The Everyone's Welcome Thread (even Canadians, SEO experts, and oldies..you get the idea).

Young people may never get this one:

Kenny said:

Hey JB,

Hows the BP thing going?

Peace,
Cy

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The same, was actually ill with something else last few weeks, but I think I'm finally getting over it, figured it out.

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Cannuck said:

The song title 'Warpaint', doesn't really match the songs IMO, more like Angel Lipstick, lol...beautiful voices

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Yeah, Warpaint sounds like a great name for a Native American metal band. No idea how they picked that name.

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2 games in, I might be over the NFL season already.

Dallas Cowboys - 40
Atlanta Falcons - 39

Cowboys getting an onside kick with less than a minute to go and kicking the field goal. It's hard being a Falcons fan.

My girl got us sucked into Stranger Things a couple months ago, made us watch all 3 seasons.. just finished a few nights ago. Pretty cool show actually. But what really did me in and made my life come full circle, was when this happened:


it brought back so many memories. Super-cool they did that. A few salty ones slithered down my face.. Neverending Story a true classic. Here's the original theme song from the movie:


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beepity-bop a do-little hop

Watch the world population grow: https://www.worldometers.info/watch/world-population/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

JB Lions said:

The same

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I finally went and had a blood test a few weeks ago. Turns out I was low in potassium, to the point where my doc prescribed some prescription strength. Could have been my BP pills sucking the potassium out of me(?) The prescribed potassium seemed to lower my BP back down pretty good.

HotKey said:

My girl got us sucked into Stranger Things a couple months ago, made us watch all 3 seasons.. just finished a few nights ago. Pretty cool show actually. But what really did me in and made my life come full circle, was when this happened:

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Slight problem... two can't broadcast (send/receive) over the radio at the same time, lol.
Vid brought me back to the golden days of CB/Ham radio with a Browning Golden Eagle. Nice song tho.

HotKey said:

My girl got us sucked into Stranger Things a couple months ago, made us watch all 3 seasons.. just finished a few nights ago. Pretty cool show actually. But what really did me in and made my life come full circle, was when this happened:

it brought back so many memories. Super-cool they did that. A few salty ones slithered down my face.. Neverending Story a true classic. Here's the original theme song from the movie:

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beepity-bop a do-little hop

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That's a good series, lots of references to past sci-fi movies, especially the first season. I got sucked in and also bought the Stranger Things Coca-Cola set with New Coke.

Some are pretty obvious, like the E.T. references in Season 1, but so many:

https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/stranger-things-film-reference-glossary.html

JB Lions said:

Yeah, Warpaint sounds like a great name for a Native American metal band. No idea how they picked that name.

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OIC I missed that, Warpaint is the actual name of the band Thanks for the correction. My guess, it's a reference to Lipstick (being an all girls band). In that case, what's good for the goose, isn't always good for the gander

https://nypost.com/2019/05/10/male-makeup-brand-war-paint-slammed-as-fragile-masculinity/

Cannuck said:

OIC I missed that, Warpaint is the actual name of the band Thanks for the correction. My guess, it's a reference to Lipstick (being an all girls band). In that case, what's good for the goose, isn't always good for the gander

https://nypost.com/2019/05/10/male-makeup-brand-war-paint-slammed-as-fragile-masculinity/

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It got me curious about their name:

"In fact, Kokal came up with the name Warpaint walking into an L.A. movie theater on a date with John. “It just feels intense,” says the singer. “We wanted the band to have a provocative kind of name, but really it could mean different things to different people. The idea of putting on war paint to prepare for battle…it’s very seductive.”

John being John Frusciante, original/off and on guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Finally sold a domain, jeeeze, finally broke the cold spell. There is nothing like seeing cash dumped into your account, though, isn’t it? It never gets old, even if it isn’t a huge sale.

RogueWriter said:

Finally sold a domain, jeeeze, finally broke the cold spell. There is nothing like seeing cash dumped into your account, though, isn’t it? It never gets old, even if it isn’t a huge sale.

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Had one come in out of the blue too, wasn't even a name listed for sale. Picked up a little obsession with norse horses and developed a site for it, then about week ago an inquiry came in through my registrar and the rest is history. Sold the new gTLD .horse + matching .com to them, funny thing was they were inquiring on the .horse name only.

Agree never gets old! * and congrats!

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Cannuck said:

Slight problem... two can't broadcast (send/receive) over the radio at the same time, lol.

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Would have never clued in..

https://video.poemhunter.com/i/poem_media/59/33259_v_903_c.mp4

Cannuck said:

Watch the world population grow: https://www.worldometers.info/watch/world-population/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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When I was in school there were 3 bil people on earth.
The population has more than doubled in my lifetime.

Resources... where will the next double come from.

Peace,
Cy

Kenny said:

When I was in school there were 3 bil people on earth.
The population has more than doubled in my lifetime.

Resources... where will the next double come from.

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Might have to go vertical for much of them(?) Something I posted the other day on another thread:

"The source pages for this seem to be gone, but a couple of things the pioneer of 3D farming was claiming as to what it could do, that I posted elsewhere at one time: "Smith’s website claims that 3D ocean farms totaling an area half the size of Maine would provide enough biofuel to replace all of the oil used in the U.S. Additionally, 3D ocean farms totaling an area the size of Washington State would be able to feed the world."

