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I'll keep posting an article every two years. Here's a great one about working at Radio Shack on Thanksgiving. http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy-stories "This is a consumer technology business that is built to work perfectly in the year 1975. The Internet comes around, and this, being a technology company, is expected to move on it aggressively and know what it's doing, except basically nobody really understood the Internet for a very long time. So they whiffed big a few times. Then the iPhone came around and rendered half the stuff RadioShack sold completely redundant. This company needed to become something radically different a decade ago. I just don't think it knows how to be anything else. It's like retracing the steps and doings of a drunk person: okay, here's where he keyed the cop car. Wait, why'd he do that? I don't know, but his pants are lying here, so this is before he stripped naked and tried to rob the library."

iTunes Radio playlist mixed from Afternoon Delight, Silly Love Songs and Tiny Dancer. Happy goofiness overflows. Edit: Example...

Hope it's a great one!

Congrats and good luck. Packing sucks, but unpacking is kinda cool.

Taking a Venezuelan vinyl journey into space...

Top Googled Thanksgiving Recipes By State: http://t.co/1Q9WvNzL74 Dirt Pudding?

Not THE song.

^ What they said.

The '79 CBS pilot for a sci-fi comedy series called Starstruck. Lets play a game - how far can you get through it? http://youtu.be/nPLEoZ1TtZM

For those unhappy with their new iPhone 6s BlackBerry is offering a "trade up" program. https://tradeup.blackberry.com/en/us/rmw/passport.html

Iron Horse does Rocketman And of course that other version...

^ Thanks. Dark Knight Trilogy - BR $28/DVD $14 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DUCXFUC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DUCXFUC&linkCode=as2&tag=onepersho-20&linkId=I6ZFJQ46JVTQLTOB

Catching up with three hours of Serial.

Lume Cube mobile lighting http://youtu.be/_d_pXEE6mec https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1193685734/lume-cube-flash-and-video-light-for-gopro-iphone-a

Continuing down the rabbit hole. American Experience's Annie: It's a Hard Knock Life, From Script to Stage on the PBS app (also on site). http://youtu.be/35z_vMFOfAk

A burger, which begs the question - Brent, ever been to Black Bear Diner?

Like they did with iTunes, iPods and iPhones.

Ensemble 96 - Kind [2L DSD]

Speaking off (though possibly a filter)... https://www.nativedsd.com

Technics entering the 24-bit store market. http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/20/technics-tracks-high-resolution-music-store/?ncid=rss_truncated

Gets better with every listen...

Nichols - In a movie you do have control of it, but the thing that you don't ever control after you choose [a film] is the central metaphor that is the movie. It seems to me that, to a greater extent than a play, a movie's artistic success, success as an experience, depends on the power of the metaphor that is the central engine of the movie. If you have a powerful metaphor, if the audience knows why they're there, you can soar very high. If you don't have that metaphor, no amount of cleverness with the camera or talent on the part of the actors can lift it, because the engine that is the metaphor is everything. I believe that now as much as I did when I began. Is that central metaphor something that you can impose, or is it inherent in the material? It's in the story—it's as simple as that. The story either contains it or it doesn't. In between there are gradations. There are stories that seem to convey them but can't stand the pressure of the process or confrontation by the audience, and certain metaphors crack under that pressure. I said to [Anthony] Minghella, when I'd seen The English Patient, that I'd never seen a New York audience so still, so absolutely silent, during a movie. It was a very strong experience to be in that audience. And he said, "Yes, well—they sense purpose." That's a wonderful thing to say. http://www.filmcomment.com/article/of-metaphors-and-purpose-mike-nichols-interview?src=longreads