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Former Member
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Don't worry, I'm coming for my hippo badge! <sigh of relief>  You never know in this business  |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Dear Base Campers,
J'ai l'impression que vous allez mourir de faim avec ces risques d'incendies. Alors, un colis de survie : saucisse sèche, Roquefort, pain de campagne, et Bordeaux. (J'allais pas vous laisser boire du coke quand même). Et pour le petit déjeuner, des crêpes avec du beurre ou du miel, et du jus de pomme ou du cidre. Avec ça, ça devrait aller mieux. --------- I feel that you are going to starve with these fires. So, a survival package: dry sausage, Roquefort, country bread, and Bordeaux. (I was not going to let you drink coke anyway). And for breakfast, pancakes with butter or honey, and apple juice or cider. With that, it should get better. BladeD, Tu pourrais me répondre rapport au beta test s'il te plaît ? Surtout si on est souvent contacté par mail, ou si c'est plutôt comme les autres projets ? Que comme tu as le badge d'or, tu dois savoir comment ça se passe. -------- Could you answer me report to the beta test please? Especially if we are often contacted by email, or if it's more like other projects? That as you have the gold badge, you must know how it goes.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I feel that you are going to starve with these fires. So, a survival package: dry sausage, Roquefort, country bread, and Bordeaux. (I was not going to let you drink coke anyway). And for breakfast, pancakes with butter or honey, and apple juice or cider. Dear stefadaWith that, it should get better Thank you very, very much. So thoughtful of you. I'm afraid I didn't think all that imaginatively. Yes, that's just what we need to get much better - just wait to see our graph tomorrow  I have meant to ask you - but forgot; yesterday was so busy: How is your weather? I think I heard that Northern France and Belgium were inundated with rain with fatalities. It's far away from you, but I have thought about the video and photos of the river running through your village. Are you and Saphir12 all right? |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Little Mermaid,
Pour le colis de survie, il faut dire que je triche ! J'ai grandit en Bretagne, et j'habite en Aveyron, des régions où on aime bien manger (comme un peu partout en France), et en plus, c'est ce qu'on prenait quand on allait sur des feux, quand j'étais Pompier. Saucisse sèche, Roquefort et pain de campagne. Avec de l'eau et pas du vin rouge par contre, qu'il faut être à 100% devant un feu. Mais ça fait du bien quand on prend une pause. Surtout qu'on ne sait jamais combien de temps il faudra pour l'éteindre. Quant à la météo, c'est grisonnant ou orageux ces temps-ci, on a de la pluie tous les jours. Mais c'est plus désagréable qu'autre chose. Si tu penses aux inondations, il n'y a rien a craindre. Au pire, avec un orage, la rivière va monter d'un mètre ou deux, puis redescendre le lendemain. C'est en novembre/décembre, qu'il y a vraiment des risques de crues. Et il faut qu'il pleuve pendant des jours. Mais surtout, on a l'habitude, tout est prévu. Le parking inondable sous le pont neuf, il est fermé 24H à l'avance. Si vraiment c'est important, une voiture de police fait le tour avec un haut-parleur, pour signaler la crue. Et si vraiment, ça devient dangereux, les habitants des zones à risque sont prévenus par SMS. L'inondation que je vous ai montré, c'est vraiment exceptionnel, ça n'arrive qu'une à deux fois par siècle. Et il n'y a eu aucune victime, juste beaucoup de dégâts matériel. On savait que ça allait 'être chaud', même si on ne pensait pas à ce point là. Les Pompiers n'ont eu à faire que deux interventions, pour récupérer des gens mal placé. C'est vraiment rien, si on considère tous les dangers ce jour-là. L'alerte avait été très bien communiquée. Il restait juste à regarder, impuissant, que contre l'eau, on ne peut rien. ---------- For the survival package, I must say that I cheat! I grew up in Brittany, and I live in Aveyron, regions where we like to eat (like everywhere in France), and what's more, it's what we took when we went on fires, when I was a firefighter. Dry sausage, Roquefort and country bread. With water and not red wine, you have to be 100% in front of a fire. But it feels good when you take a break. Especially that you never know how long it will take to turn it off. As for the weather, it's