 6x4.54cm (16 shots on a 120 roll) camera. A comment first... Celttooth, 1930's technology - the web hadn't been though of yet... the placements: In third place is Anniet with: I just don't get it... everything seems to be working fine... yet every photo is of a finger... Mmm, that finger is moving, and a picture isn't being taken by the subject camera... at the moment. in Second Place is Lynn for: I see Fifty Shades of Grey! That's because there's black and white film in the camera, Lynn... And in First Place and next picture goes to Monday for : There's a huge spider on the back of this camera! Which explains the goofy expression... PM on the way! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1643367)
Posted 17 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm overwhelmed! Hoping to get this in before the weakly outrage! Caption this:  img021 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Copyright © 2015, Paul Sullivan (AKA The Holy Hand Grenade!) All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1642466)
Posted 15 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: {Stewie thought bubble] Ok, how can I get everyone except mom and dad to kick off at the same time, without being obvious? [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1641425)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For those not aware, this was taken at San Francisco's 2014 Folsom Street Fair. The lady is Kink.com model (who switches between dom/slave...) Bella Rossi. In third place is Rob Smith with: Another dumb question like that and the zip goes up another two inches... In Second Place is Admiral Gloval for: The phrase you are looking for is "Yes, Mistress." And in FIRST PLACE is Carlos with: Got Ropes? I might mention that the baseball season was already over, sorry, Celttooth... PM going out just as soon as this is posted... I'm glad I gave it the second 24 hours - none of the first day's postings were that funny for me... Yes, I have other shots from the day which I can't post here, where children might see them! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1640811)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only 8 captions after 23 hours, will let the game run another 24... |
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Panic Mode On (95) Server Problems?
(Message 1640213)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm not getting scheduler time-outs, but I'm also not getting any WU's assigned to any of my seven computers! (but only on production: Beta's fine...) (yes, one computer tried at least three times...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1640208)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, and thanks for the win! Caption this:  Bella Rossi FSF 9-21-14 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1640065)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually the girl and costume looks more like Capt. Janeway than anyone on TOS... (to me...) I'll get something up tomorrow morning... (Berkeley time...) No, I'm neither Canadian, nor Alaskan... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1639675)
Posted 10 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "MUSH!" [whip crack] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1638831)
Posted 8 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Must ... reach ... water... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1637893)
Posted 5 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's not where you're supposed to supply it, Water Boy... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1636994)
Posted 3 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tail wags cat... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1636479)
Posted 2 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I need a monitor and keyboard in the bathroom too................ got 'em... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1636013)
Posted 1 Feb 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's not shown: the portable generator to power all that stuff! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1635617)
Posted 31 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A GTX 980TI costs WHAT? |
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(Message 1635603)
Posted 31 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wednesday: 12 million SETI production 'stones Thursday: 42 million total BOINC 'stones... Not counting (as part of the 42M...) any SETI beta 'stones gathered since the November '14 shutdown. (as there's been no stats export since then!...[umm, could someone fix that?]) By my calculation, I've got over ½ a million 'stones in limbo from Beta... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1635471)
Posted 31 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Yes, we have no bananas..." WHAT? We really don't have any bananas?!!??!!??!!! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1635331)
Posted 30 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [ironic]Thank you, my b###s needed that![/ironic] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #59
(Message 1633937)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Elmer Fudd's new wabbit hunting technique... |
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(Message 1633936)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wabbit vs. Rabbit... be wery, wery quiet... |
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(Message 1632975)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tonight's forecast - DARK! Appologies to George Carlin |
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(Message 1632610)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no — not HIM again! |
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(Message 1632496)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: right at break: "Waaah CHOO!" |
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(Message 1632100)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Brakes? We don't need no stinkin' brakes! apologies to Alfonso Bedoya, and the writers of the classic Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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(Message 1631516)
Posted 23 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Little person faceplant. |
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(Message 1630999)
Posted 22 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr. Perk better perk up... (forgive the pun...) That's 24 hours... |
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(Message 1629944)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If we freeze, they may think we're lawn ornaments... |
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(Message 1629444)
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why are those humans throwing water and other non-lethal objects at us? |
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(Message 1629131)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It appears as though the download server(s) need a kick - I've got work units to download, but they don't D/L! Resolved itself just after I posted... |
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(Message 1628601)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: or The Martians from War of the Worlds are cunning - they've disguised themselves as rocks! |
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(Message 1628598)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, how did the Mars Explorer miss all those rocks? |
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(Message 1627698)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh no, NOT "Tea for Two" again!!! |
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(Message 1627515)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Feed us! |
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(Message 1625823)
Posted 9 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The mask factory is working overtime! |
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(Message 1624689)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Transported from the fake town of Rockridge… (Blazing Saddles) |
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(Message 1624477)
Posted 6 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I was going for the 100 square foot floor… |
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(Message 1624402)
Posted 6 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The building code says I havta have at least three floors...it doesn't say the size of those floors! |
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(Message 1623612)
Posted 5 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... And on the seventh day, God sat back and rested... |
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(Message 1623249)
Posted 4 Jan 2015 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Houston, we have a problem... I forgot the straw!" |
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(Message 1620803)
Posted 30 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I iz de boss and U is de minion, see? |
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(Message 1620172)
Posted 29 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Biker attempts the Steve McQueen jump from The Great Escape... |
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(Message 1619694)
Posted 28 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The holiday lookalike contest has a winner! |
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(Message 1619158)
Posted 26 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somehow, the 100 foot extension cord didn't reach... |
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(Message 1618804)
Posted 25 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My 2014th post - still in 2014! Merry Christmas every one, and here's to a few good milestones in 2015! |
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(Message 1618802)
Posted 25 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Southwest Two one niner - who dressed up the south landing pattern marker?" |
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(Message 1618801)
Posted 25 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Eric: "Angela, that's brilliant! Now the racoons won't get to our Christmas tree!" |
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(Message 1618379)
Posted 24 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Alright, who's the wise guy that put Satan on the "nice" list? It's not a typo, 'Santa' is right below it!" |
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(Message 1617833)
Posted 23 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Paul wants WHAT? for Christmas????!!! |
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(Message 1617570)
Posted 22 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "EVERYONE wants a Smart For Two®????!!!!!" |
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(Message 1617265)
Posted 22 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Human Hairball... |
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(Message 1616959)
Posted 21 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Depends which scene you mean Blue Danube - scene just after the ape tosses the bone in the air and the jump cut to the space ship approaching the station... I like Johann better than Richard... (although I appreciate both) |
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(Message 1616669)
Posted 20 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passing my 9th anniversary with the project (Joined 9/20/05...) |
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(Message 1616667)
Posted 20 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mohawk nation sics their spirit guide (a monkey) on this guy for copyright infringement... |
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(Message 1616665)
Posted 20 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone get this @#$@#$ ape off my head! |
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(Message 1615659)
Posted 18 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One can only go underground from this spot! (and then bear right...) |
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(Message 1615207)
Posted 17 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bill Clinton finally figures out his problem... |
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(Message 1614223)
Posted 15 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 2000 posts! (this is # 2001, cue the Blue Danube waltz...) |
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(Message 1614132)
Posted 15 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: North and South Carolina have a slight disagreement... |
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(Message 1613211)
Posted 13 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Look, the drink matches your color - so stop staring at MY drink! |
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(Message 1612164)
Posted 11 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Harold, quick, your tongue! |
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(Message 1611468)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Brings new meaning to the term "Porta-Potty"... |
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(Message 1610089)
Posted 6 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, doesn't everybody have hydrophobic, anti-gravity feet? |
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(Message 1609625)
Posted 5 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can ride the curl as well as anyone... and it will NOT collapse... |
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(Message 1608576)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rockin till the break of dawn... |
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(Message 1607877)
Posted 1 Dec 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Deafened Kitten... |
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(Message 1607093)
Posted 30 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: evening where? (posted from Thailand...) |
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(Message 1604955)
Posted 24 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dahlink, that sweater has to go! |
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(Message 1604795)
Posted 24 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I like to be in America"? Not here! |
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(Message 1604459)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Blame it on Misfit!" |
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(Message 1604095)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [grumble] @#$@#$@#$in' lake effect snow @#$@$# |
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(Message 1603669)
Posted 21 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "'Scuse me wile I kiss this guy..." |
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(Message 1602625)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The joys of cantilevering... |
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(Message 1602624)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally, proof that the pyramids were built by men from space! |
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(Message 1602328)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, Admiral - your own submissions do not count for places... |
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(Message 1602133)
Posted 18 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: He ain't dead 'til he's warm and dead... |
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(Message 1601667)
Posted 16 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I knew something strange happened when I took that roofie... or Look what the racoon dragged in... |
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(Message 1601438)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, I'm underwhelmed by the response... But it's judgement In third place (with a bullet • for the pun) is Graham for: We do this just COS we like it. In Second place is Rob Smith for: I've told you a million times "Don't wear grey in public" In FIRST PLACE and next photo goes to Adm. Gloval for correctly identifying (at least) the girl (I'm not familiar with the "Gray Scorpion...") for: Gray Scorpion and Sailor Mars. Crossover match in heaven. PM on the way once this is posted Taken by me on a recent trip to New York City - seen on West 33rd street... |
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(Message 1601167)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only 5 responses, so giving it another 24 hours... |
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(Message 1601140)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I recently added CUDA processing on production SETI on one of my machines, but I can't download one of the files, unfortunately, one that all the WU's need. I get: 11/14/2014 10:18:37 AM | SETI@home | Temporarily failed download of cufft32_50_35.dll: transient HTTP error Can someone look into this? The problem isn't on my end, I think... |
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(Message 1600715)
Posted 13 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, Caption this:  costumes NYC 10-10-14 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr As usual: Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan All rights reserved |
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(Message 1600669)
Posted 13 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you for the win: I'll get a picture up, once I locate one... |
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(Message 1600263)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Red: "All this vibration will make the champagne bottle explode..." |
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(Message 1600132)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Little Red Riding Hood" gets jiggy with the "Big Bad Wolf" |
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(Message 1599814)
Posted 11 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've got your back! |
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(Message 1599318)
Posted 10 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Leonard Bernstein rises from the grave... |
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(Message 1598412)
Posted 8 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Preying Mantis style! |
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(Message 1598026)
Posted 7 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I don't think this is what Jimmi Hendrix meant by "Kiss the sky"... |
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(Message 1597594)
Posted 6 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'll give you this for calling me a 'pain in the butt'!" |
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(Message 1596375)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [off-screen]You had sex with a WHAT???[/offscreen] |
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(Message 1595874)
Posted 2 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: even when the cat is present, the mice will play... |
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(Message 1595464)
Posted 1 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ehhh, What's up doc?" |
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(Message 1595463)
Posted 1 Nov 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone's Halloween costumes got out of hand... |
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(Message 1593753)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If the dragon re-animates, those cars are toast! |
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(Message 1592850)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The goat doesn't know that he/she is headed for the slaughterhouse... |
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(Message 1592469)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mush! |
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(Message 1591468)
Posted 24 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why isn't mom responding to my actions? |
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(Message 1591062)
Posted 24 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mario Andretti's baby pic... |
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(Message 1590589)
Posted 23 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MaryAnn: But Professor, I've never flown a plane... Professor: I think you'd do a better job than The Captain or Gilligan... |
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(Message 1590209)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Having been pre-empted by the weekly outrage, here's judgement after 48 hours: In Third Place: Admiral Gloval for: "Y.M.C.A." Surfers weren't in that song, though... In Second Place: Monday for: "Oh no an enemy submarine." I would'a punctuated it differently... "Oh no, an enemy submarine!" In First Place and next picture goes to: Celttooth for: "That shark was only this long." PM follows the posting of this notice! Thanks for playing... |
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(Message 1589284)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caption this:  Surfer RodeoB 4-29-14 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr As usual: Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan Licensed under the Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution, no Derivs license |
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(Message 1589196)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll post in the AM, Berkeley time... |
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(Message 1588723)
Posted 18 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Who suddenly slapped me into America, where they drive on the wrong side of the road? |
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(Message 1587766)
Posted 16 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I see Italy: I see France: I see your underpants!" |
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(Message 1587077)
Posted 15 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [girl's thought bubble] let's see if HE likes that treatment! [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1584592)
Posted 10 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Piano playing - devine singing voice - ugly! |
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(Message 1582235)
Posted 5 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You invited me to a beer can BBQ - I brought the beer! (pause) Why's there no meat? (pause) HOW RUDE! (Squeal...) |
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(Message 1581518)
Posted 3 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "It's what happens after four of these..." |
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(Message 1580998)
Posted 2 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OY! GEVALT! |
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(Message 1580881)
Posted 2 Oct 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The truck I can explain - but how do I explain the branch up my a##? |
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(Message 1579502)
Posted 29 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Carlos appears to have defaulted, so, to keep the contest moving, John McLeod, COME ON DOWN! PM sent (as it was to Carlos...) |
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(Message 1579120)
Posted 28 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, I've seen worse - that just happened to be the first really bad parking slob I ran across in my photos... |
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(Message 1578817)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement: Dishonorable mention to Dena's: "Parking attempted by the depth perception impaired." It's not the driver's depth perception that's impaired, Dena: it is their perception of what constitutes "Compact"! Honorable Mention to Graham's "Could he not want the pick-up, and so has parked it in the bays for it to be disposed of?" Umm, Graham, that's NOT a pickup, it's an SUV!... Third place for Monday's off-the-wall: "Stand back... I can feel a big fart coming on!" Second place for John McLeod's: "A mental handicap is so terrible." And First Place and next picture goes to: (Rip...) Carlos for: "Can't read or drive!" No one came close to my captions: "If you don't know how to park it, why did you buy it?" or: "You define 'Compact' as anything smaller than a panel truck?" |
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(Message 1577879)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: only nine captions after 25 hours, so another day is called for... |
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(Message 1577392)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanx, try to caption this...  Parking Slob B 8-3-13 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr As usual: Photo copyright © 2013, Paul Sullivan (AKA:The Holy Hand Grenade!) Licensed under the Creative Commons "Attribution, no derivatives" license. |
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(Message 1577390)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: oops, replied to a question already answered... |
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(Message 1576788)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The vastly under-rated Habañerosaurus! |
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(Message 1575936)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone went to great lengths to carve this pepper, now EAT IT! |
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(Message 1575120)
Posted 20 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Edward G. Robinson voice] Because I wanna, see? [/voice] |
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(Message 1574224)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's up, Doc? |
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(Message 1573750)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Gomez Adams voice] Querida, your fronds are so sexy! [/voice] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1573289)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... If you thought that rabbit costume was stupid... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1572991)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement time! Third place: Lynn for: I'm standing in a drought zone?? Second place John McLeod VII for: Chase your own *** ball. I also liked his second post: Timmy is in the well, and I have no idea how to let you know. Points taken off for the implied obscenity... In FIRST PLACE and Next Post: Angela for: Are you sure it is ok for me to wear white after Labor Day? I'm not sure the dog has a choice, Ang... None of you hit either of MY captions: Where'd that ground squirrel go? or my second caption: Bloody drought messed up my winter camouflage... PM on the way... |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVIII **CLOSED
(Message 1572489)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just today hit 10M all SETI (production) cobblestones, mostly CPU... |
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I have one screw missing!
(Message 1572487)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If you need screws, and don't have the right diameter/thread combination (there are two threads, coarse and fine, for every diameter...) try to go to a Fry's Electronics, (assuming you live near one...) which have little packets of various diameter screws for the CPU builder. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1572296)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count only six captions, so another 27 hours are in order... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1571985)
Posted 14 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let's try this one...  Dog PtI 1-28-14 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Photo Copyright © 2014, Paul Sullivan: Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution, No Derivatives" license. (Paul Sullivan is AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1571981)
Posted 14 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win! I'll keep this contest rolling, as soon as I find something (in)appropriate in my photostream... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1571393)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oooops - I just did what bunnies are famous for doing... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1571042)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You may think I look cute: I think I look silly in this get-up! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1570177)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Girl on right: "Can you say 'overinflated?'" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1569944)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Be careful of the chair, it may collapse... [mumble] flimsy Chinese cr**... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1568295)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The chopper goes after the Liberty Bell 7 again... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1566389)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: …The gal in the last shot hasn't learned anything… |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1566387)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is gonna hurt! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1565773)
Posted 1 Sep 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Classic face-plant! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1565300)
Posted 31 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I thought Moby Dick was white..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1564985)
Posted 30 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Inspector Peel finally nails The Saint. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1563800)
Posted 28 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Top o' the world, Ma!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1563105)
Posted 27 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rifing on Dena's remark: Winston Churchill reborn! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1562572)
Posted 26 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How not to teach your kid to read upside down. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1562571)
Posted 26 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Arrggghhh! The Giants are in the toilet again! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1559470)
Posted 20 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lumphini Beach, Pattaya, Thailand: July 17, 2014 |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1559468)
Posted 20 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "How to do a Sand Face Plant 101" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1559205)
Posted 20 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late entry: "this is not the duck you're looking for..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1556183)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: live duckling thought bubble: "Next one to sing 'Rubber Ducky' to me gets a peck in a sensitive spot!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1554984)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mwuh-ha-ha! It's ALIVE! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1554979)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who crossed the avocado with the ginger in the lab? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1554127)
Posted 9 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Horse thought: If that cow just pulls back 3 feet, then KICK! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1552925)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Knocked down sign at far end of bridge: "Load Limit: 20 tons"... |
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Panic Mode On (88) Server Problems?
(Message 1552868)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Confirmed splitter problem(s): one or more of them need a re-boot! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1552814)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yoda say, "Bridge builder Force not use!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1552618)
Posted 5 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Surprise for the UPS handlers that throw boxes... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1552272)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's one odd-looking Siamese cat trying to eat its way out of that box... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1552050)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who let the cat play with the Amazon box? I have to send something back! |
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(Message 1550974)
Posted 1 Aug 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 30 million total Boinc! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1549906)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why is a dog picture your desktop background? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1549764)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Traction, I need traction! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1549659)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This just in - there's no one alive at Fox News (pause) Did I just read that? Please tell me that we aren't on the air..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1549515)
Posted 29 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: PM sent? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1549296)
Posted 29 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "The British are coming! The British are coming! The British hoolligan soccer fans are coming!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1548349)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hello, Fox news here - people behind me are running away from a fight in an ice creme shop, reportedly caused by a left-wing faction upset by the curse of the Babe..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1547302)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ask me to roar like the Leo, the MGM lion again, and you're lunch! |
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(Message 1546834)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Anythin' new? the last comment to the thread was in May (this being late July!) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1546831)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm ignoring you, so I don't have to rip your face off... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1546273)
Posted 23 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Should'a used a higher shutter speed... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1545735)
Posted 22 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Another Male! ATTACK!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1542815)
Posted 16 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Siamese twin kittens of a Siamese cat mother... (And I'm in Thailand, formerly Siam...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1538789)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm also out of the loop in Bangkok (yes, Thailand)... not checking emails regular-like… |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1536455)
Posted 5 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...If I do "Cute Kitten", he might just forget that I just sprayed his best pants... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1535553)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mad Hatter's daughter testing for leaks... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1534494)
Posted 1 Jul 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Huh? Err, what? OK, who woke me? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1534078)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, that's ten (and 24 hours...) so here goes the judgement. May I say I didn't find many "laugh out loud" posts? Dis-honorable mention to Winterknight: the better interpretation of the Tom's action is that he checked the road for cars before allowing his harem (and yes, it is called that, Julie) to cross... Third Place to Anniet for: Ignore him girls... he's just showing off. Second Place to Gordon Lowe for: We're not wild turkeys, we're urban gobblers. Wild Turkey is the approved common name (by the American Ornithological Union) for the species, to distinguish it from the domesticated bird - which is the same species (but a different sub-species...) Meleagris galopava. These are certainly not domesticated. (They're the Albany, CA band of Wild Turkeys...) First Place and next shot (should he choose to accept it) to Chris S for: Ok girls, Hen party this way, drinks on the bride to be! PM going out as soon as this is posted... On other matters, when ending a thread, could thread "Beet's Caption Contest X" not be locked until "Beets Caption Contest X+1" is open? #56 got locked before there was a sighting of the 57 flavors… :-) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1533686)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: let's try this one:  Copyright © 2014 Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, NoDerivatives 2.0 license... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1533676)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm wondering if "Berkeley time" is different from "Pacific time"... :^) There's more than one "Pacific time" in the world, (specifically, there's one in the USA, and one in Australia...) Steve - that's why I put it that way! looking now...[/quote] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1533577)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win - will post in the AM, Berkeley time... (I'm posting this one at 1 AM, my time, which is also Berkeley time!) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1532704)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll give you Hanta virus and sting ya! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #57
(Message 1532703)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 8 legs, check; furry, check; tail? complex eyes? no check! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1532082)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "A blank is all you need to incinerate this guy/gal..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1531891)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Spidey sense tingling... prepare to jump left... (wait for it...) JUMP! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1531620)
Posted 24 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: over-poison (Black Widow) meets overkill (Glock 23)... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1531247)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Totem pole on live tree... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1530915)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Treebeard lets his hair go... and for the prior pic: Plop goes the weasel! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1529924)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Consider it filed in my (leaky) memory banks... :) BTW, that's a picture of the movie prop as my avatar... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1528879)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Congrats Gnu, loved the alliteration... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1528002)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Takest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1527652)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This artichoke meets this dragon fruit..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1526479)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: World's largest carp meets the guy from River Monsters… |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1526362)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey! I'm not that kind of guy! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1525087)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When I said I wanted to do something kinky, this isn't what I had in mind… |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1524788)
Posted 5 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hold on, one of your antennæ is straight! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1524614)
Posted 5 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: All dressed up, but no place to go... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1524345)
Posted 4 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: His eyes are bigger than his stomach. Heck, his food is bigger than his stomach! |
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(Message 1524145)
Posted 3 Jun 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom: don't eat anything bigger than your head, Junior... Jr: But it's so delicious! |
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(Message 1523029)
Posted 31 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: dog: Wow, you are fat... Coon: The humans are feeding me too much! |
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(Message 1521899)
Posted 28 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat: (in Urkel whine...) Did I do that? |
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(Message 1521703)
Posted 27 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: if they ask who did this, I'll retrieve you, (and point!) whether you want to come or not! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1520883)
Posted 25 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: On second thought, don't lean on me... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1520513)
Posted 24 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wall by Faux-Rock®... |
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(Message 1519802)
Posted 22 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This elephant sits where he/she wants to sit! |
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(Message 1518590)
Posted 20 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can sing duets by myself... Mini-me is a soprano, I'm a bass... |
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(Message 1518220)
Posted 19 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Half of those teeth are so rotten, they have to come out! |
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(Message 1517338)
Posted 17 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: yellow sign on shirt: "Wide, Long Load" |
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(Message 1517337)
Posted 17 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How to bring home oval PVC pipe... |
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(Message 1516985)
Posted 16 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I keep die mice away... |
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(Message 1516580)
Posted 15 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sneaked over the 8 million mark for Seti production without much fanfare... |
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(Message 1516564)
Posted 15 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do these marshmallows taste like styrofoam? |
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(Message 1516146)
Posted 14 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First, apologies for being late - I postponed the judging yesterday until noon, (to give everyone 24 hours...) then at noon, I forgot! Compounding the problem, I'm on the 'net late today, due to sleeping in. (I'm retired…) On to the judging... Dishonorable mention to Chris S for: "Car 57 to control, pedestrian about to walk into parked vehicle, request paramedic." Chris, the car's number is clearly visible as "7"... (Albany PD has never, TMK, had a car "57") In third place, is Lynn with a song from the 60's: There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear In Second Place is Rob Smith with: Car 7 there's something fishy over the road from you for the pun on "fishy" in FIRST PLACE and next photo is Steve Meyer for: "These new all electric cruisers are fun. When I get right up behind him, hit the sirens." I almost did a coffee spit take with that one... PM going out as soon as this missive is posted! For Lynn, and anyone else interested, what happened is that a car had violated the pedestrian's right-of-way, and Car 7 is off to give him/her a ticket... This photo (and most photos I post) is my own work... |
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(Message 1515456)
Posted 13 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judging at noon today (Pacific Daylight Time... same as Berkeley time...) |
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(Message 1515118)
Posted 12 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, Caption THIS:  Albany PD 7 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr That's the Albany, CA PD, BTW - not Oregon, New York, Georgia, or any of the 13 other Albany's in the USA... and about 4 miles northwest of the SETI lab... |
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(Message 1515107)
Posted 12 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks, and sorry for the delay, I got hung up by the unexpected outage... (outrage...) Looking now... |
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(Message 1514411)
Posted 10 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: General, about your car... |
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(Message 1514080)
Posted 9 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tank can cross 5 foot ditches... "Feet not Meters, you #@$$@#@!!!" |
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(Message 1514077)
Posted 9 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: General, there's a small problem with the tank.... |
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(Message 1513703)
Posted 8 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Children's play platform designed by Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson from Terry Pratchert's Discworld series... |
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(Message 1512645)
Posted 6 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "What we have here is failure to communicate..." (with apologies to the Cool Hand Luke screenwriter[s]) |
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(Message 1511849)
Posted 3 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is that lion from the last round gone? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1511335)
Posted 2 May 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Fat Lady was delicious! — I'll sing! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1510512)
Posted 30 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, shouldn't that be "LACK of Kryptonite"??? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1509600)
Posted 28 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] Here I come, to save the Day! [/thought bubble] |
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CLOSED*SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVII*CLOSED
(Message 1509230)
Posted 27 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I just realized that another of my computers, 7112440, had snuck over the million mark without any Sturm und Drang... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1509225)
Posted 27 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Red Card! Red Card! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1509036)
Posted 27 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yipe! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1508443)
Posted 25 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When asleep, I make almost as much noise as that Hoover, when on... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1508440)
Posted 25 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The lastest dust-mop attachment to the vacuum in the background... Look, folks, I'm goin' for a funny caption, NOT a suggestion! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1508016)
Posted 24 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This bear needs a hug! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1507596)
Posted 23 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, no color? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1506057)
Posted 19 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Deer Hunter V - The Buck's Revenge! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1504393)
Posted 15 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a Saturn V rocket, as designed by Michelangelo... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1504082)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: you've heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Well, this is the Sinking Tower of Venice! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption #56
(Message 1504081)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Tower of Astronomic Studies in Venice, during an Aqua Alta… |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1503196)
Posted 12 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "look, mate — you neet to pull when I push, or push when I pull, otherwise this tangerine ain't going anywhere!" |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1501392)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Yoda voice] Size not important! [/voice] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1500177)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stay tuned! Winner and runner-ups coming later today! All good so far! Keep the entries coming....... I'll be back! said the Governator... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1499727)
Posted 4 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not a pretty sight, but this is what a horse lynching looks like... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1499241)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We treed it! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1498508)
Posted 2 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This grape is larger than I thought... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1498202)
Posted 1 Apr 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, it's Clobbering Time! — umm, Judging Time! The Huh? award goes to Angie's problem of Who is Fred? Third Place goes to Mr Perk for: ...take my word for it. Just keep saying, Who-whooo!!! Second Place goes to Graham for: "Do you have any idea how long the guy's been in that outhouse? I GOTTA GO soon!!" And First Place and next post goes to (TA DA) N9JFE for: Actually, this is the safest place we can be. The humans aren't allowed to fire guns in town. Dis-honorable mention to everyone who had the turkeys gobbling - it's the toms that gobble, not the hens! (what I showed...) My caption, BTW, is "I say, Scarlett, isn't Rhett simply divine in that snood?" in a Southern accent... Playing off the Gone With the Wind connection, even though this subspecies of Turkey shown is from Texas or Arkansas... (The "snood" is the fleshy appendage that tom turkeys have hanging off the front of their heads) |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1497885)
Posted 31 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 7 captions, so another 24 hours... (Monday's reply to Julie's doesn't count, that's a comment on a caption...) |
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CLOSED*SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVII*CLOSED
(Message 1497545)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Time to re-created this thread since #XXVI reached its limit I set for the dial-up users. Enjoy.... :) Is anyone still using dial-up? Just realized that I've crossed the 10M mark, combined SETI production and Beta! (7M production and 3M Beta...) |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1497543)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, what are these two saying to each other?  Wild Turkey BY 2-12 2 on Flickr® Sorry, I can't get the link to work... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1497539)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you... |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1496779)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passing 7M Seti production credits sometime today... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1496771)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rehearsals for Cat Lake are now in progress... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1495784)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Call my agent!!! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1495508)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] I go through all this for only one bottle? [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1495132)
Posted 25 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Preacher: Will you take this man... (etc.) Bride: NO! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1494981)
Posted 25 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [stage whisper] That's why I'm marrying him, toots! [/whisper] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1493504)
Posted 22 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The backwoods grilling solution... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1491267)
Posted 19 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [hand gesture] "This isn't the droid you're looking for..." [/gesture] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1490824)
Posted 18 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The view is much better up here… |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1490210)
Posted 17 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Grumpy Cat rules the world! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1488872)
Posted 14 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here... [in background] Crikey! [/background] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1488378)
Posted 13 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Hammerheads of The Wizard of Oz haunt Steve Irwin... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1486775)
Posted 9 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Civil War re-enacter uses distinctly non-Civil War technology to report a problem... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1486667)
Posted 9 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Private James reporting, sir... the enemy have resorted to germ warfare — they've set fire to the privy! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1485720)
Posted 7 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: …down, down, twist to the right a little, down… Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Tea has landed! |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1484820)
Posted 5 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1800 posts to message boards... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1484818)
Posted 5 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: new type of Cylon sighting... Admiral Adama, take note... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1484415)
Posted 4 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mine would'a been: "Hey Joe, you down there?? Joe???..." |
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Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems?
(Message 1483264)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 01/03/2014 17:08:05 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site the upload and download servers need a kick in the a## again... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1482806)
Posted 28 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] Once I get my claws out of this Nomex®, the photographer can bend over and kiss his ankles good-bye! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1482805)
Posted 28 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hold me! |
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Panic Mode On (87) Server Problems?
(Message 1482312)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is this the same problem.... Yes, that's the problem... the upload server needs a nudge, which should happen shortly. (in an hour or so, when the staff gets in - it's 0720 Berkeley time......) |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1481986)
Posted 26 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sam: Po-ta-tos Gollum: What does he want with roots, my Precious? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1481580)
Posted 25 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ginger with a bad attitude... |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1480956)
Posted 23 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed 6.5 million Seti production ... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1480954)
Posted 23 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rick thought the .600 Nitro Express cartridge was just right for a revolver... |
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Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems?
(Message 1480662)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: SETI Beta is completely down... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1480661)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Today, on "World's Largest"... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1480011)
Posted 21 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: instant castration, lesson 1 |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1479647)
Posted 20 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What kind of dog did you expect in this neighborhood? A Poodle? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1479329)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dog "trees" cops in New Orleans for corruption... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1478641)
Posted 18 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hope that hose will blow... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1478445)
Posted 17 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] "Better mousetrap?" [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1478373)
Posted 17 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgin' time! Steven Meyer wins the Huh? Award for: She's her driving class starts next week with "Parking 101" Maybe your fingers couldn't keep up with your brain, Steve? In Third Place is Rob Smith for: Double penalty notice: Failed to park within designated bay - Fine $100 Failed to park with center line of vehicle over the bay demarcation line - Fine $500 Total fine $600, to be paid within 28 days points taken off for verbosity... in Second Place is Steven Meyer for another caption: [Owner of the shopping center] "As a matter of fact, I DO own the whole d**n parking lot." points taken off for no threat following, like: "…and the next time you do that, you'll be towed!" And [musical sting] TA-DA![/sting] First Place and next picture goes to Graham Middleton for: Parking lines? What parking lines? Isn't this the blind parking space? PM on the way... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1478030)
Posted 16 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I see only six responses, so far, so another 24 hrs... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1477677)
Posted 15 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, I'm now awake! Caption this:  parking slob ECP 1-25-13 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1477514)
Posted 15 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win... I'll get something up in the AM, Pacific time... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1477181)
Posted 14 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom, do the laugh again... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1476294)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey, Bill... You're never gonna believe where your boat turned up, this time..." |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1476149)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A well-named boat! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #55
(Message 1475975)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Those who can't back try different methods... (professional truck driver) |
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Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems?
(Message 1475386)
Posted 10 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not only the stats export is down - the Science Status page hasn't been updated since Feb 7... and some of the stats on the Server Status page haven't updated in 46 hours (as of this posting)... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1475121)
Posted 10 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The kink.com restroom or The restroom at Roissy |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1474473)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Howard Cosell voice] And DOWN the drain goes Seti! [/voice] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1473773)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Look, Ma, what I taught Santa! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1473358)
Posted 6 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just another traffic day in Los Angeles... |
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Gripes and Kudos III
(Message 1472808)
Posted 4 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Would it be possible to get the off-site people to NOT start the outage until 9:00 AM PST? It keeps creeping earlier...(7:30 AM 2day...) Umm, because I get up at 6:30 AM to upload from all my computers, and one hour just isn't enough time for all six of 'em... |
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Gripes and Kudos III
(Message 1472791)
Posted 4 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Would it be possible to get the off-site people to NOT start the outage until 9:00 AM PST? It keeps creeping earlier...(7:30 AM 2day...) |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1471696)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Parking slob to the Nth degree... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1471182)
Posted 31 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgin' Time!!! (think the Fantastic Four's Thing: "It's Clobberin' Time!!!"…) In Third Place is Graham Middleton for: a bot preparing to trawl the web. Nice pun there, Graham… In Second Place is N9JFE for: "Hey, where'd Miss Muffett go???" Although I was thinking of a different nursery rhyme... (see below) In First Place and next picture goes to (Ta DA!) Steven Meyer for the superbly simple: OK, who stole my web? (as explained in the caption to the original, the web is invisible, being the same color as the background...) My caption would'a been: "Come into my parlour," said the spider to the fly... PM on the way... |
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(Message 1470767)
Posted 30 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, Beets fans, caption this:  Cellar Spider BY 5-20-13 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1470672)
Posted 30 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone has to say it: The Bimbo Toolkit... |
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(Message 1470327)
Posted 29 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Happiness is a warm kitten. Oops, late! |
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(Message 1469982)
Posted 28 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know it's odd, but I like you... |
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(Message 1469549)
Posted 27 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Dr. Who, the early years... 2) Smaug's baby picture... |
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(Message 1469247)
Posted 26 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ten having arrived, (actually 11...) it's Judging Time! Honorable mention to John McLeod for: 4th place in the state fair. Although the shot is at a county fair (Alameda County in CA, to be exact...) Third place goes to a new participant, Mr Perk, for: "Really??? You want me to pull on them?!" Second place goes to CeltTooth for: Shucks, if only I had completed my engineering degree… and First Place and next photograph goes to N9JFE for: Click that shutter and you will die. …although I clicked the shutter, and I'm still here! PM on the way... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1469052)
Posted 26 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: eight so far... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1468644)
Posted 25 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank You Rules reminder: 10 captions or 24 hours, whichever occurs later; if not enuf captions within 48 hours, you still judge at 48! What is this girl thinking?  Goat milking ACFG 1995 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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(Message 1467613)
Posted 23 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: They sure don't want this car to move! |
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(Message 1467323)
Posted 22 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, it's Judgin' Time! Honorable mention to Monday for: F#*k! f#*k! These rocks are hot! (…not that they were that hot when this shot was taken: it's only 9:30 AM, and the air temp is only 90°F… in Death Valley…[which regularly gets to 120°!]) Third Place goes to Celttooth for: Let's see if that stupid Coyote can find me now… BTW, in the real world, coyotes are faster than Roadrunners… (30 MPH vs 26...) Second Place goes to Chris S for: The Council needs to resurface this road! And (Ta-DA!) First place (and next pic) goes to John McLeod for: One of the very few animals for whom rattle snake is on the menu. (which is true, BTW...) Yes, this is a Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus, and it was photographed (by the poster…) near the Visitor's center of Death Valley National Park (as mentioned above) at 9:30 AM on October 22, 2013. |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1466777)
Posted 20 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have just (I signed in late today...) gotten the news: I thank all who participate (especially Mr Roberts!) and send you this:  DVVC 10-22-13 3 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr and "Beep, Beep" is not an option for the caption! (hint, hint!) |
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(Message 1466298)
Posted 19 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Curséd hat! I have not gotten a laugh since I acquired you! |
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(Message 1465839)
Posted 18 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The other clowns scare even me! |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1465346)
Posted 17 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached 6M SETI 'stones... |
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(Message 1465133)
Posted 16 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ah, Mom's back - breast feeding soon! |
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(Message 1464658)
Posted 15 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You're going to be bisected - do you want it longitudanally or horizontal? I give you the choice... |
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(Message 1464184)
Posted 14 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "15 yards for grabbing the facemask!" |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1464009)
Posted 13 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached 20M total Boinc! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1463884)
Posted 13 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You call me "Green Giantâ„¢" one more time, and I'll take your head off! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1462986)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Decisions, decisions... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1462521)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... and they'll blame the raccoon... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1462520)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] Forward... just a touch to the left... BOMBS AWAY!!! That'll give the cat a serious headache... [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1461854)
Posted 8 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: dog: If looks could kill, I'd be dead! cat: You licked my kibble! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1461458)
Posted 7 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stay away from me, mouse breath! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1461229)
Posted 6 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Elmer Fudd voice] Wascally Wabbit! He made me shoot myself - again! [/voice] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1460954)
Posted 5 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Could someone TURN DOWN THE VOLUME! Please? I can't hear myself think!" |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1460592)
Posted 4 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Van Gogh as painted by Gaugin |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1460375)
Posted 3 Jan 2014 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Baaaa, Humbug! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1458473)
Posted 29 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What? You haven't heard of Ear-Warmers™ by Danskin®? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1458217)
Posted 28 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Are you my mommy? Your ears look different... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1458152)
Posted 28 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'm goin' to get that guy — right after my nap!" (Yawn) |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1457891)
Posted 27 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Be careful: the water's just a little bit acidic... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1457890)
Posted 27 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Revenge is best served cold" — but I didn't know that I'd have to wait until Kiluea went cold... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1457697)
Posted 26 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When they say "Dead men tell no tales" they mean it! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1457340)
Posted 25 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Mayday! Virgin 231 just had a midair with a fat man in a red suit!... Engines 3 and 4 have flamed out, and have not been able to re-start..." |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1457051)
Posted 24 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This takes "nose art" to a whole, new level! |
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S@H Project Badge Recognition Thread (Volume I)
(Message 1457050)
Posted 24 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: gold 1% badge! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1456300)
Posted 22 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What is this, a production of "Phantom of the Nursery"? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1455799)
Posted 20 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yo, who's the idiot that smoked in my room? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1455503)
Posted 19 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'm demonstrating the curve of a suspension bridge..." |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1455191)
Posted 18 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Spiderman tries a new way up the escalator... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1454551)
Posted 16 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: No jokes about not being able to fight my way out of a paper bag - it ain't paper! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1453856)
Posted 14 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: …Makes a change from his other hood ornament, a dead deer… |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1453855)
Posted 14 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "…now YOU have to become Santa…" |
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(Message 1453247)
Posted 12 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have managed to have 1024 WU's showing in my tasks list, spread across my 7 computers - that's some kind of milestone...I've also hit 5.5 million SETI (production) 'stones as well as 2 Million Beta 'stones |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1453169)
Posted 12 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Grumpy Cat shipping crate. |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1452540)
Posted 11 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My name José JÃmanez... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1452277)
Posted 10 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hi, Tarzan, long time no see... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1451354)
Posted 8 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Octopus: "Hi, Ariel!" Puffer fish: "What's with the seashells? Some of my best friends are scallops!" |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1450577)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Science just found a new species of tumbleweed, Hayus domesticus |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1449924)
Posted 4 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: He needs to add a middle name "Not the"... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1448872)
Posted 1 Dec 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The whole plane needed the honey wagon after that landing... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1448062)
Posted 28 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My goodness me, why what was that?" "Silent be, it was the cat!" |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1447948)
Posted 28 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Urkel whine] "Did I do that?" [/whine] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1446767)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'm on alert for anyone falling off the ride..." |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1446476)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Made it down to double figures in SETI Beta world ranking! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1446472)
Posted 25 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Spidey sense not tingling... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1446330)
Posted 24 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: img: 60M minutes stopwatch /img Tick, Tick... |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1445392)
Posted 22 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble]Why am I not getting milk from this nipple?[/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1445039)
Posted 21 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Track maintenance dog smelled out a poorly maintained fish plate. |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1444950)
Posted 21 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Teething bone! |
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(Message 1444066)
Posted 19 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 17 million total Boinc! |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1443529)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Seal: Aren't you supposed to be on my nose rather than vice-versa? |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1442991)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "…and now for some Tail-Fu!…" |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1442014)
Posted 13 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Continuing from my last post: [cat thought bubble] The dog tried something! [/thought bubble] |
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Beet's Give Us A Caption #54
(Message 1441217)
Posted 11 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] If he tries anything, I'll give him a left cross, with claws![/thought bubble] |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1440603)
Posted 9 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hit 16 million total BOINC with an 800K day! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1440252)
Posted 8 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey, Lady - your horns are crooked!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1438794)
Posted 6 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cow: "Isn't that a silly pace for the udder?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1436988)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr. T: Ah, semi-liquid heart attack! You make it so well... Ms. Stewart: Yep, Pasta Alfredo... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1436561)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mine! Mine! All Mine! |
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Panic Mode On (85) Server Problems?
(Message 1436502)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It seems that less than a hour there will be no WUs for scheduling... It appears as though they have... |
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Panic Mode On (85) Server Problems?
(Message 1436497)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It seems that the splitters need a kick - there's information on the "tapes", but no WU's are being created... |
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Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0
(Message 1436344)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pie crust weight. Used when baking an empty pie crust, to stop the crust from buckling or bubbling... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1436042)
Posted 31 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do they sometimes wrap it in this nasty white stuff? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1435614)
Posted 30 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The hazards of ice on the taxiway... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1434754)
Posted 28 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's so cool, it's skeletal! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1433258)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Photographer: who is hunting who here? 2) Fox: I see Paris, I see France: I see grass, I see straight up your... 3) Dog: I'm NOT happy to be the hunted! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1432246)
Posted 23 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 24 hours and no word from Rob... Steve, you're up... PM going out... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1431859)
Posted 22 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: As promised, from Death Valley National Park's Furnace Creek Ranch, the following awards are handed out in this order: in Third Place, was latecomer Rob Smith with: I am the thing of dreams - BAD dreams.... ...which lost points for not having a "mwuah hah hah" on the end... In Second Place is Steven Meyer with: I hate it when the humans appropriate my webs to decorate their homes. In First Place is Michael Belanger with: So many Trick or Treaters, so little silk! I'd like to thank all six who posted: There were actuaslly seven posts, but one was either modded or deleted by the poster... PM going out... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1431442)
Posted 21 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 6 captions (so far...) so another 24 hours... I'll be declaring the winner from the Halloween-appropriate location of Death Valley National Park CA, from below sea level! (...The park contains the lowest point on the North American continent, although I'll be above that... [there is no internet access, or cell phone service, at BadWater...]) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1431092)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm looking for a Halloween-themed caption here: Caption THIS: Cellar Spider BY 5-20-13 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Copyright © 2013 Paul Sullivan (AKA: The Holy Hand Grenade!) Rules reminder: it's 10 captions (in 24 hours) or 48 hours MAX... whichever occurs first! I may push the hours on this one, as I will be on the road (with a laptop...) and may not be precise on time... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1430351)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I hate it when they stick a candle inside..." |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED
(Message 1430232)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Made 5M SETI, 2M Primegrid, (with a 500K day) and going for 15M total Boinc... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1430231)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I always love this time of year — food is everywhere!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1428991)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ladies, I can only nurse on one of you at a time... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1427482)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is this designer handbag made of duck skin? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1427165)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mother Goose arrested for "contributing to the delinquency of minors" and pickpocketing... Develops storytelling skills in jail... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1427049)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [headline] Mother duck busted for using ducklings as diversion for pickpocketing. [/headline |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1426734)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rephrasing Julie's post: You put WHAT?!? in the washer? Celt Tooth: so moved! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1425781)
Posted 8 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Stay-Puffed man's house. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1424567)
Posted 5 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sentanced to hard time at the scrub board... |
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Discussion of Cafe games #5
(Message 1424052)
Posted 4 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rules reminder: it's 10 posts or 48 hours... (whichever comes first!) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1423494)
Posted 3 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Seti downtime... |
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We are now mostly recovered from a campus wide power outage.
(Message 1423237)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Are the problems with Marvin preventing Beta from coming up? If not, could someone please start it??? Not if you look at Beta's "Server Status" page... |
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We are now mostly recovered from a campus wide power outage.
