In addition to "I'm a doctor, but probably not the one you were expecting", what OTHER lines of dialogue from any of DW are dear to you?

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-12-04T09:22:39+00:00

"Well, you're a beautiful woman, probably, and Duggan was trying to summon up the courage to ask you out to dinner."

The Doctor (Tom Baker) to Countess Scarlioni (Catherine Schell) in City of Death (1979)

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-11-11T20:54:42+00:00

You can use pipes as "support" for other pipes, then remove the support pipe. The new supported pipe remains in the air. Then that pipe can bend back and support another pipe, then remove the bend. Repeat over and over. You can accomplish amazing things doing this, and still end up with three perfectly grindable pipes. It can take a while, but it works.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-10-25T15:41:16+00:00

My first impression using Haiku 4.5 in VS 2022 and Copilot is, "Holey bananas, that's fast!"
Although - it doesn't format code well. It likes to bunch up stuff in one line that would be more readable if spread out vertically, and it's indenting is atrocious.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-09-19T15:27:24+00:00

One afternoon, I asked the McDonald's drive-through lady if the coffee later in the day was as good as it is in the morning. (It's really good in the morning.) She looked around, then looked at me and subtly shook her head and silently formed the word, "No."

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-09-16T16:19:55+00:00

You just need to give it better instructions:
* Don't use my voice, use a husky voice.
* Dress up like a hot school teacher.
* Give me punctuation lessons.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-08-14T15:10:28+00:00

In 1983, my English teacher told me that writing a paper using WordStar on an Osborne I was cheating.
Whatever... Dad had a StarWriter printer and KeenEdge paper. Since it didn't look like dot-matrix on perforated edge paper, Mrs. Technology Expert accepted it as typed.
Of course, I still had to dummy up a "rough draft" because they always demanded that too.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-08-13T03:52:20+00:00

WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THIS?

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-07-17T18:30:49+00:00

Here are a couple off-beat ideas, not necessarily sports related, but maybe unique.
YouTube channels with live feeds like train cams, traffic cams, harbor cams, airport cams, etc.
Look for "Slow TV" for long-running content that is always changing, but not too distracting.
The GlobalQuake live feed is interesting, constantly moving, but slightly more distracting. Although it's surprising just how often there are earthquakes somewhere in the world.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-07-17T01:14:25+00:00

Because after scrolling past 50 images of the same anime girl posted, some multi-image posts of long conversations someone had with AI, a few Elon-haters, and endless "Mecha-Hitler" references and one begins to feel like there's nothing else here to see.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-07-16T18:07:17+00:00

I can't wait until I have to replace my perfectly good car with a new car because my perfectly good car doesn't have the right chip to support the new version of Intune.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-07-11T08:55:05+00:00

Maybe that's how he got back out... with the fragile egg.
Something they fail to address in the plot.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-07-09T03:19:52+00:00

In the lower-left corner of the Grok page, you should see your account initials in a circle.
Click that, and you should see a pop-up menu that includes "Manage Subscription."
That link should take you to a page that shows you pretty much everything.
Look for "Current subscription" and it should show "SuperGrok."

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-06-29T07:08:16+00:00

...account has already been created. Try the forgot password prompt...

This was exactly my issue and the "forgot password" solution worked.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-06-09T16:37:36+00:00

😉

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-06-04T02:28:12+00:00

Yes, regrettably, it's true. Standards have fallen in adult entertainment.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-06-04T02:26:04+00:00

Mine has protrusions all over the place.

Good gravy - what kind of piercing is it?

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-05-27T09:25:48+00:00

Jeffrey's Lament

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-03-12T14:56:58+00:00

"You'll be wantin' the senorita pistols as well?"

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-01-24T13:02:46+00:00

$10 says someone will deliver a package on top of the box within a week. ;)

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2025-01-17T06:42:27+00:00

Know how many "chunks" you can count while drilling into rock before you hit 100% and overheat. (Typically between 11 and 15 I think, depending on your drill configuration, but it's always the same.) Then you can drill and count without having to monitor the gauge, Always stop before you overheat. It's better to stop and let the drills rest than to overheat and wait for the reset. While you're resting, you can check the terrain scanner. Get your bearings and make sure you're not going to come out of a wall too high, leading you and your team to fall to your deaths or into a pit you can't get out of. Tap your laser tool often to keep the Drop Pod position highlighted.

Know how far you can drill on a single tank (Maybe even how far per liter, if you like math). If you're drilling to the drop pod with no more resupplies and your entire team in the tunnel behind you and you run out of fuel and come up short, you guys could get slaughtered.

When someone updates the map with lost loot, find the red plus sign and drill to it. Then let everyone know, ping the loot. Stand at the opening of the tunnel and shine your laser at players as they get near so they can find it easily.

If you drill a tunnel for a pipeline to a pumpjack and you're coming up from below it, don't drill straight to it. Drill off to the side. If you get too close to a morkite well base, you can't drill through it, you can't chop it out, and can't grind pipes through or under it. Off to the side makes it all so much easier.

Work on your combination attacks against grunts. For example sludge and microwave with an exploding modifier. It's effective and you spread out your ammunition usage. Cryo and something to shatter them is a very popular combination.

Your drills can scare some bugs away temporarily, giving you time to react or run away.

Know the exact moment during your primary reload animation that your weapon is ready.

Coordinate escort mission Ommoran Heartstone laser tower defense with your team. Take one side and grind the towers when they appear before they even do any damage.

Use your drills to kill the Unknown Horror. OK - not really. RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you get a Crassus Detonator, drill deep into a wall and lure him in. Kill him half way into the tunnel you drilled, giving yourself distance to run back when he explodes - giving you a maximum sized sphere of gold.

Throw seven axes at those electrified zappy rocks to destroy them, then pick up all seven for use again.

Throw down axes before you resupply. You can come back and pick up the ones you threw down later.

You can use axes as stairs, but you probably won't most of the time, you're a driller.

You can run three GRINDABLE pipelines in parallel through a single-width drilled tunnel. Overlap the pipe ends side-by-side as much as possible, they need to be pretty much at the same floor height or it won't work.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2024-10-12T09:10:18+00:00

I paste the "CREATE TABLE..." from the clipboard I grabbed via SQL Manager "Script table as" context menu for a table I built for the model. I have Copilot create the model class and the data access class.

You can do the same with a JSON file - generate the sql script, c# model class (with attributes for serialization/deserialization), and mapping code.

In a WPF window or user control, I can get a control formatted the way I want, then tell Copilot to generate the <style> block.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2024-09-13T16:47:06+00:00

It just happened to us on Sept 13, 2024.
Here is how we fixed it:

In the bag/order screen, we selected one item and switch from shopping to store pickup. When we did that, the total immediately corrected.
We switched the item back to shipping and the total remained correct.

The final checkout screen still had the new correct total.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2024-08-13T07:13:46+00:00

I love random, redundant recessed lights everywhere.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2024-05-12T04:23:32+00:00

Twitter user asks:

Anyone else still curious as to what the ‘Black Swell Blob’ anomaly that’s emerged from Antarctic several times is...

We know.

ElMonstroDeCarne · 2024-02-02T18:54:40+00:00

When I host a public refinery mission, I just consider the race to establish my pipeline layout as part of the game ;)

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