Topic: A WORLD OF BOTS (Read 5880 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** September 18, 2025, 04:45:53 AM »

My mobility has also been an issue. Ann told mer over two weeks ago that she would take to the post office some books I want to send out. I'm still waiting. I wish I could afford a personal assistant.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** September 18, 2025, 04:49:36 AM »

Well, the site won't accept photos at the momentment. WTF?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #32 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:35:30 AM »

Well, damn! This is the second day in a row that Ann has screwed me over about taking books to the post office for me. I hate being dependent on others.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:39:33 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:40:38 AM »

Can we please go back to the world before bots and algorithms and ... and ...? well, you get the idea.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:46:10 AM »

Last night I wanted to pick something off the to-watch stack, and decided to just sit back and listen to one of the commentaries I've kept a few movies on the stack for. Miracle Mile was just the ticket. I listened to the track with the director, cinematographer, and someone I'm forgetting. I kept my eye on the screen (which I do anyway, unless the commentary is more of a general essay) because they were very much discussing what we were seeing. It was informative and really a great talk. And of course it made me miss "my" late-1980s L.A. as much as ever.

Laura · « **Reply #36 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:51:47 AM »

Good morning.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:54:37 AM »

I miss the original LACMA museum complex more than ever. I remember being shocked when, having not been there for a while, they had put that whole new building in the open center court, filling in and covering up the beautiful open-space plaza between the Ahmanson, Hammer, and Bing Theater buildings. Well, now I'm even nostalgic about that one, which I grew accustomed to passing all the time in those late-80s years. I'm sorry I never went in. What's been going up now in the place of all of that is unspeakable.

John G. · « **Reply #38 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:55:24 AM »

Good morning, all.

Laura · « **Reply #39 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:55:42 AM »

TOD: Mom used to buy packaged Chips Ahoy cookies that I always enjoyed. Today I make cookies when I host groups, but I rarely eat them.

For a while I made sugar cookies with royal icing, but they take so long to decorate and it kills my back, so I usually only make them on Halloween. Some of Elmore's friends received cookies decorated like saguaro cacti when they came through town on tour with musicals.

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:55:47 AM »

Hi, Vixmom!

John G. · « **Reply #41 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:55:56 AM »

Running late.

Laura · « **Reply #42 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:58:03 AM »

We froze cookie dough balls during Vacation Bible School, some of which we baked for the anniversary party last week. There's still a lot of dough balls in the freezer, so I'll probably bake some of those soon.

Freezing the dough balls makes sense, so maybe I'll make some for the groups I host; then I won't have to do it on the day of the event.

Laura · « **Reply #43 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:59:24 AM »

I have an appointment to donate blood today, so maybe I'll get some packaged cookies afterwards.

Laura · « **Reply #44 on:** September 18, 2025, 05:59:58 AM »

Our chances for rain went way down, so I guess they were just teasing us. Again.

Laura · « **Reply #45 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:08:17 AM »

I'm hearing thunder, which is strange.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #46 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:11:06 AM »

I'm trying to remember what cookies we had around when we were kids. Oreos and Fig Newtons, for sure. Don't know about other packaged ones. My mother might have occasionally made some from a package, but I don't know which.

I remember a short-lived Chips Ahoy binge in the early 1980s. I grew disenchanted with them because I was then discovering the fresh, warm Mrs. Fields and David's chocolate chip cookies at malls and in department stores, so those were my go-to for a while. But I eventually moved away from chocolate chip because I was finding them cloying. Oatmeal Raisin became my leading favorite for quite a while. It still is, but they vary a lot between makers. Peanut Butter cookies might be my #1 favorite right now, alongside oatmeal.

Holiday cookies are great, but really, just certain ones, and I'm not sure I can name the ones I really like without having them in front of me.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #47 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:16:26 AM »

In the early '70s, the Famous Amos chocolate chip brand was huge in L.A. with the cute little shop on Sunset Blvd. But I never warmed to that style which I found too crisp. Actually, that was my problem with the mass-produced Chips Ahoy a decade later. I really went for chewy cookies then, and still do.

I haven't made any in years, and when I did it was only ever from packaged mixes, but I used to make some for myself and I always deliberately kept them from getting over-baked in order to keep them at that lovely chewy texture.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #48 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:18:55 AM »

The first few times I was going to Dallas (Carrollton, to be specific) for visits to our corporate headquarters when I was working from home in the early 2000s, they were having us stay at a DoubleTree where you get a warm chewy chocolate chip cookie when checking into your room. That was just about the only thing I liked about the place. (Later we were all staying at the nearby Omni, a world of difference in every way, never mind the damned chocolate chip cookie.)

Jrand75 · « **Reply #49 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:19:27 AM »

Congrats to DR JOHN G on his signing.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #50 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:19:45 AM »

Hoping things go better for DR ELMORE.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #51 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:20:28 AM »

Glaad to see DR VIXMOM this morning.

In celebration of her returnm, all of my posts will be made today without edtiing or corrections. What I type is what you get.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:20:39 AM »

Quote from: Jrand75 on September 18, 2025, 06:19:27 AM

Congrats to DR JOHN G on his signing.

And more congrats. Sounds like it's all going very well.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #53 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:20:49 AM »

I willl be on my way in a bit to get my COVID shot.

Freddie · « **Reply #54 on:** September 18, 2025, 06:59:44 AM »

Jack Viertel's show LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, recently seen by Laura in Phoenix, is bound for Broadway

"Jack Viertel-Conceived Let the Good Times Roll Musical Aiming for Broadway Next Season"
https://playbill.com/article/jack-viertel-conceived-let-the-good-times-roll-musical-aiming-for-broadway-next-season

elmore3003 · « **Reply #55 on:** September 18, 2025, 07:03:00 AM »

Still cannot post photos.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #56 on:** September 18, 2025, 07:08:58 AM »

DR ELMORE post it on Facebook and I'll post it here.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #57 on:** September 18, 2025, 07:09:12 AM »

Tag me in the thread.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #58 on:** September 18, 2025, 07:09:22 AM »

Shot Got.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #59 on:** September 18, 2025, 08:08:57 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 18, 2025, 07:03:00 AM

Still cannot post photos.

I just tried one. No go.

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