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Negativity and hope, locked in an eternal struggle featuring titty twisters.

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drool britannia rone 4/4 '19

Hey, Brexit's not going all right
Hey, Brexit's not going all right
What's that floating in the Thames fog?
It's that bellend, Jacob Rees-Mogg

I believe in Mr. Grieve
Bercow's yelling out, "ORDER!"
Northern Ireland's got no border

I believe in Mr. Grieve
Do we have another division? Yup
Do we have another division?

Lalalala, lalalala
Lalalala, lalalala
Got Gove, got Corbyn
Got even ol' Boris Johnson

I believe in Mr. Grieve
Do we have another division? Yup
Do we have another division?
Do we have another division?

May can cry, May can mope
But can she swing for a third vote?
Oh, I believe
In Mr. Grieve
Hey, Brexit's not going all right
Hey, Brexit's not going all right

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4/4 '19 1 Comment
Nice. I can hear Frank singing this version.
Kevin Schnitzius
 

yes, i will reply to your email rone 1/10 '19

Ever since the notion of "inbox zero" floated across my attention, i've been perplexed by the mania it attracts.  Maybe 15, or even 10, years ago, it was a bit of a challenge to keep up, but these days, most of my email is either spam or commercial.  The former is shipped off to a processing folder, and the latter is either autosorted or unsubscribed.  The time it takes me to deal with is minimal.  It's never occurred to me to brag about inbox zero because i'm there every day.

Then something like this article pops up and i'm just stunned.  2700 messages in a month?  What on earth are you doing?  People just give up?  Maybe i'm just special, or maybe people just hate me and ignore me.

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1/10 '19 1 Comment
Cards Against Humanity dude sez: "I think as people understand the idea of Inbox Zero now, it’s a total disaster. I don’t see how anyone could run a business or make a living as a freelancer or do any kind of meaningful work by replying to every email in their inbox all the time so that it’s always empty."

But "replying to every email in their inbox all the time" is not what I understand "inbox zero" to mean. I understand it to mean that your goal is to keep the number of unprocessed e-mail messages in your inbox at zero (or as close to it as is practicable). And it's definitely not something you have to keep actively doing 24/7. Processing an e-mail message means to do one of the following:

- delete unread
- read and then delete
- read, optionally reply, and then file away out of the inbox [*]

Then there's always going to be some stuff you don't want to deal with, so you leave it unprocessed (read or leave unread, but in any event you don't act immediately to remove it from the inbox), but the idea is that this number is very small.

One household management tip I heard years ago is to touch your incoming postal mail once. That is, you pick it up; open or toss it in the recycling bin; and "process" the mail you keep right away. Magazines to the living room, Christmas cards to the mantle, bills to the area of the house where you sit down and write your checks and lick your stamps every couple of weeks. (As I say, years ago.) This way, you don't get piles of unsorted mail lying around the house, and you don't miss bills. I've moved this idea to my inbox and it does me OK, except for the interminable e-mail lists I've gotten myself subscribed to.

For interminable e-mail lists, I like to let a day's worth sit unread and then go through them all at once. (I prefer that to getting a daily auto-digest.)

I'll wrap up with a new grand internet tradition. Tired: sharing SAT scores. Wired: sharing your inbox zero status. I'm at inbox 11, with 7 unread topics.

[*] You know who's figured out how to manage avalanches of e-mail? Microsoft. I've found Outlook to be a great solution when I've been an a role where I'm getting dozens of messages per day.
Michele Grant
 
 

hi i'm old rone 10/25 '18

There's so little music i want to see live and most of it happens 60-90 minutes away so when it's on a weeknight i'm too old to want to endure the commute there in rush hour and back when it's midnight and i'm exhausted.

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10/25 '18 22 Comments
Hi. I'm old, too. [shares a bottle of gummy vitamins]
Anne Mollo
Gummy fiber is the best old person invention yet!
Karen Kuhl
Hi, I'm old too. I used to like going to plays damn near every night of the week. Now I don't like doing anything on any night of the week.

By the way, I saw someone pretending to be you the other day. Check out the license plate frame on this Tesla.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Lindsay Harris Friel
Impostor syndrome always means something different when it comes to me.
rone
EXACTLY.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Hi, I'm old but I still manage to take dance classes every night of the week because dancing is invigorating, and if I didn't I'd be stiff and creaky all day instead of just in the morning.
Huck Kennedy
Well hello there! [holds opera glasses up to rheumy eyes looking for posts newer than 2015]
Anne Mollo
And is he still as excited about his Q?
Karen Kuhl
There's been a new development, Karen. I have a dance couple friend named Bill and Susie. Susie used to be in the Q Club with me, but then she got a new car and it didn't get a Q, so she got kicked out of the club. Meanwhile her husband Bill, who used to be on the outside looking in, got a new car, and it did have a Q! So Bill replaced Susie.

Then Bill got *another* new car, a Tesla. It remains to be seen if it will get a Q, but even if it doesn't, Bill will remain in the club until the lease on his previous new car (which does have a Q) runs out.

