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@davidrcourtney

A progressive, Indophile, who writes books, plays music, and hangs around the Rice University graduate student lounge a lot. Ex LRYer. Likes cats, nihari, and the Oxford comma.

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old school editing. Is there an "undo" button?

18.02.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is loaded with useless eye-candy (perhaps I should say "iCandy") and features that I immediately turned off and will never use.

10.01.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just "upgraded" one of my Macs to the new Tahoe operating system. My opinion is that it is "meh". On the positive, it probably has a better support of the M series processors. Other than that, I find the increased pressure to set up iCloud very annoying.

10.01.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I had another mad spending spree this Black Friday. I purchased:
1) Small box of roofing nails
2) Lunch
3) Small plastic storage bins.
It was an exhilarating shopping experience. I would not have thought it possible, but I actually outdid last year when I put petrol in the car. I love Black Friday.

29.11.2025 15:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am constantly annoyed at the conflation of Zionism with Judaism. One can be a Christian Zionist and one can be Jewish without supporting Zionism. Furthermore, being against Israeli excesses is not the same thing as being anti-Semitic.

18.11.2025 18:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh Shit!! The Christian nutjobs are still here. I was just getting my hopes up.

24.09.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you mean 90uS/h which is very dangerous? 90S/h would fry yo instantly.

07.09.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It looks good. I don't see any "burned" areas.

13.08.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have had a number of these, but in the last few years, I have yet to find one that had a robust phosphorescent screen. But when I was a child, I remembering them as being much more robust.

13.08.2025 05:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I talked to him yesterday, he is fine.

06.07.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies at age 90 Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most well-known televangelists of the 1980s, has died, according to a social media post from his ministry.

Good news is so rare these days
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

02.07.2025 05:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My cell phone number is 713 203 2585, my email is david@chandrakantha.com. Email is the best way to send me any kind of file.

24.06.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am tired of all of these robots asking me to confirm that I am not a robot.

03.06.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you happen to be out and about and you happen to run across an evangelical, remember not to touch it. They are known to carry all kinds of disease.

06.04.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When is it?

25.03.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmm. He almost looks human here.

25.03.2025 04:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Too many people fail to recognise one simple fact. The postal service is just that, a service. Any attempt to run it as a business can only compromise its ability to be a service to the people of the US.

25.03.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.03.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 35378 πŸ” 5698 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 167
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Best description of a cybertruck:
a third grader's pinewood derby car.

18.03.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 779 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 6
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18.03.2025 10:49 πŸ‘ 732 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
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14.03.2025 05:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! Trump bought a new Tesla. He's president, ya'know, and he's so smart. So if he bought one, then I should buy one. That way everyone will think that I am a stable genius too.

11.03.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WTF! I just recently "upgraded" to Windows 11. As I move the mouse around the screen, random panes encroach upon my screen with all kinds of random shit. It is usually so fleeting that I cannot even read it. In the times that I does stay long enough for me to read it, it seems totally irrelevant.

11.03.2025 04:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A tweet from Martin Davies @..., posted 16 hours ago, featuring an image of a red T-shirt with the text 'Visit CANADA IT'S LIKE THE U.S. WITHOUT THE FASCISM' and the Canadian flag. The tweet includes flags of the UK, France, and the EU next to the user's name.

A tweet from Martin Davies @..., posted 16 hours ago, featuring an image of a red T-shirt with the text 'Visit CANADA IT'S LIKE THE U.S. WITHOUT THE FASCISM' and the Canadian flag. The tweet includes flags of the UK, France, and the EU next to the user's name.

New Canadian tourism ad just dropped.

06.03.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 5948 πŸ” 935 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 36

An educated public is antithetical to Republicanism. The Republican party is very aware off this, hence the massive attack on education from LKG to post graduation.

06.03.2025 21:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife Chandrakantha, is still on FB. I essentially closed out my FB account a few weeks back. It is probably not long before she gets on Bluesky too

01.03.2025 05:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In my lifetime I have lived under three economic systems. I have lived under a Keynesian(USA 1953-1980), Soviet style hard socialist (India 1976-1980) and neoliberal (USA 198-peresent). The present neoliberal has the worst quality of life. Keynesian was the best.

28.02.2025 23:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Economic Blackout: Will a 24-hour boycott make a difference? A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money on Friday. The People’s Union USA describes it as an act of β€œeconomic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder see...

Just a reminder that Friday is "Buy Nothing" day.
apnews.com/article/feb-...

28.02.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another year’s Oscars is rolling around for me not to watch, which highlight films that I have not and will not see, full of actors and actresses I have never heard of. I am so excited I can hardly wait.

27.02.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0