Aegis J Hyena's Super Hyena Fun Show: Random Banter Thread #215

[rooster707]

I did mine yesterday, precisely to avoid the crush I could see being likely for shopping today. (This Black Friday stuff has only been a "thing" for about 2 years in the UK, and I already know well to avoid it ).

Oh, I'm not dumb enough to actually go out on Black Friday. I bought some stuff online, though.

[WarKitty]

I, sadly, actually have to pick up drugs tonight, and do some returns.

[FinnLassie]

Necessities are necessities. WarKitty, is your med situation sorted?
... that actually reminds me, I have to pick up my meds too. Hmm. Hopefully I remember tomorrow, I have a week's worth left but I usually remember to get them like a day or two after my stuff's gone. Dang it.

[WarKitty]

Necessities are necessities. WarKitty, is your med situation sorted?
... that actually reminds me, I have to pick up my meds too. Hmm. Hopefully I remember tomorrow, I have a week's worth left but I usually remember to get them like a day or two after my stuff's gone. Dang it.

Sadly my med situation seems to be that I'm going to grumble and pay cash price. Which isn't much different from the price I'd pay anyways, to be honest.

[Razanir]

By far the most ironic event in my life in recent years: I first came out offline because I thought I'd mistakenly come out to the choir, which included the girl I liked. (Bisexual, but context you'd have assumed just gay) But apparently none of them noticed.

[LaZodiac]

By far the most ironic event in my life in recent years: I first came out offline because I thought I'd mistakenly come out to the choir, which included the girl I liked. (Bisexual, but context you'd have assumed just gay) But apparently none of them noticed.

I hope this was a "...oh okay" style none of them noticed, and not a "wait you're GAY!?" style.

[Razanir]

I hope this was a "...oh okay" style none of them noticed, and not a "wait you're GAY!?" style.

As in it was nonverbal. It was at church choir and LGBT stuff came up. I'd been out about a month on Reddit, so I instinctively did a little wave so as to say, "Hi, yeah, that's me," not remembering none of them knew. Apparently no one had noticed.

[Coidzor]

Happy Buy Nothing Day to everyone!

Well, I was going to buy a bunch of new LED lightbulbs online, but if you insist, I suppose I can wait the half hour I have of the day remaining after my Nephoo and getting the hopefully second to last batch of stuff back from the cleaning company from the house fire...

We managed to solder my old laptop back into life!

I'm actually having mixed feelings. I'm glad we got it working, but I was kind of hoping to have an excuse to buy a new laptop. I really can't justify buying a new laptop while I have one here that works just fine.

That's neat you were able to accomplish it, though. What needed to be soldered?

As in it was nonverbal. It was at church choir and LGBT stuff came up. I'd been out about a month on Reddit, so I instinctively did a little wave so as to say, "Hi, yeah, that's me," not remembering none of them knew. Apparently no one had noticed.

People pay both a lot more and a lot less attention to us and our bodies and what they're doing than we think. There's probably a kernel of wisdom buried somewhere in all of that.

[enderlord99]

Hey, Rawhide remember that time when you had to moderate the forums from a Wii?

[Teddy]

I got a Raspberry Pi from work for self-educational purposes. Since I live in a tiny room in a student corridor and don't watch films and tv-series, there aren't a great number of tasks for me to automate, so I'll have to get a bit creative with what to do with it. I'm thinking of combining it with my webcam to create some kind of automatic bird watcher, possibly including a little bit of machine learning for feature extraction and target tracking...

[Rawhide]

We managed to solder my old laptop back into life!

I'm actually having mixed feelings. I'm glad we got it working, but I was kind of hoping to have an excuse to buy a new laptop. I really can't justify buying a new laptop while I have one here that works just fine.

So, your laptop is still soldering on?

Hey, Rawhide remember that time when you had to moderate the forums from a Wii?

*mutters something about uptime*

I got a Raspberry Pi from work for self-educational purposes. Since I live in a tiny room in a student corridor and don't watch films and tv-series, there aren't a great number of tasks for me to automate, so I'll have to get a bit creative with what to do with it. I'm thinking of combining it with my webcam to create some kind of automatic bird watcher, possibly including a little bit of machine learning for feature extraction and target tracking...

Do you have a Nintendo 3DS? Failing that, do you have a wireless router which supports WPA2-Enterprise? I have some ideas.