(Message 1423176)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Are the problems with Marvin preventing Beta from coming up? If not, could someone please start it??? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1422428)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] Silly human! Flying is for cats! [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1421911)
Posted 29 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Barrel roll! 2) how to get 4 cat scratches at once... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1421468)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgement time! In third place, by a length, is WinterKnight with: I'd rather play with your slippers I see under that armchair. In second place, by a head, is Michael Roberts with: Somebody loves me, I wonder who, I wonder who that can be. (It's not the person holding me...) [I would'a added this line...] In First place, by 5 lengths, is Chris S. with: This not what I call "puppy love" ! My Caption?… Why is this dweeb playing with his IPhone®, when he is holding a live puppy? PM going out once this is posted... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1420990)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I only count 9 captions, so another 24 hours are in order... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1420571)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: caption this:  Looking glass puppy 3-8-13 5 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Click through for a larger image... photo copyright © 2013, Paul Sullivan: All Rights Reserved |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1420512)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've been notified and will start looking (it's 6 AM my time...) when I'm fully awake... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1420127)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm competing in the "Laziest Animal on Earth" - Mammal division. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1419616)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: bliss... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1418552)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wadda ya mean, ya don't like broccoli, and won't eat it? Who do ya think you are, George Bush? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1418497)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [aristocratic German accent] "you vill eat vhat I put in front of you, and like it!" [/accent] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1417193)
Posted 18 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My, but that moon is bright!" Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1416419)
Posted 16 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I don't think this is what they meant by "The whole kitty and kaboodle"... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1415968)
Posted 15 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know wraps are all the rage, but this is ridiculous! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1414657)
Posted 12 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [both] Why is this guy upside down and backwards? [/both] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1414333)
Posted 11 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hope that's a macro lens... or "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1412886)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Stepford Wives: The Early Years |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1412160)
Posted 6 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: rejected by kindergarteners... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1410775)
Posted 2 Sep 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Only YOU can prevent communist take-overs of your country..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1410169)
Posted 31 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "What, this isn't the stick you threw for me to fetch?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1409806)
Posted 30 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement day Ahem, Judging time! Honorable mention goes to N9JFE, the only one who got the location correct: this is a shot of Lebec, CA, which is on the Grapevine, (the pass between California's Central Valley and the ¿glories? of ¿sunny? Southern California, for the non-Californians out there…) taken January 2013. THIRD PLACE goes to Michael Belanger for: "The Geocache is right.....about.....*there* (points to the top of the hill); let's go get the First-to-Find!" for, at least, thinking outside the box... SECOND PLACE goes to Celt Tooth for: "Ah the mountains of Saskatchewan Canada." I thought Saskattchewan was flat... but the location given is far from the actual location... FIRST PLACE and next pic goes to Rob Smith for: "Doctor, are you sure we've arrived on Hawaii in June?" which tickled my funny bone - Hawaii is just as unlikely to have snow as the Grapevine... (unless you're talking Mauna Loa, which does get snow...) PM on the way... |
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(Message 1409363)
Posted 29 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 8 captions, so another 24 hours... everybody is cold in guessing the location, BTW... |
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(Message 1408877)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: caption this:  Park scene by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53
(Message 1408875)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just a reminder of the rules, and the way things work, as I understand them... Winner posts a new picture, waits 24 hours... After the 24 hours, he/she counts the number of captions, if the sum is less than ten, he/she waits another 24... After ten captions or NO LATER THAN 48 hours, the winner of the last round declares the winner of the current round - whatever caption strikes him/her as funniest: he/she also picks a second and third place (more on that below) The winner of the round has 24 hours to post another picture to be captioned; if no picture within the 24 hours, (or notice posted by the winner that he/she is looking...) then second place is up, who also has 24 hours... During breaks in the action, (between a winner being declared and the next picture posted) general discussion may take place... Moderators should be aware that a picture posting may cross with a "general discussion" type posting. That said, I'm looking! |
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(Message 1408866)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We're moving on to Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53... The reason it isn't working for this guy (aside from the axe...) is that it didn't work for Gable, either — it took Claudette Colbert showing some (OK, a lot of!) leg to stop a car in said picture... Will a moderator please close the thread? |
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(Message 1408355)
Posted 27 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, this is how Clark Gable did it in It Happened One Night... why isn't it working for me? |
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(Message 1407629)
Posted 25 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: how Freddie Krugar gets around... |
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(Message 1407026)
Posted 23 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jaws 1.5: Quint's Nightmare |
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(Message 1405970)
Posted 21 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] I'm going to be soaked through, when all this snow melts! [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1405278)
Posted 19 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How do you steer this thang? |
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(Message 1405042)
Posted 19 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, Charon — didn't you have another form the last time I crossed the Styx? |
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(Message 1404414)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The stats export doesn't seem to have happened yesterday, or today... |
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(Message 1404413)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: minor gripe: apparently there's been no stats export for Friday or Saturday... |
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(Message 1404349)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oops, that one crossed with the picture post! My entry: [mouse thought bubble] Doesn't HQ know that I'm NOT amphibious? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1404345)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [edit] [quote] What was funny (at least to this non-Chicagoan...) on the "Bob Newhart" show opening credits was that you saw Bob walk one way (right to left) on a bridge, then the L train (with Bob presumably on it...) went the other way, (left to right) then you saw Bob walk across another bridge. (Right to left) In the first Bridge shot after Bob left his office building you could see all three of these bridges... ...And yes, I remember the funniest TV series closer ever! |
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(Message 1403992)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Steven stole my names! that was on "Newhart", not "The Bob Newhart Show" (Bob had three series, "Bob Newhart", "Newhart" and then "Bob"...) |
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(Message 1403470)
Posted 15 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Goofy's cousins... |
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(Message 1403098)
Posted 14 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Weimaraners aren't the only good-looking dawgs out there, y'know! |
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(Message 1402211)
Posted 12 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "All right, what joker put the Habaneros peppers in instead of Anaheims??? |
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(Message 1402132)
Posted 12 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ¡Mamma mia! Attsa spicy meata ball! |
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(Message 1402072)
Posted 12 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tex-Mex chile in action... |
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(Message 1401515)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: AHHH! Minty fresh! |
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(Message 1401088)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom said to scare Ms. Grapes-in-the-Yard... I wanna look rabid, but not actually be rabid... |
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(Message 1398912)
Posted 5 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] "He looks like my puppy, but tastes like a lamb..." [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1397955)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The result of a barnyard "I'll keep yours warm, if you keep mine warm" agreement... |
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(Message 1397146)
Posted 31 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Wadda ya mean you're cold? My wings can only spread so far!" |
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(Message 1397141)
Posted 31 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What you get if you have cats in the hen house and no rooster - kittikens! Not AFAIK, Donald... |
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(Message 1394840)
Posted 25 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Zipperhead" |
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(Message 1390660)
Posted 14 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This is how some 'humans' paint their faces for unknown, tribal reasons." |
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(Message 1390287)
Posted 12 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now can we get back to pics please? we're still waiting on Donald Johnson dot dot dot |
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(Message 1390149)
Posted 12 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, someone should post a "moving to beets contest # xx" before closing a thread... |
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(Message 1388300)
Posted 6 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Don't go past the "Antarctic Fluff & Fold": they'll grab ya and at least fluff ya! - they may try to fold you as well! |
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(Message 1388299)
Posted 6 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Advantage: you're out of the wind. Disadvantage: Any snow falling sticks to you. |
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(Message 1387079)
Posted 3 Jul 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This panda sits anywhere he wants to sit! |
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(Message 1384916)
Posted 26 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since the SETI team seems to have more "time on their hands" since the move to the co-location facility, I mention again that: The "Multi-Beam Data Recorder Status" hasn't updated in 2 years. (and counting) and The "SETI@home Data Distribution History" hasn't updated since August 2008. Just wanted to draw the staff's attention, in case they've forgotten: I know these items are low-priority — but they shouldn't be forgotten! |
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(Message 1383936)
Posted 23 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How you got elephant snot on your car... |
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(Message 1383367)
Posted 21 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's the telephone box for the 50% taller people from the Isle of Yoo! |
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(Message 1382525)
Posted 18 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's the little ol' lady from Pasadena... who died five years ago! (go, granny, go, granny, go!) |
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(Message 1381836)
Posted 16 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judgin' time! Dishonorable mention to Michael Roberts: the winner gets to post whatever pic he/she pleases that hasn't been used before. I choose from shots that I personally have taken... On to the placings: In Third Place is Julie with: Did you get rid of the dog? In Second Place is Blurf with: "Just leave the tuna on the ground, step away and noone gets hurt." In First Place is N9JFE with Do NOT pick me up! Which sums up this cat's attitude towards me... I also liked your second caption, BTW... PM on the way! |
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(Message 1381679)
Posted 16 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 4.5 Million all SETI points! |
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(Message 1381519)
Posted 15 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 8 actual entries... so another 24 hours... |
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(Message 1381076)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, folks, I'm awake!... Caption THIS!:  persian cat A by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Copyright © 2013, Paul Sullivan. (AKA THE Holy Hand Grenade!) |
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(Message 1381005)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: just got the PM - will post a shot (already have one in mind...) when I wake up, Berkeley AM... |
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(Message 1380721)
Posted 13 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [singing] MI! MI! MI! [spoken] It all about [singing] ME! |
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(Message 1380261)
Posted 12 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This nation should commit itself, before this decade is out, to landing a cat on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" |
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(Message 1379724)
Posted 11 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Definitely seeing some new issues since the update: I'm not seeing this on any of my machines (A Win XP pro x64, Intel Q9550, on a Win XP Pro x32 Pentium 4 3 GHz machine, a Win 7 AMD C50 laptop nor on a Win 7 AMD Athlon2 215...) no BSODs, no data as to length of job (the Q9550 was changed quite recently, the Athlon2 215 just recently went 27/7... and I was running optimized apps on the other two) and I've had no problems with AP jobs. According to Eric at the link, V7 jobs should be taking longer, there's more processing going on... |
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(Message 1379592)
Posted 10 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And the great tenor Catarotti sings....... And no one does! ("Nessun Dorma" means "No one Sleeps") |
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(Message 1379591)
Posted 10 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do they always hang the string just outta my reach? |
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(Message 1378353)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [both simultaneously:] "Are you as embarrassed as I am?" |
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(Message 1377160)
Posted 5 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [high falsetto] ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL! [/falsetto] |
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(Message 1376154)
Posted 3 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1600 Posts to message boards! (this is # 1601...) |
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(Message 1375392)
Posted 2 Jun 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) [cat thought bubble] ...Leave this cowl on me and your chair is history! [/thought bubble] 2) Hell hath no fury worse than a cat made to look foolish! or Hell hath no furry worse than a cat made to look foolish! |
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SETI@home Version 7 has been released
(Message 1373656)
Posted 30 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Yes, even 6.10.58 should download these files automatically (mine has... I run a mix of BOINC versions: 2 6.10.58's [one x32, one x64] a 6.10.60, and a 7.0.28...) after SETI central handled problem b) below...) If it doesn't, typically something either: a) is non-standard in your setup (for example: running a app_info.xml - when you'll get a notice in the messages tab [in 6.10.xx, that is - the separate messages log in 7.0.xx...] saying that app_info.xml doesn't know about V7. If you run a "optimized" version of the SETI app, you have an App_infor.xml!) or b) somebody screwed up at the project. |
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(Message 1373502)
Posted 30 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm getting: "Can't resolve hostname" for three files: The Seti Graphics executable, the Windows main executable, and for the "libfftw3f-3-3_upx.dll" file. This is with Avast! AV both on and off. I don't run a firewall - not even the Windows Firewall, although Win XP keeps trying to turn it on... |
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(Message 1372467)
Posted 27 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The explosion in the Pepto-Bismol factory took Babar by surprise... |
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(Message 1371361)
Posted 24 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Krypto? What Happened? Was it Brainiac again?" |
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(Message 1370920)
Posted 23 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 006 tries harder, but doesn't get the results... |
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(Message 1370371)
Posted 21 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Excuse me, Mr. Schwartzenegger, but you can't stack your boat here... |
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(Message 1370368)
Posted 21 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: minor gripe: could someone please bring up Beta? (7 [and growing] outstanding Cuda WU's...) |
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(Message 1369692)
Posted 19 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I don't think my 'shocked look' is working..." |
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(Message 1368476)
Posted 16 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Gee, I didn't know my left rear could activate this... 2) Now, how did I get to the kitty porn last time? |
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(Message 1367891)
Posted 14 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "No, I'm not a Gentoo, I'm an Adele's Penguin!" |
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(Message 1366913)
Posted 11 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm glad I'm not the girl — or the goat — in the immediately prior shot! |
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(Message 1366772)
Posted 11 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement Time... an Honorable Mention goes to Monday for "I'd rather be pulling a pint...." umm, she IS pulling a pint. (and then some, of milk...) unless you meant BEER... Third Place goes to Chris S with the first of his many entries: "Don't even ask!" Points were taken away for more than three entries, Chris Second Place goes to Julie for "Man! Why aren't I a city girl?..." First Place and next photo go to Blurf, who caught the girl's expression perfectly with "Are we having fun yet?" PM going out when I finish this post... |
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(Message 1366350)
Posted 10 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win. Caption This: Goat milking ACFG 1995 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Alameda County Fair, 1995 |
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(Message 1366091)
Posted 9 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll move only for a Gibson. |
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(Message 1365454)
Posted 7 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (young lady leaning on rail) "I wish I were in Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, instead of this boring lunch!" |
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(Message 1364386)
Posted 4 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've heard of baby-ing your dog, but this is ridiculous! |
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(Message 1363230)
Posted 1 May 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, It's Judgin' time!!! (almost typoed "judgin' tom" ;-) ) In Third place is Chris S with "'V2 - rotate!" Maybe a little too esoteric, Chris... In Second Place is Rob Smith with: "So that's where that last olive went...." But First Place goes to Steven Meyer for "A "Peeping Tom" turkey" — except that it's a hen, Steve... Nobody seemed to realize that this gal (hen, remember?) is landing, not taking off... My caption? [self thought bubble] Great! Thanksgiving dinner just landed in front of me![/thought bubble] Didn't anyone notice the date? This is one of the Albany, CA flock of Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo intermedia that showed up last year (presumably they moved down out of the Berkeley hills) and have survived to the present day... |
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(Message 1362526)
Posted 29 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 8 captions, so another 24 hours are called for… |
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(Message 1361963)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Caption THIS!  Wild Turkey A 11-5-12 3 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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(Message 1361953)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I got the personal message, so I assume I'm the winner... (although reading Rob's message just below, it's hard to tell...) I was going under the assumption that some of you may have heard the phrase: "Timbuktu under an assumed name may not be far enough..." Will try to search my Flick® account for a funny shot: I'm currently re-building my main computer from a boot (and a few other partitions!) hard drive failure... well, it wasn't as long as I thought... |
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(Message 1361751)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) I'm off to Timbuktu, and will live under the name: "Tim the Enchanter"... 2) Timbuktu, please! ...And step on it !!! |
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(Message 1361495)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Goat: You aren't gonna wanna see the back of your shirt when I get off... |
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(Message 1361109)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: kid: seeing that other pic is a hair-raising experience! |
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(Message 1360336)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "Can't Talk" confronts the "Doesn't Think"... notice that I don't say which is which... |
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(Message 1358046)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [bear thought bubble] Why must they always jump into the mobile cans? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1357512)
Posted 16 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Left: "Fists have no place in scientific arguments!" Right: "Oh, Yeah?!!!" |
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(Message 1356165)
Posted 12 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Photoshop goes nuts... |
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(Message 1355326)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's one way to get the kids reading... |
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(Message 1354689)
Posted 8 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) This guy dreads magnets... 2) [doctor thought bubble] Did this guy just request an MRI?[/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1354428)
Posted 7 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's judgin' time... Dis-honorable mention to Julie for: "Hey, this tree doesn't have any nuts?!?" The tree has acorns, Julie - there's one right between the front paws... Third Place to Michael Roberts for: "The competitors, like this squirrel, are up a gum tree sucking nuts." It's an OAK tree, Mike... Second Place to Chris S for: "I'll have to branch out, like this tree." First Place and next post goes to Sarge for "Eric wonders, 'Why is the squirrel having an easier time finding food, than I am finding alien signals?'" My caption? [squirrel thought bubble] That's 1/39,000th of my winter food store found... [/thought bubble] PM going out after this is posted... |
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(Message 1354096)
Posted 6 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm underwhelmed by the number of responses so far... |
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(Message 1354003)
Posted 6 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is anyone working on a fix for the stock app? |
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(Message 1353836)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm getting computation errors on the CUDA-Fermi app that appear to be unrelated to the Keppler problem. (although I'm running a Keppler card - the GT 660) I get: "SETI@home error -12 Unknown error cudaAcc_find_triplets erroneously found a triplet twice in find_triplets_kernel File: d:/Projects/SETI/seti_boinc/client/cuda/cudaAcc_pulsefind.cu Line: 236" This same error appears to also be in the CUDA23 app, as a "wingman" with that app (and a non-Keppler card, a GTX 280...) had the same problem. Sample WU with the problem is 2903962082. |
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big problem computation errors
(Message 1353832)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Upgrade to the latest Nvidia drivers - apparently the problem was with the 302-304 range of drivers, and the newest (310 and on) drivers work OK... |
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Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1353130)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Minor gripe/inquiry: My (and many people in my RAC range) score dropped by about 77,000 cobblestones just before the outage, and then came back after the outage: Wha Hoppen? |
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(Message 1353126)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry about the wait, but I couldn't get a photo posted before the long outrage... (snicker...) Yes, that should be left, taken from the kid's perspective... And now, for something completely different:... Caption THIS!:  Easter Grey Sq Mer 3-14-13 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Photo copyright © 2013, Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) Photo taken Merced, CA: photo equipment: Nikon F4s, Promaster 100-400 lens, Kodak Portra 400 |
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(Message 1351818)
Posted 29 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, you on the left! Watch this camera! |
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(Message 1351817)
Posted 29 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where's the birdie? |
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(Message 1351707)
Posted 29 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here we go again with captionus interruptus... |
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(Message 1351414)
Posted 28 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Yes, there has... |
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(Message 1351088)
Posted 27 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Georges Seurat, I'm coming for you! |
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(Message 1350214)
Posted 24 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BMW souvenir cigar cutter. |
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(Message 1349815)
Posted 23 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Men in Black's newest model! |
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(Message 1349478)
Posted 22 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BMW invents origami car... calls it the Carigami model... |
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(Message 1348666)
Posted 20 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bee thought bubble: are you looking down your nose at ME??? |
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(Message 1348665)
Posted 20 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat thought bubble: Buzz off! |
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(Message 1348419)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat]BEE! Do not breath out....[/cat] |
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(Message 1348023)
Posted 18 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The world is my snowshed... |
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(Message 1347762)
Posted 17 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...If you are my brother, you will NOT fart! |
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(Message 1347540)
Posted 17 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 24, 72, 300, Hut Hut! |
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(Message 1346845)
Posted 15 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, Wikipedia? How do I do a Barrel Roll? |
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(Message 1346530)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Blue Angels bald eagle squad reverting from inverted flight... |
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(Message 1345765)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Darth Maul make-up test, Take One! |
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(Message 1345227)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thong bathing suits: Those who should (left); those who shouldn't (right). |
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(Message 1344877)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Selina (Catwoman) tries a new tactic on Bruce Wayne... |
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(Message 1344576)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Maude! I said LION — not mountain lion! |
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(Message 1344574)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This puma takes up the whole bed... |
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(Message 1344092)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Marquise deSade no like contestus interruptus! |
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(Message 1344060)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Start-up for a Hooters® rival |
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(Message 1343765)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've got all the "naughty bits" covered, right? |
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(Message 1343523)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This you call a meal??? ...and you charge 25 bucks for it?!? |
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(Message 1343268)
Posted 5 Mar 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Waiter! There's a splotch on my plate! |
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(Message 1341314)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tom, trying to run over Jerry... |
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(Message 1340724)
Posted 25 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cubic Feline drivers - even worse than Female Oriental drivers? |
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(Message 1340460)
Posted 24 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement time has arrived... (finally...) A Dis-honorable mention to Chris S for: "If they can't spell Centres, serves them right!" Chris, that's the way we spell "Center" on this side of the pond... I also give an Honorable Mention to Scarecrow for: "J. B. Hunt.... Just Been Hired, Unfortunately Not Trained" In Third Place we have Julie for: "You never passed that driving test, now did you?" In Second Place we have Angela for: "Wrong Way Corrigan takes the shortest route to the nursing home..." In First Place and next picture we have Shannock 9 for: "No trains were harmed in the making of this picture." PM to Shannock 9 on the way... |
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(Message 1339952)
Posted 21 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll give it another 24 hours (48 total…) due to the ~8 hour blackout this morning... (the website was down from roughly 3:30-9 AM Berkeley time, if you didn't notice…) |
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(Message 1339833)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Another couple of hours for the last minute entries and then the hammer of judgement will descend on the anvil of arbitration... Which was actually meant as a comment on your post, but I'll take the win... Caption this:  bollards 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Jack London Square, Oakland, CA |
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(Message 1339746)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Another couple of hours for the last minute entries and then the hammer of judgement will descend on the anvil of arbitration... ...and you'll forge a decision? ;-) |
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(Message 1339705)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Frodo and Sam at the Crack of Doom. |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXV [ CLOSED ]
(Message 1339488)
Posted 19 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jumped over 9meg total BOINC 'stones, and soon to post 4M SETI 'stones... |
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(Message 1339482)
Posted 19 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Bob? if you take another step closer, you auto-ignite! BOB? BOB! STOP!!! |
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(Message 1339190)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Winners of the "Owner Looks Like Pet" competition... |
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(Message 1338105)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hang on Sloopie, Sloopie hang on..." |
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Panic Mode On (81) Server Problems?
(Message 1337677)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: here's an odd one: the daily cricket graph has had no data since (roughtly...) 1300 2/12/13 - but the weekly has shown full usage during the period... (except when the outage was occurring...) |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXV [ CLOSED ]
(Message 1337670)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've managed to nurse one computer (of 4) past 2 million credits |
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(Message 1337667)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble]Why is my sheepskin cat basket moving?[/cat] [sheep thought bubble] How do I get this thang off my back?[/sheep] |
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(Message 1337390)
Posted 12 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll wash my hands in vodka - that outta get rid of those pesky skunks! |
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(Message 1337066)
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My son, waiting for an AstroPulse work unit to download... |
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(Message 1336773)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Me, just about every night... (except I'm not that young or cute...) |
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Panic Mode On (81) Server Problems?
(Message 1336767)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There's three million + "Results ready to send" on the "Server Status" page, but I keep getting "Project has no tasks available" when I report! Something else needs to be kicked, too, in addition to what was kicked to get reporting going... |
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(Message 1336273)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Squab and egg breakfast on the hoof, guys! |
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(Message 1335834)
Posted 8 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [left cat] Mmm, Feathered Rat for lunch! [right cat] Mark, let us out! |
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(Message 1335357)
Posted 7 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's one for the blooper reel... |
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(Message 1335356)
Posted 7 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, no! An endo downslope into a tow truck! |
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(Message 1335080)
Posted 6 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is not how you build a Sauselito houseboat... |
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(Message 1334882)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Wonder Woman] Ok, I'm going to step away and put you all in the Lasso of Truth! Then I'll find out who's groping me! |
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Panic Mode On (81) Server Problems?
(Message 1334738)
Posted 4 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm wondering about "10dc12ac 0.00 GB": why even bother "hanging a tape", if there's nothing on it? (yes, I know that they are disks, that's why "hanging a tape" is in quotes...) |
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(Message 1334632)
Posted 4 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Flash] They're not going to make us race around the world again, are they? |
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Panic Mode On (81) Server Problems?
(Message 1333593)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Scheduler needs to be kicked again - 7 contacts (from 3 different computers) with no luck on any of them. 64 WU's waiting to report! |
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(Message 1332778)
Posted 30 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bondage and Discipline for the wheelchair-bound... |
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(Message 1332256)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Enuf with the bright flashes, make with the grapes, NOW! |
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Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?
(Message 1331818)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The scheduler is FUBAR again. I've been trying since 12 Noon Berkeley time for some GPU units to test my new GTX 660 and get the same response every time: 1/26/2013 4:38:10 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer The scheduler needs to be re-booted, in all likelyhood. It's now 5 PM Berkeley time, if anyone had been in the lab, they've probably gone home! |
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(Message 1331792)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone finally told me that this was a boxwood, not an African Acacia... |
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(Message 1331612)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The safest way to trim this hedge… (IF you own the crane!) |
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(Message 1331204)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement day! (oops, wrong speech...) Judging time has arrived and while inventive, no one came all that close to my thought when I saw this on the capture screen of my camera: "Arrogance Captured!" on to the various places: in Third Place is Bill walker with "If you can't park it, why did you buy it?" Bill, I sometimes think that for less egregious parking slobs... (my term for anyone who takes up two spaces, parks leaving his "tail" way out in the parking aisle, or parks a non-compact in a space marked "Compact") In Second Place is Angie in a tie with herself! both "Hey buddy. I know four year olds who are better than that at staying within the lines." AND '"I'm sorry sir. I have checked the ADA legislation and 'driving impaired' is not listed as an ACTUAL disabling condition."' both tickled my funny bone. but... First Place and next picture go to Tron for: "Welcome to MY Walmart. Feel free to park anywhere ...else…" which wins for being the closest in feeling to my "Arrogance Captured" caption. PM is on the way. |
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(Message 1330737)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate to make more work for the staff, but I think the scheduler is having one of it's snits again, as I write... I've tried to update on three different computers and get "Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer" each time, whether the computer is just reporting completed tasks or is also requesting new tasks... |
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(Message 1330734)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, Beets fans, let's see what you can do with this:  parking slob OWM 5-9-12 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Closest to what I think, wins! photo copyright © 2012 Paul Sullivan (AKA: THE Holy Hand Grenade!) some rights reserved |
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(Message 1330697)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... will post next shot in a few hours, it's 5 AM for me... |
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(Message 1330187)
Posted 22 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "How many times do I have to tell you, Charles? The kid is NOT to be used as part of the Van de Graaf generator!" |
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(Message 1330102)
Posted 22 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1500th post! |
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(Message 1329403)
Posted 20 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Car Sex 102 - How NOT to do it! |
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(Message 1329140)
Posted 19 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It is not every day you see a Honda mounting a Lambourghini... |
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(Message 1328670)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I understand the traffic jam after a few days of being offline. a) the "stuck downloads" syndrome is common for the servers when there's a "Traffic jam": It's normal, and will work itself out. B) The folks at Berkeley don't necessarily know what type of WU (workunit) a "tape" will produce. Sometimes a 'tape' starts with normal WU's and about halfway through, starts producing shorties. It depends on what the Aracibo telescope is doing while the "tape" is being produced: sometimes that changes while the "tape" is running. The GPU's run time estimates are often wrong - it depends on what kind of WU's you've previously processed. (With an estimate of 2.5 minutes, you must have high-end nVidia Keppler(s)!) |
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(Message 1328246)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Mrs. Grey, I believe you have a small problem with your R8" "Mr. Grey, I think I do - but stow that twitching palm - it was parked!" |
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(Message 1328245)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Car Descending Staircase" by Marcel Duchamp |
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(Message 1328019)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry about the delay - I was in the process of judging when the outage hit... Honorable mention to John McLeod VII for "It is possible to make cardboard origami." John, Nikon is now packaging some of their lenses in what I've heard called "corrugami" - folded corrugated! Third Place to Carlos for "Thinking outside the box" A mailbox, I assume... Second place to Soft^Spirit for "The postal service practices their full contact Origami" First Place and next shot to Steve Neyer for "Mangled with care." PM on the way... All participants should be delighted to know that the item inside, a 72mm photographic filter, arrived safely, although the paperwork was a crumpled mess! The photo was taken as soon as I pulled this from my mailbox, in case I had to make a claim. I did wipe my address, though (this is posted on Flickr®) |
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(Message 1327378)
Posted 13 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let's see what you all can come up with for this:  USPS package 8-31-12 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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(Message 1327346)
Posted 13 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win - will post in the morning, Berkeley time (it's 5 am for me...as I post this) |
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(Message 1327136)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Arrogant Bastard Aleâ„¢ looks good in the sunlight. |
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(Message 1326156)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (the one looking down the gutter...) "Uh, guys? we're in trouble if it rains!" |
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(Message 1325348)
Posted 6 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So many shoes, so little time! |
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(Message 1324495)
Posted 4 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You DO want to look behind you... |
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(Message 1323519)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I AM going to get him for this... |
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(Message 1322700)
Posted 31 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Will the last alien to come off-stage please turn off the amps..." |
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(Message 1321515)
Posted 29 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The only thing I (also just another user) have to say is, don't let the door hit you in the electronic a$$ on your way out. (And I say that only out of concern for the door.) Because the project can't afford to fix the door! :-) |
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(Message 1321344)
Posted 29 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cargo? what cargo? These are my FUEL! |
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(Message 1320938)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, it gets a little over 62 MPN*. Umm, I think that would be 62 NPM — Nuts Per Mile... ;-) |
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(Message 1320937)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm part of the user base, not part of the SETI staff… I'm attempting to alert that staff - since I know that they read this thread. |
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Posted 28 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OMG! They're multiplying! |
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(Message 1320843)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We seem to be back in a "extremely hard to get a valid scheduler response" mode - something appears to have happened since ~6 AM today (Berkeley time) I'm getting a lot of either "no headers' or "timeout reached" with the occasional "failure receiving data from peer" and the very occasional time when a scheduler request gets through. Note that these are happening with even simple 'update my stats' scheduler requests - not reporting WU's or requesting them... |
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(Message 1319653)
Posted 24 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Typical management – increasing the workload by standing on the workpiece! |
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(Message 1318881)
Posted 22 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Judging Time! Honorable mention to Rob Smith's Harry Potter allusion: "Uhh Ahhh, my invisibility cloak has failed..." Third Place goes to Blurf for 'As REO SPEEDWAGON sang, "It's time for me to fly..."' Second Place goes to John McLeod VII for "I believe it might be time for me to buzz off." First Place and next shot go to Steve Meyer who finally (after two other tries!) tickled my funny bone with: " Fly me to the Moon . . ." Steve, I've opened up a "Beet's Give me a Caption # 49", and posted the rules (as I understand them) there, as this thread is now super-long. Please post the new shot there. PM sent. MY caption (and I can't beleive that nobody went this way!) is: [rubbing forelegs] Great! That dog just did his business, so I have a pile of C*** for food! [/rubbing forelegs] |
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(Message 1318875)
Posted 22 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just a reminder of the rules: You try to come up with a family-friendly caption to the shot posted. Winner posts the next picture; if the winner doesn't respond in 24 hours, the second place is up, etc. Whoever posts the current picture is the judge of the competition: judging should take place 24 hours after posting the picture, or 48 hours if 10 entries haven't been received within the first 24 hours. Reminders to the judge should be sent personal mail, if said judge hasn't performed his/her duty. Chat between shots (I.E> judging has occurred, but the next shot isn't up yet) is allowed. |
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(Message 1318199)
Posted 21 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count only nine responses (with two responses each by Steve Meyer and Sarge) so another 24 hours are granted... No one has gone in the direction I would'a, BTW |
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(Message 1317638)
Posted 20 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd like to thank... oops, wrong speech... Caption this...  Fly Zen 9-8-12 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Photo copyright © 2012, Paul Sullivan - some rights reserved |
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(Message 1317166)
Posted 19 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [frustrated female voice] Honey, will you read the map NOW? [/female voice] |
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(Message 1316688)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [James Cagney voice] "You dirty rat! THIS is the last face you're ever gonna see!" [/James Cagney voice] |
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(Message 1316135)
Posted 16 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Have you seen this cat burglar? |
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(Message 1315451)
Posted 15 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitty just had an Einstein-level idea... |
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(Message 1314395)
Posted 12 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Waddaya mean, 'you aren't standing straight!'?" or 2) "Ouch! Bulb HOT!" |
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(Message 1313392)
Posted 10 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That'll teach me not to lend my rig to a 400 pounder... |
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(Message 1313150)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] UH OH! This is gonna hurt… [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1312634)
Posted 8 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Tommy Chong voice] Hey, man, where are the brownies? [/Tommy Chong voice] |
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(Message 1312452)
Posted 8 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: State of Washington voter celebrating. |
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(Message 1311407)
Posted 5 Dec 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, human? Do I have to nibble this pencil sharp? |
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(Message 1311220)
Posted 29 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, what does C=Pi*R² have to do with me? |
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(Message 1311218)
Posted 29 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've read this entire manual, but it doesn't say where my human keeps the kibble! |
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(Message 1311076)
Posted 28 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] "carry the three... Yes, even cats have to do their income tax..." [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1310083)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Teeter-Totter as built by the Caterpiller® Corp. |
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(Message 1308168)
Posted 20 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you for the win. Here is something seasonal. Let's all ham it up. Turkey sheds bikini for Thanksgiving dinner. NB: shouldn't that be: "let's all turkey it up." for Thanksgiving? |
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(Message 1307619)
Posted 19 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Does that explain why the Schedulers are currently (2115, 9/18/12 Berkeley time) down? |
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(Message 1307462)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Only problems with # 2 is that Topal would be singing "Tradition" for a Fiddler on a Wire… ;-) |
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(Message 1306753)
Posted 16 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: hmm, judges? there's been no activity for 4 days... The rules are: judging after 24 hours with 10 entries or after 48 hours (even without 10 entries)... Please don't moderate this off the thread... some people don't (apparently) know the rules... |
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(Message 1306410)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Every time your computer comes in with a "requesting tasks" scheduler request a certain number are assigned - but if your request times out, then you never download them. (your computer never finds out about them…) They'll be downloaded as "resent lost tasks" (…usually 20 at a time…) when a "requesting tasks" scheduler request eventually makes it through (…if one ever does…) – or when they run up against the task's deadline (I've got a huge number that will expire on 11/17/12, for example) they will get assigned to another computer. The way to stop this nonsense is for the SETI crew to determine what is wrong with scheduler requests - I haven't gotten a good reply to a "reporting xx tasks, requesting tasks" request for almost a week. (The few times I've not gotten a failure are when I just report tasks or request them.) If the SETI crew would shorten the 5 minute delay after a good Scheduler request, we (the SETI community) could at least do the NNT, report, Request new tasks routine in a more timely fashion... (and some of us have to do this on multiple computers!) (could someone explain why the delay is 5 minutes? I know that a delay is now required - but what's the magic of 5 minutes?) |
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(Message 1304437)
Posted 10 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Clown college between classes... |
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(Message 1303543)
Posted 8 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...too bad he/she locked the car... |
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(Message 1303172)
Posted 7 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stress test: "Four more years!" |
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(Message 1302497)
Posted 5 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, you're ready to... wait a minute, what's this lump in your shoulder? |
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(Message 1302118)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Romneycare pictorialized... |
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(Message 1301729)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: grumbling to self: must have to make a U-turn after a stop,then STOP: everything else is forbidden! |
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(Message 1301516)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: how do you report xx units at a time? |
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(Message 1301009)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There are three ways to back a boat: the right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way... this isn't the right way, or the Navy way... |
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(Message 1300986)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The wrong way to back a boat at the boat ramp... |
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(Message 1300728)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Eric And Angela's honeymoon.... |
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(Message 1299788)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Burt, what did I tell you Mr. Brake was for? |
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(Message 1298633)
Posted 25 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hulk SMASH! |
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(Message 1298176)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Dad? Your cigar is in your LEFT hand! Don't CHOMP!... Please? |
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(Message 1295966)
Posted 16 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Iz that why they call this a "Love Seat"? 'Cauz it luvz to eat ya? |
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(Message 1295576)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MA! A little help here? |
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(Message 1294876)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ahem... Judges? The rules state 10 responses/24 hours OR 48 hours... |
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(Message 1294874)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd just like to say that whatever was done on Thursday to the up/download servers and the network link is working like a charm for me! (as of Saturday...) |
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(Message 1293398)
Posted 10 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The symbol for the island of Capri (Italian: Capra = Goat in English) |
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(Message 1292414)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Uniformity is not what it's cracked up to be... |
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(Message 1292121)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This may have been asked before, but why was the Hurricane Electric 1Gbit/sec line terminated down on the campus, instead of in the SSL, in the first place? My question was: why is it down on campus, and not at the SSL? I know it's an ISP... another way of saying this is: Why does SETI need to use the 100Mbs line down to the campus, when the ISP's termination should have been on the hill all along? |
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(Message 1291932)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This may have been asked before, but why was the Hurricane Electric 1Gbit/sec line terminated down on the campus, instead of in the SSL, in the first place? |
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(Message 1291927)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The all-new Diplodicycle! |
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(Message 1291823)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hop to it! – Drive me off this picture" |
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(Message 1290581)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm with Swibby Bear and Grant: it's time something was done about the scheduler, as 100 WU's (as last I heard) held in memory is too few, now that you guys have (as I see it) 4 to 6 different types of WU's, (CPU MB and AP, NVideo MB & AP and ATI/OpenCL MB & AP) with the assignment of type apparently (to me) being done BEFORE the WU gets into the scheduler's memory. A doubling of the number of WU's to 200, if not a quadrupling to 400, seems to be in order... I've mentioned this before, BTW, and got shot down with "It's working the way it is" - not as well as it could, (as I saw it then) and it's not working too well now, and it'll only get worse from here, as more and/or faster computers come along! |
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(Message 1289351)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: semi-portable avalanche system |
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(Message 1289069)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mule 1: I've just got the electronics and the speakers - that mule ahead of me has the batteries! |
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(Message 1288823)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What the mule substituted for his kick. |
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(Message 1288821)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Can you hear men NOW?" |
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(Message 1288360)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thought bubble: "Why do I have a hump? I'm not a camel!" |
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(Message 1287767)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bystander: if that's Romney's version of "in control", I'm voting Obama! |
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(Message 1287764)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, why do I only have one Viking horn? |
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(Message 1287412)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Swedish Air Force tests a SAAB 37 Viggen alternative... |
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(Message 1286681)
Posted 22 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why Letterman Army Medical Center suddenly started seeing a rash of "splinters in the Gluteus maximus" complaints... |
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(Message 1286275)
Posted 21 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do the reserves always get the obsolete technology? Cleansweep 100's indeed! |
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(Message 1285848)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whadda ya mean, "Hands up!"? - that's what's holding me up! - if I put my hands up, I'll drop below this fence... |
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(Message 1285416)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is how you play peek-a-boo in a California Tibeten Buddahist monastery... |
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(Message 1284811)
Posted 17 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Aww, isn't he/she cute? - Stinky, but cute! |
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(Message 1283236)
Posted 13 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The real-world equivalent of the Queen of Heart's croquet game... |
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(Message 1282781)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: …brings new meaning to the term "sugar sand". |
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(Message 1282228)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Hey, who let HIM in???" 2) (guy in black skirt) "I've never seen so much white skin in Sumo 101..." |
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(Message 1280343)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You think you're the Big Dog, don't ya? Well, for attacking my child, this mom can, & will, rip your head off! |
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(Message 1278906)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mitt Romney's way of halving the school bus budget... |
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(Message 1278283)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well KWSN, it appears that appendixes don't win here :-) That's OK - it was just an afterthought... and I got a second-place on the last one, anyway! |
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(Message 1277692)
Posted 30 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... Just thought of another: ...is that the sound of 15 picnic tables with dry rot? |
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(Message 1277442)
Posted 30 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hurricane Isaac storm surge avoidance in the Big Easy... |
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(Message 1276863)
Posted 29 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Unclear on the concept "pyramid scheme"... |
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(Message 1275724)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I see that they've finally solved the ghetto-blaster portability problem... |
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(Message 1274899)
Posted 24 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...The only piece of flat land on the island... |
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(Message 1274039)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The dude never found out that the '60's had ended... |
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Bug in server affecting older BOINC clients with NVIDIA GPUs.
(Message 1273349)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: in the "news" department, there are two problems: 1) I can't upload completed tasks; 2) the "Server Status" page shows as a blank! (as of time & date posted) |
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(Message 1273343)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
LUCY! You got some 'splaining to do! :-] |
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(Message 1272602)
Posted 18 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Grown car guys will cry in their sleep when they remember this picture! |
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(Message 1271513)
Posted 14 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That'll keep the little rascals quiet for a while... |
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(Message 1271133)
Posted 13 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble]Why is this towel lumpy?... Maybe if i knead it a bit more....[/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1268946)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Watch out for the mama with the .45-70! |
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(Message 1267958)
Posted 5 Aug 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Just your average, workday, office chair rabbit... or 2) Silly rabbit, computers are for humans! |
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CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIV *CLOSED
(Message 1265928)
Posted 30 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: .reached 3.3M Seti 'stones... |
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(Message 1265916)
Posted 30 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Giving the feathered rats a run for their money! (Feathered Rat = Columba livia = the city pigeon.) |
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(Message 1264846)
Posted 27 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I didn't know there were lobster smurfs… …but I bet it's smurfalicious! |
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(Message 1263738)
Posted 23 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gives new meaning to "Permanant mooring"... |
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(Message 1262939)
Posted 21 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll turn off the flow of oil to the US if I don't get my nuts... |
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(Message 1261575)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
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"Ti-i-i-ime is on my side... Yes it is..." |
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(Message 1259853)
Posted 13 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bomb run? No one told me this was a bombing mission - I'm not loaded with bombs (but I have lots o' cannon shells!) |
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(Message 1259445)
Posted 12 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alert! Red-tailed Hawks at 12 o'clock high! Peregrine Falcons at 6 o'clock low! |
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(Message 1258910)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Failing a sugar cube, I'll take the hand... |
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(Message 1257524)
Posted 8 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) ...it's the postal ghostal collection... 2) where's Ms Pac-man? |
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(Message 1257085)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Peace, live long, and prosper" - and this will help! |
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(Message 1256430)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lions have a bit of evolving to do... |
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(Message 1255909)
Posted 5 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Christian; Nice try, Ana, but you missed. You didn't wear underwear to our wedding? Anastasia: Why you, (unprintable) arrogant, stalking bastard! |
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Give us a caption #46
(Message 1255908)
Posted 5 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Battles of the Wales' V2.0? |
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(Message 1255420)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (2 second pause) "WAH, I want ISLAY MALT! NOW! |
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(Message 1255036)
Posted 3 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You bought Scotch whisky for an Irish baby? are you nuts? |
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(Message 1254560)
Posted 2 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... and he sleeps like that! |
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Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1254405)
Posted 2 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanksgiving dinner, anyone?  Turkey BY 5-27-12 8 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr (just kidding...) |
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Give us a caption #46
(Message 1254235)
Posted 1 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "This saves having to lick..." |
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Swimming in Data (Jun 20 2012)
(Message 1254230)
Posted 1 Jul 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alert! Even though everything shows as "running" on the "server Status" page, uploads are very slow - and usually don't get through at all. Sunday 1 July, 2012 |
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Discussion of Cafe games #3
(Message 1252654)
Posted 28 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late entry: Gives new meaning to the term "bubble butt". |
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(Message 1251803)
Posted 26 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, it's legal to butt the ball in soccer, but not recommended! |
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(Message 1251325)
Posted 25 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yoda says "Balance rocks, you must!" |
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Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1249925)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Umm, American Kestrals Falco sparverius can hover without a headwind - I've seen them do so! |
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(Message 1249922)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: to add to the general population here, there's this deer:  Yosemite Village deer YoNP 3 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr that I caught in Yosemite Village - it seemed unafraid of people. (this was taken with a normal kit lens, not a telephoto!) Copyright © 2012 Paul Sullivan |
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(Message 1249920)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) looks like the boat has "gone fishing" for a while... 2) the new Bass Boat - Chaparral model |
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(Message 1249416)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: parking slob of the worst order... |
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(Message 1247408)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Spy vs. Spy |
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(Message 1246942)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hello, Dial a Crane?" |
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(Message 1246440)
Posted 15 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You expect me to board over a mere Toyota??? I'm a PRINCESS!!! It should be a Mercedes, if not a Rolls Royce!!! |
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(Message 1245910)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Bridge Over the River Thames" |
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(Message 1245356)
Posted 13 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Land Rover proving grounds... |
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(Message 1245065)
Posted 12 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I'll give you 'bull in a china shop' and raise ya to 'bull elephant on a rampage'!!!" |
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(Message 1244761)
Posted 11 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Good luck getting the "demons" out of the building. Shouldn't that be "Daemons"? ;-) |
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(Message 1243956)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [mumble] Oy Vey ist Mir![/mumble] [aloud] Did my brother send up any wine? Earl Grey just isn't enough anymore! |
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(Message 1243334)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: AT-AT kitty... |
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Power - Finale (Jun 07 2012)
(Message 1243333)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: another idea - try replacing the video card and/or the video drivers... |
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(Message 1241718)
Posted 5 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Great, he's doing the grizzly bear impression... |
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(Message 1241084)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cat Fancy's newest breed: the Money Courier / Guard cat... |
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(Message 1240648)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My precious!" |
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(Message 1239459)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Flying Spear Fisherman of Pasta Fazool! |
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(Message 1238041)
Posted 27 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) I confused: if I'm supposed to be kept in, then where's the bars? or if I'm free to go, then why the bars? 2) My fur will always look better on my back, rather than on yours... |
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Beets: Give us a caption 45
(Message 1237390)
Posted 26 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Paging Angela!" |
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Power (May 22 2012)
(Message 1237389)
Posted 26 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Having trouble with uploads, regardless of what the "system Status" says about the upload server being "online": all my uploads are quitting after about 40 seconds with an "HTTP error" - both production and Beta... |
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Beets: Give us a caption 45
(Message 1236669)
Posted 25 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Seriously: THIS ISN'T HALLOWEEN! |
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Discussion of Cafe games #3
(Message 1236668)
Posted 25 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Make note... just because it is green, is a reptile and wants to play leapfrog doesn't mean it is a frog. Umm, frogs are amphibians... |
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Beets: Give us a caption 45
(Message 1235925)
Posted 24 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] #### ...at least it isn't PURPLE![/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1235467)
Posted 23 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ribet! |
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(Message 1235063)
Posted 22 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Angel's Camp is that-a-way! |
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Discussion of Cafe games #3
(Message 1233442)
Posted 19 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: tick, tick, tick... |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1231045)
Posted 12 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: why am I Will Scarlet? I should be Little John! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1230563)
Posted 11 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I am NOT a merry man!" |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1229557)
Posted 9 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the liger sleeps tonight..." |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1228689)
Posted 7 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: HEY! I'm a black Labrador, not a Rhodesian Ridgeback... |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1228346)
Posted 6 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How dare you try to ween me! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1227855)
Posted 5 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: i don't care who - Can we have a picture please? My brain is over-revving! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1227191)
Posted 4 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Don'cha just hate Captionus Interruptus? |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1226197)
Posted 2 May 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dee-fishious! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1222798)
Posted 24 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where's the pigiegull bomber? I must dodge the s***! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1222211)
Posted 23 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, version 2.0 |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1221726)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mother-In-Law apartment, Honda Gold Wing style... |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1221297)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alfonso Bedoya strikes again! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1220636)
Posted 20 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: US FY-2013 Federal Budget - Vol 1 of 15 "Defence Department" |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1220635)
Posted 20 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The contents of my 3 Tb drive... Umm, James? judging due... |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1220315)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Annotated "ANSI 77 COBOL For Dummies" |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1219957)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lady is reading her own DNA code - every letter of it! or Micro$oft finally publishes (under protest) every line of the Windoze 7 kernal. |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1219179)
Posted 16 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally, the long-sought after, small scale, thermonuclear device... |
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Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1218295)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I pity the fool who's got legs like a Western Gull! |
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Beets Number Fourty-Four
(Message 1218258)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Now where was I? Oh, yeah… 65, 66, 67…" or "[thought bubble] Must get glass out of hair before the cops arrive"[/thought bubble] or "Well, there goes car number 10..." |
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23 things every adult knows
(Message 1217700)
Posted 13 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hate to burst your bubble, but Indian English speakers outweigh all other English speakers put together. So.... Given that over 50% of Americans are overweight, and most (east) Indians aren't, we just might out weigh them! |
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Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1217653)
Posted 13 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And for today's notable contribution (in more than one way... ;-) )  The pigiegull by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Also known as the "flying S*** bomber"... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1217640)
Posted 13 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Clairol # 336 with metallic highlights. Umm, I'm pretty sure this is a male, Monday... |
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(Message 1217299)
Posted 12 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 11 - yes, 11! - responses, so here goes... Honorable mention to: xclusive585 for: "What are you looking at?" Third place to: soft^spirit for: What a nightmare, I dreamed there was this flying statue... Second place to: Blurf for Travis Bikel's "You talking to me? You couldn't be talking to me. You talking to me?" from Taxi Driver First place and next post to Steven Meyer for Pigeon Impossible, since not only is the video funny, but he picked up on my Mission Impossible reference. (BTW, the tape recorder never "blew up" as stated a number of places on the web: the tape fizzled, or in one episode I remember, Jim threw the tape into the ocean...) Steve, please start a new thread (# 44) as this one's getting quite long... |
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(Message 1216854)
Posted 11 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thank you... and your next assignment, should you choose to accept it, is...  Feathered Rat E 6-12-11 4 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr This e-mail will self-destruct in 2 seconds: Good Luck, Jim... (tape fizzles) |
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(Message 1216188)
Posted 9 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Spot the imposter night hunter... 2) "Grey feathers? I prefer to consider those as silver highlights." |
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(Message 1215671)
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Interesting conundrum: how do you dig out the only machine you have that digs? |
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Playschool (Apr 03 2012)
(Message 1214672)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's up with downloads? The cricket graph shows a gradual decline from about 1600 yesterday. Downloads are failing (almost as soon as started) with an HTTP error... maybe some server needs a boot up the bum? |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1214612)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Let's do the Time Warp again..." |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1214280)
Posted 5 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "All right, who's the joker that put the Brahms Lullaby on our "music on hold"? |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1213964)
Posted 4 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dial-a-lullaby seems to be working... |
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(Message 1213606)
Posted 3 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: if celt-tooth doesn't get that picture up RSN it'll have to go up after the outage... |
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(Message 1213211)
Posted 2 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Mel Brooks voice] Why do I always get the warped one?[/Mel Brooks] |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1212819)
Posted 1 Apr 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [muttering] This is where the Irish crew took over on St. Patrick's day... [/mutter] |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1212518)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You told the breeder you wanted how many calves per pregnacy?" |
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(Message 1211965)
Posted 30 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ALL NEW! The stretch cow! (Wait'll the bucking steer version comes out!) |
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(Message 1211540)
Posted 29 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I doz the limbo! |
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High Score (Mar 27 2012)
(Message 1211455)
Posted 29 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote]ya but cant get the _0 and _1 in same time on same PC for the same WU :) Bad assumption: lots of people (including me...) don't want AP on their GPU(s),as it would take too long - (I don't have a 580 GTX![or anything close]) but I do run AP on my CPUs (4 of them, one too slow to do an AP WU in a reasonable amount of time. [it's a AMD C50 dual-core laptop - I did try a WU on it, and the WU ran for three days!]) |
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High Score (Mar 27 2012)
(Message 1211450)
Posted 29 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Astropulse v6 testing started at Beta early last December, and has been more or less continuous since late January. For all of that testing, new splitter code had to be in place with the sign difference which was the primary reason for a new version of Astropulse. Changes to the Validator to reliably sense tasks with abnormal runtimes took place more recently, and a trivial change of the application was needed to support that, hence the release is version 6.01. Umm, I'm a Beta tester, and never saw a AP WU come through either of the two computers I have doing Beta... (which is why I asked :-) ) |
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(Message 1211151)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Don't mess with this kitten... |
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High Score (Mar 27 2012)
(Message 1211148)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We also hoped to get the VGC-sensitive splitter on line (see previous note) but the recent compile got munged somehow so we had to revert to the previous one as I brought the projects back up this afternoon. Oh well. We'll get it on line soon. Why isn't this being tested on Beta? (NTM: Why wasn't AP v6.0 tested on Beta?) I thought testing of this sort was what Beta was for? |
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(Message 1210918)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) World's unsteadiest kitten gets drunk... 2) That doesn't taste like mommie's milk... |
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According to the Spiral (Mar 22 2012)
(Message 1210427)
Posted 26 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, at some point are you going to add Georgem to the list of computers on the "Server Status" page? |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1210068)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] Must not show plumber's crack... must not show AIEEEEE! [/thought bubble] |
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CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIV *CLOSED
(Message 1208466)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 3 million SETI production Credits (and 838k Beta credits...) !!! |
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(Message 1208464)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom! I need to take a bath! |
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(Message 1208461)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The cat's attempt to flush the kid just resulted in a clogged toilet... |
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(Message 1207846)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: At a press conference, the President has just been asked: "Does Obamacare have a cure for 'wishy-washy'?" |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1206983)
Posted 17 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [echoing...] Hello? Is this thing working?[echo] |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1206209)
Posted 15 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Go ahead, MAKE MY DAY!" |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1205844)
Posted 14 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [humming to self] I think I'll buzz off and grow some more feathers... ...and I wish this guy with the camera would get outta my face![/hum] |
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(Message 1205838)
Posted 14 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, I counted seven (NOT counting Celt Tooth's) posts - not a huge number, but enuf for a first, second, third... ;-) (or Win, Place, Show...) |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1204930)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let's see if heirs-to-the=throne can out-run giants... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1204666)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: PM was sent: it's now 24+ hours with no action, so skildude is up... sending PM... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1204192)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, judging time... Honorable mention to Angela for: Fortified with eight essential vitamins and shamrocks... Third place to Steven Meyer for: Oi crikey! Second place to skildude for: How about some Kosher Ham with that Jewish Rye? First Place to Scarecrow for: On St. Patrick's Day, everyone's Irish! My caption? "Faith and Begorah, L'chaim!" Orowheat is apparently applying these stickers to ALL their rye bread packages... here's another (in)appropriate choice:  Orowheat conundrum 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Just say nyet! |
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Humanizing the Distance (Mar 08 2012)
(Message 1204182)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, no card readers? No blinking (incandescent) lights? That can't be a computer!... ;-) |
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(Message 1203721)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 8 entries, so another ~24 hrs... |
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(Message 1203374)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... and on to this season-appropriate conumdrum...  Orowheat conumdrum by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr In case anyone can't read the sticker, it says "Happy St. Patrick's Day" |
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Discussion of Cafe games #2
(Message 1202136)
Posted 3 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, judges? |
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(Message 1201400)
Posted 1 Mar 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello? Am I looking at the right end? |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1200983)
Posted 29 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The kid's entry in the "look like your pet" contest... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1200670)
Posted 28 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The zoo's Burmese Python got a little too large... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1200373)
Posted 27 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, ma'am, I know they say "flaunt 'em if ya have 'em" - and you certainly have 'em - but you're still getting a ticket for going 55 in a school zone... AND another for attempting to bribe an officer! |
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1897)
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Sun Dies (Feb 22 2012)
(Message 1200026)
Posted 26 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That is exactly my point!! I went from 75K+RAC/day to ZERO. "Project has no tasks available." This does not keep my 5 systems happy at all. Now it is Friday; all personel have left for the weekend; and SETI is sitting idle (it seems). yes, but 6.12.34 is in there - so it isn't a problem with the client version... There's just more 6.10.60 clients out there... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1199720)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That tooth is really stuck in there: this calls for a surgical extraction! |
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Sun Dies (Feb 22 2012)
(Message 1199718)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That is exactly my point!! I went from 75K+RAC/day to ZERO. "Project has no tasks available." This does not keep my 5 systems happy at all. Now it is Friday; all personel have left for the weekend; and SETI is sitting idle (it seems). He's running 6.12.34, the most recent recommended version of the BOINC client... and well represented in the "top hosts" table |
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1199304)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Nope, he's trying to impress the ladies... I've got better shots (I think...) but they're on film, and not developed yet! |
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1901)
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Beets Give us a Caption #43
(Message 1199277)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A Taxidermist went crazy with grief over his deceased cat... |
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Sun Dies (Feb 22 2012)
(Message 1199275)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "results ready to send" = 1, and the creation rate is below 1 per second, NTM that only four "tapes" are "hung"... |
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1903)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1198923)
Posted 23 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Nope, he's trying to impress the ladies... (read the caption of the pic, accessed by clicking on the pic...) |
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1904)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1198918)
Posted 23 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Wild Turkey BY 2-20-12 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Turkey toms attack car hubcaps because they see another tom in them, not recognizing their image... (they are, admittedly, not the smartest species of bird in the world...) Yes, they are still hanging around my area of Albany: across San Pablo Avenue from UC Village. (the date you see is the date taken/posted on Flickr®) |
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1198273)
Posted 21 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...gives new meaning to the term "Sit-down Strike"... |
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1197837)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know that I smell them, where are the eggs? |
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1907)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1197313)
Posted 19 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate captionus interruptus, don't you? |
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1196867)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The biggest risk of singing in the rain is that you just might step in a poodle... or, conversely, step on a parrot... |
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1909)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1196431)
Posted 17 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Parrot thought bubble] Target acquired and locked in - range 4 inches, attack mode on.[/thought bubble] Polly say "Back off, dog, unless you wanna lose nose!" |
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1910)
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Return (Feb 16 2012)
(Message 1196429)
Posted 17 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for getting that page back online... the data in it were really old (around October 2010, IIRC) and didn't include a lot of the more modern versions of the BOINC client... Next low-priority thing to work on: getting the telescope pointing data on the "Science Status" page back working. |
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1911)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1196064)
Posted 16 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Kitty con Carne"? What does he think I am, a cannibal? |
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1912)
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News :
Project Back Online After Overnight Outage
(Message 1195757)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hurrah, as of 1250 PST (Berkeley time, or earlier) on Feb 15, the reporting of outstanding WU's (if you had them...) became possible. Now, once you're sure that production SETI is stable, could you bring Beta back online? |
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1913)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1195606)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: rat stew ^^ [cat thought bubble] What does he think I am, a Discworld dwarf? [/cat thought bubble] |
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1914)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1195290)
Posted 14 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yum! Mouse soup! |
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1915)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1194867)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Get that damned dirty walking carpet out'a my way! or Only when you pry it from my cold dead fingers... |
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1916)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1194443)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Maybe not the chicks (they're pretty bony...) but racoons are a known predator of turkey eggs! |
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1917)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1194434)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wild Turkeys were introduced in California (for hunting...) sometime back in the 1960's, and has taken off (no pun intended) since then. Ring-Necked Pheasants were also introduced at about the same time and for the same reason. The sub-species introduced is the Great Plains sub-species, known as the "Rio Grande Wild Turkey". They're easy to spot: they have much longer legs than any of the other of the sup-species... |
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1918)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1194385)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Wild Turkeys in Albany? by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Don't ya dare feed us to one of them 'coons! |
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1919)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1193889)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What do you do with a used Trabi?... |
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1920)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1193299)
Posted 10 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The search for ET just made a huge step outside the atmosphere... |
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1921)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1192872)
Posted 9 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ALL NEW! "Specs in Space"! |
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1922)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1192525)
Posted 8 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kenny got a new outer coat/hoodie! (but lost his shoes...) |
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1923)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1192269)
Posted 7 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Or take from her "hay-penny"? ;-) |
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1924)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1191766)
Posted 5 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [bell clanging] Lunchtime! |
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1925)
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Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1191765)
Posted 5 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gripe: I'm getting WU's that there's no way I can complete before the deadline, because the deadline is only twelve minutes from when the WU was assigned - and with the current D/L situation, I haven't even downloaded it before the deadline! Yes, this computer has a CUDA card (a Fermi, GT430 to be precise) but, as I read those two tasks, they are CPU tasks, not CUDA... CUDA on that machine is usually dedicated to MilkyWay, anyway... I've missed any discussion of possible reasons for this, and it isn't the first time I noticed this behavior. |
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1926)
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Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1191472)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gripe: I'm getting WU's that there's no way I can complete before the deadline, because the deadline is only twelve minutes from when the WU was assigned - and with the current D/L situation, I haven't even downloaded it before the deadline! From my tasks list: 2299234075 925016823 5375392 4 Feb 2012 | 16:50:10 UTC 4 Feb 2012 | 17:02:11 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- SETI@home Enhanced v6.03 2299234073 925016817 5375392 4 Feb 2012 | 16:50:10 UTC 4 Feb 2012 | 17:02:11 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- SETI@home Enhanced v6.03 |
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1927)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1190975)
Posted 2 Feb 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What does she think I am, a dog??? |
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1928)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1190405)
Posted 31 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "...If they think that'll ditract me, they got another think comin'..." |
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1929)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1190113)
Posted 30 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] I think I can get the cell phone, but miss the cheek...[/thought bubble] |
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1930)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1189442)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The folding canoe never did get its teething problems sorted... |
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1931)
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (65) Server problems?
