chrisdhoover

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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Your not trying hard enough if you believe timelessness in music stopped in the late 60’s. Every decade since has produced timeless pop music.
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
No. Scams have always existed and folks were wary of providing personal information. There was a discussion about what to call it. Ibahn was my favorite. Broswers and www did not exist. You could poke around and find file folders of organiz
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Settlers to Southern Appalachia were from the English - Scottish borderlands. Lands that were historically contested. “Albion’s Seed” is an excellent book describing the migrations from the British Isle to America
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Live edge is bad but also funny because it is decidedly dead. River tables are a fad where future people will wonder what were they thinking
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Or when Michael tells Fredo he knows it was him. Or when Michael dispatches his enemies while Ava Maria plays at his child’s christening. Or probably scores of more examples
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Maybe there was some cross pollination but the progenitors of country were the hillbilly folk music now now as bluegrass that is rooted in English, Scottish and Irish folk music. Banjos were adopted later, the original form was fiddle based
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
Yes the radio is always on and will remain so. I can’t be bothered by streaming services.
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
I watched both sneakers and three days of the condor recently. Sneakers is an OK Hollywood movie but I fail to see the reverence it has. The technical details of the physical security systems are nonsense. Condor is a better movie. It still
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
With the thermostat set at 78. The air cycles on at about 2 in the afternoon. At about 6 it stops. The out side temperature has been dropping from the 90s to the 70’s overnight
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by chrisdhoover 4y ago
It should be quarterly and a bill, not a refund.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
There is tape marketed for handle bars. There were two kinds when I was a mechanic a long time ago, the French cotton sticky tape, and the Italian brightly colored non sticky plastic tape. Everyone wraps from the bar end to the stem but I w
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
The dispensers have a sponge and water bath. The glue has a unique and not unpleasant smell.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Related is book binding tape. And matte tape used to hinge picture mattes and mount pictures to a matte
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Carter is a deeply moral man who successfully fought off a killer rabbit. While his presidency was unsuccessful, he is my favorite president in my lifetime. Didn’t Willie Nelson smoke dope at the white house during the Carter admin?
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Director is the worst position in a company. You aren’t really a VP working on big plans and you still have nagging line manager duties.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
I think you just made a statement that should be repeated often and attributed to you. Barrenko’s corallary or something. Somebody help me with the name. I want see this used and a Wikipedia entry on it
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
I have a 65/66 912 converted to a 2.7 liter six. I love this car. When I got it there were issues. I have worked through many of them. The PO did not understand the regulator for instance. I gutted the wiring and redid it. It now charg
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
None. Hence my well stocked tool chest. The idea back then was to buy a simple car that you could fix because you would have to. I turned wrenches on Datsuns, VWs, Volvos, in line 6 Fords and Chevys. I stayed very clear of British anything,
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Yes, mediocre and derivative.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Polling whether rights should be suspended is dangerous. I know nothing of Canadian law, but in the US if 2/3 polled said a peaceful protest should be broken up by the military. The response should condemnation and reassertion of our u
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
I started in the trades 45 years ago. Worked as a deck hand, low voltage installer, cabinet maker, and service tech. Climbing in a ceiling at 30 years old I asked my self what the hell am I doing? I have a hard upper bound in salary. I’m so
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
It is an odd claim, the largest. I just did a cursory search and found several notable atrocities with larger numbers. Most occurred from over several days to over several months. I guess an argument could be that specifies in a single day
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
It was not Jimmy Carter but the killer rabbit who attacked him. Carter prevailed where Kennedy failed.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
I made a career of fixing broken things.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
There was a time when Google was happy to stay out of politics and culture wars. The had few lobbyists and donated little. They were happy building a private surveillance apparatus. But the government, mostly democrats came calling and dem
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Yes trucks are ideal for a conversion
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
There a few interesting documentaries out. The Wrecking Crew about LA studio musicians. There’s one on Brian Wilson. 20 feet feet from stardom about back up singers. Laurel Canyon is interesting - its about the music scene there
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
Parallel construction is how rules are circumvented
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
As I suffer from relentless chronic pain, I was hoping to read something insightful. What I saw might as well been on reddit/r/coolguides. Your post gave me a chuckle.
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by chrisdhoover 5y ago
They are though. Door closers offer some resistance on opening. Closers also close. Most closers are hydraulic and some use springs

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