David Blue
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Columbia, Portland
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Articles by David Blue
Ein Vater zu Weihnachten
Als Baxter Billings in seinem örtlichen Einkaufszentrum ein kleines Vermögen gewinnt, beschließt er, für die Menschen in seiner Heimatstadt ein Wichtel zu werden. Seine anonyme Philanthropie ist ansteckend und schon bald breitet sich die Freude am Schenken zu Weihnachten in der ganzen Stadt aus. Im Laufe der Zeit schließt Baxter eine enge Freundschaft mit Pamela und ihrem kleinen Sohn Westin. Er glaubt, er könnte sich in Pamela verlieben...
Why Buying SPY Puts Is a Losing Strategy (According to 10 Years of Backtests)
Still buying SPY puts to short the market? Good luck. I get it: the market is overvalued, all the idiots who are buying into the hype are going to get burned, and you’re going to show them who’s smarter by shorting the market. You’ve been around long enough to know that a bull market is a game of musical chairs that only thirsty YOLO traders are stupid enough to play. And you, genius that you are, will lurk in the shadows — ready to watch your P&L grow when the inevitable correction happens.
Look Out for this New Collection of U.S. Folk Rock from Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and More » LIVING LIFE FEARLESS
U.K. reissue specialists Cherry Red, known for their meticulous collections has prepared a collection celebrating the U.S. folk rock movement titled Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s Folk-Rock Explosion. Arriving on March 21, 2025, it includes 74 tracks across three CDs from the company’s Strawberry imprint. It’s available for pre-order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.
Coming Clean: What You Need to Know to Hire an Exterior Power Washing Service
When singer Amy Grant made the comment, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” she was emphasizing the fact that, in as little as seven seconds, the human brain can make all kinds of subtle assumptions. While the common expression is primarily used to describe how humans present themselves at first-time meetings, it can also be used to describe what potential customers see the first time they lay eyes on your business.
Decoding Apple Maps Guide URLs
Revisiting the noted release of beta dot maps dot apple dot com just now, I found my way back to back to a "mystery" I deserted some years ago[^1] when "Guides" were first added to Apple Maps.
Typora Marked 2 "Support"
Despite the beautiful myriad of text editors available for macOS, I've still found myself using Typora on my old machine. When I recently (read: ridiculously late) discovered that Brett Terpstra's venerable Marked 2 can be schemed (sortof) with x-marked://, it immediately occurred to me that I could use a custom Typora Export preset to add "integration" between these two apps: open 'x-marked://open?file=${currentPath}&raise=true'
Creating a one-liner for Secure ShellFish widgets
You: I am looking for a method to output current performance values (like current % cpu, for instance) of a macos machine to the command line standard output. ChatGPT: To monitor and output current performance values, including CPU usage, of a macOS machine to the command line standard output, you can use various commands and utilities. One commonly used command is top.
Convert .caf to mp3 by Directory
Read the original conversation shared via ChatGPT You: If possible, could you help me construct an ffmpeg command that converts all of the .caf files in the current directory to 320 kbps, constant bitrate mp3s? ChatGPT: Certainly! To construct an ffmpeg command that converts all .caf files in the current directory to 320 kbps constant bitrate MP3 files, you can use a shell loop in a terminal.
Design and Benefits
You: 23:52 Please provide a detailed, methodical overview of roundabouts: where/when they were invented and how they're used. ChatGPT: 23:52 Overview of Roundabouts 1. Introduction to Roundabouts Roundabouts are circular intersections designed to improve traffic flow and safety. Unlike traditional intersections with traffic signals or stop signs, roundabouts utilize yield control at entry points, and traffic within the roundabout moves in one direction around a central island.
Boomers' Destructive Generational Tastemaking Disaster
Today, whilst riffing on the early outline of For God's Sake, Just Sit Down to Piss, I began to search back through some old writing on a phenomena I have witnessed in American music throughout my life.
THE MAC HOLBERT COLLECTION (Click for List) Collectibles & Memorabilia - Store - Backstage Auctions, Inc.
There are some spectacular items featured in The Mac Holbert Lifetime Collection and below is a curated selection of "highlight auction items" that definitely fall into the "not to be missed" category. A complete list of the Artists featured in the auction can be found to the left, as well as the Type of Collectible. Of course if you are looking for a particular artist or group, you can use the SEARCH box directly to the right.
