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Sadly, Initially it was doom scrolling in March 2020.
Then Trump scrolling.
Then Trivia Quizzes.
Then I became a cruciverbalist for the first time in my life.
4 of them every morning.
Then I purchased an E-Scooter.
It is great to be outdoors again.
I have two of them now.
One of them is relaxing and easy and fun to ride.
The other one is busy and sometimes terrifying, but is the best fun to scoot on.
So the new thing for me from spending more time indoors is E-Scooting.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Yeah, I picked up Arduino in earnest.
I just finished installing a Google Assistant voice operated system for individually controlling the 8 recessed lights in my kids' "Game Dungeon". "Hey Google, light pattern 'front half'" will turn on the lights in the front half of the room and the back half off. I have half a dozen named patterns, but they can also be addresses with a bitwise number. "Hey Google, light pattern 162" will turn on 10100010.
I had great fun and taught my kids binary.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Picked up my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
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I started learning to play the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan show.
It helps to take lessons. I played in various bands several years later. Quit about 5 years ago, tired of all of the "drama". Plus I was "too old to Rock and Roll, and too young to die." - Jethro Tull.
Until you can take lessons, run you scales.
My callouses are all gone! 
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Wood Working kind of over the top to build myself a new desk
I found a Delta 36-725 T2 10 in contractor table saw on Craig's List for $400.00 only 2 1/2 hours from my home I live in the Mountains of Northern Arizona so every thing is 3 hours away
Home Depot and Milwaukee Power Tools had a special so I drank the Kool Aid and went cordless with a
Circular Saw Hammer Drill and Handheld Router the special included 3 batteries and charger
A set of brad point bits from Austria as well as a Doweling Jig Because I am old and no longer want
to assemble the desk on the garage floor I started on a Outfeed/Assembly Table with a Pipe Clamp Twin
Screw Vise Have I lost my mind NO It seemed like more fun than building another VB.Net Database Application Once the Desk is build any requests for cutting boards or small boxes will be honored
It was the least I could do to help stimulate the economy
PS anyone wishing to donate Wood Working Clamps feel free to reach out
It would have fun to help Mike Hankey
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A lot of home projects I had on the backburner got accelerated (furniture, network cabling, new home cinema, etc.)
Huge rail and ice loop infrastructure projects in Minecraft...(sadly I cannot afford to build my own Shinkansen here in Texas)
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Ah, I live in FL...
I keep forgetting... People are still locked down.
We are LITERALLY "Gods Waiting Room"... And we lock down the older people, so the younger people can live. Majority of counties have lifted masking, although many companies act like it's still critical.
This is NOT the season to have to lock down. Sun is out, virus drops off during this time of year, back in September!
I've worked from home for 15 years, so nothing has changed... Especially now that the gym opened the Suana/Hot Tub/Pool. So I am getting there more often. Oh, how I missed all of that...
Doing FASTING! Did two weeks, of two meals/week. Then going 3 weeks with 3 meals/week.
And finally losing the "Covid-19" (the 19 lbs from covid)...
During the lockdown, I started walking more, listening to Audible books, and podcasts at double speed.
Averaged 30-40 miles/week. (And still managed to gain weight. LOL)
I guess Walking/Listening was my Covid Hobby!
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Taking part in protest demonstrations against the Corona measures. 
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After watching a ton of video tutorials about "cut your own hair" I got the courage to buy an electric hair clipper set and try it. Some fails and fair rate of success.
I already tried the fake bald style, Jarhead cut, and currently I’m trying the Peaky Blinders style.
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If you uninstall/delete the Win Store from the computer, and then try to download a (free) store app from the browser (in my case: Chrome, Win Store web-page, ad-blocker off), no downlead will occur, and there will be no advisory, or error, message.
This makes sense given a design strategy of:
1) give the user what they never asked for ... lots of it
2) ignore the user asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to
3) do not inform users of the effects of their asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to because:
3a) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users won't understand it
3b) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users don't deserve it
4) Chrome users are apostates.
5) don't fix issues until class-action lawsuits are filed
But, wait: suppose it's Google/Chrome's devilish doings, another back-hander in the browser Armageddon ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 1-May-21 9:31am.
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Who's responsible for the silent treatment? Do you think the browser knows that the download failed but doesn't tell you? Or does the download pretend to succeed or even hide the file and then delete it?
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Greg Utas wrote: Who's responsible for the silent treatment?
Greg, I can't (for fear the demons will use the information) reveal the extent to which certain supernatural forces have permeated every current web-browser, the extent to which every minute detail of our behavior is tracked, classified, tagged, aggregated, and warehoused in vast infernal warehouses: so, it's better I stay silent on this.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It sounds like the demons aren't missing any information, so staying silent can only benefit them!
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Too late, I have your bank details. 
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I think you just put yourself in the demon category. I'd never have guessed!
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I can say, with certainty, that Richard is not a demon, and, that he is a demi-god.
I am honored that he sometimes manifests as my Nemesis 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Hmmm,
URI handlers haven't changed much since 1994 when rfc1738[^] was published. Sounds like the handler for the ms-windows-store URI is missing from your machine. I wonder how that could have happened.
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What's a reasonable hypothesis doing in a thread like this ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's a little bit like removing the engine from your car and wondering why it doesn't go anywhere when you press on the accelerator.
"Well it looks like a car and has doors, wheels and a steering-wheel, so why don't it go?"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'd say it's more like expecting a duplicate car-key made by a licensed locksmith to open the trunk of your car so you can finish eating the body of your latest victim 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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lol
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Bill, Microsoft has a policy of implementing silent download failures when the request is coming from a non-Microsoft browser. It's not all of their sites, but those they view as "income-critical" are on the list. For example, files from the Microsoft Update Catalog site can't be downloaded except through Edge.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What's a reasonable hypothesis doing in a thread like this ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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