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11-Jan-2024 TRAVELLER

21 Indoor Necessities for Winter floors

Actually these were bought and shot as kind of a gag for a Canadian friend suffering the chills of the North. But in truth, these are damned fine! (I think subconsciously I knew I needed something like this, even if they were a joke purchase initially).

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Canon Image Challenge23-Jan-2024 10:35
I am not a computer guy at all...and yet I can remember the thrill when I got my first Pentium Computer...I think when Micron still made computers:

"Pentium is a semi-discontinued series of x86 architecture-compatible microprocessors produced by Intel. The original Pentium was first released on March 22, 1993. The name "Pentium" is originally derived from the Greek word pente (πεντε), meaning "five", a reference to the prior numeric naming convention of Intel's 80x86 processors (8086–80486), with the Latin ending -ium since the processor would otherwise have been named 80586 using that convention. "

Heck, when I started practice, I was thriller to get an IBM Selectric, and then one that would have a dial that held 50 distinct phrases.

Well....lol

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge23-Jan-2024 04:24
I have been talking to one of my friends in our computer club. She said that most grant applications are written by AI today.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge23-Jan-2024 03:13
Certainly quicker...I will need to research again for any changes, other emergencies compel attention however...Sigh...ChatGPT will have a more complete and better data base than my brain! Traveller
Canon Image Challenge22-Jan-2024 14:45
I will be interested in your conclusion -- "I am writing a pre-nup now...will ChatGPT do a better job than I....probably yes."

Jim
Canon Image Challenge22-Jan-2024 13:26
Yes, Dollarization was important and since I often had dollars, that can make you king...they were coveted as a store of value. I even got to fly to Bermuda to open some accounts.

A fun trip...less fun a drunken policeman holding a gun to my head in Minas Gerais at 9pm on a dark night...all I could do was give him my business card as an Advagado...

Before the world wide web, WWW to everyone, there were giant companies that arranged travel, hotels, tickets, tours....safety for people that had the money and Visa's to travel.

That life seems so far away now...we do all this for ourselves, just like we check out our own groceries now.

It is a very, very different world...and AI is supposed to do this again, 30~40% unemployment?

I am writing a pre-nup now...will ChatGPT do a better job than I....probably yes.

Crazy Time....lol....Traveller
Canon Image Challenge21-Jan-2024 19:11
I remember agreeing with the owner of a restaurant in Buenos Aires (yes, I know that's Argentina) about an exchange rate for US cash. The four of us feasted for $100 including wine, and the restaurant owner was happy.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge21-Jan-2024 13:58
I'd like to give this a second thought...I don't think I ever saw inflation at 7,000/month (though this number is from a Brazilian source), certainly 300% though I did not follow this closely at the time...but you could never let your gas gauge get below a 3/4 full because it would be so expensive to finally fill a tank full...and you were forced to go shopping ever other day...prices were on Post it Notes and so always changeable

This sounds terrible, and it was, but there was also a fierce gayness, a party where life had to be lived immediately, wantonly, and money spent madly because it would be worthless tomorrow...women spent on clothes and shoes, men spent money on women.

Crazy Time.

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge20-Jan-2024 20:55
I was in Brazil working for a Brazilian travel company during the worst of Brazil's high inflation period. How high is high? You ask...

"....reaching an all time high of 6821.31 percent in April of 1990"

When inflation runs at 7,000% per month...it really is difficult to live, to exist at all. This is real inflation!

It is a complex world, Yes.

Traveller
Canon Image Challenge20-Jan-2024 14:06
Yes, we humans have made this a complex world.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge20-Jan-2024 11:33
We are virtually at full employment, though granted, labor participation rate could be higher. Regardless who wants to pick tomatoes, who will pack our Broccoli, slaughter our cows, pigs, (when killed the scream just like a human being...it is eerie), who will sew the buttons on shirts for 10 hours a day for a pay of $5.65/day/$113.00/month, and be grateful at the end of each shift?

Inflation...we have no idea how this kind of inflation changes everyone's life. Well...Guest Traveller
Canon Image Challenge20-Jan-2024 05:16
Walmart would go out of business if no one bought the goods from China that they sell.
But the again, a lot of Walmart shoppers cannot afford to pay much more for those products.


Jim
Canon Image Challenge20-Jan-2024 04:46
Oddly just the other day I asked Siri the population of the US and China. 340 million vers 1.4 ish billion. Cruel or not, we buy way too much from China and need to get back to made in America. Paul
Canon Image Challenge19-Jan-2024 18:10
Nothing wrong with Canadian maple syrup. Their flag even advertises it. The trees surrounding the house where I lived in New Hampshire were tapped. The syrup produced from their sap was yummy, as has been every maple syrup I have ever enjoyed.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge19-Jan-2024 17:43
A lot of my wife's family lives in Vermont and New Hampshire (and Massachusetts). Canadian maple syrup isn't even on their radar. The only question is whether Vermont or New Hampshire maple syrup is better. Those socks do look comfy.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge19-Jan-2024 10:33
You are Cruel, Paul, Cruel! I thought of cloning the China thing out...but ruled against it; cheating, everyone knows China's population is 3X++ the size of the United States, they have to work at something...my socks are a fine outlet for all this human energy. Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge18-Jan-2024 21:28
Canadian branding yet made in china. I don’t know why that surprises me since everything is made in china. Maybe they make maple syrup in china too. Nope just looked at some pure maple syrup we have and it’s a combined Canadian/USA product. Paul