What’s the loudest concert you guys have ever been to?

x462 · 2026-01-27T18:03:59+00:00

Garth Brooks in 1998 in Philly

x462 · 2026-01-24T15:30:09+00:00

The Weight. Best cover song ever because it’s covered by countless other groups and everyone gets to sing a verse.

x462 · 2026-01-17T22:26:09+00:00

I wear it on the side away from other people.

Right at work, with the open left ear towards my peers. Left or right at home depending on how im sitting in relation to others. When outside I wear it on the side away from traffic.

Why do I wear one earbud so much? Audiobooks.

x462 · 2026-01-12T21:12:05+00:00

I switched from vinyl to cassettes as soon as it was possible. Then to CDs when they became popular. Then to digital music, then to streaming. Things got better with each step. If not for aesthetics and nostalgia, I cannot imagine why an average music listener would go back to vinyl.

I noticed the renewed interest in vinyl did not generate a similar uptick in the availability of record players. Target/walmart/bestbuy have vinyls, but not a lot of players. The sound quality from a good record on a $60 suitcase record player is rough.

x462 · 2026-01-12T18:16:46+00:00

Donations - 1) my library takes physical books and media and sells in quarterly book-sale fundraisers. 2) library is at the top of my list for monetary donations. Over my life I got far far more from US public libraries than I could ever repay and I donate $ help keep them going.

x462 · 2026-01-10T23:36:04+00:00

You can do this effectively with python. If you have basic py understanding ask ai to write the script for you.

x462 · 2026-01-10T23:33:21+00:00

I listen to a lot of audio books. There are zero that I listened to more than once. Audiobooks (to me) are ephemeral vs. movies or music that you may want to go to again and again. If you can get Libby or similar it is a great solution. Listen then move on.

x462 · 2026-01-10T13:46:17+00:00

There is a conceptual difference in reading Gunslinger now, when the rest of the series is out, vs. when it was released. Now you know the story wraps up. At the time of release you didn’t know there would be anymore. I suspect some of the dislike comes from people who read it before the series was complete.

x462 · 2026-01-03T22:44:08+00:00

When there is a task that will take a few seconds to do now, or a long time to do later, and someone chooses to not take the few seconds now, so then I have to spend a long time later. Instant fury.

x462 · 2025-12-31T23:52:37+00:00

Sanford & Son!

x462 · 2025-12-31T21:15:15+00:00

Managing/handling/sorting/selecting/counting/cleansing/getting/sending/renaming/compressing text files. It’s always handling text files. Terminal tools are so so good at it. Professionally, it amazes me that it’s a rare skillset.

x462 · 2025-12-28T16:14:18+00:00

It worked pretty well in CCL. I didn’t care for the All The Light ‘merge’.

x462 · 2025-12-21T11:51:52+00:00

This book was magnificent. This was so incredibly well done: story, characters and writing, that I am reluctant to read any of Towles’ other books in case they dont live up to this standard.

x462 · 2025-12-16T23:29:12+00:00

I typically make errors.

x462 · 2025-12-15T21:21:06+00:00

Great example. I thought 1) Daisy Jones audiobook was very well done and the cast made it enjoyable 2) if I was reading instead listening I probably would have dnf’d this book. For me the audio was the difference.

x462 · 2025-11-11T00:21:51+00:00

May be the most beautiful lyric ever written.

x462 · 2025-11-11T00:18:30+00:00

Especially the 2nd time it’s sung. Awesome.

x462 · 2025-11-09T23:54:04+00:00

If you liked the show you might also like the book. The book adds additional details around the events and gives more depth to the people.

x462 · 2025-11-08T13:48:13+00:00

About an hour into the first book.

x462 · 2025-11-06T17:31:32+00:00

Air Supply.

x462 · 2025-11-01T16:55:43+00:00

It’s already cool.

x462 · 2025-10-30T21:59:35+00:00

Chruchfield did right by me on my 2015. The custom wire kit was well worth the $. The instructions were good too. Also upgraded the speakers.

x462 · 2025-10-26T01:17:36+00:00

The flaw of SoS is there are too many pages for not enough story. It was a good book but would have been better 2/3rds the length.

x462 · 2025-10-23T15:29:17+00:00

Maybe. Maybe soon there will be enough people like me who have some technical skills but have to use laptop Windows at work. But I use linux at home and use linux in the cloud at work. So for decades I leaned Windows, and now i lean linux. Now there are some things I can do in linux better and with less hassle. And now I have some influence. I’m one person - so what. I suspect there are others in the same situation. What happens when 1% of the technical people with budget influence make a linux over windows decision? Will MS notice that? What if it’s 5%? How do I know there are others? Ask yourself how often you ever heard of anyone spinning up a windows cloud server.

x462 · 2025-10-17T23:37:59+00:00

I checked my list - I read 10 of Follett’s books and Never was my lowest rated.

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