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  1. fredlong

    Music The Amazing Emporium of Wondrous Tunes (aka: What are you listening to?)

    Joe's Blues form the 1970 album Intercontinental. Joe Pass is one of my favorite guitarists.
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews Geoff Dyer
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    Your X-Mas gift/present (Non-photographic related)

    Is it Christmas already!
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    Quotes I've carried with me

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure...
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    Mac Os - Windows

    I donā€™t shut down my Mac OS computers at night. They just go to sleep. My Windows work computer does get shut down at night but still needs to be rebooted a couple of times a week because the Microsoft Office applications stop working. This is separate from the updates that require restarts...
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    Mac Os - Windows

    I use Windows 10 Pro at work and restart regularly when things start getting weird. I use Mac OS v10.13.6 and v13) at home and restart once a year whether it need it or not.
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    Right now I'm finishing up "But Beautiful" by Geoff Dyer. Up next is "Coming Through Slaughter" by Michael Ondaatje.
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    I really like "Mort" I got through 13 up to "Small Gods" before taking a break last summer. I really need to get back to it.
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    Dell

    Just order one that's meant for content creators. I have one from the Latitude line at work. It's pretty powerful, has horrible battery life and literally the worst display I've ever used. We use them with a hub and multiple monitors in the office, but can take them home.
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    Music The Amazing Emporium of Wondrous Tunes (aka: What are you listening to?)

    I havenā€™t heard anyone mention Martha and the Muffins since the 80ā€™s!
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    My current project is reading all 41 of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in order of publication. I've read about a dozen of them over the years but it's time to get obsessive! I'm on #6 Wyrd Sisters. I'm also working through Thich Nhat Hanh's The Heart of Understanding yet again. But that's...
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    What is it with onerous terms of service?!

    The difference is that I could license it to anyone else for any kind of use anywhere in the world. Ownership is different from licensing. I DO think the unlimited perpetual license is way more than necessary to run a forum. I'm not posting any more images to places with that type of TOS.
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    What is it with onerous terms of service?!

    The terms Iā€™ve actually read donā€™t claim ownership of the content. They get a perpetual non-exclusive license to use it any way they want including ways that no one has thought of yet.
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