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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 2, 2022 10:32:17 GMT -5
Do you use the same method of payment every time you shop there? It's pretty simple to tie a payment card number to a name/address and then plug that data into whatever system they're using to produce the coupons.
I'm assuming you aren't using something like a member's/frequent shopper's card that would permit explicit tracking. That makes the whole process too damn easy...
I normally use my UMCU debit card, sometimes the Capital One Visa, sometimes cash. Checks there have become so fricking annoying I don't use those anymore. If there is such a thing as a Meijer's member card, I am not aware of it. It weirds me out how the cashier will just hand you your check back after they've run it these days. At least where I work, anyways.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 2, 2022 17:57:12 GMT -5
I normally use my UMCU debit card, sometimes the Capital One Visa, sometimes cash. Checks there have become so fricking annoying I don't use those anymore. If there is such a thing as a Meijer's member card, I am not aware of it. It weirds me out how the cashier will just hand you your check back after they've run it these days. At least where I work, anyways. That's exactly why I stopped.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 27, 2022 12:29:24 GMT -5
In the Doobie Brothers song "China Grove", who is Mrs. Perkins and why is she damned again?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 25, 2022 9:51:42 GMT -5
I've always wondered about this line in the classic Christmas song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year":
There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago
Obviously that first line is most important to my question. Are they just referring to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"? Or was there a tradition of telling scary ghost stories at Christmas back in the day? I would like to revive that.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 25, 2022 20:33:31 GMT -5
I've always wondered about this line in the classic Christmas song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year":
There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago
Obviously that first line is most important to my question. Are they just referring to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"? Or was there a tradition of telling scary ghost stories at Christmas back in the day? I would like to revive that.
Anything to make Christmas more like Halloween. That would be a fine start.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 29, 2022 18:02:31 GMT -5
Anyone making any resolutions for 2023?
I think I will resolve to read more printed matter before bed rather than going down smartphone rabbit holes.
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Post by El Santo on Jan 6, 2023 14:15:06 GMT -5
I've always wondered about this line in the classic Christmas song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year":
There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago
Obviously that first line is most important to my question. Are they just referring to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"? Or was there a tradition of telling scary ghost stories at Christmas back in the day? I would like to revive that.
Ghost stories on Christmas Eve are a big deal in Britain, and have been for a long, long time. That's one reason why it would even have occurred to Dickens to write A Christmas Carol in the first place. You can thank the Puritans-- who hated Christmas and all of its associated merriment, on the grounds that it was all just thinly-veiled paganism-- for depriving us of such a cool tradition. American Christmas basically had to be rebuilt from scratch in the 19th century, and we sadly left that part out. On a related note, my personal favorite Victorian author is a guy named Montague Rhodes James. He was a scholar of Medieval manuscripts, ecclesiastical history, and church architecture by profession, but the main thing he's remembered for today is the few-dozen spook stories he wrote to be read aloud at the faculty Christmas parties.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 27, 2023 11:49:13 GMT -5
Which band was more influential? Big Black or Joy Division?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 31, 2023 0:24:34 GMT -5
Anybody recall when I asked about the artist Kiki Dee, who collaborated with Sir Elton John on the classic "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"? I'd asked if that was the only tune she was known for. Anyway, I watched the excellent "The Legacy" (1978) last night and she sings the main theme song over the credits.
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Post by El Santo on Feb 2, 2023 15:04:03 GMT -5
Which band was more influential? Big Black or Joy Division? Man, that's a tough one. Without Joy Division, I'm not sure you ever get the goth counterculture as we know it. But without Big Black, you definitely never get noise rock in the Subpop-Amphetamine Reptile sense of the term, which in turn means you never get its commercially palatable offshoot, grunge. Either way, you end up with a very different 1990's.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 7, 2023 23:47:24 GMT -5
I was going to pose this a as a question to the board a couple of days ago, but as you can read below, I got my answer:
Been noticing lots of black folks in rock & roll band tee shirts for months now. You know, bands like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, and so on. I finally asked a guy I work with what was up with that. He explained that it's just a trend and that people will find band shirts with colors that match their sneakers to coordinate. He said in a lot of cases, the wearer wouldn't be able to name a single song by the bands they're wearing.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 8, 2023 9:50:27 GMT -5
Is it just coincidence that the jam rock band Phish and the computer hackery "phishing" are spelled the same?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 8, 2023 12:43:33 GMT -5
Is it just coincidence that the jam rock band Phish and the computer hackery "phishing" are spelled the same? Yep. A coincidence.
"Phish" the band got started in 1983. "Phishing" emerged as term for social hacking by email/AOL chat in the 1990's.
Possibly in both cases someone was trying to be clever about the phuckedness of phonology in English, but I'm pretty sure that's as phar as it goes.
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Post by Deeky on Mar 8, 2023 14:09:36 GMT -5
I'd assume phishing takes its lead from phone phreaking of early hacker dayz.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 8, 2023 15:58:23 GMT -5
I'd assume phishing takes its lead from phone phreaking of early hacker dayz. Yes and no.
If I'm remembering correctly, phreaking involves tricking the (electromechanical) phone exchange with something like a blue box, or your handy Cap'n Crunch whistle. Phishing is (mostly) an extension of social hacking --which could be done once you reached someone on the phone.
Sorry to be pedantic. Part of my academic career was based on writing histories of this stuff.
Of course, the reality was more complex and it's likely at least some pholx used the terms interchangeably, to some extent.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 8, 2023 16:08:40 GMT -5
Most regrettably, I was both too chickenshit and not yet sophisticated enough to do any phreaking back in the day.
Marxo Grouch could, I think, testify I did OK with some stuff on the Apple ][ back in the day. But nothing too exciting or (alas) antisocial. Then I got to go to a school where there were no decent computers to speak of, for a few years. My potential career as a Sleestak who ganked phat stax was phoiled phorever...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 16, 2023 12:30:53 GMT -5
Is anybody on the A.C.A. (Obamacare)? I need to come up with something in the next couple of weeks. Any advice? Any warnings? Halp!
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Post by El Santo on Mar 16, 2023 14:39:38 GMT -5
Is anybody on the A.C.A. (Obamacare)? I need to come up with something in the next couple of weeks. Any advice? Any warnings? Halp! Juniper was up until we got married. Is there some specific question you need input on?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 16, 2023 14:51:09 GMT -5
Is anybody on the A.C.A. (Obamacare)? I need to come up with something in the next couple of weeks. Any advice? Any warnings? Halp! Juniper was up until we got married. Is there some specific question you need input on? Not exactly. Just really nervous about it for some reason. If she has any advice on anything I should definitely avoid or whatever, I'm all ears. I need to stop procrastinating on it.
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Post by El Santo on Mar 16, 2023 15:13:11 GMT -5
Juniper was up until we got married. Is there some specific question you need input on? Not exactly. Just really nervous about it for some reason. If she has any advice on anything I should definitely avoid or whatever, I'm all ears. I need to stop procrastinating on it. One thing that leaps out at me is that we never did find a general practitioner around here who would take her insurance. Specialists, yes-- but never a GP. I would imagine, however, that doctors in metro Pensacola can't afford to be as picky as their counterparts in the second-richest county in the second-richest state.
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