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That cool girl from Brazil has checked out at 83. Her recording of The Girl from Ipanema with Stan Getz is just unforgettable.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Agreed. Sad for us oldies to see familiar names leave us. Saw Stan Getz in concert about a hundred years ago.
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User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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I saw Getz live in Stockholm, 1989. Great gig. When the boats in the harbour just behind the scene heard his final tone, they honked back, and an improvised "conversation" energed!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Absolutely great song, which I first heard somewhere around 1963 while moored in San Pedro (Los Angeles) docks.
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Another one of those! 
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Lost today.
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 wrong choices...
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Wordle 718 5/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 718 5/6*
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Close!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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My two regular starters made it an anagram. Then I guessed wrong...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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didn't think I'd make it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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bleahhh!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Jeremy Falcon
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hadn't thought much about it until I started getting more into graphic "transforms" and trying to keep the terminology "correct". I found this style guide useful.
Welcome - Microsoft Style Guide | Microsoft Learn
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I was talking about the corner of a rectangle. That's about as much as I will say about who or what's "right".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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What if the rectangle identifies as a triangle?
Ok, I'll shut up now. 
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a polygon ... and it still has "top and left" coordinates, width and height. As does an ellipse. i.e. You always have to be aware of the virtual "bounding box" no matter how often you rotate, translate, skew or scale.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I think you missed the point... I can't really expand on it since it's the lounge, so I'll be vague and just say that we all agree that male and female are both humans. So, nobody refutes your point. But, your point missed my point.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'll do better next time. (There won't be a next time)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My mom has been a feminist for as long as I can remember.
One of the good ones, mind you, not a feminazi.
She drove a truck and certainly did not expect or ask any men to help her unload, and they never did.
When she got married in the 80's, she kept her own last name, which was a huge deal back then.
Of course I agree because it's just ridiculous to give up your own name just because you think you want to spend the rest of your life with someone (even if you ultimately do).
I know very few men who'd give up their last name like that, but it's expected of women.
You wouldn't believe the stuff she's been through because of it.
Like the bank simply refusing to use her name because "the system" won't allow married women to have a different name as her husband.
Or going to the bank to open an account and then my father getting a letter that the account is now ready.
That last one was in 200X, mind you, not even that long ago.
Anyway, Dutch isn't very gender neutral.
For example, we say "There were about fifty man at the party." (Yes, "man", not "men".)
My mom would ask "So there were no women?"
I kind of copied that behavior from her and now I say "There were about fifty people at the party."
My language now better reflects reality because, yes, there were women also.
Whenever we don't know someone's gender we assume it's a he (unless gender roles dictate it's probably a woman).
For example: "My boss yelled at me today." "Was he very mad?"
And: "My cleaner is on vacation." "When will she be back?"
I wouldn't mind a gender neutral word there, it would save some confusion and correcting one another.
To be fair, I've never heard of male cleaners (I have professionaly, but not the ones that clean houses for cash money), but I know plenty of female bosses.
In English you can say "they", which isn't that weird and has been done for decades, but in Dutch that's really weird and would change the whole sentence.
Why is this important?
Because study shows that language influences the way we think (and probably the other way around too).
If language stopped assuming all bosses were men then maybe so would we and more women would be hired.
I despise the woke-movement that's currently going on, especially in the USA, but I wouldn't mind some gender neutral language for the cases where you simply don't know.
Too bad this guide is in English, which doesn't help me in Dutch  (I vote for language-neutral language!  )
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