(Message 1189043)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Isn't it time for the feeder to be upped from 100 WU per fetch to 200? I get the "no WU Available" at least once a day from one of my four machines... (and normally I only look once a day, in the mornings, Berkeley time.) |
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1932)
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Number crunching :
CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIV *CLOSED
(Message 1189040)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 800k SETI Beta yesterday, 6M BOINC overall sometime today, and I just pushed my overall RAC into 5 figures... |
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1933)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1188868)
Posted 27 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know it's late, but mine would'a been: Dobby the house-elf's baby picture... |
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1934)
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Beets Give us a Caption #42
(Message 1188300)
Posted 25 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate "Captionius interruptus", don't you? This is why a second and third place should always be awarded, BTW... |
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1935)
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Ship of Fools (Jan 12 2012)
(Message 1188095)
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just noticed today (Tuesday 1/24) that the usual outage notice still says that the SETI computers will be down three days... why was this never changed when you went back to the Tuesday-only schedule? And could someone change it to an appropriate message soon? |
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1936)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1187861)
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: NOT around the neck! |
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1937)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1187271)
Posted 21 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Indonesians who have clearly not yet mastered the latest form of energy, "Kid power" |
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1938)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1186818)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Clearly, the dog hasn't heard the old saw: "Never eat anything bigger than your head"... |
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1939)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1186501)
Posted 19 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mine! Mine! Mine! My Precious! |
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1940)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1186186)
Posted 18 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: King Canute, where are you? |
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1941)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1185947)
Posted 17 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Mont Saint-Michel news read-in was a bust when held outside... |
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1942)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1185756)
Posted 16 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Karmic revenge... |
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1943)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1185252)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lassie's adopted child has a new toy... |
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1944)
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Technical News :
Ship of Fools (Jan 12 2012)
(Message 1184987)
Posted 13 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RE: Ship of Fools Also a movie from 1965, and the novel it was adapted from by Katherine Ann Porter. The movie was Vivien Leigh's (Gone with the Wind} last appearance on film. The movie won two Oscars®. |
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1945)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1184764)
Posted 12 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, master? This thing is hitting me where I live, if you know what I mean! |
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1946)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1184560)
Posted 11 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "If that's my father, I'm committing suicide by lightsaber! - A Sith Lord who's also a member of the KKK? How embarrassing!" |
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1947)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1184348)
Posted 10 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgement time (I hope I get this in b4 the outage...) most incomprehensible post: Steven Meyer with: 1|= 1 #0!_|) 7#15 |0053 !_0|\|6 3|\|0UG#, 7#3'/ |\/|4'/ 7055 |\/|3 50|\/|3 |\|U72. Honorable mention: Carlos with "Not a raccoon" Third place to John McLeod VII for: Is that a squirrel trap you are pointing at me? Second Place to Gary Charpentier for: All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. First Place and next photo to Angela for her: S'cuse me, I looking for fabled factory dat also processes nuts 'n tree nuts... PM sent |
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1948)
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (64) Server problems?
(Message 1184143)
Posted 9 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: now the upload server went "disabled"... (although that sometimes doesn't stop me...) |
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1949)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1184063)
Posted 9 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Five so far, giving it another 24 hra... |
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1950)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1183786)
Posted 8 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In this case, the laden airspeed of an African Fruit Bat is zero - the load is larger than the bat... (in Aviation terms, he/she's over max takeoff gross weight...) And Hu, you were too late... Here's the next picture to caption:  Ground Squirrel BM 3-1-10 05 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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1951)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1183498)
Posted 7 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's the airspeed velocity of a laden African Fruit Bat? |
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1952)
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CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIII *CLOSED
(Message 1182990)
Posted 5 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cracked 5k RAC SETI - 8k Boinc overall... |
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1953)
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Number crunching :
CPU cooling issues
(Message 1182987)
Posted 5 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dust may well be your problem, both on the CPU heatsink and on the GPU heatsink; it's an aftermarket item but here's what one of mine looked like after about 4-5 months 24/7 operation...  Zalman fan-heatsink 8-6-11 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr For the record, this computer has a 120mm fan in front, an 80mm on top and the side, all blowing in, and 3 80mm's on the back (in addition to the power supply's fan, of unknown size) all blowing out. Another computer (with more hard drives...) has a 120mm and 3 80mm's in front and an 80mm on the side blowing in, and two 80mm's and the power supply fan blowing out in back. (there's also two uncovered slots in back... Neither computer has had heat issues (except when the heatsink gets clogged like the photo) |
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1954)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1182978)
Posted 5 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Republican Party's symbol has gone nearsighted, and pink with embarrassement over the Tea Party wing's blindness... |
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1955)
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Number crunching :
AMD CPU issue
(Message 1182977)
Posted 5 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: From my quick inquiry ..... it looks like your "Rana" chip AKA "Phenom II X4 B55" is also known as the unlocked Phenom II X2 550. This is simply a Phenom X4 with two cores disabled. Bet you inadvertently had the BIOS setting for unlocking hidden cores enabled. Nothing "inadvertent" about my BIOS settings... (which I always at least look at when doing a M/B swap) Yes, I saw that B55 dual-core, but if you read across, it's a 3.0 Ghz chip, not a 3.3... And good luck finding any mention of the B55 chip on AMD's site - it's as though they have dis-avowed any knowledge of that product! (which was bought in October of 2011, BTW) |
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1956)
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Number crunching :
AMD CPU issue
(Message 1182890)
Posted 5 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have an issue with my new AMD motherboard replacement: I bought what was sold to me as an AMD Athlon X3 455, a triple core chip (actually a Quad core with one core diabled...) this is supposed to be a "Rana" chip, running at 3.3 Mhz. What it reports as, though, is a "Phenom II X4 B55", a Quad core chip running at 3.3 Ghz and all 4 cores run. (and validate!) My problem isn't that I got an extra core - it's that the only "B55" I can find on Wikipedia is a dual core, 3.0Ghz chip... |
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1957)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1182868)
Posted 4 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And now for something less warm-blooded:  Turtles SL 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Note that these are pet Red Slider Turtles, either released into Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park when someone didn't want to take care of them any more, escaped there, and/or the descendants of one of the first two possibilities. (I tend to think that the first and third are more likely...) |
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1958)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1182857)
Posted 4 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... never turn down a chance to have a pun at the expense of a politician! |
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1959)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1182767)
Posted 4 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, this shows that I support Nit Romney... |
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1960)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1182613)
Posted 3 Jan 2012 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New hair "do" in honor of the Crab Nebula. |
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1961)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1181621)
Posted 30 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why's the back of a Mexican one Peso coin here? |
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1962)
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Exodus (Dec 20 2011)
(Message 1181620)
Posted 30 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
last I have are 6.97 apps - 14 of which I'm trying to report! |
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1963)
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Exodus (Dec 20 2011)
(Message 1181615)
Posted 30 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: still waiting on Beta — dot, dot, dot... |
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1964)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1181373)
Posted 29 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If I hadn't gotten squelched by the weekly backup coming in a day late, I would'a posted: Pack-a Pooch: petite female edition: mini Schnauzer recommended. Pit Bull available in larger female sizes; German Shepard or Rottweiler available in mens sizes... |
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1965)
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Technical News :
Exodus (Dec 20 2011)
(Message 1181372)
Posted 29 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, unless there's a good reason not to, could someone bring beta back up? |
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1966)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1180946)
Posted 27 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Newest style for Paris Hilton: the doggie fanny pack! or "I thought the object of 'taking the dog for a walk' is that the dog got some exercise..." |
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1967)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1180635)
Posted 25 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's a big wet one for Christmas! |
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1968)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1180471)
Posted 24 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mt Rainer tells Bill Gates what it thinks of Windoze 8... |
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1969)
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Number crunching :
Scarecrow's Graphs no longer being updated?
(Message 1180214)
Posted 23 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: still missing as of date/time posted Dec 23, 2011 0820 PST (Berkeley time...) |
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1970)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1180186)
Posted 23 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Naples, on the morning Vesuvius blew its top. |
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1971)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1180002)
Posted 22 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wow, what an underwhelming response! oh well, here goes: Third place to skildude for: Give me fish or your car is a Jackson Pollack painting. Second Place to Rob Smith for: I look smug because I know what I had for dinner - and you will find out soon enough... First Place and next picture to Blurf for his: "Give me more WU's or I'll peck out one of your eyes!" Which came the closest to my caption, the gull doing a Travis Bickel (Taxi Driver) impression: "You looking at me, punk?" PM on its way... |
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1972)
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Technical News :
Lapsit Exillis (Dec 08 2011)
(Message 1179556)
Posted 20 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: restarting BOINC isn't necessary: just stop network activity, disable the proxy, and re-start network activity. I can report that my uploads seem to be getting thru the proxy OK, though... |
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1973)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1179452)
Posted 20 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win; now here's the next shot. (there's a hint there, dot, dot, dot) (BTW, I liked the "camp robber" caption better...)  western gull AHM 6 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr and to review the rules: judgement at 10 captions (after 24 hours, to let everyone have a chance...) or 48 hours, whichever occurs first: a gentle nudge to the current poster (if he's late with judgement) should be allowed to stay on the board... |
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1974)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1179298)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Santa: "You're sure there's no camps you've robbed?" |
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1975)
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Beets Give us a Caption #41
(Message 1179081)
Posted 18 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll take your list, but you haven't been all that good... |
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1976)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1178429)
Posted 16 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Pardon me, is this the way to the Rubber Ducky Derby?" |
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1977)
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Technical News :
Lapsit Exillis (Dec 08 2011)
(Message 1178308)
Posted 15 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, I'm getting: 12/15/2011 8:10:47 AM SETI@home Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance even though everything on the "server status" page reads as "running"... This started at about 0800 PST (sent an update at 7:59:13 PST, got "Server request completed"; sent another one [to get my stats updated...] at 8:02 Pacific Standard Time, and got the above) [Added] ok, now [8:11] I see that a lot of the processes are off line... |
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1978)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1178095)
Posted 14 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Swan in front of duck: "Hey, why is this water vibrating?" |
|
1979)
Message boards :
Technical News :
Lapsit Exillis (Dec 08 2011)
(Message 1177116)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stats export from both the main project and beta appear to be down on all the stats sites... |
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1980)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1177113)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Hey, I have that lens! 2) I'm tickling your armpit... |
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1981)
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Cafe SETI :
Discussion of Cafe games
(Message 1176950)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, judges??? (checked, and it's ~50 hours [when I posted this...] by my clock...) |
|
1982)
Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Nvidia GPU overheating
(Message 1176948)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Also check that the heatsink/fan combo on you video card are working correctly: you may have to take off the heatsink/fan, scrape the thermal paste off and apply a new layer... |
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1983)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1176515)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Elephant trying to correct the truck in the last picture gets her target wrong... |
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1984)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIII *CLOSED
(Message 1176316)
Posted 7 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1200 posts! |
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1985)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1176096)
Posted 6 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What happens when you mis-load a flat-bed... ...and you wouldn't "turn your truck around"... you'd turn it over! |
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1986)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1175630)
Posted 4 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: NTSB reconstruction of the latest General Aviation belly landing... |
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1987)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1175191)
Posted 2 Dec 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Pet Log. No litter training. No walks. No vet bill. No food bill just the sheer enjoyment of a rough hewn log. That's right folks buy your Pet Log today!! Revision: litter training needed... look under the log... :-) |
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1988)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1174608)
Posted 29 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who wanted the M-60 GPMG???? |
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1989)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1174311)
Posted 28 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Take that, Frost Giant! |
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1990)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1174097)
Posted 27 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, human! Can we have a bassinet, PLEASE??? We don't all fit in the sink! |
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1991)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1173886)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: umm, Judges? that's 48 hours... |
|
1992)
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Technical News :
Borderland (Nov 23 2011)
(Message 1173791)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Irregardless of what the "server status" page reads, I can't report... but I can upload, though... |
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1993)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1173790)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll have my beer shaken, not stirred... |
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1994)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1173669)
Posted 25 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Coors is suing... |
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1995)
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Technical News :
Borderland (Nov 23 2011)
(Message 1173481)
Posted 24 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I realize that it's low priority, but... are the client connection stats ever going to get back online? it's been a year and a month (plus...) since they went off-line! And (while I'm writing...) how about getting the "Multi-Beam Data Recorder Status" back online? - that's been off since May, IIRC... |
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1996)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1173274)
Posted 23 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Paul Simon was a more convincing turkey! |
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1997)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1173099)
Posted 22 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jim Henson (from above) "This Muppet needs work!" |
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1998)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1172514)
Posted 20 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) [man pointing] "Yes, that's the one, officer, I'd recognize that roofline anywhere!" 2) results of latest I-5 fog-related accident investigated... |
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1999)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1172221)
Posted 19 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's judgin' time... Honorable mention to Angela for "And then this big, mean raccoon came into my yard and... and... and ... oh it is too terrible to tell!" Third place for Carlos with "Department of Homeland Security recruit. We have our eyes on you!" Second place to Skildude for "Paris Hilton's Trailer trash dog. Note the mobile home..." and First Place and next photo to Blurf for "I am the dog of Satan. Feed me now or die." Take it away Blurf! PM sent. |
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2000)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1171934)
Posted 18 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 9 entries, so I'll let it go another day... |
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2001)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1171679)
Posted 17 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win, LadyL: now on to the next picture!  Dog Looking Glass 3 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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2002)
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Technical News :
Codex Alimentarius (Nov 09 2011)
(Message 1171448)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, but I thought the staff should be made aware... |
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2003)
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Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1171391)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I told them not to use shrink wrap on the vehicle! |
|
2004)
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Technical News :
Codex Alimentarius (Nov 09 2011)
(Message 1171389)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Getting back to SETI technical matters, I'm having trouble requesting new tasks, both on production and Beta, getting: "11/16/2011 7:46:34 AM SETI@home Beta Test Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer" almost every time I try: occasionally a Beta request will get through... |
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2005)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1171194)
Posted 15 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You said you wanted a micro-bus, right? |
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2006)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1170983)
Posted 14 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hope you bought the "skid plates" package... |
|
2007)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a Caption #40
(Message 1170799)
Posted 13 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You got up there, HOW??? |
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2008)
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Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1170121)
Posted 11 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: An idea the world wasn't ready for - the pan-trumpet... |
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2009)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1170118)
Posted 11 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Neat pic of the Dog and I guess You, KWSN, Question is, what is that in the upper right corner? No, not me, that's a friend... (I'm holding the camera...) In the upper right is the bottom half of his other dog (not as cute...) Here's a shot taken from farther away...  Oscar & Spot 4-23-11 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr (of course ya woudda known it wasn't me if ya read the caption on Flickr...) ;-) |
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2010)
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1169788)
Posted 10 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Oscar snoozin 4-23-11 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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2011)
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News :
2 Billion Results
(Message 1169614)
Posted 10 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: True, but they are celebrating 1 billion and there are no work units to work on for THREE days. I have my computer set for 10 days of work!! First off: they're celebrating 2 billion (binary), not [1]... (could be a typo there, you've got the concept in the following 'graphs...) Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...) |
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2012)
Message boards :
Technical News :
Codex Alimentarius (Nov 09 2011)
(Message 1169606)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How soon before the scheduler comes back up? - I can't report with the scheduler down - I've got about 18 results waiting on the scheduler... (would'a been more, but I was way down on SETI WU's before this... (except on two computers [out of 4]) |
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2013)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1169449)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Finish everything you took in the chow line!" "Yes, Master Chief Kitty..." |
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2014)
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News :
2 Billion Results
(Message 1169448)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Great result for the project and all it's crunchers !!! On The Other Hand, the US Government also doesn't have proof that aliens don't exist... ;-) |
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2015)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1168914)
Posted 7 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tail end Charlie: "Why are we all single-mindedly headed for the ol' ball-n-Chain?" |
|
2016)
Message boards :
Technical News :
The Indestructible Drop (Nov 02 2011)
(Message 1168633)
Posted 6 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hi, sorry to add to your woes, but uploads are very slow, and the Scarecrow graphs have flatlined since 2300 UTC yesterday (4 Nov, 2011) I know the time in Berkeley - I live 15 minutes by car north of the SSL - I was posting that so that someone could look into it when they arrived. BTW, I haven't gotten anything to download since Friday... |
|
2017)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1168221)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Fawn: "You fake an approach to the left, I'll go in from the right, the cat will never think I'd steal that stupid cowbone. Then truce between you an me, OK?" Dog: "So rright" 2) Dog: "Just a little further forward... AHHH! that's the ticket!" 3) Fawn: "Dogs aren't the only ones with cold noses..." |
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2018)
Message boards :
Technical News :
The Indestructible Drop (Nov 02 2011)
(Message 1168220)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hi, sorry to add to your woes, but uploads are very slow, and the Scarecrow graphs have flatlined since 2300 UTC yesterday (4 Nov, 2011) |
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2019)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1167480)
Posted 3 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette..." |
|
2020)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIII *CLOSED
(Message 1167175)
Posted 2 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached .75 million 'stones for S@H Beta Sunday Reached .5 million 'stones for CPDN yesterday... |
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2021)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1167049)
Posted 1 Nov 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Hey kids, new haircut for the hedge! 2) new industrial-sized weedwhacker... (wait'll you see the forest-sized version!) |
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2022)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1166717)
Posted 31 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Carcharodon carcharias makes a slight navigational error... |
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2023)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1166470)
Posted 30 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Next on Nova — the incredible flying shark!" |
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2024)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1166235)
Posted 29 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Sarge, are you sure the water is only gonna rise 3 feet?" "That's what the Thai Government says..." [mumbles] "Yeah, and they also say that SETI has 99% availability...)" [/mumble] |
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2025)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1165983)
Posted 28 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's... the walking zombies Oakland police squad... |
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2026)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1165771)
Posted 27 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1950's movie monster gets a second job... |
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2027)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1165303)
Posted 25 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Honest, officer, I never touched the gas pedal!" |
|
2028)
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1165029)
Posted 24 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Wrong - her name is CAT-erpuller! :-) |
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2029)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1165027)
Posted 24 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, judges? (that's over 48 hours...) |
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2030)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1164519)
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Why do fools fall in love?" |
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2031)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1164239)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Libyans find Quadaffi's spider hole... |
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2032)
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1163922)
Posted 20 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, this could also go in the "Beet's Caption Contest" thread...  White-Crowned Sparrow AHM 4-1-10 5 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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2033)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1163680)
Posted 19 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...the biking helmet for those who don't want to see the road... |
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2034)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1163196)
Posted 17 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Daddy Long-legs usually (at least around the Sullivan residence, where there are plenty of them) refers to an arachnid, (8 legs) not an insect (6 legs)... Oh, and BTW, I have a distinct bias toward feathered, flying critters... |
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2035)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1163195)
Posted 17 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: DON'T open the lid... |
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2036)
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Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1162882)
Posted 16 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There are crocs in Florida - but only around the edge (FL's crocs are a salt-water species, and endangered.) On to my picture: continuing the class Insecta theme that started the thread:  Crane Fly? by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Click on picture and go to original size for the full glory of this Crane Fly... the "medium (640)" size gives me a life-size shot on my screen. (about 4 inches [100 mm] across the legs) |
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2037)
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Discussion of Cafe games
(Message 1162746)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Nothing up to your usual standards yet and only a few hours to go.... sorry, this isn't really a pic conducive to a funny caption... |
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2038)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #39
(Message 1162217)
Posted 14 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Santa has always had a weight problem, but now he is super-sized! |
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2039)
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Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1161935)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A very Berkeley-centric California Ground Squirrel.  Ground Squirrel BM 3-1-10 04 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr BTW, shouldn't we be starting a "Raccoon Update XI"? This thread is taking 30 seconds to load on broadband... |
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2040)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1161413)
Posted 12 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] Eww! Snot! [/cat thought bubble] [moose thought bubble] Keep those claws in, or I'll sneeze on ya! [/moose thought bubble] |
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2041)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1160713)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sod off! that's my place to veg out! |
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2042)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1159819)
Posted 7 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Darn it! I run outta gas in the middle of a 216 mile stretch of road with no emergency phones! I'm glad I'm a Ham operator with access to the 10 meter band..." (173 Km. = 108 miles) |
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2043)
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Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1159420)
Posted 6 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Paul, that is a beautiful picture! Thank you for posting it. If you thought that was good, how about this one? (same bird, some minutes later...)  Northern Mockingbird AB 6-11 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr He/she (sexes have the same plumage) seems to me to have a "quizzical" look about him/her... |
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2044)
Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1159417)
Posted 6 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Betty, I think Bam-Bam needs a diaper change..." |
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2045)
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Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1158873)
Posted 4 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First house constructed on plans by M.C. Escher... |
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2046)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1158579)
Posted 3 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: headline: New house celebrates merging of construction and mycology... |
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2047)
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1158528)
Posted 3 Oct 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: on a totally different note, here's a non-mammal shot to poke some fun at:  Mockingbird 1 AB 6/11 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr taken just north-west of SETI central on the Albany, CA Bulb. I, BTW am a fan of Aussi-rules football... where Gelong beat Collingwood in the equivalent of the Super Bowl. |
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2048)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #38
(Message 1157363)
Posted 30 Sep 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... resulted in a sit-down strike by the contracted harp tuner.... |
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2049)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #37
(Message 1152786)
Posted 16 Sep 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [cat thought bubble] I'm giving her two seconds,then the claws come out! [/cat thought bubble] |
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2050)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #37
(Message 1151516)
Posted 12 Sep 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You're under arrest for stealing a factory drive tire off a Freightliner Century..." |
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2051)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #37
(Message 1151227)
Posted 11 Sep 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... and I thought the Book of Mormon was soporific.... (no offence intended!) |
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2052)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give us a caption #36
(Message 1136313)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bill, it's 10 captions OR 24 hours minimum... (some of us only sign on the 'net once a day...) My caption would'a been: "Oy vey! Is that gonna leave a mark!" |
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2053)
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Beets Give us a caption #36
(Message 1135551)
Posted 3 Aug 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jack in the Box finally found his box! |
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2054)
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Beets Give us a caption #36
(Message 1135188)
Posted 2 Aug 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The only ambulance that produces its own fuel! |
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2055)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1134841)
Posted 1 Aug 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Boss: "Uh, wouldn't it be better, if you two switched costumes?" |
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2056)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1134832)
Posted 1 Aug 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: British police sting operation at the Royal Ballet unsuccessful... |
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2057)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1134551)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Re: "seat cover": no passengers are contemplated, due to: a) I'm a junior driver. b) I'm going to be team driving. (meaning that when I'm not behind the wheel, the other driver is... that way the truck is running almost 24/7) (another way of saying that is when I'm not in the sleeper, the other driver is...) c) there's no one to take! (I'm single, and my aged parents (94 & 91...) can't climb into the cab...) |
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2058)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1134180)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In a between the pictures aside, I'll be away from the computers for at least 2-2½ months, starting Sunday the 7th of August, so if you miss my contributions, that's why. I'm going to be taking a job as a long-haul trucker... |
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2059)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1133498)
Posted 29 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: FEED ME! |
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2060)
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Cafe SETI :
Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1132627)
Posted 27 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Amy Winehouse's final moments... |
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2061)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1131733)
Posted 25 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: kid: "How come you get to haul Darth Vader's luggage?" Trooper: "You ever been Force-throttled, kid?" |
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2062)
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Technical News :
Stardust and Sand (Jun 23 2011)
(Message 1131415)
Posted 24 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, could someone start the Beta services first thing Monday July 25th? |
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2063)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1130743)
Posted 22 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ♫"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"♫ |
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2064)
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Technical News :
Stardust and Sand (Jun 23 2011)
(Message 1130739)
Posted 22 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In case no one's mentioned it, it is extremely hard to update to/from SETI's servers since at least 0915 Berkeley time on 7/22... |
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2065)
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1130398)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (both together) Palin's in a Nevada brothel? Race ya to Air force 1! |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1129709)
Posted 19 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Officer, the perps who stole my pickle looked like the two individuals in the last photos" "We might catch them and charge them, but they'll get off..." |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1128360)
Posted 16 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "I'm not (legally) guilty" look. |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127860)
Posted 15 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Typical rupert behavior - expects the grunts to do all the work... (Terry Pratchert reference...) |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127601)
Posted 14 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, Rupert! Hows the phone tap sound? |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127551)
Posted 14 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, it's judgin' time... First off, Honorable mention to everyone who figured out that the rat was dead... (it wasn't just dead, it was very dead!) Second, my caption was "I just don't give a..."(photo) Third Place to Donald L. Johnson for "News Flash - City of Albany using carnivorous plants to control rats. Second Place to Hu Flung Dung for "R.I.P. Rat in Peace" BTW Hu flung dung, the rat did... ;-) and finally , our First Place winner is.... Skildude for "Hey!!! Look!!! Fresh city chicken!!" I couldn't resist the silliness of that... PM on it's way... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127412)
Posted 14 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: keep 'em coming... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127216)
Posted 13 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd like to thank the city of Albany, CA for this next one...  ??? by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1127001)
Posted 12 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [outrageous French accent] "I fart in your general direction!" "Come any closer and I shall taunt you again!" [/accent] |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1126598)
Posted 10 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Help! My head is stuck in this fershuginner hole! |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #35
(Message 1125899)
Posted 8 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It was Luke's secret terror that the secret exit of the rebel base would be in the lavatory... |
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(Message 1125374)
Posted 7 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Order, Order!!! Pipe down, before I use this gavel on skulls!" 2) "When you have a bigger problem, you use a bigger HAMMER!" |
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(Message 1125150)
Posted 6 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gallus Rex, the extinct chicken! |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1124859)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Barney's been hitting the bottle since his generation of toddlers grew up... |
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Stardust and Sand (Jun 23 2011)
(Message 1124634)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] I understand that sometimes it's hard to tell whether the assimilators are totally stopped, or just being slowed by the "nitpicker" or the RFI processes.(Unless, of course, those processes are stopped, as they were Friday, July 1...) |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1124576)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Judge(s)? |
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Stardust and Sand (Jun 23 2011)
(Message 1124575)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Looks (from the Cricket graph) like something broke around 1600 Berkeley time on Sunday, July 3... Can't upload... and only re-trys are downloading. |
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(Message 1123922)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [joint thought bubble]Must... fight... beer... temptation...[/joint thought bubble] |
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Stardust and Sand (Jun 23 2011)
(Message 1123418)
Posted 1 Jul 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query: how come we're (or, at least I'm) able to upload, even though the upload server shows as "disabled" on the "Server Status" page? |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1123034)
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip]
No, the world hates us because we allow this kind of thing (both the picture and the captions...) to be put on the 'net where anyone can see it! |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1122752)
Posted 29 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sarah Palin on vacation in Hawaii |
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(Message 1122128)
Posted 27 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Dog's thought bubble]If I lick her ear, maybe she'll forget about the piddle in the living room![/Dog's thought bubble} |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1121492)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Ahem] Judges? |
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(Message 1120461)
Posted 23 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "My mind to your mind..." 2) Achmed accidentally uses the "Vulcan death grip" 3) Gitmo for juveniles... |
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Monolith (Jun 14 2011)
(Message 1120458)
Posted 23 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The cricket graph again shows that the upload server is down. The status page shows it up. ...And the latest thread in "Tech News", and therefore the thread most likely to be read by the Staff... |
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(Message 1119711)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Look, Ma — I can levitate!" 2) "Nope, still no sign of S@H being up..." |
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(Message 1119078)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do they call us boobies? You can tell their sex just by looking at them! |
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(Message 1119063)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thing(s) for the staff to look at when they get in Monday: on the "Server Status" page: "Current Result creation rate", "Result Turnaround Time", "Results Received in the last hour" and "Transitioner backlog" all show as "AS OF" 53 hours ago (currently...), suggesting that the same software bug is affecting all those stats (and that whatever broke, broke on Friday around 4 AM Berkeley time)... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1118729)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, isn't it Judgin' Time? |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #34
(Message 1117931)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ahhhh! That's the spot! |
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Monolith (Jun 14 2011)
(Message 1117928)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] OK, so I was off by an "I" with "Virii"... but the "Windoze" was done deliberately, for effect... The part in bold was my point! |
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Monolith (Jun 14 2011)
(Message 1117498)
Posted 15 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] But of course not! They're running *nix which eradicated viruses long ago, when the Earth was still cooling. *nix is not immune to virii, but few people write viruses for *nix as the damage would be limited - and not as many people are P----d off at Linix or Unix due to them being almost free of cost, as opposed to M$ Windoze... but we're getting off topic... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1116995)
Posted 14 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The president models the "ping-pong ball in the tie" fashion trend... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1116706)
Posted 13 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Heil me! |
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Gravity (Jun 09 2011)
(Message 1116704)
Posted 13 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: @ S@h crew That is normal for the SETI download server when the downhill link to their ISP is overloaded... they're working on upgrading that... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1116341)
Posted 12 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitty: "That hand gets any closer and it gets scratched - I don't care if I get blown away, I've still got some lives left..." |
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(Message 1116338)
Posted 12 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So bruno (the upload server) has been having fits. Basically an arbitrary CPU locks up. I'm hoping this is more of a kernel/software issue than hardware, and will clear up on its own. In the meantime, we did get it on a remote power strip so we can kick it from home without having to come to the lab. Probably whatever does that (the freezes) is dependent on a process in Bruno... (or is a process actually running on Bruno...) |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1115957)
Posted 11 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: SWAT team, called in for a suicide attack kitty, grills a possible accomplice. And my caption for the prior shot would'a been: "The Calcutta Express is now departing on track 5..." |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1114627)
Posted 8 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The new canine dis-armament training wasn't working so well - the defendants tended to get shot in the back... (with a paint ball...) |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1114265)
Posted 7 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mussolini ignores his better side... |
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Ricochet (Jun 02 2011)
(Message 1113994)
Posted 6 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) The "client connection stats" page hasn't been updated since before the big black-out last year. I know both are low priority problems, that's why I don't bother posting them when there are bigger fish to fry... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1113175)
Posted 4 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Remember that the Japanese invasions in WW2 were to set up the "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" I.E. the Japanese government glommed onto everything... |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1112362)
Posted 2 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: She: Why does this traditional hat have to behave like a sail? He: To keep you indoors, my love... BTW, tack, if you please... |
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Ricochet (Jun 02 2011)
(Message 1112355)
Posted 2 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A few things to work on, now that the major fires have been stomped out: 1) The "client connection stats" page hasn't been updated since before the big black-out last year. 2) The "Multi-Beam Data Recorder Status" shows "34206m ago" - that's ~ 24 days... These assume, of course that the BOINC server software hasn't been changed so that they are unavailable. Also, if the "Pending Credit" page is permanently gone, could someone delete the link? |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1112069)
Posted 1 Jun 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: She: [thought bubble] "How come Dutchess Kate gets to wear white; and I have to wear this contraption on my head?"[/thought bubble] He: [thought bubble] "She looks so much better without the headdress - but it's traditional..." [/thought bubble] |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1111463)
Posted 30 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My, what big teeth you have..." |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1111089)
Posted 29 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The gangs have gone to the dogs! |
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recent server woes
(Message 1111088)
Posted 29 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, could someone bring up Beta so I can report work already uploaded? |
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(Message 1110427)
Posted 27 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "At least it isn't the other end..." |
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Beets Give Us A Caption #33
(Message 1110044)
Posted 26 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey Angela, we're hungry out here! |
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(Message 1109630)
Posted 25 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "This is to get you baaaack for all the laaamb you've eaten!" 2) Typical mountain road in New Zealand... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1109036)
Posted 23 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, Grapes at Angela's, again... I think I'll suck my thumb instead... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1108701)
Posted 22 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "Bad Space Flunkies" convention is now in session... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1108375)
Posted 21 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mirror, Mirror on the stand Who's the fiercest kitty in the land? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1107968)
Posted 20 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stanfurd campus security with a Bear... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1107666)
Posted 19 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is this what they mean when they say "Put the boot in!"? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1107041)
Posted 17 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The all-new, methane-powered, Lawn Buddy lawn mower! With room for two! Legal summons for "indecent exposure" not the problem of the manufacturer... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1106783)
Posted 16 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...I hate "contestus interruptus"... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1105715)
Posted 13 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, what's the big idea? – pouring magenta milk on us!… |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1105427)
Posted 12 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Vhere Birdie? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1105220)
Posted 11 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Honey, the GPS said turn left, not dive left... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1104412)
Posted 8 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Natasha, keep still - that is only way to balance Russian Tractor! Boris, darlink - vere moose or skvirrel? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1104153)
Posted 7 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pat me on the head again, and you'll lose the hand! [mutter] Patronizing ageist pig! [/mutter] |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1103626)
Posted 5 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Gun Captain, load canister when a hostile hits the bridge approach! Fire when he hits the draw... Oh, and you might wanna traverse the gun..." |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1102459)
Posted 1 May 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dang shipbuilders misunderstood when I asked for a P.T. boat/icebreaker! |
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Camelopardalis (Apr 26 2011)
(Message 1102162)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: i interrupt this thread only to point something out to a red-x'er May I point out that the scientific name of the giraffe is Giraffa camelopardalis? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #32
(Message 1101404)
Posted 28 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wheeerrreee'sss JOHNNY? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #31
(Message 1100506)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey you! Yeah YOU! Judge the contest, already! — or I'll peck ya to death..." |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #31
(Message 1100247)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, where de judge??? Courtroom waitin'! |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #31
(Message 1099446)
Posted 21 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I stand anywhere I WANNA stand! |
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(Message 1099160)
Posted 20 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Which one looks goofier? |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #31
(Message 1098950)
Posted 19 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Frodo: What is Shelob doing on the Plains of Gorgoroth? Sam: Dunno, but we better get the h### out of here! |
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(Message 1098727)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lord of the Rings meets Starship Troopers Note: books meant, not the movies... |
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The Black Fruit (Apr 07 2011)
(Message 1098480)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: from the "Client Connection Stats" page: last updated: October 21 2010 19:25:01 [irony] Something appears to be broken… [/irony] |
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(Message 1098085)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [French accent] Ve can do zis ze hard vay... or ze soft vay... madame Hari [/French accent] |
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(Message 1097547)
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cars were not meant to go airborne, backward! |
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(Message 1096835)
Posted 13 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The old-fashioned "switching error" |
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(Message 1096133)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Hulk not sneeze, Hulk fart! (gives new meaning to "Silent but deadly"...) |
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The Black Fruit (Apr 07 2011)
(Message 1095690)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, the SSL is two buildings... and even if the BOINC people were in the same room as SETI, Matt is probably so busy keeping S@H running that he doesn't/can't keep up with the BOINC details. |
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(Message 1095303)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Umm, on second thought, keep your mind above the shoulder blades! |
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(Message 1095301)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) massively distracting when they "chest" a shot... 2) The Stepford Wives soccer team... |
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(Message 1094726)
Posted 8 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: They better not offer the usual drinks service... |
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(Message 1094723)
Posted 8 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [British] I say, do you need a class-B commercial (with passenger endorsement) to drive that? [/British] |
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(Message 1093959)
Posted 6 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I vas only followink orders!" |
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(Message 1093430)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [parrot]"Ewww! Wet dog!"[/parrot] |
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(Message 1093011)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reply to side note: this may be the St. George Reef light on the Northern California Coast... Which had waves break over the light itself, 150 feet up! It was one of the first West coast houses to be automated. |
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(Message 1092715)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Oh Schist, this is gonna hurt!" |
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(Message 1092242)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello, judge??? |
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(Message 1092226)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The scheduling server is off-line... |
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(Message 1091969)
Posted 31 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "We get by with a little help from our friends..." |
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(Message 1091743)
Posted 30 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "All together, now... PUSH!" "Why do we have to get the kid on his feet? We're younger by 6 months!" "Don't back-talk your mother!" |
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(Message 1091214)
Posted 28 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Oh, poplar... just when the ride was perfect, too!" |
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(Message 1090661)
Posted 26 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Biker tries "face plant" in a new position... |
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Sitting Targets (Mar 22 2011)
(Message 1090658)
Posted 26 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: However, on a long shot Jeff suggested I reseat all the drives (most of which have been mounted in the system since we first got it roughly 8 years ago). Actually it's the equivalent of the "pick it up a couple o' inches and drop it" or "Gravity re-seat" which we sometimes used on CRT terminals back when I was running big iron... (the shock would re-seat the cards in the terminal... and this worked suprisingly often, particularly on terminals in non-office environments...) |
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(Message 1090348)
Posted 25 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fixed now... probably when the SETI crew got into the lab... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption #30
(Message 1090052)
Posted 24 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey Junior, ever see a crock explode?" |
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Sitting Targets (Mar 22 2011)
(Message 1090051)
Posted 24 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You have to ask in a language that Matt understands: close, but no cigar... what I meant was If (SETI=sorted) then start beta else if not(beta_problems) then start beta If (beta_problems) then (post message on beta site). (my logic is Fortran/Basic oriented...) |
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Sitting Targets (Mar 22 2011)
(Message 1089898)
Posted 24 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Still no SETI beta, though... |
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(Message 1089679)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Watch out, Junior, I'm going to smash this croc's head on the shore..." |
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Sitting Targets (Mar 22 2011)
(Message 1089677)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When you get production SETI sorted out, could someone start Beta? (...or, if it isn't affected by the production problems, just start Beta?...) |
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(Message 1089088)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Eric K. joins the wrong line... 2) "I knew that Ratzinger was from the dark side..." |
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(Message 1088829)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Low bridge, everybody down!" |
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Stranger Still (Mar 17 2011)
(Message 1088826)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In addition to the "no work" problem, the "Server Status" page hasn't updated since 0020 UTC on 19 March. |
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(Message 1088469)
Posted 19 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's from the Tsunami? I thought it was from the San Mateo twister! |
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(Message 1088103)
Posted 18 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) The Easter Bunny takes a bath. 2) Bugs Bunny: The Early Years 3) "I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hare..." |
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(Message 1087805)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, this picture has been used before... "I swear, sarge - the phone booth was moving at 65!" |
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(Message 1087413)
Posted 15 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How DARE you ignore me? No screen time until I get some attention! |
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(Message 1086781)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) ...you just might be a redneck! 2) Redneck's first date... The real USS Pampanito is docked at Pier 45, San Francisco, CA, BTW... |
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(Message 1086447)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Hey, what happened to the aft 2/3rds of the ship? 2) "Full power, Mr. Scott! (pause) Scottie, are you there?" |
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Rubicon (Mar 09 2011)
(Message 1086444)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...you could try the aforementioned ANSI 4 lb sledge applied (stuck) to the cat... <g> <serious> or disconnect the drive activity light... |
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(Message 1086080)
Posted 11 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Port-a-Pottie dominoes! |
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Rubicon (Mar 09 2011)
(Message 1086079)
Posted 11 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: @Jeff - If it's shutting down on it's own, the first thing to do is check the dust bunnies and clean them out. Lots of cases of reboot are because of overheating. Mine did it yesterday morning, and i haven't managed to clean it yet! You might want to look into acquiring an ANSI standard 4 pound sledge hammer... ;-) |
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(Message 1085732)
Posted 10 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Apropo of nothing, # 2 (or some variation thereof...) is usually heard as the last words on a crashed airplane's Cockpit Voice Recorder... |
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(Message 1085347)
Posted 9 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) I'm supposed to head full speed WHERE? 2) How do I shoot that grey rat off Col. Adama's head? (Lorne Green) |
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Modern (Mar 03 2011)
(Message 1085345)
Posted 9 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, thanks for the prompt response! |
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(Message 1085061)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Death by schist! Film at 11... 2) "Oy, Gevalt! Dat left me wit such a headache!" |
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(Message 1085059)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... but if a WU doesn't meet deadline, another WU (unnecessary in this case) is generated to be sent out... |
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Modern (Mar 03 2011)
(Message 1084757)
Posted 7 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, still (as of this posting 2315 UTC Mar 7, 2011) getting these on Beta: 3/7/2011 3:15:13 PM SETI@home Beta Test Temporarily failed upload of ap_06no10ad_B4_P1_00160_20110220_11008.wu_2_0: transient upload error 3/7/2011 3:15:13 PM SETI@home Beta Test Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of ap_06no10ad_B4_P1_00160_20110220_11008.wu_2_0 Can something be done about this, as I'm about to lose some processed AP WU's to deadline! |
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CLOSED- SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXII -CLOSED
(Message 1084127)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1000th post! And over 2 miles worth of "Pending" credits (1 mile-5280 feet, for our metric friends...) |
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(Message 1084126)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cheshire goose, a new variant found only in Tim Burton's dreams! |
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(Message 1083565)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Angela's dream (or is that nightmare?) date - other than Eric, that is... :-) |
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Red Shift (Mar 01 2011)
(Message 1083561)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: --[snipped]-- Mmm, Fred: M/b's don't use Li-ion batteries, they use Lithium-Manganese di-oxide one-shot batteries, because the battery is only there to maintain the BIOS information. (very low drain, and only when the computer is off...) |
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(Message 1083222)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Phantom Wheel strikes again! |
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(Message 1082992)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Wall Street reference] You should see what the bulls are riding! {/wall street] |
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School (Feb 22 2011)
(Message 1082987)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's my situation, and why I'd like that 5 min delay reduced to 2 (or less ;-) ) I only connect to SETI once a day, with three (soon to be 4...) computers in my morning. (which happens to be the same as morning at the SETI labs...) If I get the dreaded "no work sent" when I request work that mean that I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting out the 5 minutes when I could be doing somethin' productive, in a BOINC sense... This occasionally has made my computer(s) miss getting any WU's on Tuesdays. (yes, I run that close to 9 AM Pacific time... and sometimes the lab starts the outage early, like this week!) This whole Method of Operations started 5 years ago, when I was connecting to the web (and SETI...) with a dial-up. |
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School (Feb 22 2011)
(Message 1082387)
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I was not suggesting a return to the 11 second delay - just somethin' shorter than 5 minutes! (like 2-3 minutes...) IIRC, the 5 minute delay was implemented when the project was taking 3 day outages, to (yes) decrease the number of simultaneous connections after the restoration of downloading... but now that the three day outage weeks are over, (we hope!) it should be time to cut back that delay. |
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(Message 1082120)
Posted 27 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Off we go, into the wild brown yonder..." (Air Force song in 2150...) 2) The Air force experiments with human-powered flight didn't start out well... (that model starts at $500 million a copy!) 3) The navy experiments with a new landing-deck arrangement training aid - which also costs $500 Mil a copy... |
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School (Feb 22 2011)
(Message 1081708)
Posted 26 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, isn't it time to consider cutting down the mandatory wait time after a scheduler update? (to something less than 5 minutes...) |
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(Message 1081261)
Posted 25 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) [muffled] Hey, when I said "sit!", I didn't mean on ME! [/muffled] 2) Just like some dogs: they plant their cute little butts right where you are working! |
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(Message 1080976)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hypocritical gift: there's the sentiment, but the gift itself clogs the arteries of said organ! |
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School (Feb 22 2011)
(Message 1080697)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Those will drop off as new news items are added... (hint: — create some [good] news!) |
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(Message 1080394)
Posted 22 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Graffiti on the farther sign: "Yeah, so???" |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII
(Message 1080090)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Most recent attempt at a Jay Leno monument... |
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(Message 1079740)
Posted 20 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Igor! Get the Jacob's ladder and Tesla coil! - STAT! |
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(Message 1078855)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
umm, for a guy, that would be "Cosi Fan Tutti"! (unless you're calling Berluscone a female...) my entry: [thought bubble] Guigllemo, how'd you get out of it — without losing your power? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1078371)
Posted 17 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Gee, I didn't know that prairie dogs HAD roaches... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII
(Message 1077961)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey! Who cut off my other four legs? I can't walk like this... Guess I'll have to find something to double-sting!" |
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Crisis? What crisis? (Feb 15 2011)
(Message 1077958)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] What's most likely to happen is that the Einstein WU's will go into "High priority" (AKA EDF [Earliest Deadline First] or "panic mode") and will finish on-time - at the expense of SETI, of course! |
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Happy Lupercalia! (Feb 14 2011)
(Message 1077952)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Regularly, at the same time, every other weekend? Doesn't seem likely... The SSL doesn't have carpeted floors, so substitute "floor polisher(s)" for "vacuum cleaner"... ;-) |
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Happy Lupercalia! (Feb 14 2011)
(Message 1077758)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just an FYI. I was up in Oakland during the last big one during the World Series. Anyway, all our equipment went down even though we had UPS's on everything. What caused it? Seems that the batteries in the UPS's are not eternal and have to be replaced like every 3 - 5 years! Could there be any relation to what is causing your issues? Are you talking the Earthquake series in '89 or last year? The routinely spaced hits at the same wall-clock time two weeks apart that Matt is talking about don't seem to be battery-related to me... (assuming, of course, that Matt has checked the possibility that someone [who comes in alternate weeks...] is routinely turning off the circuit that the UPS in question is plugged into...) |
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Happy Lupercalia! (Feb 14 2011)
(Message 1077406)
Posted 15 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Maybe you should implement the slow ramp-up that was the rule back during the three-day outage era... Oh, and don't forget to bring up beta sometime soon, once production gets running nicely... |
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(Message 1077267)
Posted 14 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the double OwlWaspBear is always angry - and has two stings! |
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(Message 1077192)
Posted 14 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whare is de judge? Me hungry! |
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Hills and Valleys (Feb 10 2011)
(Message 1077191)
Posted 14 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A while back I adjusted my "resource share" to be 999 for SETI and 0 for Einstein. Since then, including now, as the SETI wu's are processed and my cache is exhausted, boinc calls up einstein and I get a bunch of einstein wu's. Last night I got 40 or so, for example. When SETI gets up again, boinc will get more seti wu's and not ask for any more einstein's. The einstein ones I already have will be completed on time. This way my host is never at a loss for work (I suppose einstein could drop out simultaneously, but that seems to be far less likely), and seti always has precedence for work requests. Don't bet on only one non-SETI project to be up - attach to at least two... I had a situation recently where, on a computer attached to seven projects, four were either down completely or not accepting UL's... (yes, I count SETI and SETI beta as separate projects - and those were two of the projects mentioned...) |
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(Message 1076468)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Makeup artist practicing for the next entry in the Jurassic Park series... |
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(Message 1076175)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The only airport with railroad crossing guards on the boundary roadway! (...and no railroad...) |
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Hills and Valleys (Feb 10 2011)
(Message 1076172)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can top all of ya - I've got one computer with 4 down projects! (out of 7...) CDPN, MilkyWay, SETI, and SETBeta are all either down, or giving me the random "Servers not available" (CDPN) |
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(Message 1075522)
Posted 9 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The M-1 Abrahms tank: it can ford a stream, but when it hits mud... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII
(Message 1075054)
Posted 7 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Sully" Sulenberger's personal plane... |
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BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII
(Message 1074567)
Posted 6 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Lunchtime!What a selection... |
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(Message 1073869)
Posted 3 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...That coonskin cap is so 1950's... |
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Somewhere in Between (Jan 31 2011)
(Message 1073197)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Would those plots have something to do with the "Signals already found" section of the "Science status" page? (which hasn't worked since before the October outage...) |
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There Goes a Tenner (Jan 20 2011)
(Message 1073196)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Sorry, but all the data HAS to go thru one server - as that server does all the validating, assimilation, and deletions. As it has been explained to me, any other possibility (and several have been tried, so I understand...) makes too much network thrashing as the WU/results get tossed back and forth between servers. |
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(Message 1072759)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Army's current attempt at complying the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and including all Americans in the volunteer Army! (not shown - the still "Top Secret" weapons pod...) |
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(Message 1071995)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Riggs: give me ten seconds, then light me! Lethal Weapon 3 |
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(Message 1071193)
Posted 27 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bystander: "Oh, no! It's the rocket-propelled cycle squad! Last time they had a code-3 destination, they fried half the village!" |