Bill and Susie voted for Trump, but I still love them anyway. If I were to dump everyone who voted for Trump I would lose half my dance friends. Such is life in Orange County.
Huck Kennedy
Huck Kennedy
Bill and Susie are adorable. I'm glad you kept them anyway, too. I'd lose my dad and several surprising people. It was a polarizing election.
Karen Kuhl
Part of the benefit of moving into the downtown queer neighbourhood is walkable access to music events ... that start too late on weeknights for me to consider going to.
Dawn Keenan
For what it's worth, I was too old for Bay Area rush hour back in my 30s.
Anne Mollo
Promoters in my city finally woke up and now book bands from 7-10pm every Friday night. It's packed with people who have money to spend on music. Weird, right?
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
We keep talking about hitting local jazz events at various lounges and eateries, but... old.
rone
I always say the hardest part about doing any activity is putting your shoes on. Once I'm there I'm usually happy... but convincing myself to actually go and not punk out is harder every day.

I am a homebody now... and in honesty, I am a bedbody. We pretty much never leave the bed unless we absolutely have to.
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
I'm more than a tiny bit relieved to hear that I'm not the only bedbody. We are not seen, so not known about, but I believe there are many of us, for various reasons. XOXO
Karen Kuhl
When I am anyplace other than bed, I count down the minutes until I can be in bed. BED!
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Lindsay Harris Friel
I know! It's only at one venue, but it is paaacked with people every Friday night. It's called #LiveMusicForEarlyBirds (or as I see it, "Live Music For Sane People," or perhaps "Live Music For People Over 40") and we loooovez playing it.
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
really?!??! where? ... down here in Dover there are 7pm-10pm live music options on Wednesday and Thursday nights. . . but I'm usually stumped on Friday.
Ursula Sadiq
 

trumpage people rone 10/1 '18

NAFTA
you're a Clinton treaty
i said, NAFTA
from the past century
i said, NAFTA
you're not all about me
there's no need for you today

NAFTA
it's time to let you go
i said, NAFTA
i want people to know
i said, NAFTA
that this time it's my show
so i'm going to rename you

your name is now Us-M-C-A
your name is now Us-M-C-A
yet much to my chagrin
i could not work "Trump" in
but we know who did all the work

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10/1 '18 4 Comments
Very silly.
Thomas Boutell
I am waiting for planet me money to tell us if the treaty is actually bad or good.
Thomas Boutell
there's this https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/1/17924532/nafta-usmca-trade-trump
rone
and also https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/01/winners-losers-usmca-trade-deal/
rone
 

¿fútbol? rone 6/11 '18

The FIFA Men's World Cup snuck up on me.  It's harder to care when neither the USA nor Ecuador will be competing; add in the current host (Russia) and FIFA's corruption scandal, and the difficulty increases.  I do want to see the likes of Egypt, Panama, and Iceland do well.  I wouldn't even be upset if Messi and his team win it all.

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6/11 '18 1 Comment
I bought a Poland jersey (I'm 3/4 Polish) to have a team to cheer for but I'm not overly excited either...
Kevin Schnitzius
 
 
 

i just can't eat the whole thing rone 11/19 '14

There's a squirrel in the neighborhood this year that steal's someone's Fuyu persimmons, then comes over to partially eat it at our almond tree, then drops the remnants for me to deposit in our compost pit.

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11/19 '14 9 Comments
I am seeing a blue box containing a white '?', bordered in blue and grey.
Dawn Keenan
The squirrel has you under its control.
Impressive!
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
Yeah, I am seeing a broken image too. Taking a peek.
Thomas Boutell
I have fixed the bug you ran into when you uploaded this image. Would you mind uploading it again, just to confirm?

If you wish, I can send you the original file. I just don't want to "magically" fix this and lose the chance to find out if the fix works as well for you as it does for me.

Thanks!
Thomas Boutell
Please send me the file again, i killed it on my phone.
rone
Behold! A picture!
rone
I see nothing but an empty box.
Anne Mollo
Yes, there was a bug which I've fixed, but it waits Ron re-uploading the image. Oh wait, was I supposed to let Jill cast her spell by suggesting she can see what no one else can? Sorry about that.
Thomas Boutell
I wasn't ever able to see it... I was basing my comment on Ron's text alone. :)
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
 

i blame jorm rone 10/15 '14

Self-Titled

Self-Titled is the debut album from All the Feels.  It is a showcase of poststructuralist retromodern techno, and earned the band critical raves from mainstream and indie media.  The band funded the record by using embedded micropayment malware in their torrent seeds, a technique later outlawed by the World Congress.

Track listing

  • 1. Opening Track (9:27)
  • 2. Title Track (3:33)
  • 3. Instrumental Introduction (5:42)
  • 4. The Title of This Track Is Almost As Long As the Track Itself (27:11)
  • 5. You Can't Write "Eponymous" Without "Pony" (6:59)
  • 6. Single Edit (11:17)
  • 7. Dub Remix (1:17)

All tracks written by All the Feels

Produced by All the Feels

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10/15 '14 2 Comments
Oh, I used to be into them.
Thomas Boutell
Yeah, after that, they did their autobiographical film "Academy Award for Documentary Feature" and effectively disappeared up their own rectums, which made it difficult to record any subsequent music.
rone
 
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