vastateofmind Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 2:36 PM, nj2va said: Android? I used to like you until I found out you'd have the dreaded green text bubbles Expand LOL. I should've added in my previous post that I've gone back and forth between iOS and Android for the past decade, had several iPhones in that time, and while I certainly don't hate iOS...I do prefer Android for a variety of reasons. I'll grant that Apple makes good, solid hardware and does a great job supporting that hardware via iOS for 1-3 years longer than Google/Samsung does on comparable Android hardware (Samsung's getting better). However, iOS can't touch Android when it comes to notifications, customization and being able to choose from a variety of default apps. I'm also deep in the Google application stack, and there's no way Apple can beat the integration between Google apps, Android and even Google Assistant (which makes Siri look like a rube). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 4:06 PM, mattie g said: It's way too much to go into in a post on a weather board Expand I would appreciate a post that goes into the subject in depth. I like history and current events I find it interesting and would like to hear from the perspective of someone who has professionally studied it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 1:07 PM, Stormfly said: Love Mussorgsky! Expand Ah ha! I knew a music-lover would get my pun . Found another recording with the original solo piano version...along with the original painting that inspired it! Quite the piano banger...lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 6:17 PM, SnowenOutThere said: I would appreciate a post that goes into the subject in depth. I like history and current events I find it interesting and would like to hear from the perspective of someone who has professionally studied it. Expand It would probably be easier to answer questions, if I'm honest. There's a ton to unpack and it's really tough to get my head around it all*. Feel free to throw them my way and I'll do my best. I'll also be honest and will tell you if I don't have the expertise / knowledge to weigh in. I'm not actively involved in foreign or security policy or anything like that now, but I do think my experiences give me a decent perspective on what's going on and some of the language being used by Putin to justify the invasion. * It's INSANE that we're even talking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine right now. Not that an invasion of a smaller country should be any different, but the unfortunately political reality is that it is. I recently saw some short clips of some of what's happening (nothing graphic), and it got me really unnerved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 6:19 PM, Maestrobjwa said: Ah ha! I knew a music-lover would get my pun . Found another recording with the original solo piano version...along with the original painting that inspired it! Quite the piano banger...lol Expand Yep, pictures is difficult to play (properly) on Piano. I remember back in 1994 playing Bydlo on a friend's restored Steinway Parlor Grand (circa 1918) and it was challenging and fascinating at the same time! Now Beethoven's Rondo e capriccio op.129 more commonly called Rage Over A Lost Penny played like this is difficult! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9ASyG6jag I did it but cheated. It was sequenced on a disklavier and then played back at proper tempo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 1:07 PM, Stormfly said: Love Mussorgsky! Expand On 2/24/2022 at 6:19 PM, Maestrobjwa said: Ah ha! I knew a music-lover would get my pun . Found another recording with the original solo piano version...along with the original painting that inspired it! Quite the piano banger...lol Expand My appreciation for Russian composers -- particularly Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and especially Rimsky-Korsakov -- grew exponentially when I played French horn in MS and HS concert band (and even when I got sucked into the wind section in HS orchestra!) and our directors back in the day most often chose from the catalogs of those three composers. Mussorgsky's Pictures still moves me. One of the most challenging, but my all-time favorite, pieces I remember playing was Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture in HS orchestra -- to this day, I liken it to a classical "Stairway to Heaven." Our HS orchestra back then was about the size of the CMU orchestra playing the piece below, and like them, we blew the roof off of the auditorium. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Always loved the sound of the French Horn section! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Since there’s no beer for 32F drizzle, I have a Sierra Nevada powder day IPA for HH. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I am currently in coxsackie New York just south of Albany. Under a winter storm warning and snow emergency. Goal is a foot and no pingers. Perhaps slightly aspirational but doable. excited! After all the mid Atlantic blahs; I deserve this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 10:17 PM, RevWarReenactor said: I am currently in coxsackie New York just south of Albany. Under a winter storm warning and snow emergency. Goal is a foot and no pingers. Perhaps slightly aspirational but doable. excited! After all the mid Atlantic blahs; I deserve this. Expand Have fun, and get some good pix!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 5:37 PM, vastateofmind said: LOL. I should've added in my previous post that I've gone back and forth between iOS and Android for the past decade, had several iPhones in that time, and while I certainly don't hate iOS...I do prefer Android for a variety of reasons. I'll grant that Apple makes good, solid hardware and does a great job supporting that hardware via iOS for 1-3 years longer than Google/Samsung does on comparable Android hardware (Samsung's getting better). However, iOS can't touch Android when it comes to notifications, customization and being able to choose from a variety of default apps. I'm also deep in the Google application stack, and there's no way Apple can beat the integration between Google apps, Android and even Google Assistant (which makes Siri look like a rube). Expand All I can see is a giant green text bubble so I couldn't read your response. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Picked up an unusual bourbon today…breaking and entering. If you like scotch you’d like this. Definitely a little peat in there or maybe it’s the rye notes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Caps power play in unbelievably bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 1 shot on goal for 3 power plays tonight Pathetic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/24/2022 at 7:13 PM, mattie g said: It would probably be easier to answer questions, if I'm honest. There's a ton to unpack and it's really tough to get my head around it all*. Feel free to throw them my way and I'll do my best. I'll also be honest and will tell you if I don't have the expertise / knowledge to weigh in. I'm not actively involved in foreign or security policy or anything like that now, but I do think my experiences give me a decent perspective on what's going on and some of the language being used by Putin to justify the invasion. * It's INSANE that we're even talking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine right now. Not that an invasion of a smaller country should be any different, but the unfortunately political reality is that it is. I recently saw some short clips of some of what's happening (nothing graphic), and it got me really unnerved. Expand I've seen a ton of different takes on what the true motive behind the invasion of Ukraine is. My current impression is it has mostly to do with distrust and resentment of the West as well as a desire to be taken seriously as a nation (which also looks back at the USSR's former "glory" and even beyond). What's your take on what motivates Putin's actions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Feels great to experience a real snowstorm for a change and be in an area that actually gets the snow! I’d say maybe 8-9 inches. A few pingers now but it’s mostly over. Now I’m addicted might have to do another one before the winter is over. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 3:13 PM, RevWarReenactor said: Feels great to experience a real snowstorm for a change and be in an area that actually gets the snow! I’d say maybe 8-9 inches. A few pingers now but it’s mostly over. Now I’m addicted might have to do another one before the winter is over. Expand Where are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 5:19 PM, WinterWxLuvr said: Where are you? Expand i think he went to upstate NY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 5:19 PM, WinterWxLuvr said: Where are you? Expand On 2/25/2022 at 6:02 PM, mappy said: i think he went to upstate NY Expand Yeah; I am in Colonie, just north west of Albany. Very close to Albany airport. We did sleet for a couple hours this morning but now back to snow. Picked up another 1-2 inches. I was expecting this to be over much earlier. It’s pretty awesome just relaxing in the hotel watching it come down. I’d say we have 10 inches. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/18/2022 at 7:48 PM, Kay said: So embarrassing for a weather weenie who consistently reads every discussion and statement and this forum: having to go outside in the middle of the night to secure an unsecured object Expand Made up for this by perfectly timing a walk before winds kicked up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 It's like a completely different world in Minnesota and Wisconsin, snow cover that has probably been there all winter, temps in the single digits snow falling with temps near zero....can you say sparkle snow? When i left Minneapolis this morning it was 4 degrees with probably 6" of snow on the ground and now here in Virginia it feels like it's 70 degrees and the grass is getting green. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 3:13 PM, RevWarReenactor said: Feels great to experience a real snowstorm for a change and be in an area that actually gets the snow! I’d say maybe 8-9 inches. A few pingers now but it’s mostly over. Now I’m addicted might have to do another one before the winter is over. Expand Great snow pics. And if nothing else, we can actually SEE why you might actually BE a Revolutionary War re-enactor... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 7:58 PM, leesburg 04 said: It's like a completely different world in Minnesota and Wisconsin, snow cover that has probably been there all winter, temps in the single digits snow falling with temps near zero....can you say sparkle snow? When i left Minneapolis this morning it was 4 degrees with probably 6" of snow on the ground and now here in Virginia it feels like it's 70 degrees and the grass is getting green. Expand I’d love to have winter like that. My problem is that I’d want it from Thanksgiving to March 1st. After then, I’m ready for spring. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Here's a blast from the past for you long time MD folks! I remember when he came on 13 back in '73. Can't believe next year will be 50 years service for him! RIP Jerry Turner and Al Sanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rvarookie Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Who will be the last one standing for winter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Great tank loss by wizards tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Perpetual. Should be rapidly winding down over the next couple weeks. Love that layer cake off to the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 First world problem, but does any iPad user that downloaded iOS 15 know of a way to get to the bookmarks menu directly and not have to do two clicks? Pretty damn annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Is there any reason why the file size is now 553.09 KB? I had posted a gif of a larger size but deleted it because it was the wrong thing. Now I tried to upload what I meant to and it won't let me. Did something change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 On 2/27/2022 at 6:39 PM, Maestrobjwa said: Is there any reason why the file size is now 553.09 KB? I had posted a gif of a larger size but deleted it because it was the wrong thing. Now I tried to upload what I meant to and it won't let me. Did something change? Expand You probably need to go in and delete some old attachments 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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