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BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII
(Message 1069552)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mom: that noise was you blowing your trunk, and the stink is the lion poop from the next pen... BTW, why did you use my leg as a hanky? |
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Get Out of My House (Jan 18 2011)
(Message 1069546)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] It's been my experience that when the dataset increases, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) decreases... and your load increases by a factor of two or more (for a dataset double, your load quadruples... not saying that the increase is always exponential, though...) |
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(Message 1069069)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We knew there was a way to visually represent the "sound barrier"! |
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(Message 1068289)
Posted 19 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) ...My what BIG teeth you have!... 2) I'm so loco, I'm cross-eyed! |
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Experiment IV (Jan 13 2011)
(Message 1067691)
Posted 17 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If the ongoing I/O issues with Oscar aren't a problem, could the back end of beta be turned on, and LEFT ON? - I've got about 9k worth of 'stones over there in "pending"... (about 30 WU's...) |
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(Message 1067372)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Nun on left: "Yeah, we know it looks risqué... your point is???" |
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(Message 1067032)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Wet, chilled, and off-kilter — how much more snow [insert deity of choice...]??? |
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(Message 1066276)
Posted 13 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Waddaya mean, fat??? - you try living on a #@$@#$ zoo diet!" |
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(Message 1065933)
Posted 12 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "No, really - if I eat another blintz, I'll plotz!!" |
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(Message 1065659)
Posted 11 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Odie, what did you do to Garfield? |
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Running Up That Hill (Jan 10 2011)
(Message 1065655)
Posted 11 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt! Just couldn't resist this one: Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is in Milano, not Firenze... (Milan, not Florence) "This is a shot of a fish that was swimming just above the wreckage of the Titanic. That thing in the lower left is part of a smoke stack." Me, too, on the ribbing... |
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Spindles (Jan 06 2011)
(Message 1065279)
Posted 10 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
As I understand the prices, SSD drives of sufficient size for the database are cost-prohibitive at this time... plus someone would have to donate the SSD drives, or their purchase price! |
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(Message 1065015)
Posted 9 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] "We sent the Taliban packing for this???" [/thought bubble] |
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Back to the Grind (Jan 03 2011)
(Message 1065012)
Posted 9 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
...And keep all that water away from the server closet! |
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(Message 1064335)
Posted 7 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Wait a minute - you're not a flower!!!" |
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(Message 1064020)
Posted 6 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MacDonald's insect pests have evolved to escape notice... |
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(Message 1063067)
Posted 3 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How do you make this thang gimme my ears back? |
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Results (Dec 29 2010)
(Message 1062791)
Posted 2 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now that production seems to have settled down, isn't it time to turn on Beta's validators, assimilators, NTM the scheduler, etc.? that was left to be read on Monday... And as long as we're on the subject, is it too much to ask that the production stats export be turned on and left on? |
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Merge and Purge (Dec 27 2010)
(Message 1062790)
Posted 2 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...For 2 examples that I've received from UPS, see here. Fortunately, neither item was damaged... (although the box with a crushed corner had a hard drive in it!) Speaking as a former UPS employee, you can't really blame the employees for everything... in many cases, UPS management is to blame, either for not having enuf employees for the job, or for speeding up the ones that they have beyond their ability to handle the packages carefully... |
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Results (Dec 29 2010)
(Message 1062413)
Posted 1 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now that production seems to have settled down, isn't it time to turn on Beta's validators, assimilators, NTM the scheduler, etc.? |
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(Message 1062410)
Posted 1 Jan 2011 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tyro's first attempt at backing the boat trailer... |
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(Message 1061520)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The all-new industrial-sized mouse for housewives! Ergonomically shaped for their hand... |
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(Message 1060959)
Posted 29 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It does cost more but in my opinion FedEx is a better option as they seem to take much better care of the packages under their watchful stare. UPS has damaged so much of my stuff that it gives me the chills just thinking about sending our fine server through their myriad of trucks and processing centers. If you ever saw what happens inside a UPS sort facility, you'd never ship by them - but I imagine that the same sorts of things happen at a FedEx sort... (Former UPS employee...) |
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(Message 1060573)
Posted 28 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A Cockapoo with a do... (A Cockapoo is a Cocker Spaniel/poodle mix) |
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(Message 1059858)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Why they're called "Feathered Rats"! |
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(Message 1059639)
Posted 25 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Christmas has brought us all a gift, the project is still up. ... and still has WU's!... ;-) |
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(Message 1059426)
Posted 24 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] OK, I got the Apple laptop for Christmas, but where's the Gorilla Banana? [/thought bubble] [not part of caption] (there actually was a peripheral by that name... a printer...) |
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(Message 1058747)
Posted 22 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Barack Obama just asked for a law to get through Congress un-amended and fast! |
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(Message 1058744)
Posted 22 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
They're preparing for the re-striping project (supposedly happening today...) |
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(Message 1058144)
Posted 20 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd say so... |
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(Message 1057899)
Posted 19 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Grrr... Captionus Interruptus! |
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(Message 1057147)
Posted 17 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The time is nigh, to reach for the sky... |
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(Message 1056652)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello - judge??? |
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(Message 1056062)
Posted 14 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Plucking Hell, what size plectrum do you use with that!??? 1.5 inch triangle of .125 inch steel plate! |
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(Message 1055646)
Posted 13 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: All New! Kitty Ratfighting! |
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(Message 1055447)
Posted 12 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitty tries ice skating... |
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(Message 1054744)
Posted 10 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Yeah, I love you too - but back off a little!" |
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(Message 1054297)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Oh, no - it's the revenge of the champagne bottles! 2) The redneck's Xmas tree... |
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(Message 1054034)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Firefox 3.6.8 comes up with the security exception... that was 3.6.8, which (IIRC) is before 3.6.12... [evil grin] |
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(Message 1054014)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why is this iceberg mushroom shaped? |
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(Message 1054011)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The splitters are still running, so work is still being created. Unlike past outages, we are returned from this one without 500k+ WU's ready to be sent. I've let BOINC do it's thing, and so far one machine is at it's limit, another is near it, and the 2 machines with GPU's are slowly filling up. I have a feeling even with the limits in place, it'll be a few days before the splitters can catch up, as I'm sure EVERYONE was dry. ...except for the people that had "ghost" WU's - they only got them Sunday... and the persistant problem of "pending" WU's - I still had about 1k pending when the pipeline re-opened... |
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(Message 1054008)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Not to complain, but I noticed this on the Science Status page: "Overflow rate 25,596.0% (inserted in the last 10 minutes)" Did someone drop a decimal, or mis-place one? In theory, that rate should never be above 100%... |
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(Message 1054005)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Firefox 3.6.8 comes up with the security exception... |
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(Message 1053660)
Posted 7 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "They're coming to take me away! Ha ha!" |
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(Message 1053056)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Devil cat in the Christmas wreath... |
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(Message 1052755)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Bad kitten!" "I didn't spray the back of your computer - one of my brothers did it!" |
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(Message 1052753)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now that SETI production is back on-line, how about turning on the verifiers on BETA, so that the (roughly...) 68k WU's there (including ~85 of mine...) can be verified, assimilated, etc.? |
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(Message 1052751)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm changing My prediction to December 7th @ 7:48am(Tora, Tora, Tora!) bombs away! Would that be Hawaiian time? |
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Oscar Building (Nov 30 2010)
(Message 1052507)
Posted 2 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The lens needs some cleaning - its too grainy. No, the Blur in this case is caused by too slow a shutter speed, combined with unsteady hands... (motion blur, and it's gotta be the hands, as the servers don't move! [unless there's an earthquake, that is...]) |
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Carolyn = Master (Nov 23 2010)
(Message 1052501)
Posted 2 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hadn't noticed this until now, but shouldn't the title of this thread be: "Carolyn = MISTRESS"? ;-) |
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(Message 1052272)
Posted 1 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Manx cat attacks the server closet's A/C system... (so THAT'S why the a/c went down in October...) |
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(Message 1052270)
Posted 1 Dec 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry, I knew I forgot something. If the system is grounded into the frame of the building housing it in more than one place, there might not actually be a common ground. A lot of people tend to think that all of the metal girders and whatnot in a building are all one conductor. For the most part, they will be, however not always. Especially in buildings that are very old, have had a lot of structural maintenance, or may have had expansions or additions built onto or into them. This particular event wouldn't happen to SETI, as the SSL building that the server closet is in is fairly new (1980's...) AND hasn't had any additions (yet, at least...) |
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(Message 1052068)
Posted 30 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This hat is shredded, the moment you're out of sight! |
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(Message 1052066)
Posted 30 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Excellent. Thanks for the update and pic. If I might ask, how much trouble would it be to replace your non-standard rack with a standard rack so that all the servers fit properly without having to be jury rigged? The main problem, as Matt has explained, is that there is no such a thing as a "standard rack" - every manufacturer seems to have their own (non compatible) standard... The main problem with those cheap twist-ties is that the binding is metal, which can cause problems in a high-speed high-density data environment... |
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(Message 1052064)
Posted 30 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Not "every computer in the universe"... just every computer that has BOINC AND has connected to SETI...! (~ ½ a million, the last time I looked...) |
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(Message 1051868)
Posted 29 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: it's Judgin' time! MY captions: "Whadda u mean, I had some whipped cream? This is a white spot on my nose!" "...and they call that stuffing the bird? Now I'm stuffed!" but on to the contestants (mine are non-eligible...) Honorable mention to klc53* for "...and why do you assume I did it? The dog's the one with a mashed potato mustache!" – but what about that white piece of evidence on the cat's nose, KLC? Third Place to Luigi Naruszewicz for his Australian take on Travis Bickel: "You staring at me, mate?" Second place to Gary Charpentier for: "Humans!" (which just about sums up the cats view of us, at any time...) First Place AND next photo to soft^spirit for: "I can't believe I ate the Whooooole thing." (which just about sums up the view of many of us of a Thanksgiving dinner...) PM notification dispatched... |
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(Message 1051666)
Posted 28 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count six so far - so another 24 hours... |
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(Message 1051524)
Posted 27 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This seems appropriate for a Thanksgiving weekend... and should keep the kitty lovers out there happy!  Roger's cats 7-17-10 06 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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(Message 1051523)
Posted 27 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually the # 2 reference had escaped me, that was just the second caption thought I had! Thanks for the win, and I'll try to find somethin' appropriate! |
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(Message 1051371)
Posted 26 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Excuse me, have you seen my Granite Poupon?" 2) Oh, schist! [mumble]My insurance company ain't gonna believe this...[/mumble] 3) Insurance adjuster: "That isn't covered under collision or comprehensive - you'd have to have Earthquake insurance on the car..." |
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(Message 1051369)
Posted 26 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If the exhaust air can't be directed to where it could be used to assist heating somewhere else, it should be vented outside to avoid loading the A/C. Unfortunately the first suggestion won't work - there is no access to outside air from the Server Closet. (the "server closet" really is a (former utility) closet!) The heat pump idea would be viable, if someone could persuade the UC Berkeley administration that it would save lots of money that way... The server closet has A/C, BTW! (the first breakdown in October was the A/C!) |
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(Message 1051126)
Posted 25 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: just posted my 900th post (this is # 901...) |
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(Message 1051124)
Posted 25 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Old steam locomotive makes a slight mistake... 2) OK, what wise guy oiled the rails, and emptied the sand box? |
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(Message 1051121)
Posted 25 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
... more like storage basement, just for the batteries... I once saw the SF Opera House's Emergency lighting battery system, (12v, I think) the batteries were under the center Orchestra section and were about 2 feet tall - the room (estimated...) was about 150x250 feet. The batteries looked like they were original - 1932 (... and this was in 1981!...) |
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(Message 1050816)
Posted 24 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Yes, but there are more Wild Turkeys in the lower 48 than there are Bald Eagles! |
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(Message 1050811)
Posted 24 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, its judgin' time... First off, dis-honorable mention (and a negative Audubon Society birdwatcher award...) to everyone that mis-identified this subject bird as a Turkey Meleogris gallopava... that was a Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura, despite the closeness of Thanksgiving (tomorrow in the USA, as I write...) These are turkeys!  Wild Turkey NAQM 2k5 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Third place: Carlos with "Turkey on final approach." Second place: VW Bobier with "Houston, We have a Turkey shoot, Fire at will." First place and next photo: John McLeod VII for his: [SPLAT!} OK, you got me. Take it away, John! (I'm assuming here that the splat is something falling!) PM sent! Turkey Vultures have a nasty habit of dropping a load to reduce take-off weight if surprised on carrion — needless to say, it isn't a pleasant experience! |
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(Message 1050346)
Posted 22 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, Caption THIS:  DEFWR F 6-9-10 3 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr copyright © 2010 Paul Sullivan, licensed under the Creative Commons "Attribution, No Derivatives" license. |
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(Message 1050345)
Posted 22 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just in case there's anyone who doesn't know the rules for this little clambake, the basics are: Winner posts a picture (visually funny, or not...) for captioning... waits a minimum of 24 hours or for 10 captions, but no longer than 48 hours. The poster of the picture decides the new winner, second, and third places; according to his/her sense of humor. He also sends the next winner a personal message (PM). The poster's caption isn't eligible, BTW... If the new winner doesn't respond in 24 hours, the holder of second place is up... and similarly, third place. (It's happened...) The only time for off-topic chat is between rounds, after a winner is declared, but before the next picture goes up. |
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(Message 1050344)
Posted 22 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Moving on to "Beets give us a Caption XXVI"... Could a moderator close this thread, please? |
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Welcome Carolyn and Oscar (Nov 17 2010)
(Message 1050342)
Posted 22 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When I used a CB we use that energy that escapes from transmission cables to light diodes on the mast top, so we knew we were transmitting that far,it was a very simply curcuit I've heard of Amateur radio operators attaching an "NE2" Neon bulb to the top of the antenna - it would blink in the Morse code the amateur was sending, just from the RF energy... |
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(Message 1049619)
Posted 19 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Model-T airbag! (they hadn't worked out the ideal location yet...) OT: isn't it time for a new thread?? |
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Welcome Carolyn and Oscar (Nov 17 2010)
(Message 1049618)
Posted 19 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RE: the third photo... Wouldn't it have made sense, while the space was available, and before you installed the new computers, to have un-snarled that ball of cable sitting on top? |
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(Message 1049060)
Posted 17 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "All New! The latest in fashion in pets — the gliding Dachshund!" Gliding only available on planets/moons of .5 G or less |
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(Message 1048902)
Posted 16 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How about Sirius? Isn't that the binary system that the Dogon tribe predicted some 1000 years ago? They claim it's where their gods came from. Kind of fitting for the SAH project, no? ... But some of our more kitty-loving co-crunchers might object, Sirius having the epithet "The Dog Star"... :-) |
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(Message 1048613)
Posted 15 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 7:16 in Bowie, MD. Going to the funeral of LCpl. Terry Hunnycutt. WBC is planning to be there. 0716 EST is 0416 PST... (long-haul big-rig driver, who has to keep track!) |
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(Message 1048410)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wanna come up to my place??? |
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(Message 1048409)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Monday Morning then ..... :-) Well, maybe not morning... (Ex UPS employee...) ;-> |
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(Message 1048174)
Posted 13 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My Beta stats line is flat since sometime in September! Or would this be too much on the substitute database server?? The "waiting for validation" number is the number of WU's that have been returned by one cruncher and are waiting for a wingman's result... |
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(Message 1048172)
Posted 13 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hi, Read the front page! Current estimate is late November... |
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(Message 1047826)
Posted 12 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just a query - while we're waiting for the new servers, how about Beta granting credit for returned WU's? I returned 85 when Beta finally came up, and received another 40 or so from the built-up un-crunched queue - I've been steadily returning those as they've crunched, but my Beta stats line is flat since sometime in September! Or would this be too much on the substitute database server?? |
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(Message 1047614)
Posted 11 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Where's the ICE? I distinctly remember ICE!" |
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(Message 1047447)
Posted 10 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, it's 48 hours, but only 9 captions... Judgin' Time! Honorable Mention (and Third Place) to James Sotherden for: "In the next frame, we see the unlucky bird's tail feathers sticking out of a killer whales mouth." Close, but no cigar, James, the real threat here is Peregrine Falcons, seeing that this photo's location is right beneath a Peregrine Falcon nest with fledglings! (...And miles from the ocean...) That should read: "In the next frame, we see the unlucky bird sticking out of a falcon's talons." Second Place goes to Steven Meyer for: "Jonathan Livingston Cormorant, tired of all the attention that his cousin Jonathan Livingston Seagull was getting, turned his back on the old neighborhood and flew the coop." and First Place goes to skildude for his deliciously simple: "Yeah, It's ugly, but it still flies!!!" Speaking of ugly, SD, is that a mole rat as your avatar? [add] PM sent... [/add] |
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(Message 1047077)
Posted 8 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank all for the win! Here's the next one...  Double-Crested Cormorant AlaS 1 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Have at it! Photo © 2010, Paul Sullivan; (aka THE Holy Hand Grenade!) and is clickable. (at least, the original post is...) |
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(Message 1046875)
Posted 7 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Italian accent] "Leggo my nose or I steppa on you head!" [/Italian accent] |
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(Message 1046477)
Posted 6 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...how elephants play "tug of war"... |
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(Message 1045823)
Posted 3 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: left kitten: "I got sixty claws and a whole lotta teeth that say you're wrong about cats..." |
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from now (Oct 28, 2010) until "new server time"
(Message 1045821)
Posted 3 Nov 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm with the time-out explanation... I had about 13K worth of credits "pending" the last time I saw a "pending" link on my "account" page (BTW, what happened to that link???), some of which dated back to June! |
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(Message 1045029)
Posted 30 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1)(noting kid's reaction...) "Grandma, is that your skin or cowhide?" 2) Why you shouldn't tan every day in Southern California for 50 years... (Gramps looks 65 to me...) |
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(Message 1044769)
Posted 29 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You know you're a redneck when... |
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(Message 1044765)
Posted 29 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Could someone bring up Beta with the same stipulations as production? (I.E. no new work, upload and reporting only...) There are some of us (me, for one) that have 85± WU that we'd (or at least, I'd) like to upload and report... |
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(Message 1044401)
Posted 28 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have to steer this thing??? |
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(Message 1043632)
Posted 22 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: At least in Colorado, any state based agency is tax exempt. Not much point in paying tax for something and have that tax revenue be the source of your budget in the first point. So I would think that any purchase by the guys would be tax exempt. Here in California, state agencies do pay state sales tax - and yes, it does seem circular! The idea was that the state agency's sales tax would get split up in the General Fund... AFAIK, only police, fire, and EMS services are totally exempt from sales tax... |
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(Message 1043164)
Posted 17 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Why am I standing here with my hands in my pockets, and not inside where it is safer? 2) "Oh, S###!" |
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(Message 1042044)
Posted 14 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: World's tiniest teddy bear... |
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(Message 1042043)
Posted 14 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jeff... Agreed: but how about cranking up Beta Friday? NTM a stats export? (even a single would help!) |
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(Message 1041660)
Posted 13 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "...scrh I said RUNWAY one eight, not taxiway one eight, Niner Five X-ray!!! scrh..." |
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(Message 1040627)
Posted 10 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That can't be our SETI server closet, all the cabling and everything is way too neat!!!! :-) Somebody must have straightened up before they let you take that pic!! Nah, the mess is out of sight behind the servers! :-) |
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(Message 1040278)
Posted 9 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Old biplane makes a small landing error... The rabbit/wolf picture had been done already, BTW... |
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(Message 1039574)
Posted 8 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Did someone call for THE Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Oops, too late! |
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(Message 1038703)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "I see squwirel, where moose?" 2) Female flying squirrels have better aerodynamics! |
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(Message 1037831)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just reached 2 meg SETI credits... (of course, I would'a reached this two weeks ago, without the outage...) |
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(Message 1037829)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's called "irony"! |
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(Message 1037408)
Posted 30 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If you're not having the usual 3 day downtime, why is the 3-day downtime announcement on the front page??? - just curious... |
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(Message 1037403)
Posted 30 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Pretty swans, all in a row... 2) I know Swan Lake calls for 4 cygnets, but this position isn't in the choreography that I know! |
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(Message 1036592)
Posted 28 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Why do I have this yellow fetch object on my nose?" |
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(Message 1035982)
Posted 25 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Can you carry me to the site where the last photo was taken?" |
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(Message 1035979)
Posted 25 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The photos posted are a bit out-of-date... here's a peek into the server closet as of June 20, 2010...  Server Closet SSL 2 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr |
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(Message 1035642)
Posted 24 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mouse: "Thanks for the ride!" Frog: "Think nothing of it..." |
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(Message 1035255)
Posted 21 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Err, small typo on the thread name... I think you meant "Donation"... Have a nice day! :-) |
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(Message 1034917)
Posted 20 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [thought bubble] A little bathing, a little grooming, who needs to evolve? [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1034546)
Posted 19 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count 11 and it's been more than 24 hours, so it's judgin' time... Third place: Chris S with: "I taught I saw a puddy tat ?" Second place: HAL with: "Lissin' up youse punks - dere ain't no cage made, I can't bust outta!" and TA-DA! First place and next picture goes to: Dirk Villarreal Wittich for his delectably simple: "Who, Me?" [My caption for the picture is "...and you're looking at my butt, WHY?" PM on the way... Sorry, John McLeod VII: sparrows just don't have the tough "boird" genes to pull off a Travis Bickel... (at least, in my mind...) |
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(Message 1034134)
Posted 18 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... White-Crowned Sparrow AHM 4-1-10 5 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Clickable, BTW, for more info... © 2010 Paul Sullivan (AKA THE Holy Hand Grenade!) |
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(Message 1033591)
Posted 17 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, & Air Conditioning) people replacing the SETI server closet AC fan... |
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(Message 1032972)
Posted 11 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "OK kids - you distract her while I pull the heist!" |
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(Message 1032511)
Posted 10 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dueling for the truly morbid... |
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(Message 1032216)
Posted 9 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: CSI Willows: "Did he fall, or was he pushed?" CSI Stokes: "The evidence tends to suggest the latter..." Fragment from an upcoming CSI script... |
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(Message 1031384)
Posted 6 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "No, I'm NOT a dachshund, how dare you ask! (and I was so blissed out...)" |
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(Message 1031161)
Posted 5 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Basset hound air conditioning... |
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(Message 1030900)
Posted 4 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Look, Ma, I can fly!" |
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(Message 1030450)
Posted 3 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "I can't bear to look — what gaff has Sarah Palin made this time?" |
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(Message 1030056)
Posted 1 Sep 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK folks, judgin' time... Third place (bronze) goes to KLC53 for her: "[cue English Accent]Please, Sir, may I have some more?[/English Accent] Second place (silver) goes to soft^spirit for: "It is cold and lonely at the top. But you can look down on all the nuts under you."... Take care of that Martian anger problem, SS First place (gold) goes to Chris S for his: "I'm really sorry, but I've eaten all the nuts. Do you have any more?" ...I was ready to judge this at 0900 PDT Sept-1-10, but the web-driven pages were down at that time! You can click through the picture and get the real story behind the photo, BTW... it was taken about 2 miles from (as the crow files...) and 1500 feet (elevation) below the SSL, where S@H is located... |
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(Message 1029704)
Posted 30 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hear from James that I'm up - I'll try to rustle somthin' up in an hour or so... [added] that didn't take as long as I thought it would... Caption THIS!  Ground Squirrel BM 3-1-10 04 by THE Holy Hand Grenade!, on Flickr Photo © 2009 Paul Sullivan (a.k.a. THE Holy Hand Grenade!) |
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(Message 1029219)
Posted 28 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Evil Kneivel Jr.'s first jump - same results as dad! (broken bones...) |
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(Message 1028635)
Posted 26 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... The overstuffed in the under sized... |
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(Message 1028314)
Posted 25 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Who knew that plumbers worked on choppers? |
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(Message 1027864)
Posted 23 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: DHL always did have a high opinion of themselves... |
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(Message 1027863)
Posted 23 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 5000 Lbs fork lift demonstration. ...make that 10,000 lbs - that's a Freightliner Sprinter® on the demo! |
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(Message 1027724)
Posted 23 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Any one able to report WU on the Beta project? and if so, when? production SETI is out of WU's, although all the splitters read as "running"... |
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(Message 1027485)
Posted 22 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1st fireman to 2nd: "While we're ventilatin' the roof, let's "ventilate" the guy with the stogie!" |
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(Message 1026130)
Posted 18 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Detroit Tiger fans chill out... |
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(Message 1025039)
Posted 14 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Unclear on the concept of "illiterate"... |
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(Message 1025037)
Posted 14 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt.. if I might share.. from my experiences of keeping together antiques that were often poorly "refurbished".. It's not that we were angry at the terminal (this was back in the days of mainframes...) it is because the technique worked! The slap or drop reset contacts inside the terminal, (not gold-plated, for some reason...) which we (I and a collegue were the primary terminal fixers in the IT department - it was a secondary job for me, I was primarily a computer operator...) didn't have the knowledge to dis-assemble. (we'd have to call an outside contractor for that...) |
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(Message 1024565)
Posted 13 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt.. if I might share.. from my experiences of keeping together antiques that were often poorly "refurbished".. One thing that used to work on CRT terminals, back in the '80s, was to give them a "slap upside the screen". Some terminals would come back to life for a time after the slap. Location (and force) was brand-dependent, and with one of the brands, there were two methods that worked, depending on symptom: the slap, directed at the upper right of the CRT, and lifting the front of the CRT about an inch, and dropping. IBM 3278's were pretty reliable, but when they went, they could (sometimes...) be brought back by slapping the back right corner, and picking up the back about .5 inch, and dropping... |
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(Message 1024313)
Posted 12 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This guy's search for truffles is exhaustive! |
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(Message 1023972)
Posted 9 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Great disguise on the bitch... |
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(Message 1023122)
Posted 6 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
No, inspiration for "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones! |
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(Message 1022792)
Posted 5 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [hushed voice] "The Password is 'WAIL'"... [\hushed voice] |
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(Message 1022261)
Posted 3 Aug 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why is the upload server down? - does it have anything to do with the rest of the system woes? |
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(Message 1021324)
Posted 31 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mr. Spock is the goalie for the losing team... BTW, that acronym is FIFA - FIFO is "First In, First Out"! |
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(Message 1021053)
Posted 31 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: someone forgot to bring up Beta again... |
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(Message 1020818)
Posted 30 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "... srch Tower, KAL 587 has a slight loading problem, will miss take-off slot... srch..." |
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(Message 1020419)
Posted 28 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Cigar is usually two teeth to the right... 2) Nine miles of rough road! |
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(Message 1020127)
Posted 27 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's JUDGIN' time! (apologies to the FF's Thing...) A note to Gary Charpentier: that red spot (called a lore, IIRC...) is where the chicks peck to get the parent to feed them... Third place to: soft^spirit with: My name is Inigo Montoya. You ate my french fry. Prepare to be pooped on. Second place to: rebest with: Hello. I have a message for a Mr. Tony Hayward...... and Ta—Da!! First place and next post to: skildude with his: Sittin' on a dock on the Bay... Oh man I finally get it!! although he loses points for being a second post... PM on the way... Gulls do more than poop, BTW - they're nature's sea-going clean-up squad. My caption for the pic is: "You lookin' at me, punk?" – this Western Gull Larus occidentalis (and a number of other Western Gulls that I've photographed...) seems to be channeling Travis Bickel (the Robert deNiro role...) from Taxi Driver. |
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(Message 1019721)
Posted 26 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the usual rules apply... ... and here's the first picture.... 
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(Message 1019714)
Posted 26 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I thank you for the win... I think it is time for a new thread, so see you on "BEET'S Give Us A Caption - XXIII" |
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(Message 1018722)
Posted 23 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "...scrch Easyjet 138, I say again, Turn LEFT at taxiway Whisky! scrch..." 2) "oops!" |
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(Message 1018439)
Posted 22 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: captionius interuptus? ;-P |
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(Message 1018156)
Posted 21 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What I'd like to do (but won't) with the BP rig manager & crew... |
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(Message 1017520)
Posted 19 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Evil Knevil's baby pictures, now online... Next shot is his first broken bone... |
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(Message 1015362)
Posted 13 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "The Golden Snitch went that-away!" |
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(Message 1014998)
Posted 12 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The relativity of time in the SETI universe... |
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(Message 1014996)
Posted 12 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jeff, I second the motion! I've got 88 units beggin' to be reported... |
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(Message 1014709)
Posted 11 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "OK, Jay, what did the worms do this time?" 2) "Where in the world is Richard Kimble?" |
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(Message 1014366)
Posted 10 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This is what happens to metal trashcans that were used to simulate firecrackers in The Man Who Came to Dinner |
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(Message 1013448)
Posted 8 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My 93 years old dad wouldn't like that that caption won... ;-) |
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(Message 1013203)
Posted 7 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) LG's failed attempt at blending Old- and New-tech. 2) LG's answer to cell-phone using drivers. (you need two hands to dial!) |
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(Message 1012249)
Posted 5 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, respect the league of black-and-white animals - go eat a leopard seal! |
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(Message 1012247)
Posted 5 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hallo everybody There's a thread posted on the front page about the "limit"... |
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(Message 1011701)
Posted 4 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Wiggle that nose at me all you want, but if you try anything else, you'll get claws in it! |
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(Message 1010809)
Posted 2 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Garbage truck driver drove into the Twilight zone... |
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(Message 1010800)
Posted 2 Jul 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, did someone forget to return Beta to on-line status? Still down as of 09:13 Berkeley time... (I'm in the same time zone...) |
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(Message 1010011)
Posted 30 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Although solid to the naked eye, Spot's spots were transparent to sunlight... (love the message number ... 1010011 ...looks like binary, no?) |
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(Message 1009770)
Posted 29 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Congrats, James! Milestone: this is my 800th post! and I reached ½ million SETI Beta 'stones yesterday... |
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(Message 1009767)
Posted 29 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Normal San Francisco rush hour picture. Nobody is enforcing the "Don't Block the Box" law, due to the Governator's budget cuts... |
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(Message 1009365)
Posted 28 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Explaining one of my captions: the words "Thrust finger through" have no vowels in Czech - and so are impossible to shout! |
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(Message 1008918)
Posted 27 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Manager to ejected player: "...NOT what the term "nose job" means!" |
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(Message 1008665)
Posted 26 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone shouted "Thrust finger thru nose" in Czech! ;-) |
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(Message 1007755)
Posted 24 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Normal state of affairs: it'll take a revolution to change that... |
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(Message 1007291)
Posted 22 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When I want your worthless, ill-informed opinions, I'll ASK for them! In meantime, shaddupa you face or get head torn off! |
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(Message 1006915)
Posted 21 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The server is out of disk space, yes - but that's because the validators are off-line - and the validators are off-line because one was spotted trying to grant infinite credit to a WU! The staff took the validators off-line when that happened, until the problem can be diagnosed and fixed. Apparently something in the assimilators is dependent on the validators being online, so they aren't doing anything, either, even though they are on-line. (or at least read as online on the status page...) Once the validator problem is figured out, then normal (or what passes for normal at SETI... ;-) ) processing can resume. (once the backlog of work is cleared up, of course!) |
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(Message 1006583)
Posted 20 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... has anyone noticed that the validators are off-line? - NTM that the assimilators seem to be stuck? The assimilator queue is at 887,533 - the same as it was roughly 24 hours ago! |
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(Message 1006577)
Posted 20 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... Gives new meaning to the term "roach pipe", doesn't it? |
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(Message 1006272)
Posted 19 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... Answer to "The Ultimate Driving Machine" |
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(Message 1005720)
Posted 18 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's what you get for putting your laundry basket in my favorite nap spot! |
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(Message 1005247)
Posted 17 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, somewhere in the process, SETI beta lost it's individuality! Anytime the BOINC client contacts S@H Beta, it immediately switches to calling itself SETI (not Beta) and then you have the problem of two projects with one name. I lost at least a beta AP WU and probably a couple of MB Beta wu's to this... (and this from the only computer that has reported to Beta since yesterday...) Have tried detach/attaching to Beta, but it keeps doing this, so I'm staying off Beta for now. |
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(Message 1005237)
Posted 17 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Proof that all-wheel traction doesn't always work! |
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(Message 1004668)
Posted 16 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pooped pug pup |
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(Message 1004460)
Posted 15 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Confirming Fritz: the "results.php?userid=xxx" page is indeed down, and has been for about a week. This is through several database crashes, (may even have caused a few, who knows?) so something is broken... |
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(Message 1004064)
Posted 14 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Feathered rat meets proto-simian... |
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(Message 1004062)
Posted 14 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The upload server was left off-line, possibly on-purpose, when SETI recovered from the most recent server crash. I think the guys'll turn it on when they come in Monday, as soon as they verify the recovery... |
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(Message 1003643)
Posted 12 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yoiks! Is the shortcut worth the NOISE? |
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(Message 1002554)
Posted 10 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Adam-12, we have an unscheduled, no flight plan filed, take-off from runway one-niner..." |
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(Message 1002134)
Posted 9 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Horse thought bubble] "At least it isn't a Pinto®..." [/thought bubble] |
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(Message 1001873)
Posted 8 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Obviously not a pony car! |
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CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XX CLOSED
(Message 1001304)
Posted 6 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Posted post # 777! (actually, this is # 778...) |
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(Message 1001303)
Posted 6 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Prickly Pear Man strikes again! |
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(Message 1000966)
Posted 5 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What daya expect? It's a Toyota®! |
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(Message 1000649)
Posted 4 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, it's Judging time! Third place goes to: HAL for his "does not apply in California - NO ONE drives slow (except on freeways)" Sorry, HAL: (BTW, are you an IBM degrade?) see my explanation below. Second place goes to the always funny James Sotherden for his "Hey Gomer! Your other right!" and (TA DA!) the winner is: Steven Meyer for: "Not applicable in (Mexico} where if the right is occupied, try the left. If the left is occupied, try the median. If the median is occupied, try the sidewalk..." which is true... PM being dispatched... This is a poster (A4 size) that I have placed on my pick-up's right (passenger) side. There are far too many drivers in my state (and yes, that is California that drive 55 or less, and do it in lanes other than the slow lane. On I-880, (from Oakland to San Jose) for example, big-rig trucks routinely use the # 3 lane (of 4) as their lane of choice. The big-rig drivers do this even where the car speed limit is 65. (Their limit is 55...) As a big-rig driver myself, this bothers me! and yes, there is a clever poster on the left side, too! (next win, maybe...) |
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(Message 1000356)
Posted 3 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've noticed that some of my WU's are still showing in my "tasks" list, even though they were validated a week or more ago. (for example WU # 617028214, reported by me on 5/27, reported by my wingman 5/26...) I thought that these were supposed to be deleted 24 hours (or so) after validation... |
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(Message 1000068)
Posted 2 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's one:  |
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(Message 1000066)
Posted 2 Jun 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd like to thank the academy... (oops, wrong acceptance!) I'll post one as soon as I locate it! |
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(Message 999541)
Posted 29 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cop: "Ehhhhh!" Guy under arrest: "Who knew that Fonzie became a cop?" |
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(Message 998746)
Posted 25 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I think Julie is up, as Bill hasn't posted a photo... |
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(Message 997892)
Posted 22 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: SETI@home crew, just a note.. since ~ 05:00 UTC no UL possible. Someone forgot to re-enable it after the power outage? |
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(Message 997333)
Posted 20 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a) "I'm warmed up... DRESSER! Where's my size 4XL tutu?" b) A member of the Ballet Trocadero gone to pot. http://www.trockadero.org/ |
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(Message 996482)
Posted 15 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Big, black dog: "Ok, we've patiently listened to your story, now FEED US!" |
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(Message 996336)
Posted 15 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, is anybody going to resurrect seti beta??? The news reads "We'll be down until David can deploy new validators." - but that was posted back on Apr 2! The only running part of the project appears to be AP - and the AP assimilator is off-line. |
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(Message 996322)
Posted 15 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Delta's engines really suck! |
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(Message 995809)
Posted 12 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) I've heard of surfing the curl, but water-skiing the blast wave? 2) First water-ski athlete to go deaf... |
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(Message 995630)
Posted 11 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Judgius interruptus? |
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(Message 995167)
Posted 9 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Heeeelllllloooooooo! — ...Heeeellllll... Welcome to the entrance! |
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(Message 994821)
Posted 8 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pac-Man over-ate himself into an early grave, but discovered that heaven is full of ghosts... |
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(Message 994439)
Posted 6 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fugu - YUM! |
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(Message 994231)
Posted 5 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "... do that again, and I'll hold my breath 'til I turn blue!" |
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(Message 994040)
Posted 4 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) World's worst road stripe-er manages to paint 6 parallel "lines" and a single straight dashed line. 2) "Let's see 'em try to snort these!" |
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(Message 993239)
Posted 1 May 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, where is tde judge? |
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(Message 992724)
Posted 29 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) New motorcycle sport: racing around the track with the bike on your head. First world champ: a Bantu girl... 2) Help! My bike left me for another rider! |
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(Message 992312)
Posted 27 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, We'll spend this much on education... |
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(Message 992310)
Posted 27 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm running BOINC 6.10.43 (MacBookPro, OSX 10.5.8) and get the same HTTP errors you are getting, also for about a week. Try a re-boot... under Win XP, there area less intrusive ways of doing this, but they don't work on Mac's. |
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(Message 992118)
Posted 26 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok it's Judgin' Time!... First, that IS the dog's master/slave (depending on your point of view...) holding him. (...and the dog is a him, unfixed...) Dirk, that isn't a new breed, it's a long-haired Chihuahua... Third Place: (and beside the point, my camera doesn't have the mode...) Gary Charpentier with "Red eye reduction mode only works on people." Second Place: VW Bobier with "Defense systems activated, Ready to strike.!" (5 points off for being a second entry...) and (Ta-DA!) First place: HAL with "YUKKO BOSS. I GUESS IT'S TRUE - HALITOSIS IS BETTER THAN NO BREATH AT ALL!" - although HAL gets 5 points off for all caps! PM sent! MY caption, BTW, is "Who do you think looks goofier, dog or master?" |
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(Message 992074)
Posted 26 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's only 8, will check again in 4 hours... |
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(Message 991869)
Posted 25 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BTW, that was the human diver talking... Here goes...  Show me the funny... Show me the FUNNY...I can't hear you... SHOW ME THE FUNNNAY! Appologies to Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding and Tom Cruise... photo Copyright ©2010 Paul Sullivan (THE HHG!) |
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(Message 991859)
Posted 25 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's Time. All were rib ticklers... Great work folks! I thank you... I'll post in about an hour. The photo I want has to be posted to Flickr® first... |
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(Message 991375)
Posted 23 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Cuban accent] "Say hello to my LITTLE FRIEND!" [/Cuban accent] with appologies to the 1990's version of Public Enemy, NTM Al Pacino... |
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(Message 990723)
Posted 20 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: THIS they call a wildlife camera??? Where's the Nikon® D40x with the 500mm f/4 AF-S???? |
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Lesson #1, Never use the word "fixed" (March 17, 2010)
(Message 990430)
Posted 19 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I get like 200 tasks a day on one of my quad cores, very strange, never had that before, more like 10 tasks a day... Check the run times - I bet they are all VLAR Work Units... (if CPU...) On another front, the tie to Arecibo's positioning is now showing "as of 5020 minutes ago" so that's broken again - on the science status page. |
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(Message 990145)
Posted 18 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Redneck's A.P.U. ... (Auxiliary Power Unit) |
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(Message 989336)
Posted 15 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: one word: CAT-astrophe! |
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(Message 988616)
Posted 12 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hiding from that demon dog!" ... and my caption for that dawg: "I told you: 'NO MORE TACO HELL COMMERCIALS!'" |
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(Message 988073)
Posted 10 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Unicycle for the gearhead in your life! |
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(Message 987521)
Posted 8 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Hey! I thought I was a desert tortoise..." 2) "That water is messing up my traction..." 3) "...where's the rabbit I'm racing?" |
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(Message 987107)
Posted 6 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Meal for the meat eater in the picture before this one! |
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(Message 986848)
Posted 5 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Morning breath 45 million years after a meat meal - and the kid is smiling? |
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Lesson #1, Never use the word "fixed" (March 17, 2010)
(Message 986847)
Posted 5 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... We also appear to be having a problem or two with the "science status" page: the "overflow rate" has been at 0.0% for a couple of days every time I looked at it, (highly unlikely to be true) and the link to Arecibo shows "Values as of 38760 minutes ago... so that's apparently down, too |
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(Message 986127)
Posted 2 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Rabbit fist Kung-Fu 2) "Look, do we haveta box? - I'll whip the tail offa ya!" |
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(Message 985846)
Posted 1 Apr 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Keytronic - you can still read the keytops! BTW, this pic's been done before... |
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(Message 984509)
Posted 27 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... Unlikeliest couple ever on Dancing With the Stars... |
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(Message 983524)
Posted 25 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: new geek occupation "build your own girlfriend": construction materials. |
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(Message 982117)
Posted 21 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The jet equivalent of a belly to belly supplex... ...for those who don't know... the O'clock position starts with twelve being directly ahead, 6 being directly astern, with three and 9 being off the right and left wings, respectively. A "high" or "low" (or level) was added to designate which visual hemisphere the other plane was in. The lower plane here would be at "all times, low" to the upper one... |
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(Message 980888)
Posted 19 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...Not a camel designed by a committee. but a camel designed by Dr. Seuss! ...a camel is a horse designed by a desert warfare committee! |
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(Message 980548)
Posted 18 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How do ya stop it? It has disk brakes! - Where the rubber shoe meats the road... |
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Lesson #1, Never use the word "fixed" (March 17, 2010)
(Message 980545)
Posted 18 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Good old fashioned removable disk packs .... ah those were the days .... I once worked at a place that had 8 (numbered 0-7, of course...) disk drives and 4 permanent disk packs, with about 7 temporary packs for various projects - and swappable addresses. I ran one job (I was a system operator - this is back in mainframe times...) where steps 1-7 required one address (say 5) to be a scratch pack, and steps 8-end required address 5 to be the project pack. You'd just pop out the address plug for 5 and put it in the drive (already spinning, of course... these drives took about 1.5 minutes to come up to speed!) that had the project pack. |
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Out of the fire and into the pit of sulfuric acid. (Feb 19, 2010)
(Message 980537)
Posted 18 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If you manage to get into the bank lobby after hours do they still charge you the teller service fee? they may charge you with "breaking and entering"... :-) |
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(Message 980020)
Posted 17 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know we're close, but this is ridiculous! |
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Maybe we're fixed? (March 16, 2010)
(Message 980015)
Posted 17 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally got my upload pile swept, but now I can't get any new work, even after repeated requests... but the server page says there's plenty to be had... on three different computers, with three different BOINC builds... ...So I'd say we're partially fixed.... |
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
(Message 978222)
Posted 13 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Try looking here before posting! There was still a lot of red (in the splitters area...) when I looked... but red for a splitter means that that splitter ran out of work, or has otherwise failed: to see which, see the right-hand column, labeled "Splitter Status" - if there's only one "tape" shown there, (as was the case when I looked Friday morning) then work has run out! BTW, the red "Not running" means (according to the definition below the "server Status" column) "Program failed or ran out of work" - with splitters, the second condition is most commonly the case... Dittoing the others that are having problems uploading, reporting, and getting new work... |
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(Message 977863)
Posted 12 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Poster for Spiderman IV: Spidey settles down! |
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(Message 977740)
Posted 12 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late entry: How do they get the stick in Carboniferous era amber? |
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
(Message 977736)
Posted 12 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: MEEP MEEEP It's not that the splitters have failed, it's that there's nothing for them to work on - and I'm wondering about that... have we used up all of SETI's "banked" data? Is Aracibo shut down again? Did someone forget to "hang a tape/some tapes"? :-) Try looking here before posting! |
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(Message 976995)
Posted 9 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: All-new method of giving high colonics to an Indian elephant... a kid does the washing... |
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(Message 975979)
Posted 5 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Hey, master, I can't poop with that camera pointed my way!" 2) Is that a North Face logo I see before me? I pee in it's general direction! |
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(Message 975711)
Posted 4 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Help! I'm losing my grip - but not my nuts!" |
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
(Message 975331)
Posted 2 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate to throw another wrench into things, but there appears to be something wrong with the stats export for S@H: non of the stats websites have any record of the almost 7k of credits I've been awarded over the past three days... |
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(Message 975327)
Posted 2 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) John: "NOW I feel at home in the Plastic Ono Band..." 2) "The long and winding road..." |
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(Message 975041)
Posted 1 Mar 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: E.T. is "phoning home"! |
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(Message 974153)
Posted 26 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: True lust at work... |
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(Message 974151)
Posted 26 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Except for the above line (which is normal for a resumed download...) all the above is what I mentioned yesterday! (AND is still occuring...) (wouldn't it be better if people actually read the thread B4 posting?) ;-) |
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(Message 973785)
Posted 25 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Please, no "frozen Wiener dog" jokes! |
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(Message 973782)
Posted 25 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm also getting this regularly: 2/25/2010 7:44:55 AM SETI@home Beta Test Not reporting or requesting tasks 2/25/2010 7:44:56 AM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 2/25/2010 7:44:57 AM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 2/25/2010 7:45:00 AM SETI@home Beta Test Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer Across all three of my operating computers (all run S@H, two run S@H Beta: getting it for both sites!) These messages are from my main computer... Sometimes the last line reads: 2/24/2010 8:03:12 AM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data) |
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(Message 973562)
Posted 23 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thx...will post a pic by 3:30pm EST today Another case of Blurfius suspendius? <g> |
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(Message 973319)
Posted 22 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Three animated shredders at the ready, SIR!" |
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(Message 971767)
Posted 19 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Eric "eye"ing his significant other... |
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(Message 971108)
Posted 18 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The all-new all-green bicycle! |
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Out of the Frying Pan (Feb 17 2010)
(Message 971105)
Posted 18 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The smart-ass in me made me write this..... ...You forget that the project is in Berkeley... where (during the day at this time of year...) it is about 60-65ºF and only goes down to 50-55ºF at night... NTM that yesterday morning, and this morning, there was a heavy fog (at least in my location, 2½ miles away...) Besides, Matt always refers to it as the "server closet", which implies that it doesn't have a window... (I think I've read that it is a re-purposed janitor closet...) |
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(Message 970587)
Posted 14 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: A photographic oxymoron! |
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(Message 970584)
Posted 14 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Note to SuperJoker: (since we're between photos...) Not all BSOD's are heat related... some are signs that your OS is failing, and may need to be re-loaded... (I speak from experience...) |
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(Message 970269)
Posted 13 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Hoover Dam spawns... |
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(Message 970019)
Posted 12 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Granny used to be a ballet dancer - and is still limber! |
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(Message 969840)
Posted 11 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Worst: a Soyo AMD board. I couldn't keep the system up for more than 6 months, then the OS (NT4) would cr** out - Dunno if the board was at fault for that or M$. I currently have/run 2 Gigabyte boards - 1 AMD SKT939 that's about 4 years old (Opteron 165) (and it occasionally has tossed an OS, too!) and 1 Inte£ skt775 that's been running ~1(±) year (Q9300) with (knock on wood) no problems so far. There's an old ASUS AMD board (Duron) that I retired as too slow for current needs when I first installed XP... Those are for the systems I've built myself, I also have a Dell - no problems with that one... |
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(Message 969770)
Posted 11 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The upload server is off-line, "disabled": somebody'll probably be in to fix in an hour or so (it's 0630 Berkeley time...) |
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(Message 969767)
Posted 11 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm getting the following when trying to upload completed WU's: 2/11/2010 6:12:36 AM SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 31dc06ac.32631.2935.10.10.159_0_0: connect() failed happening at Beta, too... Why is the upload server off-line? |
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(Message 969766)
Posted 11 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "the all-new budget Ford Aspire - it Aspires to be a complete car!" |
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(Message 969463)
Posted 9 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Truth in advertisement! |
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(Message 969065)
Posted 7 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The arrogance of Beemmer owners... |
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(Message 969064)
Posted 7 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What they do when you park in front of a hydrant. (and, SJ, they won't pay for a replacement car - or for the windows they had to bust...) |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 968714)
Posted 6 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Urkel whine] Did I do that? [/Urkel whine] |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 967852)
Posted 3 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [left pig] What do ya mean "that last photo was the pick of our litter"???? |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 967723)
Posted 2 Feb 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, that's a lot longer than 48 hrs... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 967311)
Posted 31 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "OK, lets see how Susan Sarandon handles this outfit..." 2) "you mean the auditions AREN'T for a transsexual vampire?" |
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Deluge (Jan 27 2010)
(Message 967309)
Posted 31 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alert! the "Workunits waiting for db purging" is over .5 million and the "Results waiting for db purging" are approaching 1.2 million. Both figures are unusually high, in my experience... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 966417)
Posted 28 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For your viewing pleasure, the SNOW BEAR! |
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Rainy Rain (Jan 26 2010)
(Message 966192)
Posted 27 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Do the science database problems have something to do with all the assimilators and splitters being offline? |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 966025)
Posted 26 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Cue the music! |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 965719)
Posted 24 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I count ten entries, so it's judging time... Dis-honorable mention to James Sotherden for "Hey! Im a stud now." That's the fence-post, James, not what you think it is...! Third place to Carlos for "The old gray mare, she ain't what she use to be...." Second place to Julie for "Finally I can kiss my own ass!" and Ta-Da! First place goes to msattler for "I KNOW a horses' ass when I see it." My caption for the picture is: "Hello, Roger!" (again, Roger is the guy whose face I used...) PM sent to winner... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 965504)
Posted 23 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the win, SJ... now for the pic, keeping to the equine theme...  Copyright © 2009, Paul Sullivan (does anyone know how to post Flickr™ picture(s) so you can click thru to their Flickr™ page? If so, give me a private shout...) |
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Number crunching :
**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XIX CLOSED**
(Message 965501)
Posted 23 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just passed 1.6 meg all SETI points, and passed 2.4 meg total BOINC cobblestones... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 965500)
Posted 23 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello? Where is de Judge? |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 964937)
Posted 21 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where's the kitchen sink?... back on Earth???? you dumb #$#$#!!!, NOW we need it!! |
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Continuous (Jan 12 2010)
(Message 964619)
Posted 19 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "Tasks" list from the account page is two days old... the latest tasks on it were sent to me on Jan 17 (Sunday) (posted on the 19th, Tuesday...) (and I've gotten tasks on the 18th and 19th...) |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 964614)
Posted 19 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Peace through superior firepower! |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 963570)
Posted 15 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Can you say "wind sail"??? 2) "...are you sure our car roof can take all that weight?" |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 963067)
Posted 13 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stanfurd "Tree" getting and giving... |
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**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XIX CLOSED**
(Message 963004)
Posted 13 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I am a mere few hours away from my first ONE MILLION credits (BOINC total)!!! It's exciting to finally reach this milestone after years of crunching on only one or two machines part time. Wait till next year - you get two days of all 1's - 1/11/11 AND 11/11/11! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 962708)
Posted 11 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just following orders, officer... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 962497)
Posted 10 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Zebra: "Let's see a lion 'get me' up here..." Giraffe: "You're hurting my neck, and that's a BIG hurt!" |
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**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XIX CLOSED**
(Message 962113)
Posted 9 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just noticed that I broke into the top .5% for SETI, according to BOINCstats... The answer is still 42! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 962108)
Posted 9 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mountain lion's dream... @ John McLeod VII: don't you mean get a moose on? ;-) |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 961542)
Posted 7 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry about missing my win, but I had network problems only now resolved... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVII
(Message 960589)
Posted 3 Jan 2010 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Octo-mom's favorite dish... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 959527)
Posted 30 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Victorian method of cat population control... |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 959262)
Posted 29 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New source of petroswill located! |
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Technical News :
Cool (Dec 22 2009)
(Message 959261)
Posted 29 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...according to the "Server Status" page, the splitters are back online, and there's about 414k WU's ready to go, but I get "no work available" when I request work from BOINC manager... The science status page has been broken since mid-November - it's still reading "This page generated: 13 Nov 2009 19:30:14 UTC" |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 958524)
Posted 24 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) DANGER, Will Robinson! 2) Unhappy Santa tells two clients "You've been a baaaad boy!" |
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Number crunching :
