WTF-Beta

All I can find online is that he posted on truth social that the passports say that, but they don’t actually say that.

I feel like I’m the only person on the planet that found that movie incredibly irritating.

How lovely. ️

Yikes.

That little ukulele group I belonged to in Maine. We’d practice at the local nursing home, at the senior center, twice a week. All levels of players and singers. It was joyful. I loved it.

Holy wow, that’s spectacular. I could totally live there if I had unlimited funds and several full time gardeners for the topiary.

This is crazy. It’s not that complicated. I bake with my starter every week or two or three. I rarely if ever use fed starter, it’s usually totally flat, and I feed it after I’ve mixed up the dough and stick it back in the fridge. So it gets fed every week or two ( I almost never feed it if I’m not baking something). I never discard. I make mostly pizza dough and sandwich loaves in a loaf pan, and bagels and sweet rolls.. The bagels and sweet rolls go overnight, but the pizza and bread get baked the same day. I don’t weigh, and I loosely measure, sometimes I add a lot of starter to the mixture if I need to use some up. I add water, then flour until the dough feels right. I used a stand mixture and don’t do stretch and folds. It always works.

From a quick AI assisted google search (lol) - “ Knowledge is the information, facts, and skills you acquire through education and experience. Intelligence is the mental capacity to process that information, adapt to new situations, and solve problems effectively.”

I would argue that AI absolutely has intelligence. That’s the kind of the whole point of using it. Its ability to process and problem solve. AI’s can train other AI’s - Google AI swarm - the capability of this technology is fascinating. It’s a whole new world, and it’s changing FAST.

I had to try three times with the photos I took - the background needs to be white, with no detail, and our walls have a texture to them, so the lines showed up. Then I took one at the gallery where we have a pull down screen, but forgot to take my glasses off. (You can’t wear glasses) - third time, in front of the screen went through. Luckily I did it online - which was super easy. And fast! A couple weeks, maybe - passport came first, then a few days later the passport card.

I haven’t ever lived in a place that has Aldi grocery stores.

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I don’t have them on the tv non-stop like I did last year. But I do check in. It amazes me that the parents are even able to get food in those tiny little chick mouths in the beginning.

I am so sorry, don’t know how I missed your original post. So glad he’s making progress!

According to the other forum, she has not passed away, just withdrawn from social media.

Migraines - uhg. I hope the hat continues to work for you! I’ve had more than usual this past 6 weeks or so. If I’m lucky, it’s just once a month, but it’s been every 2 weeks recently, and a couple of times, two days in a row. I am super sensitive to triggers - stress, salt, dehydration, and a big change in weather can bring them on. Alcohol as well, so I don’t drink. Light can do it - I got a bad one the last time I went to the get my eyes checked and my pupils got dilated. I’ve overdue for an appointment, and I keep putting it off… So far, I just take Rizatriptan - one dose takes them away, but I have to take it early on, or it takes a long time to work.

I bought a Japanese made plastic ocarina to try. I played the recorder and the clarinet when I was younger - The ocarina is a little trickier that those - two thumb holes and you use every finger to cover a hole (or two) - so the fingerings don’t feel intuitive (based on what I’m used to playing). Fun fact - Ennio Morricone used an ocarina in his music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

@jon-nyc said:

Saw a comment online on a picture showing Marco’s shoe:

“See that gap behind Marco’s heel? That’s where he keeps his dignity”.

We unloaded the glaze kiln yesterday and a few more were fired. Here’s a video I made showing the difference in pitch after the firing - it went from close to an E major scale to an F#, so a whole step up. This was fired to cone 10 in the gas kiln, I can’t remember the exact shrinkage of this clay - somewhere around 12 - 14%. (Turn the sound up to hear the iPad video, then back down before I play at the end).

I will eventually make enough to sell some of them in the gallery, I am currently too attached to the ones I have made so far to let them go! As in most things clay related (for me, anyway, as I love to hand decorate each piece) they are incredibly time consuming to make.

They shrink slightly in firing, so the pitch will raise a little. You form the body, and then noise making part. That gives you are bass note, then you punch one hole at a time - starting small - and you enlarge That hole until you get the next note you want (I usually go with a full step up, but not always). You then tune the next hole off the first hole, And so on. Sometimes I can only get one or two holes before it quits making noise. What fascinates me is that I end up with very close to the same bass note with a lot of them - even though I’m not trying to make the chamber the same size. Several of the small ones in the first video are the same starting note. And the two large ones in the last video start at very close to the same pitch.