To be fair, I also choked at the price here :shock: Anyways, I went and looked it up on the net, and in the US you'd pay around $3,000 for a new unit with a four-hour battery only. At the current exchange rate that's just a tad under R40,000, and there's probably other fees (like shipping and VAT) i...

Adagio and Sudan... You amateurs! Any real book lover knows that if an object has a clean, dry surface, it is automatically a makeshift bookshelf! :P I ran out of shelf space a long time ago, and now just have rows of books on my desk. I stopped buying when I ran out of floor space in the study in ...

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I loved this one!

Oh, I also thought photoshop job. Still, well done.
I'll see if I can get the pic to work for Faan tomorrow - already in bed.

WolfHorse? HorseWolf?

Me, Val and some others feel that given recent circumstances, we should have a place to remember users who have passed away. I am currently working on this, so everyone is aware why Sev's thread has moved. These threads will be open for people to leave tributes and memories. The current plan is tha...

I understand your frustration, Sudan, very often these things are done badly. I have spoken to magistrates that says they are so tired of being forced to let clearly guilty people go because the investigation wasn't done properly. However, the police, as first line of artiters of the law, have to fo...

The issue here is of police abuse, which is quite prevalent in the US, under the banner of the "thin blue line". Under that, it is very rare for a police officer to speak up against a colleague, and doing so will likely cost you a lot i.t.o your job. Also, police have been caught regularly. For a lo...

Anyone would do - as long as they are gentle

OK, I will admit, I have no idea where the second post came from. Perhaps me mistyping on my phone, or posting while I dropped it or something. Apologies for it.

And yes, I haven't logged in here for a while, so didn't see it.

Pondering if I should complain here about my health, or rather keep quiet ...
I don't think I am thinking rationally today.

mzsdORUPk48 What do you think of the author's statement, that it may be possible to create gold (or something indistinguishable from gold) from lead, early on in the days of alchemy? Also, this is awesome for the chemically-inclined. https://avogadr.io/ . Now if only it could draw azidoazide azide ...

OK, my bronchitis has advanced to bronchopneumonia. At least I am well enough that he didn't straight out put me in hospital.

Merriam-Webster has, over the years, tried to keep an accurate date of first use of each word in the dictionary. Their explanation for how it works: https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/explanatory-notes/dict-dates Given that, they have publised a list, by year, of words first used in that year. If ...

Back in bed. Stronger antibiotics for my bronchitis. And chest x-ray in the morning.

Watch with subtitles on

Apparently music piracy is not, like the studios would want us to believe, a recent thing, but dates back all the way to Mozart. Ff_qyx7BkNQ Of course piracy here is not "against copyright laws" in this case, but "against the wishes of the owners of the musical performance in question" - the princip...

I don't like this new trend where women with health proportions are called Thicc. It makes them sound mentally challenged. That's because fashion designers wanted walking clothes hangers. Shows off the creation better, apparently. Form of art and all that. And society are slavish, so since that's t...

Motor sports ferrets ride what bike?

A Dook-cati.

I don't want to work today. So I thought to myself, what would it look like if two planes love each other very much?

A post in a different thread made me think. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9c/b5/7f/9cb57f5d2af27de3072b2e7a43dda66b.jpg VS https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warriorsofmyth/images/5/54/Winged_Wolf_%28Wolf_with_Wings%2C_Flying_Wolf%2C_Pterolykos%2C_Pterolycus%29.jpg/revision/latest...

Busy using Modbus/TCP to pull power information from my house's inverter and feeding that into a time-series database. MODBUS over TCP!! I thought it was only used in factories and stuff... MODBUS is soooo overkill! Hahaha! But I guess where things are mission critical, and people can die if it's o...

Busy using Modbus/TCP to pull power information from my house's inverter and feeding that into a time-series database.

Thank you soooo much again for contributing to my charity funds! R1000 to Wollies Animal Project ( https://www.facebook.com/WolliesAnimalProject/ ) in the form of food & R1000 to Pawesome Wacky Whiskers Rescue & Rehoming ( https://www.facebook.com/Pawesome-Wacky-Whiskers-Rescue-and-Rehoming-4556208...

Hey, Rakuen Growlithe! I really love this video! Sorry for being in your spam folder, but can you please follow me on instagram? You can click this link to check it out: XXXXXX You would do me a huge favor! Best regards, Patricia. Yeah... how about nope. Got a message from someone that asked me to...

I will leave this forum unlocked then, unless there's a reason to lock it.