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#3063656 14-Apr-2023 14:06

Geektastic:
Overall the unit is generally a 4/10 in my opinion and will find it's way to the local charity shop when I can determine a model that actually makes toasted sandwiches instead of hot bread sandwiches.

This sort is pretty hard to beat, you get precise control over how toasted you want it, and which parts/sides you want toasted more or less.

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#3063658 14-Apr-2023 14:19

Behodar:

Microsoft Teams. There's a "new chat" feature which doesn't seem to work: The moment I select a person to have a "new" chat with, it fills the window with old messages to/from that person.

Yup - that's the way it's always worked...all chat history unless you make a new chat with a group including that person.

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#3063662 14-Apr-2023 14:31

Handsomedan:

Yup - that's the way it's always worked...all chat history unless you make a new chat with a group including that person.

Which, incidentally, it refuses to let you do unless you add a third person. It seems that there's no way to have two separate chats (on different topics) with the same person.

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#3063664 14-Apr-2023 14:44

Behodar:
Handsomedan:

Yup - that's the way it's always worked...all chat history unless you make a new chat with a group including that person.

Which, incidentally, it refuses to let you do unless you add a third person. It seems that there's no way to have two separate chats (on different topics) with the same person.

That’s how chat works.

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#3063682 14-Apr-2023 16:24

That the neighbours have been feeding a --ing possum on their deck, awwww, he's so cuuuuuute.

Good to know though, I've just finished resetting the yellow plastic possum feeders at the bottom of the garden, as well as the homemade wooden ones with the bright green possum food pellets in them.

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#3063702 14-Apr-2023 16:49

neb: That the neighbours have been feeding a --ing possum on their deck, awwww, he's so cuuuuuute. Good to know though, I've just finished resetting the yellow plastic possum feeders at the bottom of the garden, as well as the homemade wooden ones with the bright green possum food pellets in them.

Of course he's cute. Haven't you ever seen Ice Age? Here, I have a nice green treat for you!

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#3063706 14-Apr-2023 17:03

neb: That the neighbours have been feeding a --ing possum on their deck, awwww, he's so cuuuuuute. Good to know though, I've just finished resetting the yellow plastic possum feeders at the bottom of the garden, as well as the homemade wooden ones with the bright green possum food pellets in them.

But you are also severely tested by fate - our dachshund has a handle on the so-cute stray cats - he doesn't catch them, of course (nor should he), but OUR garden is absolutely cat-free. Nothing against a responsibly kept and controlled cat, but our dog is an outspoken songbird protector - he seems to know that.

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#3063714 14-Apr-2023 17:43

neb: That the neighbours have been feeding a --ing possum on their deck, awwww, he's so cuuuuuute. Good to know though, I've just finished resetting the yellow plastic possum feeders at the bottom of the garden, as well as the homemade wooden ones with the bright green possum food pellets in them.

These feeders are great. I've been having lots of success with this variety this variety that a couple of weeks ago, caught one possum per night 5 nights running.

Great feeders for the worms and flies, that seem to enjoy the pile of carcasses.

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#3063728 14-Apr-2023 19:12

What bait are you using? I got one off the white traps and have tried apples and peanut butter with no success. Yet I see the possum marching down the towering Phoenix palm every night.

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#3063765 14-Apr-2023 20:58

Gurezaemon:
These feeders are great. I've been having lots of success with this variety this variety that a couple of weeks ago, caught one possum per night 5 nights running.

That's the Flipping Timmy, from discussions on the Traps NZ forums the most effective way to deploy them is up an angled slope of some kind like a branch or a pole leaned up against a tree, since possums don't like putting their heads vertically up into things. You can also mount a standard Timms that way.

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#3063767 14-Apr-2023 21:02

johno1234: What bait are you using? I got one off the white traps and have tried apples and peanut butter with no success. Yet I see the possum marching down the towering Phoenix palm every night.

Again, the Traps NZ forums are the best place for info on this, the go-to seems to be apples coated in cinnamon so you put some cinnamon in a small box, drop in a slice of apple, and shake it around to coat it in cinnamon which also stops the apple from drying out. You should also use pre-feed lure near the trap for a couple of days to get them used to eating there.

