My partner has been having trouble sleeping lately. She wakes up, tosses and turns for a while and then gives up and goes downstairs, has a bite to eat and lies down on the couch to read. Just as in reading before bed she never makes it more than three pages before she’s back asleep.
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https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176175801/boot-girls-atlanta-private-parking-enforcement When governments give power to private corporate vigilantes then sometimes private citizen vigilantes need to strike back. Best thing about this story is the publicity these women got is likely to get the law changed for the better. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/17/miller-lite-ads-women-clothing-misogyny If the right keeps it up there won’t be any beers they can safely drink.
I used to read a lot of science fiction. I wasn’t into the space battles stuff but the thoughtful and speculative stories. I think one of the first I read was Heinlein’s “Stranger In a Strange Land”. It was the 60’s. Says it all. Drifted away from sci-fi in the 80’s and later, as my
Must be why my mom loved Lipton Tea. From the Internet Archive.
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And a bonus default browser issue with Lubuntu Even before my ancient Acer C720 Chromebook reached “End of Life” – i.e. no more updates from Mr. Google – I had installed GalliumOS to be able to run my Linux programs side by side with ChromeOS. Only change I had to make was to put in
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Update 1/17/23: The video is still available online at the following: It is still viewable on Twitch until some time on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 at https://www.twitch.tv/nicks_virtual_garage_2020 It is still viewable on Youtube (and will remain there as far as I know) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1zhjpH6eo ——- Original Post——– I’ve been working for the past few months
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My 5 AM (rant-to-self) to the “clever” young and clueless keyboard players in (a recent) Messiah performance:The continuo players in a Baroque orchestra are the rhythm section of the band. We drive the orchestra. The most important relationship in a band is between the drummer and the bass player. If they don’t get a groove
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