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Nice and clean saxophone sound, indeed. Didn't knew him.
I especially like saxophone and clarinet players; my personal favourites are John Coltrane, James Carter, Jan Garbarek, Branford Marsalis.
On another note, may I propose Aldo Romano, Louis Sclavis, Henri Texier[^]?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I don't know; it could be the metal-heads are still sleeping off New Year's  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I just discovered Rotting Christ. They are pretty great. They were at a festival but I didn't watch them 
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Saw a short movie about Commodore history and finally understood why we had that much 4/Plus computers in schools...
When 4/Plus failed in the USA and most of Europe, Commodore sold it with a large discount to the communist block, where Hungary was the main buyer (there was no computer manufacturing of any kind there)... They actually created a special character ROM to include special letters for the Hungarian ABC...
While I already had my C64 at home, I remember classmates (some of them way better than me) who had no access to computer anywhere else but at school... so it was a good deal for us...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ah, the C=+4. I never had a C=64, and when the hype grew decided to leap one step ahead. Boy was I mistaken. I did have some games which couldn't run on the C=64 because they required too much memory (e. g. some Infocom text adventures), but other than that I felt cheated, at least initially.
On the plus side, when the C=+4 and it's smaller companion, the C=16 failed at the market, I could get quite a few games at a considerable discount.
I even had a documented ROM listing (a book with a few hundred pages, no more), including detailed explanations of the registers and their effects. Managed to program some soft-scrolling techniques too, a mandelbrot fractal program with animated color table, and a rotating Octahedron animation. Probably could have done most of that on the C=64 too, but the bank-switching and increased RAM was quite helpful.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I remember seeing a Plus/4 exactly once in my life, and being rather jealous of the slicker case and cursor keys that made a lot more sense than my 64's.
In the end, it's just as well I stuck with it.
Speaking which...I'll have to check whether this is available yet in Canada...
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He asks me "Where are we going?"
I answer "To pick up our new glasses from the optometrist."
"Then what?"
"We'll see..."
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... so he's quite small then.
<< Signature removed due to multiple copyright violations >>
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Read the title and thought this was going to be a good one, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. But alas... 
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Choose the leader or choose without the leader! (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think I have it, but I won't post because I'll be incommunicado at the relevant time tomorrow (and the next day). @#$%@$%@# ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) bushfires!!!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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ELection ? ( thinking selection without leader ) not confident though
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow.
I liked that one, and you are spot on: SELECTION without the first letter: ELECTION. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ok, didn't expect that - how is Choose = Selection ? - select I can see, but not selection
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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! = ion
As in... "i" on it's head
But nah, you make a valid point. I guess "choice" would have worked too.
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Me: Alexa, make sure there are never chips and salsa on my shopping list.
Alexa: I have added never chips and salsa to your shopping list.
(Oh,I'm so scared.) 
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Me: Alexa, what is life?
Alexa: Life is a cellular automata game devised by John Conway in 1970.
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Our Google Home is crap. It won't understand things like 'play XX from season 1' or 'play episode X of Y, season 2'
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Me: Alexa, what time is it?
The missus: We haven't got an alexa.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got my Google Home free from Spotify. I want my wife to lead me in a conversation about adult incontinence. If I see ads for adult diapers, I'll know they are listening
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