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Do you follow any celebrities?

Posted - October 31, 2022

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  • 17364
    Where to?
      October 31, 2022 8:15 AM MDT
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  • 2969
    I've never watched an episode as well.  
      October 31, 2022 8:41 AM MDT
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  • 52903
    (as well either)
      November 1, 2022 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 2969
    wondered about that when I wrote it but knew if it was not correct you would have my back, I was right. 
    This post was edited by Honey Dew at November 4, 2022 9:59 AM MDT
      November 1, 2022 3:10 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      Hold on, you’re not doing this stuff on purpose just to lure me in, are you?








    ~

      November 1, 2022 7:34 PM MDT
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  • 2969
      November 2, 2022 4:27 AM MDT
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  • 7776
    Not really, but I do follow quite a few stand-up comics on Twitter. This post was edited by Zack at November 4, 2022 9:52 AM MDT
      October 31, 2022 10:23 AM MDT
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  • 9777
    I tried to once, but his body guard  kept chasing me away.
      October 31, 2022 1:30 PM MDT
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  • 10449
    The key is to blend in, so as not to attract the attention of any security.   (Stalking 101)
      October 31, 2022 2:20 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    :)
      November 3, 2022 7:17 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    Why would I want to stoop that low?  Most celebrities aren't very smart.  They just crave attention.
      October 31, 2022 2:24 PM MDT
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  • 2969
    Not really, I don't know many of the new ones.    Don't watch the Oscars any longer due to the woke movement.  


      October 31, 2022 2:32 PM MDT
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  • 2627
    No, I don't and I'm proud to say, none of them follow me either.
      October 31, 2022 3:04 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    :)
      November 3, 2022 7:17 AM MDT
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  • 488
      November 1, 2022 12:40 PM MDT
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  • 845
    I don't know if you would call them celebrities, but I watch a lot of true crime programs. I "follow" many detectives from many police forces around the country. I've been watching them so long, that many are retired and appear as commentators on more current programs. There's also Greg Feith (formerly an NTSB investigator) who does commentary for Air Disasters (Mayday, Seconds From Disaster, Air Crash Investigation, etc.).

    Kardashians ?????
      November 2, 2022 11:32 AM MDT
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  • 44173
    Did you notice that one of the detectives in Tulsa looks like Mark Knoppfler from 'Dire Straits'?
      November 4, 2022 7:08 AM MDT
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  • 845
    Don't know Mark Knoppfler, don't know "Dire Straits". Don't know. This post was edited by NYAD at November 4, 2022 6:44 PM MDT
      November 4, 2022 9:46 AM MDT
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  • 2969
    Today I saw a clone...almost...of my BFF.  Same height, same build, same hair........if only it could have been him.  Dang!

    Definitely not as dashing as my BFF.  


    This post was edited by Honey Dew at November 12, 2022 9:35 AM MST
      November 2, 2022 12:57 PM MDT
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  • 22853

    (I know practically nothing about any of the Kardashians.)



    Depending on what you mean by 'follow,' I probably do not follow any celebrities.


    If I were strongly into social media/etc., I'd most likely be there 'behind' :


    music group Simple Minds
    actor Guy Pearce
    comedienne Lily Tomlin
    actress Veronica Cartwright
    music group AJR
    singer Ruth Pointer
    singer Anita Pointer
    musician Enya
    actor James Marsden
    music composer (I know him for for movie scores) Thomas Newman
    comedian Brian Regan



    I am on official email lists for:

    singer/composer Howard Jones

    singer/composer Christina Perri 


    Here's my chance to post a song I really like from both singers. Jones' music compositions, to me, contain wonderfully uplifting and encouraging messages and his music is so valid and great.


    And Perri's singing voice is one of a very, very few singers I've heard who literally every time have me wanting to stop everything just to listen. Her voice is so pure, clear and calming to me.

    "New Song"     Howard Jones

    "Surrender"      Christina Perri






    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at November 6, 2022 7:56 AM MST
      November 2, 2022 9:10 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    How kind of you for a Pick, thanks.  :)

    (Have to sign off now for rest of day. wasn't even paying too much attention while I was signed in just now, eating, but i saw my notices and your question now.)
      November 3, 2022 7:21 AM MDT
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  • 1840
    What Gary Kasparov is going to achieve next.

    Kasparov has written books on chess. He published uha controversial[232] autobiography when still in his early 20s, originally titled Child of Change, later retitled Unlimited Challenge. This book was subsequently updated several times after he became World Champion. Its content is mainly literary, with a small chess component of key unannotated games. He published an annotated games collection in 1983, Fighting Chess: My Games and Career,[233] which has been updated several times in further editions. He also wrote a book annotating the games from his World Chess Championship 1985 victory, World Chess Championship Match: Moscow, 1985.[234]

    He has annotated his own games extensively for the Yugoslav Chess Informant series and for other chess publications. In 1982, he co-authored Batsford Chess Openings with British grandmaster Raymond Keene and this book was an enormous seller. It was updated into a second edition in 1989. He also co-authored two opening books with his trainer Alexander Nikitin in the 1980s for British publisher Batsford – on the Classical Variation of the Caro-Kann Defence and on the Scheveningen Variation of the Sicilian Defence. Kasparov has also contributed extensively to the five-volume openings series Encyclopedia of Chess Openings from Chess Informant which Kasparov also wrote personal columns Garry's Choice, the publication which is inarguably the beginning of modern chess.[235][236]

