Thad E Ginathom

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/23/remarkably-talented-the-epic-photography-of-kenny-rogers

Lets move on to Dinah Shore. Try Buttons and Bows...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRwgEBhggME&feature=youtu.be

And another of my old favourites, Yes My Darling Daughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ace9e3y4H_w

Apparently the words were put to the melody of an old Russian (?) song. Does anybody know/have that?

Whilst a lot of this was still on the radio when I was a kid, I also spent those years with my parents' 78s.

Blue and green are the same colour in English: it's called turquoise!

Oh /Pangolins!/ sounds too nice.

My granny had a stuffed armadillo.

Haha, not so much there being a color for the unified, but the lack of distinction between the two. It's been a fascinating thing to read up on:

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language?wprov=sfla1

"I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"
lol
This is priceless

Everything about this short performance is comic, and musical, genius. The final touch of walking into the mic stand is a delight.

Here's the sad thing, that I didn't know until yesterday: that Neil Innes died at the end of last year, when I was away from home, and not able to spend much time with internet and day-to-day news.

This is the sort of thing that makes me giggle for days.

Already works for me, haha.

Love this one too
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2020/mar/07/modern-toss
Both from The Guardian.

Wait... so who was it who sailed across the Pacific on a raft?

A brain cell says the raft was called Kon Tikki, google reveals...

Thor Heyerdahl.

Probably the same set of phenomena behind soil liquefaction. Or in your case, soiled liquefaction I'll see myself out.

I’ll have to see if I can watch some dogs shit during our next earthquake.

@Ringingears, I think I'd be too busy studying my own bowel actions!
@Riotvan, "Never tried standing in them though" --- Come on! It's all for science!
@Superexchanger, "soiled liquefaction I'll see myself out" Nice one: do stay!

I plan to mount devices and directories so that the directory tree /looks/ the same as before. But my plan is still a little hazy on detail. Hey, what could possibly go wrong!

And you have a backup of it as well somewhere else?

I have TWO backups :)

in fact, I lost an hdd a couple of weeks ago. Replaced, and I know I can restore from the backup

Is back :)

https://www.thefarside.com/

I suddenly recalled reading something that Garry Lawson was going online, two decades after retiring, and wanting to stay off the internet. Thought I'd check it out, and yes. I can add to my daily list of three or four cartoons.

@songmic suffering his feline headwear in this post:
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/pics-of-your-pet.106/page-29#post-286239

Haha, my brain cells are still good for something. Sometimes.

Thank you very much for the details

Well, thanks to @PTS and youtube, I am reunited. It is a lot longer, a lot grimmer, and a lot nastier than I remember.

Well, I did ask! So I can't complain.

I wonder... Should I go on to listen to the rest of the forgotten album!

OK, so I had a listen. Not to the whole thing (except The Gift). I guess maybe it might have been my kind of music way back then, else why would I remember that Gift thing. But it isn't now.

Hey ho, I usually enjoy long-lost, rediscovered music. Can't win 'em all.

Woke up with aches, pains, fever and no voice. Back home for a day, maybe two... But not giving up. Should be back in the concert halls tomorrow, or next day at worse.

And the local bugs. I don't want to think about how many quarts of blood I've likely lost to mosquitoes. Aaaaaah.

Hope you and yours stay hale and hearty! Good time as any for citrus, teas, or both :))

Give Blood! Open your door to mosquitoes. And even if you don't, they will get in and eat us anyway.

Chennai (India) (Mostly Carnatic) Music Season is already on. And I've already failed to get up for several morning concerts. Errm... before 4pm that is.

Time to get serious. Some people take in as many as five concerts in a day: I aim for a comfortable three or so.

Internet time will be considerably reduced. If I don't see y'all again before January: Happy New Year! :)

Same to you Thad....enjoy the music!!

@SoupRKnowva Thanks! I seem to be into fractals this week :)

Are they your father(s)?

Use the flyswatter Luke...

I did destroy one. It just became infinitely more powerful!

There is no such thing as "too many tools."

Or too much Tool (if you ask @Deep Funk )

"I know the pieces fit" is more than a line in a song called "Schism"...

I came across a couple of sachets of special audiophile wipes for CDs and cables. Yes! use them to make your cables sound better!

Can I believe that I once paid for those? Of course I can believe it. Surely most of us have, at some time, been just a bit audiophoolish.

At least I never bought any... crystals!

Or anything from Synergnostic Recycle

I think they may have been ReVeel, by Russ Andrews in UK. Still available.

To be fair to them, they don't, if they ever did, make any claims about cables, but I don't think I dreamt it up. And if I did, then all the more audiophool me!

Whether they made any difference to CDs I can't really say. Probably about as much as the green pen.

All in all, I end up thinking not to get taken in by the obvious and expensive nonsense, but the cheap and simple even if a bit daft? Heck, give it a try.

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Sometimes one should read the small print!

I love xkcd. Except for those occasions when I have no idea at all what it means.

Always read the small print.

Apart from pets and cameras, and checking notifications... Mark All read, and start over.

Back home still, watching the asylum from afar. What idiot put the loonies in charge?