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Started by Steve @ bripblap · 10 months ago

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I recently saw “Growing Up On Tour“, a documentary about Peter Gabriel. I’m no huge fan of Gabriel - like everyone else who grew up in the 80s I knew his big hits - Sledgehammer, Red Rain, In Your Eyes and so on. But I like ... Continue reading »

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Hunter Nuttall
12 months ago

Thanks for the link, Steve. I remember one lottery winner who won on the first ticket she ever bought, but to call that a million to one shot would be a huge understatement. And of course, these extraordinarily rare overnight successes usually lose it all anyway.

I don't understand the "Seven Traits" link. Is it in strikeout font because the link is broken?

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Pinyo
12 months ago

Steve, thanks for the link. The post will be re-published tomorrow. It was scheduled during my vacation and it wasn't quite ready...a blooper. :oops:

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Steve
12 months ago

@Hunter: Yeah, it is broken - see Pinyo's explanation. I'll correct it once it's up on Moolanomy again.

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Pinyo
12 months ago

Thank you Steve

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FFB
12 months ago

Peter Gabriel also left a popular group, Genesis, to go out and do his own music. And he did it successfully. He's also been active in humanitarian fields as well. What I'm saying is he isn't your normal rock musician!

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Jenna
12 months ago

I really hope that we all still love writing that much in forty years XD Here's to success!

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deepali
12 months ago

It's was his song about Steven Biko that got me interested in human rights and social justice.

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Curmudgeon
12 months ago

Many things to comment on here . . . I have BlockBuster Total Access, with a BB store seven minutes away. I still use the mail-in all the time; just stopped driving to the store . . . WaMu's the next to go under, you know . . .

I'm just not sure I buy the "exurbs are going to die" theory. People live where they live for a variety of reasons (family, schools, housing affordability, yes, even jobs; contrary to popular belief, there are many, many jobs outside of the central city), and I'm not sure the doubling of gas prices are going to make many move. There are many factors of life with more elasticity than where we have planted roots. I see more gas-efficient cars, carpooling, and telecommuting coming before I see a mass exodus from the exurbs. This opinion comes from someone who works primarily from home, incidentally.

An interesting story from the days of cheap transportation: In the 1980s, the now-defunct Digital Equipment Corporation had about two dozen facilities scattered about a three-state area in New England. To facilitate employees traveling between facilities, they had a helicopter fleet dubbed Air Digital, which even had its own gate at Logan Airport. At its height, Air Digital was the ninth-largest airline in the US in terms of flight operations. Those were the days, weren't they?

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