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16 Apr 2024 01:30:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: TC-RTC Challenges and Forum news  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 17 Dec 2016 03:00:18
Message: <5854f092$1@news.povray.org>
On 17-12-2016 6:47, Sherry K. Shaw wrote:
> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 16-12-2016 8:09, Sherry K. Shaw wrote:
>>> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>>
>>>> While the new forum may still have some minor beta testing to do, it is
>>>> fully functional and we kindly invite you all if you are so inclined to
>>>> visit the (temporary) link:
>>>> http://dev.noware.ca/index.php/en-us/forums/tc-rtc  and (maybe?)
>>>> sign up
>>>> to the new forum.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There seem to be a few difficulties.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I was afraid that would happen. I asked Normand to open up the site
>> /only/ when he was sure everything was working correctly but he insisted
>> on going live asap. Ah! youthful eagerness :-)
>
>
> Kids!  (Shakes head.)  Well, really, what can you do?

Waiting for spring. :-)

>
>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I am not involved with the forum any more but I shall bring your
>> petition to the attention of Normand of course.
>>
>
>
> Thanks for your help!  (I found the Terms and Conditions to be quite
> interesting reading, as was the Privacy Policy.)

:-)

>
>
>>>
>>> Well, maybe it's just me, but at least I tried.
>>
>> I guess that you are not alone in this.
>>
>>>
>>> --Sherry Shaw
>>>
>>> * (1) The Cubs won the Series.  (2) A couple of days later, I was making
>>> breakfast and my egg was a double-yolker, the first I've seen in years
>>> and years.  (Didn't stop me from cooking it over-easy and having it with
>>> a slice of whole-wheat toast.  Yum!)  (3)  Heavy sigh.  You know.  But
>>> maybe the Electoral College will fix everything.  Yes, I signed the
>>> petition...so, if I mysteriously disappear, well, you'll know what
>>> happened...
>>>
>>
>> The Last Days seem to have been extended, at least for the time being.
>> We shall keep an eye on you, especially in a month's time.
>>
>
>
> Thank you.  I appreciate the sentiment.  Now:  Canned food--check.
> Bottled water--check.  BB gun loaded--check.  Dogs primed and ready to
> bark--check.  Cat set to Full Insanity Mode--check.  Media Player ready
> with inspirational bagpipe music and so forth--check.  Electric blanket
> plugged in--check.  (Because, never mind Armageddon--sometime in the
> next twelve hours, if the meteorologists are correct, the temperature
> here is going to drop about fifty degrees, rather abruptly.  Sure,
> they're those silly, undersized Fahrenheit degrees, but still.  Welcome
> to Missouri.)
>

The cat set at FIM is one of the most successful defences I know of. 
 From my experience, only to be used at last resort of course.

Good luck with the temperature drop. Always reminds me how blessed we 
are here with the Gulf Stream.


-- 
Thomas


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