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RIP Sheila Jordan

I’m not much of a sports guy, so probably behind the times, but there’s sperm racing now? https://www.spermracing.com/races (“race video”) “how the race works: we've designed a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reproductive system—chemical signals, fluid dynamics, synchronized starts. high-resolution cameras track every microscopic move. it's all live-streamed, complete with stats, leaderboards, and instant replays. the winner? the sperm that crosses the finish line first, verified by advanced imaging. the stakes have never been smaller—or bigger.”

Thanks Knucks, great shots.

^^ I think I have this on physical media somewhere....but much of it is in boxes so not 100% sure. I just have to say, too: when Sinead O'Connor smiled, it made me want to smile......

Final batch. This isn't all of them, but it's beyond my ability to xref which ones I've posted before at this point. If you really require more roverhub, check this tag. Gratuitous bork: Probably my favorite photo of the day. I did a bunch of interior shots, a number of which were marred by the damn lens hood being askew, and others flawed with lighting issues. This one actually nails it. No one mentions "bokeh" when talking about Canon EF 14-40mm F/4 superwide zoom, but the fact of the matter is that it handles OOF highlights very well.

Honestly, "roaming a luxury hotel drunk and naked" is quite far up my list of life goals.

Roger Waters: This Is Not A Drill by Roger Waters (2025) https://album.link/nkjdhgpg5zswt Example: I assume that the visuals were a lot more political than the music. It sounds really good, and I liked some of the reworkings of some tunes.

Late to the Party, but Outside Lands Livestream is on Amazon / Twitch How to watch Outside Lands 2025 for free: Hozier, Glass Animals, more https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/outside-lands-2025-livestream-guide-20808979.php No idea if it will be available later for on demand.

Live stream, now in the Stern Grove archive.

Quite an earworm, this one. Also well done with the protest, lads. "Midnight Oil again brought the politics of Reconciliation to the fore during their performance at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Then Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic reconciliation and apologise to Indigenous Australians and members of the Stolen Generations. But he had also said their reconciliation-themed single "Beds Are Burning" was his favourite Midnight Oil song. Midnight Oil performed the song at the ceremony with the word SORRY conspicuously printed on their clothes as a form of apology to Indigenous people for their suffering under white settlement and to highlight the issue to Howard, who was in the audience at the Olympic stadium as an estimated one billion people watched on television. Midnight Oil had consulted with tour mates Yothu Yindi and other Indigenous activists, so that their performance would bring popular protest to the world arena." -Wikipedia

Running a 1 khz signal and measuring AC voltage with the ground lead on the side of the amp and the hot lead on each output pin, I get a brief spike of 0.005 volts before it hits zero. I also noticed the D4 LED is lit while the D3 LED is off or extremely dim. I don't know if that matters but it caught my eye. I took another picture of the last main reservoir caps and it doesn't look to be bulging. Where/how do I measure rail voltages? Will I able to tell visually if those resistors failed? If so, which are they? I try not to open up the amp if I can help it and I haven't done anything with circuits in years so I apologize for the potentially obvious questions. Does the circled area look like a burned/shorted area?

Sarah Slean version of "Julia", performed via hologram with Our Lady Peace

Tim Apple is no Jobs. Joke from 25 years ago:

Lyrics Born At Stern Grove. There is a live stream if you didn't make it. Pointer Sisters Give it up for Ruth Pointer Still going strong at 79!, Performing with her daughter and granddaughter.

Robo jaaaag time again. This time it's for the Pointer s Sisters at Stern Grove

Bobby Whitlock, 77. ...and fuck cancer. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/bobby-whitlock-derek-dominos-co-172001576.html

All right, thought they were batteries... So perhaps it's not really "portable", to the office yes, but around mmmm

This guy reel-ly likes analogue.

These are DC-DC converters

I was thinking, Kevin, are those bricks rechargeable? Does it need a battery management board?

True story: Kenji Kawai wanted to use Bulgarian folk singers for that, but couldn't find any (in Japan), so he had the Japanese folk singers (that he worked with before) learn how to sing like that. (Paraphrasing the rest from memory, so it may not be accurate.) By the time he was done, he had created a new genre, with Bulgarian harmonies, but distinctly Japanese notes and melodies.

As I referenced in the film thread awhile back, I haven’t been reading much the last few years, generally bored in and out of work, and live silly close to Stanford, so Continuing Studies it is. Took classes on (internal v. external) Meaning (Julia Sweeney, on topic, was another student ) and Middle East history. Reading about split between primary and auxiliary texts, but if you’re looking for non-summery end of summer reading... Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (aka The Joyous Science) & Beyond Good and Evil, Cleveland & Bunton’s History of the Modern Middle East, and Gelvin’s The New Middle East. Yeah, stuff I should have read 30 years ago. Two classes are too much with work, so cutting down to one, but standby for Mesopotamian archaeology recommendations next.