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Early retired Hoosier nerd. Small town historian, small-time radio announcer. Ally to all oppressed people. TTRPG and movie nerdery at zarban.com.
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The Hobbit
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These last two books are real slogs. I haven't even finished the first ep of this one. It may be the first 372 I skip.
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A good example is language learning. We teach it pretty intensely for months & then require little use, so much of it's gone over the summer. After a few years, you can hold casual conversation, but stop using it, & it fades into vague grammar rules, bc grammar was the only part you used regularly.
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The hard part is convincing your brain that something is so important that it needs to retain it verbatim forever. There's just not much in the way of a shortcut. It's repetition & use for months or lose it.
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Meet someone new? Repeat the name over & over for 15 seconds, & you'll probably remember it for an hour. Need to pass a test? Study for more than an hour & you'll likely remember it for months. Want to remember something forever? Study it, repeat it, & use it over & over for months.
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Hurray for well marked bollards that protect people. Boo for poorly marked bollards that are just in the middle of a parking area.
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Hang 👏 This 👏 In 👏 The 👏 Louvre 👏
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So thoughtful he used to encourage his musicians by fining them right on stage for mistakes. If he flashed you 🖐️, he'd dock you $5.
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Which is really saying something, bc we are the worst improv group in America.
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Improv group brought my spirits up.
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How did that guy not get a movie deal? 😕
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He's gonna be kicking himself when he realizes two hats are just stuck together.
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Absolutely fell in love with that song my last year of college. Good album all around, IIRC.
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Please make a proper iPad version and add an edit button.
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I hate that scene. That sweater isn't cerulean, & it was designed by Irish fisherman's wives in the 1890s. The degree to which designer fashion trickled down to the masses was always pretty limited.
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Season 4 of SNL is barely more consistent than previous seasons, but it has higher highs (no pun intended, bc there are TONS of drugs on-screen & off). The audience is really starting to dig recurring sketches.
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I've used PhotoShop Elements for many years, & I hate it. Recently, I had to do some editing on someone's else's machine in PhotoShop, & I was enraged that it's not even the same; it's bad in different ways. Adobe is diabolical in making software that isn't intuitive.
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New meeting on the sketch show. Got right to it reading sketches. Almost 2 hrs. 😀 (Then 25 minutes of Midwestern goodbyes.)
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26 Going on 60
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
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Nosferafour
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Better, the Worse, & the Grotesque
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Back up to $95. You have only yourself to blame.