gray or stormy these days, we have rain every day. But it's more unpleasant than anything else. If you think about floods, there is nothing to fear. At worst, with a storm, the river will rise a meter or two, and then go down the next day. It is in November / December that there is really a risk of flooding. And it must rain for days. But above all, we are used to, everything is planned. The floodable parking under the new bridge, it is closed 24 hours in advance. If really it's important, a police car goes around with a loudspeaker, to signal the flood. And if really, it becomes dangerous, the inhabitants of risk areas are warned by SMS. The flood that I showed you, it's really exceptional, it only happens once or twice a century. And there were no casualties, just a lot of material damage. We knew it was going to be hot, even if we did not think about it that much. The firefighters had to do only two interventions, to recover people misplaced. It's really nothing if you consider all the dangers that day. The alert was very well communicated. He just watched helplessly that against the water, nothing can be done.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you for providing provisions over and above MREs and the threat of sushi
  stefada You’re an angelI like such a simple meal that can be carried in your rucksack. Good to hear you're OK and that the river is OK. Those video and photos have me scared. Good Afternoon Base Campers! Shop talk This trek is running very smoothly. The only bump in the road that I can see is BladeD behaving a bit procrastinating – I’m willing to believe he has his reasons at any rate he had a diamond Zika badge today  and the other bump being yodap having not arrived. I could put up a reminder for him – but as I close in on the age of dementia myself, I cannot be everybody’s memory …  I should teach myself to fidget less  And, really, you are so very good at helping me by coming without any fuss and making each trek great in its own way We have Speedy51 join us. He’s a veteran cruncher from New Zealand who has been active here since 2005. How that came about? Easy. Speedy51 e-mailed me with a question about the round medal to the right in my signature. Luckily I had looked it up a few days ago  Collatz  I still remember, TLD, how your took me through that upgrade of my graphic card …  … and I start to shake all over … - and then I asked Speedy51 if he would consider Base Camping. He would  Sometimes life is so easy  The present crew is: acpartsman Doneske Eric_Kaiser Fossaw little mermaid Speedy51 tanner2 TLD  of which tanner2 left upon seing sujo1 in trouble just as I was doing the books .... Thank you for being here, lil’ brother Your hippo badge is in the mail. Oh, I cannot help it: acpartsman, have you talked to dave lately? flodisar I’m worried Ms Mermaid Freud chased our host away …  Hopefully you are just busy catching up on chores and will pay us a visit tonight, flodisar. May I ask which city you live in? |
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TLD
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Post Count: 810 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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stefada wrote:
----------------------------------------Could you answer me report to the beta test please? Especially if we are often contacted by email, or if it's more like other projects? That as you have the gold badge, you must know how it goes. When you sign up for the beta testing you will receive emails when a new project or sometimes if they change the work units, and is about to go to beta. The ones i get have a link to the beta testing thread in this forum. The emails are not frequent as new projects don't come that often.  |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Please meet DeliciousShoesHD
who joins us from Slovenia  DeliciousShoesHD, I hope you'll have a pleasant trek with us We cannot serve hot coffee because of the fire hazard here in our Swedish camp ground - but, we have a French friend, stefada from team Kraland, who has brightened our day with dry sausage, bread, Roquefort (the original), and Bordeaux wine. Tomorrow he will meet early with his picnic basket filled with pancakes he baked all night and honey to pour over them .... Please ask, if you have any questions, DeliciousShoesHD  How this came about? I asked in the celebration thread. I asked two crunchers. DeliciousShoesHD came  |
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Merci TLD !
