Selecting a new Steinway for the Frick's concert hall in NYC.
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Greetings from SFO!Who would have guessed that a baking thread would become our record holder. Over 2K views and counting.
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Happy birthday, WTF! -
I must remember to plant some strawberries this springMy grandmother tended the strawberry bed on the farm where I grew up. A job I had when I was little was sitting at the table where we had berries for sale and collecting the money from the customers.
I recall that "Midway" was a variety of strawberry she particularly favored. I believe they're still available.
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Continuing the aggressive DEI cleanupShameful and stupid attempts to suppress history and the heroes who made that history.
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Fun video. (There’s a piano) -
For fans of the Moth Radio HourThat was a good one, Bernard. A mother's love is infinite. Best Christmas gift ever.
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Happy birthday, Mark -
My latest piano recording@ShiroKuro said in My latest piano recording:
I wish I could capture that deliciousness in the recording, but ah well.
I'd say it was pretty delicious as is, more delicious would amaze me. I was happy to be able to watch you play and really enjoy the precision with which you handled that composition. Your tempo was ideal.
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Another interesting houseThat definitely is an interesting house and the price seems very low for such an extensive structure. I do wonder about the location, having looked at it on Google Earth and finding it more or less in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by crop irrigation circles. As I zoomed out, I saw other houses similarly situated in what I'd regard as crop land, so it must not be an entirely unique property in that region.
Nothing stranger than people, as an old friend of mine would remark.Big Al
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Remember the transparent TV?I caught a glimpse of it before the Chicago Trib notified me that I had exceeded my free views. I'd never heard of or seen it before. It looks like an answer searching for a question.
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Happy Birthday, @Nina! -
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Places I wouldn't vacationI've enjoyed visits to caves a number of times over the years. I think the last was Ruby Falls near Chattanooga. When I was in college, I went spelunking in caves with the Explorers Club. I had to slither through some tighter spots.
There's an extensive sandstone cave system in western Pennsylvania, Laurel Caverns, that may soon become the state's first underground state park.
Elevators don't normally bother me; what I find frightening is unconfined high places. Those two things once intersected in a downtown Pittsburgh building where I worked. I was stuck between floors in an elevator and learned that a side panel could be opened for access. The maintenance people stopped the elevator in the adjacent shaft next to the one I was in and opened the access panels in both to get me and a couple of other people out. There was nothing much but air in the intervening space, except for a steel beam about shoulder height that we had to pass under to get to the other elevator. I gripped that beam so tightly as I ducked under it that it should still have fingerprints indented in its surface.
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Baltic states join EU gridThe less dependent countries are on Russia for energy supply or anything else, the better in my opinion.
I hope countries like Canada don't have to make similar choices regarding the USAA>
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Happy Birthday, @pique! -
3rd TermGiven the attempted coup already underway, I think it is foolish to dismiss almost any possible course of action by Trump, the Republicans, and their minions.
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Meet the coffee obsessives@AdagioM said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend. Yum.
We've been drinking that sometimes recently. It's been available at Costco. I like it, but the beans are very oily. I've had to clean the grinder and it's discharge hopper frequently.
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