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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 01-17-2018, 07:02 PM - Forum: Forums
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Well, most of them. Here's a good example.
About 500 or so of the images Brent scraped from Yuku have finally been restored to the board. That isn't all of them, by far, but I'm trying to track down via Crapatalk and the Wayback Machine anything that's missing and restoring it. A missing image will look like this in the message text:
[Image: 1c336f841dd14f8daa0b0563ee820413be34454c.jpg]
but the text won't be highlightable or selectable.
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-15-2018, 08:07 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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My Panasonic DJ120 headphones broke. The electronics are still good; it's the joints holding them to the headrest that broke (left side first, then the right side a week later). My first thought was "Well, they still work, but I have to hold them together. I've had then for a while - can I get parts to repair them?" A look online shows that the DJ120 is long out-of-production - even the "factory overstock" stores don't have any left. So, no chance of replacement parts.
Then I thought, "I'm not retired yet; maybe I should buy a good pair of cans." So I checked out what's available. I've never heard of most of the brands that show up in searches. (And the variation in prices is insane! At least two orders of magnitude between the cheap break-and-throw-away cans and the highest-end sets - part of those high-end prices has to be the sucker audiophile paying for a brand name.)
As far as my ears go, I can easily tell the difference between Sony and Koss, but I have to concentrate to distinguish between Koss and Denon. (Yeah, those three were the brands I recognized.) And as I implied above, I prefer the over-ear style ("cans"), not pads or buds.
What's good nowadays, what should I stay away from, what's "okay I guess"?
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-09-2018, 12:10 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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"If you want to write about whether more people rode the Washington, DC metro system on the day of Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration or on the day of Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, ask the Metropolitan Transit Authority, which collects this data. If you prefer, take President Trump’s word for it—but then you are not a journalist, you are a sap. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he accepts figures that flatter him and refuses to acknowledge those that do not. Personal vanity is not a commonly accepted database."
– Michael Schudson, Here’s what non-fake news looks like, Columbia Journalism Review
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 01-09-2018, 12:01 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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(04-19-2008, 08:07 PM)aeroprime Wrote: Say, what ever happened to Darien Steffler anyway? I was doing some of my DB-level maintenance of the board (identifying and putting names to "Guest" posts) when I came across this question in a thread entitled "Seeking a fic" from almost ten years ago. For our younger members, Darren Steffler was possibly better known as "Twister", and authored a highly influential self-insert fic series called Twisted Path back in the middle 1990s, and disappeared completely from the fanfic community around the turn of the century. Drunkard's Walk was written because I read TP, as were more than a few other signficant works, like Bubblegum Zone, Oh! My Brother, Legion's Quest, and many many more.
Anyway I got curious and did a Google search, figuring that there might be a lot more information out there now than back then.
There is. Most of it has nothing to do with fanfiction, but there are more than a few real-world hits.
IIRC, Twister was Canadian and in his late teens in the middle 90s, so he'd be in his middle to late 30s, now... and that simple search brings up several hits which might all be him. I kind of like the idea that he might be the head brewer at a brewery and a former IT person... Given that he's fifteen or more years out from his writing, he like more than few other former fic authors probably doesn't want to be associated with his old work. But it's still an interesting window into one of the early "names" of fanfiction.
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Posted by: Labster - 01-07-2018, 03:41 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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I'll go ahead and reprint Dear Leader's tweet in full:
CNN quoting @realDonaldTrump Wrote:"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart," tweeted Trump. "Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!"
So uh, is this the thing that a sane person would say about himself? I feel like the next line after calling oneself a "very stable genius" is, "I'll show them, I'll show them all!!!"
For those of you lacking context, Michael Wolff released a book last week compiling hundreds of interviews in the White House. In this book, basically everything we thought was going on is actually going on in the White House. The one thing everyone agrees on is that Trump has to be managed like a child, but there are plenty of other choice complaints going around. A lot of "unfit for office" (from his own people, remember), lots of screaming matches, lots of pictures in the national security reports so Trump will look at them. Trump is uh, very unhappy with the book.
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