MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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And they do something similar in New York City as well. This is Rockefeller Center, in midtown.
I worked a contract for NBC a few years back, and visited them in that tall building behind the tree a couple times. We built websites for kids tv shows. There’s a skating rink by the tree here too. And it’s made it into more than a few movies.
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Most people – not all – realize Elton John was poking fun with this one. He pretty much insulted everyone.
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Thanks Tim,
I still see a gap in the data there. There’s a post on 13-Oct-2023, and the next one after that is from 2-Nov-2019. Maybe I’m missing something.
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Thanks for all the kind wishes. I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving as well.
This has been a different year for me than recent ones, in a couple good ways, so I have things to be thankful for, as always. One of those things is this Club. Thank you all. Take care.
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David, that’s a soprano sax in the Earth, Wind and Fire video.
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David,
I was reading through this thread again, and I noticed you mentioned – Gratitude.
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It must be very sad if it resulted in 96 Tears.
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Daryl,
That Procul Harum song sounds like the version I’ve heard many, many times on the classic rock radio. I never knew where it got recorded before.
Good stuff.
Tim,
I saw Rush in 1975 at a bar at college. I had stayed to work over Christmas. $4 to get in. Not crowded, because the students were gone. 20 feet from the stage. This was after they’d released 3 albums already. Great show.
You’re right about Rush playing enough to fill the space. Not everybody can do that with just 3 guys. B.B. King couldn’t do it, so he brought extra help. In that live Elton John song I posted above, Elton is busier than usual; he didn’t have a guitarist that night, so more room to fill.
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I recognize some of those neighborhoods in Paris, since I’ve been there a number of times, but never at Christmas time.
The only time I was in Europe around Christmas, I was in London. Twice. I remember going to Harrod’s in 1986. It was very busy.
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That’s cool. I was trying to see if the train went through Michigan, but all I found were Canadian cities. But one of them was Windsor, so not too far away.
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Jung,
That looked pretty nice to me. And that melted cheese looked good.
Thanks.
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I used to have a Christmas cactus, but it succumbed to my black thumb. Beautiful though while it lasted, and at a time of year without a lot of other colour.
I used to buy live trees, and go through all of that, but one year I told my daughter that, instead of buying a tree, I’d just give her the money instead that I would have spent on it. Sold.
Merry Christmas to you as well. Joyeux Noel, Feliz Navidad. Those are my extra languages. I have a lot of Irish in me too, but never studied the language.
I’m not sure why there isn’t already a Star Trek style universal translator, since the technology exists. If there’s one thing ChatGPT does well, it’s translate. Or at least, I think it does.
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My first reaction was to tell you that there are no Christmas markets here.
But then I asked Google about it, and it seems there are a few. And they are modeled after German ones. This one lasted only one day, about a mile from my house. I guess I missed it. Hard for me to call it a tradition.
https://kerrytowndistrict.org/kindlefest
There is a town north of here named Frankenmuth, Michigan. It’s whole shtick is to be a German town. It has large restaurants serving German style food, and yes, I see now, they also had a Christkindlmarkt.
https://www.frankenmuth.org/christmas/
I can buy DAB beer in bottles around here. That restaurant I mentioned had the pilsner too, of course, but I like the dark in the cold months. European beer, in particular German, Belgian and British, is still easy to find here, but in recent decades there has been a huge rise in microbreweries in America. It is pretty easy to start a microbrewery, and they are everywhere.
They tend to follow a certain style – lots of hops, alcohol, and sweetness. I prefer old world styles of beer, but I don’t drink much beer of any kind any more. If I’m drinking something from Germany, it’s most likely Riesling.
You mentioned bratwurst – they are very popular in America. The closest store to my house is Aldi’s. So I can easily buy sausage or red cabbage, for example, that’s made in Germany.
kerrytowndistrict.org
KindleFest — Kerrytown District of Ann Arbor, Michigan
KindleFest — Kerrytown District of Ann Arbor, Michigan
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That Christmas market looks great. That looks like they’re serving food and drink there. I’ll bet being at the top of the ferris wheel can get cold this time of year. What kind of drinks do they serve there? Gluhwein?
Over 40 years ago, when I moved to the area I now live in, the 3 oldest restaurants were all German. Only two of them still remain, but I still like to go.
The reason I thought of that is because one of those restaurants has always served Dortmunder Union dark beer. It looks like the people of Dortmund think big, and I like that. That is a serious tree.
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Lisa,
Thank you for following up with me on this. I did know about the resolution, but I didn’t think to provide an update in this thread, so I apologise for that.
I think Meta focuses more on consumers than businesses. YouTube focuses more on creators, which are businesses. That might explain the difference between the two responses, and those two sets of punters have different requirements as well; a design targeted at consumers may not prioritize the kind of backups that are important to businesses.
Just my guess.