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His Mid-80s run are still some of my favorite movies. RIP William.

While duck tape or sealant may work, I was probably going to sell this and get a real system (Oneida) to mount in its place before too long, so returning for full refund makes the most sense.

I would love to see his shop wrapped in that stuff.

Naaman agrees, I'm sure. He just wanted to post some Unicorns.

A giant bag of coffee just arrived. Damn it smells amazing.

I will listen to that one, Dusty. I find this one amazing: It's a pity this video is such poor quality

Exhibit A: Exhibit B:

Via:

I am Voltron, and I approve of this message.

Paging DOTU:

Continuing the theme:

And Brent moves to Oregon...

This time it was a Porta plane that jumped, but the same damned finger! Not bad enough to go to the Dr. I just cleaned and wrapped it. I know very well how to treat it myself now.

Oh boy 45 minutes on old with Sweetwater. Their hold music BLARINGLY, DEAFENINGLY LOUD. Also terribad and interrutped by unnaturally perky sounding people telling me shit IDGAF about in any lifetime. Finally got a tech, which lead to another 45 minutes of back and forth, installing a creepy-ass TeamViewer app, much fuckery with Traktor, system configs etc ...all of which lead to confirmation that yes, Julia, channels 1 & 2 on the MOTU are in fact dead. New unit being shipped for Friday. I hafta get the old one in the mail within <mumble> days. Probably no show this Friday, either.

Looks like the two month old Dust Right is already developing a leak along a bad seam. So I guess I have to uninstall the whole fucking thing and take it in for a replacement. If I have to go to that much trouble I might just get the money back and get a real unit for the wall.

I have been watching all of it closely. My younger son is deployed In Kuwait in an Army air support group. They are prepped for sudden redeployment as needed.

Evidently the Middle East felt left out.

i read about Renaud this morning, and that sucks. 😡 RIP William Hurt. Age 71 seems a bit young to die of natural causes these days. ☹️ https://variety.com/2022/film/news/william-hurt-dead-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-1235203576/

RIP Brent Renaud, the first US journalist killed Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The good news: I found my DJ mixer. I had indeed put it in its original 2005 shipping box, which is what a Smart Knuckles does. The bad news: I think my shiny new MOTU M4 is borked. I cannot get sound out of channels 1-2 no matter what I do. The device is class compliant (does not require drivers) and it worked (or rather "worked") out of the box. I got Traktor to recognize it, though it showed up in the device list as "Audio Out." I assiged the two decks to outputs 1-2 and 3-4 respectively. The appropriate volume bars on the M4's display lit up when I play back a track on either deck. Channels 3-4 worked just fine. No amount of swapping cables and inputs on the DJ mixer could elicit any sound from 1-2. I then installed the M4's Mac drivers (certified to work with Monterey) and enabled the extension (everything is disabled by defualt in newer versions of MacOS.) That caused the M4 to show up in the device list under its own name, but it didn't fix the lack of sound output on the first two channels. I've powerecycled everything (including the DJ mixer) but nothing has worked. I might try the M4 on a different machine, but I STRONGLY suspect my M4 is faulty So, uh, no show next week I think.