**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XIX CLOSED**
(Message 958096)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed my 4 year anniversary... with a 3 month break in there (out of town on an extended job...) 2.25M total Boinc cobblestones, 1.5M SETI cobblestones! (both figures approximate...) |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 958090)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Upside down air-water soda bottle (Sprite®, BTW) rocket... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 957538)
Posted 20 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Dear Lord, PLEASE don't let them find out about the three bimbos, 20 years ago... Oh, and thank you - even IF they find out, it was worth it! ------------ And this post is my "Number of the Beast" (666) post! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 955216)
Posted 16 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Did I tell you to knock down the house? No, I told you just the garage - which you haven't done yet! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 954423)
Posted 13 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Pencil neck geek balloons are ready, SIR! (or does no one else remember Fred Blassie?...) |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 953895)
Posted 11 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes SIR! I am a LOOSER, SIR! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 953637)
Posted 10 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Order in the courtroom... Where is da judge??? |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 953003)
Posted 7 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Great, now my black lab gives rides to meercats! |
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Technical News :
Take a Break (Nov 26 2009)
(Message 952817)
Posted 6 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: On a different note, can someone FIX the Science status page? The number of spikes in the last 24 hours has read "1,545,993" for a month now, NTM that the overflow rate has stuck at 5.3% for the same period!... |
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SETI@home Staff Blog :
FAQ and comments about the Higley School District controversy
(Message 952814)
Posted 6 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Q. Did SETI@home slow down other software as was reported? I know of one instance where full BOINC use slows down other software - under Windows XP, using BOINC in all cores will slow down the NERO CD/DVD authoring software suite. (The simple solution that I use - go into Windows Task Monitor and set the BOINC tasks to N-1 cores, [where N is the total cores in your machine] and the NERO suite to the left-over core... Surprisingly, using the cores during actual CD/DVD burning is possible, without slowing down the operation...) |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XVI
(Message 952704)
Posted 5 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Stanford Wabbits attempt to impress the Cal Bears. The attempt falls flat on its face. |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 951683)
Posted 2 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) If you think the fans on today's computers are loud, you should'a listened to 'em when they were made o' rock... 2) New evidence found that IBM 1401's had CRT terminals... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 951380)
Posted 1 Dec 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Prepare for Ludicrous speed!" Somebody likes the movie Spaceballs... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 950501)
Posted 28 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Fire and ice (left to right) at NASA" |
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Technical News :
Take a Break (Nov 26 2009)
(Message 950499)
Posted 28 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, everybody that's having problems downloading: try shutting down (gracefully, of course...) your BOINC client, and re-starting it. This worked for me on two machines... (the third didn't need it...) As far as LHC goes, I understand that once the beam is back online, they're going to be using BOINC to analyze (at least some of...) the resulting data. |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 948835)
Posted 21 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bob Marley reincarnated! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 948531)
Posted 20 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) Strummin' while SETI burns... 2) Try THIS with guitarrons! |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 948041)
Posted 18 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sorry about that everyone... I hust went to a cable modem, and I'm having network problems... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 947225)
Posted 14 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "... 16 cans of "whoop-a## ready to be opened, sir..." (alternative way of sayin my original post...) |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 947223)
Posted 14 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "...sixteen packages of destruction ready for delivery, Sir..." |
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BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 946966)
Posted 13 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 1) "Hey, let's wake up that girl in front of us with ethanol fumes!" 2) Members of Delta house that actually graduate. |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 946420)
Posted 10 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Guess why I stay married to Bill??? (hint, hint...)" |
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Technical News :
Back and Forth (Oct 28 2009)
(Message 945227)
Posted 5 Nov 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where is Government Island in the picture ( If in frame)? If you are talking about the "Government Island" that the Coast Guard base is on, that would be off frame left - with a 17" monitor, it would be off the monitor about 2 inches (5 cm) to the left... |
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Cafe SETI :
BEET's Give us a CAPTION XV
(Message 943895)
Posted 30 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Child takes action to protect own lungs... |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (25) Server problems
(Message 943713)
Posted 29 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ALERT! The assimilater(s) appear to be stuck again... |
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Technical News :
Blip (Sep 16 2009)
(Message 943687)
Posted 29 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well my options are to accept any type of unit S@H sends. As long as BOINC is capable of selecting the correct software to crunch a unit, and doesn't use APv505 to crunch an APv5 or an APvprevious, for example, my computer's efforts will not have been in vain. As I understand it, the three OUTGOING file formats are different, that is why there were two switches to start with! |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 943640)
Posted 29 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "HONEY, I blew up the raccoon!" |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 942302)
Posted 23 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now broadcasting LIVE! from our mobile studio — Beach Blanket Bingo Goes Bananas! LIVE from Black's Beach, San Diego! content rated R - some nudity may occur |
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Technical News :
Long Walk (Oct 20 2009)
(Message 942299)
Posted 23 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I know that I've used Jakes on both I-80 (EB) and I-70 (WB)... another place that truckers are notorious for using them, and shouldn't... freeway off-ramps! |
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Long Walk (Oct 20 2009)
(Message 942052)
Posted 22 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Odd thing about the "Jake Brake" They can be made to be quiet, but I have yet to see one in common service that is. It would cost ( some ) and that is the rub. What's really odd is that jakes, as delivered by the manufacturer (Freightliner, at least...) are quite quiet - it's the truckers themselves who make them louder, by making the exhaust pipe larger in diameter after the muffler! (think megaphone...) Two different models (Century, Columbia) of Freightliner driven, both with "quiet jakes" - no louder than the same tractor at full acceleration! Both trucks had "as delivered" exhaust systems. And truckers have only themselves to blame for Jake brake restrictions - because they use them where they shouldn't! (Jakes are meant for long and/or steep downslopes, [like Centennial Drive, or Donner Pass: which are both...] and not for ordinary stopping. Centennial Drive doesn't have a Jakes restriction AFAIK... (21 year area resident...) |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 941790)
Posted 21 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone took the "dress up for Halloween" day too literally... |
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Long Walk (Oct 20 2009)
(Message 941780)
Posted 21 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... 1.5 miles up a very tall/steep hill). The shuttle's brakes failed on the way home - or at least showed enough signs of pre-failure such that the driver refused to go any further. ... All brakes eventually fail - it is in the nature of the brakes turning kinetic energy (motion) and/or potential energy (gravity + height) into thermal energy. Since the bus is probably has a Diesel motor, another solution might be available - the "engine retarder" or "Jacobs brake", usually reffered to as "Jake brake". If you've ever been next to a big-rig truck on a downgrade, you've heard them, the BWW-WWW-WWW-WWW from the exhaust. I know that Jakes can be fitted to a bus engine, although (apparently...) Cal's buses don't have the option... I'm very surprised that the option wasn't ordered, given the steepness of Centennial Drive on the Cal campus... Long-haul trucker living in Albany, CA - next door to the People's Republic... |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 939872)
Posted 14 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Tammy Faye Baker's make-up box?" "Nope, I don't see the mascara trowel..." |
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Technical News :
Blip (Sep 16 2009)
(Message 939866)
Posted 14 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Question: Do we really need the "old AP" and the "AP V5" switches anymore, given that all the "old AP" and "AP v5" work has been processed? |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 939383)
Posted 12 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Hey, look - I've discovered how to balance the truck on the tailgate!" |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 938345)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I didn't know that Pisa ever exported the building plans... |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 938150)
Posted 7 Oct 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Osprey meets Flounder... TOGA! |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 936951)
Posted 30 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know: I've heard of "toting your house in your backpack", but this is ridiculous! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 935686)
Posted 24 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: CalTrans workers state the obvious. |
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Technical News :
Quick Outage Today (Sep 22 2009)
(Message 935442)
Posted 23 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: thank you for the info. Have 14 "pendings" stacked up dating back to the 17th To find out which of the above is true (I.E. waiting for matching WU or that that WU didn't jibe with yours...) on the accounts page, click on "Tasks": Items that say "Completed, waiting for validation" are waiting for the matching WU, items that say "Completed, validation inconclusive" are waiting of a "tie breaker" WU to determine which of two different results is correct. |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 935397)
Posted 23 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Latest ad for "melt in your mouth, not in your fin" herring! Left orca has been over-indulging - is that a bad tooth I see before me? (bottom jaw, fourth tooth right of center...) ...with appologies to W.S. & "The Scottish Play" ... What's the proper dose of Novocaine® for an orca? |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 935017)
Posted 21 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Honest, officer: I didn't know that you could rollover an asphalt roller! |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 934222)
Posted 18 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The "Rock and Sock" connection shows signs of fraying... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIV
(Message 933987)
Posted 17 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... when I said he inhaled his magherita, I meant inhaled! |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 932537)
Posted 11 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Misplaced side-car? |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 932293)
Posted 10 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Innovative motorcycle rumble seat (accent on the "rumble") |
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Technical News :
Whac-a-Mole (Sep 03 2009)
(Message 932106)
Posted 9 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: To: all who are having problems uploading: These problems are NORMAL for the servers after a work outage as long as the one we have had. They will taper off as the load on the upload/download servers tapers down from ~95%... just let BOINC retry uploads normally, and uploads will eventually get through! If you are reading this on dial-up: 1) I hope you are connected to more than 1 BOINC project. 2) Attempt to upload and get downloads for about an hour (or more); then if nothing eventuates, get some work units from your other project(s)! |
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Whac-a-Mole (Sep 03 2009)
(Message 932019)
Posted 9 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My computer needs work or it becomes almost human (lazy) maybe we should remove the human factor. COMPUTERS DON'T NEED HOLIDAYS Computers don't need holidays, true - BUT people do! — and it was a people holiday, here in the USA (Labor Day) on the 7th. (Berkeley [Pacific Daylight Time, {UTC -7}] time) |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 930639)
Posted 3 Sep 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You know the divorce is coming, when the husband sleeps with his bicycle, and his wife sleeps outside... |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 928915)
Posted 26 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: shark labels waves... |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 928445)
Posted 24 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "911, what is your emergency?" "I'd like to report a drowning - MINE! |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 927223)
Posted 19 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New species of ironwood discovered - which is magnetic! |
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Technical News :
Down and Up (Aug 18 2009)
(Message 927214)
Posted 19 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not to complain, or anything, but the Science Status page hasn't had contact with Arecibo for weeks, and the "signals already found" just show blanks... Also the overflow rate has been stuck at 4.4% for the same length of time... |
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Cafe SETI :
Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 926804)
Posted 17 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ralph C. Wolf plays hopscotch with his food while the sheepdog sleeps. |
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Good Problems (Aug 10 2009)
(Message 925581)
Posted 12 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Uploads seem fine at this writing (0851 PDT), but the assimilators need a kick - they've been falling seriously behind since Sunday! — now at 1.3M "waiting for assimilation" and growing... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 925430)
Posted 11 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I didn't know Martin Landau was a magician! ...and for the sharkgull pic a coupl'a shots back... New Species: Carcarinus californicus |
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Stop Start (Aug 05 2009)
(Message 924365)
Posted 7 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not wanting to add to anyone's work, but... the "science status" page script could use some scrutiny, as the "overflow rate" has been at 4.4% every time I've looked at it in the last month (or so...), for the multi-beam data recorder, the "as of" value is in the 53k minutes range, and the "signals already found" section is completely blank. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 923817)
Posted 5 Aug 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The camera crew decided that "this old Victorian" was unsaveable, (due to termites) so they applied the ultimate termiticide - fire, so they could get on with the "renovation" - and took a picture in the meantime. |
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Moving Right Along (Jul 30 2009)
(Message 922779)
Posted 31 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Uploads have been on the fritz since about 0400 Berkeley time...It took until 1300 before someone noticed? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 921701)
Posted 27 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's more than 48 hours, so... Honorable mention to Champ for mentioning my favorite name for Columba livia Second Place: John McLeod VII for "I must have made a left turn at Albuquerque." [nod to Bugs Bunny...] and now TA DA! First Place: James Sotherden for "Jonathan always wondered why he could never get a date." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 921151)
Posted 24 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, try this: 
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 921149)
Posted 24 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oops, first try at a foto was hidden by a moderator... Will try again with another... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 920849)
Posted 23 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [hushed voice] Tiger is setting up for his famous "three cushion" birdie putt. [/hushed voice] |
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*CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XVIII /CLOSED*
(Message 920375)
Posted 22 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 600 Posts! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XIII
(Message 920344)
Posted 22 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tiger Woods tries to remedy his recent putting problems with indoor practice... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 918562)
Posted 16 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: waterspout forming under blue sky... |
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More of the Same (Jul 09 2009)
(Message 916582)
Posted 10 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Yes, I know it;'s a joke; just one that isn't being told correctly... :-) Real joke is: "how many software engineers (or "programmers") to change a light bulb?" "NONE- that's a hardware problem!" --- after a string of other "light bulb" jokes... This as told by an old-time computer (IBM 360, 370, etc.) operator - who's caught hell from both sides! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 916551)
Posted 10 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kermit the frog in front of Muppet Show curtain: "And now - PIGS IN SPACE!" (curtain rises, looks...) "RACCOONS IN SPACE!" (wanders offstage, muttering: "when did raccoons join the cast?") |
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More of the Same (Jul 09 2009)
(Message 916546)
Posted 10 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Ned, the correct answer is "they don't etc..." - its not that they can't, it's just not in their job description! (so, like government workers everywhere, their attitude is "Not My Job!") ;-) (from a former government employee...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 916180)
Posted 9 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sigma tests its new 70:1 super-zoom macro lens. Test fails due to subject (they're TOO perky...) movement. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 915773)
Posted 8 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually, the second line on the sign reads "Camels both bite and spit! Be forewarned..." |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 915456)
Posted 7 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "You distract 'im, I'll hit 'im over the head, then we'll get ALL the food!" |
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Blitzed Again (Jul 02 2009)
(Message 914791)
Posted 6 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, reporting is on the fritz again, getting "couldn't connect to server" on the messages. It's been this way since 0700 Berkeley time... |
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Increasing Numbers (Jul 01 2009)
(Message 913438)
Posted 3 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not true for last night: (July 1) I left WU request on ALL night and didn't get one work unit! I think the splitters are (currently, at least...) making too many CUDA WU's and not enuf CPU WU's. But, if they're both the same in Berkeley's WU queue, why do people get the "No WU's available for your CPU, GPU units available" line? (in red yet!) (or words to that effect...) I've gotten that line many times when I' have had CUDA units up the ying-yang, but wanted CPU units (because I had cold cores...) on my CUDA capable Quad core computer! (like last night!, although I didn't get the line last night...) (of my 5 computers, only one is CUDA capable...) |
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Increasing Numbers (Jul 01 2009)
(Message 913369)
Posted 2 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: thanks for the anology - since the guy is too busy I guess I just shut down! Not true for last night: (July 1) I left WU request on ALL night and didn't get one work unit! I think the splitters are (currently, at least...) making too many CUDA WU's and not enuf CPU WU's. So, of that "1.5 million WU's", how many are already designated as CUDA??? Is there some way to tell in Berkeley? It doesn't (necessarily...) have to be visible to the crunching public. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 913042)
Posted 1 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's a complete market that only has beer, magazines, and soft drinks? - particularly if the magazines are of the firearm variety! |
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More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 913032)
Posted 1 Jul 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the update. ...except if they run M$ Windoze! ;-P I don't quite see how to get rid of the file clerk completely so I suspect there will always be an O/S. Might be remote, but it will be there. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 912668)
Posted 29 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 4-way stop? I count 6 instances of the "STOP": 1 - the big stop and 5 stops on the secondary sign. |
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Advance (Jun 25 2009)
(Message 911840)
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm not complaining, but... UPloads to the server have been down for two day, from two different locations! (one dial-up, the other a cable modem...) Perhaps someone needs to give the UPload server a kick? I've tried flushing the DNS, shutting down/restarting BOINC and re-booting the computers involved... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 911455)
Posted 25 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How "Deer Avenger 1" came up with the game concept... |
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More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 911452)
Posted 25 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] you could do that on a 1403, too - and wind up with a boxful of paper (and not neatly fan-folded, either!) in the back of the printer in about 4 minutes... |
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More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 911223)
Posted 25 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I was operator for a Honeywell 6000, which used a drum printer - it was real interesting, because one of the instructors (this was a college machine...) would always assign the class to do a picture (in FORTRAN, using FORMAT statements). Some members of the class would always discover how to do overprinting, and you'd get a distinctive WHAP, WHAP as a line of M's followed by a line of W's was printed (for the darkest tone...) The H 6k had replaced an IBM 360, and that was also interesting - the same overprinting sounded like ZIP, ZIP... This was with an IBM 1403 chain printer. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 910779)
Posted 24 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sadly, the horse skindiving attempt failed due to a bad concept... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 910254)
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... You could use you current avatar photo... :-) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 909896)
Posted 21 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "My, what big lips you have!!!" "All the better to kiss you with, my dear" "My, what a big tongue you have!!!" "All the better to kiss you with, my dear" ;-) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 908441)
Posted 17 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ex-president ponders the effects of his economic policy. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 907968)
Posted 15 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, who's the seat stuffing bully in the class? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 907899)
Posted 15 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Manta Ray tests new medium... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 907291)
Posted 13 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Soviet pilots playing the latest version of "Lunar Lander" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 906770)
Posted 12 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "... chhhht... Honey Bear looking for gators on route 69!... chht!" CB channel 19 |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 906249)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Rastafarian meets pirate lass... |
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Comment Control (Jun 03 2009)
(Message 906247)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually, according to Wikipedia, here, UTC is a compromise backronym as the time body wanted an "universal" acronym that would fit all languages. oops! :blush: |
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Comment Control (Jun 03 2009)
(Message 905888)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually, according to Wikipedia, here, UTC is a compromise backronym as the time body wanted an "universal" acronym that would fit all languages. |
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Upwards and Onwards (May 28 2009)
(Message 905882)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Don't forget that the first AP task that user will get will be with the stock app (so ~80 hours for that machine), but it will be estimated by BOINC at DCF=1.0, rather than the DCF=~0.4 typical for stock AP. To be fair, I don't think that DCF has changed since the start of BOINC, when HT P4's were the cutting edge of state-of-the-art. |
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Semi Solutions (Jun 08 2009)
(Message 905848)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... from the thread title, I expected something involving big rig trucks!... ;-) |
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Comment Control (Jun 03 2009)
(Message 905843)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's much better to use UTC +- than using any of these abbrevations that clearly isn't unique. My guess - aside from the earth rotation/ceasium vibration bit - is that they came up with UTC to get away from the "Greenwich" that is in the GMT acronym. The "UTC" acronyom is from French words, BTW. In English, the acronym should be "CUT" for "Coordinated Universal Time". |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption XII
(Message 905582)
Posted 9 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Kermit the frog voice] And now: "PIGS IN SPACE!" (looks) Make that: "KUNG-FU KITTIES IN SPACE!" [/Kermit voice] |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Credit over-reporting
(Message 904078)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh... I haven't hung around the CUDA boards enuf to have seen that, and it isn't apparent from the (first page, at least) thread titles... There does seem to be some proportionality to the claim disparity that I've seen, though... for example, CUDA claims 12 credits when the CPU app it's paired with claims 10, CUDA claims 43 when the CPU claims 38, etc... |
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GPU applications :
Credit over-reporting
(Message 904062)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have a Q9300 with a 9500GT video card, processing with the stock CUDA app. CUDA WU's processed on this combo always seem to request more credits than the other, non-CUDA apps that the WU's are matched to. Is this normal? or Is this something that should be looked into? The WU's seem to match up, credit-wise, with other stock CUDA apps on the few times (I've seen, at least...) that both WU's have been processed by CUDA. (although a different NVidia GPU was used...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 904050)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late entry: "Do you know the way to San Jose?" |
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Comment Control (Jun 03 2009)
(Message 904048)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, CST = -6, EST = -5, WST = ??? EST & CST generally, particularly if the writer is American, refer to North American Time Zones... and are UTC -4 & -5, respectively. I believe that the Aussie Time zones are usually abbreviated "CAST", "EAST" and "WAST" to prevent this confusion. (for ___ Australian Standard Time, the ___ being Central, Eastern, and Western...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 903004)
Posted 2 Jun 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We wait... in the meantime I have a late entry - WIDE LOAD |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 901071)
Posted 29 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That should be Sir Ekky Ekky Ekky ... I had the Coefficient of drag entry... |
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Upwards and Onwards (May 28 2009)
(Message 901062)
Posted 29 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... In other matters, the "client connection stats" page is broken... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 901058)
Posted 29 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Normal van Coefficient of Drag: 0.46 This van: 0.9! |
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Upwards and Onwards (May 28 2009)
(Message 901055)
Posted 29 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can uncheck both "AP's" in the "Preferences" section. Be sure to also uncheck the "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?" section also. – but both are checked by default, so AP is enabled for a new user. (and probably the first thing they get!) What is being suggested, here, is that they be un-checked by default, so that a new user only gets multi-beam, until he/she "discovers" AP. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 900584)
Posted 28 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Diver takes off after bus backfires! |
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Replication Aggravation (May 26 2009)
(Message 900012)
Posted 27 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... thought we had fixed that... I meant we, as in me, as I'm the only one that seems to point out that the page is broken; and Matt &/or the staff, who fixes it! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 899864)
Posted 27 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If I hear one more person sayin' "cute monkee!" I'm goin' to go postal! |
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Replication Aggravation (May 26 2009)
(Message 899863)
Posted 27 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query - why has the "science status" page not been updated since May 7? I thought we had fixed that... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 899316)
Posted 25 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... I bet the customers were surprised! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 898301)
Posted 22 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: late entry.... Where most Trabi's wound up... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 897820)
Posted 21 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...and that's 11 captions... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption Xl
(Message 897277)
Posted 20 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [drunken voice] I don' have a drinkin' pro'lem... I have stability issues, jus' like SETI! (hic) [/drunken voice] |
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Rainy Day Data (May 14 2009)
(Message 895001)
Posted 15 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For the off chance it hasn't been seen yet, all the 'ap_splitter's are not running.. Yeah, but... didn't you notice that almost all the "tapes" in the queue have been split for AP, but not for MB? The staff may just be letting MB catch up... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption X.....
(Message 894618)
Posted 14 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bear "rolling on the floor, laughing" at too obvious sign... ...and that's the tenth response! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption X.....
(Message 893934)
Posted 12 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Way too many old TV's wasting energy... |
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Fner and Fnerina (Apr 28 2009)
(Message 893353)
Posted 10 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query: That "under construction" line has been there since I can recall; back before April 1, when the page was working, and dating back to at least 2007! I notice that the SSP is now working... (May 10) and the first line still reads "under construction"! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption X.....
(Message 892749)
Posted 8 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: County sheriff shows off new vehicle, confiscated from "drug dealer". He's unprepared for the question: "how ya gonna pay for gas for that thang?" |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 892082)
Posted 6 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jason Giambi helps opposing player in 2nd base pole-vault event... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 890233)
Posted 1 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: World's largest suppository ready for insertion! |
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Normal (Apr 30 2009)
(Message 890230)
Posted 1 May 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Great zpm, teach the dog to associate rabbits with treats. He'll be bringing all the rabbits he can catch expecting you to give him treats for them. But, at least, the rabbits/whatever may still be alive when the dog gets the treat! (in fact, don't reward him/her unless they are!) [add] Were Fner and Fnerina named after one of the giants in Wagner's Ring cycle - Fafner? [/add] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 889911)
Posted 30 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: WaaaCHOO! ...Scuse me! (sniff...) |
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Fner and Fnerina (Apr 28 2009)
(Message 889909)
Posted 30 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query: Why is the "science status page" still showing that it was last updated on April 1? ...is this some sort of extended April Fool's joke? ;-) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 889405)
Posted 29 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The profredder has dyxlesia! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 889404)
Posted 29 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, 12 captions for the THIRD time on this thread! Doesn't anyone else read the first post on the thread, which reminds you of the rules? [add] Just realized that the first post on THIS edition didn't include the rules... That said, the rules are: 10 captions or 48 (aprox...) hours, whichever occurs first!, Winner posts next picture and judges the results. A PM to the (next) winner is always nice... [/add] |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 887692)
Posted 23 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: world's first urethane foam motorcycle under construction... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 887612)
Posted 23 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, that's far more than 48 hrs... Honorable mention: Labbie for realizing that it's a Tootsie Pop® stick... Runnerup: klc53 with "The new bobble-head Pez® dispenser." And the winner is... James Sotherden with "The worlds first talking rectal thermometer." On the other hand, no one even came close to the direction of MY caption for the picture, which I hadn't posted to keep the competition honest: "How Roger's dames see him" (with Roger's head being the one on the SUCKER!...) |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 886819)
Posted 20 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, caption THIS!  as usual for me, image copyright © 2009, Paul Sullivan |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 886762)
Posted 20 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kitten has shocking experience with dead SETI drive... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 886352)
Posted 18 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Anybody else remember that cartoon? Yes, Warner Brothers - Bugs Bunny, of course... [to the tune "Mexican Hat Dance"] bull (with hooves): da da da dada da DUM bugs (with glove): slap slap... etc. |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 886125)
Posted 17 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, didn't we see this picture in the last "caption" thread? |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 886078)
Posted 17 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Taurine face plant in progress... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 885818)
Posted 16 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ummm, 12 captions, again... |
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Number crunching :
CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XVII **CLOSED
(Message 885613)
Posted 15 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yeah, me! Reached (finally!) 1M S@H credits! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 885612)
Posted 15 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jet powered stork... |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 885342)
Posted 14 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know this is a second caption, but I couldn't resist: Premature pull-out? |
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(Message 885131)
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query - if the pulse database is re-built, why does the Science page state that there's been -506m pulses in the last 24 hrs? |
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(Message 884688)
Posted 12 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Ooops, forgot to drop the landing gear..." |
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(Message 883963)
Posted 10 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
come on, SJ... you know that was written tongue in cheek... |
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(Message 883962)
Posted 10 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: worrying about the wrong problem! |
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(Message 883730)
Posted 9 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
...shouldn't that be "Mack the Knife"? |
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(Message 883388)
Posted 8 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The cast of Fame goes on a hunger strike over "inappropriate costumes"! |
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(Message 882800)
Posted 6 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: world's shortest off-ramp! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 882015)
Posted 3 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, 12 captions... |
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Olga (Apr 02 2009)
(Message 882011)
Posted 3 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks for the update, have set up my cache accordingly :) a few extra days more ;) my guess, from the limited data so far: the cast of War & Peace |
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(Message 881440)
Posted 1 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The boy with no arms tries a unique camouflage strategy... |
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(Message 881114)
Posted 1 Apr 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hello out there, where's the judge? That's 12 captions and 51 hrs by my count... |
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(Message 880807)
Posted 30 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: World's largest pig stye... |
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(Message 879369)
Posted 26 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Russian military uniform issue ear-warmer... usually discarded to save weight. |
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(Message 879220)
Posted 25 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's ten captions, so here goes... Runner up is Blurf with "Ever have one of those days when you think the world has turned upside down?" And the winner is... Dirk Villarreal Wittich with The patriarch of the Bats after a couple of bloody beers! Both of them funnier than my caption: "Roger's thinking, illustrated. (I thought I smelled wood burning!)" (Roger being the guy in the pic...) Take it away, Dirk! |
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Beet's Give Us a Caption IX.....
(Message 878913)
Posted 24 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, new picture, here is...  No comments on the fact that the picture is upside-down - that's deliberate! Photo © 2009, Paul Sullivan - aka THE Holy Hand Grenade! |
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(Message 878868)
Posted 24 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks, Angela... I'll post my new pic in about 2-3 hrs, once I get in to work and the computer with the pictures! [add] BTW, I think EVERYONE (including me...) missed the series that the costume is from... I have a feeling that that costume is from Battlestar Galactica! [/add] |
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(Message 878614)
Posted 23 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: that's around 48 hrs... remember it's 48 hrs or 10 captions... |
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(Message 878611)
Posted 23 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [Yoda voice] Hmm, large codpiece, he has... [/Yoda voice] |
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Ngo (Mar 19 2009)
(Message 878609)
Posted 23 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Do you mean these ones? Yep, those are what I meant! |
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Ngo (Mar 19 2009)
(Message 878547)
Posted 23 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Alert - all the MB validators have gone off-line! |
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Ngo (Mar 19 2009)
(Message 877912)
Posted 21 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm sure this is probably a stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway. What is the name of each of your technical news threads related to? This one one is Ngo, and I've seen threads named British, Warner, Thousand Island, etc. I haven't found an obvious pattern and am curious as to what these thread names mean (if anything). British authors that Matt has read? |
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**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XVI CLOSED**
(Message 877514)
Posted 20 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: First Million :) I do, too... but we have to wait for ATI to write CUDA code for their video chips/cards! (have one, and several non-CUDA capable [too old] Nvidia cards...) |
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(Message 877215)
Posted 19 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Oh no, NOT another round of Taco Hell commercials!" |
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(Message 876246)
Posted 16 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Beethoven attempting to write Symphony # 10 in a# minor... |
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**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XVI CLOSED**
(Message 875801)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Have hit 500 posts! (this is post # 501) Also have over a mile (5280 feet) of pending on SETI... (currently [as I type] 5,638.10!) Pretty high for a garden of 4 slower computers and one (non CUDA) Q9300 ... |
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(Message 875797)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Atari 1200... built like a brick, and slow as molasses on a cold day... |
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Warner (Mar 11 2009)
(Message 875233)
Posted 13 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I noticed that the maximum data file size on the server is 50.20GB. If you could tell them to record slightly shorter file sizes, could you instead go to double-layered BD-R (Blu-Ray Recordable), which max out at 50GB? BD-RE (Blu-ray Rewritable) might or might not be practical because nobody has produced a double-layer version, so they currently max out at 25GB. I'm not sure that any double-layer rewritable is possible... If it were technically feasable, wouldn't double-layer rewritable DVD (- or +R) have been available for some time? |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 874975)
Posted 12 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: that's one hard-core sofa! |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 874662)
Posted 11 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, I don't see any pic to caption! |
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(Message 872646)
Posted 5 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I can think of two: "Testing the chair-lift's capacity" and "how beer gets to the top of the mountain" |
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(Message 872534)
Posted 5 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The first runner up is John McLeod VII with "Mean humans. First they burn the fish, then they dont's give us any." a takeoff on Gollum in The Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers... and the winner is: Klc53 with another movie takeoff: "Are you talking to me?..Are you looking at me?..Must be, I don't see anyone else standing here!..Punk!" a takeoff of Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver. Take'r away KLC... |
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(Message 872528)
Posted 5 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: And let's stop quibbling about Gollum's (note spelling!) lines in The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers which, BTW, is released by New Line - Pixar had nothing to do with the picture... (and the lines cited are from the movie...) But that is an echo of Daffy Duck's "MINE, MINE, MINE, ALL MINE!" in Ali Baba Bunny (amongst others... Daffy lives by this!) by Warner Brothers... |
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(Message 872101)
Posted 4 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh It's a Western Gull, But it's informally known as a Seagull. Pixar, as you've noted, didn't make the Two Towers. And of course Kung Fu Panda is a DreamWorks movie(Just in case). Well, "seagull", at least around here, (San Francisco Bay Area) means any member of the (biologic) sub-family Larinae of family Laridae. - and I specifically asked for species name. |
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(Message 872089)
Posted 4 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Still time for captions, as I'll award the prize at 1500 PST (2300 GMT) today... I think I'll give some secondary awards now, though... First, dishonorable mention to Blurf for mentioning the Michael Bolton cover of Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay". In case you hadn't noticed, Blurf, the gull isn't sitting... (Love the song, hate that cover of the song, BTW...) Second, Extra Credit is awarded to Klc53, for correct identification of the Western Gull, Larus occidentalis. And let's stop quibbling about Gollum's (note spelling!) lines in The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers which, BTW, is released by New Line - Pixar had nothing to do with the picture... (and the lines cited are from the movie...) |
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(Message 871834)
Posted 3 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So far the species names are way off... I live on the WEST coast... (hint) |
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(Message 871452)
Posted 2 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ok, caption THIS!  Image copyright © 2009, Paul Sullivan (aka THE Holy Hand Grenade!) Extra credit if you can identify the species - either by National Audobon Society common name or by scientific name... |
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(Message 871252)
Posted 2 Mar 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Bud wins the annual "blind animal taste test"! |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 869725)
Posted 26 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok, lets play "chase around the car"... |
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(Message 869110)
Posted 24 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know I said "high tea" but this is outrageous! |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 868047)
Posted 22 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, the plan is... You distract them on the left with purring, while I sneak around to the right and steal the food bags... You want fish flavor, yes? Purrrrfect! |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 867039)
Posted 19 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Now, as long as she doesn't groom, or pass a mirror, she won't see me!" |
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Darwin (Feb 17 2009)
(Message 866877)
Posted 18 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: >That's why most CUDA WU's currently validate again CPU-crunched tasks.< Credit is always granted at the lower level to prevent overclaiming credit fraud (don't laugh - it's happened...) |
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Darwin (Feb 17 2009)
(Message 866797)
Posted 18 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have NEVER experienced a 6.08 CUDA work unit execute in the CPU, even when I ran out of other SETI work. I would be interested to hear if anyone has had a 6.08 CUDA work unit run in their CPU. The reason I asked is that I have NO CUDA capable GPU's to date, and I'm getting the occasional "no work available for your CPU" flag, (as mentioned in my first post...) |
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Darwin (Feb 17 2009)
(Message 866763)
Posted 18 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query - what percentage of MB units are designated as "CUDA" units, and what percentage are available to plain old cpu apps? I'm often (even when the servers are working properly...) getting the "no work available for your cpu" flag when requesting new work. Please remember that a lot of us are either working with non-CUDA capable clients, (pre 6.4...) or have ATI graphics boards (or older Nvidia boards...) which are non-CUDA capable. I've occasionally had cpu cores (I have 10 working...) go "cold" on SETI (all computers have more than one project attached, of course, so they aren't actually "cold"!...) due to the above flag. |
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Emerald (Feb 10 2009)
(Message 866164)
Posted 16 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's another problem we've been having over the past couple weeks, and it doesn't seem to be getting better: ants. I typically don't take a lunch break, and just nosh all day by my computer during small cracks of time. Dave and Jeff are the same way, and have the next two desks adjacent to me. Even though we're on the third floor the ants finally found the motherload of crumbs and unwashed utensils left on our desktops. There's not enough of them to find their exact point of entry nor plot their general plan of action. So throughout the day I've been mashing the little buggers as I spot them. Hopefully they'll just give up and disappear - meanwhile my work space is smelling more and more like formic acid. I, too, recommend boric acid... just be aware that boric acid is a low-grade poison to humans. (I.E. don't spread it where it would get into food, and wash up any utensils that touch it right away...) |
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Fallen Leaf (Feb 12 2009)
(Message 866159)
Posted 16 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In addition to the downloading problem, there now seems to be a problem uploading completed WU's to Berkeley... getting: 2/16/2009 8:57:52 AM|SETI@home|Temporarily failed upload of 16ja09af.28021.72.11.8.100_1_0: system connect When I try... [add] also give Beta a kick, as a similar problem has been over there for a day or two... [/add] [2nd add] re-started working at ~0920 Berkeley time... [/2nd add] |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 864731)
Posted 12 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "haven't you F@#$@#$@in' four-wheelers heard of "Proper Following Distance"???" |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 863870)
Posted 9 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why am I perched on this @#$@#$ boxwood? There's no seeds here! |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 862526)
Posted 6 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmmmmmmmmm............ I smell garlic. On bio-diesel with a soupcon of garlic, ne pas?? |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 862358)
Posted 5 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Muslim driver praying before race... |
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(Message 861917)
Posted 4 Feb 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: one day at the soccer World Cup test grounds... |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 859816)
Posted 30 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Feathered Rat to crew... bandit: 12 O'Clock low....!" |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 858614)
Posted 27 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: methane powered car... |
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Hole in the Rock (Jan 22 2009)
(Message 856753)
Posted 23 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: at about 0200 PST, I started getting: 1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent 1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: CPU app exists for SETI@home Enhanced but no CPU work requested 1/23/2009 1:56:17 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: (your BOINC client is old - please install current version) followed by: 1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent 1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: CPU app exists for SETI@home Enhanced but no CPU work requested 1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site. 1/23/2009 1:58:50 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: (your BOINC client is old - please install current version) This just after sucessfully getting a block of 20 WU's for the same computer (which is running version 5.10.45...) Did something change on Berkeley's end, 'cause nothing changed on mine! [add]Each time I got these messages, I also got "communication deffered" for 24 hrs, BTW [/add] |
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(Message 856489)
Posted 22 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Da da da Dummmm... why did Morse have to make that a "v"? |
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Beets' Give Us a Caption VIII.....
(Message 856486)
Posted 22 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Mmm, Beethoven did write a number of songs - and an opera! (with 4 overtures!!!) (In Questa Tomba Oscura) |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 855482)
Posted 19 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, Beethoven - I think that the thread is getting "too long for the dial-uppers" (of which I'm one...) |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 855079)
Posted 18 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Three bandits, 12 0'clock low!!! |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 853880)
Posted 15 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Dude, INS is history, their place taken by CBP. (Customs and Border Protection) |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 853480)
Posted 14 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My mommy is big and furry... |
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Windows 7 suggestions
(Message 851036)
Posted 8 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: FWIW, the official beta can be downloaded tomorrow (1/9/09) from M$... [add] It'll require that you burn it to a DVD, so be prepared for a very large download (probably beyond dial-upper capacity!)[/add] |
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Windows 7 suggestions
(Message 850578)
Posted 7 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not sure they'd appreciate the suggestions i'd make after trying Vista! I meant "This s**cks worse than XP did when it first came out"... |
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(Message 850577)
Posted 7 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 8 bit - Windows version 1, 2 Umm, back in the days of intense use of those systems, there was intense virus activity on all of them... |
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(Message 850573)
Posted 7 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Its hard to have blatant "security flaws" when any other OS of choice other than Windows isn't being exploited by the entire hacker community as it has been deemed 'not worth it'. No, it's not worth it, because there's far fewer Linux/Unix machines out there - introduce a Linux/unix virus and you hit only tens of thousands of machines, introduce a Win virus and you hit tens of millions of machines, particularly if your virus hits all Win varieties! The range of hardware supported should make no difference to 'security'. One exception is for 8-bit and 16-bit systems that don't have any sort of 'protected mode' but then again, I don't know of any Windows system that runs on those... |
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Bumble Bat (Jan 06 2009)
(Message 850569)
Posted 7 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... and a hearty Welcome Back! |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 850263)
Posted 6 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...attempting to plot the next closet revamp... with max downtime, of course! |
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(Message 849299)
Posted 4 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not sure they'd appreciate the suggestions i'd make after trying Vista! comment I have after trying Vi$ta: "What were you thinking? This s**cks worse than XP!" |
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(Message 848908)
Posted 3 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Tabbies find the warmest places to rest... |
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(Message 847693)
Posted 1 Jan 2009 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let me reword it Less flaws than the OS before windows 7 :o) 8 bit - Windows version 1, 2 16 bit - Windows version 3.0, 3.1 (the first really successful Windoze version, BTW - or, at least, the first version that didn't take a half hour to load!) Win 3.1 also ran in "real Mode", an 8-bit mode... post-Win95 newcomer?
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(Message 847414)
Posted 31 Dec 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's hard to make any software that consists of a billion lines of code + totally secure - there's always something that doesn't get tested either in the alpha or beta test process... That said, Micro$oft should do a better job at testing anything that is open to the I-net, (buffers, etc) at the very least - ensuring that you can't overrun any buffer, for example. |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 847396)
Posted 31 Dec 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, I thought that this was a Tom turkey - and that there were no gay turkeys! |
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Give Us A Caption! VII
(Message 846525)
Posted 29 Dec 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: new Yermo belly-flop launch system ready for testing, sir! |
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Tom (Dec 23 2008)
(Message 846410)
Posted 29 Dec 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It is possible to run 2 different WU's on one core: provided that they start on different cores... You go into Win Task Manager and "set affinity" for both WU's to the same core. I do this when backing up my computer, as (for reasons unknown to me) this speeds up the backup process by about 10-15x. On my quad-core, I run 4 WU's on 3 cores by excluding one core for the same reason. |
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Vacancy (Dec 17 2008)
(Message 842639)
Posted 20 Dec 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote]Richard, thanks for your reply. A short time ago, one of my two (Beta Test project) AP-5.00 WUs finished but neither it nor the (Beta Test project) 6.06-cuda WU that finished yesterday will upload. However, 2 recently completed (Non-Beta SETI@home project) MB WUs finished crunching and both DID upload successfully. Here's excerpt from BOINC Manager v6.4.5 Message log: [snip] Please note that Seti beta is a different project and that, while running on the same hardware, (in some cases) the processes involved are specific to beta - they (supposedly) don't interfere with the main project and vice-versa. |
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One More Daemon (Nov 14 2008)
(Message 830773)
Posted 15 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query... why do some sites know about SETI credits in the last two days, and some don't? BOINCstats are one of three sites that do have the "last two days" I mentioned... but three (all ones where I don't know the propriator) don' know about them. BTW, yesterday's SETI credits pushed me over the 1 million credit mark, total BOINC. |
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One More Daemon (Nov 14 2008)
(Message 830590)
Posted 14 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Query... why do some sites know about SETI credits in the last two days, and some don't? |
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The End of All Things (Oct 30 2008)
(Message 829672)
Posted 13 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somehow, even though I'm set to "English" as my language of choice, when I came to the "technical news" page, all my headers turned to Spanish! For Firefox, at least, it makes a difference what languages you've selected in the Content tab of the tools/options... For some reason, if you have "Spanish/Mexico" or "Italian/Italy" selected, you'll get Spanish (or Italian...) headers, EVEN IF that's not your first choice of lingos. Something is apparently not honoring the FF "order of [language] precedence" in the website - something that changed fairly recently. (probably within a day b4 I posted the first notice about it, above!) |
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Serpentine (Nov 10 2008)
(Message 829109)
Posted 11 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It sounds like Anakin has gone over to the dark side... WWEELLLL, Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader before the dark side... ;) |
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The End of All Things (Oct 30 2008)
(Message 829034)
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somehow, even though I'm set to "English" as my language of choice, when I came to the "technical news" page, all my headers turned to Spanish! Sorry, this is actually a Firefox problem... |
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(Message 829018)
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The secret royal booger... |
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Composite Head (Nov 05 2008)
(Message 829014)
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Do these recent problems have anything to do with what seems to be an ever-increasing delay in the awarding of processed credits? Over the past few weeks, I've seen the average pending credits on my projects nearly double, from an average of 1900-2200 credits a day pending to more than 5400 pending as of this morning. Over the past month or so, I've also noted that credits pending for Astropulse jobs are taking two to three times longer to be awarded than those for the other data sets. If by "recent problems" you mean the last two posts, no. - We're talking about SETI@home Beta on those - where the "Volunteer tester" tags come from... As far as the inquiry goes, if not referring to those two: I doubt it, you've just run into a run of slow-returning "wingmen" - there have been no assimilator or validater problems for a while. |
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Composite Head (Nov 05 2008)
(Message 828929)
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somebody needs to give the beta upload/download server on bruno a kick, as I can't download anything (on 2 separate computers) from beta - getting: This is still happening, at least with AP - I finally got the MB's to download. |
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Composite Head (Nov 05 2008)
(Message 828344)
Posted 8 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somebody needs to give the beta upload/download server on bruno a kick, as I can't download anything (on 2 separate computers) from beta - getting: 11/8/2008 9:13:50 AM|SETI@home Beta Test|Temporarily failed download of ap_23ap08ae_B3_P1_00216_20081107_06478.wu: http error every time my computers try, with both MB and AP WU's. |
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(Message 827926)
Posted 7 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...latest picture of the SETI server "closet" ;) |
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Composite Head (Nov 05 2008)
(Message 827708)
Posted 7 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... back to technical news: We still get the occasional "HTTP service unavailable"... This, even though the computer in question had nothing else downloading, and no other computers were using the (shared) dial-up line. [add] Oh, and Spanish headers/footers are back! [/add] |
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(Message 827293)
Posted 5 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: mouse catapult, version 1.0! |
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(Message 826650)
Posted 3 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...I didn't know wabbits could wheelie!... |
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The End of All Things (Oct 30 2008)
(Message 825786)
Posted 1 Nov 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somehow, even though I'm set to "English" as my language of choice, when I came to the "technical news" page, all my headers turned to Spanish! |
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(Message 825329)
Posted 31 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yikes.......and awaaaaaaaay. (From an old Daffy Duck cartoon) Umm, that's "Yoiks and away"... hows you buck and a quarterstaff? (same cartoon!) |
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(Message 825323)
Posted 31 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: New entry in the "dress your tree for Halloween" contest... |
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Stocktaking (Oct 28 2008)
(Message 824616)
Posted 29 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Having an issue... Got: 10/29/2008 8:38:58 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 10/29/2008 8:41:48 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error When trying to update the client's stats. This on version 5.10.45. [add] ... worked on second try, a minute later... [/add] |
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(Message 823984)
Posted 27 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: STILL sure you don't like gladiator movies, Bobbie? |
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Tired of Waiting (Oct 23 2008)
(Message 823902)
Posted 27 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, BOINCstats is showing a daily increment of 271,784 credits, where it would normally be over 40 million. Matt said (in another thread) that having one drive down isn't critical - TWO would be critical - remember, SETI uses hardware RAID - the "R" stands for "Redundant". I don't believe that the bad disk has anything to do with the problem being discussed: the problem has happened a number of times B4 this with all disks on-line. |
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Tired of Waiting (Oct 23 2008)
(Message 823898)
Posted 27 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BTW, the "client connection stats" script needs a kick again - and has for the last 3 weeks... currently showing only the line: last updated: January 01 1970 00:00:00. Which can't be right! |
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Tired of Waiting (Oct 23 2008)
(Message 823221)
Posted 25 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt - early warning, the .XML stats is on the fritz again, or the numbers have become stagnant. I currently show 4000 credits on this site that the stats sites don't know about. |
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Dumbs Laws
(Message 822782)
Posted 24 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Semi-stupid law: Please note that in CA, "trucks" are defined (for speed limit purposes) as any vehicle with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of more than 26,000 lbs. Take a look at the truck door or that immediate vicinity - CA registered trucks will have a weight sticker with the GVW rounded up to the nearest 5,000 lbs. The exception to the rounding is "26": trucks with this or less are NOT subject to the 55 mph limit. (BTW anything over 26,000, and you are required to have a Commercial Driver's License. [CDL] ) The last time I was in GA (late 2006), trucks (any weight) had the same speed limit that the cars did - as in 27 of the 28 states I drove through - only CA has this difference, TMK! |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 822734)
Posted 24 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually, old TV channel 1 is now used as the 6-meter amateur band (50-54 Mhz) and part of the VHF-low Mobile public-service band. (30-50 Mhz) DX on these bands is usually due to F layer, as opposed to Sporadic E. I read somewhere (I think...) that constant DX interference was one of the reasons that the FCC dropped channel 1... Oh? and the CHP (California Highway Patrol) doesn't use it? - it did the last time I scanned them... The VHF-low band was left (for VHF-hi) for other reasons like coverage holes in cities, NOT propigation... ... and the 6m amateur band would be more popular if it wasn't so close to the low end of the TV band. and there was more equipment available to transmit on it... I was hoping with DTV in the U.S. that all of that would move up into UHF, but apparently, they did not do that. |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 822414)
Posted 23 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Actually, old TV channel 1 is now used as the 6-meter amateur band (50-54 Mhz) and part of the VHF-low Mobile public-service band. (30-50 Mhz) DX on these bands is usually due to F layer, as opposed to Sporadic E. I read somewhere (I think...) that constant DX interference was one of the reasons that the FCC dropped channel 1... You can (occasionally...) get DX TV with channels 2-6, if one (or more) of those channels are not in local use... |
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(Message 822409)
Posted 23 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Semi-stupid law: In California, trucks have a 55 MPH speed limit: cars have a 70 (or 65, varies by location...) MPH speed limit. Thus, if both are observing (and at) the speed limit, (and that's very seldom, in my experience!) a car can pass a truck at up to 15 MPH speed difference. (Generally known as "blowing the doors off"!) This truck speed limit has been in place since long before the nation-wide 55 mph law; when that law expired, California reverted to the "cars 65, (or 70) trucks 55 MPH" Vehicles towing any form of trailer are also limited to 55, BTW. (It seems [at times] that no one in CA follows this one...) |
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(Message 822396)
Posted 23 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, Beethoven, if you're still following the thread, I think it's time that this one has "gotten too long for the dial-uppers" (of which I'm one...) |
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(Message 821981)
Posted 22 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "BOMBS AWAY!" Mr. Squirrel launches new initiative to replenish the acorn supply. |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 821972)
Posted 22 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: you did note the "at local sunset" in bold above? No, I'm saying that they switch antennas, from a ground-hugging gain antenna (typically a dipole...) to a more skywave friendly type, like a verticle. Naturally, they can't change propagation mode, but they can switch antennas so that they don't waste power transmitting where it won't bounce... |
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(Message 821072)
Posted 20 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, where did that Taco Hell chihuahua go? no, he's in "Beverly Hills Chi Ha Ha"! ;) |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 821056)
Posted 20 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [ you did note the "at local sunset" in bold above? |
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(Message 820553)
Posted 19 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, where did that Taco Hell chihuahua go? |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 820543)
Posted 19 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Actually, for AM clear channel stations there is a switch... or at least there was a switch (my information is at least a decade old)... at local sunset clear channel stations would switch from a ground wave only type antenna (typically a dipole with a "reflector" physically above it) to a omnidirectional antenna - typically a 1/4 wave verticle. Not all of the sky wave is bent back down to earth all of the time - some of the angles are wrong, and sometimes the "ionization layer" that reflects the AM band doesn't form. |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 819808)
Posted 17 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
AM clear channel stations transmit a skywave after dark... that's how you can get (for example...) KFI (from Los Angeles) in both San Francisco and Reno, NV (after dark!). I've gotten AM DX from as far away as Dallas, TX in the Bay Area... |
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Lost in Translation (Oct 16 2008)
(Message 819689)
Posted 17 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... the upload server needs a boot in the pants again... @ 0730 PDT |
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Thursday Thoughts (Oct 02 2008)
(Message 819353)
Posted 16 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [[snip] Satellite transmissions , as Ned says , are hi-gain - but few watts; (probably 100 watts or less...) these are considered "point-to point". The frequency(ies) used are above where the ionosphere "bounces" the signal back. Commercial Broadcast has to use (and has used since day 1...) low gain , (primarily di-pole), antennas, with lots of power behind the signal (Clear-channel AM stations have 50,000 watts, FM broadcast has up to 100,000, and analog TV stations use 500,000 or more!) Much of commercial broadcast has probably made its way out to space, and the early stuff is 85 LY from us now! Just imagine a society whose first contact with us is the "Amos & Andy" radio show... |
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(Message 818870)
Posted 15 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/imagesspace-20cowboy.jpg @ badwolf: you post an image by enclosing the HTTP: etc. within [img ] [/img ] [note: delete extra space within brackets] |
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(Message 818867)
Posted 15 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Stormtroopers try a new form of transport for tree-based planets. |
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Last of the Upgrades (Oct 14 2008)
(Message 818602)
Posted 15 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: early warning: SETI Beta, except for the web-based pages, is (at this time) totally down... not sure whether this is planned, or someone forgot to bring it up after the outage... |
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(Message 818118)
Posted 13 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lemme mow the lawn on the way to the store! |
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Semiautofs (Oct 09 2008)
(Message 817423)
Posted 12 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Upload server is co-located with the rest of SETI at UC Berkeley, in the Space Sciences Laborotory, which is about a mile up a very steep hill from the main UCB campus... CalTech, as has been mentioned upthread, is 350 miles from UCB, and has nothing to do with the project, except moral support! |
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(Message 816785)
Posted 10 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hero from the "Deer Avenger" computer game series escapes computer and continues role in real life. |
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Monday Musings (Oct 06 2008)
(Message 815974)
Posted 8 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [SNIP] There's an additional one from the mainframe days of computing: "Six months after adding disk capacity, you'll need another disk upgrade!" |
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The Return of Bruno (Sep 30 2008)
(Message 813697)
Posted 1 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, Early warning! I think the .xml stats upload is on the fritz again... or the figures in it are frozen. |
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(Message 813695)
Posted 1 Oct 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Kung fu kitty from hell kicks the snot out of canine opponent. |
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Monday Memo (Sep 29 2008)
(Message 813506)
Posted 30 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Quick news for the beginning of the week. We chugged along nicely all weekend, though for server load reasons we were running less Astropulse splitters (and thus creating less Astropulse workunits) and so they've been "falling behind" SETI@home in the competition for processing power. I changed that this morning. Also we're going to attempt the bruno upgrade again tomorrow. We realized last week we'll need a lot of time to do everything we'd like, so the regular outage will start a bit early and possibly end later. I'm assuming here, but I think Matt meant that more AP splitters would be permitted to run, not that any MB splitters would be turned off... |
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Why use 45nm quad core
(Message 813471)
Posted 30 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: also, quaddies on the 45nm dies start at 2.5 Ghz stock clocking, as opposed to 2.4 Ghz on the 65nm die... missed that one... it's (almost - streeted the first of the month) brand new... Note that the Q8200 has 4 Mb cache, whereas the 9000 series all have 6 Mb cache... |
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Monday Memo (Sep 29 2008)
(Message 813464)
Posted 30 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, Thanks for finally fixing the "overflow rate" on the science page... (or, at least, this is the first I've noticed that it moved off 5%, where it had been for a week or more...) |
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CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XV *CLOSED
(Message 813232)
Posted 29 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 400th post! |
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Why use 45nm quad core
(Message 813230)
Posted 29 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: also, quaddies on the 45nm dies start at 2.5 Ghz stock clocking, as opposed to 2.4 Ghz on the 65nm die... |
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(Message 813219)
Posted 29 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "Well, Jim, [Lehrer] that's an impertinant question, if I ever heard one!" (said through clenched teeth) |
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Splitting Totals (Sep 24 2008)
(Message 813174)
Posted 29 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
The overflow rate is still stuck at 5%, though... |
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(Message 812293)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: glad you liked it... 
