StringJunky

I paid for it to be built. Yes's lyrics were more a medium for Anderson's voice, I think. More to evoke emotions rather than concrete concepts. I like Baroque. Here's another Bach piece on guitar by Vidovic. I prefer Julian Byzantine, but she is close.

Jazz really needs to be heard in the flesh. I saw a South African Jazz pianist with double bassist, brass wind player and drummer. They seemed to meld all styles together and it was a masterclass in musicality and precision. The drummer was like a clock with swing. I'm normally into Blues, Pink Floyd, Progressive etc. Yes, I bow to their skill and the ease with which the jazz players improvise. I've just got back my deep-bodied OM after 6 years from my nephew. Its tone has matured well. It is 18 years since I had it built.

It seems teabags are moving over to using polylactic acid, which is plant-based, rather than fossil fuel origins, but is still technically plastic and requires industrial methods to decompose. There is also the issue of recycled plastic being used, and the concomitant risks of contamination with fossil-based plastics. It is not ascertained whether Pthaalates are used in teabag plastics, which makes plastic materials flexible, and are known endocrine disruptors in fish. If the plastic used is recycled then its anybody's guess. I'm going to buy a teapot, thinking about it, although I am mainly a coffee drinker.

You had a close shave.

Wow! I was doing a landscaping job at a house and the lady owner came running out and said a plane had crashed into the WTC, then we saw the second one. We knew then it was an attack. So sad and shocking to see and hear those people crashing down onto the foyer roof from inside cameras before they collapsed. You were standing 500m from the start of the mess we see today in the Middle East.

A new view angle from the twin towers tragedy, a chap just uploaded after 23 years. It's quite clear the collapse starts at the sites of impact and not a detonation at the bottom by a secret government cabal.

I think your body's temp responses are geared to maintaining homeostasis in the brain.

I use uBlock Origin in Brave browser and it's clean as a whistle.

Google 'old tom style gin'. It is juniper berries and gin.

GOPcare.

#MeToo.

I find this satirical view from Philomena Cunk quite funny: "“Newspapers are a sort of paper version of Twitter for your nan. Apparently, they still exist, but only outside petrol stations near the briquettes, behind little plastic windows, like a little news zoo. Newspapers were how people in olden times found out what was going on the day before. The words in the newspaper would be made up by people called journalists. A “journalist” is what we nowadays call a “content provider,” someone who copies and pastes what people are saying on Twitter and puts it into sentences, and it’s those sentences that make Twitter into news. But in newspaper times, people in the news didn’t just type up what they were thinking and doing, journalists had to actually go out and find out what was going on themselves, usually by hacking people’s phone messages. It was a different world.”

Just saw this in my FB feed. It's different to how I imagined it. I pictured a collision of solids with fragmentation and gravity doing its stuff after.

An important step to imposing authoritarianism is to strangle the dissenting media. The other step is to mess up the system enough, and then appear to be the only one to be able to fix it. Then, the public will accept anything better than what they are in at the time, which will be the new dictatorship's agenda. At that point it will be a fait accompli.

My grandad, who was a chief technician on Avro Vulcans loaded with Blue Steel nuclear standoff bombs then, said he was on 24 hour standby at that time. He said it was very close to happening.