Crap, I *am* a computer geek and I was vastly annoyed this weekend when my SSD OS drive in my server computer crapped out and I had to spend two painful days reconstructing it from backups (because Linux, unlike MacOS, has no helpful prompt upon installing the OS onto a new hard disk that says "restore your system from Time Machine backups?", meaning that I had to slowly and painfully extract the necessary information out of said backups by hand).
Oh thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am that someone gets it who understands it. What you had to do sounds like a nightmare I can only partially understand.
My head was spinning trying to understand what the problem was. My brother understands more than I do, but he can be a bit touchy so I had to be sweeter than I am normally to pick his brain. I can't believe I had to add memory (I know, simple in a Mac, but frightening for me) and upgrade the OS just to install a browser more compatible with my stupid game that I am addicted to now. 3 yrs I've had this thing, didn't know that the Java was built into the OS, and Mountain Lion has no Java bulit in. Then I find out that it was Video Ram so it's still pretty damn slow. I'm not a geek, I'm a dork!
Lol; ok, what happened? What have you done??? Said rude things to your puter while it was on and listening? Is it a Mac or a PC?
What other exciting things are happening in San Diego? Here in my nothing lil shit town, there was huge excitement in my apartment last night: at about 4 am, Deidra and I, while watching a movie in bed, heard some munching/crunching noises coming from the bathroom.
We didn't even react at first, naturally assuming it was one of our 2 cats. However, Deidra suddenly said: "wait a minute... both T-Rex and Neige are right here on the bed... so who the fuck is stealing our cats food?"
I quietly crept to the bathroom, took a peek, and guess what I found - stealing our pussycats diner? a PORCUPINE!!! No kidding! Quite large too, bigger than a soccer ball, must have been an adult.
When it heard me, it kind of turned around, but only slightly, then apparently seemed to think "fuck that, I'm still hungry", and so carried on munching.
I called Deidra in to take a peek; she was amazed. We both broke into hysterics after a minute or 2, thinking how funny this cutie looked there, and also thinking "gee, our 2 cats are REAL ferocious GUARD CATS, right?!?"
Dunno if you've ever seen a porcupine live and close, but they have a formidable armour of spikes that rules out any inclination of picking it up, even with a towel.
Deidra suggested a sauce pan, and this seemed like a good idea; I went to the kitchen, grabbed a large sauce pan and a plate to use to push the porcupine into the pan.
T-Rex came to watch the rescue operation and seemed quite fascinated; but he knew better than try to poke at it, lol.
I then went outside, a couple of doors down the street, where they have 2 fucking moronic doberman which bark 24 hours a day. I opened their gate, dropped the porcupine in their garden, and closed the gate.
I hope those fucking dogs went around to sniff the intruder and got stung by it, lol.
Dude, how the hell did a porcupine get into your bathroom? ROFLMAO on the gift for the dobermans. And Yay for Deidra, lol, leave it to a woman to fix the problem with kitchen supplies :)
So, now I have my old (3 yrs) workhorse iMac and a cheap Chinese crap laptop that runs on Windows. They are different, but so far I'm liking them both. I can take the laptop outside and sit at the table in the shade from the tree I planted 13 years ago and smoke and drink iced coffee. We finally got some summmer weather here, it's 86 degreesF with a slight breeze.
I need to get my fat butt back inside and take the vacuum and dust my room as I have overnight guests coming and one of them is allergic to dust. It needs to be done anyway. *sigh* So, have you heard from Stilletto or Val?
"how the hell did a porcupine get into your bathroom?"
Well, although I live only 30 meters from the "mairie" (= townhall), (and 40 meters from the church), this area of town is not, as often is the case, the geographical "center" of the town.
In fact, it is on the outskirt, and only 200 meters from the forest. So I guess the intruder came out of the woods and discovered this whole new wonderful world of human dwellings and their riches in appetizing munchies, lol.
Lastly, I live on the ground floor; our front door gives out onto the street, so it's naturally always closed, but our back door leads to a concrete backyard with a bit of wild fauna at the end (like 6 meter high bamboos and shit, lol - the perfect spot for our cats to go take dumps). As a result, our back door is open 24 hours a day, 7/7, all year around.
So, quite obviously, Mr Porky strolled in through the backyard. Neither of us heard it come in (and walk right past the bed, lol!). Our ferocious guard cats probably noticed him, but decided to ignore it and play dead on the bed, lol.
WhyNot forgot to mention that that bloody porcupine is back, and with a vengeance, just like Arnold in "The Terminator".
Or to be more accurate, I should say "was back", because this time we caught it again (same spot of course), in the same sauce pan. Lol - methinks we should label it the "porcupine saucepan".
But this time, we dumped his arse into one of the street's dumpsters. As they are made out of smooth plastic and are 1.5 meter high, I'd say we can safely assume we won't see him again!
As to those horrid dogs, they have been strangely silent of late, yahoo! Perhaps they ARE so dumb they did try to bite the porcupine, lol. I wish somebody had a video of that! I bet it would be popular on YouTube.
