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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • What’s a mouse?
    I use a trackpad
    The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will…
    I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

    I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn’t install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

    A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

    The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time


  • Any of it is so much better than listening to an AM radio while I delivered newspapers.
    Yesterday I heard a Red Rider song from an album that I had recorded on cassette off FM radio.
    I converted whatever music I had into MP3s 20 years ago, When I was converting LPs to MP3 I did several concept albums which didn’t have songs, so I set the length at 6 minutes or less. I was using MP3 Direct Cut which had a bar graph, I could visually chop up albums into songs without actually listening. Over some years I went through my collection & chopped up songs that were too long or have intros longer than 10 seconds, I may or maynot keep the originals. I use the comment field for tags to make it easier include/exclude long, duplicate, alternate versions I have more than a few copies of music files, including data cd’s from 15 years ago, sata hdd, sd cards, nvme. every 6 months or so I renew a couple of the back ups



  • Think about how we got here
    Very early on we out sourced a big chunk of the election process to volunteers, fans, fanatics if you will. Why raise taxes to pay for elections?
    Parties took over the preliminary parts of the process in exchange for vetting potential candidates.

    OK so I’m guessing but, no one works for free
    The Pay may not be cash, power, influence, patronage are all nice.

    Money has always been speech
    Excess resources have always been required to have a meaningful political opinion

    The system was designed for information moving at the speed of horse at great expense
    The system was to serve 1% of the present population

    Damm thing works better than one would expect :D