Now I know it's "biggest". My guess is it will probably be demolished, at least if "city planners" need some kind of road or development.

You can find YouTube interviews where she talks about him if you want to know more.

@jon-nyc said: There’s still dregs of Arabic in modern Spanish. The exclamation ‘ojalá’ comes to mind. Interesting Consider how mixed English is. It's famous for it.

I bought a Ridge wallet. Got it today. Like it knew I would. Did not want to spend a penny on a new wallet but my old bifold (hand-made, full grain, same price point) ... Well the leather expanded over time because of humidity or something, and every time I opened it my cards would come flying out everywhere, fall to the ground, etc. I thought it was wise to invest in something of an insurance policy. I'm not trying to loose the contents of my wallet to the four winds.

I'm locked out of my iPad for now : ( I refreshed my browser. It didn't do anything. Oh well! It's some glitch and will right itself soon enough.

That really is a beauty, but holy carp what a project….

Interesting! Thanks!

I've decided no two ways about it. I want a new mechanical Speed Queen. $600 every 2 years for the electronic panel to flip out, then to buy a new one, then to hire them to remove the old one and install the new one (not my skill set) is ridiculous. I'm enjoying doing laundry by hand in the kitchen sink, wringing it out, hanging on chairs on the enclosed glass patio for a day with the ceiling fan on, and then drying in the dryer. I don't mind at all. I've been doing laundry by hand for 2 years. I want to have my ceiling leak fixed first. Also, the underside of the floor that I know could reach 7k. $$$$ in my world. The car I bought didn't cost 10k. (25k miles, small, pristine, live it, more later). The tiles give some when you walk on them and I know why. It's disconcerting and needs the right contractor asap. I've wanted an Asko for a long time but couldn't swing and can't today. I am kind of two minds, but having the kind of washer my parents had in our house would be the best. How wonderful in this fast changing world would that be. The nail in the Asko coffin for me is it has electronics. Why take that risk when you can get a new old school mechanical washer? I mean I can think of reasons but on balance I crossed it off my list.

Btw, Love the picture. I might print it, enlarge it, and put it in a Wal-Mart type frame.

I saw that! Grotriman was talking about having a party in July but that never materialized. Maybe I can nudge him or threaten to hold one myself… I’d love to see him again. It’s been ages.

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@AdagioM Aww, if I had any role in your return to piano, that makes me very happy! And just doing it for you is the perfect reason! But do let us know how it goes and what you're working on!

I see dead people.

I locked myself out of my machine/ toy. "Genius Bar" is my answer. I tried everything else they said. For hours. Did you notice you iPad can sometimes divide security countdowns to 1/2 seconds. I was told I had 8.5 min. I was told I had 8 hrs after some time. No. I don't have days to spend acting like Tom Cruise in an action movie trying to rob a bank in Geneva.

I never heard of a person being fined almost $2 million and doubt anyone else has either. I think I could try to say something else about this but what do you do with something so random and absurd? It's good to know it happened though because now we know it will probably happen again. WTF

They are irresistibly beautiful, but tricky. I am reliably informed by MrsA that this white one needs little water and lives pretty much off air! Others she's had have needed a moist bathroom environment. Back in Malaysia one of her uncles had a huge greenhouse devoted to growing them. As it happens there's an orchid show in Durham next Sunday which will be fun [image: 8138.jpg]

Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

On a related note... Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. But an experiment NPR conducted with NewsGuard, a company that monitors online falsehoods and issues ratings about the reliability of online news sources, found that popular AI chatbots mostly pushed back against false narratives spread by foreign states. AI summaries that are increasingly found at the top of search engine results didn't perform as well. But overall, they still pushed back against state-spread falsehoods a majority of the time. NPR also looked at how often AI-generated answers may have uncritically exposed users to false information compared to traditional search results. The experiment found that AI chatbots outperformed search engines, while AI summaries underperformed. The results suggest that compared with traditional web search links, using AI chatbots with web search access is a "good way for users to start to investigate these issues," said Mike Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at the University of Washington, Bothell, who has tested AI tools for search extensively. NPR's experiment revealed that AI summaries at the top of search engine results may warrant more caution, depending on the product. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5876436/chatbots-search-propaganda