Some possums though will just walk around traps and ignore them, for which kinetic-energy based means of dealing with them are the only really effective ones. Friend of mine said that a Chinese friend of his joked that possums are just tree chickens, to which I replied that I can supply them with some with a stick for grilling them already implanted in each one.

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#3063775 14-Apr-2023 22:15

neb: That the neighbours have been feeding a --ing possum on their deck, awwww, he's so cuuuuuute. Good to know though, I've just finished resetting the yellow plastic possum feeders at the bottom of the garden, as well as the homemade wooden ones with the bright green possum food pellets in them.

That should be illegal somehow

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#3063818 15-Apr-2023 10:33

neb:
Gurezaemon:

These feeders are great. I've been having lots of success with this variety this variety that a couple of weeks ago, caught one possum per night 5 nights running.

That's the Flipping Timmy, from discussions on the Traps NZ forums the most effective way to deploy them is up an angled slope of some kind like a branch or a pole leaned up against a tree, since possums don't like putting their heads vertically up into things. You can also mount a standard Timms that way.

Interesting. I have my one on a big puriri at around head height, where it is mounted on the fully vertical trunk. The fact that it's vertical doesn't seem to bother them. Maybe Northland possums are even stupider than the rest of them?

For bait, I've been using a couple of slices of apple. I've heard about the cinnamon thing as well, but frankly apple by itself seems to be doing so well on its own that I don't really feel the need. I'll drop a few tiny bits of apple around the tree as a bait as well to get their attention. This spot has proved so good that the puriri has a whole bunch of scratches under the trap where the possums wriggle for a few seconds before expiring.

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#3063882 15-Apr-2023 13:32

Gurezaemon:
Interesting. I have my one on a big puriri at around head height, where it is mounted on the fully vertical trunk. The fact that it's vertical doesn't seem to bother them. Maybe Northland possums are even stupider than the rest of them?

Apparently rural possums are pretty dumb, urban ones are a lot smarter, thus our trap-avoiding ones. Another bit of advice from the Traps NZ forums is to leave the dead carcass of the previous possum by the trap, the next possum will come to investigate the scent of the stranger, climb over its dead body, and become the next victim. Seriously!

Here's a ground-based Timms converted into a Flipping Timmy equivalent:

Apart from the fact that it's more attractive to possums that way it also solves a problem with bycatch for the ground-based ones, they'll also catch things like birds and hedgehogs while the 45-degree-slope form on a relatively smooth surface really needs a possum to get to.

Here's a feeder that's been rebaited one day ago:

That could potentially also have been a hedgehog though, I'll look at putting it up on blocks or something so it's not easily accessible from ground level, same reason why the Timms ended up a Tree Timms.

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#3063951 15-Apr-2023 17:58

This has been bugging me all week. Annoyed with myself.

Like many in IT, I am not at my best in crowds or social gatherings. I am also incredibly bad with names and faces, to the point that I struggle to recognise people I know outside of the usual settings at times if I don't know them well or haven't seen them in a while.

At the Rod Stewart concert last week, I found myself next to someone while having a quick bite before the show. He looked familiar, but I couldn't place him. He said hello and something about the concert. I remarked that I had seats at the back of the floor, so I wasn't sure how much I'd see, but being there was the important part. I didn't expect the conversation to continue, it was more of a quick acknowledgement that we were both occupying the same proximate location whist waiting for the doors to open, but I did add that it would possibly be my last concert as the oldies are all dying/retiring, and that I wouldn't see The Eagles without Glenn Frey or Fleetwood Mac without Lindsey Buckingham, since both are groups I have seen and would see again if not for the lineup changes. Nothing more was said, and I didn't really think anything of it, until I became aware that the person I was talking to was apparently Tim Finn, the brother of Neil Finn (Crowded House) who toured with Fleetwood Mac in 2018/2019 after Buckingham was removed from the group. I must've seemed like a real dick saying that.

I'm out again in public tomorrow, so plenty more chances for me to put my foot in my mouth and have something else to dwell on for the next week.

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