That a thousand small, invisible deaths are possible in the years leading up to buying the farm.
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What did you learn today?
- Thread starter PWRL
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Give thanks that you've walked this blue marble this long before discovering that.
Learning lately about Portugal's origins. Fascinating
I learnt long ago that my home town may well have been Portuguese, if not for something they called the Pope's line. Some cat named Janzoon bumped into the west coast, in 1606, well after his countrymen first gazed upon our shores — also well before Cook took a little look — in the 1520s. Them's the breaks.
If these cats were Spanish, we'd most likely be playing a very different tune. At the time, this place belonged to them, according to a couple of Papal personages, signatories to the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Learning lately about Portugal's origins. Fascinating
I learnt long ago that my home town may well have been Portuguese, if not for something they called the Pope's line. Some cat named Janzoon bumped into the west coast, in 1606, well after his countrymen first gazed upon our shores — also well before Cook took a little look — in the 1520s. Them's the breaks.
If these cats were Spanish, we'd most likely be playing a very different tune. At the time, this place belonged to them, according to a couple of Papal personages, signatories to the Treaty of Tordesillas.
My oldest sister has visited Portugal several (4?5?) times...claims it’s the most beautiful place on Earth.
I might still leaning toward the State of New Mexico, but my sister, Eileen is Really smart.
Beset with Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society. Summer radio ROCKS
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As social media and the internet in general take on an increasingly prominent — even pervasive — role in our society, renowned technology and security expert Ron Deibert asks us all to take a moment and really look at the devices in our hands.
There are dire consequences to living in an always-on, hyper-connected digital society, warns Deibert, founder and director of Citizen Lab, a research group focusing on digital security and human rights.
In his series of Massey Lectures for CBC Radio, Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet and social media on politics, the economy, the environment and humanity. …
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Today I learned this thread is where all the smart people on TalkBass hang.
<----- Evidence to the contrary.
Today I learned that the 6 year old kid of a fellow bass player on Soundcloud thinks my latest practice tune is the "greatest song ever" hehe.
I thought it was pretty ok, but "greatest song ever" from a 6 year old? Wow.
I thought it was pretty ok, but "greatest song ever" from a 6 year old? Wow.
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I learned that my Squier PJ sounds AMAZING with flats. Any future P's I acquire shall solely be graced by the flats.
I know, I am a slow learner.
I know, I am a slow learner.
I learned... if you use a spoon with peanut butter on it to scoop olives from a jar, the olives have tendency to stick to the spoon.
I learned that Sidi makes a fantastic cycling shoe that lasts forever and continues to deliver. Mine are 20-21 years old.
However, their insoles don't last forever... shopping new ones now.
However, their insoles don't last forever... shopping new ones now.
Today I learned that the 6 year old kid of a fellow bass player on Soundcloud thinks my latest practice tune is the "greatest song ever" hehe.
I thought it was pretty ok, but "greatest song ever" from a 6 year old? Wow.
Well, as they say "Beauty is in the ear of the @bholder ." Or something like that