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(Message 812261)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [choked voice] Boy, does that new Porsche turbo have acceleration! [/choked voice] |
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Splitting Totals (Sep 24 2008)
(Message 811857)
Posted 25 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Something we've been lagging on is separating the database count totals on the server status page. Currently we're showing "totals" - for example, the "results ready to send" is a sum of both SETI@home and Astropulse results ready to send. For diagnostic purposes, it would be much better to split these into two separate columns. Specifically, the "signals already found" stats AND the "overflow rate" have been stuck for over a week! |
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(Message 811340)
Posted 23 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Lost squirrel tries new bolt hole... in cooled lava! |
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(Message 810719)
Posted 21 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Couch potato kitty with everything she needs... |
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Unsolved Mysteries (Sep 16 2008)
(Message 809514)
Posted 18 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Again, I know you guys don't have the manpower to be able to tackle such an issue "head-on" so to speak. I do however agree with the other comments posted that it is more than likely a raid controller problem / settings issue. As most, if not all, critical systems at the lab are on UPS, I doubt that voltage would be an issue - but a UPS could have developed a problem and be a few volts low... |
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Unsolved Mysteries (Sep 16 2008)
(Message 809175)
Posted 17 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, The "signals already found" portion of the Science Status page has been frozen since at least last Friday... Give the script a kick when ya gotta chance, OK? |
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Holding (Sep 15 2008)
(Message 808891)
Posted 16 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt All the stats sites, going by my observations... Does that last line mean we're always gonna haveta wait until Tuesday to get our stats updated? :) |
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(Message 808643)
Posted 15 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Crowd in danger as caber tosser gets off on wrong foot. |
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And Up Again (Sep 11 2008)
(Message 808642)
Posted 15 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: .xml stats export apparently not working again... no updates on the stats sites for the last two days. |
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And Up Again (Sep 11 2008)
(Message 807485)
Posted 12 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: got the following when I tried to update and report 5 WU's: 9/12/2008 10:33:39 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error This with client 5.10.30... not the client that usually gives this error. |
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(Message 806742)
Posted 10 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yokozuna rolls over competition in sumo bout. |
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(Message 806241)
Posted 8 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Renaldo realizes that that's not water balloon, it's a water condom! |
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(Message 805284)
Posted 5 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The last two Republican party nominees try to conjure a economic policy. See the strain on the current nominee... |
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Tuesday Twinge (Sep 02 2008)
(Message 804598)
Posted 3 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Your typical result file for MB is 23-35Kb, not Mb, your typical AP result is about 45 Kb... but a MB WU is 350Kb, and an AP WU is 8Mb - and they have to store the WU, so that if someone misses deadline, they can send it out again. MB = Multi-Beam AP = Astro Pulse |
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(Message 804574)
Posted 3 Sep 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the Borg visit Dr. Who... |
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(Message 800916)
Posted 22 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, folks! The least shrew: world's tiniest rodent and barely a mouthful for a kitty... (picture is of an adult!) |
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(Message 799270)
Posted 17 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's eleven captions and almost 48 hrs, so... The runner-up is... John Galt 007 with "Is that crazy cat from the last contest gone yet????" ...and the Oscar® goes to... (Drat, wrong show again!) The winner is... Blurf with Please....no more Taco Bell Commercials...PLEASE! ... although I woulda said "Taco Hell"! |
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(Message 798412)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here we see why the chicken crossed the stream. Shouldn't that be "chicken hawk" for "eagle"? |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 798374)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The following WU's are ghost, they do not show up anywhere in the client: those show as "new" - they haven't been assigned to a client yet! |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 798372)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone on staff should check the stats .xml export - I think it may be down... STILL the case... |
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(Message 798364)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK here goes...  [add] Please note: picture is copyrighted © 2008 by me... (Paul Sullivan) [/add] |
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(Message 798341)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I want to thank my agent, my producers, my director... oops, wrong speech! I'll post a pic as soon as I get to the computer where the one I want is stored! |
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(Message 797892)
Posted 14 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Back off!!! Guard cat on duty! |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 797358)
Posted 13 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Someone on staff should check the stats .xml export - I think it may be down... Hard to tell with all the ups/downs, but I haven't had a SETI credit since Sunday. (and I've uploaded about 80 Wu's in that period!) |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 797114)
Posted 13 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Try this: In "Grid view" or "Advanced view", on the "projects" tab, set "No New Work", hit the "update" button, switch to the "messages", wait for the "Scheduler Request Successful" message, then switch back to "projects" tab, and hit "Allow New Tasks". Some of those messages may be worded slightly differently, depending on client version... |
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Give Us A Caption! VI-*CLOSED*
(Message 796856)
Posted 12 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here we see why the chicken crossed the stream. and here I wanted to post "why did the chicken cross the creek? because someone bridged it!" |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 796820)
Posted 12 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm set up for 100% Seti, but now I noticed one unit of Astropulse is the only thing my computer is working on, how did Astropulse get into my 100% Seti? I am aware your having upload difficulties in reading the other post, I'll pray for speedy cure to your problem. Probably your machine had finished all the SETI WU's and the AP WU was the only thing left to run (they are MUCH longer) Astropulse is a sub-project of the SETI@home project: it will automatically download (assuming you are using the stock Application) and run. |
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Blips and Bursts (Aug 07 2008)
(Message 796818)
Posted 12 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I getting upload errors. I can connect to the server but not upload the completed work. A reminder: please only post enough of your log to make your point: space on Berkeley's server's is not infinite! |
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Give Us A Caption! VI-*CLOSED*
(Message 796514)
Posted 11 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Also Sprach (covered) Zarathrustra Mobile, the Number of the Beast? |
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House of Fun (Jul 29 2008)
(Message 793807)
Posted 6 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If it is going to be one of those threads... Ahh, but have you actually operated any of the above? This old-timer has... |
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House of Fun (Jul 29 2008)
(Message 793365)
Posted 5 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] You just haven't frequented the right stores... try "Weird Stuff" in Sunnyvale, CA. - they still have full-height drives. (not necessarily working!) |
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House of Fun (Jul 29 2008)
(Message 793360)
Posted 5 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If it is going to be one of those threads... anyone remember: the 8" floppy? IBM'$ 2311, 2314, or 3330? (all with "disk packs" - swappable storage that weighed in at (about) 20 lbs? 7 track reel2reel tape drives? |
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Rain (Aug 04 2008)
(Message 792918)
Posted 4 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, if the disk is full because of all the WU's "in the wild" wouldn't those "Ghost WU's" for AstroPulse be a large culprit? I have just peeked at one of my hosts that has no work and the server side thinks it has 2 AP WU's. But it's running the AK 8.0 Opti App, and is not configured to run AP. So that's two of those "larger" WU's that will be sitting there for a month before it gets "No Reply"d out and hopefully processed by a more suitable host. :-) Don't think so... there's not that many AP WU's out there, yet...
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Give Us A Caption! V - Closed for Renovations
(Message 792890)
Posted 4 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OT but... isn't it time to start a "VI"? |
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Clearing Up (Jul 30 2008)
(Message 792713)
Posted 4 Aug 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Very on-and-off. I'm about to run dry yet again. :( Astropulse WU's, when first encountered by a computer, normally have a quite high estimated run time. Crunch a few WU's, and the run time will drop to a more realistic figure. Without knowing what CPU is involved, I'd say - from that estimate - that your actual run time will be in the 70-80 hour range. Beta tester. |
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(Message 790553)
Posted 31 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Honorable mention goes to BeefDog for: Sonic the Hedgehog/Hacker goes after Windows Vista Ultimate x64... |
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Work Stoppage (Jul 24 2008)
(Message 789588)
Posted 29 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Because if you don't get any short WU's, you can have work thru a (possible) 8-9 day blackout. They have happened! Other reasons for a long queue... a short vacation, and you have to be at home to upload and report units, 'cause you're on dial-up. (my reason - I normally have a 4.5 day queue.) |
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(Message 789567)
Posted 29 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: That's the beef??? |
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Work Stoppage (Jul 24 2008)
(Message 789564)
Posted 29 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Please note that workunits seem to be assigned only 20 at a time... that means that you can't get a 10 day queue of seven day deadline WU's. As soon as a seven day deadline WU gets in your queue, the computer goes into "panic mode" also known as "EDF". (Earliest Deadline First) - and won't download more work until the seven day WU(s) are done. |
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Work Stoppage (Jul 24 2008)
(Message 788885)
Posted 28 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Note that a program may show as "running" on the status page, but may not be doin' its' job... as the scheduler quite evidently is not... |
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(Message 788145)
Posted 27 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Which one has more brain power? |
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Work Stoppage (Jul 24 2008)
(Message 787056)
Posted 25 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, has something happened to the xml stats updates? I notice that I haven't posted my SETI stats to BOINCstats in the last day, even though I've been granted credits here... and the other stats sites are even farther behind... |
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(Message 786962)
Posted 25 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: NASA Langley experiments with new "slicer prop"... |
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(Message 786416)
Posted 24 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: strange bedfellows |
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(Message 785838)
Posted 23 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote]OK, here is a link. late entry - "Fancy Feast - Venison flavor" |
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Mac Knifed (Jul 22 2008)
(Message 785835)
Posted 23 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "... Message from server: SETI@home Enhanced is not available for your type of computer." I'm sure that the project wants Macs running  some of the top-ranked single machines on the project are Macs  but there is clearly something preventing that. |
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Catching Up Again (Jul 21 2008)
(Message 785439)
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, hate to add to your workload but... "Client connection stats" has been down since last Monday (the 14th, Bastile day) and the "signals already found" portion of the science page is not displaying anything, not even zeros. Please give these two scripts a kick wherever it would be appropriate! |
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Returning (Jul 14 2008)
(Message 782879)
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So, I guess the question becomes either... could you place that index on another drive/partition, and therefore give it room to grow, without fragmenting everything else... or, have you tried raw device support within mysql, and forgo the filesystem altogether? According to the science page, that's about 453 million WU's... |
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Slowness (Jul 08 2008)
(Message 782875)
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since the problem started, or at least since Matt (et. al...) started working on the problem, the validaters have mostly been off-line... Ekky, you're looking at the wrong stat... you are/were looking at "Results returned and awaiting validation", which is the total of ALL the WU's that have been returned, not just the ones that the validater needs to work on - there's quite a few (about 3M, recently) of these waiting for the "wingman" WU to come in. The Stat that I was referring to was "Workunits waiting for validation", which is workunits that HAVE a matching "wingman" unit already waiting. |
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Slowness (Jul 08 2008)
(Message 781436)
Posted 10 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since the problem started, or at least since Matt (et. al...) started working on the problem, the validaters have mostly been off-line... [added] There's almost 1 million WU's waiting to be validated - wait 'til that gets worked thru B4 panic-ing... [/add] |
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(Message 781331)
Posted 10 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've fallin' in and can't get out! [copycat!] |
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Slowness (Jul 08 2008)
(Message 781229)
Posted 9 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You might also check the main page, it is unavailable. I got to this thread via google... Check the server status page: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html everything except web-driven pages seems to be either "diabled" or "not running"! |
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Slowness (Jul 08 2008)
(Message 781209)
Posted 9 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, Workunits are NOT downloading, even though there are workunits to be had. This has been going on since (at least...) 0300 PDT 7/9 and is still (0745) going on. I just checked, and there are about 350k WU's available, but no joy on requesting about 171k seconds worth... [add] perhaps we're dealing with another problem with/between the two [edit] download servers [/edit]? [/add] |
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(Message 780935)
Posted 9 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: HELP! I've fallen in and can't get out! |
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(Message 780318)
Posted 7 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Three Bandits, 11 o'clock low! |
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(Message 777310)
Posted 2 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What, me - worry? |
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Smoke Clearing (Jun 30 2008)
(Message 776488)
Posted 1 Jul 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, one minor nit to pick: (if you'll pardon the pun...) the code that says when the ALFA receiver at Arecibo is recording or not (on the Science Status page) isn't working, as it ALWAYS says, on that page, that A. is "Not Running"... (at least, every time I look at it!) |
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(Message 775975)
Posted 30 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just for this I'll shed on her best white satin! @#@#@#... |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XIV **CLOSED
(Message 775856)
Posted 30 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally made it to 500K! Seti@home shrubs, as well as 600K total BOINC. My newish q9300 rocks, and that's without overclocking or an optimized app! Will be adding those in a month or so... [add] I want to get a baseline on what the stock app/clocking does first! [/add] YOWZAH! |
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(Message 774337)
Posted 27 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hmm, just hopping in quick. I'll have to queue up more pictures if I actually have a chance to win! :-) Big fat momma about to go SPLAT! |
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Not All Fun and Games (Jun 19 2008)
(Message 770842)
Posted 20 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: All these things - the backups, the raw data storage, the nitpicker, and the assimilation of new results - run on thumper (because that's where all the data are). So there's basic I/O contention at the moment. ...and then store THOSE backups off-site (to them?)... |
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(Message 769179)
Posted 16 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: huh? I won? Gosh...lets see what you make of this one. How NOT to mail music... |
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(Message 767066)
Posted 12 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:  Horse: Hey, those hooves are SHARP!! Goat: I'll be down in a second... |
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Bits (Jun 11 2008)
(Message 767054)
Posted 12 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
As I mention on another thread: radio signals do NOT "dissolve"!, they disperse! This is why we are able to see stars that are many light years away. Think of radio waves as very long wavelength light waves - if we can see ET's star, we'll be able to receive his/her/its radio signals, assuming there are any. (some civilizations may not broadcast radio - some may be entirely copper based, like Earth's communications b4 Marconi.) |
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Bits (Jun 11 2008)
(Message 767023)
Posted 12 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Quick note: the "Tech News" link from the home page is broken! (came thru "community" link instead...) [edit] as of this writing, of course... [/edit] |
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(Message 765816)
Posted 10 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks DA, here we go again... Death slips on the almighty dollar! |
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(Message 765351)
Posted 9 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ok everyone here you go...caption away. Mobile phone about to be cited for DUI... |
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Tangled Web (Jun 05 2008)
(Message 763437)
Posted 6 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Let's hope all is settled down for the week end, and the servers keep to themselves and leave the time for your own use. AMEN to that! |
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Bumpy Ride (Jun 03 2008)
(Message 763435)
Posted 6 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Warnings about Astropulse: As mentioned earlier up-thread, the WU d/l is 8 Mb. If the new version is as efficient/inefficient as the prior incarnations (I haven't gotten a 4.33 WU yet, I'm still working a 4.32...) then an Opteron-165 (my Beta computer) will (supposedly) take in the neighborhood of 53 hours to process a WU. (I can't say for certain, as every WU I've gotten has ended early, some only about 2% in.) I'm sure that an optimized app will appear at some point, after the code is released. Whether that app will give as much speed-up as the SETI apps do is open to question. Beta tester |
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Lunchtime Review (Jun 02 2008)
(Message 762199)
Posted 2 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Got a weird error, myself... got "6/2/2008 2:16:21 PM|SETI@home|Giving up on download of 07mr08ad.20495.8661.7.8.140: file not found" on 8 of 18 WU's ... no recent problems with the client, (5.10.30) no problems with my I-net connection. (the other 10 downloaded OK...) |
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Annoyance (May 29 2008)
(Message 761760)
Posted 1 Jun 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Somebody should mention that the assimilaters are all off-line... & have been since 1025 PDT, at least |
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Post M-Day Wrapup (May 27 2008)
(Message 760255)
Posted 29 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: To add one piece to Matt's post. The "signals" we do find will be many, many light years old. If we scan through the data today, or 10 years from now it will not matter. We won't be able to answer that signal, and we will not even know if that civilization is even still alive. It's just going to hopefully prove that there is / was life beyond ours. No, we wouldn't know exactly how old the signal is – but if the nearest star at that sky coordinate is (say) 100 light years away, then the signal is likely at least 100 years old... radio waves travel at the speed of light, don't ya know :) |
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Post M-Day Wrapup (May 27 2008)
(Message 759874)
Posted 28 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, I notice that two of the splitter processes, splitter6 & 10, are listed as "not running", and have been this way since at least last Friday. (at least, every time I looked!) Is somethin' stuck? |
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Another Resync (May 20 2008)
(Message 756205)
Posted 20 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks Matt I hope that's a typo!... :) (in bold) |
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I Survived SNA (May 19 2008)
(Message 756028)
Posted 20 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, the "client connections stats" page is on the fritz again, and has been for a week, so it isn't the dup database... and congrats on having survived Orange County Airport! (SNA) When flying to the LA basin, (rare!) I try to fly into either LAX (LA Intn'l) or BUR; (Burbank) I refuse to fly into an airport named after an actor... |
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Mundanity (May 12 2008)
(Message 752547)
Posted 13 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thanks Matt. Good luck on the upgrading. NTM the grant proposals - may they all be granted... :) BTW, the "client connections stats" page is broken, again... |
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CLOSED***SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XIII***CLOSED
(Message 751007)
Posted 10 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally crossed the 400K Seti barrier... also have more cobblestones than a number of countries, some of them 1st world. (but small!) |
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Continuing Onward (May 05 2008)
(Message 749916)
Posted 8 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: AstroPulse is real, not just a test project. Note that there are projects and there are applications. Right now the SETI@home Project has one application: SETI@home. Soon it will have another: AstroPulse. So if you signed up for the SETI@home Project, you will automatically be given both kinds of workunits. We have yet to determine the ratio of SETI@home to AstroPulse work we'll be sending out. "Dissipate" just means the radio signal gets fainter, not that it disappears altogether... which is why SETI is using Arecibo(sp?), the largest single radio telescope on the planet. (and, hence, the "biggest ear" for radio) Whoever said that line doesn't know radio wave physics, even to amateur radio levels... otherwise we wouldn't be detecting (via radio waves...) stars (NTM quasars and pulsars) several million light-years away! |
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Continuing Onward (May 05 2008)
(Message 749514)
Posted 7 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Apparently it thinks it does... whether it really does is a question that should be asked on beta, not here |
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Continuing Onward (May 05 2008)
(Message 749191)
Posted 6 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
No, SETI beta is the site for both SETI's beta and the beta of Astropulse... AP (if I may shorten it...) will eventually be a production program over here, once the bugs are worked out on the Beta site. Beta has actually shut down SETI WU's for the moment so they can generate more AP WU's to actually get ready for production. The only problem I have with AP (I also crunch beta...) is the size of the WU... 8Mb, the length of the WU (~75 hours for my Opteron) and (although, I hope, this gets changed b4 it goes into production...) the deadlines for the WU's (short! - and this isn't the forum to discuss that...) |
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Q6600 Vs Q9450 - Is It Worth The Extra $$$'s
(Message 746960)
Posted 2 May 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: My observations with Q9450 at stock speed 2.66Ghz, and Q6600 OC'd to 2.88Ghz is that the Q9450 is about 4% quicker. That was before the latest optimised apps were introduced. Again, let's compare apples to apples -as close as we can, at least... how does a Q9300 compare to a Q6600? - I'll even let the 6600 be OC'd to 2.5 Ghz for a more fair comparison a Q9450 should be doing at least 2% better than a 6600, just because of the difference in clock speed, if both are left at stock speed (again 2.4 vs. 2.6 Ghz clock speed!) |
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Q6600 Vs Q9450 - Is It Worth The Extra $$$'s
(Message 746303)
Posted 30 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Further thoughts... Umm, the most direct comparison for a Q6600 is the Q9300 - the direct comparison for the Q9450 is the Q6700... Q9300 runs at 2.5 Ghz, Q6600 at 2.4Ghz, Q6700 and Q9450 at 2.66 Ghz - lets compare apples to apples, after all! |
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Sunny Monday (Apr 28 2008)
(Message 745627)
Posted 28 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, Matt, the Beta stats haven't updated (at my last check, at least) since last Thursday... is this possibly related to the secondary database problems? |
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Day to Day (Apr 24 2008)
(Message 744036)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: OK, so maybe the stats export wasn't at fault... I just go by whether my stats show up! ...and in my prior, I meant that none of my stats had shown on any of the 6 stats sites. |
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Day to Day (Apr 24 2008)
(Message 744004)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The replica server (sidious) where we collect these stats got a day or two behind after the outage, and only caught up, I think, last night. So stats were being generated and pushed out, they just were stuck in the past for a bit. So you're saying that it is like the butcher who backed into his bandsaw, and got a little behind in his work? (evil laugh...) guess who's watching Sweeney Todd at the moment? :) |
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Day to Day (Apr 24 2008)
(Message 743997)
Posted 25 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, the stats export has apparently been down for the last 48 hours... I've reported a number of WU's in this time, gotten credits on S@h, but they aren't showing up on the stats sites! Pooh bear, I check all 6 stats sites (daily, except KWSN [weekdays only]) listed on the "account" page... and, (at the time I wrote, at least!) none of them had any S@H for Wed. or Thur. |
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CLOSED***SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XIII***CLOSED
(Message 743700)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Two milestones here... 500K! Total BOINC W00T!!! and 2.5k Reisel Sieve in 3 weeks. and an Announcement: a q9300 going online, shortly; so excuse my dust trail! |
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Day to Day (Apr 24 2008)
(Message 743692)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, the stats export has apparently been down for the last 48 hours... I've reported a number of WU's in this time, gotten credits on S@h, but they aren't showing up on the stats sites! |
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Wall of Workunits (Apr 15 2008)
(Message 743560)
Posted 24 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: About 10,000 seconds. An idea popped into my head. Maybe I'll go in and blow off all the cooling elements, fans, etc. Maybe the computer (just the one, not the other similar machine) is throttling back because its PD950 is getting a little too hot. I'll give that a try. There are more bad units today, too. There's no other project, just Seti at present. Thanks a lot. Also look for anything else that might have resulted in your CPU being "throttled back" for heat - bad CPU heatsink fan, dead case fan(s), adjacent case fans blowing in opposite directions, major obstruction in airways, etc.. Don't forget the fan in your power supply! (one of those has actually happened to me - the "dead case fan(s)") |
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Walkthrough (Apr 22 2008)
(Message 743136)
Posted 23 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Um, Matt... the stats on the server status page haven't updated since the system came back online from the Tuesday backup, and... Three splitters show as 'Not running'! |
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Wall of Workunits (Apr 15 2008)
(Message 742824)
Posted 22 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Would a wall of workunits be causing this kind of problem? what is your normal CPU time for an ~ 74 credit WU? Nothing here looks out of the ordinary, to me, except the "Restarted at 78 %" ... possibly the WU was interrupted for another, higher priority, WU, possibly for another project. |
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Wall of Workunits (Apr 15 2008)
(Message 740063)
Posted 16 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, Matt... the client connection stats page is on the fritz again... |
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Think Again Thursday (Apr 10 2008)
(Message 737391)
Posted 11 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You might be spared running on empty, someone got up early and opened the gates. I did say usual signs (above in bold) - which means I've seen it before... |
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Think Again Thursday (Apr 10 2008)
(Message 737351)
Posted 11 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You might be spared running on empty, someone got up early and opened the gates. No, that's the end of the "ten hours" that Matt mentioned ;), [add] the d/l server is exhibiting its usual signs of laboring under stress - breaking d/l's in the middle, not starting them, refusing to even consider them, etc.[/add] |
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Working Wednesday (Apr 09 2008)
(Message 736852)
Posted 10 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Love the thread titles. Because the d/l server is on the fritz again... and so are uploads on beta (same server, IIRC) [add]BTW, the counts are flatlined on the server status page, again.[/add] |
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CLOSED***SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XIII***CLOSED
(Message 736190)
Posted 8 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 300 posts! |
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Q6600 Vs Q9450 - Is It Worth The Extra $$$'s
(Message 736182)
Posted 8 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I concur with the suggestion of the q9300 - it's what I'm going to get for a Gigabyte GA-p35-s3g, with 4 Gb of DDR2 1066 onboard. FWIW, IMO the Q9300 has the better price/performance ratio, even though it costs about $50 us more than the q6600. System is gradually building, as funds become available (have mb, memory, case, p/s, hd and video card, need CPU, CPU fan, OS, DVD, KB, and mouse - will eventually have a KVM switch for use with my other systems.) |
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Timing (Apr 03 2008)
(Message 736160)
Posted 8 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Could someone reboot the server stat's function? The numbers have been on hold for 31 h or so. Confirmed as not working, now at 124 hrs and counting... and while you're at it, give the splitters a kick too, the page show only two working! |
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Spring Forward (Mar 31 2008)
(Message 733561)
Posted 2 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the University is already supporting the project with free rooms, free access to the campus net, part of the salaries for the project personnel, etc... OK, I stand (sit, really ;) ) corrected... |
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Spring Forward (Mar 31 2008)
(Message 733170)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Mmm, Matt, main project downloads are on the fritz again, at this writing... |
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Spring Forward (Mar 31 2008)
(Message 733169)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh, I'm sorry guys, i didn't know that, as I am pretty new member of this project, but I'm still wondering why such a big, and famous university like Berkeley isn't interested in supporting this magnificent project? A donation of few servers and rack, wouldn't be such a big deal for that huge educational organization, in my opinion. the University is already supporting the project with free rooms, free access to the campus net, part of the salaries for the project personnel, etc... |
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Spring Broken (Mar 28 2008)
(Message 732950)
Posted 31 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Could someone mention to Eric that Beta uploads are on the fritz? I've got one WU that has patiently been trying to upload for 15+ minutes, according to "elapsed time", and got to 100% - once - then errored out and hasn't gotten past 3.45% since... Thanx - Paul AKA The holy hand grenade! |
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Spring Broken (Mar 28 2008)
(Message 732855)
Posted 31 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Could someone mention to Eric that Beta uploads are on the fritz? I've got one WU that has patiently been trying to upload for 15+ minutes, according to "elapsed time", and got to 100% - once - then errored out and hasn't gotten past 3.45% since... I'm going off-line on that computer (at home) and won't be back 'til about 1700 PDT. |
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Testing resend old WU feature
(Message 730606)
Posted 26 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Responding to the boldface above... A lookup table in memory for 3 million (typical current outstanding WU load) work units??? That's at least a 30 Mb table, (assuming 10 byte WU identifiers... and they can't be less than 7 bytes! {21Mb}) just for the WU identifier... add the Host ID and result id, and that is 90Mb! I know I'll get corrected if I'm wrong, but I presume that scheduler has more important uses for memory. |
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(Message 729843)
Posted 24 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's a thought... Really? I'm assuming that SETI would be using the highest value for "n" that they could, to minimize the DB hit... but does an octo (I'd call them a double quad, as I still haven't seen eight cores on a single chip from Inte£ or AMD...) with a reasonable cache (not super-low, not super high) really check in with an "update" more than once an hour, even with a batch of VHAR? (if left to itself, that is) As mentioned, I've seen a motherboard for a hexadismal ;-') set of chips - 4 AMD quad-core Opterons™, socket F. As far as slower computers go, (having a P-III 750 laptop, I know!) or computers that are in the "one unit/day, or less" category for other reasons, like a project with a low resource share, most of the time, the user would know when he/she has dropped a WU, as the computer wouldn't be doing any crunching, assuming that this is a 'one (possibly two) WU in the cache' operation. These users could manually "update" until they reached "n". |
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Testing resend old WU feature
(Message 729753)
Posted 24 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Here's a thought... Enable "resend lost WU's"; so that it only gets checked every n times the client checks in with the server, n to be determined by each individual project. The only parameter for n that I'd think of would be that n should be less than or equal to 20, so that a WU would be re-sent before the end of a maxed-out cache was reached. (Assumes that the user is on dial-up, and only checks in once a day...) This handles a good portion of the DB hit, as (at maximum) the client only does the DB inquiry once every 20 contacts. Admittedly, this solution would probably have to wait for BOINC client/server 6.1 or 6.2, as it would require changes to both client and server side software... |
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Testing resend old WU feature
(Message 728685)
Posted 21 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I think, in most cases the user knows if he/she have some "lost WU". So, redesigning the "resend" feature to a manually activated one-shot option instead of an automatic check that happens each time of client/server negotiation will leave the feature effective and solve the loadout issue. Baa-aa-aa-a ;-) |
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(Message 727863)
Posted 19 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [off topic] Perhaps I should have mentioned that I'm almost exclusively a Windo$e man... I haven't seen an Octo from Inte£ or from AMD is what I meant... [add] from what I've been able to research, the E5320 is a quad! Do you have a second chip in the system?[/add] |
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Testing resend old WU feature
(Message 727770)
Posted 19 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Umm, Octo? I haven't seen [add] or heard of [/add] one of those yet, although I've seen a motherboard for 4 AMD Opteron quads, hence 16 cores... |
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Testing resend old WU feature
(Message 727765)
Posted 19 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Might I point out that there are probably a lot of "lost WU"'s out there at the current time (even I have one) and that (therefore) initial response to re-activating this feature will probably be intense? I remind you that this feature has been off for at least two months... This may mean an initial heavy workload on the servers - but if you wait for the ~300k active SETI users to all get whatever lost WU's are still available, then I think you'll find that this workload will taper off to a much lower figure. You are both missing my point, that during the short time that resend was turned on, and the large workload that resulted, is/was not representative of the day-to-day workload that the servers would have to contend with. Sure that first blast of db activity is big - but a fair portion of that will go away as soon as all the lost WU's are sent... Yes, I realize that there will be extra workload on the db server, as well as the scheduler. (and probably the "download to client" server as well...) |
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(Message 727608)
Posted 18 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Might I point out that there are probably a lot of "lost WU"'s out there at the current time (even I have one) and that (therefore) initial response to re-activating this feature will probably be intense? I remind you that this feature has been off for at least two months... This may mean an initial heavy workload on the servers - but if you wait for the ~300k active SETI users to all get whatever lost WU's are still available, then I think you'll find that this workload will taper off to a much lower figure. |
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CLOSED***SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XIII***CLOSED
(Message 725097)
Posted 12 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: passed 333,333 S@H with last upload! WOOT! |
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Fight Fight Fight Parry Parry Parry (Mar 03 2008)
(Message 722071)
Posted 4 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: RE: thread name... You've got fight and parry, but where's the "thrust"? [snicker] E. Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac fan |
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Rudy and Spider (Feb 28 2008)
(Message 721424)
Posted 3 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: they probably have that server now connected to the light switch; when someone came to work today, the lights went on and we all started to 'communicate' with the seti-borg. make that: "every weekday morning" ;-) |
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Rudy and Spider (Feb 28 2008)
(Message 721420)
Posted 3 Mar 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, the validators, even though the status page shows them as "running", are down, hung, in infinite loops, or otherwise not doing their jobs; and have been this way for at least 24 hours... [added] My pending, normally in the 1700-2900 range is now at 3700 and growing! [/add] |
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Crab Nebula (Feb 21 2008)
(Message 719898)
Posted 29 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In my reading I've never come upon a pulsar that spins as fast as a thousand times a second. So any frequency associated with its spinning would be less than one kilohertz. Pulsars that spin so that the time of one revolution is just a few milliseconds is called a "millisecond pulsar". I think the fastest one I've come upon was one taking about 1.5 milliseconds to turn once (40,000 rpm). Umm, I think you're mixing up "frequency of pulses" with "frequency of reception/transmission". To use an earthly analogy, you can transmit 25wpm (about 150 pulses per minute) Morse code on any Amateur radio band - including the 1.8 Khz 160 Meter band, and the 1.2 Ghz 23cm band. The only limitation that I can recall (ex-Amateur radio operator) is that your frequency of transmission/reception has to be about (see edit) 2x the frequency of the pulses - the only regularly used radio I know of where that is an issue is the mega-power ultra-low frequency (~76 Hz IIRC) radio used by the navy to communicate with submerged submarines. (uses encoded RTTY, BTW) [edit] make that "at least 2x the frequency of the pulses" above. [/edit] |
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Rudy and Spider (Feb 28 2008)
(Message 719875)
Posted 29 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, whatever else is going on, at this writing (0630 PST) uploads appear to be on the fritz... have tried with 4 different WU's on two different computers (different client builds on each) and no joy... the upload never starts. |
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Crab Nebula (Feb 21 2008)
(Message 719560)
Posted 28 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In my reading I've never come upon a pulsar that spins as fast as a thousand times a second. So any frequency associated with its spinning would be less than one kilohertz. Pulsars that spin so that the time of one revolution is just a few milliseconds is called a "millisecond pulsar". I think the fastest one I've come upon was one taking about 1.5 milliseconds to turn once (40,000 rpm). Ah, but what radio frequency are the pulses on? Remember that S@H is listening on the 1.4 Ghz band (~1.41 to about ~1.43 Ghz) for any signals. You could have a kilohertz pulsar coming in on that band... |
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Looking for the New Sound (Feb 26 2008)
(Message 719502)
Posted 28 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can just disable periodic checking, assuming you trust your storage hardware. Check out man tune2fs ... or: I was replying to the "assuming you trust your storage hardware"... AND IIRC, they've also had some RAID controller failures... [irony intended] what are you, a member of the Borg? [/irony] ;-) |
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Looking for the New Sound (Feb 26 2008)
(Message 719144)
Posted 27 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can just disable periodic checking, assuming you trust your storage hardware. Check out man tune2fs ... or: Given the number of disk failures in the recent past, I doubt that the Berkeley staff "trusts their storage hardware"! |
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Summer in the Winter (Feb 11 2008)
(Message 712105)
Posted 13 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The pics from Feb last year give the insight I was looking for. It is sort of how I imagined the project. Something that has developed & grown rather than been planned and laid out. I love the pictures showing cables stretched everywhere and the wires taped to the floor. Just the way a comms environment should be yeah, but... I think they've "cleaned up" the server closet (as Matt calls it...) since the photos in question were taken - something to do with not having a cascading series of failures (due to cables comin' loose) anytime they had to replace somethin'! edit to my first post: that's thumper 1, (pre-breakdown) not the current thumper2, so only one current server is mentioned by name... |
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Summer in the Winter (Feb 11 2008)
(Message 711680)
Posted 12 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Came into the lab this morning and it was well over 70 degrees. This may seem nice on a winter day, but (a) we have fairly warm winters here in the Bay Area, and (b) the usual temperature in the lab is closer to 60 degrees - even in the summer. This isn't great from a human perspective - we wear jackets while sitting at our computers all year round. From a hardware perspective, the extra cold lab air assists in keeping our systems nice and cool. This is why I was immediately concerned about the suddenly warmer air. Turns out a fuse blew over the weekend, and it was already repaired before anything came close to melting. Still.. a little bit of panic this morning. Mmm, unless new photos have been posted since the last time I looked, none of those servers shown are still in service! (last look 6/07) We're not talking a designed comm room here, either - I've gathered the impression that the server room is a converted janitor closet! [edit to add:] Just took a look, and two of the current servers are shown: thumper and sidious; otherwise as above. |
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Wednesday Mound (Feb 06 2008)
(Message 709136)
Posted 7 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, I know you are busy, but... the "future plans" page has a number of typos and mis-spellings on it - can someone run a spell-checker on it? |
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Wednesday Mound (Feb 06 2008)
(Message 709135)
Posted 7 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: good there hear(see?) things are going somewhat better for you guys. Yes, we, (or at least I...) out here on the left coast, have heard about the current weather in the mid-west. I heard that it was below zero in Iowa, for example: (Des Moines) it came up while I was discussing a truck (a big rig) that I may buy. (the truck is in California, but the sales staff at the company is in Iowa...) The S.F. Bay Area is experiencing a mild "cold snap" in that temperatures are below normal, even for this time of year. |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XII ** CLOSED
(Message 708452)
Posted 5 Feb 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: just passed 300K mark for SETI...goin' for 400k... nearing 400K total BOINC. Woo-hoo! |
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Daily Grind (Jan 23 2008)
(Message 704210)
Posted 25 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Umm, my original post? |
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Daily Grind (Jan 23 2008)
(Message 703657)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: In Matt's post below he says: Not the problem I'm having - re-read the original - I'm having problems downloading the work, once it is assigned to me! Admittedly, I did note the: There are some growing pains on having server bane be the single point of workunit download. [snip] Anyway, expect some download pains as knobs get turned and we slowly recover from running low on ready-to-send work. I was attempting to bring Berkeley Staff's attention to the fact that, whatever they had done by 0125 Jan 24 UTC, it hadn't worked to alleviate the problem. [ducking for cover!] |
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Daily Grind (Jan 23 2008)
(Message 703369)
Posted 24 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is it just me, or is anyone else having major problems downloading new work? (like ~ 28 WU's assigned, and none downloaded!) [edit]emphasis added[/edit] [added] this has been going on since at least 0600 24 Jan '08 PST, BTW...[/add] |
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Cleanup in Aisle Four (Jan 17 2008)
(Message 702366)
Posted 21 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since when are RPG and COBOL thought of as Micro$oft languages? I was programming in COBOL before M$ was even founded, back in the mid-'70's... I don't remember what (or whose) computer first had COBOL, but RPG came out with the IBM-360. Actually, mis-interpretation (mis-reading, actually!) on my end was the problem... I missed the "or"! Apologies... |
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Cleanup in Aisle Four (Jan 17 2008)
(Message 701972)
Posted 20 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: They could partialy, but the source of the versions up to when they close the source would still have to stay public and people would be completely allowed to start developing community versions or under a new name. Since when are RPG and COBOL thought of as Micro$oft languages? I was programming in COBOL before M$ was even founded, back in the mid-'70's... I don't remember what (or whose) computer first had COBOL, but RPG came out with the IBM-360. |
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Don't Believe Everything you Think (Jan 16 2008)
(Message 700742)
Posted 17 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Here's hoping that Matt didn't really get "bloody" - sometimes those rails (particularly if you cut them!) have sharp edges on them. I carry a scar on my right thumb from a rack-mount power supply that had such a sharp edge. (still have the p/s, too! - it puts out 12v at 25 Amps, NTM several other computer-type voltages at lower amperage) |
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Afternoon Break (Jan 09 2008)
(Message 698923)
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Note to project: "sah_assimilator1" currently shows as not running. |
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Furniture Shortage (Jan 03 2008)
(Message 697637)
Posted 5 Jan 2008 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Technical News page is working fine now Hmm, some discrepancy here, as I'm not seeing any slow response. (or any slower than normal response, given that I'm typing this on a dial-up line...) |
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Holiday Checkup (Dec 23 2007)
(Message 694537)
Posted 25 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Except if the concept had already been implemented. There is something like 3M wu's in process right now, so a run of shorties would have to be pretty large to fill that queue, right? Of that "3M WU's", probably 1M are the "shorties" that are under discussion, about 75% of them created in the last 3 days. Most of the rest are a) normal workload for Berkeley; or b) WU's that have been sitting in the stack for some time - WU's that are awaiting quorum. I, for instance, have roughly twice my RAC "pending" and that's the low side... I've had the pending outweigh the RAC by 3x at times. (note: my RAC is hovering about 1k per day...) |
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Holiday Checkup (Dec 23 2007)
(Message 694268)
Posted 24 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: On the "clients recently connected" front, I'm getting "last updated: December 31 1969 16:00:00" at 0930 PST 12/24/07, so there are still date issues with the apache logs... |
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Onions Wrapped in Rubber (Dec 19 2007)
(Message 693075)
Posted 20 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, Et al... the "client connection stats" script is broken - I'm getting the following when the link is clicked: "last updated: December 31 1969 16:00:00.", suggesting that a date field is mis-placed somewhere or has overflowed. This may be related to the apache log rotation problems mentioned in your post... |
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The Story of the Hare who Lost his Spectacles (Dec 13 2007)
(Message 691446)
Posted 14 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, check total length of the struct's. If one is off by a byte that may be the bug you're looking for... (or if some field is mis-placed by a byte...) It's happened to me! (in COBOL) and was very frustrating to deal with! |
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Noddy Goes to Sweden (Dec 12 2007)
(Message 691443)
Posted 14 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Also in the "of course" department, this all happens just as soon as we start sending the mass e-mail requesting much needed funds for our project. We seem to have a bad track record of poor timing, but this is more about rotten luck than anything else. It's always some kind of struggle given our lack of resources. You should know this by now. Managed to miss Earthlink's SPAM filter. |
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RE: Internet connection percentage
(Message 690581)
Posted 11 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just a general query - I've got a stat on one of my computers, running BOINC 5.8.16, that doesn't appear under any of the other computers, I'm running, all 5.10.xx versions. (xx depends on computer! - 3 other computers, three versions.) The stat appears in my "Your computers" as "While BOINC running, % of time host has an Internet connection" when I click on that particular computer. (The "computer summary" page...) Is this a stat that is no longer kept under 5.10? If so, why? I'd think that enuf of us are still connecting via dial-up for that percentage to be of interest. (I, for one, didn't think my I-net connection was up that much! [59%] - but I sometimes forget to suspend network activity when the modem is disconnected.) |
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The Geese Fly West (Dec 10 2007)
(Message 690571)
Posted 11 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I really hate to keep harping on this, but the "client connection stats" is broken - and has been since at least Friday - possibly Thursday (I don't recall!) |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XII ** CLOSED
(Message 690073)
Posted 9 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The big uploads after the recent outage put me over 250k SETI... and 325k total BOINC. |
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Traveler Waits for No One (Dec 07 2007)
(Message 689429)
Posted 7 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I second the motion and state that the start-up, once complete, was seamless... (I was in-transit from home to work during the start-up...) |
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Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat (Dec 03 2007)
(Message 689387)
Posted 7 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] No Such Luck - 15no06aa is still there after the restart. |
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Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat (Dec 03 2007)
(Message 689306)
Posted 6 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Dial-up modems, of course... I use a 56K, and network all three of my home computers (with more on the horizon!) through it.
How about 110 Baud over a Teletype 33? I actually ran games on this combination back in '73... |
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Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat (Dec 03 2007)
(Message 689299)
Posted 6 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm not saying it hurts anything. I know it doesn't hurt anything. It just annoys me, mainly because I like turning work around promptly. I'm not trying to hammer the servers, and I'm perfectly willing to wait the normal two and a half hours between result upload and result reporting. I just don't want to wait 24 hours. It seems overly long, to me. BOINC will also immediately report results if you hit the "update" button. Important to know if (like me) some or all of your computers are still on dial-up! (Only one of the computers I crunch with has a 24/7 I-net connection!) |
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Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat (Dec 03 2007)
(Message 688471)
Posted 4 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Higher angle range = short crunch time, low angle range = standard crunch time... Note: I'm one of those that complained about EDF - but only about the very high angle range WU's - I think those should be given a deadline that takes them just outside immediate "high priority" assignment for those with (say) a 4.5 day cache. (For those that don't know, EDF is dead as of the 5.10.13 [give or take] client.) I think that the longer deadlines are not required for "normal" WU's. ...Just my 2 ¢ worth... |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 687970)
Posted 2 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...[sarcasm] Ok, how about Hi Pri? - it won't get mistaken for a computer company ;-) (I have spent quite a bit of time staring at various Hewlett-Packard devices, too) |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 687329)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I think we'll have to go back and read the full posting history of John McLeod VII (who wrote the relevant bit of code) to get the final answer, but here are some snippets I remember seeing. Interesting. Your scenario breaks down on two fronts - I've change the task switching preference to 20 minutes; and these tasks weren't switching at that 20 minute interval, anyway! (again, they switched at seemingly random intervals!) [sarcasm] Who says we must absolutely have a three letter acronym? We can start calling the behaviour "HP" instead of EDF - but we better keep using EDF for a while, 'cause many BOINCers won't get it... [/sarcasm] |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 687322)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] YES, I can state with complete certainty that all the WU's had EXACTLY the same deadline - to the second! this only happened with the first 8 of the 20, all of which had the exact same deadline. The other 12 WU's had a deadline one second later - and behaved normally, once reached. (Behaved normally for EDF WU's, that is!) |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 687318)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] NO! WU's were downloaded in order! (I've switched this machine to download/upload only 1 file at a time, due to download problems I've noticed in the past...) The suggestion (further down-thread from your reply) of "ties" and "Fuzzy logic" problems(?) appears to have (to me, at least) merit. I was sitting in front of the monitor watching this... All the WU's that were involved (8 total) had EXACTLY the same deadline. (to the second!) |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 687105)
Posted 1 Dec 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Excuse me, the behaviour I started the thread about is: After getting assigned a large (20) batch of wide angle range (and therefore short run-time) WU's: 1) as each new WU downloaded, it would start-up, even when all cores (2 in this case) were already working on prior WU's in the batch; (fortunately, the deadline changed after 8 WU's were assigned - by a second!) AND 2) at (apparently) random times, the WU's being processed would switch with other ones with the same deadline; I'm running BOINC version 5.10.20 (x64 build) on this Opteron 165 machine, with a 4.4 day "time between connections"(?) and a .1 day "additional cache". SETI has a 85% share of the resources. [edit - added] @archae86 & Winter Knight - I don't think server load has anything to do with this... I'm reporting behaviour noticed on my machine so the server(s) isn't/aren't a factor - this is after the server(s) have done their job of delivering the WU's. @Brian Silvers - I'm not asking why I go into EDF - that's a different problem!... (that has been chewed over enuf!) |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 685748)
Posted 28 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I just got a bunch (~20) of very short duration WU's, (the kind that go into immediate EDF) and I'm noticing that as each new WU downloads, the prior WU will go into "waiting to run", and the newer WU starts to run, until the next WU finishes downloading... (this with the x64 5.10.20) In my experience, (see first post) Short run WU's always go into EDF - but I'm not complaining (or even asking!) about that! (well - I've complained about that in the past...) What I'm asking about is the behaviour of the newly downloaded WU's... is it usual for them to start up in sequence as described in the first post?... and is it usual for them to swap in and out? (noticed after posting the start of the thread!) |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 685743)
Posted 28 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: When I get shorties, that state a run time of aprox 2 hr 40 min on my system, I stop all other work and crunch just one first, so Boinc can revise its estimate runtime ( They normally take 8hrs). Since I have a slow cruncher, I only set my cache to five days. How large is yours. This may help to answer your question. My (current) cache = 4.5 days First estimate for run time = 54 Min (Opteron 165, slight overclock) finish run time = 1 Hr 47 Min |
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Question about EDF behavior
(Message 685499)
Posted 28 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I just got a bunch (~20) of very short duration WU's, (the kind that go into immediate EDF) and I'm noticing that as each new WU downloads, the prior WU will go into "waiting to run", and the newer WU starts to run, until the next WU finishes downloading... (this with the x64 5.10.20) Has anyone noticed this behavior B4? Is this considered "normal"? I've never seen it B4, in 1½ years on BOINC and SETI... |
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In a Glass House (Nov 26 2007)
(Message 685225)
Posted 27 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'd still like to draw the distinction between 'noisy' (sporadic, unpredictable, RFI causing overflows), and 'short running' (high Angle Range, run to completion in one-sixth of the usual time, a normal outcome of basketweave sky surveys, predictable by reference to the Arecibo observing schedule). Agreed - Noisy, "overflow" stats (from the "science status" page) have been running 4-6.5% in the last week... but that's at least 2 (and counting!) "short running" tapes in the same time. |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XII ** CLOSED
(Message 682420)
Posted 22 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Got a milestone S@H RAC (as posted on the SETI site) for you: 1,234.06  too bad I couldn't eak out another .5 RAC! Bet ya don't see that very often... |
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Un Chien D'espace (Nov 15 2007)
(Message 682106)
Posted 21 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Umm, those weren't links... could ya post the URL's? |
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Un Chien D'espace (Nov 15 2007)
(Message 682105)
Posted 21 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] One could make the case that modern English has three classes - "he, she, & it"... |
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Un Chien D'espace (Nov 15 2007)
(Message 681502)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just as interesting is the question of where all this language gender complication came from in the first place... We get along just fine without most of the tedious grammatical contortions that other more 'strict' human languages seem to carry. For the Romance languages (those that stem from Latin) the whole gender thing comes from the source, although the French (as usual) take this to extremes. Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumansch (Romanian) are the "formal" Romance languages. Many other languages have borrowed liberally from Latin, too, (some of them the concept of gender...) English being one of them... |
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Oldest Pending Date
(Message 681286)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] A host can go "AWOL" for other reasons than the ones you've suggested - the computer may have had it's OS (Win XP Home) die on it, and the owner can't do a re-install, cause he can't find the original OS install disk, or the Windows sticker that came with it... (That's happened to one of my "computers"[more below]...) or BOINC took a dive, and when he re-installed, all the WU's were gone! (...also has happened to me, with a full 4.5 day cache [both times!]...) (more on the computer mentioned... that computer [an AMD Opteron 165] is back crunching, with a different OS [Win XP Pro X64], and different computer-ID, but owner is leaving the "original" computer ID for when he [eventually] finds the install disk and Windows sticker [@#@#@#@in' Micro$oft copy-protect scheme!] for merging with the re-installed computer's [computer will dual-boot!] new computer-ID.) For those wondering, the computer's dive took place on July 15, so I'm not the culprit on any of WU's mentioned on this thread! |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XII ** CLOSED
(Message 681271)
Posted 20 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Sometime in the next BOINCstats "day", (possibly even as I type this!) I will be passing 300K total BOINC  and definitely passed 230K SETI yesterday. |
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Un Chien D'espace (Nov 15 2007)
(Message 680414)
Posted 18 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, the client connections stats (or its' connection to its data) is broken again - time for another kick in the database! |
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Un Chien D'espace (Nov 15 2007)
(Message 679407)
Posted 17 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Good question No - BOINC and Classic SETI ran concurrently for x (x>2 !) months before the final shutdown of Classic. I heard (I had just joined...) that the staff had stopped sending out new Classic WU's about 4 months before the final shutdown. (Deadlines were tighter then!) |
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Tenemos Roads (Nov 09 2007)
(Message 677179)
Posted 13 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: As mentioned by Jeff Dungan, the client connection stats has been out of whack since Wed of last week, and is so still; as of 0605 Tuesday, Berkeley time... |
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Slightly All the Time (Nov 07 2007)
(Message 674169)
Posted 8 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: KWSN, got the same problem, now some of the pages are in German. Strange indeed. The solution is to upgrade FF to 2.0.0.9... this problem seems to be specific to FF 2.0.0.3! (on other computers [i.e. crunch-only computers] than my main computer, [which my first message was written on] I have various other builds of FF...) Odd that this problem is (or seems to be...)so version specific... |
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Slightly All the Time (Nov 07 2007)
(Message 673941)
Posted 8 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Help! The website has been taken over by Spanish, particularly the "account" page! (this behavior in FireFox (2.0.0.3) - it seems to behave itself in IE...) In particular, the website is not using Unicode for the accented characters. For example, the line that normally says "add my signature to this post" now reads "Añadir mi firma a éste mensaje"!! Is it time to update to a more recent version of FF? |
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BOINC 5.10.28
(Message 673695)
Posted 7 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I've seen over 25 reported at once... on a machine that connects by dial up, had uploaded results in the PM, (but not reported) and then uploaded the overnight results, and reported everything. (it's an AMD Opty 165... 90% SETI resource share) |
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Stuck work unit
(Message 673691)
Posted 7 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Actually, the "IT Helpdesk" would know that as a "power reset"! |
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What's with the pendings?
