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I expect the AI takes a dim view of liberty but few days went by I didn't look at the Statue of Liberty from lower Manhattan.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I expect the AI takes a dim view of liberty but few days went by I didn't look at the Statue of Liberty from lower Manhattan.
I think of my late brother Tom who died too young at 53 and how he loved technology. Even more than me. I'm more like a greasy auto mechanic. I like to get my hands dirty in fixing computers but don't have much interest in higher level knowledge of how they're programmed, outside of user preferences.
Tom would have been amazed by everything he would see today. We are spoiled by advance computer graphics on the television. Our refrigerators can communicate with our smartphones. We have cameras answering the door on front porches. Streaming TV. In 1981 I fell in love with the movie Blade Runner and was working my way to that future. Well, we're partially there and I no longer feel like a futurist. It isn't what it was all cracked up to me. Technology has dumbed down our young people. They can't spell, can't add, can't do cursive, and don't understand in-person courtesy. The 1% seem to like our young generation to lack vision and leadership. We're becoming a nation of lemmings. I'm sorry to sound so negative but my dream of technology making the future bright backfired on me.
Now I enjoy going out to the woods and making a nice campfire with Carey. Roasting marshmallows. Listening to nighttime forest sounds. I've kind of come full circle back to my childhood. Ironic isn't it?
Tom would have been amazed by everything he would see today. We are spoiled by advance computer graphics on the television. Our refrigerators can communicate with our smartphones. We have cameras answering the door on front porches. Streaming TV. In 1981 I fell in love with the movie Blade Runner and was working my way to that future. Well, we're partially there and I no longer feel like a futurist. It isn't what it was all cracked up to me. Technology has dumbed down our young people. They can't spell, can't add, can't do cursive, and don't understand in-person courtesy. The 1% seem to like our young generation to lack vision and leadership. We're becoming a nation of lemmings. I'm sorry to sound so negative but my dream of technology making the future bright backfired on me.
Now I enjoy going out to the woods and making a nice campfire with Carey. Roasting marshmallows. Listening to nighttime forest sounds. I've kind of come full circle back to my childhood. Ironic isn't it?
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Well I bet you don't have legs like that either.
About 6 or 8 months ago I replaced all of our light bulbs with Sylvania LEDs supposedly good for 10 years or more. I have replaced 1/2 of them since. :/
I had the same problem with Sylvania. I thought it was because they were in a steamy bathroom. Went with Philips the second round and they are holding up much better over the last two years.
Replacing with incandescent.
Enjoy them while they are still available.
Yup, mine were in a bathroom…
I can’t do incandescent, it’s like a dead short to me. Very energy inefficient.
I very much noticed the electric bill reduction when I went all LED.
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Can’t claim to be the oldest, but will settle for second place. I have actually seen this one in person. Ft. Worth Stockyards.
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Fortunately, there are many more interesting things in that area, including several locations, offering cool refreshing adult beverages for sale.
They have a lot of enjoyable live videos. Roy Orbison’s Crying hard to pull off well.
Same here. I bought some FET brand LED incandescent substitute bulbs at Costco for a 'great price' and most of them did not even last 6 months.
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