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I think this site has been mentioned here in the past:
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That is a damn fine playlist. Been listening to it for the past couple of days. Thanks for pointing it out.
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On 2/27/2020 at 10:23 PM, Brad said:
I used to negotiate supply agreements for pharmaceutical products but did some food agreements too and I’m not sure I agree with the conclusions in this article that’s it’s safe to eat foods with expired dating. The dating is not just “best if used by x date” but also there for safety reasons.
I think some judgment is certainly called for when trying to determine if something's safe to eat. As long as it doesn't smell or taste "off", I might be OK with it if it was somewhat out of date. Decades out of date, like some of the examples in the article, not so much. I don't automatically toss something just because it's past the date on the packaging, but on the other hand I'm not going to risk getting violently ill if there's even a slight question as to whether something might not be safe to eat.
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So sorry. Losing one parent is a profound loss; two in such a short time is nearly unfathomable.
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2 hours ago, bresna said:
I still think eBay shot themselves in the foot when they made the bidders anonymous. Back when you could see the bidders, you could tell right away if you had shills. Now, anyone can shill their own rare item and no one can know.
I assume that at some point they determined that the fees they were losing by people making deals outside of the eBay system when bidders' identities and contact info were visible outweighed any concerns they may (or may not) have had concerning shill bidding.
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Despite the title, discussion of baseball is minimal and near the end of the piece, but fans of the now 99-year-old Roger Angell will no doubt find much of interest in this fascinating interview with him, including a priceless anecdote about Joseph Mitchell.
BASEBALL, FICTION, AND LIFE: ROGER ANGELL’S ERA-SPANNING CAREER AT THE NEW YORKER
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10 hours ago, mjzee said:
Surprised that audiophiles haven't yet addressed the weakest link in the chain: the air. After all, music has to travel through the air to reach your ears, and there can be all sorts of qualities in the air in your home that could degrade the signal and give you a sub-optimal listening experience. What you need is a hermetically-sealed listening room with audiophile-quality air pumped in and constantly monitored to insure peak transparency. You don't want air that's too excitable, nor air that's too flat; humidity, ozone, ions, particulates and air pressure are all factors to consider. Someone should start working on this.
"Right here I want the sound of thick air." -- Bob Weir, 1967
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I was pleased to see the AP's obit devoted a fair amount of space to Hawaiian Eye, the show that really kickstarted Conrad's TV career. It's fallen off the radar somewhat over the years, as it's never had a home video release and hasn't been as frequently syndicated as The Wild Wild West or Baa Baa Black Sheep.
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13 hours ago, felser said:
I went with the audible trial membership, so she has access for now - would still like to get the unabridged CD set at some point for her, as she likes to relisten to favorites (has done Lord of the Rings at least 30 times!).
I only skimmed the terms, and I don't personally have an Audible membership, but I think you get to keep whatever free audiobook you selected as part of the trial membership even if you cancel the membership after the trial.
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I assume you may have already seen this, but if you're an Amazon Prime member it's free with an Audible trial membership, which you can cancel to avoid the monthly recurring charge:
https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/B00518Z5DS
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On 1/22/2020 at 5:59 PM, JSngry said:
The countdown begins...
RIP
John Cleese ended his tweet about Jones' passing with "Two down, four to go".
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On 1/19/2020 at 0:01 PM, bresna said:
It's nostalgia, plain & simple. I understand it too. But don't conflate nostalgia with "everything's going to shit". That's what got us MAGA.
I had a 1965 Chevrolet Impala when I was in high school and college. I loved that car. I experienced some great things in that car. Great memories. I have a nostalgic love for that car. In the late 80's, I fell into some money, so I decided I would get my 1965 Chevy Impala convertible that I always wanted. It showed up on a flatbead and I gleefully jumped into the driver's seat and started it up. Ahh, there was that sound of the 283 V8. Man, did that bring back memories! I was in heaven.
Then I drove it.
