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There is a podcast called The Julia La Roche Show. It's basically a series of interviews dealing with macroeconomic and market issues. The host is not particularly good as an interviewer, but that turns out to be more feature than bug as she tends to have smart people on her show and she just lets them talk. Anyway, this is not a recommendation for the podcast in general as there are better ones on the same topic. However, one recent interview is worth a listen. It's with Scott Galloway (a B-school professor at NYU). I don't think he is right about everything, or really anything in particular, so this isn't an endorsement of his views, but I think what he has to say is interesting and worth listening to. The first few minutes are pretty banal middle class investment stuff, but it gets more interesting.

I started responding and thought better of it. I don't find commercial audio gear very interesting, but I don't need to rain on anyone else's parade.

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Obvious choice - Steinway Spirio

Happy birthday!

That oven design doesn't look very useful for making syrup.

RIP Guy Caballero Joe Flaherty, Freaks and Geeks actor and SCTV star, dies at 82

Thanks everyone for the well wishes. It's been a nice day which has culminated with some late night Ella Fitzgerald. What could be better?

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90 https://wapo.st/4czEfAz

Happy birthday!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21799-some-other-time-the-lost-session-from-the-black-forest/

An interesting take on the fall of Kodak. Not new, but not a perspective I'd seen before. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-kodaks-moment According to Kamal: “The people taking pictures suddenly changed, from 60% women to 70% men. Kodak didn't know how to market to men. But even if they could get them to buy, they didn't want to, because men don't print. Unlike women, they hadn't been socialised in the role of family archivist."

I used to (30 years ago) know Don at DAG a little bit. Not sure if he is still in the Leica repair business, but he was our go to at the time. https://www.dagcamera.com/contact.html