A few other benefit claims Smith's latest website makes: https://www.greenwave.org/our-model

The spectacular ‘lost city of the Incas’ high among the Andes mountains in Peru attracts so many visitors today and their presence causes so much damage that a limit has had to be put on their numbers. Hiram Bingham, the man who first revealed it to the world, was a buccaneering American explorer, born in Hawaii in 1875. His parents were missionaries and hoped he would follow in their footsteps, but his youthful efforts to do so made him feel physically sick and he preferred playing American football. Educated privately in New England, he went to Yale University in 1894 to embark on an academic career. He was strongly interested in Latin American history and studied for his PhD in it at Harvard. Fortunately for him and the world at large in 1900 he married – to her parents’ dismay – a girl called Alfreda Mitchell. She was an heiress to the Tiffany jewellery fortune and Bingham used her money to travel in South America. He was appointed a lecturer at Yale but found exploring far more interesting than teaching. His enthusiasm for exploring extended to women as well and he took full advantage of his travels away from home.

In 1906 Bingham traced Simon Bolivar’s routes through Venezuela and Columbia in the 1820s. In 1909 he explored historic South American trade routes and took the old one from Buenos Aires to Lima in Peru, going on to Cuzco. In 1911 he led a small expedition to Peru in search of the ‘lost city’ of Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Inca Manco Capac II, who fought against the Spanish conquerors in the 1530s. This took Bingham and his party of seven to Cuzco and from there by mule and on foot to a small settlement called Mandor Pampa, near Aguas Calientes, where they encountered a local farmer named Melchor Arteaga. Through Bingham’s policeman-interpreter, Arteaga told him that there were extensive ruins high in the mountains nearby at what Arteaga in his native Quechua called Machu Picchu, meaning ‘old mountain’.

They climbed up to the ruins next morning through a persistent drizzle of rain. No one else in Bingham’s party showed any interest, but Bingham, Arteaga and the interpreter spent two exhausting hours clambering up the mountain to a small hut occupied by peasants who were growing crops there. They greeted the American hospitably and deputed a small boy to show him the astonishing things close by. They soon came to what Bingham called ‘an unexpected sight, a great flight of beautifully constructed stone terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and 10 feet high.’ They continued along one of the terraces: ‘Suddenly I found myself confronted with the walls of ruined houses built of the finest quality of Inca stonework.’ The ruins were overgrown by trees, bamboo thickets and tangles of vines and covered with moss, but the white granite walls were ‘carefully cut and exquisitely fitted together’ and the scene ‘fairly took my breath away.’

Bingham was sure he had discovered Vilcabamba. He believed that to the end of his life, mistakenly as it turned out, and he was fascinated by the mystery and magic of the place, with the great snowy peaks looming above it. Returning in succeeding years he took thousands of photographs. He also took thousands of objects to the United States for study and safekeeping, which was to cause wrangling between the Peruvian government and Yale University for years afterwards.

After the First World War Bingham went into politics in Connecticut and was US senator for the state at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. He and Alfreda had seven children but by 1937 she could stand his persistent infidelity no longer and divorced him. In the 1950s he had a controversial role as head of President Truman’s new Loyalty Review Board, which made it easier to dismiss civil servants for Communist sympathies. He died in Washington DC at the age of 80 in 1956.

The Spanish conquistadors never saw Machu Picchu and consequently never wrote about it. A few other outsiders had seen it in the years before Bingham, but he was the one who revealed it to the world at large and it made him famous. He has a moon crater named after him and the character of Indiana Jones is thought to owe something to him but he is not highly regarded by scholars. He was not trained in archaeology, his theories were wrong and the real Vilcabamba was discovered by another American explorer, Gene Savoy, in 1964. Machu Picchu is now believed to have been the mountain retreat of the great Inca emperor Pachacutec (‘He who Shakes the Earth’), abandoned at some point after his death in 1472.

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Cal2 said:

I finally went and had a blood test a few weeks ago. Turns out I was low in potassium, to the point where my doc prescribed some prescription strength. Could have been my BP pills sucking the potassium out of me(?) The prescribed potassium seemed to lower my BP back down pretty good.

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I would talk to my doctor about that one.
Because as I have found out some medications do mess with other medications and then I have to wait to see what medication will be eliminated.

Farming in the ocean sounds so good.
Until that first hurricane, typhoon, tsunami comes along.

iowadawg said:

Farming in the ocean sounds so good.
Until that first hurricane, typhoon, tsunami comes along.

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I was wondering about that myself, so google searched it this morning. A couple articles mentioning solutions for it:

This Fisherman Built a Hurricane-Proof Farm Under Water
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ocean-farmer-hatches-nail-salon-of-the-sea-plan-to/

https://oldmooresalmanac.com/3d-ocean-farming-welcome-future-completely-sustainable-fish-farming/
A bonus: "Our farms function as storm-surge protectors, breaking up wave action to reduce the impact of hurricanes and rising tides."

My google search that has more articles: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...hUKEwi4uJq5xvrrAhWJsp4KHccACKgQ4dUDCA0&uact=5

Kenny said:

When I was in school there were 3 bil people on earth.
The population has more than doubled in my lifetime.

Resources... where will the next double come from.

Peace,
Cy

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I blame Women. Without them the population will only reduce and not increase.

Or as wives would say: the world would be better off without men.

Blowin' In The Wind...

Cheers
Corey