J'avais un peu peur que la mer soit trop forte pour moi : ---------- Thank you TLD! I was a little afraid that the sea was too strong for me:  Pointe du Raz Mais en fait, on dirait que c'est comme là où j'ai appris à nager. --------- But in fact, it looks like it's where I learned to swim.  Audierne Go beta test ! |
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Veteran Cruncher Sweden Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1322 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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stefada, I'll get back to your post soon. They just made the day longer. 36 hours. How nice they look all your rubies!  flodisar, you wrote: I do am grateful because the team has been very neglected for a long time, but I have refused to terminate it. It's just the way I am - there till the end. Also I am happy if The International Team can provide you a destination for a trek! And I’m happy that this symbiosis – your team having been neglected and Base Camp being short of stomping grounds was established. Perfect. It looks as if I have messed up - but let's continue I also like computer hardware, overclocking and such. How about you? I like keyboards the best. What is overclocking? May I refer your question to the male faction of Base Camp, please? Sort of a caretaker I guess. Mother has Parkinson's, father has a lot of pain due to a pretty bricked spine and some other general things making him eat a lot of pills. For how many years have your mother suffered from Parkinson’s?And what is a ’bricked spine’? Fused vertebrae? Putting it this way may give a broader perspective: Before work in the morning I am at my Parents' place. After work I am at my parents' place. I often fall asleep in their bed after work. Then I get home at 11pm or so. Those are my days. But I am trying to keep my mood but because it could have been much worse. Are you an angel or something?I understand you want to help your parents because their lives are difficult. And you should do as your conscience asks. But I hope that your help is over and above whatever help your parents receive from the ’kommun’. Is it? How old are your parents? Of course, having a life of my own too would be a nice thing, because not having any close-by friends or partner (except work) when you just had your 31st birthday is...well it raises some existential questions in one's mind. I cannot see where you would steal the time to develop a life of your own not to mention a social life of any kind. You got to sleep.Are you living close to your parents and close to your workplace? I would think that most young girls/women want to have some of your time and could feel rejected when you spend almost all of your spare time with your parents. I would, however, think you could find some who understand and are tolerant. Have you tried to put a ’blind’ ad in a newspaper? You must have some weekly adverting ones like we do here where you can place classifieds. Do you have any experience with net dating? I hope that your phone gets fixed so that it can spend some time outside of Sweden in a near future. Thank you. It went fast this time. I picked it up today at Elgiganten - I would think you have Elgiganten in Sweden, too, right? That phone – which otherwise is French named Saphir12-Nathalie after la Capitaine of team Kraland – speaks fluent Swedish.Just joking. It’s English. They erased everything and upgraded the OS. This is the fourth time in six months I have to make it MY phone again … sighhh… I actually made a project to make an old Samsung Galaxy S+ run without battery - instead being powered directly from a power brick You are very inventive. Saw your stack of shelves earlier. I would like to pass on the battery in Saphir12-Nathalie (Sony Xperia M5) because it gets fairly warm. I have set it to limit of 34C, but in this hot weather it even suspends itself at 35C. It gets far hotter to the touch than my new one named D (Sony Xperia L1) and little old Mr Jones (Sony Xperia E). Next post: Thanks for the kind words, and I must say that the alias "little mermaid" also was an indication to me that you are a kind person <3 flodisar, thank you for your kind words. ’The little mermaid’ is a fairy tale character which you may have heard about. She loved much, lost much, and kept loving. I feel that name gives me a lot of good will I am a software developer since seven years ago or so after getting my degree in 2011. Who is your employer? I love my parents so I wouldn't consider any other option as long as they feel that I am helping them more than the opposite. We help eachother out, basically :) You sound like an awfully nice guy – much like stefada – and much like all crunchers here. That’s why I like to be on the Forum. You are decent people and you are smart each in your own way.In which ways do you help your parents? As mentioned above: I would think they received some assistance from the ’kommun’ for certain tasks so that your help is above the basic help they need – some luxury which public assistance rarely give. …but the conventions in Sweden seem to be the same with regard to being settled down when turning 30. I would think there is a wide margin, so don’t stress about it. Que sera … maybe sooner than you think. But sometimes you have to give destiny a helping hand. But I have never had someone of the opposite sex looking my way in my life so far, and I can't blame anyone either - IRL social interactions especially are not in my favor, and yeah that part of my life is a mess so it is what it has always been It’s at pity for ’the opposite sex’. They will never know what they miss. On the other hand, they will hardly bump into you in your parents’ home, or? I correspond with a man almost my age. He became a carpenter apprentice with us right after we started our business, so I have known him most of my life. He is deaf. He calls himself a social disaster, and I can understand he has all kinds of difficulties when being with others. It’s my impression he values the social