    In 2000, Kasparov co-authored Kasparov Against the World: The Story of the Greatest Online Challenge[237] with grandmaster Daniel King. The 202-page book analyzes the 1999 Kasparov versus the World game, and holds the record for the longest analysis devoted to a single chess game.[238]

    In 2003, the first volume of his five-volume work Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors was published. This volume, which deals with the world chess champions Wilhelm SteinitzEmanuel LaskerJosé Raúl CapablancaAlexander Alekhine, and some of their strong contemporaries, has received lavish praise from some reviewers (including Nigel Short), while attracting criticism from others for historical inaccuracies and analysis of games directly copied from unattributed sources. Through suggestions on the book's website, most of these shortcomings were corrected in following editions and translations. Despite this, the first volume won the British Chess Federation's Book of the Year award in 2003. Volume two, covering Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal appeared later in 2003. Volume three, covering Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky appeared in early 2004. In December 2004, Kasparov released volume four, which covers Samuel ReshevskyMiguel Najdorf, and Bent Larsen (none of these three were World Champions), but focuses primarily on Bobby Fischer. The fifth volume, devoted to the chess careers of World Champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Viktor Korchnoi, was published in March 2006.[239]

    Modern Chess seriesEdit

    His book Revolution in the 70s (published in March 2007) covers "the openings revolution of the 1970s–1980s" and is the first book in a new series called "Modern Chess Series", which intends to cover his matches with Karpov and selected games. The book Revolution in the 70s concerns the revolution in opening theory that was witnessed in that decade. Such systems as the controversial (at the time) "Hedgehog" opening plan of passively developing the pieces no further than the first three ranks are examined in great detail. Kasparov also analyzes some of the most notable games played in that period. In a section at the end of the book, top opening theoreticians provide their own "take" on the progress made in opening theory in the 1980s.[240]

    Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov seriesEdit

    Kasparov published three volumes of his games, spanning his entire career.

    Winter Is ComingEdit

    In October 2015, Kasparov published a book titled Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. The title is a reference to the HBO television series Game of Thrones. In the book, Kasparov writes about the need for an organization composed solely of democratic countries to replace the United Nations. In an interview, he called the United Nations a "catwalk for dictators".[102]

    Historical revisionEdit

    Kasparov believes that the conventional history of civilization is radically incorrect. Specifically, he believes that the history of ancient civilizations is based on misdatings of events and achievements that actually occurred in the medieval period.[241][242] He has cited several aspects of ancient history that he says are likely to be anachronisms.[243]

    Kasparov has written in support of the pseudohistorical New Chronology (Fomenko), although with some reservations.[244] In 2001, he expressed a desire to devote his time to promoting the New Chronology after his chess career. "New Chronology is a great area for investing my intellect ... My analytical abilities are well placed to figure out what was right and what was wrong."[245] "When I stop playing chess, it may well be that I concentrate on promoting these ideas... I believe they can improve our lives."[245]

    Later, Kasparov renounced his support of Fomenko theories but reaffirmed his belief that mainstream historical knowledge is highly inconsistent.[246][247]

    Other post-retirement writingEdit

    In 2007, he wrote How Life Imitates Chess, an examination of the parallels between decision-making in chess and in the business world.[248]

    In 2008, Kasparov published a sympathetic obituary for Bobby Fischer, writing: "I am often asked if I ever met or played Bobby Fischer. The answer is no, I never had that opportunity. But even though he saw me as a member of the evil chess establishment that he felt had robbed and cheated him, I am sorry I never had a chance to thank him personally for what he did for our sport."[249]

    He is the chief advisor for the book publisher Everyman Chess.[250]

    Kasparov works closely with Mig Greengard and his comments can often be found on Greengard's blog.[251][252]

    Kasparov collaborated with Max Levchin and Peter Thiel on The Blueprint, a book calling for a revival of world innovation, planned to release in March 2013 from W. W. Norton & Company. The book was never released, as the authors disagreed on its contents.[253]

    Kasparov argued that chess has become the model for reasoning in the same way that the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster became a model organism for geneticists, in an editorial comment on Google's AlphaZero chess-playing system. "I was pleased to see that AlphaZero had a dynamic, open style like my own," he wrote in late 2018.[254]

    Kasparov served as a consultant for the 2020 Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit. He gave an extended interview to Slate describing his contributions.[255]

    In 2020, Kasparov collaborated with Matt Calkins, founder and CEO of Appian, on HYPERAUTOMATION, a book about low-code development and the future of business automation. Kasparov wrote the foreword where he discusses his experiences with human–machine relationships.[256][257]

    The New York Times published an essay by Kasparov titled "Garry Kasparov: What We Believe About Reality" in 2021.[258] The essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas: What Do We Believe,[259] which also includes essays by T.M. LuhrmannHarry ReidIni ArchibongErrol Morris, and Carlo Rovelli, amongst others.

    This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at November 11, 2022 8:22 PM MST
      November 4, 2022 9:49 AM MDT
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  • 44173
    Dontcha just love copy/paste. I have ADD and cannot concentrate long enough to read all of that. Sorry.
      November 4, 2022 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 1840
    Some 3 year old 'so to speak' can beat people who studied 20 years because they have a "gift". Some 16 year old can beat a 70 year old man because they have " a gift". And this goes for any body in anything because they have a "gift"which is sometimes connoted by sticking  their finger up in the air like Eddie Van Halen did. I don't know how I learned to play. I'm self taught. I just have "a gift" from above.

    No matter how much a perfectionist tries, they cannot create perfection; there will always be room for improvement. Only God can produce something perfect. For this reason, James tells us, “every perfect gift is from above”





    This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at November 11, 2022 8:22 PM MST
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