Recordings inspire me to have a go at learning. I mean nothing (or very little) comes from nothing. And once partially learnt I'll find my favourite version for timing & musicality. I've done this for Tom Lehrer and Rachmaninoff and Art Tatum.

they say you can’t edit your photo , which is true, but you can edit the background of the photo. I found some online tool to edit the texture out of the wall behind me, but didn’t alter my face. Unfortunately.

Ax is right, there will be more of these. A lot of that will come from the fact that thorough testing has become rather a lost art. Things get tested, but in most cases not rigorously. Back when dinosaurs did the programming, we were dedicated to trying very hard to break whatever we coded. That doesn't happen very much anymore. You see a lot of this in online systems where if you color outside the lines at all you're screwed. It doesn't recover or catch it.

I suppose that makes it good for something

It is everywhere. Janet was in grocery wholesaling for 10 plus years. Not a good industry for nice people. The competition is fierce and the players venal.

@daniel knows me well. I caved and bought two different kinds. Will report on what happens....

Wow!

@Axtremus

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He has a diminishing number of cultists. And his base in general has turned on him. They believed in his "America First" campaign. They are furious. Also he's virtually lost independents with an approval rating in the 20's.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/27/pentagon-fighter-jets-are-being-delivered-without-radar/ Short version: American F-35 fighter jets have to fly without the advanced radar designed for them. Instead, they fly with deadweights in place of the radar subsystems (presumably to maintain balance). Why? Because China messed with the supply of a specific rare metal, Gallium, that is required to build the advanced radar meant for the F-35s.

Oh, yeah. Some people, as I understand it, and I could be wrong, are loosing everything. They can't pay the assessment(s) and the condo complex evicts them. I think there is legislation in Tallahassee to extend the time the owner has to pay the assessments from one year to three, but I'm not sure what's happening with it (something else I should know by now). I'm only looking at condo buildings and complexes that were built between '68 and '76 (I could go as far as '77 but I really don't want to because a type of synthetic pipe material and pipe connection that became notorious for failure was introduced around '77). I'm not looking at new construction or any frame construction. I don't want it unless it's concrete block. My grandparents' house in Tampa was concrete block. They bought it '63 and and it wasn't new. Concrete block houses in Florida started in the '40's as far as I can tell. These interiors are virtually sound proof. They don't excel during fires. They don't excel against floods if they're single story. But above the first or second floor in a concrete building is where you want to be in a hurricane. And the virtual silence and privacy in an urban environment can't be found any other way here. I plan to have a buyer's agent and need to have a real estate attorney. I plan to methodically pull together every piece of information available on every unit I might buy. I don't view this as an industry necessarily made up of people you can trust. I'd rather trust myself to do my own research.