Moontanman

I posted this publicly, if Strange read he didn't comment, in fact you are the only one who did. Not sure what that means, one person i asked to read it doesn't speak to me anymore... 

I’m sorry about that for you. I don’t know what it means either..

part three is up if anyone is interested.

http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/07/02/slave-girl-part-three-nsfw/

I don't like skinks either. We have some in our yard and every time I see one I think it is a snake and I jump. Though I guess it is not really the snakes I dislike so much as the adrenaline surge I have to deal with every time I see one.

Keep calm zapatos, the only snake you should worry about is the one you don't see!

Hah, Moontanman that's so true.

We have beautiful blue-tongued skinks in Australia. Where I grew up, there were a lot of them. I used to try to catch them to play as a child but I've since then stopped trying to capture everything I see! They used to know when it was feeding time and come to steal my cat's food

@koti I beat the door into place with a hammer, it's difficult to shut and open but I think I'll have to buy a door from the local parts yard. I messed it up pretty bad... 

Ha, that is good to hear! Beating a door with a hammer is a sign of getting things done  

Hammer in hand, every problem's a nail.

Interesting, I just cleaned up the heatsink and replaced the cpu fan. I didn't remove the heatsink from the motherboard and the fan was just screwed into the fins of the heatsink. The heat sink was full of fluff and dust but a vacuum cleaner and a soft brush removed all traces of the stuff on the fan and heatsink. 

The fan will not run despite turning freely, I thought maybe the fan frame was being torqued out of shape when I attached it to the heat sink but I made sure it still turned freely. I guess i could have received a bad fan, I'm not sure how likely that is.

I am still amazed at how empty the tower was, it's been a good ten years since I worked on a computer, maybe that is why there seemed to be so little "stuff" in the tower. 

Did you  send it in to be repaired?

Let us know what they do to it if you did 

Not yet, it will be a few weeks but I will let you know what was wrong. 

and that was the last we ever heard of the moontan man

Seriously though Moontanman  - you should let us know you are safe as soon as you are able to dude. Here's hoping you are OK.

Well I am back, just now got my ISP back along with tv and phone, still lots to do for clean up. I just posted to my blog about the storm, a bit stale now almost three weeks in but still relevant. 

http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/10/02/hurricane-florence/

The days without power were a bitch, lost all my food in the freezer and refrigerator. House was brushed by a large tree falling,  blew away my privacy fence, took down several trees in my yard. Fruit trees took a beating, I lost a lot of fish, flooding ruined my freezer. All in all it was a crazy three weeks..  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgCyRcVf2Fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmbzeUVcUpM

It was Glen and Abraham! Oh no!

Did you see my post in the official jokes forum?

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/9413-the-official-jokes-section/?p=951982

I trashed it and bought a new fixture for less than the ballast cost me. It's a T12 but it gives off plenty of light.. 

Try looking into LED replacements for the T12 fixture, they are available online. LED's will give you more eye pleasing color rendering (look for 80 CRI or 4000K color temperature) and you will quickly get return on your investment as they consume a fraction of the energy of the traditional fluorescent or incandescent fixtures (easly 100+ lumens per 1 watt with the new LED emitters)

I have 750 LEDs of various colors on the aquarium for plant growth but the light makes the fish and plants look funky. The Fluorescent is just to make the light look more natural. Plants require light that is not particularly pleasing to the eye, mostly red and blue, so the LEDs are mostly red and blue. With marine tanks it become even more important to have very blue shifted light, shallow water plants and corals still use red light but below 33 feet there are no red wavelengths. If you cut your self diving lower than 33 or more feel your blood looks fluorescent green. 

I am so sorry to hear that. Please take time for yourself and know that folks are there for you.

Sorry to hear that Moontanman.

I can only imagine what you're going through, and have gone through, but I do know time can help, even if it is one day at a time.

May she rest in peace.

Moon, my dear friend, my heart aches for your loss. You will be in my thoughts in these coming days, stay strong and keep well knowing so many care for you and share in their hearts your grief.

There shouldn't be any more paradigm shifts with Windows now they are doing a continual, as and when, upgrading process in small steps. Hopefully, no more steep learning curves.

I hope not, my last one was XP

You've had a very big jump to make.

Congratulations, Moontangrampa.
( If it's a boy, will his name be Rocky ? )

Congrats Moon! New fishing buddy coming up.

I do appreciate all the kind thoughts, I am so excited I can't sand it. I miss my children being little and now I get another chance to help raise a baby! It's just... wonderful! 

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Have just read this now

Moontanman,

Sorry to hear of your loss and the invasion of your stepmother's house. As long as there is breath in a body and a will to carry on, people inevitably do...

