Home address Removal From the Internet

Removing personal details - Set up Google Search on name and address

Companies removed:

FastPeopleSearch :
https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/removal
Update 03/16/2020:

MyLife:

• Emailed privacy@mylife.com (https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-remove-your-information-from-sites-like-mylife-77f89aff1aff)
• Automated email responded saying something like "we can't remove because public data ...."
• Replied again requesting removal
• They responded: "This note is to inform you that we have received your inquiry and will begin processing your request."

SearchPeopleFree (similar to FastPeopleSearch):
https://www.searchpeoplefree.com/opt-out

TruePeopleSearch
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/removal

BeenVerified (requires email address and confirmation (?))
https://wiki.onerep.com/post/beenverified.com

Update 03/16/2020:

• Removed (another?) profile from FastPeopleSearch.
• Removed: www.freepublicprofile.com

Thank you Cory Doctorow and Mark Frauenfelder

Digital Pianos

Placeholder for research into digital pianos.

Dawn's requirements:

• 88 keys

YAMAHA

Clavinova vs. Arius

https://www.reidys.com/blog/yamaha-clp-vs-ydp-differences-clavinova-arius-2211/ 

REFERENCES

The Best Budget Digital Piano for Beginners (updated 2019-04-17): Casio PX-160 ($500)

The Best Digital Piano for Students (updated 2019-03-06): Yamaha YDP-181 ($1,700-2,000)

• Two insightful comments by Ed Hassell:
• Suggests the Yamaha P-515:
• L-515 wooden console stand and LP-1 three-pedal assembly
• Yamaha's top-of-the-line keyboard action (the same one in their $15-20K clavinova models)
• Acoustically sampled concert grand piano sound, including the Bosendorfer Grand Imperial (as well as the Yamaha 9-foot CFX)
• Released in Fall 2018
• Criticizes Wirecutter staff for inconsistent limiting of models to console digital pianos
• Categorizes:
1. Keyboard toys
2. Keyboards with actions simulating their acoustic counterparts and with integrated sound systems which are not integral to their attached or detachable console stands
3. Keyboards in which the sound system is integral to the stand/case in which they are housed (e.g., Yamaha's Clavinova series)
4. Keyboards intended for use with external sound systems (i.e., stage instruments)

Suggestion to get a subwoofer to improve feel from bass keys:

https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/aden9h/yamaha_p515_current_best_option_available/

Yamaha P515 parts:

• Digital piano: $1,499.99
• LP-1 three-pedal assembly: $74.99
• Yamaha L515B Wooden Furniture Stand for P515B: $129.99
• Total: $1,705

Review sites:
Tim Praskins's AZ piano review blog, or PianoDreamers.com

Hamilton

Dawn won two Hamilton lottery tickets through their mobile app, so we spontaneously attended the 7:00 p.m. showing at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday, August 17. The ticket office gave us (for $10/each!) first row center tickets, just right of the conductor/keyboardist (seats A104 and 106). We had a quick meal of chicken and waffles at Hazel. This was our first time at the Orpheum. Dawn was over the moon. I am still getting over a cold, so I was more muted, but still had the feeling of, Is this real life right now? Show was outstanding. I enjoyed watching the keyboardist conductor play, excessively bobbing along with the music. It reminded me of how it feels to code software while listening to music that resonates. I'm not sure why, but the staff did not allow photography of the stage or musicians. The keyboardist used a Yamaha.

Weird Al - The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley

Dawn and I attended Weird Al's Strings Attached Tour performance at The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley, on August 9, 2019.

We arrived early. I was starting to feel a head cold. We parked on Shattuck initially and walked past old haunts. At the original Pete's location on Vine, we settled-in and I rested while I listened to a woman unsuccessfully attempt to get phone tech support for her Apple laptop. I had an unsweetened matcha tea latte, which was lovely. Dawn had a mocha, I think.

Pre-show supper was Taste of the Himalays, where everything was great:

• Chicken Nauni (Butter Chicken) Boneless premium chicken thigh meat baked in the Tandoor and then cooked in Himalayan style dairy based buttery sauce
• Palak Mushroom *Vegan (Minced spinach and fresh mushroom cooked with onion, tomato based sauce)

We found a spot near the Kleugel House and this was perfect, just as it was in 2012. Strolling through UC Berkeley, we found the bookstore closed. Telegraph Avenue was next, and a lot of things there were closed too, though we ducked into a Tokyo reseller store where Dawn purchased a few SumiSumi surprise toys.

By the time we got to the ticket line (after averting a crisis in getting the tickets in the app), the line had stretched all the way back to the parking garage. We got in, purchased a tee shirt, and found our seats--pretty cramped. There were a bunch of Weird Al impersonators (~12?).

The show was tightly orchestrated and the orchestra was flawless. The sight of hundreds of mobile devices illuminating the night along with Don't Download This Song was memorable. Weasel Stomping Day has ... not aged well and didn't resonate (weird! disquieting?). Harvey the Wonder Hamster was perfect--thank you.

There's something about Jackson Park Express that Weird Al seems to personally like--the musicianship, perhaps, the nod to past greats. It's not the lyrics, but it would be the song that came into my head in the next few days.

After the show we noted the hanging brocade lamps in the back of the stage area.

Driving home was uneventful, thankfully.

I wish I wish I hadn't been sick--I felt muted.

Orchestra Only Set:

• The Raiders March
• Mission: Impossible
• Superman March
• Star Wars: Throne Room / End Credits

Main Set:

• Fun Zone
• I Lost on Jeopardy / I Love Rocky Road / Like a Surgeon
• The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
• Word Crimes
• One More Minute
• Drum Solo
• Jurassic Park
• Don't Download This Song
• Weasel Stomping Day
• Bass Solo
• Tacky
• Harvey the Wonder Hamster
• Jackson Park Express
• Smells Like Nirvana
• Dare to Be Stupid
• White & Nerdy
• Amish Paradise

Encore:

• The Saga Begins
• Yoda