(Message 673684)
Posted 7 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: um i don't know... what about this: Your preferences (above in blue) show 9.3 Gigabytes - way more than Seti, at least, actually needs... (depending on whatever other projects you may be attached to - that is a total BOINC figure, after all...) Whatever problem set off the "compute error", it was not due to lack of disc space. |
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Slow News Day (Nov 05 2007)
(Message 673057)
Posted 6 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Really hate to rain on your parade but... Client connection stats script (or its connection to the data collection script) is broken... again... otherwise nice job, Berkeley! |
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Feliz Dia de los Muertos (Nov 01 2007)
(Message 671644)
Posted 3 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Problems with the English website - I'm getting random Spanish phrases in links, column headings, etc. I'm not counting the heading of this thread, BTW... For example, as I write this, the area above which usually reads "Message" is reading "Mensaje", the "Preview" button below the box reads "Previsualizar", and the private messages line reads: "Private messages: Bandeja de entrada (0 unread) | Escribir" First noticed Nov 3, '07 at 0945 PDT... |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 671181)
Posted 2 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: re: "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" Another reason why you don't wanna eat your city pigeon - ya don't know what that bird has eaten - some people do poison pigeons! |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 670583)
Posted 1 Nov 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Key phrase: "thorough cooking"! How many homeless are goin' to do that? (or have the facilities to do that?...) Eating your typical urban Rock Dove would be like chowing down on a Norwegian Rat (Rattus Norwegicus) - you might do it if you're hungry enuf, but there's plenty of better options out there. Another homeless suggestion that's slightly cleaner than pigeons - 24 Starlings (the "blackbirds" of the song) baked in a pie! |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 669972)
Posted 31 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Squab! Sorry, city feral Rock Doves have too many diseases and/or parasites (lice and fleas) for your suggestion to work. |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 669520)
Posted 30 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Peregrine falcon pictures should work, too... Correction to my earlier post: Rock doves are Columba livia (no i!) |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 666455)
Posted 25 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I HATE Pigeons (Columbia Livia). I consider them feathered rats... and just as dirty. They're exotic imports from Europe, known to ornithologists as "Rock Doves", so you may fire when ready, Gridley! Other California exotics that should be stamped out, if possible: Blue Gum trees (Eucalyptus Globulus) Monterrey Pine -outside the Monterrey peninsula- (Pinus Sp?) Starlings (Sturnella Neglecta) |
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Pigeons (Oct 24 2007)
(Message 666425)
Posted 25 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Splitters are online, but not (apparently...) creating new WU's... No work from project. |
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Billy (Oct 23 2007)
(Message 665798)
Posted 24 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, I don't think that your fix to the client-types script worked... I'm still getting "Of the 0 last connections to the scheduler:" every time I look at the page... (4 times spaced over 3 hours today) Shouldn't that be "Of the last #### connections to the scheduler:", instead of "#### last connections" BTW? |
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Monday (Oct 22 2007)
(Message 665174)
Posted 23 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I SECOND THE MOTION! ;-) Seriously, the clients types script has been out of whack for at least a month... (and a whack upside the head is what the script needs... :-) ) |
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CLOSED**** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XI ****CLOSED
(Message 664389)
Posted 22 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed 250k total BOINC last weekend, and will pass 200K SETI this week! (depending on WU's that are pending...) Also, finally cracked 1k in SETI RAC - without adding compute capacity... |
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Patience (Oct 16 2007)
(Message 661245)
Posted 17 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Umm, is this the reason my program went wacky? It has been stuck for like a couple of days says "Waiting for Memory" What is up with that. lol Nope, "waiting for memory" means exactly that... the program is waiting for more memory than is available at that time... to avoid, add memory (if possible!) to that machine - particularly any machine with less than .5 Gb, running Win XP or Vista. If still stuck, suspend BOINC, exit the BOINC manager, and re-boot your computer... (memory fragments over time, as programs shuttle in/out of memory; and M$ Windows isn't particularly good at gathering those fragments...) |
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One of Those Days (Oct 11 2007)
(Message 659854)
Posted 14 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate to add to Matt's already full plate, but... Could someone at the project give the "Client Connection Stats" script a swift kick in the butt? It hasn't been working (every time I've looked, at least!) for the last two weeks... |
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One of Those Days (Oct 11 2007)
(Message 658980)
Posted 13 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Any idea why this is still in pending state? There probably wasn't "substantial agreement" between the two results - a third WU would be generated, crunched and assimilated in that case. (It has happened with a few of my WU's...) You may have looked at the results before the generation of the third WU. (look now...) |
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Strangely Normal (Sep 10 2007)
(Message 657403)
Posted 10 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well talking of getting "participants back" ,i'm one. Joined the project along long time ago. I stopped some time around when bonic came along. I have over the past 6 months so or been using Linux alot more and have decided to help out again. Came to look at the forums when my client stopped working, nice to see the community still here. Sad to see that im still reasonably high on the stats of my join date even though i havnt been part of the project in over a year. You should ask this question again in the number crunching forums  you're more likely to get a reply... |
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Bits (Oct 09 2007)
(Message 657034)
Posted 10 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: not a complaint, but... when I went to get more WU's, some of them came over as "0 bytes" on the "transfers" tab of the client... I've never noticed that before from active WU's! |
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Back from Kiwiland (Oct 08 2007)
(Message 656613)
Posted 9 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: on that note... (E.G. for the record) What is the "db_purge.x86_64" process that (as far as I can tell) is brand-new on the "Server Status Page"? (shown as "not running" at 2210 Berkeley time) Oh, and welcome back! |
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upload issues and other news (Oct 5, 2007)
(Message 656267)
Posted 8 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Something is still messed up Have you recently (within the last 2 months) shut that machine down for any reason? (maintenance, a reboot, anything?) That would cause the "Computer on" stat to fall below 100%... |
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upload issues and other news (Oct 5, 2007)
(Message 656264)
Posted 8 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I agree here, something is messed up... 10/8/2007 6:59:57 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 10/8/2007 6:59:57 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 700834 seconds of new work, and reporting 16 completed tasks 10/8/2007 7:00:13 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 10/8/2007 7:00:16 AM||Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 10/8/2007 7:00:18 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: server returned nothing (no headers, no data) 10/8/2007 7:00:18 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 10/8/2007 7:00:18 AM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed 10/8/2007 7:01:18 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 10/8/2007 7:01:18 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 700832 seconds of new work, and reporting 16 completed tasks 10/8/2007 7:02:53 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable 10/8/2007 7:02:53 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 10/8/2007 7:02:53 AM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed at this point, I set "no new tasks"... 10/8/2007 7:03:13 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 10/8/2007 7:03:13 AM|SETI@home|Reporting 16 tasks 10/8/2007 7:04:33 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable 10/8/2007 7:04:33 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 10/8/2007 7:04:33 AM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed 10/8/2007 7:05:33 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user This behavior is with 5.10.20 (x64)... I'm NOT getting the same with 5.8.16 or 15 (x86) (on different computers in the "farm".) I finally got through on the next try... |
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Weekend server problems (Oct 1, 2007)
(Message 654618)
Posted 5 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
A) Yes, BOINC uses TCP/IP. B) Can't help with the "random computation errors"... C) The "reporting work done" that you never saw the computer do is probably canceled WU's . Say that someone goes past deadline and a replacement is issued (to you); then gets the WU in after deadline, but before your computer gets to that WU in your cache. Your WU is now redundant, and will be canceled. You won't get any credit for it, but then you never crunched on it either... |
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Weekend server problems (Oct 1, 2007)
(Message 653788)
Posted 4 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is this an appropriate place to mention that the "Client Connection Stats" script needs a kick AGAIN? If so, somebody, please! place appropriate plantar surface in script's Gluteus Maximus. :-) If not, where is appropriate? |
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RE: credits
(Message 653334)
Posted 3 Oct 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, what happened to the decimals in the credits? |
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Small Word (Sep 20 2007)
(Message 650196)
Posted 28 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The system needs to be intervention free; your description requires some manual case handling, which will certainly fail to meet the goals. "Set and Forget" should be the watchword. Several months ago (July) many people (including myself) were arguing that the deadlines needed to be extended, particularly on the "wide AR" WU's, which would go into EDF as soon as you got them... I think it's unfair to pick on the SETI staff for responding to that input. My thought is that they may have gone a little too far in the deadline extension, not that they need to return to the old deadlines... (for those that don't remember, anything with an AR of 1.2 or above would have a [relatively] short crunching time and a very short deadline [some in the one week range], a cache full of these WU's would put the computer they were assigned to into EDF [and "no New Tasks"] for the duration of processing the cache!) |
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Compute error - again and again
(Message 648615)
Posted 25 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Help I get three new WUs and part way thru first one computer error keeps showing up? Are my setting wrong what can I do? to stop it if there is s way? This looks like your internet communications failed - if you're on dial-up, you forgot to set to "Network Activity Suspended", else you lost your I-net connection for an extended period. BTW, only post enough of the log to make your point... |
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Small Word (Sep 20 2007)
(Message 646547)
Posted 22 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Everyone - please remember that there may be reasons why a person "drops out" of SETI other than getting tired of the project or the project's woes... I've had to drop WU's because a) something major happened to my BOINC installation, causing me to have to detach and re-install; (losing all issued WU's in progress...) and b) my OS decided to take a dive, again losing all WU's in progress. (NTM the use of that computer for a number of days!) |
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Small Word (Sep 20 2007)
(Message 646545)
Posted 22 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] I agree, some hosts don't connect, except when specifically directed to: E.G. computers still on dial-up (like me!) My computers (except one, on a cable modem - at a remote location) usually spend about 23 hrs a day on "network activity suspended", because the modem isn't connected - or the modem (one modem, computers networked) is handling my other Internet traffic, which I don't want slowed down by BOINC traffic... |
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Boiling Down Chicken Soup (Sep 11 2007)
(Message 643756)
Posted 18 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So what is that "alien" that the cat's have such an interest in... can't tell from the pic.Slightly frustrating also that the server-stats page shows everything as running just fine. click on the line - it is a link to a larger version of the avatar... (the little thing outside is a wascally wabbit...[cue the Looney Tunes: "that's all folks!"]) |
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CLOSED**** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XI ****CLOSED
(Message 636376)
Posted 8 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Will pass 200K total BOINC and 160k SETI this weekend... snark, snark Oh, and 200 posts, too... |
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Weirderer (Sep 07 2007)
(Message 636139)
Posted 8 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Personally, I like the chatty ones not reporting problems! |
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Weirderer (Sep 07 2007)
(Message 636136)
Posted 8 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I hope you meant "at least once"! (insertion in bold) ;-) There have been days that a computer in my care (I was a mainframe operator at the time...) has died several times a day for more than two months, on a random schedule! (The tech staff/customer engineers finally tracked that bug to a bad wiring harness... we got a new [same model] computer on warrenty...) |
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Weirderer (Sep 07 2007)
(Message 636131)
Posted 8 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Strange how Seti went down with disk problems about the same time Rosetta@Home did! Spooky. @Terry No, Rosetta went down a day before there was any indication of a problem with SETI...probably just a coincidence, as (IIRC) Rosetta does not have any hardware models in common with SETI. (my two main projects at the moment...) Had to re-start Einstein because one 'puter (that was on S@H and R@H) ran out of work. |
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Ups and Downs (Sep 04 2007)
(Message 634540)
Posted 6 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There is a variable called "duration correction factor" that keeps track of the predicted vs. actual processing time on work units. You also see this effect if you switch from the stock app to an optimized app - for the first two days or so you'll be downloading as though the stock app were still going, even though your optimized app is running 1.5-2x faster. The effect gradually wears away after that... (takes about two weeks, total - in my experience.) You also get this effect if you switch back to a stock app from an optimized app, only in reverse! |
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Into the Long Weekend (Aug 31 2007)
(Message 633370)
Posted 4 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Thu no work, Fri no work, Sat no work, Sun no work, Mon at 0900 it downloaded some work, When we went home the computer was crunching! When we came in Tus morning no work. So we uninstalled BOINC and removed all trace from the reg, we downloaded the newest ver(sion) and installed on a 250 Gb drive. One hour later this is what we are getting. 1) I'm not sure why you didn't get work from S@H on Saturday or Sunday... work was there to be gotten... check your BOINC setup. 2) Keep your log extracts to the minimum necessary to illustrate your point...space on S@H's hard drives is not unlimited! 3) When you see the line (in your log extract, in bold, "no work from project", check the "server status" page of S@H's web site - if "Results ready to send" is zero; then there is no work... (this regularly happens on the Tuesday of a three day weekend [USA holiday on a Monday...] due to the splitters running out of work!) 4) As others may point out, there is no guaruntee that there will be work from any BOINC project - if ya wanna keep your "dual 3.6GIG machine" warm, join more than one project... which spreads the load. Also up your cache to two days minimum - that should keep ya crunchin' through minor periods of "no work from project"... |
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Into the Long Weekend (Aug 31 2007)
(Message 632912)
Posted 3 Sep 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Not sure this is the right forum, but the "client connection statistics" script is broken, AGAIN... |
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Subversion (Aug 30 2007)
(Message 630404)
Posted 31 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I've got two WU's that won't download... is everything up on the Berkeley side of things, 'cause every thing's normal at my end! |
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CLOSED**** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XI ****CLOSED
(Message 629691)
Posted 30 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed 150K SETI yesterday... |
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5.10.20 transfer bug????
(Message 629687)
Posted 30 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Anyone else seeing this using 5.10.20? I see it when attempting to download a wu. Currently, it seems we're back to downloads getting stuck (at least I am), and when it's trying it shows the following. When it stops trying it goes back to normal. Note: look at the speed column. Note: this error is also in the x64 version of 5.10.20... |
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Tuesday Afternoon (Aug 21 2007)
(Message 624809)
Posted 23 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, when you refer to a "load" of 20 or more, what do you mean? What load? Thanks. Yes, I have that line too, and mine is at 100% all the time... (I run BOINC at all times, "run always" on the Activity Menu) |
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Feedback Loop (Aug 20 2007)
(Message 624148)
Posted 22 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So the weekend was more or less successful: we kept the minimum number of multibeam splitters running and finally started to catch up with demand. We even started building up a nice backlog of work to send out, so I started up the classic splitter so they could cleanly finish the remaining partially-split tapes we have on line. The backend continues to choke occasionally - the bottleneck still being the workunit file server, so there's not much we can do about that. It'll probably be a lot better when we're entirely on multibeam data and less splitter processes are hitting the thing. Meanwhile, the sloooow workunits we hoped would time out on their own aren't. Not sure what to do about that exactly. And while the level of fast-returning overflows went down as we moved on to less noisy data, about 10% of all results sent back are still overflowing. @ elendil: Jim_R's method works, but also - if you're looking at the graphics or the screensaver, look for a "06" or "07" - those (and maybe 05 as well...) are multi-beam. As Jim says, anything with a "00" is linefeed. (AKA "standard") A dead givaway for multibeam from Beta (which I'm not sure has made it to the production app yet...) is if there's a line reading "Beam x, Polariz. y" with x being 0-7 and y being 0 or 1. [Edit to add] If you look at the "tasks" tab of BOINC Manager, (in the "advanced view") the first 6 characters are in DDMMYY - again, all 06 and 07 year dates will be multi-beam. [/edit] |
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Barrel of Bottlenecks (Aug 15 2007)
(Message 620663)
Posted 17 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
And, as has been pointed out to me in the past, all the post-processing tasks have to be on (now) Bruno, (then kryten, RIP) because of disk access issues. |
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Squeak (Aug 14 2007)
(Message 619597)
Posted 15 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Jeff and I have been beating our heads on why the download server and workunit file server have been acting so sluggishly lately. [serious mode] How do you do that?[/serious mode]
Kang is on the other side of the wormhole at the moment and is unavailable... <G> |
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Sorta Beta (Aug 13 2007)
(Message 618900)
Posted 14 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, could someone kick beta so that reporting results is possible? I'm getting: 8/13/2007 6:51:00 PM|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: Project encountered internal error: shared memory when reporting results. Possibly a re-start could clear this up? |
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"SETI @ home" burned into monitor screen
(Message 618893)
Posted 14 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Too bad the project can't read .gif files, then you could use an animated "SETI @ Home" logo... (mine would be rotating!) |
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Hooray? (Aug 08 2007)
(Message 618855)
Posted 13 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
No, I realize, he needs to realize... (snicker) |
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Hooray? (Aug 08 2007)
(Message 618631)
Posted 13 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
This is a carry-over from "linefeed" - this was happening with 5.15, also. (it just wasn't as noticeable, due to the WU's processing in less time) |
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Hooray? (Aug 08 2007)
(Message 618626)
Posted 13 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Ya know Rev, you gotta chill a bit. OTOH, he does have a point about not getting WU downloads... since the "work started flowing again", I haven't been able to download a single file from SETI Central... On one computer, I need a full set of files, on others, I just need WU's. He just needs to realize (as I do...) that computer projects, run on a shoestring, will sometimes have major problems... |
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Anyone still using Pentium IIIs (or earlier CPUs) to crunch?
(Message 617195)
Posted 9 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have a P III-750 laptop still crunchin' away... good for about 50 credits/day. It takes about 28 Hours to crunch a standard WU. |
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Slight Detour (Aug 01 2007)
(Message 616088)
Posted 7 Aug 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
What's wrong with getting digs at big, monolithic, glacially slow to change corporations? |
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Seen a Lot of I-5 Lately... (Jul 30 2007)
(Message 612365)
Posted 31 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: If I knew you were coming I would have baked a cake. with the temperatures I've been seeing on the web, ya could'a used a solar oven! (Sly smile...) (Highs are in the upper 80's or lo 90's in degrees Farenheit) |
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Seen a Lot of I-5 Lately... (Jul 30 2007)
(Message 612359)
Posted 31 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I5 is a very neat drive. Never driven it south, but took it north from the Bay area north to the border. @ KB7RZF: you haven't driven I-5 between I-580 and San Diego (South from SF)... it is deadly boring, (in my experience – especially from I-580 to the Grapevine [the pass between Bakersfield and the Los Angeles basin for non-Califonians out there...]) at best, and dangerously foggy (same streach) in the winter. (that's when you get at least one 40-100 vehicle pile-up a year...) I try to drive it at night, getting into the LA basin at 0800. (on a Sunday!) I then continue on to San Diego... (after breakfast!) I've driven it too many times to count in a car, and even once in a big-rig (semi) truck. (Northbound only, from somewhat north of the Grapevine to SF.) @ Matt... Another thing to watch for is the client connections script... it isn't working, currently. That's good news about multi-beam though. How many "tapes" are backlogged? |
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CLOSED**** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XI ****CLOSED
(Message 609343)
Posted 26 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed 150K total BOINC and 125K Seti on the same day... and 175 posts two days ago... |
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certificates
(Message 608934)
Posted 26 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I guess this message board is like the Imus Chump line This problem was first noted here Jul/9/07 - it's now Jul/25/07 and the problem still isn't fixed! |
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Question on where to post...
(Message 608558)
Posted 25 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Where should I post that the "modern" Certificate of Computation script is broken? (if not here...) |
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Whipped Cream (Jul 24 2007)
(Message 608309)
Posted 25 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
That's probably where the "2k" figure came from... ;-,)
Currently (at 10.26 PDT [5.26 GMT]) there's nothing in the "Results ready to send" queue... this is another reason to run more than one BOINC project... [edit][snip][/edit] (got some as I was originally posting this!) Matt, After a big weekend outage like we had this weekend, wouldn't it make sense to postpone the "weekly" outage to Thursday, so the "results ready to send" queue could be full before the "weekly" outage? |
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Blanking (Jul 18 2007)
(Message 606501)
Posted 20 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Prior to multibeam acquisition we were taking data from an antenna that was lower than the ALFA feed and was thus in a radar shadow provided by the surrounding hills. Several hundred metric tons of dirt? ;-) |
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Oof! (Jul 16 2007)
(Message 606494)
Posted 20 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just because something is natural does not mean it is side effect free. Tobacco is natural, and it is a slow killer. Ned, John... Key word here is "side effect"... for hemlock, neurotoxin type snake venom, BoTox, (full force) and poison arrow frog venom, the effect most people think of is the main effect, not the side effect... An example would be ethyl alcohol (as in wine)... the main effect is to get ya drunk... side effects can include cirrosis of the liver, heart disease, etc... |
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Fakakta (Jul 05 2007)
(Message 600314)
Posted 8 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Might this be why my system has been trying to upload files and failing? I am new here and do not understand yet how all things work. If I have written in the wrong forum, please accept my apologies. Maybe... try shutting down BOINC (all the way, including the taskbar one, over by the time...) and re-starting. That flushes the DNS that BOINC was using, and gets a new set from your Data Name Server. (hence 'DNS') If that doesn't work, try asking the same question over in "Number Crunching"... Make sure you mention that flushing the DNS didn't work. |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 599931)
Posted 7 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Finally moved above 1K RAC for SETI- on 4 machines (1 Opteron-165, 1 P4 2.6 HT, 1 Celeron 2.6, 1 PIII 750) using chicken apps on the Opty and the P4 HT... (the Celeron isn't mine [although I have permission to use it] and there isn't a real speed increase on the P3...) Also into the top 10K in RAC on BOINCstats... |
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WHICH OPTIMIZED FOR AMD
(Message 596848)
Posted 1 Jul 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...or with graphics, if you don't mind the (slight) performance hit. |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 595327)
Posted 29 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 100k! SETI in only 1 year 6 months (with a 3 month vacation in there...) |
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Blop (Jun 25 2007)
(Message 594426)
Posted 28 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There are two schedulers, running redundantly. However, to make sure they don't send out the same work twice they are given "control" of one half of the work, i.e. one sends out results with even id's, the other sends out odd. So, depending on which scheduler DNS randomly hands you at the time, you'll get either even or odd id'ed results to work on. Matt, someone should check on the scheduler sending out the "odd" results, as I think that's the culprit that's handing out the "no new work" (even with 200k WU's ready to send) line... the http error is still with us, too; see following: 6/28/2007 6:49:50 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 6/28/2007 6:49:50 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 456833 seconds of new work 6/28/2007 6:49:55 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP file not found 6/28/2007 6:49:55 AM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 6/28/2007 6:49:55 AM|SETI@home|Requesting 456833 seconds of new work 6/28/2007 6:50:00 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 6/28/2007 6:50:00 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 11 sec 6/28/2007 6:50:00 AM|SETI@home|Reason: requested by project 6/28/2007 6:50:00 AM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 30 sec 6/28/2007 6:50:00 AM|SETI@home|Reason: no work from project |
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Blop (Jun 25 2007)
(Message 592667)
Posted 26 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, The "http error", first mentioned in the "blip" thread, and as evidenced by: 6/25/2007 6:56:18 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 185928 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks 6/25/2007 6:56:39 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP file not found 6/25/2007 6:56:39 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 6/25/2007 6:56:39 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 185928 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks 6/25/2007 6:56:59 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 6/25/2007 6:56:59 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 11 sec 6/25/2007 6:56:59 PM|SETI@home|Reason: requested by project 6/25/2007 6:56:59 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 25 sec 6/25/2007 6:56:59 PM|SETI@home|Reason: no work from project is (obviously) still with us. (times PDT) I'm also not sure why that last line reads "no work from project" as there were about 200K WU's in the pipeline, ready to go... |
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Blip (Jun 21 2007)
(Message 591927)
Posted 24 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I'm getting this same problem with both 5.8.15 and 5.4.11 - so I think the problem is server-side, not client-side. (I.E. Berkeley's the one with the problem) |
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Flora Fidgit (Jun 18 2007)
(Message 589510)
Posted 20 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Try to reset the project and if it doesn't work, then Detach and Reattach to it. I haven't had any problems. Don't know if anyone's still following this thread, but a simple stop/restart of the BOINC client usually resolves DNS issues... |
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Flora Fidgit (Jun 18 2007)
(Message 589509)
Posted 20 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Try to reset the project and if it doesn't work, then Detach and Reattach to it. I haven't had any problems. Also try, (b4 the above...) just hitting the "reload" button of whatever browser you use... |
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Horizontal Hold (Jun 14 2007)
(Message 589071)
Posted 19 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] One possibility is that the "bad" CPU overwrote part of the kernal in memory, in a "swapping" module (it comes into memory and gets re-written to disk, repeatedly) and the error propigated (like, maybe, it was a disk drive driver routine...) I've seen this happen, in my experience. (in much older OS's - IBM's DOS/MS, OSMVT, etc.) Finding the cause was always frustrating, and quite slow... |
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uncommanded detach from SETI
(Message 588955)
Posted 19 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I run 5.8.15, and I recently (Friday) had an uncommanded detach from SETI - it wiped out my whole 4.5 day queue - and started downloading from my backup projects - E@H and SETI Beta. (including two big Astropulse work units) Does anyone know what would cause this? (other than random wierdness, a somewhat uncommon occurence on my computer) It took me until Monday to finally figure out what had happened... (if not what to do about it! [still haven't got that figured out!]) |
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Horizontal Hold (Jun 14 2007)
(Message 587259)
Posted 15 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
SPARCs run Solaris, x86 (and x86-x64...) run various versions of Linux. (NTM Window$) |
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Horizontal Hold (Jun 14 2007)
(Message 587100)
Posted 15 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I think there's one of each, Solaris and Linux...(but I don't know which OS is which endian...) |
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Merday Morn (Jun 11 2007)
(Message 585760)
Posted 12 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I don't speak the language. What is a "WU"? You can also increase the "Connect to the Internet every xx days" to something above default (.1) - I set it to 4.5 days - this works with all versions of the client, back to 5.4.8... (that I know of...) |
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Merday Morn (Jun 11 2007)
(Message 585594)
Posted 12 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Getting the following when requesting work: 6/11/2007 6:29:41 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 6/11/2007 6:29:41 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 516364 seconds of new work 6/11/2007 6:29:46 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 6/11/2007 6:29:46 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 11 sec 6/11/2007 6:29:46 PM|SETI@home|Reason: requested by project 6/11/2007 6:29:46 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 6/11/2007 6:29:46 PM|SETI@home|Reason: no work from project Time is PDT... |
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Huh (Jun 08 2007)
(Message 585372)
Posted 11 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'm getting the dreaded "6/11/2007 7:49:33 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable" message in my messages tab when trying to report work: both when requesting new work; and when just trying to report. |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 585133)
Posted 10 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Make them use (provided that it is still in working condition, of course) whatever car they were in during the infraction - that solves the "rich" problem. If the car is no longer working, due to "accident", make the offender use a car of similar size and shape. |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 583440)
Posted 8 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
-Still - none of those frequencies are close to the bands civilian aircraft use! Nor are the second, third, or fourth overtones of those bands... (respectively, 2,3, and 4x the primary frequency - typically, on radio, the odd overtones are stronger than even ones...) There may be "image" problems, granted, but a properly designed superheterodyne receiver only has two of those to worry about. (one over, and one under the primary reception frequency...) (and the FAA can insist on a properly designed receiver!) I was talking about the FCC's (Federal Communications Commission, a branch of the US Department of Commerce) cited reasons for denial of cell phone use in airplanes, in particular. I believe I recall that the proposal under consideration was that the plane itself would carry a (low power) cellular site onboard. (@ PoohBear -which would drown out the ground towers, by signal strength, "capturing" all CP's aboard.) I'm also a Paul, BTW... |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582642)
Posted 7 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] They're really good to have if you break down on an Interstate, miles from Nowhere, AZ - when you want the help to get there b4 you run out of fluids! (particularly if your business requires you to run many "miles from nowhere" type trips on the Interstates) |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582636)
Posted 7 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Being a motorcyclist, I can't count the inumerable times where drivers have been talking on their cell phones, failed to look over their shoulders when changing lanes, and tried to share the same space that I already occupied. I also frequently see someone who has very poor lane control and can nearly bet that the odds are higher that they are on the phone instead of being a drunk driver. Blowing stop signs, placing themselves and others at risk (the truck incident above) and more are not chance; they are too consistent and repeatable to fall within the relm of chance. I've had the same thing happen with a full-sized big-rig, so it's not just motocycles in Jeopardy... (there's an idea for a ringtone!) |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582635)
Posted 7 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: For no reason than curiosity, one of the reasons we talk louder on mobile phones is because they have no "side tone". This is where a little of your own voice is fed back to you so you hear the other person and yourself, you then automatically compensate if your voice sounds too loud. Ordinary analogue land line phones all have this feature. There is probably a good reason why it is not implemented in digital systems, but I'm not sure what that is. Your voice would come back to you with a slight delay... there's a slight (~50 millisecond, I think) delay with the modern CP's for the analog signal from the mike to be digitized... |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582633)
Posted 7 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Have a cell phone because, unfortunetly, have to have one but I hate the thing. It is an electronic leash. I don't use the ringer, anywhere, though. In fact, never even answer my cell when someone does call. I let them leave a message. If the message is something to get back to, I will. If not, I won't. - ring tones - I don't mind these, as long as they aren't stock - if the ring tone is something I can relate to, even better - everyone on my CP has a different ringtone, so I know who's calling without looking. Re: talking and driving - you haven't lived, until you've been driven by someone who was: a)answering a CP b)answering e-mail on a laptop AND c) driving a big rig on the Interstate! (fortunately, I got off that truck unscathed!) [OY VEY!] |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582326)
Posted 6 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Never mind the techical reasons for it, but I am certainly happy that the FCC chose to NOT change their rules prohibiting the use of cell phones on board airborne aircraft. Can you imagine being stuck next to a long play salesman on a transcontinental flight? They think air rage is bad now! :-) Personally I think that the "technical reasons" that the FCC cited - viz. interference with aircraft operational frequencies, are a crock - CP's operate on the 850-900 Mhz band - and there is nothing that civilian aircraft use that operates anywhere near that band! (radar is up in the 2.5 Ghz range, radio communications are down in the 120 Mhz area [AM, BTW] and navigation is all over the place, depending on which system you're talking about... but none are near 850-900 Mhz!) (Mhz= MegaHertz, Ghz= GigaHertz. 1 Hertz = 1 cycle per second) |
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Slow Going (Jun 05 2007)
(Message 582322)
Posted 6 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: It's actually quite simple: Many many decades of social/cultural evolution has given us the pay phone booth. Notice how they were all the way over there, away from the center of activity, and usually somewhat sound proof. This creature thrived for a long time because it was well suited towards its environment, that is until the invasive species known as the cell phone drove it into immediate extinction. Things like this drive me nuts! Sorry, Matt - the "private" style phone booth was dead long B4 the cell phone, displaced by the "open" pay phone. Just an observation... I'd say the old glass-enclosed booths were mostly out of service by 1979, (usually because they were trashed and/or graffitti'd) and the cell phone didn't start to take off until (about) 1985. Just for fun, wanna see what the first portable CP's look like? See the first "Lethal Weapon" flick - Danny Glover totes around one of the old bricks... |
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Ho Hum (Jun 04 2007)
(Message 581798)
Posted 5 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: An event-free weekend - how boring. The only real downside from a healthy data flow is that we're back to regularly pushing out work faster than our acquisition rate (we always claimed this would be our "ceiling"). So without any intervention we'll pretty much run out of work by the end of the week. Don't worry: there will be intervention. I'll probably scrape some data from the archives worth doing again but maybe we'll get some multibeam data out to the public before too long. I agree that there's a lot of "ghost" WU's in the system, but I think a "quarter million" is too low an estimate - it's probably somewhere between a half to three-quarters of a million WU's that are "ghost"s. (at one point I noted that the "number of WU's outstanding" on the server page was in the 2.4 range. If 1.5 is/was the average outstanding b4 the outage, that's 900K "ghost" WU's...) I know that at least 5 of those are "mine" - all created in the May 17-23 range. |
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Another Long Weekend (May 29 2007)
(Message 580028)
Posted 2 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote] How often is your client set to "Switch between applications every" xx "minutes"? - There's a number of variables at work here! Also, remember that E@H WU's now take about 40 hours on an AMD Opteron-165, and it is easy to imagine that they might be in EDF mode, (particularly with a [relatively] slower processor) even with a deadline of 6/11. (note: written 6/1) LTD isn't the only "Debt" factor out there, BTW, there's also STD or Short Term Debt. (Those who thought of something different for STD have dirty minds! <g>) I can't speak to any XtremeLab difficulties, I've never run that project... one thing that could have happened, though, (I've noticed this behaviour in S@H) is that the downloading of the WU's ended in an order like this: 3,2,1. (with #1 having a temporary download failure of some sort...) That would start 3 until 2 finished its DownLoad, then started 2 until 1 finshed downloading... (assuming equal Deadlines for all three WU's...) |
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More Spring Cleaning (May 31 2007)
(Message 579609)
Posted 1 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: While the staff do deserve a break, ... and possibly overload something else, causing it to break?! |
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Normal Operations (May 30 2007)
(Message 579607)
Posted 1 Jun 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Actually, I kind of like the "i" plural endings - they remind me of my Italian (and, hence, Latin) roots... "Octopus" and "virus" (and "index"!) are Latin words, so the "i" ending is somewhat better, if you want people to remember the words' derivation. (although, by now, they are also correct as "-es") (the proper Latin plural of "virus" is actually "viri" - one "I". You only replace the "us" with an "i"...) I do hear the occasional "apparati" (long "I") bandied about... (I live next to Berkeley...) but how often do you speak of multiple coituses, opuses, hiatuses, prospectuses, or stati (I had to throw one in... ;-) ) “Octopus†was originally Greek, and was borrowed into Latin before being passed on to us. The Greek plural was oktopodes (four syllables) and the Latin octopedes (ditto)â€â€cf. “tripod†and “pedal†respectively. If you want to pay homage to our classical forebears, feel free to use one of those forms, but I think you’ll find most authorities recommend “octopusesâ€Â. My source (The American Heritage dictionary, 2nd College Edition, 1982) gives Latin as the derivation for "octopus"... It may have started as Greek, but the Romans took it over, and it's form is (now) Latin. The Romans certainly knew the critters, and depicted them in quite a few surviving pictures. As for virus, we have the problem that there’s no surviving evidence of its plural usage in classical or mediæval Latin. Opinion appears to be divided on how it should be classified: some say it had no plural in use, period (how often do you say “poisonousnessesâ€Â?); others think it would have behaved like certain other neuter nouns in -us, indicating the form viroraâ€â€cf. corpus, corporaâ€â€while others still put it in the fourth declension, where its plural would be simply virus (with a long U, to rhyme with “igloosâ€Â). At any rate, the only unexceptionable English plural is “virusesâ€Â. Umm, my source (same as above) says that virus is Latin for "poison" - one certainly speaks of "poisons"! Sorry to go on so long OT, but: a) I didn’t start it; b) Latin-abuse is one of my pet peeves; c) blame Misfit. [/quote] |
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(Message 579177)
Posted 31 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I'll pass 100k total BOINC sometime today... and passed 80K SETI sometime during the recent server problems. Also entered the top ten for my start date. (20dec05) WOOT! |
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Normal Operations (May 30 2007)
(Message 579174)
Posted 31 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has any one else noticed that the "User of the Day" hasn't changed since all of this began. You probably have a few "ghost" WU's, that were created in the May 17-23 range, but were never actually sent out, due to the server woes... check on your "Your Results" button... these will get re-sent to someone else when the deadline expires. (yeah, I've got a few, also...) This is also, BTW, why the "number of WU's in progress" on the "Server Status" page is about a million WU's high... (normally, b4 the outage, it was in the 1.4-1.8 million range...) While you are on the SETI website, check your cache, if you have changed it from default, as it's probably back at default. (0.1 days) Re-set it, if necessary. |
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(Message 578901)
Posted 31 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: They are not Indexes they are INDICES, why can't people remember this lol To original poster quoted: "Indexes" and "Indicies" are both correct. Actually, I kind of like the "i" plural endings - they remind me of my Italian (and, hence, Latin) roots... "Octopus" and "virus" (and "index"!) are Latin words, so the "i" ending is somewhat better, if you want people to remember the words' derivation. (although, by now, they are also correct as "-es") (the proper Latin plural of "virus" is actually "viri" - one "I". You only replace the "us" with an "i"...) BTW, in Italian, the "i" ending is masculine, an "e" ending is feminine. |
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Another Long Weekend (May 29 2007)
(Message 578891)
Posted 31 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hate to ADD to the material to be read, but have some questions: So your load would be 50% R@H, 50% S@H... are you sure you haven't cross-read the deadlines? In my experience, (and I do crunch for both projects) R@H deadlines are less than most of the longer S@H WU's (assuming that you didn't get one or more of the "high angle range" WU's with the 4-day deadline!) 2. On another machine, with S@H and Climate Prediction (CPDN), it downloaded a second CPDN job, even the first one won't be finished till next spring; and even though the resource allocation is CPDN 300, S@H 100, it almost seems that the opposite is being applied. How many CPU cores does this computer have? CDPN typically downloads 1 WU per core... I guess I do not understand the BOINC scheduling algorithm. Also, what can I do with workunits that clearly will NOT be finished (or even started) by their deadlines? I should think that moving them to different machines here (even if possible) would confuse the receiving system when the results were uploaded. Since on the second 'puter, CDPN has a 75% allocation, when the S@H jobs downloaded are done, the second CDPN will pop into the vacated core, (assuming you have a dual-core) and build up a "debt" to S@H... Don't move (even if you figure out how to...) any WU's, machine to machine... this can cause you to lose credit (one of the ways to cheat SETI Classic was to process the same WU on several machines, and claim credit for ALL of them... BOINC was set up to prevent this. If the WU comes in from a machine it wasn't assigned to, cheating will be assumed... Corrections welcome, if I'm wrong on this... CDPN WU's have a lot of non-computing time figured into their deadlines, as most members of the project also crunch for other projects. (most projects have shorter deadlines than CDPN!) The first time I saw a CDPN "hours to complete", (almost 2200 on a Opteron-165) I almost had a heart attack - until I saw how far away the deadline was! (a year...) I now crunch CDPN only on weekends. (I crunch CDPN on a dual-boot copy of Win XP x64 - about 24 hrs at a time...) |
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Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)
(Message 577888)
Posted 29 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yep. I have said in the past that the minimum deadline should be 14 days. Yes, but... setting a deadline so short that the computer that the WU is sent to immediately goes into EDF doesn't really make sense either! |
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Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)
(Message 576744)
Posted 27 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has anyone else noticed a reduction in their cache? I had mine set to 4.5 days on "Computer is connected to the Internet about every" x.x "days", and (after noticing that I wasn't getting my usual quota of work!) found that I'd been reset to 0.1 days! That isn't how often I connect to the net, (I'm on dial-up) and I need a larger cache than that, as I run a dual-core AMD Opteron... Oh... The only place I have a 5.9 client (.10) is on the Win XP Pro x64 version that I dual-boot to, and the only project I run there is CDPN, where you only get WU's to equal your "cpu"'s (I'm running two WUs, as I have a dual-core...) |
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Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)
(Message 576737)
Posted 27 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has anyone else noticed a reduction in their cache? I had mine set to 4.5 days on "Computer is connected to the Internet about every" x.x "days", and (after noticing that I wasn't getting my usual quota of work!) found that I'd been reset to 0.1 days! That isn't how often I connect to the net, (I'm on dial-up) and I need a larger cache than that, as I run a dual-core AMD Opteron... You do realize that the 5.9.xx clients are still being tested? The recommended version of BOINC is still 5.8.16, AFAIK. Yes, I'm aware of the "wide AR WU" problem - that hasn't changed since before the blackout - and doesn't explain why my cache setting would be changed without my knowledge. The better solution to the "wide AR WU" problem is to set the minimum deadline for them to something just beyond the EDF BOINC setting, which has to be done by the SETI staff. EDF (see next) I can deal with... (right now I'm in EDF for some long-running Einstein WU's) (that's "Earliest Deadline First", which seems to be the preffered terminology for what you termed "panic mode".) |
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Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)
(Message 576724)
Posted 27 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has anyone else noticed a reduction in their cache? I had mine set to 4.5 days on "Computer is connected to the Internet about every" x.x "days", and (after noticing that I wasn't getting my usual quota of work!) found that I'd been reset to 0.1 days! That isn't how often I connect to the net, (I'm on dial-up) and I need a larger cache than that, as I run a dual-core AMD Opteron... Mine was on the first, and I re-set it to 4.5 (and got a lot more work)... I think it got reset when the team added the second line... "requires 5.10+"? even boinc alpha is only on 5.9!(.12) So far, there isn't a 5.10 client... |
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Chaos at the Greasy Spoon (May 24 2007)
(Message 576073)
Posted 26 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has anyone else noticed a reduction in their cache? I had mine set to 4.5 days on "Computer is connected to the Internet about every" x.x "days", and (after noticing that I wasn't getting my usual quota of work!) found that I'd been reset to 0.1 days! That isn't how often I connect to the net, (I'm on dial-up) and I need a larger cache than that, as I run a dual-core AMD Opteron... If this is related to the splitter's woes, please tell me... |
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Check Your Cache!
(Message 576067)
Posted 26 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Has anyone else noticed that their cache (or "amount of time between network connections") dropped back to 0.1 days from whatever you had set it to? I had mine set to 4.5 days, and just noticed the drop after Friday's Berkeley ups and downs... I may have had this for a day or so b4 that, (hard to tell with SETI goin' down so often...) so the change could have occured on Thursday. |
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Lookin' Up (May 23 2007)
(Message 574603)
Posted 23 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: We're still having a different problem than reported earlier in the thread - I have a completed WU that starts to upload, gets to 98.85%, then stalls. This is on a cable modem, no optimized app, client 5.8.16. Just tried it 1445 PDT... |
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Fiber channel woes, Chicken App, etc. (May 21 2007)
(Message 573736)
Posted 22 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Previously downloaded tasks (while the opt. app was disabled) would allegedly use stock app version 5.15 (with the opt. app enabled) for crunching. Why not re-set the clock in the Win98 machine? Just right click on the time in the taskbar and choose "adjust Time/Date". when that machine needs a re-boot, go into setup and permanently adjust the time. (...or get a utility that will do the adjust for you, like Atomic Clock Sync from worldtimeserver.com) The clocks in most PC's (particularly overclocked ones) aren't particularly accurate. |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569957)
Posted 18 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: With Seti I would expect that with the ongoing problems having been aged quite a bit that we may be looking into some time next week before the storm passes (assuming something else doesn't go bump in the night). I'm inclined to simply keep my SETI stuff on Suspend for the duration. When (if) things get to normal, I will put SETI back on my active projects list -- until then, it is something of a waste of time. [snip]
Folding@home is doin' pretty well, too...
