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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 14:44:40 GMT -5
I thought this interview was cool.
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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 13:56:50 GMT -5
Fiddlerina and I have this memory of Scott.
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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 13:51:17 GMT -5
Letter to the editor in the Duluth paper: It’s time for schools to make difficult decisions regarding cellphone use. As a graduating senior, I’ve watched how the influence of cellphones and social media has skyrocketed since COVID-19. Both of these forms of technology are still in their emergent phases, and long-term research of their impacts is not yet complete. Yet the short-term findings on the damaging effects on mental health, physical well-being, and developing brains are already deeply alarming. This is not something we can just let pan out, when the health of an entire generation is at stake. I am a part of that generation, and I can already see the toll it has taken on my peers. I even see how it is affecting me, and yet the addictive elements of cellphones and social media make it difficult to control. Teenagers can’t fight this themselves; they need adults and leaders in power to help. This past year, when the Duluth school district announced cellphones should be kept in students’ lockers at all times, I was hopeful of change. I hoped I might be able to have normal conversations during downtime, without everyone immediately retreating to their phones. I hoped I could give a presentation in class and people might actually pay attention. I hoped I myself might do better at school, unburdened by my phone. Yet, to my disappointment, cellphone rules have hardly been enforced. In response to this, I ask administrators and teachers to do better. If that means enduring the grumbling of some angsty teenagers or helicopter parents, so be it. I ask them to step up and form a true plan of action for cellphones to combat the mental health epidemic and cellphone addiction from which teenagers are suffering. Do you know when this letter was published?
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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 8:23:55 GMT -5
Keeping in touch with artists, musicians, writers, and family I've known for years and who started using a convenient and all-inclusive, international platform more than a decade ago to share information and even advance our personal and professional interests via facebook is just plain silly. The Soundhole, on the other hand... Ha! LOL. I don’t think there is anything fundamentally wrong about the idea of Facebook. I used it more when it was new. It has people and content I care about and miss. I stay away because there are too many negative aspects to consider. If the SoundHole worked like Facebook, I wouldn’t be here either.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 23:11:30 GMT -5
Well, thank you all. We've been having so much fun in New Orleans I completely missed it! I'll try it again in February. Since it’s your birthday, you can celebrate Mardi Gras while you’re there b
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 14:05:14 GMT -5
I loved Howard’s response but it disappeared before I could quote it.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 13:46:58 GMT -5
Sometimes, when trying to locate a Web page for a business, I discover that their only online presence is on FB. My reaction is to avoid that business.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 13:39:18 GMT -5
I have been getting lots of pictures of voluptuous young women who want to be my friend. Well, DUH!
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 9:48:01 GMT -5
HAPPY NOT RADTKE'S BIRTHDAY! Yup, should be Feb 19. Don’t know how my calendar got it wrong but I’ve fixed it. I’ll delete this thread later.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 9:06:55 GMT -5
I don’t see political ads but then I use FB very judiciously. I never use their app, only a secure browser. I don’t even keep their app on my devices. When I use FB it’s only to check on specific people, look at any messages and maybe announce a gig. I never use FB as recreation.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 9:01:24 GMT -5
Cool Rambler, and David and Melva are indeed rambling, but I believe Mr Radtke's birthday is in February. Maybe. For some reason it popped up on my personal calendar today.
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Post by Dub on May 9, 2024 7:31:06 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, David. Joy and I hope (are confident that) you’ll have a wonderful day.
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Post by Dub on May 8, 2024 19:57:02 GMT -5
Am I right that the neck is 1-¾" at the nut? Too wide for what I do. I dearly wish I could make use of it. It's a treasure for sure.
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Post by Dub on May 8, 2024 17:45:26 GMT -5
Yeah, got the marketing thingie from JustStrings. I do have a Dunlop putter. I see that JustStrings has a 15% off sale on Curt Mangan strings. I've used a set or two. They were recommended to me by this guy who got them to do a special set for him.
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Post by Dub on May 8, 2024 17:22:06 GMT -5
And she proves that artists also "see" things others may not.
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Post by Dub on May 7, 2024 13:05:02 GMT -5
I had a good day, but unfortunately, one of my friends died so it’s a bummer. Also, my son did something good so that was good. I didn’t do very much but I’m still alive The day - Monday 5/7 We’ll see about the present time. Sorry for your loss, Bob. Glad it was a good day.
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Post by Dub on May 7, 2024 8:49:15 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on May 6, 2024 21:48:49 GMT -5
Cool.
We enjoy Ethiopian coffee every morning. Since Ethiopia is where the bean was first harvested it seemed a good choice, even if it too the Somalis to roast and brew it properly.
We used to buy Guatemalan coffee but after the blight, when they got going again, it wasn’t the same as the old plants used to produce.
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Post by Dub on May 6, 2024 12:43:31 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on May 6, 2024 11:59:12 GMT -5
Forty years ago today, Erica Jeanne Hammond was born to Elena and Bill, a healthy, beautiful baby whose long eyelashes drew admiring comments from the nurses. Hugs, Bill. A bittersweet day for sure. You were blessed for a short time at least.
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