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  • Re: MT VOID, 12/22/23 -- Vol. 42, No. 25, Whole Number 2307

    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Sun Dec 24 17:19:13 2023
    On 12/24/23 11:26 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

    BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN (2022): BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN is
    based on several stories by Haruki Murakami.  Katagiri is a failing salaryman in Japan who one day finds there is a giant frog that
    talks and sings to him.  This is actually a fairly common theme in
    animated films from Japan, along with the theme of the natural as supernatural, which also appears frequently in Japanese folklore.

    Sounds very familiar, other than the frog being giant.

    Frankly, Mieville's
    'nightmare future' seems far more likely to me than the nightmare
    future of Christmas being forbidden because of political
    correctness.  After all, one cannot now sing 'Happy Birthday to
    You' in public without owing royalties on it!

    The copyright on "Happy Birthday" has been dead since 2015, though it
    withstood more blows that should have been fatal than Rasputin.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-birthday-officially-public-domain-180956740/



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    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Sat Dec 30 20:51:24 2023
    In article <um9m38$2knfc$[email protected]>,
    Evelyn C. Leeper <[email protected]> wrote:
    The only time we have this problem streaming with Chromecast seems
    to be during screener season. (Maybe we just don't Chromecast all
    that much the rest of the year to notice it.) So we're not
    looking for even an inexpensive solution, but a free one. Not to
    mention I have no idea what a Raspberry Pi is. Dropping the
    resolution sometimes helps--and sometimes not. [-ecl]

    [Hal Heydt]
    Where have you been for the last 12 years? Raspberry Pi is a
    line of Single Board Computers (SBCs). The most expensive one is
    the current (Pi5) 8GB model that sells for $80. Granted, you
    need a power supply ($12 for the official one) and a microSD card
    (around $5), plus the usual cables and such.

    Pis have been very successful. Since the launch at the end of
    Feb. 2012, around 50 million of them have been sold. See
    raspberrypi.org

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