Grahame

As a respite from the chaos ... and for @VPI/ @Dusty Chalk / etc ...

Hmm, Roller Skates and Walkmans? If you are of a certain age and fron the UK, that can only mean one thing really ... "It features Richard walking around and on rollerskates, while listening to music on a Walkman cassette player; such devices were then newly available in the UK.[12]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_for_Sound

Send up the Otis and Milo signal?

Happy Birthday, JP(#'s)!

Meanwhile ... https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ai-researchers-made-a-sarcasm-detection-model-and-its-soo-impressive/ "Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection in Twitter with Hierarchical Fusion Model" https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1239/ "Modeling Intra and Inter-modality Incongruity for Multi-Modal Sarcasm Detection" https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.findings-emnlp.124/

Meanwhile, Synchronicity/irony in action .... "Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry on M1" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-54972784

^ If it wasn't for Covid ...

Via: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/11/coca-cola-christmas-taika-waititi

Meanwhile ... For @cetoole https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mtn-dew-pays-homage-to-fans-with-first-ever-cookbook-for-brands-80th-birthday-301169739.html via: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/mountain-dew-cookbook

You might have to try Five Guys for that, Steve.

Happy Birthday, Mikey!

Happy Birthday, Chris!

Meanwhile ... https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/02/apple-november-event/ "Third event in 3 months, Apple. There better be some Arm-powered Macs this time Just One More Thing, eh?" https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/apple_announces_next_event_which/

I remarked to Joanne that it reminded me of a Bacon caterpillar.

Pre Election Spectating Sustenance Costco Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin

Do you have something like this locally to you? https://renewcomputers.com/data-security/ They will go into a chipper / shredder, but are vulnerable up to that point. Drilling through the platters would "fix" that.

RIP Connery ... Sean Connery.

When it doesn't snow I guess people have more time to prep for Halloween

^

Nice. Did you feel the need, the need for ... ?

d-_-b appropriate ? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/m1-caliber-a-better-way-to-measure#/

And with the afterburners on?

Condolences, Fitz. RIP Matilda.

If you had a dollar ...

https://www.wkyufm.org/post/ohio-valley-coal-mine-executive-bob-murray-dead-80#stream/0