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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: March 28, 2020, 11:25 PM »
Jesus Christ Superstar (letterbox - in English - subtitles appear below video; YT uploader posted it under the heading 'Jézus Krisztus szupersztár' but it is not overdubbed)

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Laws of Computing

      1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
     
      2. When you get to the point where you think you finally understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
     
      3. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you'd least expect to find it.
     
      4. When the going gets tough, upgrade.
     
      5. For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
     
      6. To err is human...to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human.
     
      7. He who laughs last, probably has a back-up.
     
      8. The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
     
      9. A complex system that doesn't work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
     
      10. A computer program will always do exactly what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« on: March 26, 2020, 12:57 AM »
Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/?iax=ntlemrlib%7cctalnk
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist, ensuring that students will have access to assigned readings and library materials that the Internet Archive has digitized for the remainder of the US academic calendar, and that people who cannot physically access their local libraries because of closure or self-quarantine can continue to read and thrive during this time of crisis, keeping themselves and others safe.

More info at the announcement's web page.

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^Hi Debi! :) You're not boring at all. Your post reminded me of our Chihuahua-Dachshund mix we had when I was a young man; when he turned old and gray-muzzled and went totally blind, he would use his nose for a blind man's white cane substitute to bump his way slowly around in the house, and he actually seemed happier after he went blind than at any prior time in his entire life.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« on: March 24, 2020, 07:10 AM »
Cyril Of Scythopolis: The Lives of the Monks of Palestine (Cistercian Studies) Paperback – November 1, 1991
https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Monks-Paulestine-Cistercian-Studies/dp/0879079142
Translated by R.M.Price; Annotated by John Binns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Scythopolis

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