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Tell me a joke...

Unforgiven
A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."

Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

The little silver-haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."

Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.

He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster."

He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep breath, "put the Corn Flakes back in the box."
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Fatalities - 2026

rootabaga
olbriar said:

Dash Crofts, of 1970s music duo Seals & Crofts, dead at 85​

Sadly, I report that Crofts of Seals and Crofts has passed away. The two made some great music that wasn't rock but fit right in to the music scene of the early seventies. Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Hummingbird, and so many more tunes are burned into my soul. Thanks you so very much for touching me with your music.
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I listened to a lot of their music as well. RIP and thanks for so many great tunes.
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UI building without XML or Compose

koje1971
Hello,

independent of XML and Compose, there are also other ways to build your UI. I have written some helper classes and put together my UI with a kind of custom DSL. It works almost perfectly. 😊


override fun createLayout(target: FrameLayoutBuilder) {
instance = this
with(target) {
addLinearLayout {
setOrientationVertical()
add(ActivityHeader())
createContent(this)
add(ActivityFooter())
}
}
}


private fun createContent(target: LinearLayoutBuilder) {
with(target) {
addFrameLayout {
setLayoutWeight(1f)
addLinearLayout {
setOrientationVertical()
addFrameLayout {
setLayoutWeight(1f)
addSurfaceView {
setSurface(Playground)
}

addRelativeLayout {
setGravityBottomRight()
addTextView {
setVisibleFalse()
formatHint(this)
addReceiver(Playground.hint) {
setTextId(it)
setVisible(it != R.string.Empty)
}
}
}
}
createInfoLine(this)
}
addFrameLayout {
addReceiver(overlay) {
replace(it)
}
}
}
}
}

fun formatHint(target: TextViewBuilder) {
with(target) {
setTextSizeSP(20)
setTextColorID(R.color.hintText)
setMarginsDP(50, 10, 20, 20)
setPaddingsDP(20, 10)
setGravityRight()
setGradientBackground {
cornerRadii = getCornerRadii(getPixelFromDP(15).toFloat())
setStroke(getPixelFromDP(6), getColorFromID(R.color.black))
setColor(getColorFromID(R.color.hint))
}
}
}

fun createInfoLine(target: LinearLayoutBuilder) {
with(target) {
addLinearLayout {
setOrientationHorizontal()
setPaddingsDP(10, 0)
setBackgroundColorId(R.color.black)
addTextView {
setWidthDP(100)
setLayoutWeight(1f)
setTextSizeSP(16)
setTextColorID(R.color.white)
setFontId(R.font.nunito_bold)
addReceiver(Playground.mode) {
setText(
when (it) {
Play -> "Build Mode"
else -> "Play Mode"
}
)
}
}
addTextView {
setWidthDP(100)
setLayoutWeight(1f)
setGravityCenter()
setTextSizeSP(16)
setTextColorID(R.color.white)
setFontId(R.font.nunito_bold)
setText("V${BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE}")
}
addTextView {
setWidthDP(100)
setLayoutWeight(1f)
setGravityRight()
setTextSizeSP(16)
setTextColorID(R.color.white)
setFontId(R.font.nunito_bold)
addReceiver(Playground.currentBoardIndex) {
setText("Board ${it + 1}")
}
}
}
}
}

eine kleine Person
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Any Time is Grillin Time

olbriar
I owned a propane grill that wasn't good in the cold. It was the old style with a H burner of stamped metal that was covered in lava rock. It was a cheap 70s cooker. They have evolved a great deal since then. My father enjoyed grilling and was an early adopter of a natural gas grill. I'm guessing middle sixties or a bit earlier model. It was made of such heavy metal that you could cook on it long after the gas was turned off. :) It was old school enough that it had adjustable vents for air flow. The best part about that natural gas grill was we no longer had to eat his cooking over charcoals. He soaked his briquettes in gas. :) I can still see him tossing matches at the ol' charcoaler. Everything we at tasted like a 50's Studebaker :)
While I'm at it, I'll bore you with another story about that cooker. My parents were working out of town and I came home from college and invited my girlfriend over for the weekend. I cooked out burgers or steaks or something on that grill. The method was to turn it up all the way and let it burn off the left over fats when done cooking. I came home the next weekend and asked my sweetie to once again enjoy the weekend at my parents house. I went out to light the grill and found I had left it on high for a week. Needless to say... the fats had been burned off :)
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What's the weather like where you are?