interaction he gets out of our correspondence. Why do I mention that? Social inhibitions … Are you shy? … maybe I am still young … Not maybe. You are. Oh, I do actually have a sibling, a sister. Does she live near your parents? And if so, does she pitch in with the caregiving?An International Team 2.0 Trek? Yaay! :) I hope that I'll be a Team Captain by then at least ;) You will. stefada says so. He's the guy with the hats And we will look forward to visit you again. As you have figuered out: We don’t have all that many host teams available to us. But we like those we have. "Hey, flodisar, it's so nice having met you and getting to know you!" Thank you. I have a feeling that the words soothe you the way I felt soothed when I began reading in 2003. Thank you for such heart-warming words. I'd like to tell you the very same - it is not very often that I get to meet such nice people like you and all the other Base Campers. My need for kindness at the time was insatiable. Whoops, time is almost 2AM so sleep is imminent. Good night everyone! I hope you had a good sleep and woke rested in spite of being up half of the night. EDIT: Sorry if I have been too direct. You were pretty open about things, so therefore I took that road, too. Don't answer what you may feel unpleasant about, flodisar. Wow, thank you for such an answer, I see you have spent some time on it and I highly appreciate it! I'm very sorry for having been AFK during the weekend. It had nothing to do with you scaring me away so don't be worried about that - quite the opposite I am very happy for your equally open and straight reply! I was spending my weekend with parents (what a surprise :)) and weather has been so hot...unbearably so. I'm also sorry if I do not take the time to quote properly or if I miss some reply in the forum - I often get to a PC in peace when it is late like now at 1AM and must sleep soon to wake up for work tomorrow. If I miss some reply, please poke me again and I'll be sure to reply. Speaking of work, you asked about my employer. Due to work reasons I cannot write the company name but is is a small company, so it's not Google or IBM (and I'm happy that it isn't) :) I don't remember if I ever asked or if you told me, but what field of work are/were you engaged in? Oh you like keyboards, that's nice! Have you any particular keyboard that you like (Brand/model)? I'm currently using an ASUS ROG Claymore with mechanical Cherry MX Red. My first mechanical keyboard and I am pretty pleased with it. I'd like to know more about your thoughts on what makes a good/bad keyboard, since I am unfortunately not as into keyboards as I'd like to be one day. Overclocking you ask...that's when you run components (in a PC for instance - a processor, graphics card, memory) outside of specification. My CPU rated to 3.0-3.4GHz originally but I run it usually at 3.9GHz on all cores to further boost my WCG crunching capabilities. It doesn't come cheap though - even if it more or less is free extra computing power. Consequences are usually higher power consumption, more heat produced, potentially lower lifespan of components (if you raise voltages too high), more noise if your fans have too run faster to keep temperatures down etc. But, it is very fun I think and it serves a good purpose too at WCG. My mother has been diagnosed with Parkinson's about four or five years ago. But it is a disease that gave her some early symptoms before the diagnose since it progresses over many years. She is my biggest concern right now - the feeling of being helpless in terms of making something about the root cause. I can only help so much, but it won't make her "less ill" so to speak. Father's bricked spine as I called it, is herniated discs along the entire spine more or less. He's eating some pretty powerful painkillers and they make him less able to help mother out too even if they reduce the pain somewhat. Parents are 68 (mother) and 59 (father) years of age. My parents are of course not a burden more than I have been or am, and I actually get along very well with my parents. I've never been that guy who cannot agree or get along with the elder generation, quite the opposite. I live very close to my parents, within walking distance. My sister has luckily managed to get a real life with a fiance and a dog and a cat, and I am very happy for her. She lives about 15km away and has a lot of work too, so unfortunately I don't see my sister so often anymore ever since she got a fiance and moved a l lot. She lives much closer now though than she did a few years ago. It feels reassuring, but I understand that she has a hard time finding time outside of the family she is building up right now. The kommun (municipality?) is not doing anything to help really. I don't want to go political here but a long story short: Sweden has declined rapidly in that respect and also the healthcare is a catastrophe. So is my mother's pension (which doesn't even reach the level of the rent, not to mention food then or medicine). How is your health and what is the healthcare like in Denmark? Do the "kommun" care for people? The help I do is I try to find strength to be there for mother to offload father mostly. Someone has to always be there because suddenly mother needs to lie down and needs help lifting her legs up onto the sofa or bed. Very often the medicine she takes gives her pain and/or difficulties to walk, talk, feeling swollen in the abdominal area. Doctor's have made all kinds of tests by now but can't pinpoint it. Every night I put mother to bed, giving her a short massage because she has aches in her back after a long day, so that she can sleep better. Father has no strength for it in his arms because of his back. I try to help with making some food, shopping groceries, tidy a bit (making my own lair a bit of a mess at times). She has trouble keeping her weight and eating properly (the stomach problems) and yeah, and she is often scared being left alone at home for instance because what if she needs help to get up from a lying position on