Notices by George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social), page 2

@VeroniqueB99
I wonder if that's the same pastor that came to visit my grandmother.

They sat in the living room and talked for hours. He noticed a bowl of peanuts on the side table, and ate a few. As they talked, he ate a few more.

It finally came time for him to leave and he looked at the bowl for a few more peanuts, but it was empty. "Oh, dear, I seem to have eaten all of your peanuts."

"That's OK. With my false teeth, I can't chew them any more, so I just suck the chocolate off 'em."

A good perspective to keep in mind.

@steter
That reminds me of a breadboard I was working on in the early 1980s where a data signal was missing the setup time for a D flip-flop. The gating of the clock signal was at the other end of the breadboard from the flip-flop. I finally put the generation of that clock and the use of it on the same oscilloscope, measured the difference, and then calculated the distance using the speed of light. Yep, there was the problem.

@steter
Could be a cat.

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

https://timhjersted.substack.com/p/why-nonviolent-resistance-doesnt

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-uk-o63c2ergz/-/a-C8N67sZIRGyJKh93hQpE4A%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

@steter The toot I was quoting @Independent/115940323154458006

The article is https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/paul-limber-bristol-flag-lamppost-b2905857.html

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-uk-o63c2ergz/-/a-C8N67sZIRGyJKh93hQpE4A%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

I don't know why they insinuate that alcohol might be to blame, but don;t mention the hardness of the pavement. Seems prejudicial to me.

Who is trying to sparple from the Epstein files today?

@steter
I want to see it. Pass the idea on.

@steter He has the capacity to feel the sting of everyone laughing at him about it. And every time he shows it off, people will giggle.

@steter Trump must feel the sting of the fact that a latina woman gave him an emblem of a great prize that he was unable to win on his own.

Is pregnancy a death sentence in "pro-life" states?

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham

@steter If it smells OK, then it's probably safe to eat.

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@steter
The place was packed, but there were very few of us white kids there.

Looks like this might have been the concert: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/james-brown/1969/bell-auditorium-augusta-ga-23c43c13.html

@steter
I saw him live, once, at Bell Auditorium in Augusta GA. Red cape and all.

@liquor_american @steter
If he was "spending hours playing the stock market" then he was probably day trading in and out of stocks. The realizes the capital gains, but ties up the cash again.

@steter
Thank you. I'd never heard that before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vxaPrQ4FE

@StillIRise1963
She's probably just having a conversation with them, and doesn't understand why they don't reply.

@StillIRise1963
I think our son was a senior in high school the time we went away for a weekend and told him "nobody in the house." When we came back, he admitted that he'd "had a couple of the guys over." Then we found the garbage cans were filled to the brim with beer cans. And that told us they'd had girls over, because the kitchen floor wasn't sticky.

But we didn't take his key away.