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I've been informed by my hosting company that we're being moved to a new server. It's all part of their overall service to me that every year or so, they increase memory, storage and bandwidth to my plan without increasing the price. One more reason I like dealing with those folks.
So, with that in mind, at around 10pm EDT this Sunday night (The 11th of July), the site may be down for around 15 minutes or so.
I do not foresee this helping my paranoid schizophrenia any, but very well then. Thanks, Zapster.
Strong
09-07-2010, 09:35 AM
OK, but I'll be checking.
DarleneO
09-07-2010, 01:56 PM
I'll be likely falling asleep on the couch at that time.. so all is well! :-)
ewomack
10-07-2010, 04:12 PM
Oh oh... did someone find the non-indexed thread? I can help you escape if you need routes...
If it's not too much trouble could you change that to CST, Zapper? Thanks.
pctec
11-07-2010, 12:08 PM
I like boobies!!!
Consequently, Ill be looking at them during the downtime...
Big Dan
11-07-2010, 03:01 PM
I like boobies!!!
Consequently, Ill be looking at them during the downtime...
Now there's a big surprise! :sqlaugh:
pctec
11-07-2010, 04:36 PM
I feel so transparent now...
Big Dan
11-07-2010, 06:38 PM
I feel so transparent now...
Transparent brasseries would be nice of course. ;)
ewomack
26-07-2010, 06:49 PM
I had a planned outage once... once... :sqfrown:
I had a planned outage once... once... :sqfrown:
Many of mine are unplanned. Some are even unmanned.
My outages always involve berry picking and picnic lunches with dangerous insects.
Muddy
27-07-2010, 10:23 AM
My outages have thankfully been few and were remedied with a quick tuck and zip.
Ferre
27-07-2010, 10:34 AM
My outages have always involved large quantities of recreational drugs. :sqrofl:
vectro
27-07-2010, 12:22 PM
Good hosting deal, Zap. I upgrade my customers for free, too, but only when the servers need it. It's cool that they do this for you yearly.
julien_simon
27-07-2010, 01:54 PM
my brain has been down for a couple of days....I should contact my host body...
Most of life on earth is smaller than the eye can see, and only a tiny percentage of it is known.
Ferre
22-08-2010, 01:32 AM
Most of life on earth is smaller than the eye can see, and only a tiny percentage of it is known.
All ants on this planet combined have about the same mass en weight as all humans combined. There are many more ants than humans.
All ants on this planet combined have about the same mass en weight as all humans combined. There are many more ants than humans.Wow, those are some huge ants.
; )
Ferre
22-08-2010, 08:21 AM
I always have to laugh when I see people declare that "humans are the dominant species on earth". People who state this are often found in the religious parts of this world and in environments where there is little education going on. Humans may be technically advanced in the sense that they can make complicated tools and are able to wipe out (most) other species but as far as "dominance" goes, the human race has been very lucky so far that ants have not declared war on them, the real dominant species on this planet are ants, there is no way for humans to wipe out all ants without wiping out themselves in the process, and even then ants will most probably survive.
Long after we have made this world inhabitable for humans, ants will still thrive on this planet, that's how "dominant" the human species is. :sqlaugh:
I watched Lord of the Ants last night for the second time, it's quite interesting, Dr. Wilson is quite the naturalist, he's the one that started the Encyclopedia of Life. He's considered the world's authority on ants.
Biologist E.O. Wilson uses his lifelong love and fascination with ants to exemplify his theories about humans and Sociobiology that have earned him two Pulitzer Prizes; some of his colleagues discuss his work and ideas about the world.
With ants, it's all about chemicals, and it's thought that these chemical instructions are encoded in their genes.
Unfortunately Mr. wilson was blinded in one eye by a spiny fish as a child. When you yank a fish at the end of the line from the water with your pole it comes right at you like a pendulum, I've been slapped by many a trout in my day. I've been spined plenty by the spiny dorsal finned fish, blue gill and such..
thankfully never got it in the eye though.
All ants on this planet combined have about the same mass en weight as all humans combined. There are many more ants than humans.
"How do you fight a force that knows what your next move will be?"
:sqeek:
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Phase IV.
B-movie (with ants) I enjoyed.
Indy and the Crystal Skull.
Did not enjoy this film, but it had a few good bits, this being one of them:
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I disposed of a fire ant covered, dead mole cricket this morning. I had no idea what it was until I looked for it in the Encyclopedia Of Life and happened to spot it in the cricket section, I wasn't even sure it was a cricket.. weird looking things they are.
There's quite a diversity of life down here in southern TN, I guess the weather is right, AL has even more diversity.
It looked just like this but a tiny bit darker. They're large, about twice the size of a common black cricket.. they fashion their burrows like a trumpet with two holes to amplify their calls, I'm not exactly sure what they mean by that.
http://3t9.com/Atom/mole_cricket.jpg
There are iridescent purple skinks of some sort running around down here, they move really fast.
I'm overrun with moles this year, it may have something to do with food availability. They actually get in front of my riding mower going full speed and run like hell for quite a ways down the tall grass line before ducking into cover, it's almost like they're playing a game with me, one in which the mower never catches them but comes close at full tilt.
Actually those salamanders or w/e they are are dark blue with a purplish iridescence.
I just saw on a Huey Long documentary where the state of LA shot the animals in the zoos for food during the great depression, so.. yeah. Take that.
