@pique said in For Pique: If they don't want to do something, they just lie down and refuse to move. Game over. Newfoundlands make dandy doorstops, too. [image: DSCN0147.jpg]

Anything you type into a computer or other device, if that device is connected to the internet, it is not private. This has always been true. And you can't erase it, either. Just be circumspect in your communications you wish to keep private. Use the phone (land line?) or write a letter. Or meet in person.

So should I get a shot of yogurt in my brain then? J/k... Maybe I'll read the article before I make any other stupid jokes.

Cool, thanks for posting this link!

A version of capsule hotels in Japan, except people live in the sleeping pod arrangement all the time. I couldn't do it.

Just puttin' it out there - I am NOT the ChatGPT Sermonator. Mine are better - and shorter.

Interesting. Those names don't "break" CoPilot though. I was curious, so I checked. (For those not familiar, CoPilot is MS's chat bot/gen AI)

I just went through a bunch of Skins and really like the way things show up when I use Quartz. It's not just the colors, but the actual data that is displayed. I was using another Skin and it wasn't displaying the "teaser" that shows part of the most recent post in the thread when you're looking at the entire list of threads via Recent. Quartz does.

We had a wonderful visit with our friend who came in from out of town. She arrived late Thursday and left just a little while ago. Our Thanksgiving dinner was on Friday, and we did a multi-day turkey extravaganza, though we went for carryout from our favorite Chinese restaurant yesterday. She brought a killer Washington State wine. Abeja Beekeeper's, the red blend. [image: b29cf890-d9f4-4f40-9b0c-0a036305c052.jpg] She brought the 2016. She also brought these chocolates. Really, really wonderful. https://www.burdickchocolate.com/4-chocolate-turkeys

@Mary-Anna said in Grand Obsession: I believe the video of Muffin and me was made at Plays88Keys' piano party. Jon was there and he's in the video. Do you recall, Jon? She had a Steinway at the time, so you're probably right that it was a New York Steinway. I think that was Plays and Improv’s house in Richmond. You, me, Bernard, and PD were all there. And some local friends of theirs. I remember seeing Piano Son and Muffin interacting as awkward teens. What a great memory.

We’re the same basic species. It doesn’t surprise me to learn that languages construct in similar ways. We’re describing the same world. It would be interesting to to see if birdsong follows some version of Zipf’s Law.

@Axtremus explains what happened: https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/926/forum-appearance-change-what-and-why-it-happened

Thanks @Lisa I’ll take a look! And thank you to everyone who’s commented so far! We’re going to pick one today I think. (I can make up my d*amn mind

The system has glitched on a on a periodic basis but a tacitly partisan approach to changing it is DOA.

@AndyD Thanks @RealPlayer Hi @Steve-Miller, I remember you too. Things are OK thanks. I didn't comment in your thread about Rory but I found it very interesting. I hope he can overcome his challenges and make the most of his talents.

HPS lights like that have fallen out of favor because LEDs are so much cheaper to operate. It’s not much of a consideration for a household porch light but for parking lot and street lighting it’s a big deal. You can tell how much electricity costs in a particular area by what color the street lights are. In my town power is dirt cheap and the light in front of my house is a warm yellow HPS lamp. When the crew came out to replace it I asked why they weren’t installing a modern LED and was told that my municipality scored a deal on thousands of HPS lamps on closeout (likely because no one wants them anymore) and would be using HPS far out in to the future. Fly in to LA and it’s a completely different story. Power in LA is fabulously expensive and pretty much every light in town has been changed out. We did a pretty good business changing them out before I retired.

@wtg I grew up catching stripers in the Chesapeake Bay. Best tasting fish there is, IMO.

@Steve-Miller There are state and federal laws about child pornography. It is a crime to possess it. So it seems it would be a crime to post it. I'm talking about censorship by way of labeling legitimate opinions on any topic as-- "misinformation" and censoring political speech, for example-- not allowing criticism of the state of Israel under the guise of falsely labeling it as-- "antisemitism."