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Big changes happening. First off, after a decade MixClown is now limiting free users to 10 visible uploads. That means I won't be posting any more sets there after Dec 1st. Mixlr has rolled out their "Channels" feature. The new landing page for my show is: https://testtone.mixlr.com/ Show recordings are located at: https://testtone.mixlr.com/recordings I haven't actually gone live with the new Channels UI. Tonight will be interesting.

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Last Friday's show is up: All the music is there, but the last couple minutes of my rant got cut off because of Mixlr's imposed time limit. I blame Chrome.

Did Apple do something fucky with outgoing message tones recently? My sainted, octogenarian mother wants to hear an audio confirmation for an outgoing message (both text and email) and her iPhone (running the latest OS) will not. I have diagnosed part of the problem. It looks like the iPhone only uses an outgoing message sound with the stock Mail app, not the GMail app. I'm mystified as to the outgoing text message tone. There isn't even an option to change it in Settings as best I can make out.

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SMH kids these days always on their phones. If you know, you know.

Last night's set is up: It's a very ambient set. My headspace keeps going deeper into beatless music.

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I watched RedLetterMedia's Half in the Bag episode on the new Halloween movie. I love RLM as "background, folding laundry" content. At one point they were talking about the significance of the radio tower in the film. I looked up and saw this clip of the radio DJ: *sputter* That's an RE-20. You know, the mic I've used for (nearly) 25 years at this point. They have it pointing at the floor. I am irrationally enraged by this oversight. For some comparison, here's Paul and Stevie showing correct RE-20 use:

Leica Revives the M6, a 35mm Film Camera it Hasn’t Produced Since 2002. It will certainly age better than the digital bodies.

This is pretty cool.

Military plane crashes into apartment building in western Russia.

Last night's show is up: It went really well. Taking Friday off ended up being a wise idea.

Special Saturday edition of Test Tone @ Home live right now: https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

If you know, you know.

Moving Test Tone to tomorrow night, same time (10PM Eastern). Way too tired tonight to go through with it.

Yesterday was the birthday of a women named Kati that I knew well 15 or so years ago. She was a waitress at a diner I frequented heavily in the 00s. She's now in her mid 30s and married to a musician from Brooklyn. I hadn't caught up with Kati in many years, so out of curiosity I ended up down a music rabbit hole. Bo Burnham is an, uh, internet celebrity who combines music and humor. He's decent at both. He had a NetFlix special last year during phase *mumble* of the global pandemic. One of the better known songs off it was "Funny Feeling": Kati's husband did a pretty decent cover of it: I actually like his singing voice better than Bo's, I ...am too old and cranky to get his Brooklyn hipster aesthetic, however. Also the autoexposure on his webcam drives me nuts.

Last Friday's show is (finally) up:

Over the last 15-20 years a series of photos of a Harley Davidson sidecar turned into a (street legal!) go kart have appeared online. The specifics behind them have never been fully explained, but there's a fair amount that's self evident. The photos are from Florida, in 1984. The rider (and presumably creator) of the vehicle is a young fella with an impressive beard. Almost assuredly a boomer. Florida Boomer (as I will now refer to him exclusively) took a vintage even in 1984 HD sidecar and stuck a similarly classic Harley motor on the side of it. How he managed to make a street legal vehicle is beyond me. These are about the best iterations of the photos available online. They have been posted on twitter, reddit and (ugh) pintrest many times. All with requests for more info, but no one has it. I upscaled this shot using Topaz Gigapixel AI and then cleaned it up on Photoshop. I love those 80s rims. Florida Boomer presumably did all of this on an 80s mechanic's salary. Florida Boomer didn't know how good he had it.

So for, uh, reasons the idea of a "combination Chinese restaurant and bowling alley is in our national conscious. I found one. Also, Flack back to 13 years ago.

Holly balls. Anyone need a 27" 1440 165Hz FreeSync monitor? BozosPenisRocketAndBridgeDemolition has got one for Prime members for $160. It also does HDR, but I've yet to see HDR on a gaming monitor worth a crap. I've got a notion to buy two of them and I ...don't have room for two.

Crimean bridge partially collapses after powerful explosion. Russia’s State Duma calls the explosion on Crimean Bridge a “declaration of war”