grep

5 hours ago, Blue J said:

See, it’s good to see this thread again. Considering the rock I’ve been living under, I didn’t even know a release date had been set. And then also, suffice it to say I didn’t know that anything of the songs were available yet. So I’ll be checking those out here in a bit (not interrupting the rest of the record I have on right now).

Meh. Don't be so worried about it. :)

Just be prepared /to/ ROCK.  \m/

Damn.  RIP.

2 hours ago, jamie said:

I don't even know that much about them or their music, but I'd love to see it.

Same here.  Casual awareness of them at best.  But I bet there are interesting stories.  Looking forward to it.

The local paper where I used to live turned off comments back in 2016, after about 8 years of having them.

Yes, there were trolls. But some of those comments were the best reasons to visit the site.

Not only were the trolls just being trolls - we also pointed out on many many many occasions the faulty reporting, whitewashing, and clear omission of facts and important stories. I think that's why the commenting was really shut down - we had raised very good awareness on site, that the reporting was shit and that what was being produced was a shadow of what existed in years before. 

Vodka and seltzer.

Vodka and seltzer.

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.  

It's just like pop up ads - one kind of trains themselves to not see them> only so much as to either dismiss it, or not otherwise engage with it by mistake. Without reading or allowing the actual message to reach the thinking part of the brain.

Language

Imp

Dio

Q conspiracy theories

Negative vibes

Absolut

17 minutes ago, treeduck said:

How do you like all three new songs so far?

I like them a lot. TBH.  Metal of quality.

I get the sense you feel the same way?

16 hours ago, treeduck said:

 

Now THIS is an arena anthem!  I love it. 

Flapjack

cantankerous

Duma Key by Stephen King.  I got 3/4 of the way through it - the man can really write.  But the closing quarter has me lost - the really supernatural stuff is just predictable. I guess even a master like him runs out of ideas after a while.

 

Yellow Submarine Lego Set

19 hours ago, BastillePark said:

Should I/we know who that is based on that picture?

Who else would be pictured with a Les Paul and a bow.

just what the f**k is exactly going on?

23 hours ago, Principled Man said:

 

 

For many, many years, I have faithfully played the same set of numbers for every Powerball drawing.   

 

 

 

  

Equal chance to any other set of numbers. 

 

I wrote a random number generator once, just to see how many 'tickets' it would take to hit a particular set of powerball numbers + the bonus.

First run : about 12.500 sets of numbers in I got an exact hit.
Second run : something like 37 million combinations before I got the exact hit.

Third run, just over 2.5 million combinations before I got the hit.

So yeah.... it's a tough game to guess correctly. As simple as it seems.

Zooropa