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@miguelmanalo Yes. Good luck.

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@chrisgeidner

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@numericcitizen Impressive.

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@w7voa I wonder how many cases of prison Chardonnay that equals.

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Finished reading: Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton šŸ“š I didnā€™t expect this to be, in fact, a World War I novel: an elegy for all that changed in light of that rupture.

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@hotdogsladies Leaders of Tomorrow attend to a game of Risk.

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Currently reading: Black Teacher, by Beryl Gilroy šŸ“š

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@lexfri Schools also charge for the installment plan. They like credit cards because youā€™ve paid in full, but they often canā€™t handle the fee hitting their bottom line.

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@amerpie The Shining.

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@patrickrhone I hear you.

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@NanoRaptor Creative people are frequently horrible.

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@amerpie Thatā€™s what a Food Lion calls feet.

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It is funny that Kevin Roseā€™s examples of ā€œembracing radical shiftsā€ that ā€œdisrupt established norms, creating an opportunity for neuroplasticityā€ are using a different web browser and switching to android.

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@Denny I have an 11 inch MacbookAir with Ubuntu and it works pretty well. Maybe a different distro would help?

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@amerpie This is good news. I also love Easy Find.

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@amerpie Itā€™s cool: Instagram now has Teen Accounts, no worries

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@starrwulfe Backseat driver.

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@jemostrom Pretty cool.

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@workingclasshistory We should all remember Lauro de Bosis, though he was rather bourgeois

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@lmika Very nice

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@rscottjones Very coolā€”what a great trip

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@thegreenshed Pretty cool.

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@amerpie Understood. FYI, I think you mean Harry Reasoner, not the former US Senator. But heā€™ll do, too.

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@dmoren I thought scolding was only available for Rebound Prime members.

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@Joanwestenberg Folks ready to scapegoat. Weā€™re supposed to be a little better than that.

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@chrisgeidner I appreciate your response.

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@Joanwestenberg There isnā€™t good faith.

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@glennf Was Silent Movie in that set? I donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen that in forty years.

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Just finished Beverly Hills Cop (1984) on Paramount+. I donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen the whole thing since it was in theaters. While it isnā€™t a particularly sophisticated film, it was pretty good. Murphy really is charismatic, and the talented supporting cast pull their weight. šŸæ

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I enjoyed the first (and only) season of The Brothers Sunā€”it was a fun and interesting take on some organized crime cliches. It is too bad that Netflix didnā€™t renew for a second season. šŸ“ŗ

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But if I use ā€œremind me to,ā€ now it goes into the default Reminders list, which it didnā€™t used to do. This is an improvement, but I cannot figure out why this happened, nor did I expect to find (eventually) my to dos in Notes.

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Before this week, I would ask Siri to ā€œremember toā€ something, and she would enter a Reminder in my default ā€œInboxā€ list, which Omnifocus would read and add to my OF inbox, deleting it from Reminders. Now when I use the ā€œrememberā€ command, she copies the information to Notes, which I do not want.

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If folks are interested in supporting Harrisā€™s candidacy, there are opportunities to reach out to others and build support:

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https://mobilize.us/s/rQQIfU/r

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I hope to make ten calls everyday for the next 96 days: a small goal that I can increase as we get closer to Election Day.

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Finished reading: Banjo by Claude McKay šŸ“šThis twentieth-century American classic is well worth reading. The vernacular style can be a challenge for some folks, but McKay delivers a celebration of African and African-American people and culture.

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In two different airports, Iā€™ve seen children ride four-wheeled roller bags like fast-moving scooters or body boards. The adults around them seem charmed by the noveltyā€¦for now.

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Finished reading: My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood šŸ“šI found this to be a surprisingly engaging spiritual memoir. Isherwoodā€™s devotion to Vedanta is sincere, as his attraction to the world.

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Iā€™m surprised no one mentioned shared AirTags in the report card. sixcolors.com/post/2024ā€¦

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A kind of wonderful mural of Rick and Morty as Cheech and Chong.\nOn a vape shop in Sarasota, FL.

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Rolling. šŸ¶

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.bilharrison.com/2023/09/11/rolling.html","date_published":"2023-09-11T23:18:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Bill Harrison","url":"https://billharrison.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F175956.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"billharrison"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-09-11 23:18","date_timestamp":1694474327,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"22530537","content_html":"\"\"\n

The Chanticleer, Ithaca, New York āœˆļø

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Itā€™s a sign with a lot of character.

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The Chanticleer, Ithaca, New York

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.bilharrison.com/2023/08/22/the-chanticleer-ithaca.html","date_published":"2023-08-22T22:38:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Bill Harrison","url":"https://billharrison.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F175956.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"billharrison"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-08-22 22:38","date_timestamp":1692743936,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"22462858","content_html":"Finished reading: A Morning at the Office by Edgar Mittelhƶlzer šŸ“š\n\nThe novelā€™s accessibility masks its complexity. I found the novel stylistically reminiscent of some of Henry Greenā€™s later work. Mittelhƶlzerā€™s depiction of the characters' inner thoughts and feelings drives the narrative, but the work in... www.bilharrison.com","summary":"","url":"https://www.bilharrison.com/2023/08/21/finished-reading-a.html","date_published":"2023-08-21T15:34:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Bill Harrison","url":"https://billharrison.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F175956.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"billharrison"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-08-21 15:34","date_timestamp":1692632042,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"22462533","content_html":"

Finished reading: The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard šŸ“š

\n

I find my responses to this novel echo Paul Graham Ravenā€™s review: the second half unimaginatively relies on racist stereotypes that were fairly retrograde in 1962.

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Currently reading: A Morning at the Office by Edgar Mittelhƶlzer šŸ“š

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Currently reading: The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh šŸ“š

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Currently reading: The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard šŸ“š

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Finished reading: Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann šŸ“š\nThis was a really interesting, ironic memoir of the early days of passenger flight, before the adoption of jet engines. I can see why it is an aviation classic.

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While Iā€™m not at Petco Park, this is still a decent summer šŸŗ

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.bilharrison.com/2023/07/13/while-im-not.html","date_published":"2023-07-13T18:32:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Bill Harrison","url":"https://billharrison.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F175956.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"billharrison"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-07-13 18:32","date_timestamp":1689273175,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"18399078","content_html":"

Sad to hear that Al Jaffe died. He did make a dent in the universe, though. www.progressiveruin.com

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Sunset, Anna Maria Island, FL

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.bilharrison.com/2023/01/11/sunset-anna-maria.html","date_published":"2023-01-12T01:42:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Bill Harrison","url":"https://billharrison.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F175956.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"billharrison"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-12 01:42","date_timestamp":1673487754,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}