They seem to be rather keen on their new system, which, as you say, seems very cluttered.
Personally, I hate a cluttered page, and deeply detest distracting visuals; actually, that plain Google search page is close to visual perfection for me.
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They seem to be rather keen on their new system, which, as you say, seems very cluttered.
Personally, I hate a cluttered page, and deeply detest distracting visuals; actually, that plain Google search page is close to visual perfection for me.
Glad you’re okJust felt an earthquake several minutes ago! 4.4M with epicenter around Blackhawk in Contra Costa County. Saw my lamp shaking.
There's somehow also a narrowing effect of their having moved the navigation elements down along the lefthand side of the page. Just weird.
"Don't mind us, we built this for a phone but see you can stretch it way out on the right hand side if you have a laptop, isn't that cool?"
I was stupefied the first time I saw it the other day. Just stared at it feeling like I'd launched Twitter on my XR but somehow ended up looking at it on the laptop. Went out for some coffee and came back to try it again... same effect. Then I gave up on it and haven't launched it since except to ditch all my follows, i.e. getting close to deactivating my account without actually doing it.
Whatever I see of Twitter now will be via PRSI clips and mainstream media relays. I'm not going to miss it. It was made for stirring pots. And as for media outlet accounts, I think I'd rather read email briefs than tweets of their featured pieces anyway. I can get a better sense of what news I want to start the day with.
On my mind today: preparation for heatwave! Brought a box fan upstairs from the cellar after I was down there fishing out some canning jars and my eye fell on the fans, which I generally only use to finish drying out the cellar in early spring after snowmelt encroaches and I have to pump water off the floor down there. But I'm going to have to exhaust heat out a back window from the upstairs hallway this weekend, or so it would seem, no matter if I follow my usual routine for closing up the house early and opening windows at nightfall. So much for complaining about a long and cold spring. This looks to be the payback.
I look at Twitter, yes, for stirring pots (and thank you, Gary Usher, for having helped me master the art of poaching an egg properly), for intelligent commentaries (political, but social, cultural and historical as well - I find The Long Read often very thought-provoking), for some political stuff, for stuff about books, and music, for good, thoughtful political, and historical (and personal) blogs, for material on feminism I might not have come across elsewhere, for reviews, and so on.
When deployed abroad, it is a very useful way of obtaining a shortcut into the political culture of a country.
I tend to avoid the cesspits, and rabbit holes, noting and bypassing them - but - when reading stuff by people whose writing you like and respect, you can often find find that they direct me (you, one) to other interesting writers and commentators.
You have given me an idea for this evening's dinner; it was to have been coq au Riesling; it is now chicken curry. Thank you.
To get the 'secret' recipe from my housekeeper I may have to resort to 'waterboarding' when I get back from the golf match...lol!
Well, howsoever you acquire it (and I shall not inquire too closely as to methods), I would receive it with great gratitude.
There was one employee at a shop I worked at for awhile who had a totally amazing recipe for some variant of Caribbean red beans and rice. Every year she'd bring it to one or another of our informal pre-holiday gatherings we'd throw in a big conference room with potluck contributions from any and all of us inclined to cook some favorite dish for the occasion instead of just buying something from a deli.
So every year at least a couple people would ask her for that recipe, and every year she'd oblige, take out a pen and dash it off onto an index card or sheet of paper, with a big smile and with thanks for the compliments.
But, she never gave a perfectly correct version of its perfection to anyone. When confronted, she'd always just give that big smile again and say it was the closest she could get without her deceased mother coming back to kill her for divulging that recipe.
But, you tweak such things, to memory, taste and preference.
A Sikh with whom I shared a house over twenty years ago could cook one dish, and only one dish - an amazing curry - very well.
Needless to say, this was was a family dish, the recipe coming from his mother and grandmother. Now, he did show me how to prepare it - indeed, we prepared it together a few times (not least because he always borrowed my invariably good cookware in which to prepare this dish).
That is where I got - or learned - the curry, chilli, garlic, ginger, coriander and tumeric combination.
But, in truth, he liked his a lot hotter than I normally like mine (although my preference for seriously strong robust flavours, has, if anything, increased with time).
Today, however, I am not feeding five or six (as we were then), and nor have I any intention of putting in three or four finely diced chillis. Nor, for that matter, do I have coriander to hand.
