So, the old saying goes "You learn something new every day."

Today I learned how to ventilate hairpieces and am working on my very first fake moustache, haha!

What interesting stuff did y'all learn today (or recently)? Inquiring minds want to know!

I learned that not all props and characters come in at "zero" like they say they do on the dials.  Some of them are waaaaay off in another direction.

I learned that the bartender I am lusting over likes me too. Just not "like that"... sigh

Would owning a fake handlebar moustache cheer you up, rokket?

Quote - Would owning a fake handlebar moustache cheer you up, rokket?

Is this a "real" fake handlebar moustache you're referring to Hana??

...today I learnt that at least a couple of users are not the "gender" I'd envisaged they were previously... I guess this harks back to SamTherapy's previous OT thread about preconceptions.

Its amazing how our brains still insist on constructing these precepts... even though intellectually we know we have no basis for them...

...well, my brain does this anyway. I guess I'm creating another preconception for myself, speculating that anyone else's brain does this. Maybe it is just me?? LOL :lol:

Now, for the rest of the day, I'm learning about Clonezilla.

It's far from as exciting as it sounds unfortunately...

Conjugating Spanish verbs while holding a very slow traffic open house. Only the simple tenses so far, all 7., i.e., their names en espanol too (presente de indicativo, imperfecto de indicativo, preterit (my favorite), futuro, etc.). Still getting KILLED by the irregular verbs, though.

Actually that was YESterday.  Don't know about today yet.

That it's a lot more fun making facial morphs for cartoon characters than it is for "realistic" humans.  

Yesterday I learned to use "not" versus "==0" in Python, to always check that V4 eyes will close periodically during a scene, and to get food at the nice concessions at the front of the stadium, versus waiting to get it at the ones way up at the cheap seats.  :)

i learned to heed the warnings on Illy espresso coffee to 'open slowly, STOP, wait to release pressure'.

I learned I'm too old to ride around in a car without AC in the US deep south in summer.

Quote - Now, for the rest of the day, I'm learning about Clonezilla.

What a coincidence. I downloaded the ISO this morning. Now we can be boredom buddies. :) 

Glitter- Learned that one some time ago. It's really tough, isn't it? 102 in Kentucky yesterday.

I learned if you wait long enough sometimes a thread will moderate itself. I REALLY like that! (Not refering to THIS thread, BTW)

I learned my 3 1/2 year-old granddaughter has figured out that PawPaw is the one you ask when you want a trip to the toystore. And yes, she remembers in the afternoon what you promised in the morning! Should have seen that one coming.

Quote - > Quote - Now, for the rest of the day, I'm learning about Clonezilla.

What a coincidence. I downloaded the ISO this morning. Now we can be boredom buddies. :) 

Well I had success with it, cloning NTFS formatted drives with fully configured and then sysprep'd instances of Win7 on them... worked a treat... which is more than I can say for MS' own WDS...

that my boss is a really bad person, and I must not be afraid to look for other job even I've been here for 16 years :.-(

i just learned that 7zip kicks #%@$ing ass -- especially if you can allocate a lot of memory while compressing.

i just compressed 580 megs of .PZ3s and .PMDs to a 9 meg file!

Actually...it is! Heh. I didn't think it would really cheer anyone up, but in the case that it would, I would be willing to part with it when it's done. Hand-tied human hair on fine theater lace, which I'm inordinately proud of, even though I'm only halfway done...See attached image, hehe.

Quote - ...today I learnt that at least a couple of users are not the "gender" I'd envisaged they were previously... I guess this harks back to SamTherapy's previous OT thread about preconceptions. Its amazing how our brains still insist on constructing these precepts... even though intellectually we know we have no basis for them...

...well, my brain does this anyway. I guess I'm creating another preconception for myself, speculating that anyone else's brain does this. Maybe it is just me?? LOL :lol:

I know for a fact that I do it, too. That's why I tend to avoid using pronouns unless I know for sure, hehe. Some people get offended when you've decided their sex for them...

Oh, Larry, Larry...you poor thing. I hated irregular verbs in French, and the extent of my spanish is "Two cold beers please," "Where's the bathroom," "I don't speak spanish," and "The cat is on fire."

Basicwiz, hehe. They learn fast, don't they. My little one has recently learned that Gammy is the one to ask for money, 'cause Gammy doesn't make her earn it like I do...

Ima70, I'm sending courageous and warm-fuzzy thoughts your way!

Quote - that my boss is a really bad person, and I must not be afraid to look for other job even I've been here for 16 years :.-(

I learned a new crying emoticon!

how to survey a tank room, drain the tanks, refill, chlorinate, neutralise the chlorine and flush the water system.

Quote - that my boss is a really bad person, and I must not be afraid to look for other job even I've been here for 16 years :.-(

Used to work with a guy who said "I was looking for a job when I found this one and I still remember how to look."  He moved on before I did.

So far today, I have not learned anything new.  Yesterday, I learned that Moriador is a girl. :)

Today I (re)learned that some programmers should never ever ever ever be given anything more technical than paper and crayons

Moriador, a female???  Didn't see that coming.  Heh, heh.

Now... I learnt what the fovea centralis is... thanks, again, BB

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2852787&page=5#message_3959510

Quote - Glitter- Learned that one some time ago. It's really tough, isn't it? 102 in Kentucky yesterday.