[WarKitty]

Turns out a wire in my laptop's power supply had become loose and wasn't transmitting power. Soldering it back to the power supply worked, but I'm not going to cancel my new laptop order just yet. It's being shipped to the store so I can just go in and get my money back even if it arrives early.

[Qwertystop]

I got a Raspberry Pi from work for self-educational purposes. Since I live in a tiny room in a student corridor and don't watch films and tv-series, there aren't a great number of tasks for me to automate, so I'll have to get a bit creative with what to do with it. I'm thinking of combining it with my webcam to create some kind of automatic bird watcher, possibly including a little bit of machine learning for feature extraction and target tracking...

I'm considering getting one to set up a Kindleberry as a sort of micro-laptop. Just need to figure out if it works for my old Kindle Touch or not - I wouldn't want to do it if I had to deal with a touch keyboard taking up half the screen all the time.

[Aegis J Hyena]

*wanders back in* Been a while, but I need a place to whine and complain at time warner for saying "are you pirating again?" -- woke up to find all my web pages were replaced with "a warning from time warner" accusing me of pirating and having to click "Accept" to get my internet access back. This is, according to them, the 5th warning. I'm not interested in music or the latest games at all. Why the hell would I pirate? I don't even go to torrents!

Maybe it was converting youtubes of some of my favorite nintendo music that did it? Maybe the converter I use is a "honeypot"...

In other news, http://www.freewebs.com/ihalon/modem.png -- can someone tell me why my power is so low and so many downstreams dead? The "Power" rating is usually 2. Not... in the negatives.

[Teddy]

Do you have a Nintendo 3DS? Failing that, do you have a wireless router which supports WPA2-Enterprise? I have some ideas.

Yes to the first, no to the seconds. Shoot!

I'm considering getting one to set up a Kindleberry as a sort of micro-laptop. Just need to figure out if it works for my old Kindle Touch or not - I wouldn't want to do it if I had to deal with a touch keyboard taking up half the screen all the time.

Yeah, as someone who don't mind lugging about my large-sized laptop with chargers and paraphernalia wherever I go, such portability projects aren't really up my alley, even though it's fun to connect two things which weren't supposed to be connected and then make it work.

*wanders back in* Been a while, but I need a place to whine and complain at time warner for saying "are you pirating again?" -- woke up to find all my web pages were replaced with "a warning from time warner" accusing me of pirating and having to click "Accept" to get my internet access back. This is, according to them, the 5th warning. I'm not interested in music or the latest games at all. Why the hell would I pirate? I don't even go to torrents!

Maybe it was converting youtubes of some of my favorite nintendo music that did it? Maybe the converter I use is a "honeypot"...

That could be it, yes. And what do you mean by "honeypot".

In other news, http://www.freewebs.com/ihalon/modem.png -- can someone tell me why my power is so low and so many downstreams dead? The "Power" rating is usually 2. Not... in the negatives.

Well, the bell scale (which decibel describes strides of one tenth of) is actually logarithmic (log₁₀ to be precise), so a negative number isn't quite as strange as it is on a linear scale. If your power usually is 2 dBmV, then a power of -1 dBmV is half as much in absolute numbers (log₁₀(2) ≈ 0.3). Why your power only is roughly half as much as usual, though, I can't say.

[Rawhide]

Yes to the first, no to the seconds. Shoot!

Well, if you live in an area where not a lot of people walk around with a Nintendo 3DS, it can be quite difficult getting StreetPasses. However, it is possible to set up a Raspberry Pi as a StreetPass relay. If you then cycle through the MAC addresses listed on that page, you can get one StreetPass hit from each of them every 8 hours.

The second idea was to set it up as a RADIUS server, then make accounts for people who will access the WiFi network, so everyone could have their own individual usernames and passwords.

[WarKitty]

That could be it, yes. And what do you mean by "honeypot".

A "honeypot" is a system that's set up intentionally with something that appears valuable, with the explicit purpose of catching people's information.

[Aegis J Hyena]

Well, a previous surge protector failed its fortitude save with a natural 1 recently while we were waiting for the power main to be replaced. Literally smoke and sparks and squawking and BOOM. The magic smoke from it woke me up when it happened with a flash of an electrical short. I was surprised the rest of the things on the protector (which was a decade old!) didn't die with it. My guess is the modem is partway fried and can't take as much power now.

As long as it works and my internet speed holds, I'm not touching it nor complaining. Much.

