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February 15th.
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““Over time players go where the money is. The money is here. Once Americans realize that the sport is moving west …. it’s going to stoke anti-American sentiment around the world. It’s something we need to be ready for.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🔗 Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Sorry. Didn’t notice. With good reason.
🔗 Her car died, so she walked to work. One day on the walk, she found $15,000.
Heart warming story, via John Naughton.
🔗 The hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections.
…. disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace.
Cough - well clearly not without a trace!
🎵 Transatlantic are set to release a new concert set. I just watched a video.
BRILLIANT (not the performance … the idea.)
Many artists complain about cell phones in their concerts and the ensuing distractions for them and the audience.
Portnoy has clearly solved the problem.
Get everybody to use their phones like an old fashioned lighter and get those batteries drained to zero!
🎵 Apparently
HAKEN are set to release their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’ on the 3rd March 2023.
… and they celebrated Valentine’s Day with the launch of their latest single ‘Lovebite’.
I guess Valentine’s Day is not what it used to be?
🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.
There is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call 🔗 ’English Progressive’ adding the specific words that “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.
This morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.
Thankyou - thankyou very much!
Has something changed with the Microblog app, or is there a problem, or is it just me? I can’t believe this is correct behavior for the timeline display?
Another woman steps down from a leadership role because ‘the time is right’ … another lesson men could learn.
An Afternoon with Kafka
Sometimes you need to tell a story just to get it out there. Because otherwise you really would think that you were actually living in a Kafka novel.
🎵 Charley’s, Paia, Maui is no more
If you know Charley’s, this is not new news.
If you don’t know Charley’s - then why should you care?
This just in from my good friend Randall Rospond … number 25 in the image below, right beside another friend Tom Conway.
Randall’s friend and Maui artist John Woodruff is the artist, the painting features many Maui Musician Regulars on stage with many of the Charley’s staff and regular patrons.
“Although this famous live music venue in Paia is no longer … the history will always stand.”
I saw numerous Willie Nelson shows, Neil Young w/ Promise of the Real, Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Steven Tyler and Pat Simmons and so many more.
💬 Randall Rospond
Randall’s performances at Charley’s included opening shows for;
- St. Paul Peterson: keyboardist for “The Time” discovered by Prince
- John Kadlecik of Dark Star Orchestra & Further { Bob Weir & Phil Lesh }
- Guested w/ the Planetary Bandits { Willie Nelson’s Maui Band }
- Performed solo and with the Haiku Hillbillys for over 25 years
(Sadly the resolution of the image of the index is not good enough to always get to the ‘numbers’.)
🔗 Why Do 50% of People Live in This Circle?
Absolutely Fascinating.
… and a great reminder of how small America really is.
February 14th.
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Man is a problem-solving, skill-using, social animal. Once he has satisfied his hunger, two main kinds of experiences are significant to him. One of his deepest needs is to apply his skills, whatever they be, to challenging tasks — to feel the exhilaration of the well-struck ball or the well-solved problem. The other need is to find meaningful and warm relations with a few other human beings — to love and be loved, to share experience, to respect and be respected, to work in common tasks.
💬 Herbert Simon
❤️🔥Happy Valentine’s Day💓💘💝💕
The Republican race is so uninteresting that a damp squib can actually heat it up.
I assume she has a book coming out.
🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
Listening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
Back in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
Listening without the jump just felt wrong.
Setting Categories Automatically On MicroBlog
It’s interesting how small things mess you up. I am putting some time into trying to make it easier to find stuff on my blog and recently discovered filters where you can “automatically set categories when text in new posts matches a filter”.
For new posts it seems to work flawlessly. The cool thing is that you can ‘Run Filter’ - which essentially means that it will go off and apply that rule to your archive. It works.
Of course if you have a lot of posts (sorry), it might take some time - but it does seem to get there. So. after a while, when I view the categories I can see the post count increasing. And - when I look at the posts through the lens of Mars Edit I can see all the new posts where the category has been applied.
All good. UNTIL. I noticed that though every thing SEEMED to be working - actually, over on the web site, the categories were not being allocated. Turns out patience is a virtue - because after several days (I kid you not) elapsed, it seemed that everything was also working on the site. All good.
( @manton - is this time delay expected behavior?)
All good until I set up the filter to
find text = ‘youtube.com/watch' and add that post to the category ‘myyoutubes’.
The wait aside, it ran like a dream. Except it didn’t. I realized that posts that definitely contained links back to YouTube were not being picked up. I ran the filter again - and waited. TWICE. Nothing changed.
This morning I discovered why.
Turns out that there is a second URL format that YouTube uses … youtu.be
I am guessing that the youtube syntax varies depending on whether you are on a computer versus iOS or something similar. Anyway, I then set up a second filter that adds the post to the same category - and … it is now working (wait aside)
BTW, the really cool thing is that I also use the plugin ‘Lite YouTube for Micro.blog by @rknightuk - so those links automatically render as embedded videos on my site. 🖇️ Say, like this one - which at time of typing still hasn’t been correctly allocated its category - but I am keeping an eye on it.
Readwise Help for Readwise People
Readwise views are really useful but the commands to do what you want are not obvious. These two from the horse’s mouth we know as Dan Doyon.
Show me all docs that have no tags: has__not:tags
Show me all docs that have no highlights: has__not:highlights
Show me all docs that have highlights: has:highlights