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polydigm
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I might do a parachute jump as a last request, but that's it. It's not for me. And I used to fly around at high speed on a motorbike - that was a
thrill.
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BBP
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We all have our thrills and our Kryptonite, I suppose. Shortly after that horrible accident I really enjoyed that Booster ride, but don't put me in
go-carts or on anything I have to drive myself.
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BBP
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Punky: if you want to see the Brabantse Dag-parade again, check omroepbrabant.nl. You can see it live in 4 hours 15 minutes, or watch the summary
later.
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punknaynowned
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awww, that's really nice of you to remember that I enjoyed that!
of course I missed it today, but I can catch up, can't I?
thank you 
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punknaynowned
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Aha! I found a two hour survey!
haha!
I love a parade for some reason. Makes no difference I can't follow what they say... the musicality of the language is compelling enuf, somehow
I see it's a making-of documentary... and they play a symphonetized 'Born That Way' throughout, topical, funny
[Edited on 26-8-13 by punknaynowned]
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BBP
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There was one contestant that had to pull its float at the last minute and became a walking group instead. The last float (with the market benches LED
screens) won the jury, press and audience awards. Among my favourites were the group about late medieval composer Guillaume Dufay, complete with his
groupies, and a group about fun fair / church mass (the Dutch word for fun fair derives from church mass), they had a cute litthe church choir singing
typical funfair lines like "remain seated during the ride".
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punknaynowned
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the one 'Kirkmis' with the church-goers that became roller coaster riders was quite the concept-leap, funny, very different than one might see here.
In fact, many of the visual expressions of abstract ideas are complicated. many in cages, the long set of pieces that showed bent back buildings, a
bent lampshade, alongside the people with the arrows seemed to be conveying MOTION itself with everything blown back by the wind of that motion.
Ingenious
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BBP
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The topic was "What do you mean, medieval?" and was a sort of Middle Ages vs Modern World. Scribes vs Facebook, markets vs online auction site
Marktplaats, church mass vs fun fair, medieval map sketchers who'd show travellers the way versus GPS, mills throughout the ages, bookpress... etc.
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BBP
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I can't stand Google Ads, especially since they're supposedly based on your on-line behaviour. Why am I getting lesbian contact adverts? (gets
heebie-jeebies)
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punknaynowned
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I don't like ads either, generally.
just remember, algorithms don't judge. People do, right?
I got a lot of non-pertinent ads, F/M singles ads, then I bought some books on amazon and then books started showing up. Then for a while there were
ads for 'fantasy games for men' which I have never even inquired about, and now this week there is some pen holder for sale marketed to Jewish
scholars.
I imagine there are people that assign values and create 'buckets' of 'types' of people, but it's the algo's that uses those values without a brain
behind them and also easy to see this as beginning steps. Hopefully it will get better at targeting, or putting users in appropriate
ad-target-locations.
But if an ad is like an arrow, the ones that widely miss the mark are easier to ignore.
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BBP
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I suppose you mean "ignore" as in "not clicking on it" rather than "not paying attention"?
It's tropical weather out here, very unusual for this time of year. I'll be going to a theme park on the 8th, hope it'll be a bit cooler by then.
Juggling, too is quite a feat.
Mastered clawing and club juggling, mastered columns, am improving on over the head, and started to learn to juggle 4 balls.
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punknaynowned
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yeah, I pay attention to the news about the changing nature of marketing, rather than the products (the ads) that marketing puts in my viewer. I
compare trends in ads with what the news tells me to see how those allign with each other, but never pursue or click on ads themselves.
For example, I do not and will not sign up for facebook but notice when facebook puts out a 'public relations piece' on what they are doing next which
makes the news. And then think about what this might mean for larger online trends.
Because, the last few years, facebook has been influential in marketing online. Ignoring them all together would mean I miss 'what is happening'. The
trends may infuriate, but they influence people and effect how they see things. Yes, both how facebook sees things and how they're consumers see
things.
Google's model is different but not any better as far as I can see.
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BBP
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Then again all that ad-stuff might be because I have cookies from a lot of ad-services blocked in my browser.
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BBP
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Keep my dad in mind since he has a nasty dental appointment coming up...
I'm sore and hoarse from yesterday's Efteling trip.
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Huck_Phlem
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My son toured the summer with his drum corps and they were undefeated all season until the end and lost to the nearby rivals but won drums for the 5th
year in a row and got featured on Pearl drums web site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUythGwAEUs (he is the one next to the drum set player in the back with the two big torpedo things hanging
down)
Then he starts college at San Jose State University and three weeks into college he gets a gig playing Jazz guitar for 90 dollars. (I have video of
it but no server and refuse to upload to youtube anymore)
My daughter is a Junior and drives better then he does.
I still can't find a job though. I have enough to last me another year and a half though so I'm not broke yet.
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BBP
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Nice to hear from you Huck!
Just a note to all of you: my Jelliclemail address will be defunct in the future, so don't send any mail there. Take it to my Gmail address (look in
the Announcements section for that), or to bbp AT musician DOT org.
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BBP
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Cooked lental soup and am resting from eating it. Delicious, but powerful. Saturday I went on a special supermarket trip to buy three things I'd need
and didn't have in stock: a carrot, celery and garlic. Then I went to check the recipe today. It mentioned cloves and laurel. Oops. And then it turned
out I just had those on stock for some time.
...And then I found I still missed something: onions. The vegetable they only sell in bulk and of which you have to throw away half because it's too
much of a hassle to prepare and makes you and your kitche stink, the vegetable of which you always seem to have too much...
Oh well. The soup was great!
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BBP
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Not much going on except I got to wreck another bike (snapped chain).
My favourite theme park Efteling has, for many many years, released countless pins on the collecting audience. Collecting stuff is not my thing, but I
did buy the Haunted Castle-themed set a few years back.
Discovered this set has doubled in value since. Hayoo.
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aquagoat
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is it enough to buy a new bike?
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BBP
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Ha-ha, no. It's € 7,50. I was even nervous about buying that set.
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