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  1. #OnThisDay in 1948, #JohnHall, American singer-songwriter (Orleans - "Still The One"; "Dance With Me"), environmentalist, and politician (US Representative from New York (D), 2007-11), born in Baltimore, Maryland.
    #HappyBirthday #77 🪩🫧🍸🥂🫧✧˖°

  2. "Love Takes Time" is a song by the #softRock band #Orleans. It peaked at number 11 on the #Billboard #Hot100 in May 1979 and was their biggest hit since their 1976 single "#StillTheOne." The song also reached number 13 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. In Canada, "Love Takes Time" peaked at #23 for two weeks. It is arguably their third most popular song overall, behind "#DanceWithMe" and "Still the One," and their most popular song without lead singer #JohnHall.
    youtube.com/watch?v=nm_e71sVyr4

  3. #Quotes #Kindness #JohnHall

    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
    Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, - these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles. -John Hall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898)

  4. The day ended with a very nice conference dinner - and with talks by #JohnHall and #EricCornell who summarized the history of the #ICOLS conference within the last 60 years or so - basically talking about #laser #spectroscopy since the invention of the laser!
    Both speakers made it very clear that a) you cannot do what they did without the strong support of a partner and b) that they probably should have spent more time with their families and less time in the lab/at conferences.
    #ICOLS2023

  5. The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94

    ... As I was cleaning my office I found some audio tapes made of Linus' talk, and which I purchased with my own money. Now, to make your present, I had to buy a good audio tape playback machine and capture the audio in Audacity, then produce a digital copy of those tapes, which are listed here. Unfortunately I do not have a copy of the slides, but I am not sure how many slides Linus had. I do not think you will need them....

    -- John "Maddog" Hall

    archive.org/details/199405-dec

    HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

    #Linux #LinusTorvalds #DECUS94 #JohnHall #Maddog #podcasts