The first strange thing I noticed on that mole cricket was the disproportionately large head. This is the first one I've seen.
Huh, 50 men fist fighting over one barrel of garbage they just said. Me I'd be down to the gun shop rustling me up a deer rifle.
I hear the deer pop was kinda low back then though.
To be honest, a .22 rifle would be ideal all things considered. Y'all might wanna consider stocking up. At least one per family member.
Muddy
25-08-2010, 09:27 PM
Deer pop?
I'm sure it's probably sacrilegious or something to refer to sexual proliferation in such a way but I'm sorry, plus it just sounds cool.
Honey can you get me a freeze pop out of the Frigidaire please? Thanks.
Strong
26-08-2010, 06:08 AM
Frigidaire? Is that a colloquial term for a bj after she's been sucking a popsicle? :sqconfused:
Kinky!
Frigidaire? Is that a colloquial term for a bj after she's been sucking a popsicle? :sqconfused:
Kinky!No, back near the dawn of electric refrigeration it was commonplace to refer to the fridge by it's brand name, as if the company was some kind of techno-god.
Ferre
26-08-2010, 11:13 AM
Frigidaire is French for fridge. That's all. :3smile:
Muddy
26-08-2010, 12:12 PM
I thought it was if your wife never wants to have sex and your buddy makes a bet he could change that.
Frigidaire is French for fridge. That's all. :3smile:"fridge" is a nickname.
That nickname wasn't even in vogue till 1926.
Ferre
26-08-2010, 12:54 PM
Excuse my Engrlisch, of course I meant the old refrigerator. :3unsure:
Excuse my Engrlisch, of course I meant the old refrigerator. :3unsure:But you're right though, I'm just wondering how a nickname can precede it's root word. :sqconfused:
I honestly don't see how people understand other languages, I get confused enough with my own.
Actually I think that fridge does precede Frigidaire because it's the nickname for not just Frigidaire but refrigerator, which I'm assuming preceded them both.
So it's actually my error. "fridge" actually has two root words and I assumed the newer, which was my mistake.
I'm tempted to research the word refrigerator now but I'll be damned if I will, I've had it.
lol
Ferre
26-08-2010, 03:00 PM
Here, Let me google that for you (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=refrigerator)
Leave it to the English to throw in a d where ever they please.
I like the name SMEG for a fridge.
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Strong
27-08-2010, 07:52 AM
Leave it to the English to throw in a d where ever they please.
Well if you Americans pronounced the words correctly you'd find the need for the 'd'. :sqwink:
Hoover, same problem.
Well if you Americans pronounced the words correctly you'd find the need for the 'd'. :sqwink:
Hoover, same problem.Any effort expended to pronounce the d in fridge is futile to all good meat eating rednecks.
You got me on the hoover, I'm not sure if I felt a breeze over my head or not, I may need more coffee.
Strong
27-08-2010, 12:01 PM
Was the word rednecks the operative one in that last post? :sqwink:
Hoover; many in our neck of the woods use the word hoover instead of vacuum cleaner. Hoover of course were one of the earlier vacuum cleaner manufacturers. There name has become synonymous with the product to the point where it is used interchangeably by some. Like Kafkaesque, it is part of the language now.
Was the word rednecks the operative one in that last post? :sqwink:Oh, no I meant red meatnecks, sorry.
Hoover; many in our neck of the woods use the word hoover instead of vacuum cleaner. Hoover of course were one of the earlier vacuum cleaner manufacturers. There name has become synonymous with the product to the point where it is used interchangeably by some. Like Kafkaesque, it is part of the language now.Wow, cool, just like Frigidaire, very well then.
Muddy
27-08-2010, 07:47 PM
Kleenex.
Muddy
28-08-2010, 12:04 AM
I asked you for a fuckin' cheeseburger!
Wrong thread, Mud.
I'm thinking that the counter person may have disagreed with what he said he ordered, and him being a loose cannon to begin with simply went off from that point. Too bad the camera wasn't turned on a bit sooner.
Muddy
28-08-2010, 11:14 AM
Isn't this the planned outrage thread?
Isn't this the planned outrage thread?That's exactly what I see when I view the title of this thread as well, I wonder if we both have extra sensory perception or something.
I have vague memories of being present at a cake walk as a youngster. We walked in on it mistakenly as we thought that was the day our Rock band was to practice there, it was at my grade school auditorium. That experience still puzzles me to this day.
It was like one of those weird nightmares except that I wasn't sleeping.
The participants looked ancient. I now am their age but not a walk to be found. Now I'll never know what I am missing out on. I suppose I could organize one but I can't decide on the tune. Silver Shamrock maybe. Anyone see the first Halloween? That was wild. The Silver Shamrock song was stuck in my head for months.
oops, I think it was actually called Halloween III.
ewomack
31-08-2010, 04:40 PM
When I was a mere infant, my parents left a tube of toothpaste within my reach. I ate the entire tube. The vomit was apparently prodigious. My first childhood memory is me vomiting on my pillow while my mom says "let it out, let it out." I think that was the toothpaste.
Flagellate the Beelzebub out of ye selves I say!
Strong
01-09-2010, 11:57 AM
I noticed :sqlaugh:
Zap, the help is laughing at the members again..
Strongy are you sure you aren't reading that as flatulate? lol
Strong
01-09-2010, 12:22 PM
One seems natural to me, the other a strange contrivance of a deluded society, but both worthy of a good chuckle. :sqlaugh:
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