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Post by james on Apr 26, 2024 12:50:57 GMT -5
Went to a new gym today. First time for a few years. I'd forgotten how to use the different equipment and felt quite a self-conscious, dithering old fool and left without figuring stuff out or doing anything really. I've booked a session with a trainer for next Tuesday to help me reacclimatise to the environment. Sönke Meinen and Will McNicol did a nice duet. Wordle 1,042 2/6*
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Post by james on Apr 26, 2024 10:50:28 GMT -5
I didn't ask them. I asked you. As you can imagine, I am crestfallen to have disappointed you.
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Post by james on Apr 26, 2024 7:52:14 GMT -5
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Post by james on Apr 25, 2024 14:00:47 GMT -5
Pamela Paul's vapid blather makes me a bit cranky. Edit - My disdain for Ms.Paul's column may be slightly influenced by my lingering severe irritation with some of her previous output. Thanks for the gift link though. Always appreciated!
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Post by james on Apr 21, 2024 18:47:15 GMT -5
When I'd only ever read of Boise, Idaho. My mental voice pronounced it in a French(ish) way - Bwaahz. Should I also mentally de-Frenchify Dubois from Doo-bwah to Doo-boys?
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 20:29:06 GMT -5
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 16:49:03 GMT -5
Likewise. Tough quiz. Quite fun though. I've decided to not burden my faltering memory banks with the new information.
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 15:29:22 GMT -5
I do like a traditional wooden canoe. Canoes are a bit smaller than what I've mostly watched on YT. I've watched a few small sailboats and tenders being built. Generally bigger stuff though. A couple of amateurs on the 'Salt and Tar' channel built from scratch a wooden 38 foot gaff rigged ketch, it took seven years. Lovely thing. I have seen quite a bit about Port Townsend and environs wooden boat building. There are quite a few skilled people there. The rebuild of the gaff cutter 'Tally Ho' has been impressive. sampsonboat.co.uk/Sadly I am utterly inept at woodwork. I can go on and on about this stuff but luckily for Maggie Rogers fans and others here, I won't.
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 12:45:53 GMT -5
In truth, I subscribe to several YT guitar channels a couple of science, philosophy, psychology ones and ...erm... 73 sailing and boat building/repair channels and there are not many algorithmic offerings that deviate far from that sort of thing.
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 11:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by james on Apr 20, 2024 9:52:03 GMT -5
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Apr 18, 2024 14:17:50 GMT -5
Post by james on Apr 18, 2024 14:17:50 GMT -5
I seem to have got a bit distracted. Soz!
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Post by james on Apr 18, 2024 13:37:22 GMT -5
Unavailable in UK. I'll finish Fallout tonight. A very different kettle of weird, irradiated, gruesome and violent fish.
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Apr 18, 2024 12:53:53 GMT -5
Post by james on Apr 18, 2024 12:53:53 GMT -5
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Apr 18, 2024 11:49:33 GMT -5
Dub likes this
Post by james on Apr 18, 2024 11:49:33 GMT -5
The articles linked in the Reynolds Wonkette piece are informative and interesting. Among various others, the Fritschner and Inskeep stuff were, in my opinion, responses and perspectives worth hearing.
I have no problem with Reynolds' exasperated and sweary language. Often it resonates with and amuses me. His being exasperated and sweary does not mean he is uninformed. .
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Apr 18, 2024 9:40:09 GMT -5
Post by james on Apr 18, 2024 9:40:09 GMT -5
The Wonkette piece contains links to several interesting and informative reponses to and refutations of Uri Berliner's assertions and accusations from his co-workers and others. Things I'd not seen elsewhere. In the interests of fairness and of being more widely informed, I think they are worth reading. The gift links to the increasingly disappointing NYT, are handy too.
Unlike for Millring, the sweary language in Marty Reynold's article is not a problem for me. Sometimes people swear and I think their writing is not less worth reading on account of that.
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Apr 17, 2024 21:44:57 GMT -5
Post by james on Apr 17, 2024 21:44:57 GMT -5
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Post by james on Apr 17, 2024 13:33:59 GMT -5
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Post by james on Apr 15, 2024 16:41:49 GMT -5
Somewhat relatable Finnish word of the day which I learnt on Threads.
Word of the Day: MULTIPASKING (Finnish) - doing many things at the same time, all badly; ‘paska’ is Finnish for ‘shit’.
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Post by james on Apr 15, 2024 13:14:21 GMT -5
Since the word "woke" was separated from its African-American origins and repurposed into a sneering insult, not unlike SJW, by conservative culture warriors, politicians* and media, I have heard it used unironically by fewer and fewer serious commentators.
* Even being used in Florida's odious and reactionary W.O.K.E Act
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