Yes! Upper Midwest ftw! I mean just look at all that fresh water! We are also relatively immune from natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, even, for the most part, tornadoes even though one occasionally gets through. Awesome climate in the spring and fall. Summer is usually awesome with a week or two of high temps. Winter, well, it is a quiet time, spent mostly indoors, doing things like practicing and getting better at your musical instruments, and snuggling up next to a fire with your sweetheart. What could be better than that!

There's also Peter Singer's famous paper from 1972 which makes the perfectly defensible point that "evil" lurks in today's mainstream moral frameworks, just better hidden, and at more of a distance. Link to video

Yunchan Lim The Goldberg Variations Live at Carnegie Hall. I ordered this not realizing that it would come in what is essentially a hardcover 46 page book full of wonderful photos, quotes, and multilingual write-ups about this young pianist. It's a double LP that is expertly mastered with a very good, silent, dark background free of surface noise. Meticulously produced. A little static on rare occasions, but that is easily rectified and is mostly due to the dry nature of this season. I must say that he does an excellent performance of the Goldberg Variations. I have heard just about every recording ever made of the Goldberg Variations and this one definitely stands out as one of the best I have heard. [image: 1771780991374-1000005778.jpg] [image: 1771780991548-1000005781.jpg] [image: 1771780991682-1000005779.jpg] [image: 1771780992041-1000005782-resized.jpg]

I just hope there's a way to blame Chicago politics for the move.

Doesn’t feel nearly as good as the 1980 gold.

In fairness they were still setting up. They may not have seen them yet.

Probably unrelated, but last night I had a nightmare about a crooked lampshade behind a Baldwin piano.

Given that I support most of his efforts, if not the way they were gone about, it raises an interesting question. Is the US effectively governable under the current restrictions? Can we function with the painfully slow deliberative process in a world that moves ever faster?

Make sure to wear your jeans

In NY nobody picks people up from the airport. It would be the rudest imposition to ask or expect it. I’d sooner ask someone to shovel my driveway. When my ex girlfriend’s dad and his wife would visit from Romania, I’d send them a black car, but there’s no way I’d pick them up.

Isn't that what they did? Charge you USD$30 for 7 hours of idle? About USD$4.28/hour. Sorry you have have a bad experience with EV. When I have had one, I have had a pretty good experience.

Interesting. It will be intriguing to see (perhaps by heat map) over time how each category has trended, too. Thanks for posting these.

@Klaus said in Life Under the Taliban: If a man can never look at or talk to a woman, how do they ever find a partner? Arranged marriages. Family A has a son, family B has a daughter. They match up "socio-economically". Money is passed, marriage is arranged. The bride and groom have almost no say in the situation. And yes, often-times, the first time the groom will actually "see" the bride is AFTER they are married.

Some advice for the aspiring porn stars lurking on TNCR: Link to video

We’re about to enter into a golden age of computer games. Everybody with a good idea will be able to build a game around it, no artists or programmers required. I wonder wha big game studios will bring to the table other than interference from the marketing department.

Yep.

Do it now. On the other hand, a new belt caused the situation you are in.

Mine was as well when she was 12. Luckily I was monitoring all her internet use. He and I had a frank and open discussion about his prospects should his name ever crop up again. Then I turned him in to the sheriff.