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[razgueado]

Good Day Page3Raz.

G'day, TD.

[Travellin Dave]

Now I'm really confused....There were Oliva and EPC Black Swans over at the Page.  (EPC is noticably better)  Now I see there is a JdN Black Swan.  So what goes?  I thought companies fought like hell over names?

https://www.cigarpage.com/black-swan-dealio.html

Never mind....I just read the description under this one....apparently the Page buys leftover stuff, like Caldwell but instead of giving them different names, they call them all Black Swan.  First one was apparently an RP.

And they must agree that the EPC's are the better offering as the vitola samplers offer 10 in the Oliva and RP samplers but only 8 in the EPC.
*never mind...pricing is $10 less for the 8 pack....

They also offer a sampler of those three.
https://www.cigarpage.com/black-swan-ultimate-14-cigar-sampler.html

Guessing the JdN offering is the newest one, so not included there.

[Travellin Dave]

Still lulling...

[A Friend of Charlie]

Connections
Puzzle #835
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[A Friend of Charlie]

Today's Birthdays

Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include:

writer Euripides in 480 B.C.;
Roman Emperor Augustus in 63 B.C.;
Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in 1215;
civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell in 1863;
Mary Mallon, the so-called Typhoid Mary, in 1869;
actor Mickey Rooney in 1920;
musician John Coltrane in 1926;
musician Ray Charles in 1930;
musician Julio Iglesias in 1943 (age 82);
actor Paul Petersen in 1945 (age 80);
actor Mary Kay Place in 1947 (age 78);
musician Bruce Springsteen in 1949 (age 76);
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in 1951 (age 74);
writer/filmmaker George C. Wolfe in 1954 (age 71);
actor Rosalind Chao in 1957 (age 68);
actor Jason Alexander in 1959 (age 66);
actor Elizabeth Pena in 1959;
actor LisaRaye McCoy in 1967 (age 58);
musician Ani DiFranco in 1970 (age 55);
writer Ana Marie Cox in 1972 (age 53);
Umaro Sissoco Embaló, president of Guinea-Bissau, in 1972 (age 53);
musician Jermaine Dupri in 1972 (age 53);
musician Sam Bettens (K's Choice/Rex Rebel) in 1972 (age 53);
filmmaker Christopher Miller in 1975 (age 50);
musician Rachael Yamagata in 1977 (age 48);
actor Anthony Mackie in 1978 (age 47);
actor David Lim in 1983 (age 42);
actor Cush Jumbo in 1985 (age 40);
comedian Hasan Minhaj in 1985 (age 40);
actor Skylar Astin in 1987 (age 38);
musician Yuqi ((G)I-dle) in 1999 (age 26).

Today's Over/Under is 6

Nine.

[razgueado]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

[LuvTooGolf]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I should have that coming up sometime next month. A lot of our team has already gotten theirs and have had nothing but problems.

[A Friend of Charlie]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

[Travellin Dave]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

I've always  PC's and Android phones.  Can't quite figure out Apple products.

[A Friend of Charlie]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

I've always  PC's and Android phones.  Can't quite figure out Apple products.

I'm with you on that, but it seems we're in the minority. I've been told that's because I'm an old man.

[razgueado]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

This is my latest Microsoft Surface Pro.  I also have Macs - a 2019 Macbook Pro, and a 2015 iMac in the studio.

The Surface Pro has been my personal computer of choice for ten years.  This is the fourth one I've had.  I like that I can use it as a tablet, but it also behaves like a workstation.  I like Macs, especially for creative work, but they're expensive and there are little quirks about the OS that annoy me.  I've never much liked the iPad or the regular Surface because even with a bluetooth keyboard they're just a tablet with a keyboard, rather than a personal computer.  The Surface Pro just feels right to me for running my personal life.

I've upgraded about every 2-3 years, usually because I come across a deal.  I got my Surface Pro 7 because it came into the tech recycler where my son works.  It had 16 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, and cost me $400.  I upgraded to the 11 because the 7 had really gotten beat up over the past 3 years, and had a hairline crack in the screen.  The new one has 32 GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and it was on sale, and I got it on terms of 20-months-same-as-cash. 

[razgueado]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

I've always  PC's and Android phones.  Can't quite figure out Apple products.

I despise the iPhone.  I have one issued by work, and it drives me nuts. 

I have the option of using using my personal Android for work, but they have to BYOD it and then it could easily end up qualifying for some yahoo's Public Information Request.  Not going there.

I never owned a Mac until after the turn of the century.  I was mostly a software application developer from 1990 to 2018, and that world was owned by Microsoft and Intel.  So I have vast amounts of Windows experience and knowledge.  Macs are fun when I'm in creative mode, where figuring things out is part of the process, and I've gotten pretty good at using them.  But for the daily routine, I don't want to have to figure out the eccentricities of MacOS.  If I'd only ever used Macs, those wouldn't be eccentricities, and it would be Windows that would require figuring things out.  It is what it is.

[Travellin Dave]

New computer day here, for me. Always kind of a pain in the ass.

I loathe that day. I will try to avoid it for as long as I can. Are you going with a PC or Mac?

I've always  PC's and Android phones.  Can't quite figure out Apple products.

I'm with you on that, but it seems we're in the minority. I've been told that's because I'm an old man.

Likewise.

[Travellin Dave]

Apple lull.

[Travellin Dave]

Been watching "Dark" on Netflix.  Been around a while but I'm just getting to it.  Interesting.