We can only give our good feelings to you and I will pray for your troubles to decrease.  Please realise that there is always light at the end of this tunnel. 

Keep hope alive!

Read just now. Please accept my condolences Moon. It was only a couple lines but it was a very hard read.

I am deeply saddened by the loss that you have encountered. 
And I am moved by the fact that this forum is a place where such bad news can be shared in an open and honest fashion.

Very sorry, Moony.
He lives on in your memories.

I'm so sory Moon, my sincere condolences.

My deepest sympathies to all who will miss this gentleman.

I would be remiss if I didn't add something...

"Dying ain't much of a livin', boy"
Outlaw Josey Wales

What about
"when you have to shoot, Shoot...Don't talk"
Tuco ( The good, the bad and the ugly )

Tuco did the digging...

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There are two type of people in the world. those who have guns... and those who dig...

Catchy. Attractive. I like it.
I've been a digger all my life and I'm pretty sure I can't eradicate it. It sucks to be a digger.

So, how did things go ?

Surely you must have your laptop or pad with you.

Give us an update.

Yep, I hope the operation was perfect and that you are now well and resting. And that you return to the Science forum to state your opinions again. Take care Moontanman. Haste ye back...

Hello Moon - I do hope that you are now well on the road to recovery

Any alcohol will do - it's 0930 here and I am considering opening the bottle of plum liqueur at the back of the drinks cabinet

Mix it with everything in there.

Time to get all the Leonard Cohen stuff out

We do have the fish you are talking about, we call them sculpins.

Many different species as well, the Mottled sculpin is my favorite, they are small and can be kept with reasonably sized fishes...

My little spotted bull head catfish are doing great. They are about 1" long now. putting on size and weight at the great rate!

"I hate women" - Koti

Does it really not matter who said it?

Substitute women with spoiled brats and you will be closer to the truth.

Sticks and stones .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

Look out for a pop up that appears every couple of months inviting you to reactivate Secure Search. It defaults to 'activate' so you have to clear the tick box.

Have a happy life!

Have a happy life!

noway, thats an awesome post i stumbled upon. good luck random dude

Unity, Man was led down that path and Good Men should have grown a pair and fought instead of hoping someone else would fight for them!

If we're "intolerant of intolerance", we'll destroy eachother.

Love and Peace Brother x

Is it really that bad? I changed my e-mail password and the spam messages stopped. I ran virus and male ware programs and they found nothing. I am getting ready to go into the hospital for surgery, I'll be gone for at least a week. When I get back I'll let you go into details. Weird that only one of my e-mail accounts was compromised and nothing else. I blacked out again today, took me most of the afternoon to get it back together, getting old is not what it is cracked up to be..

Yes, it can be that bad and it can get you blacklisted if you become part of a botnet. See how it goes while you are away.

Take it easy mate and focus on getting well. PM me your infected email address, if you want, and I'll reply with one I don't mind losing if it's a problem. I'll let you know if it's suspicious.

best of luck with the Doctors Moon. Hope all goes well.

Naked witch's? Glad I wasn't there.

Was you mooning with the the witches Moon?

Cheese nips for whoever got a video of moontanman moon in the moon.

Pizza for breakfast, dinner and supper and grilled cheese sandwiches in between

Actually I baked a turkey, turkey bones everywhere! 

I hope everything is well with you and Nancy. 

I'm damn sure glad I don't live there! 

Coldest I've known is 0f. I could feel my finger tips sticking to metal outside when I touched it....  that's crisp.  

I've had -22 before.

Just trying to say something positive.  It is possible to pray and trust in medical professionals.  They're not always mutually exclusive.

A few months ago they operated on my spine which went great and I’m good as new (tissue from L5/S1 verterbra was pushing against my spinal cord paralising my left leg and foot) I was lying on the table, there were 5 or six doctors and assistants getting things ready for my procedure. I jokingly said to one of the young assistants who was getting the tools ready, that if I watch those shiny tools for a bit longer they wont need to use anesthesia on me. She replied that „now all you got left is prayer” To keep it short - they needed to use more anesthesia on me after that

Cars are expensive to fix, I did a little hillbilly engineering on it and wired it shut for now. I'll take prayers in the light of how they are ment. I had a doctor actually abuse me this last time, he insisted on cutting my face with no anesthesia. I sprained my biceps trying to hold on the the bed rails, I bent one of them. They left an 8" long piece of 1/4 inch tubing in my face by accident but refused to believe i was in pain. The damn titanium plate broke and had to be replaced, they took a piece of bone from my hip to replace the bone that had to be removed. The two and half years of this was a bitch... I know, complain complain...