TIL: Today I Learned

Today I learned that there's a bridge in Scotland that dogs keep jumping off. (Some of them don't survive. )

 

I have heard of this game, but have never played it.

If you don't like the disco versions, why not give a listen to the videos I posted of the Ecuadorian musicians playing them on panflutes? Sometimes one arrangement of a song won't be appealing but another one will.

For instance... Gordon Lightfoot's "The Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is one of his best-known songs. But I prefer the Irish Rovers' version instead because it's more expressive.

 

Fleetwood Mac's most successful song in the UK is Albatross.

 

Thanks for the clips...that guy can definitely wail. The one was a definite throwback to the Jefferson Airplane days with the girl in the barely crotch length skirt and the screw me boots. Made me long for a good microdot.

I'm no expert either, but I have one thing to say against Rolling Stone's list by experts...like most experts they are more impressed by innovation than sound. Yes, they are entitled to their opinions and I don't disagree with their opinions or want to argue with them. I don't even disagree with their perspective being a very valid way to look at the question because no doubt that anybody who can have a historical impact on not only the music of their own moment but players down into future generations is beyond question a master.

But on some level I'm a simple guy, and I like what I like. A player might be dismissed as "totally derivative, he just took his style from _______," but if he can wail he can wail and I'm not taking that away from them just because they aren't making a mark in the history of music.

 

TIL that there was a drug trade-related shooting in the neighborhood where I used to live. Thank goodness I got out of that part of town, because the cops didn't clean it up anywhere close to how they said they did. It's still dangerous there.

 

Generally speaking, drug trade related shootings are only dangerous to people in the drug trade.

 

But what if they miss? The bullet might hit somebody else.

 

Stray bullets, even in nominal high crime areas, are a negligible risk even compared to stray cars, which in themselves are pretty much a negligible risk.

 

TIL that somebody made a computer game about curling.

I have no interest in even trying this game, but have just posted it in case someone else might be curious. I did download one about golf, though. Of course these are older games that might not even work on Windows 10, but we shall see.

 

TIL:
Scandinavian love to growl long before the emergence of death metal.

 

TIL that if you don't ever use Windows hibernation, you can free up a bit of disk space by going to command prompt in admin-mode:
powercfg -h off
This gets rid of the enormous hiberfile.sys file.

 

How enormous are we thinking here

 

It probably depends how much memory you have. Mine is 6.5 Gb:

Code:

C:\>dir /ah
...
16/02/2020  22:18     6,348,902,400 hiberfil.sys
13/04/2020  18:12    20,376,760,320 pagefile.sys

 

The size of your RAM from what I've heard

 

I use sleep, and then shut off the power supply to the pc. When you turn the power supply back on, it wakes from sleep like normal.

 

TIL that, in the first Rambo movie First Blood, Rambo killed 0 people.

 

He kills one person by accident.

 

Rambo throws a rock at the chopper, meaning the chopper losses control briefly and Galt falls and dies. In the US, that is not going to be a verdict of accidental death when it is the police that die.

 

In the US, a police officer could choke on a donut on the other side of town and Rambo would be help responsible.