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From the cutting edge
Reiirees as a killer ap?
I don’t want to boast, but Matthew Yglesias fingers me:
In a lot of ways, I think retirees are going to prove to be the killer ap of digital content creation.
I look forward to our unstoppable rise to cultural hegemony. For one thing, the blogosphere has far too many clips of music groups we have never heard of. This will change for, e.g.:
Author: James Wimberley
James Wimberley (b. 1946, an Englishman raised in the Channel Islands. three adult children) is a former career international bureaucrat with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. His main achievements there were the Lisbon Convention on recognition of qualifications and the Kosovo law on school education. He retired in 2006 to a little white house in Andalucia, His first wife Patricia Morris died in 2009 after a long illness. He remarried in 2011. to the former Brazilian TV actress Lu Mendonça. The cat overlords are now three.
I suppose I've been invited to join real scholars on the list because my skills, acquired in a decade of technical assistance work in eastern Europe, include being able to ask faux-naïf questions like the exotic Persians and Chinese of eighteenth-century philosophical fiction. So I'm quite comfortable in the role of country-cousin blogger with a European perspective. The other specialised skill I learnt was making toasts with a moral in the course of drunken Caucasian banquets. I'm open to expenses-paid offers to retell Noah the great Armenian and Columbus, the orange, and university reform in Georgia.
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lol
from a 58-year-old with better taste in music
Hah! Yes… being unemployed for 9 months has been somewhat of a preview of retirement. So, does this mean 30 more years of boomer blogging? Shit…. 😉
You know, exposure to that song is regarded as an act of torture under the Geneva Convention. (It may be even worse than "The Pina Colada Song.")
Mr. Coffin makes music criticism from a coffin. Would you prefer Dinner With Drac? Monster Mash? Do you know what fuddy duddy means? Have a lovely day.
Actually, I rather prefer Wilco, Counting Crows, Coldplay, Aimee Mann, and a lot of others who are doing interesting things today to Barry Mainlow or Rupert Holmes (or Boris and the Cryptkicker 5, for that matter)…but that's neither here nor there. For swhatever reason, while my musical tastes developed and are rooted in the 1960s, hearing new music seems somehow preferable to hearing only the things I liked when I was 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20…
More power to you!
And as much as we all like to mock that song, it has excitement and suspense, it tells a story, and . . . you can dance to it.
For those of us with a blank white box where the link goes, what's the song Wimberley linked?
Asal mula web Judi Poker Online Mengelokkan dipercaya di Dunia.
Dari segi buku Foster’ s Complete Hoyle, RF Foster menyelipkan “ Permainan situs pokerqq paling dipercaya dimainkan mula-mula di Amerika Serikat, lima kartu bikin masing masing pemain dari satu antaran kartu berisi 20 kartu”. Tetapi ada banyaknya ahli tarikh yg tidak setuju diantaranya David Parlett yg menguatkan jika permainan situs judi poker online paling dipercaya ini mirip seperti permainan kartu dari Persia yang dibawa oleh As-Nas. Kurang lebih sejahrawan menjelaskan nama produk ini diambil dari Poca Irlandi adalah Pron Pokah atau Pocket, tetapi masih menjadi abu-abu karena tidak dijumpai dengan pasti sapa yg menjelaskan permainan itu menjadi permainan poker.
Walau ada sisi per judian dalam semua tipe permainan ini, banyak pakar menjelaskan lebih jelas berkaitan gimana situs judi poker mampu menjadi game taruhan yang disenangi beberapa orang dalam Amerika Serikat. Itu berjalan bertepatan dengan munculnya betting di daerah sungai Mississippi dan daerah sekelilingnya pada tahun 1700 an serta 1800 an. Pada saat itu mungkin serius tampil terdapatnya keserupaan antara poker masa lalu dengan modern poker online tidak hanya pada trick berspekulasi tetapi sampai ke pikiran di tempat. Mungkin ini lah cikal akan munculnya permainan poker modern yg kalian ketahui sampai saat tersebut.
Riwayat awal timbulnya situs judi poker paling dipercaya Di dalam graha judi, salon sampai kapal-kapal yg siapkan arena betting yg ada didaerah setengah Mississippi, mereka terkadang bermain cukup hanya manfaatkan 1 dek yg beberapa 20 kartu (seperti permainan as-nas). Game itu terkadang dimainkan langsung tidak dengan diundi, langsung menang, punya putaran taruhan, dapat meningkatkan perhitungan taruhan seperi game as-nas.
Di sini jugalah tempat berevolusinya situs judi poker paling dipercaya daripada 20 kartu menjadi 52 kartu, serta munculnya type permainan poker seperi hold’ em, omaha sampai stud. Herannya orang melihat bila poker stud jadi poker pertama dan classic yang telah dimainkan lebih daripada 200 tahun.
Diakhir tahun 1800 an sajian Poker Online mulai disematkan lagi ketentuan baru diantaranya straight dan flush serta beberapa type tipe yang lain lain seperti tipe poker low ball, wild cards, community cards of one mode dan lainnya.
lol
from a 58-year-old with better taste in music
Hah! Yes… being unemployed for 9 months has been somewhat of a preview of retirement. So, does this mean 30 more years of boomer blogging? Shit…. 😉
You know, exposure to that song is regarded as an act of torture under the Geneva Convention. (It may be even worse than "The Pina Colada Song.")
Mr. Coffin makes music criticism from a coffin. Would you prefer Dinner With Drac? Monster Mash? Do you know what fuddy duddy means? Have a lovely day.
Actually, I rather prefer Wilco, Counting Crows, Coldplay, Aimee Mann, and a lot of others who are doing interesting things today to Barry Mainlow or Rupert Holmes (or Boris and the Cryptkicker 5, for that matter)…but that's neither here nor there. For swhatever reason, while my musical tastes developed and are rooted in the 1960s, hearing new music seems somehow preferable to hearing only the things I liked when I was 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20…
More power to you!
And as much as we all like to mock that song, it has excitement and suspense, it tells a story, and . . . you can dance to it.
For those of us with a blank white box where the link goes, what's the song Wimberley linked?
Anderson, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKsVhyiISY8
And if you have sufficiently refined tastes to appreciate that, you might also like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA
Now back to erudite scholarly discussion and whatnot.
For the record, I didn't even listen to the song to the end.
Ewww — you let Yglesias finger you? Have some self-respect, dude.