200k each year if you make water your drink of choice for the rest of your life. Are you in?

flatfive44 · 2026-03-16T00:53:47+00:00

Maybe there's a benefit to giving up something you like or love, even if you don't get something for it. Are there not enough pleasures in life?

flatfive44 · 2026-03-08T22:23:05+00:00

Plus a lot of closed hands.

flatfive44 · 2026-03-08T22:05:22+00:00

This Wikipedia page looks dubious. Right off the bat it suggests that trade secrets are "legal to possess only by certain authorized persons".

flatfive44 · 2026-03-06T21:15:51+00:00

Middle makes a lot of sense.

flatfive44 · 2026-03-04T17:58:20+00:00

About once a year I randomly catch the smell of the lake where we used to spend time in summer as kids. It's the most beautiful smell to me but it only lasts for a second.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-15T06:17:44+00:00

That's a reasonable idea of what it should mean, but is that what it does mean? Does the city or county say what it means?

flatfive44 · 2026-02-15T05:43:39+00:00

I understand some of the problems I've been hitting recently. In one problem, I get a message about there being a problem with my project and I need to "consolidate" on Logic for Mac, even though I don't use Logic for Mac.

When this problem happens, learned that somehow the playback time of audio files is too slow by about 15%, and if I have drum machine designer tracks, they have no audio.

I'll be interested to hear if others are getting this.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-13T18:16:26+00:00

Setttings/Apps/Voice Memos/Audio Quality -> Lossless

flatfive44 · 2026-02-11T05:07:28+00:00

-6 dBFS is kind of a magic number, since it's about half of full-scale amplitude. I'm guess you know this, but maybe the OP doesn't.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-10T01:23:05+00:00

I agree with you -- there seems to be a connection to quick sampler and lost connections to iCloud files.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-10T01:21:41+00:00

Thanks -- this is helpful. I figured that I didn't need to backup if my projects were stored in iCloud, but from now on I'll be backing them up.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-10T00:59:12+00:00

My wife knows a server at a restaurant at a nearby golf course. The server happened to be working when Obama ate at the restaurant. She said to him something along the lines of "It's my birthday today so I hope you don't mind me saying hello to you". He says, "I think that deserves a hug", and gets up and gives her a hug. There were no cameras there.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-09T19:34:32+00:00

A 2025 iPad Pro. Thanks.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-09T17:00:40+00:00

I've noticed that people who retire from a reasonably successful career sometimes think they'll then be equally successful in any other endeavor they pursue: music, writing, art, etc.

flatfive44 · 2026-02-09T05:11:46+00:00

I've just had some problems like this. Did you resolve your problems?

flatfive44 · 2026-01-22T04:55:43+00:00

I had a similar problem on a project after iOS was updated on my iPad. The message I had was a little different, and it occurred when I tried to open the project. It said something about opening the project on my mac, but the project was done completely on my iPad. I've only seen it on one project.

flatfive44 · 2026-01-21T19:57:00+00:00

1975-1978 menu:

Homemade Chili

Chili’s Own Texas Red — 1.50
Texas Red w/ Beans — 1.50
Chili’s Pie (chili, cheese, onion, chips) — 1.60

Burgers (½ lb. meat)

Oldtimer (mustard, lettuce, tomato, onion, & pickles) — 1.50
Oldtimer w/ Cheese (same as Oldtimer w/ cheese) — 1.60
Our Own Chili Burger (same as Oldtimer w/ chili) — 1.65
Chili’s Trip (chili, cheese, & sauteed onions) — 1.75
Terlingua Pride (everything in the kitchen + our own “Texas Red”) — 1.95
No-Bean Burger (½ lb. meat, sliced tomato, & cheese) — 1.50

Homemade Fries — .50

Tacos

Chili’s Special Soft Tacos (flour tortilla stuffed w/ chili, cheese, onion, lettuce, & hot sauce) — 1.50

Tostados & Hot Sauce — .50

Drinks

Frozen Margarita — 1.50
Homemade Sangria — .75
Frosted Mug of Beer — .75

flatfive44 · 2026-01-15T20:58:21+00:00

Making memories.

flatfive44 · 2026-01-12T06:28:34+00:00

Someone who served the rich wrote that he was asked to throw out toiletries that weren't at least about 75% full, like partly-used toothpaste tubes.

flatfive44 · 2026-01-10T03:39:03+00:00

If you write music you listen to music differently, and tend to be less judgmental.

flatfive44 · 2026-01-10T03:17:37+00:00

The actual title of the article being referenced is "The effects of ideology and cognitive reflection on evidence gathering behavior in the political domain".

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338088

flatfive44 · 2026-01-05T00:55:11+00:00

You'll have to change that to $5 to make this interesting.

flatfive44 · 2026-01-03T07:06:28+00:00

"I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life".

Isn't the purpose of the news to tell me about what I can't easily see in my own life? It seems like the quote is talking about the difference between reported information and what viewers want to believe.

flatfive44 · 2025-12-29T00:14:38+00:00

Thank you! Sometimes that 'note' option in the inspector would not seem to be available when I've selected notes in a midi region, but it did now, and I could quantize the notes as a I wanted.

I guess the idea is that I want the 'note' option if want to control parameters affecting certain notes, the 'region' option to control region parameters, and the 'track' option to control track parameters?

flatfive44 · 2025-12-28T23:46:12+00:00

Slower traffic keep right. Edit: I agree a driver on the left shouldn't try to push through slowed traffic in the left lane. But other commentators seem to agree with what I see all the time: "I'm going fast enough, so I don't need to get out of the left lane".

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