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@Kejedo, You are undoubtedly the queen of randomness, or is it trivia? Either way, you are numero uno!

I always enjoyed Boston Public Library. It felt like a time portal I would stay there for 30 minutes and found several hours had passed.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is a really fun Star Wars film. I want to see a prequel/sequel with Grogu and the Anzellans getting into wacky hijinks together. The opening scene is straight out of Empire Strikes Back and is amazing.

Started reading The Astral Library by Kate Quinn. It's a pretty funny novel about a put-upon woman who finds an entrance to a portal in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library which allows people to live inside books and meet the characters that populate them.

I have a copy of "Signature in the Cell" by Stephen Myer as well as these ID books: By Design or By Chance? by Denyse O'Leary Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe Darwin's Proof: The Triumph of Religion Over Science by Cornelius Hunter Nature's Destiny by Michael Denton The Edge of Evolution by Michael Behe Shattering the Myths of Darwinism by Richard Milton Rare Earth by Peter Ward & Donald Brownlee The Privileged Planet by Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay Richards

I just discovered that the website proposes the languages Assyrian and Assyro-Chaldean (Silopi) That's cool

Wrong link? This one goes to one of my email addresses.

It’s still in beta, so it’s not finished yet. And given their track record, you kind of have to live with bugs even when it’s no longer in beta... So the real question is probably how their definition of “really ready” differs from the user’s definition... 😁 I only use NWS Mobile for watching stuff. I don’t have the nerves to change anything through it while it's in beta.

Maybe I misunderstood too.

Yesterday I noticed that one of our sisters was missing from the list of Publishers in NWP. I asked our secretary about it last night and he said that several publishers have been missing from NWP since one of the recent updates. I poked around today and discovered that several publishers had their NWP App Access disabled in NWS, which removes them from NWP. We don't know how that happened yet, but if anyone is missing from NWP, check their NWP App Access setting in their NWS Persons Information page.

I think this thread was created to discuss the tools that are available or may become available. That may include tools that create jwpub files. I apologize if I misunderstood the purpose of this topic.

Earworms: Dionne Warwick was on tv last week and this started an earworm for me. When Dionne sang the song Alfie, my mother and her then fiancee were both working at a Bar and Grill. Mum's boyfriend had attracted the attention of another femme who frequented there. To let dear Mom know how confused this left him, her boyfriend played Alfie (What's it all about) on the juke box, repeatedly. Mother had the bright idea of bringing everyone from the bar home after hours to have her teenage daughter sing this song a capella. I had sung thru-out school. Mum sang as well, but not ever together. So the drunk crowd came home and further disturbed the insomniac high schooler. Mum waved her arms about like she was conducting the restless songstress. So Alfie has been recurring. My earworm breaker was and is a French Nursery song I learned in 4th grade. What cure for earworms do you use?

The tool being discussed does not combine JWPub files, and it does not alter JWPub files. Maybe this has drifted into a slightly different concern, but this particular tool is for merging JW Library notes — not publications. Your notes. Your comments for Watchtower lessons, research assignments, personal study, and anything else you have added over time. The problem is that JW Library normally makes you choose between backups. If you restore one, you overwrite the other, and notes can be lost. This tool lets you bring those notes together — for example, notes you took on your iPad and different notes you took on your computer. So the point is not to change the publications. It is simply to preserve and merge personal study notes that would otherwise be overwritten.

That opens the field on randomness of this thread. John Sylvan — the co-inventor of the Keurig machine — allegedly drank somewhere between 30 and 40 cups of coffee a day during the height of the company’s early years. And honestly… you can almost picture it. Two in the morning. Prototype parts scattered everywhere. A half-working machine hissing on a cluttered counter. Another cup. Then another. Because when you are building something that might change everything, sleep starts looking like wasted production time. Some reports say he later landed in the ER with what was believed to be severe caffeine poisoning and symptoms that mimicked a heart attack. The exact details get fuzzy in retellings — and that matters. Some of it is solid reporting. Some of it has drifted into modern entrepreneur folklore. But the image survives because it feels believable. A man so deep inside his invention that he may have been stress-testing not just the machine… but himself. Was he checking consistency? Trying to perfect the brew cycle? Making sure cup number twenty tasted like cup number one? Or was this just what happens when ambition, exhaustion, deadlines, and caffeine form an unholy alliance at 3 a.m.? Either way, there is something darkly poetic about the possibility that the man who helped engineer instant coffee convenience may have nearly been consumed by the very thing he was trying to perfect.

That is AWESOME. I do watch the World Classic at least in highlights. I try to go to at least 2-3 MLB games a year if I can lure enough brothers to go. How the baseball in Nicaragua? second to soccer (football) personally I love good pitching. Id rather see a score around 2-1 then 12-8 I like seeing steals in a game too.

not sure if people are watching episode 4 or waiting for assembly but the demon possessed people are very alarming. very well done

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This is a serious point. Given the issues we already have with deepfake imagery and abuse of AI. Well intentioned brothers need to be very careful, and see if what they have or what they pass on has the 'ring of truth'. It can be hard, sometimes, to tell the difference between what is true and what is false, given that Satan and his cohorts are expert deceivers - "And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light. It is therefore nothing extraordinary if his ministers also keep disguising themselves as ministers of righteousness. But their end will be according to their works." (2Cor 11: 14,15) We must 'keep on the watch' in every way.

I just dream that I am riding a Harley Davidson. But my wife believes that it was more like the Comancheros, Hell's Angels and Bandido's all their Chapters arriving at once.

I also think King Herod should have been a lot angrier in the Jesus video's. He wasn't spitting and frothing out the mouth enough when he was enraged.

I would like to be a fly on the wall in the old Moses and Pharaoh audio drama. I would fly around Pharaoh's head and make him slap himself silly.

Tonight New Yorkers are watching for Manhattanhenge. It is a phenomenon where the setting sun aligns with the east/west street grid and is framed between towering skyscrapers.

Keurig co-inventor went to the ER with suspected heart attack.John Sylvan suffered a severe case of caffeine poisoning in 1995 after drinking 30 to 40 cups of coffee a day.