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RIP, Dr. John.

An oldish (2012) article about a pianist and his recording of Ives' Concord sonata. I bet Gould would have loved having a computer and Protools.

Hi Özgür, nice to see you back. I wish in a good shape

RIP Leon

Happy Birthday, Brent!!! have a lot of joy today. Tomorrow just happiness

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Bday!!!!

I liked the first season quite a bit, I'll watch this 2nd one at some point.

Rest in peace, Niki. For some time he was my favourite driver too. I enjoyed his interviews on recent F1 broadcasts. Will be missed.

It's going to explode

Happy Birthday!!!

RIP, Doris. Appeared in a lot of movies that I enjoyed as a kid.

How could I not to realize it!

Today through a newspaper supplement article I've learnt about Chloe, the 10 year old kid who has a rare disease that only suffer 12 people in the planet. There are millions of people suffering in the World, so why care, you may think. One of the reasons making this case worth our attention is that there's an investigation going on, they know what gene is causing the disease and they know they might be able to produce the missing substance causing the problem. They estimate that the whole process until a cure is produced would cost about 200,000€. The important part, as I see it, is that contributing to this investigation we're opening the door to finding cure to other diseases with similar etiologies. There are plenty of them. This is the website they set up to explain the case, it's in Spanish but they have a translation link. This is the Gofundme site. All donations go to Dr Carles Mantilla of the GTIP institute in Barcelona which works in association with the Carlos III Institute in Madrid. That our government isn't funding this is beyond my understanding capabilities, fortunately scientific findings are global. It's sad that in three months they had only made under 4000€, but thanks to the public exposure the newspaper provided, things are improving pretty fast.

Awesome! Listening to it as well.

Happy Birthday, Ari!

She said she'd prefer a larger one, her current laptop is 13" too. I don't know if it's plastic or metal for sure, I haven't received it yet, but reading comments at Amazon (not necessarily from this very same model, Amazon mixes comments for different versions) someone said they were deceived for it being plastic. We'll see.

It's the Lenovo Yoga 720-13IKBR, we had to make concessions and downsizing it to a 13" screen, the larger screen ones had mechanical HDD instead of SSD if we wanted to stay within budget and having it delivered before the party. Hopefully, having no negative comments as the IdeaPad had, it's a good apparatus. We'll see

The cat knows. But doesn't care

Unfortunately we've had to change plans. Dell wouldn't deliver the laptop until the 21st or even 24th and the farewell party is the 17th, so we've decided to go for the Lenovo Yoga it's 8GB RAM, 256SSD, i5, ips screen with touch capabilities and just 1.2Kg (about 2 pounds)... the worst parts are it being a plastic chassis and that we don't have any references on its long term reliability. The good part is that despite not being pink it's fancy and fashionable, which our girl will love. Hopefully Had it been for me with those constraints I'd have got the Dell, but getting it after the celebration is a no-no, so hopefully it's better than the Ideapad a HP or an Acer. BTW, now that we're at it, any opinions about MSI laptops? I've heard very good comments about them from gamers.

Thank you very much guys, I think it's going to be a pink Dell Inspiron 15 7000. It's "good enough", fits the budget and leaves a bit of room to get extended care and insurance, maybe a pink matching bag

All Thinkpad T480 or T580 are beyond our budget. In range are the L480 and L580 and Exxx but I don't know how "worse" these might be compared to the Ts. It's a pity the Ideapad aren't working well, it seems a fine machine. Most of those pink laptops are more expensive than we can afford, thanks for the hints, Grahame. The skins look fine they were one of the alternative solutions we were considering, but I can't find them near enough to be sure they get here by the 15th-16th (the farewell party is the 17th). Any opinions about the Lenovo Yoga's? Those hinged devices seem very versatile and they have a couple of models within range, but unless very well made they seem a bit weak.

Our last year resident is finishing next week and the graduation gift is going to be a laptop she needs. The budget is about 900 bucks (800€). These days I'm not that sure that Toshiba is as reliable as it used to be, nor that all HP are bullshit. Things change too fast, specially if you don't pay much attention. I've looked at several options with 15" screen. Other desirable feature is it's available in pink No especial needs of HDD size, RAM, connectivity... Wifi, good screen and lightweight, that's all, she won't be playing games or editing video. These are my candidates in no special order Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (i5, 256SSD, 8GB, ips screen, GeForce® MX150) I think it's the only one in pink. Acer Aspire 5 (i7, 8GB, 125SSD+1TBHDD, Geforce MX130) Lenovo Ideapad 330 15ICH (i7, 8GB, MX1050, 1TBHDD,) The Toshibas I've looked at are more expensive than the allotted budget, and honestly I have no idea or any references about current Asus, Huawei, Medion or other brands completely new to me. Any suggestions, not only of brands/models but features that could be desirable are very welcome.

Happy Birthday, Shelly!!! I wish you have a great day and a fantabulous year ahead.

It's available on Tidal, they released it in January. I'll listen to it later this week. It's on Bandcamp too.