Yah It's Monday the 1st of June

[Ramster]

Good morning

Been up for a couple of hours now since I went to bed early at 10:30 I got up early just after 5am. Been working as per usual. Uploading, adding content to MAs, checking emails and whatnot. Usual day planned all around, coffee is on.

[Greenguy]

Morning!

It's Yell's youngest's 21st birthday today, so she went out at midnight & her friends had a cute cake & presents...when I turned 21, my buddy knocked on my door at 12:05 AM & dragged me to the store to buy him beer

So far, it's going well with the 3 extra people we have living here. Their lil guy is 3 & Ren is obsessed with finding him when he's not downstairs, yet he runs away from him as soon as he sees him

Still here - 46° now with a high of 57° forecast, which is fine by me, because I'm usually a sweaty mess when I

Gonna watch Deep Web on Epix today. It really is amazing how little I know about this stuff seeing as I've been online since 96:

Extending far beyond the confines of Google and Facebook, there is a vast section of the World Wide Web that is a hidden alternate internet. Appropriately named the Deep Web, this mysterious and complex cyberspace serves as an outlet for anonymous communication and was home to Silk Road, the online black market notorious for drug trafficking. The intricacies of this concealed cyber realm caught the attention of the general public with the October 2013 arrest of Ross William Ulbricht - the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' the online pseudonym of the Silk Road leader. Making its World Television Premiere this spring, Deep Web - an EPIX Original Documentary written, directed and produced by Alex Winter​ (Downloaded​) - seeks to unravel this tangled web of ​secrecy, ​accusations,​ and​ criminal activity, and explores how the outcome of Ulbricht's trial will set a critical precedent for the future of technological freedom around the world.

Other than that, it looks like I need to remind Ramster about the rule for the daily threads!

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Other than that, it looks like I need to remind Ramster about the rule for the daily threads!

There's a rule?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Ramster

There's a rule?

It's probably posted in that double secret forum no one knows about.

is on, y'all help yourselves...

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

when I turned 21, my buddy knocked on my door at 12:05 AM & dragged me to the store to buy him beer

I did not have that problem because:
1) Over here it is legal to buy beer at 18, so by the time I was 21 I'd been legally buying beer for my friends for 3 years! (When I was at college, there was actually a bar in the college.)
2) When I turned 21 it was still illegal in Britain to sell alcohol after 11pm, so no one would have let anyone buy anyone else beer at 12:05 am.
3) You waited until you were legally old enough to buy beer before you bought beer????? I first bought beer in a bar when I was 15, and was regularly drinking by the time I was 17!

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Gonna watch Deep Web on Epix today. It really is amazing how little I know about this stuff seeing as I've been online since 96

I keep meaning to learn more about DarkNet too. I've been told that you can hire professional assassins on DarkNet and there are several people that I feel need killing....

Originally Posted by Greenguy

it looks like I need to remind Ramster about the rule for the daily threads!

I still think this rule is racist! Instead of using we should also be allowed to use .

Puppy News

This puppy is the scaredest dog I have even known. He would loose a "world's bravest dog" contest even if the only other entrant was Scooby Doo! He is big enough and strong enough to take on practically anything (the breed was created to be able to take out a fully grown lion for fuck's sake) but anything bigger than a pigeon scares the shit out of him!

And his biggest fear is small children. He has even worked that prams contain babies, so he runs from women pushing prams!

While walking him today I stopped to eat an orange. This in itself was a problem, because the puppy saw the orange and thought I had brought a tennis ball for him to play with. He then looked horrified when, instead of throwing the "ball", I ate it. But to make matters worse, while I sat on a park bench eating what he thought was his ball, a kid came over to stroke the dog. The dog immediately jumped up on the bench beside me, to get away from the kid.

Then a kid rode by on a push scooter. The kid was going reasonably fast and the dog saw this as an "attacking charge" and backed away further, his rear legs ended up on the top of the back of the bench.

While he was still in this position a woman carrying a baby in a front papoose passed by. The baby saw the dog, smiled and pointed at him. This was too much for the puppy. He saw the pointed finger as some kind of gun, about to fire a doggy death ray at him or something. He frantically backed away from the kid. But in his panic he had forgotten that he was standing on a bench with his rear legs on the back of the bench. As he retreated his ass end went off the rear of the bench. His front legs remained on the bench, and his belly was grounded on the back of the bench!

