"To lose one election to Trump may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose twice looks like carelessness.”
-- not Oscar Wilde
But seriously, the fact that it seems to be close says to me it's already irretrievably broken.
"To lose one election to Trump may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose twice looks like carelessness.”
-- not Oscar Wilde
But seriously, the fact that it seems to be close says to me it's already irretrievably broken.
@futzle Never heard it before (but I have now).
That’s the downside of the post-vinyl era where tracks are just tracks, not part of an album. Some of my favourite songs are the little gems that I found because you used to put on a record and listen to all of it.
@futzle So not Heat Shock Proteins?
@elzbethmrgn Ah yes, Winnie the Pooh. I also sometimes use the expression “These are the wrong sort of bees” resulting in some confusion.
@thomask I used to particularly like this about Time Machine backups when I was a Mac person.
Of course it's much the same mechanism as snapshot with linked files.
@futzle ...and so nice of the Ballarat area to burn so we can have a spectacular sunset.
@georgetakei Yeah, but he also said "It’s so surprising to see it here..." as if that makes any sense either.
It's not as though any of these were carefully chosen words. It's just random, stream-of-consciousness drivel.
@kottke Interesting how a playlist like this dates me.
My peak music time was the seventies and by the early eighties I had pretty much tuned out. I recognise less that ten percent of these songs - take out Queen and movie themes and it's almost none of them!
It wasn't till my son was in his late teens and I started to hear bands like Garbage and Radiohead blasting from his room in the nineties that I reconnected at all.
@evan I can ignore most ads I can’t block if they are not egregiously intrusive.
I started watching a performance of a piano concerto the other day. One minute into it there was a jarring ad for… dancing walnuts or something. I had to assume that behaviour was going to continue so I abandoned the idea.
No better reminder that the ads are the point, not the content.
@elzbethmrgn Me: “I’m just going to pop down to Bunnings to grab something. Won’t be long”. Wife: “Ok”.
Two hours later: Me: “I can’t believe you fell for that”.
@ericgregorich Agreed. For a while I had a relatively small list of feeds, and I would keep reading at night till my eyes bled because “there’s only ten more before I ‘finish’”.
I soon realized this was making it less enjoyable. I started adding everyone’s feed I found interesting till there was effectively infinite posts. Now it’s just a continuous stream of content I get joy from. Much more satisfying.
@jsonbecker I think having both works: a separate category for those who want to find the meatier posts, and intermingled in the feed so that others can discover them serendipitously.
@futzle micro.blog doesn't seem to support Mastodon DM, but I'll help you out with this chore if you like.
I'm in Mount Evelyn. I can pick up if you're this side of town or let me know what the postage comes to and I'll PayID.