What a dog!! You could move the steering wheel back & forth for several inches and the car would still go straight. You turn and the whole front end nose-dives into the corner. No road feel. You float along. Hit a bump and almost bite you tongue. Put the top down and forget to unzip the glass rear window and it shatters. Snapping on the tonneau cover was a joke. Most of the snaps wouldn't snap and every other one ripped out of the vinyl. And then run out to the car in the sun with the top down and jump in with shorts onto that black vinyl bench seat. Mother %$##$!!!! The worst was those frickin' bias ply tires! You go into a corner on an exit ramp and hit a bump and the car walks off the road. Scared the crap out of me. Radials went on within days.
Worst car i ever bought.
Hence the popularity of restomods - you still get the looks and basic structure of a classic car, but with updated engine/suspension/brakes/etc. so you can actually drive it daily without experiencing many of the shortcomings you described.
Reminds me of the people who continue to insist that cars of the 50s and 60s were safer than modern cars, because, well, all that heavy-gauge steel just gotta be better than these newfangled plastic shitboxes. When all other attempts to disabuse them of this notion fail, I like to point them at this video:
Don't get me wrong, I love classic cars, but I'm also not under any illusions as to the compromises that are invariably involved when it comes to driving one on anything approaching a regular basis.
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On 1/17/2020 at 6:33 AM, bresna said:
It's funny, but I was over on another forum and some loon started complaining about HD TV, saying stupid shit like, "The picture is so much better on an SD TV". I figure he was just trolling but then several other idiots started agreeing with him... well, maybe it was a group troll job?
Yeah, there have been a few people on Hoffman's Visual Arts subforum who have made this claim. Almost without exception, they have been a couple of tacos shy of a combination plate, and for plenty of other reasons in addition to seriously putting forth such a claim. The corollary to such claims is usually "you can only view analog video properly on a CRT".
I still have a substantial number of laserdiscs, and given the limits of the format they are generally quite watchable on an HD panel as long as you're using a good scaler and a high-end laserdisc player, but there's no way I'd ever claim that such a setup can compare to a well-mastered Blu-ray played back with my Oppo.
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On 1/13/2020 at 8:06 AM, T.D. said:
They said it was going to ship. I won't believe it until given a tracking number which actually shows up in the USPS system.
Not to harp on negatives, but dealing with Mosaic has become like falling into the Looking-glass World.
I suspect your Feb. 2019 order simply got lost. Which brings to mind the Paypal gripe. I use Paypal with Mosaic because Mosaic's website has gone to pot and I don't trust their security. But Mosaic inexplicably, and unlike any other online merchant I can think of, charge Paypal immediately rather than when the order ships.
You must not be a Deadhead. Ever since Dead.net outsourced order fulfillment, their shipping has made Mosaic's in its current state look like Amazon Prime.
As for Paypal, that's interesting, as it's been my experience that it's far more common for online merchants to charge Paypal immediately, instead of when an order ships. Import CDs, for one, does this. It's common enough to where I've seen many warnings that it's never a good idea to use Paypal to pay for anything that isn't currently in stock and shipping immediately (i.e., no preorders or backorders), for exactly this reason.
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Pizza Rat: The Lost Years
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1 hour ago, medjuck said:
More than 50 years ago I saw this in Copenhagen with Dreyer present to introduce it.
Wow! That had to have been both intense and memorable.
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Do you mean the Yahoo Group?
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/JazzWestCoast/info
Yahoo just shut down the web hosting aspect of Yahoo Groups several days ago - they are no longer hosting any Groups' content on the web, but the Groups' email functionality is still active. So if you were a member of a Group and had elected to receive all messages via email, you likely haven't noticed much difference. If, OTOH, you accessed messages via a Group's web portal, then you're probably wondering where everyone went, as all of the Group messages are no longer accessible via the web portal. Yahoo sent out several notices in advance of this happening, and provided functionality to obtain a download of the message archives for each Group (without any images that had been attached or otherwise included in messages) prior to the shutdown deadline.
A lot of Groups were not happy with the changes and opted to move to other, similar portals like Groups.io, who provided what seemed to be a relatively painless method to migrate a Yahoo Group's archived content over to their site for a one-time $100 fee.
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Damn. RIP.
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On 12/10/2019 at 7:19 AM, JSngry said:
Yolk porn!
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The backstory on those emails, from the guy who wrote the copy for them:
The most successful email I ever wrote