Always looking for advice wherever I can find it.

@Mik said in On the task of writing poetry in English: @Aqua-Letifer said in On the task of writing poetry in English: Eye rhymes. You does? I does. In canoes, with dingoes, on snowshoes. Anything goes.

@George-K said in Canada: You must sell your handguns: @Doctor-Phibes said in Canada: You must sell your handguns: I understand the concern regarding replicas - my son has a couple of airsoft guns, and you could easily mistake them for the real thing from a distance if you covered the orange tip - we made it very clear he wasn't allowed to take them out in the street. That has happened here in the US. Kid with an airsoft gun was killed by police a few years ago. Where I grew up, the police typically didn't shoot kids - but they didn't have guns, either. I know, what a concept. Yeah, where you grew up, kids typically didn't have guns either. We all had realistic looking toy guns, quite a few of us had .22 air rifles, but you're right - there was little to no gun culture back then. It's not quite the same now, but the regular police still aren't armed, by and large. Obviously, that's never going to work in the US, but it's still quite surprising, and also interesting is that the majority of British police officers don't want to be armed.

Funn-eee! I LOL'd.

Big plans. I hope they are more successful than can be imagined.

Video or it didn’t happen.

Unrelated, but kind of related reply... this reminds me of how farmers keep getting more and more efficient by producing more out of the same land, using technology, etc. For example, corn farmers and bushels per acre... keep increasing in order to break even or make a profit. But at some point... you can only squeeze so much juice of out of a lemon.

@George-K said in The Bee asks: Are you a racist?: @Horace if you go through the quiz, only the last question can change your result. Now I’m wondering what made you think I didn’t get the joke.

Speaking of cackleberries... We're busy with snap beans right now, so supper was eggs, sausage and biscuits. The sausage came out of the smokehouse yesterday, the eggs were less than a week old and the strawberry jam was from a batch we made last week. Fresh is better...

@Mik said in Hey Aqua: The octopus is better in blue. It is but only the black one was available.

I have spent hundreds of hours with Halo. I have the full Master Chief collection on XBox and last year bought the Master Chief Collection for PC. I still have the original Combat Evolved working on the PC, it starts up instantly unlike the new version. If I remember correctly the sequel and 2nd sequel stopped working on the PC.

Yup. Back in the dark ages, when I took a music history course, it was Spohr's nonet that we learned, iirc. Link to video IIRC, it was one of the "drop the needle" examples on the final exam.

How many were killed by AR-15s or other "long guns."

@George-K said in Now we know what the Jewish Space Lasers are for: @Doctor-Phibes said in Now we know what the Jewish Space Lasers are for: I'm pretty sure Bill Gates has a peach tree. It's been genetically enhanced to provide fruit that tastes almost exactly like meat. And the 5G transceivers. Right? Not to mention Joe Biden's Gazpacho police a/k/a soup-Nazis

@Horace said in RIP Norm Macdonald: Norm recorded a special in front of his computer a little while before he died. It's called Nothing Special, released on Netflix today. Good stuff, I lol'd. Thanks! I'll give it a listen.

@Aqua-Letifer said in The end of culture and art: @Larry said in The end of culture and art: @Aqua-Letifer said in The end of culture and art: @Catseye3 said in The end of culture and art: @Aqua-Letifer said in The end of culture and art: You could not possibly be more wrong about that. Movies take hundreds of people to make. They're all essential, all several hundred of them. Albums take a team as well. I specifically used the word 'creator'. I didn't say 'make'. Of course those projects take hundreds of people, but those hundreds are, to one degree or another, gofers. The concept, the idea, comes from one or a very few. Still, it's better to have their backing than not... nothing works like a fat marketing campaign.... I think even that is going to get a little fuzzy: big names going off on their own (if they can get out of contracts), and indie people finding other means. The institutional model will never go away I don't think. Just that some folks will find alternatives (which for many will include a day job). You are correct. It's still a little risky for a "big name" to go off on their own, though. I have seen some who tried it and their careers just died. But other than that minor point, I agree with your assessment. As for cat's "gopher" remark...... There are no "gophers" getting any of the money. None that is except the occasional situation where the artist who get the credit wasn't even involved.... I've been involved in quite a few projects where "big name" artists known for their playing skills got credit for playing something, but wasn't even there because they weren't good enough musically to pull it off, so some bald headed middle aged guy played his part for him...,

Thrown free, just like they planned.