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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.

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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”

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1440p at ~27" is the sweet spot these days. Nvidia are getiting high on their own supply with the 40 series launch. I hope they crater in a spectacular fashion. It's a hell of a time to buy a used 30 series. I'm seeing sub-$1000 3090s eveywhere.

Last night I had to do something I hadn't done in decades: extract a multi volume ARJ file. Back in the floppy disk era it was commn to break up archives into 1.4MB chunks. ARJ did this by making file.arj file.a01 file.02 etc. I had four such files (dated May 12, 1993) containing an install of Dune II, the first RTS game. It took me several hours to get them open. The ARJ utility's website is still online, but many of the links are broken. None of their binaries run correctly on W10. I dug up several modern unarchivers for OS X that purported to work with ARJ files, but none worked correctly. I eventually got 7Zip working on my W10 box. It took some futzing, but it cheerfully extracted the split archive. I now have some savegames going back to Jan, 1993. Dune II runs ...decently in DOSBox, but in the course of my adventure I discovered Dune Legacy, which is a FLOSSy remake of Dune II that runs on modern OSes. It requires assets from the original game (which I had in the ARJ archive) but it doesn't look like it loads old savegames. I might pine for a lot of aspects of the 90s, but I don't miss the computer technology.