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“Cygnets” if you wanna be technical-like

Well! I swan if them little cuties ain’t enough to make a feller grin!

What does “aggressive about fox control” mean? Sounds grim,

Darling little fluff balls. I used to live on a small brackish lake next to Galveston Bay, and the ducks, geese, and black Australian swans considered my lawn—their lawn. When it rained they would get out of the water and shelter under my trees. No one likes rain in the face I guess.

The swans would eat from my hand; I learned to let go quickly or else be nipped. But given the snakes and turtles on the lake, I’m surprised baby birds ever hatched. I’d find eggs in my flower beds, but always broken. The ducklings were fairly polite, but the goslings would mob for handouts. Made walking around the lake exciting!

I’d want to scoop up those cygnets and bring them home (with mom and dad following) but I suppose the wildlife folks take a dim view of interfering with the big birds. How far away was Uncle B when he took the photo?

Oh, just hunting and shooting foxes a lot. Farmers can get shotgun licenses for the purpose.

Uncle B is currently drawing pentagrams on the floor and attempting to raise Yog-Sothoth. His computer suddenly announced an hour ago, “we will upgrade you to Windows 10 in eight minutes”…and then it did.

Do they belong to the crown? Or is that just the ones near Windsor?

Swans can be mean SOBs, and particularly aggressive with young around. It’s probably best to watch from a distance.

Still…aaaaawwwww!

When I lived in NY, I was upstate, in a small, cute house that abutted the Elenor Roosevelt estate. That end of the estate was a marsh. Filled to the brim with swans. I had never seen a swan before I moved there. Let me tell you, they are BIG nasty tempered birds! I thought geese were nasty! They got ‘nothin on swans!

Re Unca B: I think that the evil demons of Microsoft give you a short window in which you can revert to your previous op system.

And to Ms Weasel: Thanks for the tip on the video camera. Just got mine today. Looks slick. Still not sure what I really need it for, but I will find a use, I am sure.

That photo’s a classic–such beautiful things.

I know someone who got too close to a small lake at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California, where there were swans in residence.
He was pecked, and beaten about the head by the wings of what was probably a male, and had a few nicks and bruises to show for it.

Swans? Mean?!

You ain’t seen nothin’ like a badger that has his fangs sunk into Bill Gates’ arse!

May he rot in hell (even if he owns it).

Speaking of crashing one’s computer.

I had a momentary scare when my hotmail account stopped working. As in the web interface stopped responding to user input. Eventually I traced the problem to a blocked script that had to run. But along the way I thought It might be a missing windows update, so I attempted to update a fifteen year old operating system that is no longer supported by Microsoft. It failed with just a hint of almost crashing; i.e. it ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, doing nothing but spinning swirlies and disk thrashing and rising CPU temperatures.

And I realized that I was only one computer crash away from losing all my pictures, my music, and my books.

Such is the way of life; eventually it ends, sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once.

Um, cuz, that sounds unsanitary. You don’t know where Bill gates has been!

Unka B bit by the dreaded no-close update dialog? Oh boy.

The bastards are getting a bit arrogant, ain’t they?

I’ve been going through the updates since January last year, seeking out the sneaky update virus patches and hiding them. Kept me clean so far.

That was the one, Mojo.

One day I will get my revenge on Microsoft. I can be very patient.

If you have the install media, you can do a ground-up install of 7. And then update for 2 days. Cold comfort.

If you speak it’s name…

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/windows-7-now-has-a-service-pack-2-but-dont-call-it-that/