So, I tweak as to personal preference, - and, further refining matters, I tweak re personal preference this evening (which is not the same as personal preference other evenings, when I might crave a robust curry).
And I tweak with regard to resources to hand; I forgot to buy curry paste - (or, rather, the curry paste I had bought had been bought so long ago, and I had been abroad so often and for so long, that its expiry date had long since passed, and thus, it was consigned to the rubbish container several months ago when we did a clean out of expired objects) so, curry powder from Turkey will have to suffice.
Likewise, I don't have coriander in the house, and couldn't be bothered dashing into town to buy some; next time I'm in, I'll buy some. If a freshly chopped green herb is required, parsley can stand in for the absent coriander.
Besides, I'm rarely rigid about recipes; I like to cook something that is tasty, relaxing, and good to eat; if I am with a native from a country with a serious culinary tradition, or madly respected cuisine, I will happily learn what they may care to pass on.
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I certainly admit to tweaking "my own" recipes for often-prepared dishes, for as many reasons as you've provided. Sometimes I can't even lay hands on the original any more if I ever did see a version put to writing by someone else. But when I can find in print whatever I first started from, I am usually startled to see how it has evolved in general over so many years. And that's before one-off adaptations that may occur as you indicated, over impulse or knowing a guest's preference or because I ran out of something!
Cheeky bugger. Had to think a bit, but it was some Gary Paulsen book. I've seen either that silhouette or something like that on a revamped cover. Which is a relatively new trend by book publishers. Modern, edgy graphics to entice readers to older catalogs.
Yeah, I had to think a bit too. I kept thinking My Side of the Mountain, but that was voluntary confinement. You’re thinking of Hatchet, which does have a vaguely similar cover to my old avatar.
I can see why you thought that. I'm fairly certain I read that book, My Side of the Mountain, when I was younger. Is it required reading these days in schools? Apart from swash bucklers that came out in the 40s and 50s, one of my favorite novels from around that time is Lord of the Flies. I would love to see a modern film that adheres strictly to the book, but knowing what goes on in the novel, I fear it'll get an R rating here in America. Not sure what that is down under or off to the side (NZ) for you.
Hatchet is probably the one I'm thinking of. When I replied earlier, I remembered coming across an article a year or two ago of books that had their covers redesigned. One of the other books was Fahrenheit 451. What exactly is the cover you had as an avatar?
just block the Republicans, & you'll be fine.
but yesterday, they started the new mobile-style version format of the desktop.
oh god it's awful.
2/5ths of the screen aren't even used now! LOL
Wow a rookie mistake! It looks like they wanted a mobile version stick and forgot desktop browsers still come to site!
Thinking positive things today. Always super grateful for mom (who has saved my life several times), but around this time on July 18th 2018, she did save my life and rushed me to the emergency room.
So I am thinking happy, cool thoughts for her, and am so glad she finally accepted the 2018 iPad full of comedies and funny cartoons. She said these movies etc. distracts her from her physical issues. That makes me so happy to help her in that way too.
I am just so grateful she’s my mom.
And also grateful for this thread.
Thank you everyone.
Stay cool and enjoy your day.
So I am thinking happy, cool thoughts for her, and am so glad she finally accepted the 2018 iPad full of comedies and funny cartoons. She said these movies etc. distracts her from her physical issues. That makes me so happy to help her in that way too.
I am just so grateful she’s my mom.And also grateful for this thread.
Thank you everyone.
Stay cool and enjoy your day.
Thinking positive things today. Always super grateful for mom (who has saved my life several times), but around this time on July 18th 2018, she did save my life and rushed me to the emergency room.
So I am thinking happy, cool thoughts for her, and am so glad she finally accepted the 2018 iPad full of comedies and funny cartoons. She said these movies etc. distracts her from her physical issues. That makes me so happy to help her in that way too.
And also grateful for this thread.
Thank you everyone.
Stay cool and enjoy your day.
Lovely post, I'm glad that things are positive today for you, I'm delighted for you that you are thinking positive thoughts about your mum - and, besides, I am more than well aware that things aren't always easy in your situation, as you have posted about this before - and the very best of luck to you.
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Been tidying my garage and shed today.
Now my aching back and neck are on my mind.
Hot shower and painkillers haven’t touched it.
Now my aching back and neck are on my mind.
