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Post by RickW on May 13, 2024 23:46:25 GMT -5
Repetitive, yes, nature of the song I guess. Often the problem with arranging popular songs for instrumental guitar. But still a cool sounding statement.
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Post by RickW on May 13, 2024 12:02:38 GMT -5
Excellent, Shannon. I’m reminded of the last time I walked around the neighborhood I grew up in. I always missed it, for the same reasons, good memories. But that last time I realized I was holding on to dreams of youth, family and friends. It’s all changed, they’ve all passed on or moved away. I’ve changed and the people in my life have changed. My old desire to go back was done. Life’s moved on.
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Post by RickW on May 13, 2024 11:56:25 GMT -5
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Post by RickW on May 13, 2024 9:57:56 GMT -5
We have a lot of Sikhs in BC. Most Sikhs come from a farming background in India. They move here, buy a farm, and then often build a massive house for exactly that purpose — everyone lives in it, they work the farm together, kid care duties and elder care duties are split between generations. On the one hand, economically, it’s great, and the kid care works, and the old folks get to stay with their families. But I’ve heard or met of more than a few young people who would just as soon carve their eyeballs out with a rusty spoon rather than live that way, when they can have the wonderful life their friends have out on their own, and not be stuck in a hierarchy of family. In their cases, it’s that ‘children of immigrants’ thing, where the parents expect the kids to live the way they lived, and the kids don’t want to.
It might work out, it might not, depends very much on everyone involved. Our society is not geared very well for communal living — we’re far too used to doing what we want.
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Post by RickW on May 12, 2024 10:40:38 GMT -5
On our cruise, we went to Dublin. Don’t get much time in cities — we did a two hour rapid fire tour in the morning, then dropped off for free time. We checked out Trinity College, had a pub lunch, and then went to the National Gallery. They had a traveling show, that included paintings by Rubens, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Rembrandt. There was a style for a while at that time to paint heads, just regular people, with different expressions on their faces, and this was a display of a collection of them. When I get to see something like that, I’m reminded of why these folks were so highly regarded, because seeing those works, how they sit in a frame, the way the light is included, what’s detailed, what’s not, is always such an experience. The pictures just seem to burst from the frames. I think this was my favourite, a Vermeer. The light on her hat and on her face is exquisite, IMHO.
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Post by RickW on May 12, 2024 10:29:17 GMT -5
I thought that was a great song, and he sang it well.
Still, my favourite “ode to my guitar song” of all time…..
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Post by RickW on May 10, 2024 14:14:39 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that, Bill. My good buddy Tony who collects fine guitars, his right hand is a mess. I feel lucky so far to have been able to recover from my playing ailments. Hope you can find something satisfactory to do with it. I know what you mean — it would be good to know that my favourites can find a home when I’m done with them, with someone who’ll play them a lot, because I think most guitars just end up sitting in cases, or hanging on walls.
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Post by RickW on May 10, 2024 11:22:12 GMT -5
It's not like we need to get the most money we can. And the time and hassle of selling is worth something. We just don't want to sell for far less than it's worth. When we moved 5 years ago, we gave away a lot of things, including a lawn tractor and a cabover camper. Those things went to neighbors and it was well worth it to not have to deal with anything else. This. I like less hassle in my life, and selling cars is a hassle.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 18:55:00 GMT -5
I felt bad enough when my elementary school closed down, just for a lack of kids after the boomer rush died off. It must be heart breaking to see what was evidently a once great school kill itself off through bad decisions. Sorry to hear that.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 18:51:18 GMT -5
Youl should check out Threads, Meta’s offering to replace Twitter. I got porn bots follow me every day, showing me voluptuous young ladies in very scanty lingerie. I remarked to my wife, that if Meta can ban accounts as easily as they do over terms like “guns”, or other implied violence, why can’t they shut down random accounts that show me those kinds of pics? It’s not like they’re hard to spot. When I started on Threads, there were a few such irritations. I regularly clicked on the 'block' option for those sorts of accounts for a couple of weeks and they nearly all went away and have stayed away. Block early and often. It doesn’t take long to clear out the trash. For more control you can switch from the "For You" view to accounts you aree "Following". That might mean you miss seeing some fun and interesting stuff though. Happily, In the UK there are hardly any Political ads on Facebook, TV and radio, newspapers or elsewhere. When an election is a month or two away, there is a bit of an uptick, not much though. I block every single one of them, as soon as I see them. A couple of women I’m friend with get several a day, and block them. It doesn’t help. They keep coming.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 11:27:05 GMT -5
I have been getting lots of pictures of voluptuous young women who want to be my friend. Youl should check out Threads, Meta’s offering to replace Twitter. I got porn bots follow me every day, showing me voluptuous young ladies in very scanty lingerie. I remarked to my wife, that if Meta can ban accounts as easily as they do over terms like “guns”, or other implied violence, why can’t they shut down random accounts that show me those kinds of pics? It’s not like they’re hard to spot.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 11:23:24 GMT -5
And really the best feature of FB is Messenger. Easy way to have conversations with geographically diverse groups like my kids without having to inconvenience anyone by making them answer the phone. 100 percent. Finally got together a group for our jam, so the organizer can change times and days easily. I have chats with all my kids and wife, and then smaller groups for things like organizing birthdays/christmas, etc. So much easier.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 11:21:39 GMT -5
Interesting. Thanks folks. Coming at it from the side of a seller, it’s tough to figure out what’s actually going on. There’s always someone crying that something’s broken, their ads stopped working. There does seem to be a problem right now, as most of the folks I follow who normally say, “just wait, nothing’s broken, it goes in waves for everyone,” are now saying, “yes, FB has screwed something up.” I figured if anyone would get political ads, it would be Soundholians. But so much is dependant on what you do on FB, and how they interpret your interests.
