I recently got a brand spanking new computer. Runs Windows 10, for compatability sake. And, unsuprisingly, it has a couple of little quirks that are REALLY REALLY annoying. And googling as not given me the answers.

1) I can't get the monitor out of sleep mode. Even mashing keyboard buttons, moving the mouse AND turning it off and on again doesn't work. I have to reset the entire computer. I've "solevd" this by telling the computer to never put the monitor to sleep. Is there a better solution.

2) It takes longer for the router to boot up than the computer. so the computer, bless it's idiotic little brain, starts trying to diagnose the connection problem automatically. How do I stop it from running "troubleshooting" automatically.

60 facts about the world of Dr. Seuss

It's worth your time to give that page a peruse.

...Chibi-Moon gets her empowerment from.

Previous thread is here.

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*I Have No Video, I Just Like Saying "New Thread".

But that was before I stumbled across...

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator

Sometimes you see a story and think "man, I'm old..." Here's a place to mention and vent.

Starting off:

20 albums that turn 20 in 2020. I didn't think that any of these were particularity old...

A thread for all those trope-related things that just won't fly outside of the Politics subforum.

Such as:

• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Trump blasts best-picture Oscar for South Korean film Parasite, apparently without having seen the movie
  

I just got a heads-up about an anime now available on Crunchyroll ... and if you thought Kancolle or that one about high-schoolers replaying the Romance of the Three Kingdoms were weird, well, they've now got another major competitor (apparently, it's been around as a manga since 2014):

Quote:After Japanese warlords inexplicably reincarnate as dogs in modern Japan, their scheming is once again in full effect! Oda, the fiercest warlord in the Warring States period of Japanese history, is reborn as a Shiba Inu. He discovers that his rivals and comrades have also been reborn as dogs and their journey to navigate through the modern world takes off at the dog park!

So... like I said I would a few weeks back, I've assembled all the chapters of John Biles' Dance of Shiva and converted them to HTML, and that to MOBI format.  Right now I'm doing a double-purpose read-through and edit pass before a final MOBI conversion.  I've been fixing spelling errors, and I've been converting everything that's in ALL CAPS to italics (except SHIVA's speech) to improve the readability in HTML and on ebooks.  I'm two-thirds of the way through it as I write this.

Anyway, the reason I'm even mentioning it now is basically to ask itsune9tl to relay a query to Biles for me:  He's got a lot of mid-90s fansub-transliteration spellings of character names -- "Macky", "Celia", and "Wasyuu" in particular.  And he uses both "Macky" and "Mackie".  I would like to standardize the spellings -- which of the latter two would he rather see throughout the story?  And does he want Celia and Wasyuu converted to the modern accepted spellings?

Thanks.

Do you think the bigger body compared to the ring is better, or the smaller one? If I could have it both ways, I use the scaled-up one in robot mode and the other for the jet, but this isn't Transformers and I don't get to use that kind of space magic.

GERWALK is of course possible - fold up the lower ring, flip out the arms, drop the legs down with reversed knees - but not especially impressive due to having the arms on top of the fuselage, which just looks off. Of course, everything looks off due to being all cubes and blocks and would be subject to much additional rounding and filling, like what happened with the Crazy Bananas if you remember that. For blocking out the transformation, though, basic bounding box blocks are fine, and much easier to adjust to fit together precisely by putting the 3d position and editing numbers into the text boxes.

I could take the body even smaller, actually - the SPEX-09 Coleopter from Cruise Chaser Blassty where I stole that inspired the folding ring wing is still proportionately smaller, or at least looks it due to being a skinnier needle-feet style.