Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

@_4_d_4_m_
I read ZAMM every year from ages 18 or so to maybe 60. It never actually gets stale for me,, and different aspects pop out each time than did before. There's a lot going on there.

Did you know that Chris was murdered outsilde the San Francisco Zen Center? It's so bizarre. You'd think Lila might have mentioned it, but if it did, I didn't see it.

@_4_d_4_m_
Pirsig?

@SecularJeffrey
Red Dwarf is the reason I finally got around to trying Vindaloo, and I'm not making that up. Been eating it ever since.

@mattblaze @sarahmaywalt @vy
I gotta warn ya, if you do that, people will encourage you to smile more. Just say no.

@jayarava
I look forward to that. What journal will it be in? Hoping for one of the open source ones.

@rvaughnmd
"I'll do every part of my job except the part I don't like" isn't something I could have ever gotten away with.

@Alphabetsoup
Because there really are people who think that they have secret knowledge that lets them get something for nothing. The infuriating thing is how often it actually works.

@rvaughnmd
Now is the time to start gluing together all those unused wall--warts in everyone's spare parts drawers everywhere. Problem solved.

@willmckinley
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played.

@LilHulkQ
It's the complimenting, cheering, and supporting that make me more suspicious, because those people are a little off somehow.

@jeffmartins@masto.ai
I DO have a decent VPN, though, as the article recommends. Hmm. I guess I'll have to think about that. Thanks again for your suggestion.

@librarianshipwreck
Or the door unlocked. I could go on if you like.

@librarianshipwreck
No, in that case you have to wonder if you left the clothes iron on.

@jeffmartins@masto.ai
Thanks very much for your attempt at help! I just wanted to stream their world radio as I would get it if I had shortwave, or as I used to get it on public radio stations in various other places I've lived. I CAN get Newshour locally over the air, but of course the are a slew of other things I like to hear, like Outlook as one example.

I know that somebody somewhere has to pay for BBC production costs and it does bother me that my thirty or so years of listening enjoyment was footed by UK taxpayers who owe me nothing at all.

Were the Beeb to set up a phone application to listen to their world radio service with a periodic fee, I'd gladly sign up. (Well, I'd have to ponder it for a bit as the quality has slowly gone down the last few years, but most likely yes unless the cost was ridiculous.) But to suddenly block my listening until I'd somehow figure out how to click through an advertisement-- that was so amazingly rude and unexpected that I just deleted the application in a fit of pique. And I don't think I'll put it back, either.

They could do a streaming version for only those who sign up for it that includes inline advertising, as a number of podcasts do. Leo Laport's "TWiT" network pulls in millions of dollars a year via that method. I would not be bothered by that because I would know that my payment was my ears and could walk away at any time.