Tree rats.

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Very nice. Just how difficult is it to learn all the fret positions! And fingernails... on the first episode somebody demonstrated how, with good fingernails you could vary the sound produced half a dozen ways. I tried to grow and maintain my right hand nails over some years, but DIY ruins them, gardening ruins them, and then there's the shortish length required to play piano. Superglue helped.

Maybe do photos to show 'empty/before and after'

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Makes perfect sense.

@Bernard said: Rahm's name isn't on the list. I wonder why. He may be followed by the "mayor 1%" name he earned during his Chicago years... https://inthesetimes.com/article/rahm-emanuel-chicago-retirement-schools-mental-health "Their main focus was not his policing strategy or position on gun laws, but rather his failure — or refusal — to invest in the South and West sides: African American and Latino neighborhoods ravaged by violence. While the national movement ignited by the teenagers from Parkland, Florida has focused largely on gun control, in Chicago, marchers on the expressway and countless other residents say devastating gun violence has caused by Emanuel’s actions over his tenure in City Hall: closing public schools, slashing city jobs, shuttering mental health clinics and investing in trendy neighborhoods while struggling ones languish." He was BAD for kids in Chicago public schools when I worked there...

@wtg those are fun! I have a piano score the for Wellerman Sea Shanty, but it’s not very fun as a solo piano piece! @axtremus that’s hysterical!

@Daniel Website is josephkubera.com. Thanks for asking.

@Daniel said: 80 is a good age to reach. RIP As is 90. 80 isn't so far in the distance for some of us to find comfort.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones. China’s A.I. is surging, especially in developing countries, as people look for the best possible system at the lowest possible cost. Unlike models made by the leading American A.I. companies OpenAI and Anthropic — which are closed and charge fees — the Chinese systems are publicly available to download and modify without payment or approval. In more than two dozen interviews across Kenya, Uganda and other countries, developers, policymakers and executives described a rapidly changing A.I. market where cost, computing resources, data control and customization mattered more than where a model was made. Often they were not looking for bleeding edge A.I. They just wanted something that worked well enough on limited resources.

Beautiful photos everyone! Some of you might remember that I was worried about something eating our black eyed susans before they had the chance to bloom... Well whatever it was decided that they didn't actually like the black eyed susans, so this is what it looks like now. [image: IMG-4770.jpg] [image: IMG-4769.jpg] They are actually trying to take over, so when fall comes, we're going to have to figure out how to rein them in. But for now, they look so cheery, right outside the front door.

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The Spencer ancestry is as clear as day to me when I look at pictures of him.

Actually, all US intelligence services concluded some time ago that it came from the lab in China. Fauci is a psychopath hiding behind the mask of secular saint. Fauci aka as quote "I am science" has a preemptive pardon. He didn't deserve it (is this actually legal?) but certainly needs it. He arranged the funding for this research and then profited after the predictable result of it.

His lack of consistency and repetitiveness are not confidence inspiring.

Fabulous. All it needed was Les Dawson accompanying on piano.