"They are different, but so far I'm liking them both."
Sounds good! Never used a Mac, but sure had plenty of atomic-flying-bomb brand PC clones made fuck knows where. But in my experience they work just as well as brand-name PCs.
86°F sounds pretty good. I know the magic number of 25°C is spelled 77°F out your way, and that there are approx 2.5°F in one °C, so it must be around 28 or 29°C. Which is bordering on "tropical" for my cute Irish arse, lol.
Yes, I received a couple of emails from them recently. They are disappointed that PP is no longer around. We all had so much fun. Great pity.
Meanwhile, I see the murderous bith from hell Jeanette Lucey is still thriving on her rag, sucking Jesus cocks non-stop and going on a rampage of fascist & racist repugnican born-again vomit.
Thanks for asking about them (S & V). Means a lot to me.
Well, I must say that I'm glad y'all are rid of "that bloody porcupine" lol. I'm glad that Stilletto and Valerie are ok and I sort of miss PP. I mean, I miss y'all, but I do NOT miss the nastiness re: Jeanette. I would love for them to visit an comment on my blog, but NO JEANETTE BASHING. That's done, it's overwith and y'all bashing her on my blog will only invite her and her ilk to comment here and I've already given up on removing the spam from one post that someone had a problem with and decided to spam non-stop.
"I must say that I'm glad y'all are rid of "that bloody porcupine" lol."
"bloody" is the appropriate word, unfortunately - meaning: the poor thing probably died squashed in the garbage truck.
And whereas I'd have no qualm about Jeanette getting all munched up in a garbage truck, I do have sincere regrets it was Mr Porcupine's fate.
Oops, sorry... mentioned the infamous "J" word again! But that wasn't really "bashing" her, more like "squashing", right - lol?
Regarding spammers, can't you blacklist undesirables? WhyNot tells me WordPress can blacklist people, based on their nicknames or, better still, their IP address. Can't Blogspot do it?
We watched an interesting movie: "Swordfish", with John Travolta as the infamous megalomaniac bad guy. Very unusual, quite a good film even though it has lots of pretty gory violence. There is a brief glimpse of Monte Carlo near the end - which was interesting for me since I've never been there.
How's your cheetah holding up? I know Stiletto was dying to go and see it, and I feel much the same. If we had a zoo here in Salindres, they'd probably have porcupine races, lol!
Crap, I *am* a computer geek and I was vastly annoyed this weekend when my SSD OS drive in my server computer crapped out and I had to spend two painful days reconstructing it from backups (because Linux, unlike MacOS, has no helpful prompt upon installing the OS onto a new hard disk that says "restore your system from Time Machine backups?", meaning that I had to slowly and painfully extract the necessary information out of said backups by hand).
ReplyDeleteSo consider this sympathy of a sort...
Oh thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am that someone gets it who understands it. What you had to do sounds like a nightmare I can only partially understand.
DeleteMy head was spinning trying to understand what the problem was. My brother understands more than I do, but he can be a bit touchy so I had to be sweeter than I am normally to pick his brain. I can't believe I had to add memory (I know, simple in a Mac, but frightening for me) and upgrade the OS just to install a browser more compatible with my stupid game that I am addicted to now. 3 yrs I've had this thing, didn't know that the Java was built into the OS, and Mountain Lion has no Java bulit in. Then I find out that it was Video Ram so it's still pretty damn slow. I'm not a geek, I'm a dork!
Lol; ok, what happened? What have you done??? Said rude things to your puter while it was on and listening? Is it a Mac or a PC?
ReplyDeleteWhat other exciting things are happening in San Diego? Here in my nothing lil shit town, there was huge excitement in my apartment last night: at about 4 am, Deidra and I, while watching a movie in bed, heard some munching/crunching noises coming from the bathroom.
We didn't even react at first, naturally assuming it was one of our 2 cats. However, Deidra suddenly said: "wait a minute... both T-Rex and Neige are right here on the bed... so who the fuck is stealing our cats food?"
I quietly crept to the bathroom, took a peek, and guess what I found - stealing our pussycats diner? a PORCUPINE!!! No kidding! Quite large too, bigger than a soccer ball, must have been an adult.
When it heard me, it kind of turned around, but only slightly, then apparently seemed to think "fuck that, I'm still hungry", and so carried on munching.
I called Deidra in to take a peek; she was amazed. We both broke into hysterics after a minute or 2, thinking how funny this cutie looked there, and also thinking "gee, our 2 cats are REAL ferocious GUARD CATS, right?!?"
Dunno if you've ever seen a porcupine live and close, but they have a formidable armour of spikes that rules out any inclination of picking it up, even with a towel.
Deidra suggested a sauce pan, and this seemed like a good idea; I went to the kitchen, grabbed a large sauce pan and a plate to use to push the porcupine into the pan.
T-Rex came to watch the rescue operation and seemed quite fascinated; but he knew better than try to poke at it, lol.
I then went outside, a couple of doors down the street, where they have 2 fucking moronic doberman which bark 24 hours a day. I opened their gate, dropped the porcupine in their garden, and closed the gate.
