Carnifex
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There's a lot of good musical talent in that link. One of them is the band that I took to the porch today. -)
I want that Toblerone!!!!Crapulent Norwegians armed with large Toblerones could be quite formidable.
Couchpotato
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Pfft....I could eat that in one day and be in a blissful chocolate comma.
Redglyph
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I've never been a huge fan of Toblerone, but objectively it's good quality. Swiss chocolate is almost as good as Belgian chocolate after all.
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
You're right. Family size does not mean that you have to share it.Pfft....I could eat that in one day and be in a blissful chocolate comma.
PibbuR who remembers the day the dad came home with 20 (smallish) pieces of chocolate. Pibbur ate one. The sister ate one. The mother ate one. And dad ate 17.
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
I agree. But sometimes you want chocolate (any type) just because it's chocolate.I've never been a huge fan of Toblerone, but objectively it's good quality. Swiss chocolate is almost as good as Belgian chocolate after all.
pibbuR who thinks of Belgium as the country of great chocolate, great beers - and occasional problems forming a government.
Couchpotato
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McDonald's original menu items when the fast-food chain first started revealed
McDonald’s first opened its doors in California decades ago. Here’s what McDonald’s first restaurant menu looked like.…
www.ohmymag.co.uk
I remember when McD's first came out they advertised you could have a burger, fries and drink for less than $1 (99 cents actually)!! Ah, the good old days!!!!
Redglyph
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Hmm, strange. It's always been expensive (and unhealthy) meals here.
We have a European competitor with a slightly better hygiene, but it's still overpriced.
We have a European competitor with a slightly better hygiene, but it's still overpriced.
I'm surprised to hear that. Do they get a lot of business? I can't imagine that many Europeans would pay high prices for something as garbage as McDonald's.
Redglyph
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It seems to work just fine. People are willing to pay a little extra to have something a little different than everyday's food at home or at the canteen and it takes less time. It's not outrageously expensive but I find it overpriced for what it is: about the same price as a honest meal at a typical restaurant, but not as nourishing (and certainly not as balanced) and with virtually no service in a sad place.
Yeah, that's definitely overpriced. Here, McDonald's is half (or less) of what you would pay for food at any decent restaurant.
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
Nice toddler photo. Notice the chair it's sitting in? It's mommy.
The photo is from the (probably early) Victorian period. Back then exposure time was at least several seconds (in the really old days minutes). So the challenge was how to keep the young one still? Enter mommy, but hidden, looking like a carpet, or a sofa, anything to prevent her from appearing in the picture.
Another example (guess where she is):
Sometimes mother was, a bit clumsily by today's standards, edited out of the picture:
You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_mother_photography or just google for "hidden mother photography".
pibbuR who is better looking the more he hides (hence the long hair, the glasses and the beard).
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
Talking about photography.
This is the earliest known photo, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from a window in his home in Burgundy@France in 1826:
And this is the earliest photo (known) photo of a person, by Louis Daguerre in 1838:
Exposure time was more than 10 minutes, which means that moving targets don't appear. Only the one, calmly getting his shoes shined, in the lower left corner of the picture is clearly visible. According to https://petapixel.com/2010/10/27/first-ever-photograph-of-a-human-being/ there are other people visible, but you have to look (more) carefully (than I) to find them.
Other "earliest photos" can be found here: https://petapixel.com/first-photos-photography-history/
pibbuR
EDIT: Exposure time for the first photo was 8 hours.
This is the earliest known photo, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from a window in his home in Burgundy@France in 1826:
And this is the earliest photo (known) photo of a person, by Louis Daguerre in 1838:
Exposure time was more than 10 minutes, which means that moving targets don't appear. Only the one, calmly getting his shoes shined, in the lower left corner of the picture is clearly visible. According to https://petapixel.com/2010/10/27/first-ever-photograph-of-a-human-being/ there are other people visible, but you have to look (more) carefully (than I) to find them.
Other "earliest photos" can be found here: https://petapixel.com/first-photos-photography-history/
pibbuR
EDIT: Exposure time for the first photo was 8 hours.
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pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
Dying to use Win 11 on your old good-for-nothing PC? Well, here's Tiny11, made by NTDEV, which includes just the windows functionality you really need (so Edge is not included). Read about it here: https://www.neowin.net/news/tiny11-...oated-windows-11-for-less-powerful-computers/
One interesting thing in the article: "Therefore, installing stock Windows 11 on unsupported hardware might result in a less-than-satisfying experience." I'm pretty sure that some of you (not me) will claim that installing Win 11 on any computer will "result in a less-than-satisfying experience."
There's also a Tiny10, if you prefer that.
pibbuR who thinks that given all those terabytes, programs just can't be big enough (well, perhaps not).
One interesting thing in the article: "Therefore, installing stock Windows 11 on unsupported hardware might result in a less-than-satisfying experience." I'm pretty sure that some of you (not me) will claim that installing Win 11 on any computer will "result in a less-than-satisfying experience."
There's also a Tiny10, if you prefer that.
pibbuR who thinks that given all those terabytes, programs just can't be big enough (well, perhaps not).
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
More firsts. First "playable" recording of a human voice was in 1860. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonautograph) the recoding is intelligble. That's taking it a bit too far, methinks. I recognize the tune ("Au clair de la lune"), but the lyrics? Well, since it's 5 years since I leaned French at school, and not having used it since then, so ...
Artist is (presumably) Scott de Martinville.
pibbuR who thinks that finally he has found a recording device (the phoneautograph) which would do his voice justice.
PS. Oh, I forgot. Here's the recording (you might want to FFW to .28):
DS.
Artist is (presumably) Scott de Martinville.
pibbuR who thinks that finally he has found a recording device (the phoneautograph) which would do his voice justice.
PS. Oh, I forgot. Here's the recording (you might want to FFW to .28):
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