Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Steve Jones
ive only been married to this broad for 2 or 3 years, that stupid cake top she made me keep is still in the bottom of the deep freeze, chrushed, and for whatever reason she wont let me toss it. I dont understand these people at all On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 8:04 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > I could be mi

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
We did save the top piece from our wedding cake. Thankfully it was not fruitcake. It was still not very appetizing after a year in the freezer. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:04 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > I could be mistaken, we’re talking 1972, but I seem to remember my

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
I could be mistaken, we’re talking 1972, but I seem to remember my wife choosing a “traditional wedding fruitcake” for our wedding reception, and ordering one special from a bakery. I also distinctly remember her saying we should freeze a piece and eat it on our first anniversary. Young peo

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Jaime Solorza
Spanish lends itself to easy puns or intendre. Quema mucho el sol.. Literally the sun burns a lot. Que mamucho...what a blowhard or egotistical.. >From mamón ... sucker..as in blowjob's On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 6:33 PM Bill Prince wrote: > In a mix of anglos and hispanics, you can do a lot of langua

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
Around here, you can use it in place of bricks for home construction. bp On 12/5/2020 3:49 PM, Steve Jones wrote: Fruitcake is an actual thing? On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 5:31 PM Jaim

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
In a mix of anglos and hispanics, you can do a lot of language bending. Call it TexMex, or Spanglish, or ??? bp On 12/5/2020 4:21 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: So diminutive of Richard must also have the same alternate slang me

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Darin Steffl
Depends on the size of the screen. SD on an 80" TV will look like crap but on your 4.5" smartphone, it will look much better as it's not blown up like a TV. When I go on Norwegian cruise ships, they use Procera to limit video streams to about 600 kbps and while it takes 20 seconds for Netflix to s

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Steve Jones
Holy cow, it's an aged cake too. I remember nownlokking at these things, those are the cakes that had those aweful candies cherries in them. They were sweet and gross and I'd eat whole tins of them growing up. Green and red tasty aweful garbage. On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 6:26 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Y

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
You mean do they send Ric pix? From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:22 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats I will eat almost any fruitcake. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2020, at 5:08 PM,

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
I will eat almost any fruitcake. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Brian Webster wrote: > >  > Yes and done right (not easily accomplished) it’s very good. Great with > coffee. > > Thank you, > Brian Webster > www.wirelessmapping.com > > From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmu

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
So diminutive of Richard must also have the same alternate slang meaning in Spanish. So do native Spanish speakers talk about their Ricardos? Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Bill Prince wrote: > >  > The head of the dick of the donkey. > > bp > > On 12/5/2020 1:40 PM, Chu

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Brian Webster
Yes and done right (not easily accomplished) it’s very good. Great with coffee. Thank you, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:50 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [A

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread SmarterBroadband
You would need powerful lights in your garage….. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:02 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car What if you park it in a garage? From:

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
What is the alcohol content of said fruitcake? Do you have to keep it away from open flames? e.g. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/free-range-fruitcake-recipe-1926833 From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 5:50 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Us

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Steve Jones
I dont understand how standard definition used to stream at 512k with a decent video, and now it looks like abstract art. Have we become more accustomed to higher def and sd still looks the same, we just notice it more now? On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 5:35 PM Matt Hoppes wrote: > That’s exactly what we

Re: [AFMUG] OT good eats

2020-12-05 Thread Steve Jones
Fruitcake is an actual thing? On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 5:31 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > Ah ...no > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 4:19 PM Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > >> Orgasmically good fruitcake from Costco. >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.co

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Matt Hoppes
That’s exactly what we saw. Preseem would equalize flows - but we still got calls for buffering issues. When we created data lanes those issues also went away. Saisei was a bit complex to get setup. But they helped all the way. And since it’s setup it’s been hands off. > On Dec 5, 2020,

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Darin Steffl
Preseem handles this fine too Matt. If Netflix bursts up to 25 mbps while you have voip or gaming going, fq_codel will make sure the small flows move ahead of Netflix. Saisei is DPI and entirely different so you can keep Netflix at 5 mbps for example. It's way more complicated and has more knobs t

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Matt Hoppes
At 25 megabit plans we see devices thrash painfully. They will think they have the full 25 meg. Try to grab a chunk. And can’t because something is using the bandwidth. That’s why we made lanes. > On Dec 5, 2020, at 6:00 PM, Darin Steffl wrote: > >  > Yes Netflix will scale down gracefully.

