bismarck Posted December 28, 2014 Posted December 28, 2014 Yep Carl. I remember the '79 blizzard pretty well too. Man what a mess. I made quite a lot shoveling snow that week, which of course went into new plastic!!
Ace-Garageguy Posted December 28, 2014 Posted December 28, 2014 Found out that my current version of Win7 apparently doesn't have native text-to-speech (TTS) capability other than a seemingly useless utility called "Narrator" (I suppose it's for sight-challenged users, under the aegis of "ease of access" ) that refuses to recognize my Word documents. XP had a lovely and simple to use TTS engine that was an integral part of Office / Word. Looks like Win8 has the older functionality restored, but not all versions of 7 do. Win7 DOES include speech recognition, but if you've ever used TinyLimp's version, you may know it's not terribly good. WHY 7 had speech recognition but not native TTS is completely beyond my powers of understanding. There appear to be some odd workarounds and "hidden" commands to get TTS to function in 7, but it's just stupid compared to the easy and efficient functionality of the XP version. I write a lot, and it's helpful to be able to have text read back to me, to get a better feel of how something will scan when read by someone else. Currently looking at outside software, as I used to run an additional TTS package when I was fiddling with an early AI simulator.
High octane Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 The Blizzard of '79 was NO match for the Snow of '67 where I was lucky enough to get my car home, and walked or hitched a ride to work for the next few days.
bismarck Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Yep. my dad wrecked his car in that one, or so I've been told. Is that storm the one that hit close to Easter?
cobraman Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 I was living there in 67 and that was a bad one. Drift on the side of the house completely covered one of my parents cars.
slusher Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Yep Carl. I remember the '79 blizzard pretty well too. Man what a mess. I made quite a lot shoveling snow that week, which of course went into new plastic!! I hear you, I made a lot of money from shoveling and even bought a bike and had plenty left. The Blizzard of '79 was NO match for the Snow of '67 where I was lucky enough to get my car home, and walked or hitched a ride to work for the next few days. I was 2 in 67 Nick, but I remember hearing my parents talk about it...
High octane Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 There was plenty to talk about Carl, I am referring to snow as it seemed like no end.
High octane Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 There was plenty to talk about Carl, I mean snow that is. I'll never forget it as I was living on the NW side of Chicago at the time.
chunkypeanutbutter Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Got hit in the eye twice with molten pieces of plastic, glued a bunch of hair to my thumb, and lost a turbo I had just made. Oh well...
booboo60 Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 I had a friend from my home town that I went too school with ask me to Build a 69 stock Nova she had, so I ask all the detail questions that you would, 4 gear or Auto, interior color, etc,,well it was Yellow, and I know a lot of the Nova;s had Black tops on them, She said NO! OK, FAST Forward 4 weeks, the car is complete, Full Wiring, Battery cables, MSD Box "oh yea, it was a copo" 427, A real sleeper" her dad worked at the Mansfield ohio plant as a supervisor, and ordered it for her, No stripe kit on the car, she kept saying big wide tires and jacked up! "yea being cute about jacked up" so I send her a couple final pics, "looks great" and she said it looks great, but can I wait to send after the 24th, OK...So 2 days ago I messager her and told her I was mailing out, she said "I have a M.O. For you" "kit cost" is all I was charging her plus 8.00 for material, about 35.00, Then she says "Oh Yea, I told you it was a Black top didn't I" no! NO N NO,,i ASK YOU!!! ARE U KIDDING ME!! Oh,,is that a prob! "i have it in the box and ready for post office" "well can't ya just paint the top or use a marker?? WHAT!!! NO..OMG,,SO TICKED OFF,,So im not tearing it down, never goes back the same, paint will chip, etc..Well Now im looking for a 69 Nova again!! BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH
chunkypeanutbutter Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Some people, eh? If you're getting something, wouldn't you try your hardest to get it right, especially if someone else was making it? Funny world.
Ace-Garageguy Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Some people, eh? If you're getting something, wouldn't you try your hardest to get it right, especially if someone else was making it? Funny world. Main reason I pretty much insist on e-mail confirmation of every conversation I have regarding work. It's almost unbelievable after almost 45 years of the stuff, how poorly people remember, in general, the specifics of any given conversation, and they ALWAYS remember it incorrectly in a way that favors their position. It's handy to be able to send them their own written words to remind them of just exactly what was agreed to. Still, I've had folks say back "but that wasn't what I meant, or wasn't what I thought the agreement was". HUH?? Reading and writing comprehension as a required business skill might be good.
Danno Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Reading and writing comprehension as a required business skill might be good. That's expecting TOO MUCH these days. Didn't you get the PC Memo, Bill?
chunkypeanutbutter Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) I think it's funny how people can speak the language, but not spell correctly, form complete sentences, or understand simple written directions these days.... Edited December 31, 2014 by chunkypeanutbutter
charlie8575 Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Geez, the last five or six posts sounds like my junior high kids at 2:15 on a Friday afternoon in April.... Nicely done. Charlie Larkin
Danno Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Geez, the last five or six posts sounds like my junior high kids at 2:15 on a Friday afternoon in April.... Nicely done. Charlie Larkin Tanks.
peter31a Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Tanks? You should have posted that in All The Rest....
Belugawrx Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Now wait a minute... I came here to be Irked.... Now I'm sitting here looking at my comp. screen smiling... Knock it off
Danno Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Tanks? You should have posted that in All The Rest.... Oooops. My bad. Now that really irks me!
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