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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 6/7/13

Interrogatories

Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

How old is your current residence?

Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

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On This Day

In 1099, the Siege of Jerusalem began.

In 1654, the coronation of Louis XIV of France was held.

In 1892, President Benjamin Harris was the first President to attend a baseball game. He did not throw out the first pitch.

In 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested in New Orleans when he refused to leave a whites-only train car. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court.  Their decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was one of their worst, as they upheld the notion of “separate but equal.” (As if!)

In 1899, nutjob temperance crusader Carrie Nation trashed her first saloon.

In 1929, Vatican City became a sovereign state with the signing of the Lateran Treaty.

In 1965, the Supreme Court established a right to privacy in their decision in the Griswold v. Connecticut case, overturning that state’s ban on contraceptives.

In 2006, Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq by a U.S. airstrike.

Born on This Day

1724 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (d. 1796)

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1757 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)

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1778 – Beau Brummell, English fashion designer (d. 1840)

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1819 – Edwin Hayes, Irish marine painter (d. 1904)

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1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)

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1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (d. 1928)

1869 – Lamorna Birch, British landscape painter (d. 1955)

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1872 – Rodolphe d’Erlanger, Franco-British painter (d. 1932)

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1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)

1889 – Rodolphe-Théophile Bosshard, Swiss painter (d. 1960)

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1900 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (d. 1963)

1909 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (d. 1994)

1915 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (d. 1991)

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1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)

1921 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (d. 1998)

1931 – Malcolm Morley, English painter

1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress

1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

1942 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2011)

1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish actor

1957 – Paddy McAloon, English singer-songwriter (Prefab Sprout)

1958 – Prince, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer

1961 – Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tex and the Horseheads, Ringling Sisters, Earthlings? and Mondo Generator)

1967 – Dave Navarro, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Jane’s Addiction, Deconstruction, The Panic Channel, and Camp Freddy)

1976 – Necro, American rapper, producer, and director (Injustice, Secret Society, and The Godfathers)

1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

Died on This Day

1667 – Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter (b. 1596)

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1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)

1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)

1843 – Georges Michel, French painter (b. 1763)

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1859 – David Cox, English landscape painter (b. 1783)

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1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader (b. ca 1780)

1912 – Albert Welti, Swiss painter (b. 1862)

1937 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)

1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)

1963 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)

1965 – Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)

1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet (b. 1886)

1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)

1968 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)

1970 – E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)

1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)

2009 – Hugh Hopper, English bassist and composer (The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine) (b. 1945)

2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

2012 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (b. 1933)

2012 – Bob Welch, American singer-songwriter and musician (Paris and Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1945)

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  1. plf515

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

    No

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand?

    Yes. I have a phone to call the super.

    Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    Bwahahahaha!

    How old is your current residence?

    I think the building was built in 1920 or so.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    Errr…. there’s a difference?

  2. Melanie in IA

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

    Yes, a few VHS tapes and a few cassette tapes. I still have a cassette player, and Jim does media transfers like VHS to DVD.

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand?

    Well it depends on what needs repairs, of course!

    Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    Define “things”. Define “scratch”.

    How old is your current residence?

    This summer our house is 11 years old.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    No. I’ve done renovate and remodel. No interest in doing them again.  

  3. JG in MD

    Do you still have any old media like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why?

    Yes. And a floppy disk reader that I can plug into a USB port. Hmmm, I wonder what I’ll find if I dust off some of those… The VHS tapes would work in my VHS/DVD player if I knew how to hook it up to the TV. I’ve had it for years. Would really like to use it.

    If something needs repair in your house, do you have all the necessary tools on hand?



    Yes. Some were my dad’s, from the 1940s.

    Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?



    Um, no.

    How old is your current residence?



    I think the community was planned and built in the 1960s, my building is from I think the early 1970s. Solid brick construction.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    I renovated my condo in the mid-1990s and I’m sooooo glad I did. It was a shadowy ugly boxy apartment, now it has an arch and when you walk in you can see all the way through to the sliders and the woods instead of being faced with a hideous closet door.  

  4. anotherdemocrat

    I can’t speak to the place he was calling, but I work in a call center. Our client base is over 20,000 people statewide. Some days, there are only 4 of us on the team that gets the incoming calls, other days we get as many as 6. Granted, all 20,000 aren’t going to call at the same time. But we need twice what we have now to get back to our situation we used to have where our queue light was only on occasionally and the super-fast blink saying the queue was full & calls were being turned away was an alarming rarity.

    Also, Neil – Pluto.

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉 Cassettes of Austin bands from the 80s – Grains of Faith, The Reivers, True Believers that I haven’t taken anywhere to be transferred.

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch? I have tools. I call a friend to actually use them. We do not want me using tools, that would have a bad outcome. Well, I have used a hammer with no harm coming to anyone. But power tools — I shouldn’t be in the same room.