But I'm still gonna complain about Time Warner going "you 'might' be pirating stuff, stop that, you're not Haley." every so often.

[Teddy]

Well, if you live in an area where not a lot of people walk around with a Nintendo 3DS, it can be quite difficult getting StreetPasses. However, it is possible to set up a Raspberry Pi as a StreetPass relay. If you then cycle through the MAC addresses listed on that page, you can get one StreetPass hit from each of them every 8 hours.

While a cool idea, I must say I personally find it a bit too close to cheating to be able to derive any enjoyment from it.

The second idea was to set it up as a RADIUS server, then make accounts for people who will access the WiFi network, so everyone could have their own individual usernames and passwords.

That's a pretty nifty idea. I'll try to remember it for the day I move out from my miniscule room...

A "honeypot" is a system that's set up intentionally with something that appears valuable, with the explicit purpose of catching people's information.

Yeah, I've mostly seen that used for unprotected computers set up in a network to detect hacking attempts, so I didn't quite know if there was some more general meaning to it...

ION:
It's snowing (again, but the last time melted away)! The world is getting white and pretty, and I can't stop staring out my window! I told my parents I'd come over for dinner today, though, and it looks quite windy, so I'm not exactly sure how happy I'm about the idea to jump on my bicycle any longer...

[Rawhide]

While a cool idea, I must say I personally find it a bit too close to cheating to be able to derive any enjoyment from it.

Personally, I have to disagree with you there, but to each their own. StreetPass Relays were set up for the specific reason that people living in sparsely populated areas weren't getting anywhere near the number of StreetPass hits that people living in densely populated areas were.

[Teddy]

Personally, I have to disagree with you there, but to each their own. StreetPass Relays were set up for the specific reason that people living in sparsely populated areas weren't getting anywhere near the number of StreetPass hits that people living in densely populated areas were.

Ah, I see. Well, I live in a rather densely populated area, so there's that...

[FinnLassie]

Had a ladies' night with my friends night. Twas nice, we played Fiasco with a lovely christmas theme... my character was the sole reason why Santa got dementia and later made him believe he is a polar bear... Anyways.

We did some face mask shenanigans as we were at the sauna - my friend had made some concoction of her own. All organic ingredients! Hurp durp!

... my skin has began to break out and I feel like I'm having an allergic reaction to whatever was in that mask. I mean I've had a reaction like this before, where my skin completely dries. This reaction is not as bad as I've had for penicillin (that was super, super bad, honestly), but I'm trying to pry out information from my friend regarding what was in that goo. She's read my messages but hasn't bothered to respond. GOSH DANG IT WOMAN.

[LaZodiac]

Oh dear! Hope your face is alright, and that she gets back to you soon.

Sounds like it was really fun that aside though.

[Aegis J Hyena]

Shooters on Ohio State Campus. Cops got 'em, but still.

Sigh. Another one...

[enderlord99]

I haven't seen any wyrmhunds in a while.

Where are you Dimonite?

[Foeofthelance]

So, apparently in the space of a week I've gone from being engaged to being single (an event me an the ex celebrated by making Christmas ornaments), finished my NaNo writing just under the wire, again, and may or may not be adopting a demon from a cute coworker who really needs to learn not to pick up creepy statues at midnight while attending certain spiritual retreats.

And I'm not actually making any of that up.

So that said, anyone know the proper way to seal off a possibly demonically possessed statue?

[LaZodiac]

So, apparently in the space of a week I've gone from being engaged to being single (an event me an the ex celebrated by making Christmas ornaments), finished my NaNo writing just under the wire, again, and may or may not be adopting a demon from a cute coworker who really needs to learn not to pick up creepy statues at midnight while attending certain spiritual retreats.

And I'm not actually making any of that up.

So that said, anyone know the proper way to seal off a possibly demonically possessed statue?

Split it in half and give have of it to your Not Wife. Wed her in unholy unmatrimony.

[Lethologica]

Split it in half and give have of it to your Not Wife. Wed her in unholy unmatrimony.

Matrinony?

[DraPrime]

So that said, anyone know the proper way to seal off a possibly demonically possessed statue?

Purge it with fire.

[Eon]

So that said, anyone know the proper way to seal off a possibly demonically possessed statue?

Well, I don't know the proper way. But putting it in a seal enclosure at a zoo will probably have enough variety in the seals that one of them will surely be effective.