Good place for it. Yes it’s beautiful, but I’m happy to skip it.Missouri, United States. Other areas in the US have also been getting snow. Quite a beautiful sight from my workstation in our basement.
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Yeah, luckily this year we shouldn't be needing to get out as much so the snow and ice (which is the big issue) shouldn't cause as much of a problem.
I miss seeing the birdies and squirrels on my deck..... Once I realized that the neighbors in my condo building weren't happy because the small, lightweight seeds were flying all over and landing on their decks, too, which I didn't know until someone told me, I had to give up feeding my little pals on the deck and of course then once they figured out that there was no more free food available for their consumption they stopped coming. I still see and hear them around outside, though, and although I forgot to do it today when I was at the grocery store I am going to pick up more birdseed and then take it out to the common grounds area and distribute it there......I want my little feathered and furred friends to be well fed as winter begins to set in!
Setting up XFree86 on an old Linux distro (Slackware 8.0) is fun, but time consuming to say the least 😆
Finally got an answer to a question of mine. In some of his books/articles Kissinger talks about "green felt tables" as a sign of the beginning of a negotiation. Hence my question was where does the idea of green felt tables comes from?
After some research, I decided to email the Office of the Historian at the US Department of State (yes, they do have an office dedicated to history, and their products are AMAZING, and mostly free) to ask for clarification. Here's their answer:
So, it seems that it's a Soviet protocol, and the Americans got used to it while dealing with Soviet-leaning diplomats.
@Scepticalscribe my understanding is that you're quite fond of this type of trivia, so hopefully you'll find this one somewhat charming.
After some research, I decided to email the Office of the Historian at the US Department of State (yes, they do have an office dedicated to history, and their products are AMAZING, and mostly free) to ask for clarification. Here's their answer:
So, it seems that it's a Soviet protocol, and the Americans got used to it while dealing with Soviet-leaning diplomats.
@Scepticalscribe my understanding is that you're quite fond of this type of trivia, so hopefully you'll find this one somewhat charming.
Maybe that's how they settle international disputes!
Why does USPS have your marriage license? Anyway congratulations I guess?
Thought the same thing. Don't remember it getting dark so soon before. Went from blinding me on the way home to suddenly being completely dark
Think that's how it is if you request a copy for yourself. Think the official one for us got signed by the pastor and we sent it to Harrisburg or wherever
Same with the three genders in German. Only had like four years so don't remember much about the other parts of speech other than the singular/plural formal/informal thing. Was funny when we had a German exchange student, he said our book was like a fourth grade book to himSame in Italian
Certainly did tonight. As I didn’t get a lunchtime walk (well a lunchtime really), it was too dark afterwards to go out. So I had to go for a cycle ride in the garage to complete my circles.
I’ve never had to request a copy yet. It’s been 22 years so I’m probably ok with the one we have on file. I’m not really sure what I would need to show a copy of it for?
Mailed from Washington state because that’s where I’m getting married. I’m in NYC right now. Thanks!
At the time my husband died, in some situations (mainly banks, especially with regard to the mortgage and also when I sold our townhouse a few years later) I had to provide not only a death certificate but a copy of our marriage certificate as well....
Hopefully I don’t need one for a while!
On my mind is the amount of work I need to do! Just put in another evening shift. Just as well we don’t do time in lieu where I work. I’d just not turn up for 2021!
My mother's eldest sister died in early 2000, and, when arranging probate, I recall that we had to source (or request) the marriage certs and death certs of each of her two husbands, respectively, both of who predeceased her. The first was an RAF officer, a Flight Lieutenant with Coastal Command, who was killed in November 1943, (the second had worked in Bletchley Park, but died in the late 1970s), and I remember my astonishment when I read the death cert of her first husband, almost 70 years after he had been killed, which described a death "on war operations" in 1943.
Yes I recall when Mrs AFB mother died we had to get several death certificates. But as she was divorced I don’t recall having to produce a marriage (or divorce) certificate.
Yes, the marriage certificate is needed if the marriage was still very much valid at the time of one partner's death and if the two of them owned property together, had joint bank accounts and all that sort of thing..... In order to sell the townhouse I had to produce proof that, yes, along with my husband, I was the legal owner/mortgagee and that I was entitled as both the surviving spouse and as automatically inheriting rights to everything upon my husband's death, etc., etc. In the US, when people take out mortgages they usually do a "rights of survivorship" thingy in order to make everything a bit easier at the time of one person's death but nonetheless proof needs to be provided that there was a marriage or legal partnership of some sort.....
I would imagine that in the situation of a divorce that it wouldn't matter any more about providing proof of a marriage, since that marriage had been legally dissolved. Presumably, too, in a divorce, property is sold outright with each person getting a share of the profits if there are any, or one party in the divorce buys out or as part of the settlement is simply given the other's share in the property and then it becomes his or hers solely anyway.
Of course when I bought this condominium it was in my name alone, a different legal situation altogether from when I sold the townhouse and also from when at some point either I or my heirs deal with selling this place.
I would imagine that in the situation of a divorce that it wouldn't matter any more about providing proof of a marriage, since that marriage had been legally dissolved. Presumably, too, in a divorce, property is sold outright with each person getting a share of the profits if there are any, or one party in the divorce buys out or as part of the settlement is simply given the other's share in the property and then it becomes his or hers solely anyway.
Of course when I bought this condominium it was in my name alone, a different legal situation altogether from when I sold the townhouse and also from when at some point either I or my heirs deal with selling this place.
LiDAR is pretty cool. Spent a few minutes running around my house and got this dystopian 3D model to play with:
I really do still love my 7 Plus. I got it out to take some photos of my 11 Pro Max screen with color filters on and off. I forgot how much I miss Touch ID and LCD screens. Plus that Jet Black, this device is still one of my favorites ever. My very favorite is the blue 5c. It was my very first iPhone after all.
I may be simple minded, or old, but... I am still impressed that the iphone 7 home button is static. That tactile vibration, I can't believe everyone brushed it off including Apple.
This is like Sci-Fi tech for me...
This is like Sci-Fi tech for me...
FWIW, the trackpads on MacBooks are still haptic only. It's really cool because they take it one step further with certain apps; in QuickTime, pressing down harder on the fast forward or rewind buttons will trigger a second, third, and fourth click to signal the user that it's scrubbing faster.
I was so impressed when I saw one of my friends get an iPhone with a home button like that. IIRC I even asked her if I could hold it and touch the home button.