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If they remove all those Somalis who's going to be left to vote for Ilhan Omar?

@Renauda said in Good news for Mark and me:

I have a very large collection of classical and jazz CDs that I have downloaded into iTunes as MP3 files. I would still like to download them again as lossless Flac files so I can stream them in their full glory.

So you PLAYED all your albums into some contraption and you have them all on some 21st century format? (If so) what a wonderful way to relive all that wonderful music and the associations they bring.

(Yea, yea, yea...probably pressed a magic button somewhere and it all got transferred automatically.)

But I like the idea of just playing all those albums once more.

Thank you guys.

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Anyway, I go over to my daughters in NYC for Thanksgiving and she had 18 people over in her apartment and we concocted a table, moved furniture and moved her Yamaha P 90. The next day we tore it all down and I put the piano back where it belonged and instead of plugging in the piano power plug--I plugged in the charger to the battery powered vacuum. Stooopid.

I fried the piano. The light went on and then died and it really doesn't matter what happened, it's fried.

So, she almost never uses the piano, but sometimes she figures out chords and arpeggios. She won't practice on it She's not a fan of digitals and doesn't care what I get. (She has a Steinway B in her office and she likes that.) I was thinking of a Roland FP-30x. I want to spend $500-$600. In that range.

That sound OK? Thank you in advance.

BYW, we saw Jean-Yves Thibaudet (who my daughter once turned pages for in a performance at Tanglewood) play Khachaturian's Concerto in D-flat major at Lincoln Center. Pretty brilliant. He also did some Villa-Lobos.

I also got my pic taken with a Rockette--but that's another story.

Ok thanks Mik. All that Campbell stuff is a giant salt lick so it's probably tasty. One just has to be judicious in how much one eats regularly. My go to "poor" food was pasta and jarred sauce.

Well he was just telling the truth. I can't remember the last time I had Campbell Soup--maybe as a kid, but I kind of remember my mom making her own tomato soup. I really don't know. They do have a good selection of it on the shelf in the grocery market so somebody's buying it.

EDIT: Ok, well I try the tomato bisque. I like soup--my wife almost never cooks it.

Easy. I can do them in my sleep.

Some top down cleavage would be something Larry would have appreciated, otherwise--all good.

The guanciale is a must. "Bacon" makes it something else, not bad in a pinch--but not the same thing. I do one additional egg with the white added just to be healthy.

But you can't buy this in a jar from some factory from Belgium. So yea.

@Axtremus said in Tell me aqain who the censors are:

@Tom-K said in Tell me aqain who the censors are:

My censorship is about PEACE and LOVE ...

Does it include gay love?

Yes, sadly there are only so many people that can fit into the PEACE and LOVE subset.

Donald J. Trump is a victim. Pure and simple. What more do you need to know.

@jon-nyc said in Thanksgiving memes 2025:

This is about the time Larry would post his heart warming Thanksgiving story.

I miss that guy.

My censorship is about PEACE and LOVE and and I'll kill you all if you say it isn't.

The problem is that, not all, but a vast majority of these immigrants are decent people looking for nothing more than to provide the a decent life for themselves and their families. Bad actors in their community and bad actors in the US Congress make it difficult. Our ancestors somehow managed to get in to America without much trouble and we all have a good life. While it's easy to blame Trump and the Republicans, it was the Democrats that let these people in illegally without requiring or even providing citizenship. The bishops are right we are doing a sucky job as a country. These are people just like us.

ZERO. I'm aging and the neighborhood is aging with me.. It used to be a lot. Now, what to do with this f-ing bag of M&M's?

@Mik said in Interesting re MAGA for the post Trump era:

Please, God, a return to the party of Buckley would be soooo welcome.

AMEN brother!

JD, what is good in life?

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their men."

Count me in on the side of people that want her to run again.

Run Kamila run, you can WIN!!!!!!!

@Doctor-Phibes said in An E-Bike for your feet:

What's the point in going faster if you're burning fewer calories?

You do give away the fact you're not American buy making comments like this. Americans just want to go faster--and that's all there is to it.

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

They called him "The Stupid"—and that's exactly what he wanted...

Actually, during the Vietnam War there was a program to enlist low IQ people and send them into combat.

[McNamara's Morons](https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Project_100,000)