Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[mansaxel]

You can keep all your "ripe" cheeses with the possible exception of a properly stinky Bleu Cheese salad dressing. 

A happy cheese-day here is when we've got Gruyère, Saint-Agur or Gorgonzola, Westerbotten, a Camenbert or a Brie and perhaps St. Marcellin on the board.

Usable alternatives are: Appenzeller, Rochefort, Kvibille Cheddar, Comté, Pecorino, Manchego, Boxholms gräddost, Jarlsberg, Grana Padano, Parmigiano, and lots of others.

Any "household brand" "cheese" commonly sold in USA is disqualified. Perhaps, only perhaps, some of the cheddar lookalikes may pass.

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?

[mansaxel]

Trumpf should be held to farcebooks standards in the same way as other people

After all, it's the USA, the only country without a gentry. Obviously you should set the same standards for all.

 

[BU508A]

A happy cheese-day here is when we've got Gruyère, Saint-Agur or Gorgonzola, Westerbotten, a Camenbert or a Brie and perhaps St. Marcellin on the board.

Usable alternatives are: Appenzeller, Rochefort, Kvibille Cheddar, Comté, Pecorino, Manchego, Boxholms gräddost, Jarlsberg, Grana Padano, Parmigiano, and lots of others.

I'm having some relatives living near Salerno / Italy and they are having a Pecorino made of goat milk (not sheep as usual). I tasted it when I was seven years old for the first time on some "spaghetti al pomodoro". First, it was very weird and I didn't like it. But then I tried it a second time and since then it has become the taste of the italian version of heaven. 

[Neper]

A happy cheese-day here is when we've got Gruyère, Saint-Agur or Gorgonzola, Westerbotten, a Camenbert or a Brie and perhaps St. Marcellin on the board.

Maroilles rulez!

[mnementh]

Wrong god to invoke if you want a mug of mead's chance in Valhalla of things going your way.

"It's unpleasantly like getting drunk."
"What's unpleasant about getting drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water."

I think he got an unfairly bad press.

In any case, the Murphy that "Murphy's Law" refers to was not happy about it being applied to trivial things, though apparently he could be a bit of a curmudgeon.

I just wish he/she/it hadn't taken such a personal interest in my life... 

mnem
Murphy's a bitch. And she has puppies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr.

I know who Edward Murphy Jr was... I was referring to that intangible entity comprised of the whole Law of Irony/Ifni/Not-So-Random Probability thing named after him which most certainly has taken a personal interest in my life since I was old enough to understand irony... "The Bitch", as it were.

mnem
"The perversity of the Universe tends to the maximum." ~me

[Cerebus]

Trumpf should be held to farcebooks standards in the same way as other people

After all, it's the USA, the only country without a gentry. Obviously you should set the same standards for all.

 

I think that the myth that the USA is classless and doesn't have an "upper crust" is just that, a myth - one that a trip to Marthas Vineyard ought to instantly dispel. What differentiates USA 'aristocracy' from the European/British is that they always have money, whereas many of our aristocracy have titles, perhaps huge properties in the country, but are as poor as church mice.

Well, that was true until Trump came along and proved you could sit at the top table while simultaneously having no trace of class, and no actual money. 

[mnementh]

So very succinctly put. 

My mother used to say of Herr Drumpf: "He's what happens when white trash gets money."

mnem
"In a land where money is god, the only true sin is being poor."

[Cerebus]

So very succinctly put. 

My mother used to say of Herr Drumpf: "He's what happens when white trash gets somebody else's money."

mnem
"In a land where money is god, the only true sin is being poor."

FTFYM

[mnementh]

So very succinctly put. 

My mother used to say of Herr Drumpf: "He's what happens when white trash gets somebody else's money."

mnem
"In a land where money is god, the only true sin is being poor."

FTFYM

That's the definition of Western-style Conservatism. They conserve every penny the common folk earn right into their own bank accounts; and call it business. 

The difference with Trump is he plays it like a Guido, because that what he is... a small time hoodlum, only with his father's army of law firms to keep him out of jail all his life.

mnem
*toddles off to grill something for dinner*

[Specmaster]

Found a non-TE TE thing to bid on...



Currently at $20 (a sawbuck?), Loki only knows where the shipping costs will end up though.

I actually nicked one of them from work once. Got one of them, a Mentor Graphics and Sun mug. It’s all generic ikea and amazon mugs now

No idea what happened to it.

Edit: I think I worked it out. Left it at my ex gf’s flat when we split.  . Perhaps I should go find her on Facebook and ask for it back 

Nah, more than likely smashed against it against the wall, I mean she was a redhead after all, wasn't she 

[bitseeker]

Archiving at post 84800. Getting close!

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Of course, now that I'm watching, it doesn't get stuck.

Done!

Some fun archiving stats
Domains: 817
Files: 32593
Size: 9.5 GB
Times stuck: 6
Time: Too long, thanks to misbehaving sites: members.home.nl, gamestop.com, farnell.com, newark.com, element14.com

Very nice! 

And now, how long do you think you will need for the catch-up? 

 

Now that I have it all, no rush.

[bitseeker]

You can have my Velveeta when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

Might not take long, depending on the LD50 of Velveeta? 

Bah! I eat a tub of the stuff a day, and I'm a model of perfect heal%^#^##&#$ GDFWV@%^@C(&#@^H NO CARRIER

"NO CARRIER" Love it.

[bitseeker]

Been a while since I took these pictures, teardown of the Sorensen XPD60-9 (made by Xantrex) PSU, made in 2009 judging from various datecodes.

...

Cool. Added.

[beanflying]

Not a Tupperware Lady in sight  5 stacked layers of 4.5mm Acrylic glued with Scigrip thin.

[beanflying]

King Island Double Brie and a full fat milk Coffee. Weightgain4000+ in the shack and again no Tupperware Platter was needed or used.

[bd139]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

[Saskia]

that is the immune system bus running you over. It means that your small anti-intruder-gizmos are mobilizing to pick up arms and arming the IFF system ...

[bd139]

Yeah aware of that. Wondering what joy I’m in for over the next couple of days mostly.

[Robert763]

SWMBO and I have both had 1st and 2nd AstaZenica jabs with nothing worse than a mild headache on the day after the first one.

[BU508A]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

Working colleague of mine got a BioNTech shot. She felt tired with headache, similar to your bus. Next day it was fine, then.
My mother got BioNTech as well and she didn't fell anything.

[beanflying]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

In the next few weeks in Oz as a 50+ year old. I could have got it earlier due to Mother but no real rush here I guess. Mum had here first one nearly two weeks ago and no issues.

Beer/Fusion fueled waste material usage on the Laser  Problem now created 14 useless PITA hard to open 'spare' containers 

[Brumby]

I got the first Astrazeneca jab a couple of weeks ago.  The only after effects I had to deal with was having had someone jab a needle into my arm.

[Specmaster]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

Nope, thats the same one as I had, but I have had at the end of each day a sore day a sore left shoulder and slightly stiff neck and occasional tingling in the left forearm since getting the flu jab about 4 weeks prior to the Covid jab.

[nfmax]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

I had the Azed shot too. I was fine for 36 hours, then suddenly felt extremely tired, which lasted for about another 36 hours. Worst of it was, this came on just after my shiny new 160Mbps FTTP Internet connection was installed, and I was too tired to play with it!

[xrunner]

Urf had my covid jab yesterday finally after four weeks of finding a slot that worked. Feel like I’ve been run over by a bus this morning. Anyone else get that? Was AstraZeneca one.

I got the first Moderna last week. My arm hurt for three days where the needle went in, but no other symptoms at all.