@Jolly said in Grabby Joe: About as much as the latest confirmation about the Atlantic's Trump story... Exactly. LOL

@kluurs said in Happy Birthday (belated), Kluurs: Thanks, friends. Hope everyone is enjoying my holiday/birthday weekend. I hope you're enjoying it! HBD.

@George-K said in 100 Best TV dramas of all time: Finishing up season 4 of The Shield. Truly remarkable. In the dictionary, under "edgy" you'll find "The Shield." Finished it this afternoon. If you haven't watched it, get a HULU subscription and immerse yourself in the anti-hero world that is Vic Mackey. Considering that this show finished up 12 years ago, it's still timely, edgy, and engaging. It hasn't aged at all. There are so many great characters, with interlocking stories that weave a greater narrative. It also has one of the best endings to a series - right up there with "Six Feet Under." Seriously, watch this.

Lock 'em up And toss in Hillary and Pelosi for inciting it

@Axtremus said in The Truth About Vinyl - Vinyl vs. Digital: He skipped over magnetic tape and compact disk. CD is digitized, so one can argue that music recorded on CD is not that different from downloaded or streamed digital music. But cassette tape recording is analog, and I would be surprised if analog magnetic recording of music does not have idiosyncrasies of its own that rival vinyl’s. Good point, and I was thinking about that. It certainly is analog, and there was a great interest in improving the quality of tape recording/playback in the day. Factors which were considered included the width of the tape, the number of tracks in a given width, and, of course, the speed of the tape moving over the head. In 1972 (?) I bought an Akai reel-to-reel deck that was capable of moving ¼" wide tape over the heads at 7 ½ inches per second. I realized that, for my ears, I could hear no difference in 7 ips vs 3 ¾ ips, so that's what I used. It was an Akai GX 330D: https://audio-database.com/AKAI/player/x330d-e.html

@jon-nyc said in Electric cars are the answer...: Cars usually charge overnight, off peak. Unless you really need to charge on during peak consumption.

It’s not that specific. I remembered the German girl playing Op 106, and YouTube would auto start her playing firebird after. (I watched the 106 video a lot) But I couldn’t remember her name. So I found the thread where I posted about her and was surprised to see you had followed up with her firebird video.

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We had canned skyline Friday night, but with smoked cheddar. It was great.

@LuFins-Dad said in Traffic blocking protesters take their game up a notch: Somebody better alert Snopes. The Bee will all over that, amirite?

@Klaus said in This morning's musical interlude - "The Hunt": Faithful to the score in every detail. Indeed, except at the last few measures of the 2nd movement, where I think he slowed down just a bit. But yes, it's wonderful, and very "Beethoven." The recording I posted (mostly out of curiosity) just struck me as being, well, odd. I listened to some of his other interpretations of the sonatas (Op 28, 26, 11) and he does the same crap with them as well.

@jon-nyc said in Hey JMU grads: @Horace said in Hey JMU grads: Are there no consumer protection laws for that? I saw a comment from a Northeastern parent on twitter saying parents and kids each had to sign a document acknowledging special Covid rules and the consequences for violating them. That probably prevents any action other than an appeal within the University. Let’s see what happens when the bank that provided the loan decides to get involved... And the government entity overseeing Pell Grants for that matter...

They are arguing they got it in on time and the system had been down for several hours. Let’s start with those two discoverable facts and see where they land.

@Jolly said in 'You're Not Allowed To Film': Barr said the other day, they have monitored several of the leaders flying from city to city. When you are organizing riots across state lines, I think you have become a Federal case, and subject to all Federal laws. https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/black-lives-matter-protesters-riot-in-manhattan-cause-100000-damage/ Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources said. One of the arrested protesters was from Portland, Ore., and another was from Iowa, the sources said.

Teaching is now a high-risk profession. Like coal mining or fishing Life insurance rates will go up

BTW, how'd you like his smoker?

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