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Post by RickW on Feb 4, 2024 16:17:08 GMT -5
Dating "yourself" with something made out of carbon fiber sounds a little kinky.
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Post by RickW on Feb 4, 2024 13:15:11 GMT -5
That's one of those arrangements I look at and think, that would take me about five years just to memorize the damned thing. Parts look like every finger is moving in a different direction all at the same time.
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Post by RickW on Feb 4, 2024 13:06:23 GMT -5
That's great. Just realized what a great jam song that is. I'll have to bring that one up this week.
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Post by RickW on Jan 28, 2024 20:51:22 GMT -5
It’s been really warm here. So warm that the snowpack accumulation is scaring the crap out of various folks, because the province had a severe drought last year, and it’s not been alleviated yet, and in the summer, the water comes from the melting snow. Excellent chance for yet another really scary fire season.
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Post by RickW on Jan 28, 2024 20:46:37 GMT -5
The older I get, the more luddite I become. When I met my wife, she was programming in the first set of AI tools. She ended up doing technical support for PCs and networks. She now spends much of her day swearing at her cellphone, wondering why it’s not doing what she wants. I try not to get involved.
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Post by RickW on Jan 28, 2024 20:42:20 GMT -5
I don't always have clothes on. Is that because of where you write your passwords? Don’t you have write them down again every time you shower?
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Post by RickW on Jan 28, 2024 20:39:04 GMT -5
Nice, Bruce. Love curling, we were thinking at some point about joining the local league, but we’ve ended up taking up archery. Very enjoyable, very skilled game.
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Post by RickW on Jan 26, 2024 16:22:15 GMT -5
I think Brand New Key was one of those songs people would rather not has big hits. Warren Zevon hated the fact that Werewolves of London made him famous, and he had to play the stupid thing over and over.
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Post by RickW on Jan 26, 2024 16:19:47 GMT -5
I suppose you’re also going to tell me “a rose is a rose.” Indeed, including by any other name….
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Post by RickW on Jan 26, 2024 16:17:13 GMT -5
Folks, Dub is entirely correct. if you’re using easy to guess passwords, or keeping things written down, you’re in a hell of a lot worse state than you would be using a software manager.
We use Enpass. It’s an individual system, so the passwords are not stored in a central database. The data is in our dropbox account, in an encrypted database that no one else has access to. So, someone would have to not only hack dropbox/our dropbox account, they’d need a hack for enpass then. By using it, we have difficult to guess passwords, that the software generates for us, and it’s available on all our devices. Don’t have to type passwords, because it can copy and paste them.
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Post by RickW on Jan 21, 2024 16:40:30 GMT -5
Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week. We went to a Temptations/4Tops concert that was so loud I had trouble distinguishing what songs they were singing. Dar's ears rang for days. Now, that’s music I never thought would be at an excessive volume. Johnny Winter, yes. I also had a bad day at a Deep Purple concert. But not Motown.
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Post by RickW on Jan 21, 2024 13:03:41 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since. Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week.
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Post by RickW on Jan 21, 2024 12:59:46 GMT -5
We’ve only ever done it a few times. High heat, and generally accompanied by toxic cleaners.
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Post by RickW on Jan 20, 2024 16:03:33 GMT -5
Toni was cooking.
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Post by RickW on Jan 20, 2024 15:59:21 GMT -5
Where it gets scary is when interest rates balloon. Because if 30 percent of your country’s income is spent paying off old debts, and the interest rate suddenly doubles, then all of a sudden you have a lot less money to spend on running the things you said you would. So, in that respect, it’s very much like household debt.
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Post by RickW on Jan 18, 2024 19:48:39 GMT -5
But isn’t that the way? Always? I’ve said it before, we had one PM, a Liberal, who over the course of 10 years as finance minister and then PM managed to balance the budget by careful cuts and careful tax increases. It made sense. He actually got to the point where they were collecting a surplus, which he applied to the debt. Our debt dropped enormously. Then the populist conservative came in and said, “you’re paying too much tax, look, they have a surplus! I’ll cut taxes!” And bam, we were back to deficit spending again. I’m sure if it had been a left leaning guy coming, he’d have said, “look, we’re collecting more than we need in taxes, let’s give everyone free daycare,” or some such thing. Want to get elected? Offer free stuff.
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Post by RickW on Jan 18, 2024 19:43:28 GMT -5
He’s very entertaining. Talk about people with too much time, equipment and money on their hands.
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Post by RickW on Jan 17, 2024 14:59:19 GMT -5
To be honest, how else are you going to select candidates? It’s much the same in Canada, it’s the members of the party who get to vote on that. Political parties, in theory, are groups of like minded people with common goals. They vote for candidates who they feel align with their goals. Being people, everyone is subject to influences of all kinds, and lots of folks may not agree with the results, but are you going to demand that every candidate get a certain percentage of their parties votes? Kind of gets rid of independant candidates. Also would guarantee that the agony would go on for even longer than it does now, as they went through rounds of voting.
As to Biden, haven’t the Dems kind of screwed themselves on that point, by not having a likely successor to take over? It would look like panic mode now if they pull someone out of a hat. You could say the same about the Republicans — is Trump electable? I guess we’re going to find the answers to all of this soon enough. It feels like time for some turnover, when you have a couple of decrepit old men vying to hopefully live long enough to lead the most powerful country in the world to the next election.
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Post by RickW on Jan 16, 2024 16:16:38 GMT -5
She also does a heartbreaking cover of Rollie Salley's "Killing the Blues." One of the guys in my jam does that song. It’s one of those songs that is so perfect, and yet so simple, that anyone will sound great doing it. Not the the guy in my jam is any slouch, but it instantly captivates the attention.
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Post by RickW on Jan 15, 2024 21:51:23 GMT -5
Queen Margethe and Queen Elizabeth apparently had similar taste in hats…
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