What’s on your mind?

[Lioness~]

I recently found out that "People think Steven Spielberg killed a Triceratops"

I think that the problem is that most people don't use any more of their brain than the amygdala.

Can I come and live on your planet? Will bring coffee...

PS, you may remember that, in the film, this animal is next to a pile of dung that Laura Dern sticks her arm into. I believe that she decides the Triceratops is sick because it has been eating kale. I accept this as true, because whenever I eat kale, I feel very much like the dinosaur, complete with groans.

The problem is I haven't found a way back to my home planet from this place yet, while keeping the earth-body. The transportation of consciousness itself is easier.
Neither are the earthlings spaceships good enough yet. So it's like being transporting back a few hundred years in evolution.

But great coffee/espresso beans is definitely a great passport to get into my planet, absolutely 😉

 

[ericwn]

The problem is I haven't found a way back to my home planet from this place yet, while keeping the earth-body. The transportation of consciousness itself is easier.
Neither are the earthlings spaceships good enough yet. So it's like being transporting back a few hundred years in evolution.

But great coffee/espresso beans is definitely a great passport to get into my planet, absolutely

Please send a postcard when you’re back!

 

[yaxomoxay]

Has anyone seen "The Fifth Element?" I haven't seen the actual movie, but someone just showed me this clip. Damn, it's crazy! I can't get over 4:16, that's one hell of a lick! Wonder if I could figure out how to sing that—down two octaves obviously lol

Stop anything that you’re doing and go watch the whole movie. It’s simply great sci-fi.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Ha, yes - of course, a Luc Bresson film. His big break was the Big Blue - which (as you can probably guess from my user name) I loved when it came out.

More importantly, in a scene you can see the exact spot in which my now wife and I shared our first kiss, under the stars, when we were both teens (decades ago).

 

[Crowbot]

Stop anything that you’re doing and go watch the whole movie. It’s simply great sci-fi.

Loved it! It's one of the movies I keep on my iPad. The first time I saw it I said to myself "This is like watching a comic book". (I'm old).

I assume you've seen "The Professional"/"Leon".

 

[compwiz1202]

Someone knocks on the door there’s about a 90% chance it will get ignored. Unless I know I’m expecting a parcel.
We stopped taking parcels in at our old address for neighbours as two neighbours treated our house like an Amazon drop off centre (including one who we hardly spoke to who had it on her delivery address to leave at our house if no one is in).
As for emails or PM’s you can choose to engage or ignore. I know which I’m most likely to do.

Yes 100% ignore unless I expect someone. Plus our building doors are locked with fobs now.

 

[yaxomoxay]

I assume you've seen "The Professional"/"Leon".

of course!! Unforgettable movie.

 

[HDFan]

That, combined with the fact that it’s easier than ever to purchase fake reviews

You can screen a product to remove a lot of these:

ReviewMeta.com - Amazon Review Checker

reviewmeta.com

I usually go through the reviews sorted by "Most Critical" first.

The one and two star reviews are the most informative.

 

[scubachap]

That's useful looking link - Thanks.

 

[Mousse]

The one and two star reviews are the most informative.

I ignore an review that uses superlatives; 99.44% of the time, they're fake. I read a few of every rating. The 5 stars tells me if the product will suit my needs. The 1 star tells me the flaws. If I can live with the faults and it does what I need, I will consider buying. The 3 and 4 stars tends the must informative, with a mix of what the reviewer liked and disliked.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Why do robots ring me up, to tell me that an account I don't have, with a company I don't deal with, is about to - expire | delete itself | self-immolate | explode (choose one of the above)?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Why do robots ring me up, to tell me that an account I don't have, with a company I don't deal with, is about to - expire | delete itself | self-immolate | explode (choose one of the above)?

Because you give your number out too often. I rarely do and get 1-2 marketing calls a year.

 

[rm5]

Yes 100% ignore unless I expect someone. Plus our building doors are locked with fobs now.

I always answer the door no matter who it is. If it's a salesperson, I'll politely decline whatever they're trying to offer me.

 

[rm5]

Because you give your number out too often. I rarely do and get 1-2 marketing calls a year.

I don't think I've ever gotten marketing calls, at least from what I can remember.

 

[Lioness~]

You can screen a product to remove a lot of these:

ReviewMeta.com - Amazon Review Checker

reviewmeta.com

The one and two star reviews are the most informative.

This can definitely be useful, when they add Sweden to the list, bookmarked.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I don't think I've ever gotten marketing calls, at least from what I can remember.

They fall into an infuriating category of their own.

These days, I don't receive many, thankfully, and EU law allowed that you could demand that they remove you and your number from their data bases (which was something that I used to insist on; they would hang up).

Two types that really stood out were, firstly, the type of a call that commences when a woman with an American accent - the kind that saws at your ears - (as I'm in Europe, this will strike me as rather peculiar and very irritating) wishes to try to sell me something with some sort of bludgeoning approach.

The second - even more ironically bizarre - used to be the gentlemen with an accent hailing from the Indian sub-continent who informed me in confident tones that they wished to advise me that the security of my Microsoft computer had been compromised.

As it happens, I have had an Apple computer since 2008, which is precisely when and why I joined this site.

On the rare occasions when they occur, nowadays, I simply cut the call and hang up immediately.

 

[ericwn]

Why do robots ring me up, to tell me that an account I don't have, with a company I don't deal with, is about to - expire | delete itself | self-immolate | explode (choose one of the above)?

You might not have done anything wrong yourself. I got random marketing calls from the moment I got my first mobile phone number in Canada. However I use the iPhone feature to silence unknown callers and send them to voicemail.

 

[Lioness~]

Started my YouTube Premium subscription today, and YouTube Music is included. At 1st glance I see for instance a lot more of Maria Callas music and albums then Apple Music had.
So I don't have to start up my NAS for any music reason anyway.

The only regret I have is why didn't I ditch Apple Music earlier for this A LOT earlier 🙄

 

[yaxomoxay]

The quantity of apps now needed to do even the most basic things is absurd.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The quantity of apps now needed to do even the most basic things is absurd.

Amen to this.

A heartfelt and profound amen to this.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Last night, I enjoyed a most agreeable dinner in an excellent award-winning restaurant with two very good friends.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Last night, I enjoyed a most agreeable dinner in an excellent award-winning restaurant with two very good friends.

And what was on the menu? Something nice I hope.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And what was on the menu? Something nice I hope.

We three all had fish; one of us had hake (sautéed in olive oil and butter and served in a slightly curried delicious broth with planety of steamed mussels - a dish I had last year which I greatly enjoyed), and the remaining pair treated ourselves to monkfish (again, sautéed in olive oil and butter), with curried cauliflower, and aïoli; we shared two dishes of incredibly good mashed potato.

For dessert, (which I hardly ever have), I indulged myself in an annual treat; I love crème brûlée, and assumed - correctly - that this would be very good.

The starters were pretty tasty, too. Actually, the baskets of bread - this is the kind of place that bakes/makes their own bread and serves astonishingly good butter, crisp salt crystals anointing the top of the butter - were exceptional.

Two bottles of rather good white wine (one Riesling from Alsace, the other a French wine I had not encountered before) were shared between us over four hours, and - as I hadn't seen them since last summer, - it was a most enjoyable evening.

 

[Macky-Mac]

The quantity of apps now needed to do even the most basic things is absurd.

and did you get the app that tells you which app to use to get the right apps for any particular thing?

 

[Crowbot]

and did you get the app that tells you which app to use to get the right apps for any particular thing?

I have an app that monitors the App Store for freebies. I like that.