tkingsbu
tkingsbu t1_ja476fs wrote
Reply to comment by Flamini7 in Quick question: how I turn this off ? by Flamini7
Lol… possibly? I’ll be honest and say it’s not terribly high on my list of things to do today (laundry, groceries, driving my kids to various places lol) it’s likely at sone point I’ll dig into the settings and turn that shit off, just don’t have time right now… so the annoyance will likely continue for a few days ;)
tkingsbu t1_ja3ozm5 wrote
Reply to Quick question: how I turn this off ? by Flamini7
I usually only listen to my iPhone in the car, and then I have the volume on the phone at 100%, and use the volume control on my dashboard to control things… so yeah, this alert annoys me too…
tkingsbu t1_j1uwt4u wrote
Reply to comment by So_Do_You_Like_Stuff in Killing Joke (1980) by So_Do_You_Like_Stuff
You’re so right on the money. My wife and I have talked a lot about representation over the years… how it used to bother her as a little kid that ‘no one’ in tv shows or movies looked like her etc… but living in Canada now, as our kids have grown up, it’s SO much better, and both our son and daughter see representation all over etc…
And that one little thing… playing her sone killing joke tunes when she was so little, thinking nothing more than ‘oh I always loved this album, I’ll play this in the car and see what she thinks’ lol… it’s so cool to see that she looks at Jaz now and sees ‘hey… this cool successful singer is half Indian like me’ :) lol… years ago I made her t-shirt of the ‘brighter than a thousand suns’ cover with his face on it…, she still wears it all the time, and has gotten some of her friends at school into the band because of it :)
A new generation of killing joke fans :)
tkingsbu t1_j1ur64k wrote
Reply to Killing Joke (1980) by So_Do_You_Like_Stuff
From the time my daughter was about 4-5, Adorations has been her favourite song… she’s 19 now, home from university for the holidays, and just surprised me with a bit of trivia…’did you know the singer is half Indian like me???’ Lol… I didn’t know… but lol, she was SO happy to find that out… that one of her heroes is just like her :)
Love this band so much… and love that my daughter is into them too :)
tkingsbu t1_jcmvbg3 wrote
Reply to Do you ever look up the authors you're reading to get to know them better? by justkeepbreathing94
I’ve been doing that for years… and contacted a lot of them via email back in the day… all of them replied :) all were super nice :)
John Varley was first… he asked how many got into sci-fi to begin with, and I wrote to him about how my mom was a massive fan of his and raised my brother and I to be big sci-fi fans etc… he wrote back praising my mom .. she was SO happy when I told her :)
Spoke with several others like Greg Bear etc… all of them were amazing:)