Saturday Open Thread 02-21-15
Submitted by Cordelia Lear on Sat, 02/21/2015 - 7:45am
Good morning 99percenters!
I'm looking at snow falling outside my window this morning - again! Can spring really be around the corner? Well, we can hope... Let's think about all the pleasant sights and sounds that we anticipate with the change of season.
One of the things we look forward to at our house are robins building nests, warming their eggs and then feeding their young almost right in front of our eyes. Over the years they've built nests in multiple trees in our yard and for the last two years they've also found a secluded spot on the ledge outside our dining room window. They can conveniently get cover behind a large forsythia bush.
And of course this is an open thread, so tell us whatever is on your mind today.
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Well I feel for all of you who are battling the snow
and cold. Here in the Portland area, pretty much on the west coast, this winter has been very mild
with only a couple cold stretches of less than a week each and zero snow here. February has had near record
temps in the sixties. It's been like spring here for a couple few weeks now, amazing. Flowers blooming, bees
flying around, birds chirping like it's Spring.
Can't remember a winter this mild around here.
If you're in Portland and the weather is that nice
I'm sure half the city will be spending Saturday afternoon drinking IPAs outdoors.
Ya, and we don't even have to chase the sun around today
No Evidence of Russian Military Hardware
No Evidence of Russian Military Hardware Presence in Ukraine – Hollande
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150220/1018534477.html
Once again, they can't prove these accusations.
heh...
you'd think that the us, which has satellites that can read license plates from space would be able to come up with a photo of something as large as a column of tanks or thousands of troops moving en masse to invade.
my surmise is that if we haven't been shown the evidence (that is, evidence that passes the smell test, not the recycled images offered by the kiev propaganda machine) it doesn't exist, which likely means that the claimed "invasion" never happened.
Same argument since the beginning.
To me, if John McCain and the neocons have said and are saying that Russia invaded Ukraine,
isn't that enough to know it didn't happen?
Certainly there's more than that to consider, but it's a pretty darn good clue.
Greetings and Salutations, Everyone! Thanks for the Robin
photo--we love birds, and feed hoards of them, regularly. As well as rabbits and squirrels. Got to give them their mid-morning feeding in a bit.
Our regulars who live here year round, are The Cardinals, The Jays, and Mr. (Beautiful) Woodpecker, who seems to go 'solo.' And the flocks of Doves, who come around in spurts.
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Good Morning
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning all
I'm thinking about a laptop, and I like the idea of a 2 in 1. The Surface Pro is more tablet, and the Lenova Yoga is more laptop. While shopping the Yogo, they had four computers to compare. Besides the color, the only difference was three had an Intel Core M-5Y71 Processor (1.20GHz 1600MHz 4MB) and one had an Intel Core M 5Y70 Processor (1.10GHz 1600MHz 4MB) for $100 more.
What is the difference? Which one is better? One would guess the 70 because it is more money, but the cheaper model has higher GHz. Technology! Can't live with it and can't live without it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Use the $100 difference to buy more RAM
Memory is the biggest performance bang for you buck.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Is there any software?
Sometimes one model will have some software loaded - typically some Gatesware package. If there is software decide whether it's anything you would use and if it is, is it a full copy (& not something with only half the features enabled where you have to pay a fee to use the others).
I agree with Tim that RAM is the biggest bang for your buck. You need to ask if each machine is upgradeable (to how much and in what increments).
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
I got a MacBookPro
I'm hooked on Apple. I was able to double the memory to 8 GB and get a solid state hard drive, it came with a dvd/cd player. Kind of a blend. But it's my main computer. The 13" is pretty light to carry around. I have a larger display hooked up to it for photography.
To thine own self be true.
I also have MacBookPro
but a 15" without the CD drive. It's even lighter than my previous 13" with the drive.
We been using Apples since the Apple II Plus.
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
Good Morning!
love the new image uploader
it's a beautiful day here, I've got that "must leave the house" feeling. i haven't seen any robins yet, it's too early for them. I will be sad if we get a winter storm with all these buds and flowers out, but it could happen.
To thine own self be true.
So beautiful n/t
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
heh, the birds in our backyard are kinda chilly today...
there's one chillin' on the bird feeder now...
we're in the midst of getting 4-8 inches of snow, sleet and ice today, though the temps (now in the low 20's) are supposed to go all the way up to the low 30's by tomorrow. woohoo!
Same here, Joe,
our feathered friends, too, have been through it during the past 36 plus hours.
It's been pouring rain for hours now, so I've had to take down feeders, put up one large feeding dish, and use the ground feeding areas (which I suppose are better than nothing).
Due to an ice storm, we lost electrical power for almost 8 hours (not to complain, considering the prolonged power outages in some parts of Georgia). We've taken shifts to 'monitor' the situation, in general. I pulled the short straw, and got to pull third shift this morning. It was about about 4:30 a.m. that the transformer in our area blew.
It took an hour of idling a vehicle to melt the sheets or several inches of snow, ice and sleet buildup. But at least now, one could make a quick exit, if necessary. (Had to use garage temporarily for storage, awaiting new outdoor storage shed installation. I should never have allowed such snow/ice buildup, in the first place.)
Anyhoo, hope you don't get the same. Your temps are probably too high to result in so much freezing rain and 'ice pellets.'
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.