Decided to try Raymond Chandler out again yesterday.
I finished The Lady In The Lake in 4 hours. I haven't done something like that in years.
#books #mysteries #detectivebooks
These hurricanes have gotten me to thinking about my communication plans if disaster strikes my area. Where I'm at in western Pennsylvania we thankfully aren't subject to anything beyond tornadoes that never get close anyway.
I see a credit union loan application for two IC-7300s in my future. I was gonna save up for the home station first and then get a portable kit going as finances permit. But in the face of current events it would probably be prudent to expedite this.
#amateurradio
Anybody know where I can get bulk SD/microSD cards? Large capacity not necessary, I'm thinking 2 or 4 GB. Have an idea knocking around in my head and this would be an integral part of it.
I think I've come up with a look I wanna try to create.
An atomic astronaut cowboy.
The 1950s version of all 3 things and leaning all the way into that.
Just gotta think how to translate that idea into actual clothes.
@344b0ae6
Geez. What's old is new again I guess.
I agree that too many people are looking to the past. Just move the fuck on and make something new, don't rehash the same crap.
I'm trying to remember this old movie. It was set in the Alps with a killer cloud that later spawned huge aliens that thrived off of cold. There was also a village and the people locked themselves in a laboratory on top of a mountain and fought the aliens from the lab. They killed them with firebombs. And I think there was a woman who had premonitions or something. Anybody know what I'm talking about and what the title is?
#oldmovies #classiccinema #blackandwhitemovies
#movies #scifi
@b05df304@62f94e11
Exactly, you aren't filling out 100+ pages, the reason it's that long is to answer every question you may have and cover every situation that may exist in the process of filling out the actual much shorter form.
Like if you were living in the middle of the desert with no internet or phone, with this book and the actual form you can still do your taxes. That's the idea.
@b05df304
The funny thing about "they didn't teach us how to do taxes!!!" is the government puts out a 100+ page instruction book every year along with the 1040 form that tells you exactly how to fill every box of that thing out.
But it involves paying attention, reading, and following instructions.
Most people don't want to do that.
@b05df304
I've been screwed by drive-thrus too many times to ever have food delivered. I pick it up myself and check the whole thing out before I leave.
@344b0ae6
Don't even have to do all that. Make a damn blog on blogger. It's free and takes 10 minutes. Then you don't have to pollute shitloads of screen space with your oh-so-intellectual mental masturbation where you reveal you've spent too much time in an office and you're completely disconnected from reality.
@139feece
A lot of people don't realise that coffee is what led to the Enlightenment. The day to day of it was had in the coffee houses of Europe.
And if you measure using a long-enough scale, black pepper led to the space station and the moon landing.
@f9d71410
I'll say this. When it comes to live performance, I'm only into theatrical productions, classical, and opera.
You folks who are primarily into pop, rock or other such forms of live performance put up with way too much BS. Will call is completely standard at every theatre, symphony, philharmonic orchestra, and opera house I have been to. Some of them will mail you the tickets as well. Visiting hours or days before a production and buying a paper ticket in person is an option also.
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