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I would like to preface this by saying the bouncing ball sing a longs came first, but I don't consider that to be modern karaoke where you pick a song to sing to. These were usually group sings in a theater, and later television.

Reading lyrics off a sheet with a cassette doesn't really capture what modern karaoke is, which is lyrics sweep/highlights to the music.

The linked video was from a video game released in 1985 called Alternate Reality, the City. The music system used for it was custom created for the game, and later cloned into the Antic Music Processor in 1989.

For a time BBS's had almost every song you could think of transcribed into this system. Even Billy Joels Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, or Aerosmith's Dream On.

Modern because, you could connect to a BBS online, download a song in an extremely small, efficient format. This predates pretty much everything modern, like midi karaoke.

While we can compare CDG (which was 85) and Laserdisc karaoke (78) Neither was in a conceivably small, downloadable file format at the time like karaoke is now.

This is exactly how my family used to farm, and Santa Clara County water district along with San Jose made rainwater catchment illegal.

You're supposed to put this paper under the seat to poop on. Completely missed it. Used that paper to wipe and grabbed a sample that way. GenX problems :/

I’m talking to them now, and it seems like they like covering more than products, like giving actual education and advice on what I’m assuming is everything. Should be a good ama if we can get them in here.

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The sanders are cheap enough ($100 on vevor), but I've never textured walls in my life. I have more than 1 room to remove it from, pretty much the entire house. Was thinking I could just buy a sander and have my son and his friend do the work, then follow up with rolling a coat of paint on. Or is this something that shouldn't be DIY and I should hire a guy (or gal) for?

Just had an AC company do a quote this morning, and told him we're in different places on his quote, then parted ways. Scrutinizing his quote, he wanted $13,112 for these line items.

Goodman 3 Ton-GLXS4B/GR9S80 14.3 SEER2 R-32 single stage, Warranties and Guarantees

• 1-3 Ton 14.3 SEER2 R-32 single stage condenser unit-Goodman GLXS4BA3610
• 1-3 Ton 14.3 SEER2 R-32 upflow/horizontal evaporator coil-Aspen DE36D4D175R530
• 1-80% 60,000 BTU Up flow/horizontal single stage Low Nox gas furnace-Goodman GR9S800604BX

Pricing these things out individually got me to $4,637.00. I'm OK with some markup, but that's just crazy. All in total with other items he was marking up wanted $22,687.60

Anyways, looking for a good recommendation.

Remember when malls and movie theaters were air conditioned to near freezing? I live in San Jose, Ca. It is starting to get to be hot season. Was thinking back to when I was a kid, and the mall or movies was an escape from the heat. I've noticed in the last 10-15 years malls no longer keep things cool. Individual stores have their own thermostat and might cool things off, but the main walk area of most malls is usually kept at 75 degrees or warmer.