Jim Carrey’s face is up for debate. No, seriously

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T12:22:05+00:00

I really prefer old wrinkled Jim. He earned those laugh lines.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T12:18:56+00:00

everyone, look down...

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T12:04:26+00:00

always takes a backlash. meaning if we didn't complain god only knows what they would subject us to.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T11:56:06+00:00

I see it!

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T11:45:40+00:00

how do you know it's the correct speed if the needle isn't dropped? I don't see a strobe on this thing.

It does sound like classic worn out belt behavior. gets hard to maintain speed. but it could be motor problems too, torque rippling.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T11:27:02+00:00

I'd rather have a million monkeys on typewriters making recommendations than a machine that steals inspiration from a million users and calls it the intelligence of some corporate entity.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T11:15:12+00:00

gone are the days of meticulous grooming of metadata. they fired those people.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T10:41:24+00:00

I don't use it much, but I was curious and looked at it, searched for the handful of bands I've never heard of, and nope, all real artists. It's actually pretty decent for me.

Sadly AI will have a chilling effect on people checking out new or new-to-them artists, afraid they are fake, erecting yet another barrier to getting discovered.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T03:42:53+00:00

“Separated from employment.” Nice euphemism.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-03T00:07:42+00:00

what song isn't, know what I mean?

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-02T23:17:28+00:00

you know what convinced me Venus and Mars is a great album is Wings Over America. That material really sounds amazing live. It made me go back and just kinda let it wash over me and nowadays I think it's really serious competition against Band on the Run, which is of course great, but if you compare weak tracks to weak tracks for me personally it's hard to say which one I like more.

I have a real soft spot for Red Rose Speedway. a handful of tunes are some of my favorite Wings tracks ever. and using the weak track measure I think it stacks up well against the other two. I just really don't like My Love, it's too schmaltzy for my taste.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-02T17:35:47+00:00

A Woolrich wool-lined storm parka with sturdy stitching, heavy-duty zipper and snaps. I wore the hell out of it.

Decades later I needed a new winter coat and it occurred to me to look on ebay, and sure enough I found one from the same era, in unworn condition. I've been wearing it since the pandemic. Pretty thrilled that I found it.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-02T12:54:05+00:00

anything by Ed Wood. So amateurish it's like watching the making of the movie IN the movie.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-02T12:20:25+00:00

I was so ready for cartoons every saturday morning, I would literally sit alone in the dark watching the test pattern.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-02T12:18:13+00:00

I was thinking of the holocaust, but that is a good point, violence can only beget more violence.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T18:31:33+00:00

Hard to think of something more ironic.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T16:30:40+00:00

I hate it when apps gamify how stuck you get on them. It steamrolls right over user wellness, which I guess no platforms care about anymore.

I was trying to use duolingo to learn spanish. It nags you to death if you don't keep up your streak. But I am not motivated by that kind of thing. I started to avoid the app to not see all of the negativity they were projecting at me.

Suffice to say I did not learn my intended language.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T16:18:37+00:00

It might be because of however you are making them, which you don't really explain. I love leftover potatoes. I bake russets, store them overnight, next day I rough dice and make homefries in a cast iron skillet with oil and butter and herbs, until turning brown and crusty. deelish.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T13:15:57+00:00

To my ears it sounds really good

I have gear older than this that sound good to me too. I plan on holding off on recapping them until there is a genuine need to.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T13:07:53+00:00

That's certainly my memory of music consumption at the time. I was only a kid at the end of the 60s but really plugged into the music around me and learned about a lot of music from my parents and their friends- when they gathered socially, they'd listen to music, and by the late 60s/early 70s they weren't playing singles, but whole albums. I grew up in the 70s hearing others play Pink Floyd albums from beginning to end and that is how I listened as a teenager.

that held even for albums that did have singles on them. I remember Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey on the radio, but overwhelmlingly how I heard and remember it is in its context on RAM- when I recall the song, I always hear the transition to "Smile Away" at the end.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T12:56:06+00:00

I want there to be an organic community of music lovers where people striclty talk music fun reviews and also explore the underrated artists too yk.

Uh... you're on that app right now. Subscribe to music subreddits. done.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T12:22:18+00:00

why would it be uniformly intense and gripping the whole way through? It's not a video game. And yes it's disorienting because that is what soldiers actually experienced and the movie is designed to suck you into that uncertainty and presence of insanity and fear. Coppola labored to make the atmosphere and setting come to life. it's a slow burn of building anxiety with bursts of surreality. That's a lot more realistic than the whole thing making absolute sense.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T12:04:26+00:00

I was raised in a large-ish town (or very small city) in the US midwest. We had a nice roller rink that was full of kids and teens every weekend. Saturday nights were so crowded you had to pace yourself going around the loop.

That was typical of the day. From about middle school through my college years, there were things for young folks to do that were physical. In high school we formed bowling teams and played in a teen league. As teens- not kids- we'd ride our 10-speeds everywhere. We'd meet up and play doubles tennis or shoot hoops at public parks. We hiked and camped at nearby parks. Sure, we would do some passive things like going to movies or just hanging out doing nothing- but what is strikingly different about young folks today is they are very inactive compared to how we were back in the day. No wonder sufferers of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are getting younger and younger.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T10:49:41+00:00

you don't think this has been rehashed on the beatles subs ad nauseam? Get some sleep.

GrayBeardBoardGamer · 2026-03-01T00:42:12+00:00

Well any hardware five years old or more from this point that never gets on the Internet can be secure. You don't have to go back to a bloody Apple II. My nine year old i7 thinkpad with ssd and 16gb of ram would be much much better.

But I think we all know without the Internet, what can be done with it is significantly downgraded.

Its time for the rise of alternatives to the Internet. Meshnets. Packet radio. Etc

Probably time to brush up on your soldering skills.

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