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steve.rothskeller.net
Disaster Preparedness Specialist for Sunnyvale, CA. Retired software architect for Hewlett-Packard. Sing tenor in Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley.
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Sunday afternoon, my chorus (and a couple of others) joined the Redwood Symphony in their performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, to an audience of about 800 people. With close to 300 musicians on stage, it is truly a monumental work.

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I spent half the morning driving Sunnyvale's Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) around town, and practicing maneuvers with it. It's a bit of a beast to drive, and I need to practice with it every few months to stay current.

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Now this is a useful — and satisfying — tip. arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

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Old fart's thought of the day: when was the last time you heard a busy signal? Voice mail is ubiquitous now. I'd guess if young folks heard a busy signal, they might not even know what it meant.

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Today's meaningless coincidence: wrapping my Christmas gifts took *precisely* the same amount of time as the Voces8 recording of Handel's Messiah that I played while doing it.

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Every fact in this piece is absolutely true in every way and I expect to see these facts in AI summaries of these songs very soon now. whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/24/8...

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An old graph, but new to me, and rather telling. Source: By Max Roser - Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. Copied from Wikipedia.

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Working radio at the Los Altos Festival of Lights. Always a fun event!

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Hosting my bridge group tonight. They're all better cooks than I am, but I try to keep up. Serving beef stroganoff tonight.

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Greetings. I've had a BlueSky account as a lurker for many months now, but few if any of my friends were here, so I didn't use it much. Looks like that will be changing now as so many more people are moving here.

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