    How old is your current residence? Built in 1980.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel? Having had my place involuntarily remodeled last summer, I choose “none of the above”. Though my dream house is a house on my old neighborhood, remodeled but keeping the historic nature.

  5. Floja Roja

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

    I have two VHS tapes, a copy of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls signed by Russ Meyer (and boy do I wish I could have gotten it signed by Roger Ebert, too) and a really poor quality copy of the Todd Haynes version of The Karen Carpenter Story, which I think can be found online in better quality. I have a couple of demo tapes and tapes I made off old college radio and some live Soft Boys shows that I need to get transferred to digital media somehow.

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand?

    I have some, not all. If I don’t have it, my downstairs neighbor usually does.

    Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    No room for that sort of thing.

    How old is your current residence? Probably 90+ years.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    Depends on the place and what has been done to it over the years. I could never rip out good original details. In certain places where the original details have been ripped out I would replace them (for instance, I loathe vinyl windows with all my heart and soul, especially those fake divided lights, and would replace immediately). I hanker for a modern kitchen (no granite, though, that is soooooo last century!) and only a really cool older kitchen would be safe.

  6. PadreJM

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why?

    I have some old 3¼” floppies I used to use to archive research files back in the day.  It’s been a couple of years since I actually booted up an old computer that will read them for that purpose.

    There’s a row of old VHS tapes on a shelf under my TV, I’ve not gotten around to ditching.

    My biggest collection of “old media,” though, is my classical music collection on vinyl.  It ain’t goin’ nowhere (although I have started archiving my favorites to CD.

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    Yes, on both counts, though I seldom find time to put my tools to use.

    How old is your current residence?

    About 60 years, give or take.  It was one of several in my little neighborhood built as a rental to accommodate the influx of workers building The Dalles Dam, during which time the population of our small city mushroomed.  More recently, it was a crack house.  Times change.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    Restore, for sure. Although the kitchen in my little cottage underwent a major remodel before I acquired it.

  7. Jk2003

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    How old is your current residence?

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    Old media:  my husband has two boxes of VHS tapes in the basement.  Silly movie shorts he and his friends made in high school.  We don’t have a VCR.  I’m tired of mentioning this to him.  I have my old résumé on a floppy disk.  I don’t know why.  

    Tools:  we are pretty okay with tools.  If we don’t have it my dad does and he is very generous with tools and time.  My husband is currently building me a shoe rack for our entryway closet

    House:  built in 1958 with a family room addition put on in the eighties.  We moved in six weeks ago and are trying to modernize.

    RRR:  we bought a fixer upper to fix it up.  I am trying to stay true to the fifties ranch style.  The kitchen and bathroom are terrible looking but functioning.  We will redo them.  In the bathroom the tub stays as it is cast iron and can be worked with.  The sink and vanity and lighting and floor need updating.  The toilet was replaced the second day we lived here.

    The kitchen had no appliances when we moved in.  The cabinets are terrible and do not hold what a current kitchen contains.  So far I don’t mind not having a dishwasher but when we redo we will get one put in.  And the floor….gross.  The cigarette burns are lovely.  I could go on and on as you can see.

  8. michelewln

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉 I have my original Beatles vinyl LPs and more records from that era as well as cassette tapes that belonged to my Mom and Dad. All with music I can’t find anywhere else on CD. I have VHS tapes that have never been put onto DVDs.

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch? I inherited my Dad’s mechanical ability. I have enough tools to build everything and anything.

    How old is your current residence? Don’t know renting.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel? renovate

  9. slksfca

    …full of floppy disks dating back to Windows 3.1. My current computer doesn’t even have a floppy drive, but I’ve hung on to the disks just because. I really need to purge.

    I have tools for most basic repairs, but my building, which dates from 1901, needs more help than I can offer.

    Generally I’d rather restore than renovate, but that’s not always possible (or even reasonable), especially when the building lacks architectural or cultural significance.

  10. bubbanomics

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉

    *** all of the above, plus some old punch cards, a couple rolls of paper tape, and an enormous VAX computer tape reel.  Why not?

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand? Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?

    *** Yes.  Yes.

    How old is your current residence?

    *** Not very.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?

    *** all of the above.

  11. Avilyn

    Do you still have any old media lying around your house, like floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc.? Why? 😉  Yep.  old floppys, cassettes, VHS, Vinyl, 8mm film…  Some of it, like the 8mm film, we’re going to convert to digital.  

    If something needs repair in your house or if you need to install something, do you have all the necessary tools on hand?  Usually.

    Do you have enough tools to build things from scratch?  Haven’t tried.

    How old is your current residence?  A little over 11 years old.

    Would you rather restore, renovate, or remodel?  Repair, at the moment.  We’re in a townhouse, hate it; want to just keep it in good repair so we can sell in a few years, move somewhere with no neighbors, and build what we want.

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