olbriar
Last fall, my city instituted a permanent watering restrictions. They abandoned their wells around 15 years ago and have been buying their water from Wichita since. I believe that all of ICT's burbs were required to limit their usage. It's has been dry here for three or four years now as the city and towns have increased in population. Conserving water seems absurd to an old fart like me that grew up using and wasting without a care. The problem is real however. And the problem is not just local. Good luck with your drought Chief.

It was sixty degrees this morning with a high of eighty one predicted. It is to be another windy day. Rain is still in the forecast for tomorrow and beyond. Perhaps it will change this seemingly endless cycle of extremely windy days. One can hope....
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What are you currently playing?

ozonetrooper
I had to give up on the bubble game. It got where every-time I cleared a lever it automatically went to a screen trying to get me to downland the fookin Royal King game and at first all I had to do was refresh the screen. then it got to having to clear the cookies and finally it got to doing it between each play ....


Tried a few other variations of the bubble game, even the candy match one did it.

Intercourse them, been game free for several weeks, now.
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Fatality 2023.

rootabaga
rootabaga said:
Resurrecting (!) this thread to append more information in the wake of the charges resulting from Mr. Perry’s untimely death. Of the five people charged relative to his ketamine usage, three have now pled guilty (including a doctor) and are awaiting sentencing; the other two appear willing to roll the dice on a jury, where they could essentially receive life sentences if convicted.

ew.com

Doctor charged in Matthew Perry's death pleads guilty to ketamine distribution charge

Mark Chavez, a doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry's fatal overdose, has officially pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine. He faces up to 10 years behind bars.
ew.com ew.com
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All of the five people charged have been sentenced; I believe they all entered plea arrangements whereby they admitted their part in Mr. Perry's death. The most severe sentence is also the most recent; the so-called "Ketamine Queen" who provided the fatal doses. She was sentenced to 15 years, and it turned out that her supply had also killed another person in 2019, which was part of why the sentence was that long. Sad all the way around.
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Junk Drawer / Tool Box

olbriar
I have nothing but respect for my dad. He was a hard working honest guy. Kids just weren't his deal. He was the provider and my mother kept the nest clean and kept us kids in line. Later in life we became business partners and I tried to match his effort and work ethic. I am fairly certain that I received two gifts in my life that he actually wanted me to have and went out of his way to gift them. A pocket knife that I still have and my set of SAE sockets. They mean the world to me. I'm sorry that your sister snagged up the Bell tools. She likely didn't understand the significance of a man to his son relationship.
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Samsung Galaxy

The_Chief
While Samsung is dumbing down the S Pen, Motorola is improving the stylus in the Moto G Stylus 2026... available April 16th in the U.S. At a third the price of the S26 Ultra, it has faster charging; a brighter screen; and, while it may have a slower processor (which won't matter for 98% of users anyway), it will sport a microSD slot capable of up to 1 TB external storage. How long has it been since a Galaxy flagship had that???
www.androidcentral.com

Motorola heard my plea, and the new Moto G Stylus 2026 might be the affordable Galaxy S26 Ultra we've been waiting for

The Moto G Stylus 2026 comes with a new active stylus pen with pressure sensitivity and tilt detection.
www.androidcentral.com www.androidcentral.com
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Favorite Coffee

rootabaga
The_Chief said:
I wouldn't have a problem watering my (unbleached) paper filters before filling the pods with freshly-ground coffee, but I prepare over a dozen pods at a time as a weekly task. I'm concerned about the coffee, and paper, sitting wet for that long. If I was preparing each pod right before brewing, then sure I'd wet the filters first: but we're talking about a Navy Chief waking up at 4:30 in the morning. All I want to do it get my heart started without going all coffee-snob to do it...
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Yeah, that would be a pain. You'd have to let them fully dry before loading up the coffee. Even overnight a damp filter would ruin the coffee.
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