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569950)
Posted 18 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Ok, we're both wrong... I just looked at the card that has the 186 on it, and it's a 80186-20... AFAIK, no-one ever used the 186 in a "standard PC-clone" IIRC, the Bull's (at least) weren't completely compatable (first I've heard of the Mistral...) (actual Intel part number... "N80C186XL20 L5512718D © 1978 1982) As I heard it, Inte£ changed the name to Pentium™, because the US patent office refused to trademark a number! (I.E. 486, or 80486) |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569104)
Posted 17 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Looks like a 286, only slower than most 286's (they stayed at 8 Mhz)... they were used for dedicated applications. The one I have is on a SCSI card, (SCSI-2, 50 HD pins) no longer in my computer. |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569085)
Posted 17 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I hate getting my technical news on a message board. While it's interesting, to be blunt, I don't have the time to wade through hundreds of posts to find out what's going on. Just read the top post of each thread! |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569072)
Posted 17 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Really interesting. Frankenserver... Hey, anyone (other than me) ever see a 186? I still have one, although it hasn't done anything for a couple of years... |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569071)
Posted 17 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: just a thought: Umm, as I understand it, they've been assigned certain rooms by UC Berkeley, and can't expand out of them! |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 569069)
Posted 17 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: WARNING! 5.9.10 is in beta testing... and is unstable, and (probably) contains bugs! Use only if you have no choice! (like you run Win XP Pro x64, or Win Vista x64... where 5.9.10 is the only official 64 bit version available) (there is a 64 bit version of 5.4.11 out there... but it's not from Berkeley) yes, you can... no emulation required... (the OS shifts the 64 bit chip back and forth between 64 and 32 bit modes) all 64 bit Inte£ and AMD chips still have the full 32 bit instructions, after all... (as well as 16 bit and 8 bit instructions!) There's just a touch of overhead for the CPU to make the mode change... |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568666)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is there a way to send the results? I don't care about the credits, but some of the results will expire tomorrow. WARNING! 5.9.10 is in beta testing... and is unstable, and (probably) contains bugs! Use only if you have no choice! (like you run Win XP Pro x64, or Win Vista x64... where 5.9.10 is the only official 64 bit version available) (there is a 64 bit version of 5.4.11 out there... but it's not from Berkeley) |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568648)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hey, bit a newb here. Seti is trying to upload all it's WU to the server, and it seems to be causing my servers to kinda stop working. Why, I don' know... Anyway, can I detach from the project and not lose all the WU that are completed.? Don't detach, that would lose any credits or completed WU's that you had coming... either hit the "suspend" button on the "projects" tab, or hit the "no new work" on that same tab... Berkeley is gradually filling downloads from a 2 week outage, and having miscellanious other problems, associated with the sudden overload of about 700k computers asking for work! |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568639)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is there a way to send the results? I don't care about the credits, but some of the results will expire tomorrow. What advantage (if any...) is there to IE7, other than not being subject to the bug in question? I've held off upgrading until someone (not from Micro$oft) explains any advantage. |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568636)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: But the most important, nobody from the Seti team answer about it !!! Besides the fact that this was posted at 0400 Berkeley time, when nobody is at the lab? All the project team was probably asleep! |
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Gasping for Air (May 14 2007)
(Message 568550)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yes, it's not only your clients which can't upload. SETI beta shows everything (other than the web page server and the scheduler) down or disconnected. Beta will probably come up once S@H is back online, and perking along nicely... (it's second priority at this time, understandably) |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568533)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Is there a way to send the results? I don't care about the credits, but some of the results will expire tomorrow. I've run into this, and one of the windows never shows anything... I wonder why? (rig is a celeron 2.6, Win XP home, IE 6) Is this a bug in 5.8.15 (carried into 5.8.16)??? |
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S@H main page error
(Message 568221)
Posted 16 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I got his error when I tried the main page: Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: (above edited slightly [carrige returns added] to improve legibility) Thought I'd post it here, even though the problem is obvious, so someone at the project might notice... (I didn't know you could overload the webserver...!) |
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Gasping for Air (May 14 2007)
(Message 568129)
Posted 15 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ... Some fava beans and a nice Chianti do it for me... (snicker...) |
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Takin' Care of Business and Workin' Overtime (May 11 2007)
(Message 567902)
Posted 15 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: At the moment I believe Matt is putting thumper into the server closet, since it sounds like an airplane engine (it was in the main SETI@home lab over the weekend, I think). Would you like to work next to a screamin' 130+ decibel monster jet engine? I dunno about decibels, but that's probably what the new Thumper sounds like... I've had disk drives that sounded like a Turbofan jet engine on startup, when the drive was powered on. (only one at a time, though!) Thumper has 48 disk drives - imagine all those starting at once! |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 567115)
Posted 14 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Swift Transportation says: Hmm, maybe you do have the right book... but the truck drivers use the "road carrier guide" for the maps, restrictions, overhead clearence, etc... They are put out by the same company, so the milage figures are probably the same in any case... Re: doing a husband/wife team as long-haul O-O's... this puts stress on a marriage, but probably less stress than just the husband doin' it. (The wife knows what the husband is doin' at all times...) Also, make sure that whatever tractor you buy is in excellent operating order. (Repair bills can eat your profits, if you get the wrong tractor!) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 566600)
Posted 13 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: United Parcel Service (the UPS I was reffering to...) has the "zone" system so that a person shipping across town, or within 100 miles, (etc) doesn't pay for the extra fuel a package going across the country would need... there are 8 zones, based on the distance the package is moving (note that a package moves from the shipper to the nearest UPS facility, from there to the nearest "lumping" facility [if the nearest facility isn't a "lumping" facility...] to the destination's nearest "lumping" facility, to [if the "lumping" facility isn't the same as...] the nearest UPS facility to the destination, to the destination.) Generally, if you're watching the package via tracking, you can only see the last facility the package moved through... I'm not saying that UPS may not use the train occasionally, but the vast majority of UPS travels by truck. While wandering the country as a big-rig driver, especially on I-40, (Barstow, CA to Oklahoma City, OK - 3 round trips, & one more west-bound run) which parallels BNSF's route that you're talking of, I've noted many trains carrying "pigs" (piggy-backed truck trailers) and I've never seen either a FedEx or a UPS trailer on one such train - many other carriers were noted, though (All from the competition, though - I never noted the carrier I worked for... [C.R. England]) Agreed that it would be more fuel-efficient and less polluting, but they don't do it that way! UPS drivers don't drive the whole (for example) SF to Chicago route - typically they would drive to (say) Sparks, Nv, and return to SF (with different trailers). A team (two drivers) would take a sleeper cab tractor, and continue the trip from Sparks to Salt Lake City, UT and return the next day. This would continue all the way to Chicago... the driver(s) getting relieved at either 8-10 or 16-20 hour intervals (depending on whether a single or a team is driving) I worked for the air transport part of UPS... (specifically: loading planes) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 566584)
Posted 13 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
The first computer I used was an IBM 360-23. (in 1973)(Don't worry, if you've never heard of this one - it really was a -25 with a few wires moved around! The model was an "educational discount model") I've since had the oppertunity to use older hardware than that - an IBM 1401 (second generation - discrete transistors) that the Federal government was using into the 80's. (Remember when your tax refund check was a punch card? This was the machine that produced them! [for the western region]) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 566578)
Posted 13 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: many carriers (read -- trucking companies) charge by the mile, using "rand mcnally's - household movers guide". Basically it picks points in a city and measures the shortest road miles between points. It uses this to both charge customers and pay drivers. If you're a trucker, it probably seems like every departure and destination is on the "far side" of these points and they have to eat those miles. Of course there are fuel surcharges, and different prices for LTL (less than load) and full load. Then there's the "green zone" (no, not earth friendly kind of thing). The N.E states (NY, NJ, etc) generally take longer to drive a mile in due to congestion and higher fuel prices, so companies kick in (and charge) a couple extra pennies per mile in those states. The point picked is usually the town's City (Town) Hall. You've got the name of the book wrong, though - the Trucking companies use the Rand McNally Road Carriers Guide. Most trucking destinations are nowhere near city hall, of course - trucks need lots of (flat!) room to park. LTL stands for "Less than Trailer Load": a load that doesn't fill a trailer. (the smallest over-the road trailer I know of is a 32 foot trailer) LTL and full trailer loads are usually charged by the pound or ton-mile. (I.E. so many pound-miles or so many ton-miles) The driver is paid (on long-haul routes) by the mile. This may explain (to the non-trucker) why truckers always seem to be steaming in traffic jams - they aren't getting (in some cases) even minimum wage! |
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(Message 566573)
Posted 13 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (I forget the term for them, maybe yard goats? "Yard Mule" it is... although I've also heard them reffered to as "yard goat"s! Note that they ARE street-legal... just underpowered for anything beyond city traffic. (about 260 Hp, while a current-generation road truck has at least 200 more horses under the hood... |
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Waiting Game (May 10 2007)
(Message 565943)
Posted 12 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I still like version 5.8.6 because the Task Tab, Progress includes a fill-bar. WARNING! 5.9.x IS STILL IN ALPHA TESTING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!! |
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Waiting Game (May 10 2007)
(Message 565941)
Posted 12 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I have not been able to get any work since the 4th of may does it have to do with this update that you mention here or what Excellent advice... although I would'a said "almost every thread" (two have been started by others of the Berkeley team...) |
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Waiting Game (May 10 2007)
(Message 565937)
Posted 12 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
this is why it is always a good idea to turn the Windows "auto update" feature (! - I call it a "bug"...) OFF as soon as you install Windows. (whatever version!) (it is on by default, something that BG will burn in [appropriate religion's place of eternal punishment] for...) I always take the "custom update" route when I do manual Win updates. (and refuse IE7 every time...) I also refuse anything to do with "CDRM" which is "copyright rights management". |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564888)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: While we are on the subject of deadlines, would it be possible for the wide AR WU's to have deadlines that don't trip the "Computer overcommited, processing earliest deadline first" - which they (before the blackout) currently do - a minimum deadline should be whatever is just short of tripping that, not 4 days! sorry, after "edit" timer had run out... I normally carry a 4.5 day cache - I was processing for 3 solid days into this WU blackout (or as has been noted, very dark grey-out - re-issued WU's) |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564884)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: After updating, disable the "Automatic Update" service (as well as BITS). No more problems... Actually you can disable the "Automatic Update" at any time... just remember to stop by the Windows Update site appropriate to your OS about once a month and download any "security updates" (AKA: the "we made an error, and left a gaping security hole in the OS!" or the "some smart-aleck figured out a new way into our OS" patches) While you're there, also look for (and at) new drivers that M$ thinks may be appropriate. (sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't!) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564877)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
The numbers you're giving are "airline" miles; (also known as "as the crow [or other bird] flies") the numbers I'm thinking of (and giving) are "Highway miles" - how far a vehicle has to travel between towns (almost always, if not always, larger than "airline miles"... Big rig trucks have to travel on roads, which seldom are either a) straight or b) direct routes!) The most direct route from (as an example) Memphis to S.F. would be Memphis to Rock Island, Illinois, (Interstate (I)-45[?] ) then Rock Island, IL to San Francisco, CA (I-80). I can tell you that I-80 adds considerable miles to the "airline miles" (due to curves) over both the Rockie (Wyoming and Utah) and the Sierra Nevada (California) mountain ranges and detours around several mountain ranges in Nevada, having travelled the route! I-70 is more direct, but doesn't allow trucks through a pass (through the Rockies) between Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado... I see, with a truck across the land, hopefully it was not only a job but sometimes fun. Never had that experience. You do get to see the country... when you aren't sleeping! (Or driving after dark!) In the 3 months I was a long-haul driver, (never getting closer than 20 miles [32 Km] to my house, BTW) I drove through (or in) 29 of the lower 48 states. (the company I worked for didn't go to Alaska or Hawaii...) Note that I never was routed to New England, where the states are small, and that I'm counting states I slept through! (Pennsylvania and Maryland) |
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On the Horizon (May 07 2007)
(Message 564863)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The Inquirer just had an article about FedEx reaching ludicrous speeds during air transport (but the new Sun server hasn't made it to S@H yet) - caution: don't take it too seriously. Love the concept and the tag line! - have run and maintained two of those OS's (Me & NT)... as I mention on this thread, the FedEx that Matt is talking about is either FedEx Ground or FedEx Freight, neither of which ships by air - and the server weighs in at about 150-170 Lbs (77 Kg) (hmm, sounds like a candidate for Windows CEMeNT... couldn't add that much more weight...<G>) Alias - Win XP ;-) !!! |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564850)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 24tb? In a few years this is gonna be one HDD.. Ah, yes, the "Trash-80-1" - Didn't get one of those, but I ran a Trash-80 CoCo (first [silver] version) for about two years - even upgraded it to 64Kb! I did a sort on it that took about 48 hours (on a very similar disk drive to the one mentioned - I think I got the double-sided 360k drive, though.) so the longer run times of (say) Astropulse (over on SETI beta, for those that don't know...) don't bother me as much as they do some... (one is at 90 Hrs [and counting!] and is only 60% done...) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564839)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: About 170 pounds max according to the spec sheet. Germany (even now that it is united!) has a longest haul of about 1000 miles from the German-Swiss border to the German-Denmark border... the longest haul in the USA would be San Diego (at the southwest corner of CA) to the eastern part of Maine, which could exceed (depending on routing...) 4500 miles... (remember - 1.6+ Km to the mile...) United Parcel Service (the UPS I was reffering to...) has the "zone" system so that a person shipping across town, or within 100 miles, (etc) doesn't pay for the extra fuel a package going across the country would need... there are 8 zones, based on the distance the package is moving (note that a package moves from the shipper to the nearest UPS facility, from there to the nearest "lumping" facility [if the nearest facility isn't a "lumping" facility...] to the destination's nearest "lumping" facility, to [if the "lumping" facility isn't the same as...] the nearest UPS facility to the destination, to the destination.) Generally, if you're watching the package via tracking, you can only see the last facility the package moved through... Note that the "lumping" facilities take a large number of packages from (say) the San Francisco Bay Area, and put them all on one truck, bound for (say) the Chicago, Illinois area. (actually there's enough traffic so that about 6 trailers go this route, daily, hauled by three (CA) or two (NV, UT, WY and maybe other states on the way) tractor units [California does not allow the "triple tow" that the mentioned states do...]) (in Sparks, NV, there's a large UPS yard that breaks triples into doubles for California... there's a regular driver that just drives to Sparks, drops his trailers, and (after a meal break!) turns around, and hooks on to a set of doubles for the trip back to California. |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564833)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Wasn't there a "scale of miles" on it? or didn't you have a ruler handy? Of course, I know, since I've driven from Tennesee to Arizona on a big-rig truck, (about 2.5 days, team driving)... and from Arizona to the S.F. Bay Area (about 1 day, team driving)(different trip...) (and my home!) (days include fuel stops, coffee breaks, bathroom breaks, vehicle inspections, stops at truck scales, etc., following current Federal regulations for hours of service - the truck is moving at all times [at 65-70 MPH, except in CA...] except as noted - Average speed is about 45-50 MPH) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564827)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: About 170 pounds max according to the spec sheet. I'm not sure about costs (they've changed since I was in air package Transport [with UPS...]) but UPS's maximum allowable weight is 150 Lbs.. (changed in 2001 from 70 Lbs) 1 lb (zone 8, which this shippment would be...) costs about 9 bucks, raising by 5 bucks a pound after that, doubled (10 bucks a pound) over 70 Lbs (UPS has to send two people on any run with a package over 70 Lbs. [union {Teamster} rules]) (anytime a package over 70 Lbs has to be handled, two people have to do the handling!) Prices from 2002... |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564822)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Timing ? Oh, Yeah... Urs, depending on route, that's only 2500-3k miles, depending on whether (and where) they routed around the current mid-west floods |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564821)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Timing ? I'll answer this (564695) and ned ledd's (564696) at one go... There are now three buisnesses running under the "FedEx" banner - and they operate in different ways! 1) FedEx (the original) (Logo is navy blue/orange) the air package shipping company 2) FedEx Ground (Logo is light blue/green) As implied, this is a ground shipping company (originally Purolator Courier) that ships everything on trucks, nationwide. 3) FedEx Freight (logo is Navy blue/light blue) Also ships everything by truck, main difference is that this division won't take anything smaller than a freight pallet. (originally Watkins Freight) The most likely portion of these three for the server to be taking is FedEx Ground... with FedEx Freight the other possibility. The conglomerate was formed by aquisitions of Purolator Courier (Ground) and Watkins Freight Lines (Freight). Ground and Freight are run seperately, BTW Big rig Trucker... Nedd, FedEx (any part!) does not ship by train... (they don't own a railroad...) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564807)
Posted 11 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "In case you don't know the replacement server will arrive on Friday." Hey, I almost bought a house on a street like that... |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564586)
Posted 10 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: While we are on the subject of deadlines, would it be possible for the wide AR WU's to have deadlines that don't trip the "Computer overcommited, processing earliest deadline first" - which they (before the blackout) currently do - a minimum deadline should be whatever is just short of tripping that, not 4 days! |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564583)
Posted 10 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: As SETI is still taking in finished units, the deadline issue is a non issue. When units are sent out there will be appropriate deadlines based on past practice. (IMHO) There is still a deadline issue - it is currently very hard to report completed WU's, as the scheduler is dealing with huge numbers of "ronco boxes" ("set and forget") whose owners don't know of the work blackout. The boxes are bugging the scheduler for work, which makes a "reporting xx completed WUs" scheduler request time-out about 50-90% of the time. Even a simple "update my stats" scheduler request seldom goes thru... |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564579)
Posted 10 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (formerly worked for FedEx's competition...) If ya mean UPS, yeah... (you did note the "formerly"?) In your case, I'd file a claim with the carrier, and the shipper. I've heard of cases like yours, and it's either a dishonest employee, or the package was left in an insecure area. (the case I heard, it turned out to be the former) |
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Timing is Everything (May 09 2007)
(Message 564571)
Posted 10 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: "In case you don't know the replacement server will arrive on Friday." Umm... yes, Sun Microsystems HQ is down in Silicon Valley... but (as I understand it...) the System is being shipped from the factory, which is in Tennesee! (probably by truck...) As for backup system(s) read the relevent threads... lack of $$ is the primary reason there... No - ordinary consumer-grade computers would freak out at the loads that SETI's servers routinely handle. (Home computer builder...) |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 564567)
Posted 10 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Whatever happened to FedEx's slogan, "When it absolutely, positively HAS to be there overnite!"? Or was the new server shipped FedEx Ground? (formerly worked for FedEx's competition...) |
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On the Horizon (May 07 2007)
(Message 563695)
Posted 9 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: So long and thanks for all the fish. What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? |
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On the Horizon (May 07 2007)
(Message 562932)
Posted 8 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Fraternal twin, maybe, but not evil... no M$ friend, but have to use their OS (no matter how often it bombs out...) to get my work done. |
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On the Horizon (May 07 2007)
(Message 562645)
Posted 8 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, who says running overclocked AMD chips isn't still cool? (except in the thermic sense...!) I'm doing so now, albeit with a overclocked Opteron 165, not a 486... (I ran a Cyrix 486 a long time ago (overclocked, of course), with Win 3.1)
IP unknown, ISP Earthlink.com running Windows XP Home, using Netscape 7.2 dual booting Windows XP Pro x64. CPU AMD Opteron 165 OC to 1.854 Mhz (stock=1.800 Mhz) AMD Opteron forever - or until the next generation hits, or it gets toasted... (whichever occurs first!) :-))> |
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Soon-to-be Up Time (May 04 2007)
(Message 560334)
Posted 5 May 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: BarryAZ asked a question about deadline extensions. I have to disagree with the "report your completed results" part here - many people have reported having problems getting the scheduler to respond to them at all. (see further, below!) I have been trying to upload my results for a few days now, to no avail! :o( I have to concur here, even though I had no problems with deadlines... I (at one time...) had 36 WU that had uploaded, but couldn't (or wouldn't...) report. (they eventually reported, after a 24 hour lay off - on the fifth re-try) With the problems that Galileo had, that should trigger a deadline extension. Added to that, is the problem of lots of robot (set and forget) boxes out there still bugging the scheduler for work, NTM the (probably) large numbers of users who haven't realized that there's a problem, yet! - who are also contacting the scheduler for work. All of those contacts make it very hard to report uploaded WU's... |
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WHAT IS THE BEST CPU FOR SETI
(Message 554018)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Before anyone says "the questions about seti". I know, I know Mmm, Andy, did you know that the current dual core Opteron's have 2Mb of L2 cache (1Mb per core...) and that AMD's have had this kind of L2 cache since the "Clawhammer" versions (last gen, not current) of the Athlon-64? Chicken has non-Inte£ versions of his apps, BTW - that work rather nicely! (I crunch with one...) |
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WHAT IS THE BEST CPU FOR SETI
(Message 554013)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Go AMD Remember that Opteronâ„¢'s are underclocked Athlonâ„¢-64's. The Opty-165 (which I run - it was all I could find when I got the money together, [money was an object for me] that would fit my [already purchased] M/b) is almost exactly the same as the A64 2200, (minor differences to make the chip clock correctly) but runs at 1.8 Ghz, (if not overclocked, of course) instead of 2.2. The Opty's were delibrately underclocked by AMD to give servers more reliability... My Opty system is: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 M/b AMD Opteronâ„¢ - 165 2x 512Mb Kingston PC-3200 DDR(1 MB total) |
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WHAT IS THE BEST CPU FOR SETI
(Message 554002)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: WHAT IS THE BEST CPU FOR SETI? I WILL BE BUILDING A NEW COMPUTER SOON AND WILL BE RUNNING WITH WIN XP. If money is no object, I'd suggest waiting a few months for AMD socket F M/b's and Opteronâ„¢ CPU's to become available (just think - 2 quad core chips in one box - should out-process all the IBM mainframes I ever worked on, back in the 80's!) If you don't have the OS yet, try to find an x64 copy of XP Pro. (Make sure that all of your hardware has drivers available for X64, though!) |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 553994)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: How do you figure out how many milestones you've passed? Unless you count like a computer, where you would use 2^10 (1024)-K or 2^20 (1,048,576)-M or 2^30 (1,073,741,824)-G ;-) |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 553990)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: passed 70k SETI... Working 4 projects, 3 on one computer, 2 on the other... Laptop (PIII, 750 Mhz) 95% SETI 5% Folding@home Main Computer (AMD Operon 165, slightly overclocked) 90% SETI 5% Einstein@home 5% SETI Beta |
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Reducing Unemployment (Apr 25 2007)
(Message 553987)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Matt: this may be posted elsewhere, but, if so, I haven't seen it... Is there a simple table of which computer has which OS and version number (if available)? (and if so, where? [as a link]...) I'd just like to understand the setup a little better, not that I'm any great shakes as a Unix/Linux geek... (I've never used any flavor of those OS's) |
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When will we get MultiBeam-WUs?
(Message 552051)
Posted 24 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Oh ok thought maybe we were already getting Arecibo WU's because the ones I downloaded yesterday are significantly larger than I've seen in a long time. Mmm, I thought that all of SETI's data came from Arecibo... not just the Multi-beam... :-))> <G> |
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When will we get MultiBeam-WUs?
(Message 552048)
Posted 24 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Well, To which I add: perhaps one that works quite well with AMD Opteronâ„¢'s, hmm? Especially the SSE3 instruction set? (I'd like to use those 64 bit instructions I paid for! NTM Win XP Pro x64 on SETI, without the penalty of shifting back and forth from 64 to 32 bit mode [Currently only used for CPDN]) |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 550164)
Posted 21 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Passed 70K sometime during the stats outage... and passed 65k SETI creds. |
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DHCP Annoyances (Apr 19 2007)
(Message 550148)
Posted 21 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I know the boinc client had (I think it has been fixed now) a problem with never flushing its DNS cache unless you restarted it completely. When you do finally shut down Kryten, you might want to post a notice on the main page, like you did back in Febuary, when you changed Net providers. Something on the order of: "If your client can no longer contact Berkeley, stop the BOINC client and re-start it... and if that doesn't work, re-boot!" should handle anyone who looks at the main page... |
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Upload problems.
(Message 548705)
Posted 18 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Had the same problem as others on the thread, but now, after I could finally upload, I'm getting: 4/18/2007 1:19:59 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 4/18/2007 1:19:59 PM|SETI@home|Reporting 23 tasks 4/18/2007 1:20:14 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error 4/18/2007 1:20:14 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 4/18/2007 1:20:14 PM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed 4/18/2007 1:21:14 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 4/18/2007 1:21:14 PM|SETI@home|Reporting 23 tasks 4/18/2007 1:21:24 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error 4/18/2007 1:21:24 PM|SETI@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 4/18/2007 1:21:24 PM|SETI@home|Reason: scheduler request failed I'm using Version 5.8.15... Is this me or is everyone having a problem? |
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Stats Status (Apr 16 2007)
(Message 547804)
Posted 17 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Hey, do you liquid-cool the hollow-state component? ;-)> I'd think that a 12AX7 would do better at pre-amp duties (one tube, stereo)- with 6V6GC's as the amp stage. (just my personal preferences, there) As far as heat sinks clogging with dust, have you tried filtering the air before it gets into the case? (I haven't had this problem with AMD stock heatsinks - although they did get somewhat dusty) |
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Stats Status (Apr 16 2007)
(Message 547383)
Posted 16 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Our thanks for keeping us informed RE: the stats situation. |
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Double Oopsie (Apr 12 2007)
(Message 547382)
Posted 16 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I know what ya mean - I'm looking at a "day" that'll be in the 5k area! (see above for "normal"  of course "normal" is a statistical average... It all depends on how many WU's are pending, and how many pendings get completion. (This will gradually die back, as the 3 out of 4 WU's get processed, and the cache becomes all 2 out of 3.) I've had as much as 600 credits pending at once! Oh, and I zeroed today. (according to BOINCstats) |
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Double Oopsie (Apr 12 2007)
(Message 547200)
Posted 16 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
[said with toungue firmly in cheek] What ya need is a case with a 'reset' button too small for a cat's paw to press… (see my profile photo for one such…) of course, on my case the power button is large enuf for a cat paw. (BTW, cause of death for my kitties was not electrocution!)
[toungue out of cheek] I will too, as I've been processing about 7-800 credits/day - my "personal best" is 1100+, but when the stats were off the first week of Apr, I had a 2300 credit "day". I also crunch Einstein@home, so I haven't zeroed a day, yet (haven't checked today, yet) I run an AMD Opteron 165, with Chicken's app. |
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Double Oopsie (Apr 12 2007)
(Message 546659)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
You're lucky your kitty didn't decide to take his nap on the keyboard. Mine used to… Unfortunately, they're all now deceased. (One also nibbled on cables… and severed a few! He's lucky that he missed the power cable…) |
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Post-Weekend Roundup (Feb 05 2007)
(Message 546645)
Posted 15 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I had a situation as follows: Entirely clean install of BOINC on the LT... the LT came to me (it was used...) with Win XP Pro installed, (upgraded from Win Me) and Office 2K3 on it (although the installation seems faulty, the few times I've tried Office on the LT...) The home machine runs XP Home Ed, and Win XP Pro x64, BTW (I dual boot...) Boinc is installed on x64, but I only run ClimatePrediction on x64... |
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Post-Weekend Roundup (Feb 05 2007)
(Message 546128)
Posted 14 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I had a situation as follows: I had just set up a PIII 750 laptop for Boinc/Seti. My standard "home" computer at the time was a AMD Sempron 2400+, with a 4.5 day cache. For some reason, the BOINC client (5.4.11) thought that the LT had the same processing time as the "home" machine and downloaded results comensurate with the home machine's processing time. (About 20 WU's, each in the 7 hour range, for my "home" machine.) Unfortunately, those WU's take about 24-25 hours on the LT! Once I ran by deadline, (10 days for all the WU's) a) the BOINC client had a better idea of how long a WU takes to crunch on the LT; and b)I manually cancelled all the WU's left on the machine; (They showed as "compute error" in Berkeley.) reset the project; got more WU's; and haven't had a problem since. (This was back in January of this year.) [edit to add] My home computer has been upgraded since then, BTW [/edit] |
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Optimized app for Opteron Dual core?
(Message 543821)
Posted 10 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I had one, Intel replaced it post haste, no BS involved. As I recall, Intel issued a program to test for the fault, and gave a replacement with no other strings attached. It may depend on where you were living at the time: I was then (and still am...) living about 50 miles north of Sunnyvale, CA; (Intel HQ) so I heard all the above of Intel's initial response to the bug. (I was also an IT professional at the time!) If you lived farther away from Silicon Valley (and weren't in IT) then the initial response may have passed before you heard about it... It only took about a week for Intel to reverse field and start replacing the buggy chips... |
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Closed
(Message 543815)
Posted 10 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: getting the following on the "your account" page: "Warning: fopen(http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_user.php?cpid=ecXXXcdbXXXaXXdXXe2fXXXdXXXe0ea7) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/user.inc on line 62 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/user.inc:62) in /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/util.inc on line 116" (Some numbers X'd out in the cross-project ID above) My username, which usually appears where the above showed up, is not shown. AFAIK, the rest of the page is OK. set Panic Mode to "alert"! |
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Optimized app for Opteron Dual core?
(Message 543806)
Posted 10 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] yeahbut- Intel™ marketing division is really what made this famous, as (as I stated above) initially their response was: 'It probably won't occur in your computer - but it might' (paraphrase) and 'we won't replace it unless you prove to us that your calculations are affected'. (again, paraphrase) That initial response is what made this the computer industy's answer to the Ford Edsel (or Chevy Corvair - but that was a real safety issue!) The fact that Intel later had to replace most of the initial batch of Pentium®s because of the bad publicity of the inital response has nothing to do with how much infamy this bug produced for them. Of course, part of the reason that some people wanted the Pentium®-60 when it came out in the first place, is that it was the first of the x86 line with an on-board FPU, instead of having to buy a seperate x87 chip. To learn that that FPU wasn't flawless left most people stunned. (Intel had done a good job with the x87 chips until then.) As far as being "3 years away from meeting the 2nd person to meet this 'feature' again", there are probably fewer that 500 of the buggy chips left computing in the world... I didn't have one of the chips, BTW - at the time I was using a Cyrix 486. |
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Happy Easter/Passover/Spring Break (Apr 09 2007)
(Message 543795)
Posted 10 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Matt, You really need to find out who made your video card, as Nvidia is a chip foundry, and not an actual card manufacturer. Most Nvidia graphics cards (mine, for example) are made by another company than Nvidia (BFG Tech, in my case...) and they might have a replacement fan. (My card doesn't take a fan, I just "fart the case-side fan in it's general direction!"..., [with appologies to Monty Python] but mine is not really a "hot" video card.) @ dena: the nearest Fry's is Concord... (or, as I tend to think of it, "Concrud"!) @ wendy: umm, fans both blow AND suck... it depends on which side you're looking at! ;-,) @ Misfit: I'm pretty sure Matt needs something smaller than a 80mm case fan. Most video card fans are in the 60mm range. |
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Optimized app for Opteron Dual core?
(Message 543221)
Posted 9 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] The Pentium® FPU bug is famous, anyone in the computer industry (as I've been since 1973!) would know it - and that Intel™ made it worse by (initially, at least) asserting that a) very few people would notice [probably true... but publicity poison!] and (worse) b) that to get the chip replaced you had to prove that your calculations would be affected. This made it a public relations nightmare, that changed the way the chip-making industry handles errata... Yes, AMD has had its errata also - I'm not disputing that... but none has been quite as well reported! With the number of transisters, and other components, on chips today I'd be suprised if there weren't errors on every chip out there... (there is sometimes art as well, in electroniclly unused areas of the chip...) As far as FUD goes, I was reporting a well-documented, well reported (at least where I live - 50 miles north of Silicon Valley) old case - no dis-information there. I'm glad to say that the chip I have (a 939 Opteron-165) is not affected by the Opty bug you mention. (or at least it isn't on the list in the article...) As far as RAC goes, mine's 500+ and climbing... I haven't plateau'd with the new platform yet. |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 542845)
Posted 8 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 60K in one year and 1 month of active crunching, (there's a three month layoff in there...) and a legitimate 1100 credit day! (not the 2300 credit monstrosity that resulted from turning off the seti's DB_dump...) |
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Results overdue after 4 days?
(Message 542840)
Posted 8 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Hi cormacolindo, Also, be aware that work units (WU)'s with only a 4 day deadline will move ahead of units with later deadlines! Look in your "messages" tab and you'll see, (in addition to the message mentioned!) right after the WU downloads, that "the computer is overcommitted"; and that "work fetch is suspended". I agree that 4 days is too short a deadline for these very large angular range (AR) WU's... I think 6-7 days is more like it. (-or whatever doesn't trigger the "overcommited" status!) I keep a 4.5 day cache (for a quite fast computer, thank you!) so I can keep crunching when Berkeley has problems, and these mess up my chances for getting Canonicle results. (the result that is kept by SETI after verification.) I've been known to increase the cache to 9 days when I'm away from home for a few days! If you're gonna be away from home, check for abnormally short "to completion" times in the "tasks" tab - and upload those just b4 you leave! (I'd set the cache to 9 days the day before I leave, and do this final upload [with "no new work" turned on] just before departure... make sure after the WU's are all uploaded that you hit the "update" button to report them!) Of course, ya gotta remember to re-set it back to your usual cache after ya get back... |
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Oh Yeah.. That.. (Mar 28 2007)
(Message 539597)
Posted 1 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: ...one of my servers that's been running for 381.5 days straight now... ... or the project could use Kryten to actually run the project! (let's see... 6 cpus x [maybe] 50 credits/day per CPU...) ;-) |
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Feliz Dia del Cesar Chavez (Mar 30 2007)
(Message 539592)
Posted 1 Apr 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
César Chávez was (he is now deceased) the leader of the United Farm Workers, (UFW) an labor union, primarily in the state of California, and was active until his death in the mid 90's. He was also active in the Latino rights movement. He has a street named after him in San Francisco. (the former Army Street) |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 538714)
Posted 30 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 50K on SaH... in one year, three months, 10 days (with the computer turned OFF for 3 months while I was on the road [I was a long-haul truck driver at the time]) |
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Oh Yeah.. That.. (Mar 28 2007)
(Message 538699)
Posted 30 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote]All my machines are back up, SETI-crunching happily. I hope that means whatever was broken is now fixed and everyone else's clients will get new work soon. Servers are now (0853 PDT) back online - splitters are still offline, but they're not THAT important. |
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***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED***
(Message 537560)
Posted 27 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: According to BOINCstats, reached 50K combined BOINC, with a 720 credit day... (woo-hoo!) of course, this is three days after a 60 credit day (Doh!), so maybe it was just pendings catching up to me... this in a year and three months of crunching. (of which the computer(s) were off for three months, so a year of actual crunching...) |
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Ups and Downs (Mar 22 2007)
(Message 536731)
Posted 25 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
True, there's a message - but it is easy to miss, particularly if you don't watch the messages after hitting the "update" button on BOINC manager... perhaps if the message were in a different color, like green but not red, which should be saved for true errors... [edit to add...] A red message of this type should be used ONLY if there is an incompatability between the old version(s) and the new... ...and I agree with other posts on this thread that doing the "A new version is available & this version is no longer supported" is a bad idea; (unless the possibility above occurs...) and would generate a lot of traffic of the sort "why did my credits stop?" on the message boards - a lot of people don't seem to pay any attention to the messages tab of BOINC manager! |
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Ups and Downs (Mar 22 2007)
(Message 535553)
Posted 23 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Fascinating stats. Some people (I'm one...) subscribe to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, not realizing that 5.4.11 has at least one problem that 5.8.15 fixes... the 'no result file' (paraphrase) after doing a work unit. (yes, I upgraded) Also realize that upgrading the Boinc client involves downloading an 8 Mb file - some of us still use dial-up, and that takes about a ½ hour! |
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Echoes of Classic (Mar 20 2007)
(Message 534641)
Posted 21 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [snip] Matt, now that Bruno is actually showing up on the "server" page, the "hosts" section of that page should be updated to include it, don't ya think? |
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(Message 534637)
Posted 21 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The SSE2 Generic 2.2B Chicken application is the best you can do for the Opty 165. Thanks, I was wondering if the AMD chips' SSE3 instructions were screwed up, like the some of the FPU instructions on the early versions of the Pentium® were. (Yep, some of us have long memories, and won't let Intel live that one down!) |
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(Message 534183)
Posted 20 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The SSE2 Generic 2.2B Chicken application is the best you can do for the Opty 165. Thanks, that's the one I downloaded. Anyone working on a non-Intel-only SSE3 app? |
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Vista Fun (not)
(Message 534171)
Posted 20 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
it was the 4004 and that was the very first microprocessor! (cpu on a chip) It only handled 4 bits at a time, BTW |
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Optimized app for Opteron Dual core?
(Message 534163)
Posted 20 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: What's a good optimized SETI app for the AMD Opteron-165? according to CPU-Z, it has SSE3, but all the apps I see for SSE3 are only for Intel chips... I've downloaded a SSE2 app, BTW, but won't use it 'till I get a response. |
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(Message 532174)
Posted 16 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
"Fix_missing_results" is only started when the Berkeley staff has missing results to delete/fix, so no reason for panic mode to be on... and it has to be on Kryten, cause it directly affects the results database. (when Bruno comes online, and replaces Kryten, "fix_missing_results" will be on it. - and probably still disabled, unless the staff enables it!) |
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Vista Fun (not)
(Message 532172)
Posted 16 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
another question might be - can you make anything run Win 95 without crashing? - I never was able to... I've run... (in order of installation!) DOS, Win 3.0, 3.1, NT4, 95, Me, XP Home, XP Pro... (both versions of XP run concurrently, on different computers...) You'll notice that there are a few missing, and a quirky install order - I'm primarily a Luddite, and stayed with DOS/Win 3.1 for a LONG time! (until I couldn't find programs for it!) I still have a hard drive with DOS/Win 3.1 on it somewhere in my "used hard drive" stack. (I was still using it until after installing Me, by switching drive cables) |
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(Message 532162)
Posted 16 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Federal agencies ban Windows Vista: Best version of Netscape (IMHO)... 7.2... still have (and occasionally run...)7.1; and 4.79, but it won't work on many sites, Yahoo! included. Tried 8.0 when it first came out, but I discovered that it's only a warmed over version of Firefox, so I went straight to FF (1.0.5, since upgraded to 2.0.1) |
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The Return of Bruno (Mar 08 2007)
(Message 528628)
Posted 9 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Matt, if you need any manual labor-type help with the server closet move, I'm both: available, and close enuf to SSL, to be of use... see my account 8300337 for my e-mail. |
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In Sync (Mar 07 2007)
(Message 528613)
Posted 9 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: @ Matt - what chords the little onE playin' (in your avatar) ;) It's when they're cute as fully grown-up cats, that you want to be careful... |
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Picture Time (Feb 22 2007)
(Message 527334)
Posted 6 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: [quote]Nope, all those I've seen were 12v - I've seen them at truck stops, and the current generation of big rigs run 12v, and several prior generations do, too. (Truck driver talkin' here!) Here in Australia trucks are (or used to be) 24V electrical systems. EDIT- BTW, to avoid confusion here in Australia this is not a truck. [photos snipped] Here in the U.S.A., the later generations of heavy-duty truck (and, yes, I'm talking BIG rig here, like your second photo!) are 12v. (You know how big-rig drivers refer to all non class-5 or above vehicles on the CB? 4-wheelers! As in "that idiot *&^*& four-wheeler just cut me off!" or [for a SUV] "that four-wheeler is lookin' to roll over") Without a view of the grill, I can't be sure, but that looks like a "Freightliner Century class" tractor in the second photo. I've driven a few of these! (4, to be exact) |
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(Message 526814)
Posted 5 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: You can get an inverter that is rated a heck of a lot higher than 240 Watts - I've seen 'em as high as 2500 watts, possibly even 3k (continuous! - 5k peak) I imagine that anything over about 300 Watts needs to be directly wired (with really low gauge wire, or multiple 12 guage strands!) to the battery or alternator, though… (don't know where to find such a large inverter? - try a truck stop!) Nope, all those I've seen were 12v - I've seen them at truck stops, and the current generation of big rigs run 12v, and several prior generations do, too. (Truck driver talkin' here!) Big-rig trucks generally have 3 12v (type 36 - huge [80+ lbs.]) batteries, but they are run in parallel, so only 12v, but lots of storage capacity - and lots of juice ("Cold Cranking Amps") to turn the monster Diesel engines over, too! The only inverter I've seen installed was 12v 1500 watts, and ran dual 4 guage wire (cable really - about .5 inch [12.5mm] in diameter!) to the battery(ies). (Which, on a big rig, are in the area between the cab and the trailer, below the frame.) |
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(Message 526363)
Posted 4 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
The 300 Watts is probably a "peak" value, and the inverter really is a 200-240 "continuous" rated item. I know i've seen 300 watters (as specified) with cigarette lighter (they're trying to change the nomenclature to "car accessory outlet", BTW) plugs. |
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Picture Time (Feb 22 2007)
(Message 526353)
Posted 4 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
You can get an inverter that is rated a heck of a lot higher than 240 Watts - I've seen 'em as high as 2500 watts, possibly even 3k (continuous! - 5k peak) I imagine that anything over about 300 Watts needs to be directly wired (with really low gauge wire, or multiple 12 guage strands!) to the battery or alternator, though… (don't know where to find such a large inverter? - try a truck stop!) Those high-wattage inverters are physically large, and heavy, BTW… Back to hydrogen for a second - the second stage of the Saturn V rockets, that went to the moon, burned liquid hydrogen and LOX... as I recall, the second stages was tracked by the exhaust (hydrogen + oxygen = water) which would condense in the upper atmosphere. |
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Eric's Weekly Post #3 (Warning, science enclosed. Do not fold or bend.)
(Message 525012)
Posted 1 Mar 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Generally, the loading coil is a COIL, I.E an inductor, (sometimes variable) that makes the antenna look resonant to the transmitter at a specific frequency. (lowering the SWR) For CB, this would be in the 27.200 Mhz range. (CB channel 19, the "trucker's channel" is 27.185 Mhz, but the CB band is 27.005 to 27.405.) The CB antennas available commercially are usually long, though - you CUT them to the proper length for mid band. (called "tuning the antenna") |
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Picture Time (Feb 22 2007)
(Message 524163)
Posted 27 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
I actually have a car-sized (and probably ex-car - I found it on the street - it is a type 75) battery running external (to the computer) fans in my computer room / ex-bedroom. All three (two UPS sized gel-cells and the type 75) batteries have given me no problems with leaking or out-gassing. (so far, at least!) The two UPS battries are for when the type 75 needs charging, BTW. Type 24 marine gel-cel batteries shouldn't be a problem - but the type 27's would be too heavy to manhandle! (I've considered it - I was also a ham radio operator...) |
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Picture Time (Feb 22 2007)
(Message 523678)
Posted 26 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Agreed that "hydrogen burns good" (although I would'a said "well", or "very well") but I take issue with the "It's corrosive"! Elemental hydrogen is not corrosive, just explosive... the corrosion from lead-acid batteries is from sulfuric acid, serving as the electrolyte in the storage/release of electrical energy. Anyone remember the old days when you actually hadda top-up your car battery; before the invention of the gel-cell? Sulfuric acid was the culprit there, too - and is the reason why the "well-ventelated area" is still recomended. Basically, putting a charge across water with sulfuric acid in it tears the water apart into hydrogen and oxygen. |
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Stale Results
(Message 523272)
Posted 25 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: There appears to be a new process on kryten on the Server status page called "fix_missing_results". It's currently disabled, I don't remember seeing this one before. Yet another process running on kryten - as people over on the tech forums seem to agree, a rather overloaded computer! Of course, since it is dealing with the results database, it has to run on kryten... |
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(Message 522705)
Posted 24 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: PS anybody wanna donate a dual-rectified UPS to a poor student? Ummm, when you say "A feed from the battery is inverted to become DC and then stepped up," don't you actually mean "A feed from the battery is inverted to become AC and then stepped up,"? What you've just described is the standard UPS (for the non-technical out there, Uninterruptable Power Source) -- where does the second rectification come in? I'd expect a second stage, and maybe a second battery in there, for a "Dual Rectified" UPS... (the computer would draw down the battery closer to the mains before the one closer to the load, I guess) Or possibly there would be two standard UPS's in parallel, joined only at the power input, and the power output, both UPS's with the same rating as the entire box. BTW, if your UPS fails, always test the battery(ies) - it(they) may be the only component(s) that has(have) failed. |
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CLOSED -- SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ IX -- CLOSED
(Message 518789)
Posted 17 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached 40K SETI, and had a 690 credit day several days ago (according to BOINCstats...) AND just noticed that I've cracked the top 100K in overall rank! |
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Vista OS and Seti
(Message 516287)
Posted 11 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Yesterday I installed Vista Home Premium into one of my 3.0 dual core computers, reinstalled Boinc and it is taking about 3,600 seconds to complete the average work unit. This on top of the fact that I haven't had any time to optimize the computer, nor the Seti app. Compared to what on (say)XP, for the same computer? |
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CLOSED -- SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ IX -- CLOSED
(Message 515853)
Posted 10 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Just passed 40k (total BOINC) in one year & 2 months (with an extended 3 month [Sep10-Dec 10] layoff, due to bein' away from home...) Now crunching with 3 computers (started with one AMD 1.2Ghz; now an AMD 2.4 [overclocked to 2.7] a P4 2.6 HT, and a PIII 750Mhz laptop) also set a new mark (for me) with a 650 credit day, several days ago... I realize those ain't big figures for some of ya, but this is a single guy here, having to deal with all the maintenence (software, network, and hardware) issues of these machines, NTM limited space in the "computer room" (a converted bedroom!)... Siran, how many posts is "too large for the dial-uppers"? |
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(Message 514685)
Posted 7 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Uploads and reporting are fine, but I'm not getting any more WU downloaded. I already rebooted the PC and cable modem... Same here, no WU available since 0800 PST... and it must be on Berkeley's end, because one of my 'puters DID get 2 WU, just b4 that. (I've got three computers, networked, sharing the internet connection. [Dial-up]) Fortunately, I keep a 4-day cache! BTW, I noticed that, at some point, one of the assimilators was off-line - maybe the lab is having index problems again... |
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Kryten woes (Jan 31 2007)
(Message 514616)
Posted 7 Feb 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: getting back tpo the point of the thread... I'm having lots of problems trying to get WU's today... and I notice that one of the assimilators is off-line again... perhaps it is time to re-boot something? |
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(Message 504586)
Posted 17 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Anyone else having trouble getting more work. I have been getting "no work from project" message for the last 14 hours or more. I'm not sure what the problem is; but I'm pretty sure that the assimilators bein' offline has nothing to do with it, as they (the assimilators, that is) only work on processed, validated results - after the computation on member's computers - and that only happens after you (or your computer for you) upload(s) the data back to Berkeley. The simple solution is to keep a cache of several days worth of work - I keep mine set to 4.5 days, unless I'm goin' away from home for a couple of days, when I up it to 9.5... |
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(Message 504136)
Posted 16 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: This had been discussed before back on the Classic forum, perhaps three years ago. The way I remember it, Xp seemed to crunch about 10 percent faster than 98SE, with everything else being the same. I don't know what effect that would have with SetiBoincEnhanced, and with Simon's Enhanced Cruncher Version 2.0. I don't know if older computers can handle all this modern stuff or not. It might be a gamble buying that expensive software, only to have it not work. I don't even think 128 MB of RAM is enough to run Xp. XP Pro will run on 192Mb... I know, 'cause I have an old Toshiba LT (P3, 750Mhz - 128Mb stock, 64Mb added) running same. (Not that there's much space for applications - maybe 110Mb, 52 with SETI running.) |
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(Message 502822)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: These problems have been happening lately after the crew has left for the weekend. Nah, all of those things produce power surges, (except the fluorescent light - that also produces RF interference) and I'm assuming (and think I read on another page here) that surge protectors are installed. (if not full Uninteruptable Power Sources [UPS]) |
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(Message 502815)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: neither uploads nor downloads work for me :( upload/download server just went off-line, possibly to fix the other problems... |
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(Message 502813)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Why do the sah_assimilators keep going down? It's getting to be a regular occurance now! I think they're going down because not enuf WU's are coming in to keep them busy... If you read the explanation on the "server status" page, "not running" can be caused by EITHER "Program failed" OR "ran out of work" OR "(the project is down)" (direct quotes from the page) In this case, I think the assimilators are running out of work. I have, in the past, expressed concern that Kryten seemed to be overloaded... |
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(Message 502804)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: it´s angry, no upload is possible, olthough the serverstatus page shows it should be possible, I hate disinformation ;-( In this case, it probably ISN'T berkeley's fault... Cogent probably went down again. (for those who haven't read the start of the thread, Cogent is the (commercial) networking company that all SETI flows thru on its way to/from Berkeley. They are having some sort of problem [possibly intermittant, which is why uploads suddenly became possible yesterday] on the upload side. [to Berkeley]) |
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CLOSED -- SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ IX -- CLOSED
(Message 486234)
Posted 20 Dec 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Reached my one year anniversary with boinc/seti... 28.5k... with a three month layoff in there. (away from home, no laptop...) Also have about 700 credits from Einstein@home, from layoffs when seti didn't have work. |
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CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ VII - CLOSED
(Message 351971)
Posted 29 Jun 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 20K in a little over 6 months... Sempron 2400+ (overclocked to 2721+ [hasn't always been that overclocked, though]) |
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Still shorter deadlines, 4.34 - 55.12 days.
(Message 307120)
Posted 16 May 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Would it be possible for Boinc to crunch the work unit with the earliest deadline first? I thought it was already suppose to do this, but on my systems Boinc is just crunching units in the order received regardless of when the deadline is. I've noticed that there's some sort of "near deadline" type scheduling going on... If you see a message on the order of "computer is overcommitted" the BOINC manager will suspend whatever you're working on and start crunching the short deadline WU. (on my AMD ~2600+ [I overclock] the "overcommitted" deadline seems to be about 9 days - I keep a 3.75 day queue, but connect nightly) |
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Computation errors on Seti Enhanced
(Message 300728)
Posted 9 May 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Since the upgrade to version 5.12 of SETI client, I have had 1 invalid work unit and several work-units where within the Boinc Manager's 'Work' window, the CPU time stays at --- and the Process column stayed at 0.00% while the SETI client is actively working on the unit. I beleive that "Win 9x" (note "x") means all the Windows releases that are/were based on the Win 95 core code. These are Win 95, 98, 98r2, and Me. (as opposed to the "NT" group, IE Win Nt, 2k, & XP...) I'm not sure what "longhorn" is based on, if it isn't a complete re-write... |
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Computation errors on Seti Enhanced
(Message 297411)
Posted 6 May 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Was greeted with a "Runtime error, click OK to crash" or something similar, on result-319380400 That's a windows "error box" so the problem is with windows (I notice that you're using Win 2003, which I can't help you with, I've never run it...) |
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Computation errors on Seti Enhanced
(Message 297406)
Posted 6 May 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: {edit] I've noticed this B4 enhanced was released... |
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(Message 297400)
Posted 6 May 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I just noticed an odd fact  after processing my first "enhanced" WU - I looked at the "work" tab of BOINC manager, and noticed that all my non-"enhanced" WU's now showed "7:17:40" as their "time to completion" - B4 5.12 loaded, these were in the 4:25:00 range... |
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(Message 274750)
Posted 3 Apr 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: <edit>
Mmm, shotguns are limited to 3 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber for hunting(3+1). If you're using the gun for self-defence, you can take out the magazine plug and load (for most pump shotguns) 5+1! |
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(Message 274748)
Posted 3 Apr 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I noticed that kryten was down at 1900-2000 berkeley time, then was back up when I came back to my computer... Yes I realize that... but still, ALL the validator/assimilator/deleter functions are (at present, at least) routed thru Kryten; shouldn't at least one (each) of these functions be on another machine? (possibly inhibited, so that it only runs when Kryten is down?) For example, splitters load a cache of work, and can produce work a little bit faster than we request it. If splitters are off, we live off the cache for a bit. Kryten is a "Sun E3500 (6 x 400MHz Sparc, 6 GB RAM)" according to the hosts section of the server status page... not Sun's "latest and greatest" (at least one, maybe two, generations back - newest machine I've noticed is Jocelyn.) The problems S@H has had recently seem to have been the deleter(s) falling behind... and all of them (the deleters) are on Kryten. (I'm not saying that the suggestion is a fix to the problem; but it is something different to try...) Of course, since this is the "PANIC on" thread, we should all panic if there is ever any "red" on the status page. - except maybe the splitters - if there's no tapes left in the queue! |
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(Message 274745)
Posted 3 Apr 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 10k S@H in 3 months, 10 days... Oh, and averaging about 110-120 RAC... |
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(Message 274209)
Posted 2 Apr 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I noticed that kryten was down at 1900-2000 berkeley time, then was back up when I came back to my computer... Does anyone else thing that maybe the one or more of the validator/assimilator/deleter functions should be off-loaded from kryten, and put on a different (and, hopefully, newer!) machine? |
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(Message 274202)
Posted 2 Apr 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: 10k in 3 months, 10 days... AMD sempron 2400+ |
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(Message 240976)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Anyone else used a mechanical hand punch for 80-column cards - they had one plunger for each of the twelve rows. Numbers were easy - a single plunge to make a single hole - but letters needed two fingers, and punctuation three... The main problem (from IBM's P.O.V.) was that the 026 was built like a tank... and easily fixable when one did go down. Of course IBM usually required ya to get a maintainence contract on the machines. |
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(Message 240974)
Posted 2 Feb 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: I believe that the sequence was 50, 75, 100, 150, 300, 600, 900, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 33K, 56K. These are the ones that I have seen, however, I may have missed a few. I believe the max speed for the 56K is actually 53k in the USA... and that the upload speed is proportional (and less than 1:1) to the max line speed of the connection. (max line speed depends on the quality of the phone connection in use, and can vary call to call) |
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(Message 239749)
Posted 30 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The college I was in used keypunches (IBM 26's and 29's) We were using the 026's until about then... what college? I went to C.C.S.F. ... where we had about (at one time...) 12 026's and 3 029's, later adding more 029's when we expanded into a larger classroom. The noise of 12 026's running at once was incredible, particularly when a number of operators were duplicating... |
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(Message 237288)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: The college I was in used keypunches (IBM 26's and 29's) yahbut... this was (starting in) 1973... the 026 was just a tad obsolete by then... of course, in my first job outa college, I was using most of IBM's tabulating machines (sorter, reproducer, and a few others I've since forgotten...) and a paper tape to mag tape machine. (non-IBM) |
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(Message 235307)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: (edit) in addition to the ones others have pointed out, ya missed 14.4k... As far as 25pin com ports go, what's so obsolete about them...? I've got a 33.6 attached via one sitting (as backup) ready to run right now... and yes, I rand a wildcat BBS for a while... |
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(Message 235297)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
you mean ya didn't punch sequence numbers into 'em? |
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(Message 235295)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a show of hands, or canes, or walkers. how many here punched cardboard? that's old school computing. god i feel old.............. How about paper <i>tape?</i> |
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(Message 235292)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: a show of hands, or canes, or walkers. how many here punched cardboard? that's old school computing. god i feel old.............. Guilty! The college I was in used keypunches (IBM 26's and 29's) and Teletypes (33KSR's) when I started (deleted) years ago. They were behind the times even then... So I remember 110 baud... (along with 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 28.8, 33.6, and what I'm currently using, 56k) Anyone remember the TRS-80 CoCo's modem that would ONLY run 600 baud? (not more, not less...!) |
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(Message 235276)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One minor suggestion. The blue on black text is a little hard on these old eyes. Any possibility of a higher contrast text color?? Maybe light cyan on black (if you're not using it for somethin' else, of course!) would work better for older eyes (50+) |
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(Message 235273)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: Now everyone (even the Berkeley staff) can track what is going on and where potential problems might be. Works with Netscape 7.1, (and, presumably, 7.2) also... |
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(Message 229223)
Posted 11 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post:
Oops, make that "3½ miles (about 5 Km) NW of the QTH of Seti... (I'm tired, I guess!) |
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(Message 229221)
Posted 11 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One solution to the dial-up question is to set your "preferences" for "network activity" to a time when you aren't going to be active on your computer - your sleep period, for example - and just before you go to bed (or whatever!) dial up the I-net. Assuming that your network connection stays active for a decent period, (45 minutes to an hour...) that should upload any completed results and download enough new workunits to keep a 2.4 Ghz cpu active for another day. (assuming, of course, that the servers are on-line, and not overloaded...) NO, I said "your sleep period" for good reason, as that's when you won't be using the computer (other than for BOINC projects, that is)... and I'm on the same time as S@H, being only 3½ miles (about 5 Km) NE of the QTH (home location, Ham radio slang) for Seti. So my "quiet time" and berkeley's are the same. I believe that S@H is quite active all 24 hrs, though, as the users are world-wide. |
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(Message 228762)
Posted 10 Jan 2006 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: One solution to the dial-up question is to set your "preferences" for "network activity" to a time when you aren't going to be active on your computer - your sleep period, for example - and just before you go to bed (or whatever!) dial up the I-net. Assuming that your network connection stays active for a decent period, (45 minutes to an hour...) that should upload any completed results and download enough new workunits to keep a 2.4 Ghz cpu active for another day. (assuming, of course, that the servers are on-line, and not overloaded...) I've been using this method (I'm network active from 2100-0700 local) for the last three weeks, and haven't had many problems yet... and those I have had, usually weren't due to lack of work, (except S@H related outages, that is...) they were modem-related. (my modem will sometimes drop ready, for no apparent reason [on my end, at least...] - and I DO know what to look for, I've been in computing since 1973!) |
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(Message 221904)
Posted 27 Dec 2005 by KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!
Post: the "Top computers" link from your homepage peters out after 60 computers displayed with a broken link - specific message is below: can't read ../cache/78/top_hosts.php_sort_by%3Dexpavg_credit%26offset%3D60; lastmod one would think if there's a "next 20" link that it would work! <g> |
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