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  1. Celtore
    I usually make myself a small snack, go upstairs to my study, let my parrot out and power up my PC. Then from there, it's either derp around the internet for a little bit or fall asleep in my chair. Sometimes both. Well ok, maybe often both...
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    Actually, strike all that I said. Our provincial and federal political leaders are alright in their own ways. Sure Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford can be very annoying, but they're just doing their jobs to represent their party. It's not worth getting angry at the party figureheads for issues affecting the entire party. The same goes for the other parties too. However, local politics is entirely different. Some of our local projects are beyond stupid and I bet someone's hands got greased very well to get them off the ground.
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    The last movie I watched was the My Hero Academia movie. It was a little on the slow side around the middle, but I loved the action scenes and especially the climax. I was a sucker for that stuff when I was a kid too, I love it when the heroes finally get their act together and absolutely wreck their foe(s). Digimon did that a lot as well.
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    I still talk on my phone, but I generally try to avoid it. If it's something that's somewhat urgent, calling will result in an immediate response whereas texting might not. Similarly if there's something on the more complicated side, talking about the problem is probably the easiest and time-efficient way of handling it. I do that at work all the time; most bug reports and questions can be handled over email, but sometimes something so complex arises that it's just easier to look up their extension number and talk about it directly. On the personal side though, I hate talking over the phone with people I'm sort of unfamiliar with. I'd sooner speak with them in person than talk with them over the phone.
  5. Celtore
    BOB ROSS!...
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    How to deal with windows update: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb2 and never look back.

    Translation: I just trashed my windows hard drive. Why they can't make an update system that doesn't suck is genuinely beyond me. Downloading updates in the background shouldn't grind the whole damn OS and network to a halt.

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Windows 10 = :yuck:

      I set my computers to only download necessary updates but still. If it weren't for SSD's, none of my computers would function with 10.

  7. Celtore
    There's not a lot of halloweeny music I listen to, but some of the movies and specials I watch in October have some songs that really get me into the spirit. The Nightmare before Christmas - This is Halloween Scooby Doo (Zombie Island) - It's Terror Time Again Oh! And I just remembered this song! MST3K - Where oh Werewolf
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    The scariest thing this nightmare night... The animation of Nightmare Moon is a 25MB gif! AHHHHHHHH! :mlp_laugh:

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    Endless night sounds great to me! It's only fair; this weather has been absolutely horrible for astronomy! The moon, however, for blocking my view...
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    Hah... probably way too long. On the average workday, probably something close to 12-14 hours. (8 hours for work, 4-6 hours personal) On the weekend, it's way too dynamic. I could be basically online all day, or I could be busy actually doing stuff. Sunday, I'm usually online pretty much all day (~10 hours) catching up on my shows and derping around youtube before Monday.
  11. Celtore
    A bit sore. I just finished my nightly exercises and I think I might have pushed myself a little too far this evening. I might be walking a little funny tomorrow
  12. Celtore

    Astronomy tonight! :D

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      Celtore

      Nice! Oh, and Mars is really nice this evening. The atmosphere was a bit too rough (or my lens was a bit to crappy) to see it in too much detail, but it's in a pretty great position and really bright this evening.

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Were you able to see the polar ice cap? It has shrunk a lot in the last couple months!

    4. Celtore

      Celtore

      I wish I could, but unfortunately I couldn't differentiate it; it was way too blurry for me to make out that much detail. Looking forward to next month to know what to blame

  13. Celtore
    I'm more of an introvert; social interactivity is very tiring and most of my pursuits are solo endeavours. When I find the right person to interact with though, I feel and behave more like an extrovert. I'm still working on the whole confidence thing and it's roughest when dealing with people I'm not familiar with.
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    I have an African Grey parrot; his name is Norbert. I first met him when he was really young, before he even had any feathers. That's why I named him Norbert; the little guy reminded me of Hagrid's dragon.
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    I'm listening to an album I recently bought at my local used music store. This is the current track I'm listening to: It's actually a nice change of pace from the stuff I usually listen to
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    I have a little personal conspiracy theory that sites which do that late ad-loading do it on purpose to register accidental clicks for more ad revenue. The idea of making your content appear as fast as possible is a great idea, but late loading shouldn't cause your website layout to readjust itself. That's just crap web design.
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    There are protections available against distributed denial of service attacks and cloudflare (the forums' host) has a pretty good reputation when it comes to handling this particular type of attack. I wouldn't go so far as to categorize it as hacking though; it's too primitive. Unless the attacker built the bot network themselves rather than paying a lump of money to someone for temporary control of their network. The most dangerous attack vector is the database. If you can find one vulnerable website with badly hashed (or plaintext) passwords, there's an excellent chance you can take those emails and passwords and use them on other services. Hell, you might even be able to directly sign into their email account, which is absolutely game over. Having a single password these days is a HUGE risk; if just one website you're signed up with is compromised, everything's compromised. The big takeaway: use a password manager to keep track of all your passwords. You use a single password and it gives you encrypted access to all your passwords which, because now you no longer need to remember them, can be unique 64+ random characters long. I personally use keepass because it's open source, free of charge and offline. I don't have to trust a company to keep my passwords safe. That comes with some inconveniences though, so something like lastpass might be better.
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    Alrighty! New eyepiece for my telescope has been ordered! Hopefully it's better than the one's I'm currently stuck with for high magnification :)

