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By the way, @lrdgck, do you know the name of the song that starts at 24:17?
I'm asking 'cause they brought up that one review I wrote when in a mood for some trollery. It would be fun, were I to find out one of you guys dissed me for it.
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Oh, and by the way. Yes, I was quite pleasantly surprised one can run a TVT-dissing blog without the stupidity the guys at SA did.
Alternatively, I did something I should not have done, and certain consequences occurred as a result.
A feature for locking one's Android phone is a "knock code". Setting a knock code (which involves touching various parts of the screen, like a staccato version of the pattern) prompts the user for a PIN, in case the user messes up the knock code too many times. It is possible to proceed without setting a PIN.
If the user chooses to do so, then does mess up the knock code too many times, the phone asks for a "backup PIN". This is a PIN that neither one's carrier nor the phone's manufacturer knows. The only known way to get around this is to do a hard reset.
I am not sure if other locking features, such as pattern-drawing, also ask for but don't require a PIN.
I don't feel like finding out, currently.
Well, that's a spiffy name for an odd thing to argue about.
Holy shit, what did I just watch.
One of those monster movies. Involved man-eating bats bred by a mad scientist, if I got it right (they ate him out of revenge at the end). Made them super-intelligent and teamworking and omnivorous, so they could survive anywhere. Of course, omnivorous meant mostly humans. He also made them look like bad animatronic puppets of some demonic bat from a horror movie or whatnot. Since they menaced a Texan town, the fight against them came down to a hot female bat scientist and a handsome local sheriff, or something like that.
1. Don't put the brush or the sponge up onto the drying rack.
2. Don't dump significant pieces of cheese into the drain strainer. In fact, you should have eaten them in the first place.
3. In general, since you cook with butter, be wary of spreading grease everywhere.
4. If you've used butter, make sure to either quarantine where the butter goes, or wash the skillet handle with detergent.
5. Don't wipe your greasy hand onto the towel on the counter.
I would have been late to church. So instead I just didn't feel like it and been sitting here for about half an hour working off feeling upset at him.
Though it is true that he is of a pretty different character from me -- much more chatty/hyped/etc. than I am. And not as much of a clean freak. And he does spend far more time watching/playing stuff than I do -- it may seem odd coming from me, but it's certainly true. He just spent an entire couple days playing Dark Souls, and was watching We Bare Bears (or however that's called) right before going to bed. He has his phone everywhere he goes, constantly producing anime or J-pop or some western cartoons or Zero Punctuation or Magic the Gathering commentary. Contrast that to my distractions, which are almost all text-based. (I pride myself on having low-bandwidth hobbies, then turn around only to realize that I've just made it horribly easy for myself to procrastinate.) Also has different tastes in J-pop -- he prefers "cool" stylings while I'm more into heartwarming emotional stuff. (Though I think we both enjoy epic/grand songs.)
He also has less homework hanging over his neck, so he probably has reason to feel more lively.
Edit: And I just noticed, he's got a greater variety of these "geeky entertainment" hobbies than I do. He basically shares my hobbies with me (TF2, 100% OJ, Ys games, etc., plus watching anime in general, though he does more of that) and then has a bunch more. I even remember him mentioning Hearthstone. I think the only hobbies of mine he doesn't share is my passion for music and my interest in politics.
That said to be honest we also go about the shared hobbies in slightly different ways, like how I spend far more time talking about the game industry and also get into the weeds of my favorite games while neglecting the popular ones, while he's more of a generalist in keeping up with the news but not focusing as much on particular games as I do.
I missed the Costa Rican empanadas. And something else. Only things left when I got here (at like 9:30 PM) was Guatemalan ceviche, and fruit punch.
So what could be easily powered by photovoltaics? Something that uses relatively little power, or uses it intermittently, such that simply sitting in daylight can easily charge it to full. Would have the advantage that it could be used even when the mains go out. So basically, I'm thinking of a low bar that doesn't even yet include stuff that's "must be on" -- i.e. excluding baseload demands.
How about:
* electric garage door (on a standard modern suburban house)
* lawn sprinkler timer
* streetlights and door lights
* heck, a little weird to think this way, but...those switch timers that you put on lamps to make it look like you're still home even when you're on vacation by having them turn the lights on/off automatically.
Heck, you could probably even do this for a few other things like electric razors.
Availability, cost, and safety of materials for both the photovoltaic cells and for the power storage battery might be a bigger concern though, depending on how they're made.
Sometimes folks you're mildly distancing yourself from come up with something that you just can't help but laugh:
(I tried to translate it word-for-word
to convey the sentence structure and overall flow, so if it feels awkward, you know why. The bracketed explanation is mine, in case somebody needed that clarified.)