I learned if you wait long enough sometimes a thread will moderate itself. I REALLY like that! (Not refering to THIS thread, BTW)

I learned my 3 1/2 year-old granddaughter has figured out that PawPaw is the one you ask when you want a trip to the toystore. And yes, she remembers in the afternoon what you promised in the morning! Should have seen that one coming.

Yeah, this weather is awful.  I'm house hunting and got the brilliant idea to drive around looking for empty houses.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  We're actually in the low 90s this week in Georgia, but it's still way too hot for that idea!

I have an uncle in western KY and he refuses to come to Georgia during the summer because of the heat.  He must be melting right now!

I learned - and I learn it every day - my children are a constant source of wonder and sheer delight.  Even when they are being complete ratbags they still cause my heart to leap.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm gushing but I never knew just how much I could love someone until my children were born.  I can only imagine how it must be for a mother. 

do not anger one's bank tellers or they will stage a "sick-out" day en masse.

finding out you cant bake cycles textures (insert suitable emote,blenders shortcuts have shortcuted my brain)

@SamT love it when u talk about ur kids ;-) worst decision I ever made was the snip an teeching my boys what a condom was

I need more G'kids!!!! the ones I got can BEAT me up lol

Today I learned about a certain politician's mentor and parenting and it really explains a lot about him.

I learned that the Knicks did one of the stupidest things ever and let Jermey Lin go for nothing.

I also learned a game I wanted is on sale over at that popular digital distribution site so I bought it.

Finally I learned that at comic con WB has a trailer of the new Godzilla.  It looks more like the original, he'll be fighting a six-armed monster, and will have a grittier (batman reboot) feel to it.  I am hyped.

I learned to set the deltaAddDelta value for the One channel to a negative value to hold back the JCM in a limb moving on a negative axis.

I learned to use the weather lab in Genetica to make a skin texture look wrinkled.

Learnt how projectors don't just have to be horizontal, but can point upwards. So you can make things fly across a ceiling, which helped me get a new contract/job that I've been after for ages. Not just about the money, but more importantly will allow me to artistically and technically explore new ideas.

Learnt not to spray febreeze air freshner around where there is a laminate floor and then walk straight across it , SPLAT! face down.... oh I ache :*(

Quote - Learnt not to spray febreeze air freshner around where there is a laminate floor and then walk straight across it , SPLAT! face down.... oh I ache :*(

That can make your cat's eyes get big.  Oh, wait . . .

At least you made it to the computer. :)

Quote - > Quote - Learnt not to spray febreeze air freshner around where there is a laminate floor and then walk straight across it , SPLAT! face down.... oh I ache :*(

That can make your cat's eyes get big.  Oh, wait . . .

At least you made it to the computer. :)

It was the cat's fault, stinky cat food! oh I made it to work but milked it all day  :)

I learned today that 2+2 does not equal 5. :cursing:

Hopefully tomorrow I will learn what it does equal.

I learnt how to rescuscitate a "bricked" iphone...

I learned to clean the monitor before wasting hours trying to figure out what is causing the artifact.

sleeve physics

sleeves will move up/down with my arm, and unless it's skin tight, moves front/back to a lesser degree, when i twist rotate my arm sleeve doesn't move much.

Quote - Learnt not to spray febreeze air freshner around where there is a laminate floor and then walk straight across it , SPLAT! face down.... oh I ache :*(

Sorry not to laugh, but I can just picture it happening, :lol:

That summers like this make you questioning global warming.

I'm on a camping vacation in Germany and we had nothing but rain and very low temperatures for the last two weeks.

@bopperthijs: point taken, bug fixed. You'll get more summer next week. Just hold on :)

"What did you learn today?"

That Bradley Wiggins has replaced Billy Idol as the World's Greatest Living Englishman!

Aha! another "Tourdefrance" fan! It's a pity the dutch dropped out early (again!)

Today I learned the new batman movie is good, but not as good as the last two... it's kind of like you can't really top Empire or Khan.  They say the sequels sink because its hard to follow up the original, for Sci Fi it seems, the sequels are better than the first and set up an impossible scenerio for the 3rd movie to top.

The third one seems to have more visible flaws and story holes, particularly in the first half.  One of the new characters they introduce seems to get a little too much screen time.  This movie was also said by some not to be able to be followed up.  While I see an intrepretation that would allow for that to happen, I can also see this as a "definitive" ending point.  I don't think DC should try to milk this because Batman is their only superhero they can get right.

And it was cool to see Kane back again for a little bit.  Good for continuity with the other two films... its a shame they didn't work the joker back into it.

i've learned in the last hour, not to set Miki3's skullcap to 256,000 hairs. uses up all my memory. hard shutdown.  oopsiedoozy

also learned to turn off Miki's limits to use some of her included poses.

I learnt I have a TFCC tear in my right wrist. what fun work has / is going to be... therapy for a couple of months.. and if that (when) fails, surgery....

ouchie.  get well soon!

...that 16 year olds are not logical... 

Kendra...

Beat you to that one about 20 years ago!

Quote - ...that 16 year olds are not logical... 

I learnt that at age 16

 Yeah, I don't recall listening to any voice of experience either.  :)