5/ The new baby grands were already out of state, both of them. But I could contact the mover and have it brought back! The mover wrote, sure we’ll bring it back. Just remit $210 up front. I had stumbled onto a Craigslist scam (of course).
How I escaped Twitter
4/ I visited the upright. It was a bit out of tune and I was more excited about others…especially baby grands that looked new. For free? Both had been used by someone (a son and a wife) who’d just died. And the pianos had just moved…hm…
3/ So I texted and wrote to a number of sellers of free pianos, just to check them out. (Both my boys are learning on our electric piano.) One was a free nice upright piano that looked like one I learned on as a kid.
2/ Something made me think to look online for cheap pianos, last Thursday. There were, I was not surprised to see, a number of cheap but bad pianos on Craigslist. But I also saw a number of free pianos that looked OK—some very good.
1/ I bought a baby grand piano over the weekend for $650. This is kind of an interesting story. First, here’s the piano. Was played on daily in a music school for 7 years. Tuned yearly, looks good and sounds well. Built around 1980.
This of course is why the GameStop thing is such a big story.
New poll. Especially for “people of the book” (the Bible).
Question: Does it impress you that you are commanded to love all people? Click to vote >
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What was life for repressed Christians under totalitarian socialism in Eastern Europe? The answer is soberingly relevant to society today.
Alisa Childers interviews Rod Dreher (@roddreher on Twitter). The topic, Dreher’s book on this stuff. Video >
On Twitter, I’m down 5.3K followers from a high of 39.3K. That’s 13.5%. Twitter is also much less interesting now. I don’t post as much, and I’m increasingly committed to sangerfeed.org, my microblog that just happens to push to Twitter.
Have you joined the more than 6,000 co-signers of the Declaration of Digital Independence? Please do, in two places:
Legal attacks on Big Tech: antitrust (collusion), Section 230-based, and shareholder suits for breach of fiduciary duty.
This here could be the best fiddling by anyone, anywhere, anytime. I mean, top that:
There is no conflict between self-sovereign identity and privacy. Public data is public; it’s supposed to be traced back to an individual, in public social media. So the individual should retain ownership over that identity and data.
Answer this for me. What would the news media in general be talking a lot more about, if they *actually* had your best interests at heart? A few of my answers (on sangerfeed.org) below.
Have you learned how to use a password manager yet? Do you want to? Poll =>
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