# (Old) The MMP is the place to be! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472 "2025-01-27T12:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472/37 "2025-01-27T20:36:57Z")
_Started Typing: 2:36 PM ET Clicked Reply: 3:36 PM ET_ Something about **shoe** ’s spontaneously failing bookshelf (OMG, BTW!) made me wonder about something else: **JtC** , have you found any mysterious dirt piles/utensils in the house lately?? 👻 Bailey sometimes plays with her treats before she eats them; she’ll toss them in the air. I love that she does it – playing tells me that she’s a happy dog – but these days she can’t always track where the treat winds up coming down. Watching her look for it can be pretty entertaining. 😁 I always eventually help her, and she’s always so excited to “find” it! Last night’s [Freda Payne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Payne) show was…good. Clearly the woman was once a top-notch singer, but it’s also clear that she’s 82. Still, there were many solid moments and I’m really glad I went. I can only hope to be on the [Blues Alley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Alley) stage when I’m her age and sounding half as good! It’s a great venue, I got to catch up with some friends, and now I can say that I’ve heard her perform “Band of Gold” live. But I’m also glad that I chose the early show: I was able to hit the grocery store on the way home and still walk in my front door by 8pm. 🙂 Tonight there’s a Zoom information session on the summer Vocal Jazz Summit I signed up for a couple of weeks ago. I have a feeling the session is aimed at people who are still deciding whether to go, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to register just in case I learn something useful. Now to catch up on a bunch of stuff from last week before diving into the current MMP… > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/435): > > since they don’t serve Coke products, I resist going there Ha, back when I could still drink soda I was the opposite: I’d sometimes pick a place just because it had Pepsi. 🙂 > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/440): > > I looked at picture, and my immediate response was, “Want”. Looked it up and it’s a bit more pricey than expected, as it is a GWP. According to the price history on the website (local equivalent of Amazon), it would have been ⅓ the price in October. So I’m not buying it, but at least I get to look at the picture of the one you did. The thing with GWPs is that their “price” on the Lego site will only ever be $20-30 but you can’t ever buy them: they’re _only_ available as GWPs. As soon as a set is no longer the current GWP it’s considered “retired,” and the aftermarket price shoots up. So the Books Are My Passion set, “worth” $20 as a free GWP, cost 5x that via eBay (it wasn’t available on Amazon, where I’ve gotten other retired sets). > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/441): > > I do do the mini-crossword and Connections puzzle every day in my digital NYT, just as brain tai chi. I do Connections and the Spelling Bee every evening. 🙂 So do my BFFs, and I secretly love it whenever my single brain outperforms their combined brains! > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/447): > > Yesterday I started “Astrid” it is French with English subtitles. I’m really enjoying it. French is not a language I enjoy, the characters and cases are rather good so far. French is the only foreign language I can listen to when it comes to TV shows/movies: it’s what I studied in school, and I enjoy challenging myself by listening to it sometimes – like with the Netflix shows _[L’Agence](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14746934/)_ and _[Lupin](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531336/)_. Always with subtitles on, though! 😁 > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/455): > > I called Barnes & Noble and asked if they carried the Sunday New York Times. Oh yes, we have that I was told. So I drove over there and found out that they do not carry it. 😲 Did you mention to someone at the store that you’d called and asked? > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/457): > > You’re the same age as my oldest niece. Whippersnapper! You rang? 😁 > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/458): > > Any other suggestions for names for the vehicle with a mind of its own that makes its owner follow its wishes? 🙂 KITT! > [@(Old) Alexa, start the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/464): > > So when I picked her up today, I gave it to her. Awww. 😍 > [@liirogue](#): > > A friend is trying to get me to “upgrade” to some newer version but I’m pretty sure it works more like a regular tablet instead, which after working on a computer all day the last thing I want to do is stare at another form of computer for a couple of hours to read. It also doesn’t have buttons and is a touch screen and having fingerprints all over the place while I’m reading would drive me _insane_. If it’s called a Kindle, it still uses e-ink; the tablets are called Fire (they used to be “Kindle Fire,” which was needlessly confusing). But you’re correct that the newest Kindles don’t have buttons: you have to tap the side of the screen to change the page (however, Kindle screens don’t show fingerprints the way tablet screens do). I like some of the features on the newer Kindles – like colored e-ink! – but I _love_ being able to operate my current Kindle with one hand via buttons; I plan to hang onto it for as long as possible. > [@nelliebly](#): > > she cross-stitched a sampler HA! 🤣 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472)._