Annoying Departure
See and/or even continue this conversation, yourself via this URL provided by OpenAI. title: Obituary: Annoying Departure source: https://chat.openai.com/c/9313e8ac-b7ad-4f40-8246-d24ff6836c5f time: 2023-06-17T00-22-07 model: GTP-3.5 You: Please write an obituary for me. I would prefer it to be as long as possible, do not care if it is factual whatsoever, and also like the idea of it being very obvious in the author's tone that they hated the subject vehemently.
Grad School in Post Covid Time
The higher your level of education is, the more successful you can be in life. That’s what we have all been told since childhood. Yet, many of us are still hesitating about continuing our studies, especially in a world that has just been hit by the global pandemic. Indeed, education is very important for your career. In fact, this is one of those things that employers and recruiters pay the most attention to when studying your resumes.
5 Tips to Help Clients Prepare for Estate Sales
The pandemic ignited a surge in home buying that we haven’t seen since 2006. A rise in remote work opportunities, a desire to relocate to less densely populated areas, and a large percentage of the population entering retirement are just some of the reasons people are on the move. In a recent survey conducted by Blue Moon Estate Sales of more than 700 people over the age of 55, 19% reported they plan to relocate by 2023.
Tweetbot 6 for iOS Is the Most Beautiful Way to Use Twitter in 2021
In the bleak face of Twitter’s centralization, Tapbots refuses to give up on its mobile client. Were it just I who came to you with only my voice on this cold night, proclaiming the imminent release of a whole numerical version of a third-party mobile Twitter client in 2021, you really would have no choice but to send for the laws, for you’d be left no consideration other than my comprehensive descent into absolute insanity.
How COVID-19 Changed Our Business Model for the Better
By David Blue, Blue Moon Estate Sales When COVID-19 started to infiltrate the U.S, we were faced with the same questions so many businesses were forced to address: How do we keep our team and our customers safe? And how do we continue operating to meet demand? The answer that was never in our playbook was to change our whole business model. And we had to do it quickly. We scrambled to launch a reservation-only system in order to limit foot traffic and ensure safeguards at our estate sales.
Devildriver Announces New Covers Album Outlaws ‘Till The End Vol 1 Featuring Hank Williams III, Glenn Danzig and Randy Blythe For July 2018 Release -
For those unfamiliar, DevilDriver is a heavy metal band from 2002 formed in Santa Barbara, California and consisted of Dez Fafara on vocals, Mike Spreitzer and Neal Tiemann on guitars, Austin D’Amond on drums, and Diego Ibarra on bass. The only original member that is still a part of the band today, though, is vocalist Fafara. DevilDriver debuted their music in 2002 with their self-titled album, then known as Deathride.
A Conversation with the Saint of Federated Social
What’s the story behind the name? It’s not particularly interesting. I’m a progressive metal fan, and I listen to Mastodon sometimes. They have a really cool name that refers to a really cool animal. It’s a fluffy elephant! What’s not to love? What does “federated” mean to you? The biggest problem with this term is that it’s new for lots of people.
Google Will Soon Replace God and The Church
On Monday, Gizmodo reported that twelve frustrated Google employees were quitting the company in protest of their work assisting the Department of Defense to “implement machine learning to classify images gathered by drones” for the detail fleeting Project Maven, despite some 4000 employee signatures on a letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai requesting (in full) that he “cancel this project immediately,” and “draft, publicize, and enforce a clear policy...
The Precarious Legacy of the iPhone 8
One might interpret the App Store’s redesign as an attempt by Apple to control this conversation of both the trending new thing and the old essentials” that you’ve probably had tucked away in an untouched folder for years. Technically, whoever the hell is writing those gorgeously-presented daily bits has made them a publishing company, though I’m not so sure I’m not the last remaining user who’s continued semi-regularly visiting their Today” section.
Three Billboards Outside Silva North Carolina
I suppose it could have been the result of a rational decision to give any depth to Anne Abbie Cornish) who is Chief Willoughby’s Woody Fucking Harrelson) Australian?, much-too-attractive wife before he kills himself in the last third of the movie, making her suddenly relevant. Or, perhaps it was another attempt to emphasize the emotional repression of Southern” folks one of the almost-accurate positives of the film, if only thanks to McDormand’s skill.
Literacy is a Human Right
Facebook is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind.
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