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Darin Steffl
Yes Netflix will scale down gracefully. They have the best compression and least amount of buffering of any streaming provider. They are using the latest encoding techniques to reduce bandwidth with no perceptible loss of quality. Netflix will actually work down to 0.5 mbps without buffering. This

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
This is a couple of years old, so it is probably out of date. The point is that Netflix doesn't exactly "stream" a video, but instead tries to maintain a buffer on the target device. It does this by picking an encode (at the time of the video, they say there are t

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
The head of the dick of the donkey. bp On 12/5/2020 1:40 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: The literal translation doesn’t make much sense.  Must be an idiom involved. Richard the ass The head of Richa

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Jason McKemie
$26k for the base model doesn't seem too bad. I'm sure it is pretty tiny though. On Saturday, December 5, 2020, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > Pretty spendy. I would like to give one a try. > > *From:* Jason McKemie > *Sent:* Saturday, December 5, 2020 8:22 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users G

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Well, I have a customer Lori Dicks who married Don Head and she went with a hyphenated last name. From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 3:41 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong The literal transla

Re: [AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Matt Hoppes
I don’t know. But this is why we run Saisei and carve out “channels” for applications. We’ve found issues with that exact situation and devices that don’t handle the down scale properly. We’ve actually had customers report a better experience on our 10 meg plan than our 25 megabit plan until

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
The literal translation doesn’t make much sense. Must be an idiom involved. Richard the ass The head of Richard the ass. Richard is the head of an ass? Richard is an ass head? Richard has his head up an ass? From: Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 1:25 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subjec

[AFMUG] Netflix 4K video bandwidth

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
I have seen customers recently using 12 Mbps for what appears to be a single Netflix video stream. Anyone else seeing this? I was puzzled what could be between HD at 5-6 Mbps and UHD at 15-25 Mbps? But then I saw this: https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for-4k-now-str

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Jaime Solorza
Lol On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 1:06 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Back in the 70’s I worked at a place where my boss’s boss was named John > Pingel. He was a real dick. The people at our Mexican plant called him > Juan Pinga. > > > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown via AF > *Sent:* Saturday, De

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
Back in the late 1990s through the early 2000s, we had a neighbor; Richard. He made some questionable decisions from the view of a "neighbor", and I was complaining to the buddies I rode with (bicycles) several times a week. One of the buddies is Mexican (born the

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
Back in the 70’s I worked at a place where my boss’s boss was named John Pingel. He was a real dick. The people at our Mexican plant called him Juan Pinga. From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 1:02 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Chuck

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
What if you park it in a garage? From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:07 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car It kind of looks like a kidney bean on wheels. But I was thinking. What if you went on a camping trip for 5 d

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Sad to say that was one of the first Spanish words I was taught by other kids. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 11:39 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > >  > I wonder if that was photoshopped. > > > From: Jaime Solorza > Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:12 AM > To: AnimalFarm M

[AFMUG] OT espy

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Trying to find a way to watch espy for free this afternoon. Already did the fubo trial last month. It would probably catch me if I tried it again. Not sure how it recognizes repeat offenders. Sent from my iPhone -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.a

Re: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
I wonder if that was photoshopped. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:12 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong You will get it... -- AF ma

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
It kind of looks like a kidney bean on wheels. But I was thinking. What if you went on a camping trip for 5 days? If it was parked for 5 days, it would theoretically add 200 miles of range for your trip home. Still. Having to ride around in a kidney bean is trey weird

Re: [AFMUG] old and busted vs new hotness

2020-12-05 Thread Adam Moffett
I think the reflector had another 2db or some such, so maybe that's even true. On 12/4/2020 10:28 PM, Daniel White wrote: Tell them on the newer style you are actually able to restrict their speeds better so it will actually be a downgrade for them but an upgrade for you.  Or that the older re

[AFMUG] OT: If your spanish is strong

2020-12-05 Thread Jaime Solorza
You will get it... -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
These guys have 3X the efficiency of my leaf, so that is good. Even if you could get 100 square feet of panel on a car, that is 1000 watts if oriented perfectly. So a bit more than 1 HP for actually driving on it. They say they have a 100 kWh battery. OK 100 hours of sunlight to charge. But

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
The other strike against it (at least for me) is that it kind of looks like a kidney bean on wheels, and not in a good way. bp On 12/5/2020 8:48 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: So great, after the apocalypse you won’t

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Ken Hohhof
So great, after the apocalypse you won’t need fuel, but will that vehicle be able to outrun Toecutter and his gang? From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:06 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car Aptera has been in startup

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Prince
Aptera has been in startup mode for something like a decade. A lot of hat, and not much in the way of cattle. bp On 12/5/2020 7:22 AM, Jason McKemie wrote: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34875659/aptera-ev-solar-no-charging-reveal

Re: [AFMUG] I QUIT! jk

2020-12-05 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
It was. I meant Wispcon 2 through the last one in NOLA. Shoulda been clearer. Jeff Broadwick CTIconnect 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com > On Dec 4, 2020, at 10:08 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >  > I thought 2 was Chicago (Oakbrook). > > From: AF On Behalf Of Jef

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Pretty spendy. I would like to give one a try. From: Jason McKemie Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 8:22 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34875659/aptera-ev-solar-no-charging-revealed/

[AFMUG] OT: Chuck, Found your new car

2020-12-05 Thread Jason McKemie
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34875659/aptera-ev-solar-no-charging-revealed/ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] OT vac ex in freezing temps

2020-12-05 Thread Chuck McCown via AF
Depends on how hard and deep. If frozen too hard we drill. From: Steve Jones Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:02 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT vac ex in freezing temps So this begs the question, if its freezing out what are you able to do? Are you plowing fro

[AFMUG] Intriguing

2020-12-05 Thread Jaime Solorza
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250094 -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com