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There's one event here, open every day from 4pm, which has staff/sponsors walking around giving out free magnum ice-creams. My calorie intake must be a bit crazy, but they're quite small so having three or four a day seems reasonable to me ....

Off out later to an event which is giving free cocktails (assuming I'm one of the first in the queue) - alcohol at 5pm is risky in this heat, but it's air-conditioned inside. And by Sunday all this wonderful contemporary art/music/club/food scene will be over and it's back to more mundane stuff, like free outdoor music events and swimming in the river.
 
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It's so muggy/humid in central Florida today. I walk outside and feel like I'm suffocating. There's no way I'm going for a walk in this crap. In fact, at 4 AM this morning, the temperature was 84 (still humid). I feel bad for the poor animals that don't have AC.
 
I’ve noticed that printing emails has been significantly improved in macOS Tahoe. Now you can finally punch holes in the sheet of paper without the text becoming unreadable. 🖨️📩

Back in school. In the height of summer. Turning on the heating! Opening the windows was impossible. And the best part: taking a math test! 🌡️🥵📐

Type of gasoline Super E10: 1.76€ per litre. Finally! 🛢️⛽

Birdbath rinsed and refilled. 🐤🐦
 

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On my mind are some.........contemporary matters that one is not encouraged to explore.

Other than that, I do love summer, and will readily concede that I am at present sufficiently far north for it to be pleasant rather than a form of torture to be endured.
 
Headed to Michigan in a couple days to conduct Poulenc's "Gloria," as well as several other pieces. Should be fun. I've only been on summer vacation for a week, and was home this week to teach, now headed back out. Then I'll be headed out to the west coast to see family. Other than that, no other plans to be away—really just teaching and playing the whole rest of the summer. And learning a whole bunch of classical repertoire to put on my recital next year.
 
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A thunderstorm is forecast starting at 8:30 p.m. Central European Summer Time. Hopefully, it arrives. ⛈️🌩️

That would also be very helpful for all allergy sufferers. 🤧
 
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Here is another thing about languages or dialects, or how they are perceived.

Here in our village we have a branch of Rossmann, a drugstore and household goods discount retailer, an employee sounds to us that he originally came from the Netherlands. His accent. But he originally is coming from Hungary. He told me that most people who brought it up with him thought the same thing. Strange and fascinating at the same time.

Definitely a really good person. You can have fun and goof around with him, too.
 
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an employee sounds to us that he originally came from the Netherlands. His accent. But he originally is coming from Hungary. Strange and fascinating at the same time.
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I've experieced that with someone who I thought had to have come from a different part of the country from the way she talked, only to find out no.
 
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French policeman Daniel Nivel. 🫡👮‍♂️🇫🇷

I must apologize for this Hun. After all, not everyone in this country (Germany !) is a Goethe or a Schiller.

The photo shows the French police officer Daniel Nivel with the Federal Cross of Merit, the highest honor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The attack on Mr. Nivel was not only an attack on the individual—on the human being—but also on the *Grande Nation*. 🇫🇷⚜️🗼Vive la France! Vive Monsieur Nivel! 🫡
 

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And now for something completely different...

I have finally been able to get SheepShaver working on my Raspberry Pi 5.
What is a SheepShaver, you ask? Not someone who shears a with a razor.
It is a little program that emulates a late model Classic Mac (pre Mac OS X). I have mine running Mac OS 9.

And why is it important to me? Because I have documents written using stone-age Mac applications like MacWrite that I can no longer open without those applications. Documents going back some 30+ years.
 
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Paid a fleeting, flying visit to the farmers' market and purchased several types of olives, a bag of mixed varieties of cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, chives, French onions, plus several gorgeous heads of locally grown new season's garlic, along with apricots, nectarines, and peaches.
 
On my mind are the almost comically blank expressions on the faces of the two individuals who manned the olive (and olive oil) stall, earlier this afternoon, when I visited the farmers' market.

I had asked about one of their products, a chorizo made from Iberico pigs, - they had several salamis laid out - to be met with a shrug (as they looked at one another), elaborated further with the less than helpful response, "I'm vegetarian".

Well, yes. As it happens, while I don't mind someone being vegetarian, nevertheless, I do think that they ought to be able to identify, and discuss, and answer questions about products that they themselves are selling.
 
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And why is it important to me? Because I have documents written using stone-age Mac applications like MacWrite that I can no longer open without those applications. Documents going back some 30+ years.
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My view is the best way to do this is to have a vintage Macintosh to open such documents! Plus such a Macintosh (or two or three or--in my case--more than I want to think about or awknowledge) add a certain something to one's decor!

Years back, I was locked to System 7 for my productivity long after Job's OS 9 funeral. I remember first hearing of an emulator for Windows systems. I remember joking that maybe I could run System 7 in a virutal machine running on Windows which I could run emulated on a OS X machine.

Incidnetally, LibreOffice has (or had, the last I knew) support for older word processor formats. It isn't flawless, but it allowed me to open almost every document I've tried so I can read it. I have files going back to 1989, in MS Works 2, WriteNow 4, and (probably, but I'm not certain) ClarisWorks/AppleWorks.
 
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to be met with a shrug (as they looked at one another), elaborated further with the less than helpful response, "I'm vegetarian".
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I don't mind someone being vegetarian, nevertheless, I do think that they ought to be able to identify, and discuss, and answer questions about products that they themselves are selling.
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It's a bit puzzling that a vegetarian would even be selling meat... Although I suppose there can be reasons (e.g., the stall is someone else's, and these vegetarians are employees or helping out for an hour).

But yes, they should be able to answer at least basic questions...

Although I think the "I'm a vegetarian" can be a valid point/disclaimer, because they would presumably have zero personal experience. They can only tell a customer what they themselves have been told.
 
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Sauerkraut got famous and popular in the US. That's fascinating. While we only eat that in winter with Mettwurst and mashed potatoes it looks like Americans eat it always?!
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I'm not sure how popular it is. It's been years since I've had it. It's been years since I've even noticed it, except seeing cans at the grocery store. Of course, since there are those cans/jars, then there must be customers...

I think a certain pecent of sauerkraut gets used as condiment for things like hotdogs.
 
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Well, I need more details. Please tell me.
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Essentially, there was something about her speech that sounded like she had come from a southern state. It was not super strong--the feeling I had was that perhaps she'd lived down there as a kid, and her family moved to a northern state, where her speech changed a bit, but not totally.
 
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