This is odd. The previous two posts have failed to post to m.b and I have no great expectation that this one will get through either. @help
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
My memory is that my first USB stick had 128Mb of memory and cost and arm and a leg, in 2001, I think.
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The Far Side used to be one of my favourite cartoons, but Gary Larsen’s return hasn’t really stuck with me.
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I’m just not very good at spooky movies, can’t suspend disbelief for things I find it hard to believe in.
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Keeping things minimal, I guess this will have to do.
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Wear and tear is a concept that I like to embrace. My jeans, for example, are worn and torn in a way that directly reflects how and why I wear them, not a fashionista decree.
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Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas It’s amazing that you can buy “distressed” clothes and shoes, that has been pre-damaged intently.
, Nov 12 2020 on micro.blog
@odd I find it so reprehensible that people pay money to look like people who have no money and I imagine might be a bit ashamed of how they appear.
, Nov 12 2020 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas My guess is that some poor person in Indonesia or something gets $0.50 for an hour of work to make a pair of pants look distressed, while the shop double the retail price.
, Nov 12 2020 on micro.blog
Say what?
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I wish I could force m.b to look further back in my RSS feed and find yesterday’s microblogvember post.
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Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas I guess the feed is considered elderly long before its time. mbnov
, Nov 10 2020 on micro.blog
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas It went trough.
, Nov 08 2020 on micro.blog
@odd Yes, and i am glad that it did but no sign of the other two that i can see and one was a vitally important #mbnov post
, Nov 08 2020 on micro.blog
I have enormous admiration for John F. Appleby, who in the 1870s perfected a machine that would tie a knot in twine, thus enabling a machine to bind sheaves of grain together and setting in motion the giant combine harvesters that enable our daily bread.
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There is no way I can inflate my relief at the day’s events, or my gratitude to cyber-friends here on mb for their generosity of spirit.
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@jeremycherfas sounds about right
hawaiiboy, Nov 17 2020 on micro.blog