The poor fellow was stuck. Back paws dangling in mid air. Front paws on the bench, but without the "push" from the rear paws he could not un-ground himself from the back of the bench. He was helpless and surrounded by those really dangerous children things!

It was really funny for the other people in the park to watch, but for those of us struggling to calm a panicking puppy who was technically strong enough to rip apart an attacking lion, it was not a lot of fun!

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by ecchi

3) You waited until you were legally old enough to buy beer before you bought beer????? I first bought beer in a bar when I was 15, and was regularly drinking by the time I was 17!

We did it the old fashion way: waited on the side of the store & asked everyone going in if they could "buy" for us I did have my license chalked perfectly for a couple months in my 20's, but then I went to Spring Break in Panama City, got it wet, and it was taken by the bouncer at the bar later that evening...leaving me with no ID 2 days into a 7 day party bender. Good times

Originally Posted by ecchi

I keep meaning to learn more about DarkNet too. I've been told that you can hire professional assassins on DarkNet and there are several people that I feel need killing....

All I know is that it's a good thing I didn't know about that Silk Road site when I had my little dependency problem

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

We did it the old fashion way: waited on the side of the store & asked everyone going in if they could "buy" for us I did have my license chalked perfectly for a couple months in my 20's,

America - Another world. Never had to ask someone else to buy beer for me in my life (well, except when they were slow standing their round). First drink in a bar was a theatre bar. I was early for the show, bought my ticket and the person in the ticket office said "I'll get someone to open the bar for you." I was 15 at the time! Been drinking since (although only occasionally at 15 and 16, not a regular drinker until I hit 17 and changed school).

[Fonz]

Good afternoon,

Demolished another bathroom today. So nothing new here.
Temperatures are finally rising so maybe summer is on it's way after all.

Have a good one all!

[Cleo]

Trying to wake up after working late into the night.

So much for making a website responsive. I gave this very simple website a fluid layout that was responsive and the client emailed me this morning upset that it changed layout on different screen sizes so now I just changed it all to fixed layout.

I think I may know the reason that Google is pushing responsive layouts so much, it's Android phones. Seems that Android phones don't handle fixed websites as well as iPhones do. I have a few sites that look just fine on an iPhone, but on some Android phones some of the elements end up off screen.

Still working on mainstream sites for clients today.

[HowlingWulf]

TV busted recently but tracked it to a probably blown fuse on the motherboard. Going to send it in for repair (was cheaper online).

Also noted I once had 1000+ trades on Linkspun. Over the years I've seen sites were parked or switched to tubes or whatever. Now my trades are around 50.

[JustRobert]

Good Morning

Since it's the first I usually close out last month but since I've been in a funk the past 36 hours I think I will put that off for a day or two when I'm in a better mood. Plus I need to put together my weekly members update today since I didn't do it yesterday because the funk was real bad then.

Cleo (and others), I came across this from G:mobile friendly sites guide plus responsive web design basics and read someplace else that I can't find in that if you are not putting in code that sets the viewport then G really frowns deeply on it. Also on the mobile friendly site guide you can test your page/site to see if it's mobile friendly. Cleo, you can show this to your customer and point out why fluid/responsive is better for him.

After looking thru this and reading a bunch of other stuff I believe I need to switch but having a hard time wrapping my brain around how to build it so it looks the way I want. My skills are lacking To much other crap on my plate at this time to tackle it by myself so thinking it might be easier to hire someone to build/design a site/template that could be used on others, maybe Cleo???

[Greenguy]

I honestly didn't go to a bar until I was 20 (with the chalked license) and even then, it was only a couple times until I turned 21. We were extremely fond of drinking in the fields/woods, under a bridge, the playground, and occasionally someone's basement when their parents weren't home or allowed it...

Which does remind me that, the summer after I graduated from High School, there were Graduation Parties every Fri, Sat, and Sun thru August, because everyone wanted to have everyone else at their keg party

EDIT: This also started my weight gain, because you can go from 135 to 185 really quick spending a summer drinking beer & eating roast beef sandwiches