Navigating through the first season of Fringe, by recommendation of a half relative.
The fringe science is laughable but the implied conspiracy theory involving big corporations is premonitory in 2009: "how are we going to do our job if we have lower security clearance than this company's employees". Having fun so far.
there is an american manufacturer of the same power supplies, same foot print. about double the price. don't remember where.
i have too many new toys to play with at the moment. one makes 116db on startup. its pissing off the neighbors. (which is a good thing)
Been rainy here, but trying to record the rapidly disintegrating, once great Alviso next door (I've mentioned before). Almost no remaining connection to the surrounding Silicon Valley (Polycom and TiVo once had their HQs there), except the tech bros/brogrammers who visit the TopGolf near the town border. This time with a Hassy 500cm, II 50c back and Zeiss F4 Distagon CF T*.
RIP Roberta Flack.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/24/roberta-flack-soul-and-rb-icon-behind-killing-me-softly-dies-aged-88
Roberta Flack, singer of 'Killing Me Softly,' has died at age 88 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/834223765/roberta-flack-killing-me-softly-dead
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/arts/music/roberta-flack-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU4.elyl.yNdxk0iM0eNI&smid=url-share
RIP Gwen McCrae. Google search results report today as the day of her passing, but there are exactly zero news articles on it. This Information Age thing stinks.