Serenity Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Brinewind Studio Presents - Miniatures Den! #094. Started at 1:04 PM. https://www.twitch.tv/reaperminiatures 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 2 hours ago, Chaoswolf said: When I see the names of lovers engraved on a tree, I don't find it cute or romantic, I find it weird how many people take knives with them on outings. 1 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Squeak squeak squeaky squeak squeak. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 17 minutes ago, Pegazus said: Squeak squeak squeaky squeak squeak. What did you have for breakfast? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 @Guindyloo Kwindy has been telling us (in Twitch chat) about her mouse from work that's not working right. I've cleaned trackball switches and scroll wheels with IPA. Usually works. Anyone else clean their mouse to keep it working? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 minute ago, Serenity said: Anyone else clean their mouse to keep it working? Yes. That can help if it is filthy. But modern mice usually don’t have removable mechanical cleanable parts — older mice did. What kind has she got? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylverthorne Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 15 minutes ago, TGP said: 17 minutes ago, Serenity said: Anyone else clean their mouse to keep it working? Yes. That can help if it is filthy. But modern mice usually don’t have removable mechanical cleanable parts — older mice did. What kind has she got? A trackball might still have a ball to clean; and they do still make them. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 15 hours ago, Green Eyed Monsty said: Classic story of a stupid person trying to be clever. I wonder how much the scam lawyer soaked him for before the lawsuit blew up completely by "Sam" not understanding how e-mail works? As for the "sketchy salesman", that is a line of work that seems to have a high attractive value for those pre-disposed to behave in a sketchy manner. GEM I'm thinking that the lawyer was actually a decent lawyer, considering how fast the entire situation went away after that email. Like he sat Sam down and told him "look, you have no case, pay the bill and let it go." The site was sold shortly after that to a guy in the area who buys sites and runs them until he can sell off the property for redevelopment into something else. Mr Sketchy would submit equipment Purchase Orders with the wrong prices on them, then play it off as a typo and beg us to honor that price because "I already quoted the customer that price - I'll have to eat the difference." If he did it occasionally, sure, but he did it with EVERY single purchase order he submitted to us. His rep was so bad that we had minimum three sets of eyes check over his purchase orders before accepting them. In fact, that's how I learned about him - I was asked to be the third set of eyes within a couple of weeks of starting that job. Fortunately, Mr Sketchy left the car wash business - last I heard he was selling some sort of dubious cell phone gadget. There are a bunch of dubious characters in the car wash industry, sadly. I've talked a bunch about the customer types I have to deal with, but I've had to deal with some outright crooks. There was this one guy - we'll call him Barry* - who would move from one state to another, find someone brand new to car wash to partner with, and build a really nice site. His deal with the partner is that they would run the showcase site, while Barry worked on building a distributorship. Barry would then line up a few more customers brand new to car wash and start building sites for them. He would sell them equipment with all the options, but order just basic equipment from the manufacturers. He would always build multiple sites at once, get them to the point the equipment was delivered and mostly installed, then take off, leaving his partner holding the bag. Because the distributorships were set up primarily under the partner's name, it was hard for manufacturers to realize they were dealing with him until it was too late. He was able to do this more than a few times in the 80s/90s, but the rise of the internet and forums started slowing him down. We got burned by him twice. I mean, we got paid for the equipment that was purchased from him, but we were left trying to sooth & support customers who said they had paid for features he never ordered. The final time was on his showcase site with a new partner. The sales guy was new and had only been dealing with Barry's latest partner, but when I got pulled into the situation, I wound up talking to Barry and threw a huge fit with management asking why we were dealing with this guy again. When that came out, demands were made of Barry to pay up for the last mess he had left behind, and the whole situation caused a rift between him and his new partner. The partner was an idiot I still had to deal with for multiple years afterwards, but at least Barry was out of the picture. *Barry is his real name. I used his real name because a) he deserves to be publicly named and b) he died over 12 years ago. I still have his obituary bookmarked, as well as a link to his name at corporationwiki dot com, which tracks publicly available corporate registration data. I check that link a couple times a year to make sure that his son or any of his partners don't pop up with some new company I need to be aware of. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 10 minutes ago, Sylverthorne said: A trackball might still have a ball to clean; and they do still make them. @Serenity asked about IPA —it should work. I had good luck with a squirt bottle of cleaner meant for eyeglasses one time. Mouse had a pink roller ball. After I cleaned it using the eyeglass cleaner, the ball reverted to the normal factory fresh Grey colour it was supposed to be. 18 minutes ago, Sylverthorne said: A trackball might still have a ball to clean; and they do still make them. Any hooman touched surface is worth a scour if it can be accessed without drizzling IPA into the mouse innards. Huh: DIY recipe for eyeglass cleaner: https://jonaspauleyewear.com/blogs/news/diy-eyeglass-cleaner It is mostly IPA. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 43 minutes ago, TGP said: What did you have for breakfast? Egg McMuffin, hash browns, a large Diet Coke, and a good handful of various vitamins and minerals. And I now have several bumps on my forehead from the desktop surface. Been fighting some faulty mechanisms and really was hoping they were repairable because they were expensive. Looking at them yesterday came with the reality that they are not. Then found out today that they weren’t costing us what I thought they were. They were double. Ouch. Then I saw we ordered one last year that must have been an emergency for one of the flight vehicles. It was 6 times what the doubled cost was. Tracked down where it was used. Nope. It was the one I had our test lab cut up and modify late last year. My stars how the money glows so beautifully as it burns. 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Is all that what causes the squeaking? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) 41 minutes ago, TGP said: without drizzling IPA into the mouse innards. As long as: A) it's just IPA (as in Isopropyl, not the Pale Ale) B) the mouse is unplugged/battery removed C) the mouse is allowed to thoroughly dry before being plugged back in/battery replaced then it's not even a big deal if the IPA gets in the mouse innards. We use IPA to clean circuit boards all the time. The key is that it's not dirty IPA (so it won't leave a residue) and that it can evaporate fully before electricity is applied. Edited March 1 by kristof65 just remembered there are wireless mice, too 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 This is getting annoying... 2:26 pm & not a sign of UPS yet. Of course yesterday, they decide to come early. Today it's whenever we feel like coming by. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 17 minutes ago, haldir said: This is getting annoying... 2:26 pm & not a sign of UPS yet. Of course yesterday, they decide to come early. Today it's whenever we feel like coming by. No tracking number? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 45 minutes ago, TGP said: Is all that what causes the squeaking? I don’t honestly remember. I will go ask my squirrelfriend and find out. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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