@JohnBrady @odd Same. Be well odd.
@JohnBrady @odd Same. Be well odd.
@cygnoir Very good photo. Agreed, more cat pics.
@pratik An excellent review. Thanks for giving us your findings.
@Mtt I never would have thought of that. Great tip. Thanks.
@cheribaker Okay, now I'm hungry, again.
@ddanielson Those are gorgeous watches. You have good taste!
@Mtt Yeah Orient watches are affordable which puts them in my bracket. I was just looking at the Hamilton's at the jeweler and they were high priced for me.
Here's the Orient Scout watch I picked up a few years ago. ramblinggit.com/2019/03/1...
@pimoore For automatic watches check out Orient watches.
@JohnBrady @chrisaldrich You are right, the Celts seemed to be everywhere for a very long time: they sacked ancient Athens (if I remember right), they sacked Rome long before the Germanic tribes were even around. And of course, the Romans never forgave them for that.
What always struck me about the Celts is that they could never truly unify for very long even against an overwhelming threat like the Romans. Once in awhile they could come together under a warlord like Vercingetorix but it never lasted long. And this pattern repeats itself from Caesar's campaigns in Gaul to Medieval times of the Welsh vs. the Normans and later the English vs the Irish. Wales had many small kingdoms and principalities and Ireland had many kingdoms (with a temporary High King for emergencies) but neither could really unify.
So the Celts remained tribal throughout their long history and seemingly just as happy to war against each other as they were to fight non-Celtic neighbors. Anyway that's my sloppy, broad brush take on it.
@alexink If you are using WordPress then Akismet or the free plugin AntiSpamBee work very good. I use the later and almost no spam comments get through but even so I also have it set so I have to manually approve.
@cheribaker Relatively cheap mass market paperbacks helped keep me sane as a tween and teen. I could escape real life and get lost in a fictional world. Like most kids, I didn't have a lot of money but buying both used and new paperbacks stretched my reading dollars. Used mass markets for 50 cents let me explore the back catalog of science fiction and mystery authors from the 1950's and '60's and helped build my list of favorite authors.
The longest wait in the world (as a teen) was when one of my favorite authors published a new title in hardcover only which was too expensive and I had to wait one or even two years for that book to finally come out in mass market size. It was like forever.
@cheribaker Congratulations on your new mass market paperback!
You probably know this, but Penguin really got it's start selling their mass market paperbacks using vending machines that they put in every train station, large and small, in the UK.
@pimoore @Gabz Agreed. Guinness is a treasure. Coffee too.
@JohnPhilpin LOL! That was a fun read. Thanks for posting it. (Good highlighting too.) In a way, Sunak was probably relived he didn't have to say hardly anything in the "interview".
@jabel Well said.
@petebrown This reminds me of the Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" button which I never use(d) because 1. it was too smug of a statement by Google that they were superior to other search engines that were extant at that time, 2. I always want to see the range of choices for my query and then I'll be the one to decide what to click on.
Discovery is a challenge, search engines helicopter us in to one page and we may miss a lot by this approach. Most surf the web indexes like directories, webrings, blogrolls, links pages take us to the index page where we are invited to explore deeper into the website. And we are all richer for having many different ways for discovery. I suppose AI has it's place but in the use case cited it's just another gatekeeper.
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cc. @AndySylvester
if there was an option to NOT post on the Micro.blog timeline but only cross-post to other networks, they would.
Bingo. I'd like to see this. There are some posts or perhaps even having a second MB blog where I could NOT cross-post to MB but could cross-post to other networks.
@cliffordbeshers If it's moved up from the South, it makes some sense. Our winters are much milder than they were 40 years ago.
@cliffordbeshers The very southern tip of Lake Michigan.
@paulcraig901 High fashion.
@cliffordbeshers We have a Coopers Hawk that hunts song birds here in the subdivision. The Blue Jays love to irritate it, as they do. I'm told, Coopers Hawks are not native to this area but somehow they moved in over the last couple of decades. At least I get to see the Coopers up close from my porch, whereas the larger Redtail Hawks (native) I only see from a distance. Nice photos!
@manton I just tried it to cross post to X and it works perfectly. For me this works better than automatic cross posting to X since I've greatly reduced my participation there. I'm being more selective but occasionally I need to go on a snark strafing run on X and this makes it easier. :-)
@odd I'm with you. If they are real they have some sort of confidence game going or if they are bots same thing.
@SimonWoods I use both Kobo and Amazon's e-readers and I like the Kobo hardware and store. Some independent ebooks are only published on Amazon but I try to always buy on Kobo first. I've had no problem with Kobo's hardware and rather like it.