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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Not right here but in country club communities they do. There's an area northwest of Orlando called "The Villages" where they have extra wide 'sidewalks' for golf carts (and shops have parking areas reserved for them). Just about everyone has at least one. Some with canvas and clear plastic side curtains and enough room in the back to go grocery shopping.
They remove car lanes here on streets and build bike lanes with curbs on each side. They also reserve bike lanes on roads delineating them with painted lines. Cars can’t drive in these bike lanes. Bicycles, electric chairs and scooters use them. The objective is to put drivers off and have less cars on the road. It hasn’t worked. All it does is cause more congestion and accidents.
I smell a lawsuit; that ford company's logo looks like my badge.
A couple questions, Mr. @SoulReflection . What version of Windows are you using? Did Windows properly find the correct driver for the TV? What is the resolution of the TV when connected to the computer. I ask because a while back I got excited and hooked up a 32" TV to a computer via HDMI and got a very large picture and huge icons. It was resolving to 1920 x 1080, which is huge for a computer display on a TV that big. I'm hoping it will go up to a lot higher resolution on the TV.As mentioned to @beans-on-toast, recently, if anyone is looking for a newer 40" smart tv with connection to a computer, I can highly recommend the Vizio HDTV - D40f-G9. I picked one up yesterday for $199 at Target. It boots up fast, has lots of options and looks great for computer, DVD, apps and is relatively easy to set up. Most of all, it's easy on these old eyes....
I don't recall ever having a TV that has to boot up!
An old photographer friend of mine looks just like him, and used Pee Wee's voice on his answering machine back in the day (1980s).
He did mostly business, and family, portraiture, but also boudoir photography. He always asked his family and friends to give him lingerie, in all sizes, for his birthday and Christmas!
I don't know how I missed this club's existence. But I need in. I'm a genuine antique human. And I have frequent moments when I could totally see why a nun would kick a baby.
So there you go: Grumpy AND old.
In my defense for my grumpy moments: I have been a paramedic since the Reagan administration. And I've worked at a children's hospital for the last twenty one years. Think about how much working in retail makes you hate your fellow human. Now realize that working in a medical field is like that, but way more. And to add to that. I don't just have patients who are there because they are idiots. I have patients who are there because their PARENTS are idiots. and the whole time I'm trying to fix what shouldn't have been an issue with their kids in the first place, they are right over my shoulder interfering while I do it.
Seriously, the insurance companies should be required to accept 'Stupid Parent Syndrome' as a legitimate diagnosis.
So there you go: Grumpy AND old.
In my defense for my grumpy moments: I have been a paramedic since the Reagan administration. And I've worked at a children's hospital for the last twenty one years. Think about how much working in retail makes you hate your fellow human. Now realize that working in a medical field is like that, but way more. And to add to that. I don't just have patients who are there because they are idiots. I have patients who are there because their PARENTS are idiots. and the whole time I'm trying to fix what shouldn't have been an issue with their kids in the first place, they are right over my shoulder interfering while I do it.
Seriously, the insurance companies should be required to accept 'Stupid Parent Syndrome' as a legitimate diagnosis.
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I have a daughter in residency right now. She originally thought she might want to be a pediatrician. Interacting with parents disabused her of that notion right quickly. Anesthesiology is going to be her thing.
EDIT: While I'm not a moderator of this group I would point out that your age may not qualify you...I'm not sure what the number (if any) is. I'll leave that up to Fearless Leader.
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I don't recall ever having a TV that has to boot up!
And yet I recall the glow of tubes in the tv.
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None learns to hate humans more than the emergency room janitor, I always say.
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Uh oh me ... a flash of ink acquisition syndrome. A new limited edition ink from a high-end Japanese pusher ... resisted the urge to look at published swabs.
Now it may be Leo painted his first instruments with car paint and we got this now. But there are particular inks that would translate really well into an instrument finish. Extreme eye candy here (fair warning)
Swab Shop
Lest we not forget Pantone colour of the year
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 | Living Coral 16-1546
Now it may be Leo painted his first instruments with car paint and we got this now. But there are particular inks that would translate really well into an instrument finish. Extreme eye candy here (fair warning)
Swab Shop
Lest we not forget Pantone colour of the year
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 | Living Coral 16-1546
Hello, Will. I use Windows 10 and when I connected the TV it loaded a "D40F-G9 (Intel (R) Display audio) as the playback device (by clicking on the speaker icon in the task bar). Other TVs just used whatever the computer had.
I really like the larger screen over the 15.4" one on my laptop. My picture is large but I haven't noticed huge icons but I have them set in Display Settings. A 1920 x 1080 display and/or computer cannot go higher than that. To go higher, I would imagine you will need 4K and a computer capable of handling it.
I don't recall ever having a TV that has to boot up!
Well then, you don't have one of my old Vizio TVs!
Your daughter made a good choice. Tough to argue with your doctor when you are asleep!
Yep, it is legal in California but it shouldn't be...too many blind spots for the idiots to hide in
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There are idjits who ride in the left lane under the speed limitYep, it is legal in California but it shouldn't be...too many blind spots for the idiots to hide in
. In FL, passing on the right is OK, but not in the emergency lane-which some folks do.
...and here I thought that ink came from octopi lining up with all tentacles stretched out donating at ink drives. They apparently really like the prawn doughnuts that are offered.
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