the sofa and there is no one to help her etc. In-between all this of course I enjoy spending time with parents, going for walks together when possible and so on. We watch movies, discuss things, eat together - and those moments make it all worth it for me! The downside is of course, I am not really "out there". You are completely correct in the conclusion that when and where would I find the chance to socialize when I am either at work or at parents' place or sleep. I know this too, and also I realize that girls/women would feel rejected. It has never gone that far though. I have never tried dating. Shyness is probably as some would initially perceive it I am sure, but I believe that I have some autistic tendencies or traits from the Asperger side. Completely undiagnosed, but it would explain a lot of the social difficulties I am experiencing, SAD (social anxiety disorder), some OCDs and a whole lot else. At the same time, I also value kind words and actions from kind people a lot, because kind people are rare these days. So if only it would only be shyness it would be easier. But shyness is there too, yes. Being an introvert, low self-esteem an low self-confidence are another life-long things that have been around as far as I can remember. I believe that many people might find me hard to "be with" and I often feel the same about many people too. I have actually tried to create a life of my own when I moved, to study at the Univeristy. It ended up in depression after realizing/failing to fit in and I just felt more of an alien in this society than probably ever before. Your carpenter apprentice is very lucky to have you, and so am I. I have always found good people on the WCG forums and earlier the UD.org. It's sad I find so little time lately for the forums. I have missed out on talking to a lot of great people. I am happy to hear that you are feeling much better than you did in 2003! What did you start reading? Oh dear it's 2:30AM...again :( I have to be up in under five hours, so I must go to bed a few hours ago. Please tell me more about your life and interests too - you are a very nice person and I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on life's "specificalities" (a made-up word I believe :))! Good night to you and all the Base Campers! EDIT: Now as I scrolled back even further I saw that you actually already replied to me asking about your life-story. Oh dear, I am having a hard time keeping up with all posts! Time flies so fast. I will read it tomorrow, because I urgently need to sleep, but at least I'll have something to look forward to :)  Join The International Team: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=CK9RP1BKX1 AMD TR2990WX @ PBO, 64GB Quad 3200MHz 14-17-17-17-1T, RX6900XT @ Stock AMD 3800X @ PBO AMD 2700X @ 4GHz [Edit 2 times, last edit by flodisar at Jun 11, 2018 12:33:22 AM] |
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Thank you for the pancakes, stefada
Good Morning Base Campers! Shop talk The runtime graph as of this morning looks like this: BladeD arrived  The present crew is: Acpartsman BladeD DeliciousShoesHD Doneske Eric_Kaiser Fossaw little mermaid Speedy51 tanner2 - retired TLD 10 badges – so far Badges I kicked myself in the behind. The links to our badges come from uploads to my Facebook account – I have even recommended this method to others and those links have an expiration date. That means that The Base Camp Hall of Fame when viewed in Internet Explorer have these little boxes with an ’x’ in them indicating that the link doesn’t work. When viewed in Chrome, however, nothing looks wrong. How come? Is there a better affiliation between Google and Facebook than between Microsoft and Facebook? Anyhow, I have uploaded all our badges to Imgur.com so I have more durable links, hopefully. That doesn’t fix the problem, because I cannot edit any posts that are older than 120 days which several of them are. I shall replace the links in an edit where it is possible, and I can copy and paste as new posts the ones that cannot be edited as soon as possible. If any of you have ideas to a better and quicker fix, please let me know          Flodisar You raise a lot of existential problems, which I would like to discuss with you. My concern is: I’m afraid to do more harm than good. You are a very factual guy – very emotional, too – and above all extremely unselfish. I’m glad we met. I think interaction here – in your team thread, Base Camp’s or anybody’s - we accept few limits could provide a break for your brain which is tied up with real life problems and obligations. But also joys as you report. Did you have the chance to watch any installments of ’Broen’? - The Bridge - it's about police cooperation bilaterally between Sweden and Denmark and the cross the bridge all the time  I don’t watch much TV but caught a few episodes from the library streaming service. I was fascinated by the character Sara Norén – the Swedish detective. She was an Asperger bordering to autism as I saw it. No fuss. She met a guy and asked directly in her first sentence to his surprise if he wanted to go home with her. The morning after she said he was ok. They could meet again. It was a business transaction on her part. She had felt a need. She took care of that need. She saw him as a useful tool. He was utterly confused. I don’t think you have any of the mental ailments you list in their pure form. I think you have a bit of everything – a bigger dose of this than of that, but nothing serious – just like all of us. I think you need a day off. All princes and princesses need a Roman Holiday I shall copy your post and think everything over, and reply as carefully as I can to the things I think I can – and even that may be daring. It’s your life, and choices are so difficult. Don’t let yourself down; you have obligations to flodisar, too. On one hand you like it and don’t want it otherwise – on the other hand you feel a void. I wish I could waft a magic wand – but only you can decide ♥ |
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