I hope those fucking dogs went around to sniff the intruder and got stung by it, lol.
Dude, how the hell did a porcupine get into your bathroom? ROFLMAO on the gift for the dobermans. And Yay for Deidra, lol, leave it to a woman to fix the problem with kitchen supplies :)
DeleteSo, now I have my old (3 yrs) workhorse iMac and a cheap Chinese crap laptop that runs on Windows. They are different, but so far I'm liking them both. I can take the laptop outside and sit at the table in the shade from the tree I planted 13 years ago and smoke and drink iced coffee. We finally got some summmer weather here, it's 86 degreesF with a slight breeze.
I need to get my fat butt back inside and take the vacuum and dust my room as I have overnight guests coming and one of them is allergic to dust. It needs to be done anyway. *sigh*
So, have you heard from Stilletto or Val?
Nunya,
ReplyDelete"how the hell did a porcupine get into your bathroom?"
Well, although I live only 30 meters from the "mairie" (= townhall), (and 40 meters from the church), this area of town is not, as often is the case, the geographical "center" of the town.
In fact, it is on the outskirt, and only 200 meters from the forest. So I guess the intruder came out of the woods and discovered this whole new wonderful world of human dwellings and their riches in appetizing munchies, lol.
Lastly, I live on the ground floor; our front door gives out onto the street, so it's naturally always closed, but our back door leads to a concrete backyard with a bit of wild fauna at the end (like 6 meter high bamboos and shit, lol - the perfect spot for our cats to go take dumps). As a result, our back door is open 24 hours a day, 7/7, all year around.
So, quite obviously, Mr Porky strolled in through the backyard. Neither of us heard it come in (and walk right past the bed, lol!). Our ferocious guard cats probably noticed him, but decided to ignore it and play dead on the bed, lol.
Hello Nunya,
ReplyDeleteWhyNot forgot to mention that that bloody porcupine is back, and with a vengeance, just like Arnold in "The Terminator".
Or to be more accurate, I should say "was back", because this time we caught it again (same spot of course), in the same sauce pan. Lol - methinks we should label it the "porcupine saucepan".
But this time, we dumped his arse into one of the street's dumpsters. As they are made out of smooth plastic and are 1.5 meter high, I'd say we can safely assume we won't see him again!
As to those horrid dogs, they have been strangely silent of late, yahoo! Perhaps they ARE so dumb they did try to bite the porcupine, lol. I wish somebody had a video of that! I bet it would be popular on YouTube.
"They are different, but so far I'm liking them both."
Sounds good! Never used a Mac, but sure had plenty of atomic-flying-bomb brand PC clones made fuck knows where. But in my experience they work just as well as brand-name PCs.
86°F sounds pretty good. I know the magic number of 25°C is spelled 77°F out your way, and that there are approx 2.5°F in one °C, so it must be around 28 or 29°C. Which is bordering on "tropical" for my cute Irish arse, lol.
Nunya,
ReplyDeleteI forgot: "have you heard from Stilletto or Val?"
Yes, I received a couple of emails from them recently. They are disappointed that PP is no longer around. We all had so much fun. Great pity.
Meanwhile, I see the murderous bith from hell Jeanette Lucey is still thriving on her rag, sucking Jesus cocks non-stop and going on a rampage of fascist & racist repugnican born-again vomit.
Thanks for asking about them (S & V). Means a lot to me.
Hugs, my friend.
Well, I must say that I'm glad y'all are rid of "that bloody porcupine" lol. I'm glad that Stilletto and Valerie are ok and I sort of miss PP. I mean, I miss y'all, but I do NOT miss the nastiness re: Jeanette. I would love for them to visit an comment on my blog, but NO JEANETTE BASHING. That's done, it's overwith and y'all bashing her on my blog will only invite her and her ilk to comment here and I've already given up on removing the spam from one post that someone had a problem with and decided to spam non-stop.
ReplyDeleteNunya,
ReplyDelete"I must say that I'm glad y'all are rid of "that bloody porcupine" lol."
"bloody" is the appropriate word, unfortunately - meaning: the poor thing probably died squashed in the garbage truck.
And whereas I'd have no qualm about Jeanette getting all munched up in a garbage truck, I do have sincere regrets it was Mr Porcupine's fate.
Oops, sorry... mentioned the infamous "J" word again! But that wasn't really "bashing" her, more like "squashing", right - lol?
Regarding spammers, can't you blacklist undesirables? WhyNot tells me WordPress can blacklist people, based on their nicknames or, better still, their IP address. Can't Blogspot do it?
We watched an interesting movie: "Swordfish", with John Travolta as the infamous megalomaniac bad guy. Very unusual, quite a good film even though it has lots of pretty gory violence. There is a brief glimpse of Monte Carlo near the end - which was interesting for me since I've never been there.
How's your cheetah holding up? I know Stiletto was dying to go and see it, and I feel much the same. If we had a zoo here in Salindres, they'd probably have porcupine races, lol!