Hot shower and painkillers haven’t touched it.
Reminds me, I've always wanted to do what Vietch does with spammers. Bastards never replied back years ago on a fake email I made just to toy with them.
I take immense pleasure winding up cold callers. Just can't do it all the time.
I take immense pleasure winding up cold callers. Just can't do it all the time.
Take it easy, stretch and enjoy that shower.
Work time is here (again).
@Scepticalscribe Thank you, as always. I hope you are well too.
"Here am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
Have you heard of tech scam baiting? It's the same thing Veitch does but with cold calls and pop-ups about fake viruses. Tech scammers usually prey on the elderly and mentally ill, say their system is compromised somehow, connect remotely, and then "fix" the computer, holding it ransom until anonymous payment, like iTunes gift cards, is given.
It's terrible, but it gives scam baiters a lot to work with. One IT specialist does a flawless impersonation of an old woman, and spends hours going through the motions with the scammers.
He has a few virtual machines and uses a VPN, so when the scammers connect to his "infected" computer, they use a fake notepad programmed with delay and character repetition. He uses a soundboard and multiple voices to pretend to drive to stores and buy iTunes cards at the scammers' requests, but he'll take forevever, buy Google Play cards instead, get the wrong denominations, etc.
It's a riot.
This was entertaining. Infuriating, but at the same time entertaining.
AAAAAAGGGH, make it stop, make it STOP!!!!!
OK, so I was reading an article in the Washington Post about how some beach resort town in Florida is trying something a bit different to hopefully prevent homeless people from taking over and sleeping in what is apparently a quiet and deserted and prime beach area of their community each night.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...eping-waterfront-park/?utm_term=.d21302ccde4a
Rather a clever idea, thought I, reading the article.... This is a really serious situation and something does need to be done about the homeless situation, but at closer glance this solution seems rather weird and probably inappropriate in the long run. Whatever, this post is not about the increasingly desperate situation of the homeless population throughout the US, or the situation in Florida, which certainly is not trivial, but rather about that darned Baby Shark!
Now that blankety-blank annoying-as-heck song is going through my head and it won't stop!!!!!
“Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
“Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
"Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo do......"
AIEEEEEE!!
Warning: if by any chance you have not actually heard this song, do not, I repeat, DO NOT decide to just check it out by running a Google and finding a site where you can listen. Seriously. Do not do it. You have been warned! This thing is an incredibly persistent ear worm that once heard, never really seems to leave....an earworm that is the Mother of all earworms!!!!! Even reading the printed words can evoke the darned song with its inane repetitive lyrics and its deceptively simple melody chasing itself around and around and around in your head.....
You have been warned. Apologies to those who, in reading this post and those lyrics, are now also experiencing a reprise of That Song in their own heads...... Now I need to go try and cleanse my ears and my brain by playing some nice classical music or some hard rock or something that will erase this thing!
OK, so I was reading an article in the Washington Post about how some beach resort town in Florida is trying something a bit different to hopefully prevent homeless people from taking over and sleeping in what is apparently a quiet and deserted and prime beach area of their community each night.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...eping-waterfront-park/?utm_term=.d21302ccde4a
Rather a clever idea, thought I, reading the article.... This is a really serious situation and something does need to be done about the homeless situation, but at closer glance this solution seems rather weird and probably inappropriate in the long run. Whatever, this post is not about the increasingly desperate situation of the homeless population throughout the US, or the situation in Florida, which certainly is not trivial, but rather about that darned Baby Shark!
Now that blankety-blank annoying-as-heck song is going through my head and it won't stop!!!!!
“Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
“Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
"Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo do......"
AIEEEEEE!!
Warning: if by any chance you have not actually heard this song, do not, I repeat, DO NOT decide to just check it out by running a Google and finding a site where you can listen. Seriously. Do not do it. You have been warned! This thing is an incredibly persistent ear worm that once heard, never really seems to leave....an earworm that is the Mother of all earworms!!!!! Even reading the printed words can evoke the darned song with its inane repetitive lyrics and its deceptively simple melody chasing itself around and around and around in your head.....
You have been warned. Apologies to those who, in reading this post and those lyrics, are now also experiencing a reprise of That Song in their own heads...... Now I need to go try and cleanse my ears and my brain by playing some nice classical music or some hard rock or something that will erase this thing!
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