Torpedo

Happy Birthday!!!

Indeed

Thank you very much, dear friends. As usual by these dates in Madrid, it's been damn hot and many friends and family are away on holidays. Good celebration with the wife, another year in the pocket. Starting the seventh decade feels a bit dizzy. I don't know who's that guy staring at me in the mirror.

Watched it on its entirety. Nice gesture inviting Rafa Nadal to carry the torch, then being joined by Serena Williams, Nadia Comanecci and Carl Lewis.

TBH I was really worried that England would show all its powers, that team is very good, but people like Kane, Foden and Bellingham just weren't in the mood. Spain isn't really that good, but for some reason they behave like a real team.

I agree, it's outrageous.

Sorry Grahame, next time. This people at d-_-b have no idea what we're talking about.

I think I've got a new avatar.

Ladies with 4 legs and buttocks

Yes, I'm sure. I was just bugging you

Didn't you like the other post? It's great, he has two threads. Happy birthday, Jose!!!

I wish you have a great day with your family, friends and everyone you love.

Happy Birthday (already belated), Birgir!!! I hope it was a very very good one.

Congratulations. Best wishes, Jacob.

I can't watch the video, it's not available "in my country"

Even I at the other side of the Atlantic, the one where baseball has zero following, know who was Orlando Cepeda. RIP.

I can't help agreeing with him. Nothing that is produced in vast amounts and costs next to nothing, other than oxygen in the air and water from the faucet, can be appreciated. Truth is that the human work feeding the AI to produce "new" music is already done. I think I posted time ago a video by a jazz musician who said that the future of human music surviving AI will probably be live improvisation. He believes that AI would need quite some time (yet) to meet the standards to improvise listening and interacting with other musicians in real time.

Thank you very much, Dan. Looking awesome.

Happy Birthday, Kerry!!!

^This tune always reminded me of the "Should I stay or should I go".

Come on, my rubbing is worthless?

I know, Steve. The sad part is that after all these years, the motivation to celebrate and being proud isn't that much. I think that we should have a protest to claim for so many things that aren't right, that sexual/genre preference/orientation/practice isn't even an achievement to be proud of. Gay men and women still die. Minorities die. Poor people die... My point is that it shouldn't be celebrated as a parade but as a serious protest.

IMHO humans have very few things to be proud of. Our sexual intercourse preferences, our genre at birth, our skin tone, height, and facial features, our religion, our political opinions, our cultural roots and language, and even our material achievements and possessions shouldn't be among them. I believe and support that all humans should be considered equals, and respected, and should have the same opportunities and be considered the same in front of the law. We come from times that all that wasn't granted, and we live in times that all of it is not granted yet. As such it's wonderful that a part of the population that suffered prosecution and incarceration for their preference and inclination (yes, in my so free and tolerant country too, never forget Franco his 40 years of dictatorship and these other 40 years that seem democracy but still have the same people's sons and grandsons handling the reins) can openly show them. No one should judge if such preference was given at birth or elected, but I support that they can claim their rights, respect and to be considered equals. On the other hand I feel ashamed and deeply sad that we still need a parade and some sort of party celebration to demonstrate that most people are morons, that can't accept that we're not all the same and that diversity is part of our richness as species. It's not the same thing to be equals and to be the same.

In spite his persona lost part of my consideration, I still like his musicianship Aging is tough, but it's a nice set of tunes. I didn't know the song titling the album is giving its proceedings to the starving children in Gaza. https://album.link/i/1737901577. It's available on Qobuz too.