YouTube of the day

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From the guy who brought you brown a few weeks back...

Colour...

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Red Poppy ranch gets a skid steer

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I was really sorry to hear of this.

Many fond memories of wondering the Palo Alto, San Jose and Fremont Fry's from '97 to 2010

With 2 or 3 trips to the Si' Valley a year I would bring back one or two of the Fry's mother board, CPU and ram specials - Whip it all together in a case when here and sell it for a good penny with a Win 2000 pro key I had.

And the facades of the buildings were oh so impressive.

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Fiero guy is almost almost almost done..

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I'll do a second one today ..

Pull the pin and throw a live Jordan Peterson hand Grenade into the list....

[KeyWestPirate]

I was really sorry to hear of this.

Many fond memories of wondering the Palo Alto, San Jose and Fremont Fry's from '97 to 2010

With 2 or 3 trips to the Si' Valley a year I would bring back one or two of the Fry's mother board, CPU and ram specials - Whip it all together in a case when here and sell it for a good penny with a Win 2000 pro key I had.

And the facades of the buildings were oh so impressive.

I spent a lot of time in Frys too.
Good depth of inventory,, strange stuff.

And a weekly flyer with killer offers on all kinds of stuff.
Frys had appliances, TVs, knowledgeable staff.

The beat place to buy cheap was the "computer shows". There was one every weekend from Pasadena to San Diego. Selling everything from Asian porn to the latest processor, with food stands to keep you fortified,, it was a nerds paradise. Lots of surplus stuff for pennies.

Now you can get anything on the internet in a day.
Wasn't like that in the old days.

[Little Corn Tom]

Old days?

Bought a Commodore PET in the mid 70`s. Tape recorder for "mass storage". Memory measured in "K" not "G".

https://www.google.com/search?q=comm...s9A_WbUrKNgQeM

Drove from Dayton, Ohio with a few buds to the "first" national computer expo in Chicago that year.
Elbow to elbow....nerds from all over.
Got laid......
Times were good...
Computers were cheap.
Love was in the air.

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Old days?

Bought a Commodore PET in the mid 70`s. Tape recorder for "mass storage". Memory measured in "K" not "G".
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the 16K PETs is what we had in the High school computer lab in the library - There was one SuperPET but it was difficult to get on it.

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The Sour toe of Dawson's creek - On the bucket list.

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Big daddy Doug reviews a Unicorn of a 4runner...

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Andrew cuts trees

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Keeping on Machinery and Logs - The Hobbit is making progress on his Kick ass wood mill.

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The Great Ones dad passed away.

He was the nation's Hockey Dad, known across the land and further. Walter shopped at our Greenhouse and was a staple of the Telephone City, as was Wayne.

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Bald and Bankrupt tours the Ukraine

Bald and Bankrupt seems to have hit big on Youtube with an estimated 2,000,000 income in 2020 after 2 yrs in existence. I think I put one of his early videos up last spring of Moldova

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Interesting review on the failure of the suspension bridge of the Hyatt Regency collapse of the early 80's

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Looping back to Nicaragua - Accion 10 news from yesterday .

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Winter Camping in Heavy Overnight Snowstorm by Nagualero

It looks like has not read the old adage of "If you don't understand that you actions today effect you tomorrow, eat a pound of cheese" Mind you that dip does look good.

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Back when I worked NA tech support Applebees was just a place to grab a dinner and suds on the limited company Per-Dium close to the non descript mid market hotel at the late time the discount flight got me to that place..

Just like TGI Fridays - Never been to the TGI Fridays in Managua but drove past it many a time..

[Daddy-YO]

Wanna forget about Covid-19 for a while?
Step back 30 years and enjoy this Canadian nut:

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Yes - It is very odd why so many Canadians seem to succeed in US entertainment, Comedy especially - Not sure if you watched that Canadian conspiracy vid I put up a month or so back.

My Comedian buddy, Darin, who I think a couple of his routines are posted here has made the pilgrimage to LA 3 time now I think, late 90's , early 00's and then again early 10's I think. Each time for about 6 months to try and crack the LA scene for a kick at comedy. Last time I spoke to him ( About 5 yrs back now) he had decided to just do gigs and ease into Canadian comedy statesman.

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Rick posted this about a week back and it was really fascinating to see his tract.

Like for myself, while I liked fans furnaces and driving truck I did not see myself in the Greenhouse biz, so I took Electronics (Because I liked electronics). While I was hoping for a Job on the DEW line (The far north radar) I did not make the cut - Got a job out of school as a general repair tech in parallel with working at the greenhouse. Then after 18 months got a contract job at IMAX, specifically because I fixed LCD fish finders - IMAX was looking for someone to test LCDs. for the next 2 years I worked 3 jobs (Greenhouse, fish finder place and IMAX) . Of course IMAX is where I met Chilo and the contract place making the LCD glasses. Then after IMAX could not renew my contract because of market conditions, and Chilo lived in Kitchener, I answered that ad in local paper for DALSA which has lead to now (Heavy truncation of '91 to now)

Anyways - Ramble mode off. Here's Rick

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I like the way Louis approaches things..

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The hobbit had his wind turbine mast compress and shatter the blades.

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This is the front man for Cerro Gordo - It is an abandoned town in the area of death Valley

A little googling shows that it was bought by an investment group for 1.4M about a year ago although the YouTube channel spins a narative that this fellow bought it on his own as a labour of love. < awwww....>

While a there is a subtext of disingenuousness in the story, it still is cool.

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John tears yet another strip off of Electric Jesus

If not interested in the entire rant at lease listen to the Elon prayer at the 11:min mark