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Post by RickW on May 9, 2024 8:43:30 GMT -5
Curiosity question. Do you get a lot of political ads in your feed? And if so, are you seeing more now? Again, I’m not talking about people posting, I’m talking about the ones that say “Sponsored.”
The reason I ask is that a lot of indie authors advertise on Facebook. It’s a big mover as far as book sales go. But there’s always waves of time when it doesn’t work, then it works. One of the reasons given is that during US elections, there’s so much advertising, it increases the cost (it’s basically a bidding system,) and just not enough ad space for small fry like authors to get any traction. Some folks have sworn this is so in previous elections, others say they saw no impact.
Right now, it’s really bad. There have been news stories about how badly screwed up Facebook ads are right now, which is pretty disastrous for not only authors but a lot of other small businesses.
Anyhow was wondering if anecdotally, you folks get a lot of political ads in your feeds, and if it’s increased.
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Post by RickW on May 8, 2024 13:14:10 GMT -5
Samosas are wonderful things. They show up in a lot of places in Vancouver, because of the large South Asian population. Tasty, and generally come with a spicy/sweet dipping sauce. They could be the same as Sambusas. They could be, and now I'm curious. The first time I ordered Samosas in the US was at an Indian restaurant, and though they looked kind of like what I was used to on the outside, on the inside they were lightly spiced (curry) potatoes and peas. Good? Yes. But the kind I was used to with the ground meat and spices, and fairly hot? No. Just curious, which kind are you referring to, Rick? Samosas tend to be all over the place, in content and heat leavel. Anything from India that's being served here is not like it is in India. If you ever want to eat truly nuclear heat, go to an Indian restaurant and order it how their parents liked it. They feed us white people's Indian food here. A friend once, when we were in an India restaurant in Vancouver, was giving the cook, the mom of the family, a hard time for how mild her cooking had become, and it was still plenty hot. The next time he came in, he just about died from the heat. I worked with a young man from Delhi who had been here a couple of hears, and even he couldn't handle the heat level they ate at home anymore. There are a lot of online comparisons between the different things, Samosas and Sambusas. Sounds like they're much the same, though I gather Sambusas might be smaller? But I'd say the stuffing and spicing is probably very regional, so what you get in one province or country will be different from the next.
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Post by RickW on May 7, 2024 17:39:00 GMT -5
Bill, forget the coffee, you had me at samosas. Are you talking about what is also sambusas? I loved those as a kid in Kenya, and just within the past few years found exactly what I was missing all these years at an African restaurant in Des Moines. whenever I'm there, I stop by an African restaurant, (Taste of Africa), and pick up a bagful. More recently an Arab grocery store opened in Cedar Rapids where I have been known to stop by for a box of frozen chicken or been sambusas, which work nicely in the air fryer. You could also add some Sambuca to the Yemeni coffee. That never fails to satisfy. Or some sambal oelek if you really want to zip it up.
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Post by RickW on May 7, 2024 17:37:14 GMT -5
How can you not canonize a woman who wrote such heavenly music, and experimented with the qualities hops bring to beer?
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Post by RickW on May 7, 2024 17:29:20 GMT -5
Samosas are wonderful things. They show up in a lot of places in Vancouver, because of the large South Asian population. Tasty, and generally come with a spicy/sweet dipping sauce. They could be the same as Sambusas.
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Post by RickW on May 7, 2024 8:42:19 GMT -5
Be interested to try it. We’ve been drinking a variety of locally roasted stuff, and it’s all pretty decent. But I’m one of those folks who wish Starbucks and how they roast hadn’t taken over the world. Good coffee used to be less acid, more rich. Hopefully the Yemeni style is different from ‘Bucks.
Starbucks took a bit of a hit in the stock market recently — revenues are down. They may have expanded to the point where they’re ready to fall over. We just got back from a cruise through Norway and Great Britain, and noticed that not only did we not see a lot of Starbucks, but the coffee in general was better, and the pastries and treats — they leave Starbucks in the dust.
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Post by RickW on May 3, 2024 5:18:04 GMT -5
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