Subj : Re: moving or not To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Feb 06 2020 21:55:44 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 03-Feb-2020 19:48 <=- NB>>> Besides, by now, she's probably learning that by not making too much NB>>> of a mess, the finished product is better, since the proportions are NB>>> more like they should be (even if she doesn't realize that's the NB>>> reason)... :) BM>> Yes: "subtle learning". Though that type of learning has been going BM>> on probably since Cave Man Times: when Ogg throw stick on fire make BM>> pretty sparks but some pretty sparks burn Ogg - wrong type heat! Ogg BM>> learn to place stick in fire. And no, Autumn has not been burned while BM>> cooking. NB>> That's a good thing... BM> Agree. We're somewhat prepared for such an emergency but of course BM> don't want it to happen. She will sometimes start to get a little BM> close or careless and given a reminder warning. Better safe than BM> sorry! We try not to get overly protective; hopefully coming across BM> more as a 'we care about you'. And in another year or so, she'll probably be able to tell you why she should be more careful, not too close, etc... :) BM>>> Yes. LIS earlier, sort of a legal playing with her food, plus BM>>> participating in creating the meal. OTOH it's hers and only hers. NB>>> Yup... learning that cooking can be fun... ;) In fact, one of my NB>>> childhood cookbooks was called just that... Fun With Cooking.. :) BM>> Some adult cookbooks should better incorporate that concept, BM>> especially for the everyday cooking. OTOH I'm not sure how I'd react BM>> to seeing a dish of spaghetti and meatballs presented with the BM>> meatballs arranged in a smiley face pattern!! NB>> I don't remember that being the sort of thing they were referring to NB>> as having fun with cooking.... :) But the recipes were reasonably NB>> simple and produced good food... :) BM> We'll probably start introducing some simple meals shortly. LIS some BM> times back I'm getting a little pancaked out; one of favourite meals BM> so.... Not going to force her; same as she is given a choice for BM> dinner and it's what we'll have. (She eats meats, vegetables, at home BM> - just here she's on the Pancake Kick.) Just have to figure out a new specialty for fixing/eating with you... :) She might enjoy that spaghetti and meatballs smiley face, actually.. NB>>> I hung out at the campus radio station when I was in college... Wide NB>>> range of music there, from top 40 to oldies, to jazz, to progressive, NB>>> with even some folk, C&W, and classical, depending on which student NB>>> DJ was doing the show.... ;) Heavy metal was just coming in before NB>>> I graduated... ;) BM>> Sort of sounds (pun?) like my Pandora station: nothing I'd classify as BM>> 'heavy metal' -- maybe "approaching but still a block away". ...When BM>> I first moved out here in 1975 there was a station which advertised it BM>> as a heavy metal station; per my 'Boston standards' (raised 50 miles BM>> north) wasn't close. NB>> The midwest equivalent, perhaps.... BM> They thought so! Neither the Boston nor local version was something I BM> was something I'm into, just there are some crazy little outlaying BM> quirks in my musical and art tastes! :) Understood.... I'm similar.... and will listen (at least in short spurts and sporadically) to a wide variety of things... :) BM>>> The old way had the various television stations in the state identified BM>>> by their call letters: locally KQIN. Now simply IowaPBS. So all dozen BM>>> or so stations now are identified the same. BM>>> Although "I-o-wa P-B-S" is easier and faster to say than "Iowa Public BM>>> Television Network". :) NB>>> Unless the corporate heads explain it out, guess you'll not really NB>>> know... ;) BM>> No, and I'm not all that interested in finding out. More just the BM>> mental notation of the change and possibly relaxation of the some of BM>> the FCC's rules. Last year the local station was identified as KQIN, BM>> with the call sign; this year just "IowaPBS" so don't know if it's the BM>> Quad Cities' or Iowa City station (other than what channel one tunes BM>> to: 36.x and 12.x, respectively). ...Slipping into that technical mode BM>> again! NB>> What I see as the most iffy part of it is not being able to tell just NB>> from listening which particular station you are tuned to... but that NB>> goes by the boards anyway when they announce all the different NB>> stations you might be listening to... eg here, "WXXI 91.5 Rochester, NB>> WXXY 90.3 Houghton, streaming from wxxi.org, or from your phone app NB>> (etc)" BM> So essentially WXXY is repeating what originates on WXXI; essentially BM> the same as the Iowa PBS network is the source and the transmitters BM> throughout the state are the repeaters. Pretty much so... There is a slight variance, as WXXY gets a simulcast of the news shows from WXXI-AM in the early morning and the evening, but otherwise is getting the FM feed... So I imagine their station would have a slightly different call signs announcement at those times... and the AM station here would be acknowleging their presence along with the other local stations receiving the same feed... but then I'm not listening to those stations... ;) BM> I'm quite sure displaying BM> "IowaPBS" is quite legal, just I like the call signs for identifcation BM> from my old radio DXing days. ("DX" is [long] distance.) Yup, and understood... BM>>> And good news: AFAICT no one lost their job with the merger (?)/new BM>>> affiliation: Abby and Dan are the two humans doing most of the BM>>> hosting, DanBot the robot (who thinks he's Dan's son) are still BM>>> present. Not recalling if I've seen Steve, the guy who plays the BM>>> guitar -- sort of. NB>>> Just have to keep your eyes and ears open, I guess.... BM>> He's still on the website. NB>> As an icon, or actually doing things...? BM> So far I've just seen him in 'group' commercials advertising IowaPBS, BM> nothing specifically of him. So maybe he's actually moved on.... just still lending his archived images to the commercials... BM>>> ... Cat Haiku BM>>> Oh no! Big One BM>>> has been trapped by newspaper! BM>>> Cat to the rescue! NB>>> POUNCE!! (rattle, crinkle, shred.... ;) ) BM>> When I had my dog I did learn quickly not to leave BM>> paperwork on the floor: sometimes pawed at, sometimes sat/laid on. BM>> OTOH we did leave newspaper on the carpet: she liked to run and slide BM>> on the sheets. NB>> Which is fine if you are done with the paper... :) BM> It did take us once to learn that detail! Just a little destructive... unintentionally, to be sure... ;) ttyl neb .... "A knowledgeable fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool." --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .