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Happy Birthday!

Happy (VE / World Donkey / Birth)day Shelly! Are you up to speed on ball polishing?

Obviously you need to tell us who you are dressing as and we'll need pics of you and the crew! Here's who I hope you chose:

Thanks for the birthday wishes (and I love the pic, Al)! I'm spending the day grading finals but tonight, I am having dinner new restaurant, Camaraderie, with a couple of friends tonight. Then doing bowling dressed as The Big Lebowski characters tomorrow night with my lezzie crew!

Happy Birthday Shelly! may your happiness increase exponentially: I could not figure out the source code to make the formula work in the forum, so sorry about the screencap. :} Cheers -

Happy Happy Birthday (Birthday)!

Pope Leo is from Chicago you say? New Yorkers might have something to say about that.

Happy Thursday, Shelly!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!!!

Happy birthday, Professor Harvey!

Hope you have a great day even though you celebrated early! Cheers!

Habemus Papam

Thanks for showing us the one to blame, in my ignorance I just blamed the British Empire's famous last words. What a mess he left.

Who was responsible for the partitioning of India into India and Pakistan? Mountbatten, last British Viceroy of India (the same guy blown up by the IRA in 1979). The British Government in 1947 decided to partition India into a predominantly Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan. Mountbatten rushed it through, announcing the partition in June '47 and the partition border put in place and the new states established on 15th August '47. With as usual little thought for the consequences. That rush to partition by Mountbatten caused mass migrations and hardship, with roads packed with people heading in both directions. And like all partitioning exercises - Gaza and Israel is another example - they inevitably end in tears.

Older (and Wiser) by Lizzy McAlpine (2024) https://album.link/wgwhc8wnv2w2n Example: I really appreciate this release. At Just over an hour and 19 total tracks this explores a lot of things that she wants to say. I appreciate the production, close mic work like normal, but I was surprised at least 3 times by the choices made, and I am not surprised easily by music.

What, no "bucha" bar? That is way gnarly dude. So Arkansas 1992 dude.

I’ll just buy at Best Buy and return the loser 🤷‍♂️

If you want to go down the 'Merican route (Note the dB levels in the "Noise Levels" section - testing with a sound level meter - 3:45 - 4:50) via: The folks on reddit suggest getting a demo of your candidate machines to aid the decision process. "Have you gone to a William Sonoma or a Sur La Tab to sample and talk with them about the various options?" via: But that may be easier said than done in Little Rock, AR

I think I want a super automatic for the store. Thinking a Jura J8. What say y'all?

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Looks like ground zero for nuclear war is now India and Pakistan. This has been brewing for a long time, and Pakistan is pretty much full of crazy people. The government is unstable. The chance of Them firing off the big one looks more likely every day. Let's hope cooler heads prevail.

Sorry you weren’t feeling well, Steve. I’ve had COVID twice and it really kicked my ass the first time. Glad you are doing better.

Re-reading a chunk of Isaac Asimov's stuff - Foundation series, Robot yarns etc. The Foundation trilogy was published in 1951-3 and have really stood the test of time. I became curious how Asimov died. Turned out a too early 72. But in his early 60's he had a triple heart bypass (in 1983), and was given a blood transfusion tainted with AIDS - and that was what killed him in due course. Same thing happed to the tennis player Arthur Ashe aged 49 - again following heart bypass surgery in 1983.