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      Celtore

      I ended up getting one with an adaptable range between 8mm-24mm. Indeed, it was a bit on the pricy side compared to buying a regular 8mm like I originally intended (could have bought two of them), but the convenience should make it worth it. :)

      And yeah, lenses are pricy. Fortunately though, you only really need a few good ones and if you plan well, you can barlow the gaps. In my case, my high powered lenses were from my Walmart telescope. Not very fun to use...

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Ah, a zoom eyepiece. I love my Celestron 8-24mm zoom. It beats carrying around multiple eyepieces. One minor nitpick I have is that the focus has to be adjusted a little bit when going from 24 down to 8.

      I bet those eyepieces for the Walmart scope have a ton of chromatic aberration.

      Celestron Zoom (1).jpg

      Celestron Zoom (2).jpg

    4. Celtore

      Celtore

      You know what, I think I ordered the same eyepiece! Glad to hear you enjoy it! :laugh:

  19. Celtore

    The remake of luigis mansion on the 3ds is making me want to pull out my gamecube. The C stick sucks.

  20. Celtore
    Thanks to a 3 day business trip where it seemed every restaurant insisted on drowning everything remotely healthy with cheese, I've genuinely warmed up to the taste of regular, no-cheese broccoli. I also gained a much bigger appreciation for corn on the cob, though asparagus I'm still a little "meh" on.
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    Bah, sky is too cloudy tonight for astronomy. Oh well, guess I'll have to wait later this week.

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      I have my refractor outside right now. There's no way my C8 can keep up with the temperature drop tonight. Do you do any imaging?

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Nope, but I am interested in eventually getting into it. I already do photography as a hobby and it would absolutely make a lot of sense to combine the two of them. For now though, there are other upgrades I want to make first. (Most importantly, a better quality 8mm eyepiece.)

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      I have quite a few eyepieces but mainly plossls that came with my telescopes. I primarily do imaging so all the funds go toward barlows, cameras, and filters. :mlp_please:

      When I'm not imaging, I tend to use my 8-20mm zoom eyepiece.

  22. Celtore
    A little bit frustrated. See, I have a policy about Friday: you don't push software updates on Friday. There's a three day buffer where you can't fix things if anything breaks. So, my boss and superior don't appear to agree with this dogma and they did push up a broken update Friday afternoon. It broke the production database for pretty much all of Friday and took until 8PM to restore it. Normally that should be the end of it, but they left behind the database backup on the hard drive without deleting it. Then today, the machine completely runs out of disk space and can't save anything. There's nothing we can do about this shit storm until Monday by when we'll probably lose even more data than the Friday problem. All of this could have of course been avoided if they had just waited for Monday or even pushed on Thursday. It's the equivalent of a villain on the cusp of victory yelling "NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!" Just don't.
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    Oh man, that weight is rough... 50 pounds for me is manageable as I used to have to lug around these 40 pound bags of clay at my old job. 10 pounds more isn't that big of a deal. 75 pounds though... well, let's just say I'd have to lift more. I would plan for longer exposure shots, so I would need to get an equatorial mount with the telescope. Honestly though, I'd like to try hacking something together myself first. It's likely a harder problem than I'm thinking, but it would be fun to see if I could program an arduino board to deal with it. The software is no problem, it's the hardware; I only took basic circuitry
  24. Celtore
    I've thought about a cart, but even that would be a pain for transportation. I keep it inside and move it onto my deck for star gazing. The trouble is that to get it there, you have a small lip on the ground you have to step over. Wheels wouldn't do too well. Plus with manual transportation, it forces me to keep active so I can support my hobby. As for the cassegrain, I was thinking about photographing some relatively bright star clusters like M37 and M39. Nothing further than that though, so a 6" would probably be what I'm after.
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    I have my Orion XT12g dobsonian with a 12 inch diameter and motorized goto. It's an absolute pain to set up as the base and telescope are 50 pounds each, but I love this thing once it's in place and calibrated. I also have my first telescope, a 60mm reflector I bought at walmart, but it rarely gets much use. I've been thinking of getting a cassegrain for doing photography, but that'll probably be a little further down the road. They can be a little on the pricy side...
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