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RIP, George Stranahan, Pilgrimosopher and Benefactor of Physicists & Bar Flies A venturesome millionaire, he forged an only-in-America career in fields ranging from craft beer to free speech activism to scientific research. https://www.denverpost.com/2021/06/20/george-stranahan-benefactor-of-physicists-and-barflies-dies-at-89/amp/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/us/george-stranahan-dead.html https://www.aspenhalloffame.org/inductee/george-stranahan/

Is this where I mention all the Amazon Prime Day Blu-Ray deals going on today? https://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Classics-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B08CPLM17C/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1WXJIM6W2RCWR&dchild=1&keywords=hitchcock+collection&qid=1624296829&s=movies-tv&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sprefix=Hitchcock%2Coffice-products%2C211&sr=1-5

‘Paradise exists!’: Sebastião Salgado’s stunning voyage into Amazônia https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/21/paradise-exists-sebastiao-salgados-stunning-voyage-into-amazonia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

These settings were in earlier links, but just in case… “Enjoy” Apple Music Spatial Audio on third-party headphones https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/21/spatial-audio-apple-music-headphones/

50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ Mitchell’s “Blue” exists in that rarefied space beyond the influential or even the canonical. It is archetypal: The heroine’s journey that Joseph Campbell forgot to map out. It is the story of a restless young woman questioning everything — love, sex, happiness, independence, drugs, America, idealism, motherhood, rock ’n’ roll — accompanied by the rootless and idiosyncratically tuned sounds she so aptly called her “chords of inquiry.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/20/arts/music/joni-mitchell-blue.html?referringSource=articleShare

If there have been mentions of Dave (FXX/Hulu) here I couldn't find it on search, so let's start a thread. If you're like me and late to the party, season 2 recently started and crazy funny/smart. If you're mixed at the pilot jump to episode 3 ("Hypospadias") for a kinda amazing episode of sexual fears/intimacy.

Just trying to understand the past...

Have a blast!

^ Sounds wonderful

That's really great to hear. Congrats. Also ignore anyone's comments about stereo vision being out and Apple's spatial vision being in.

The 15-second Dolby Atmos bug https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/16/15-second-bug-dolby-atmos-spatial-audio-apple-music/

When I was in fifth grade, my class took a field trip to the George Eastman Museum, in Rochester, New York, as the fifth graders at my rural elementary school, 30 minutes south of the city, did every year. Housed in a Colonial Revival mansion built for the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1905, the museum is home to one of the most significant photography and film collections in the world. But our job there was to stare at old cameras the size of our bodies, marvel at the luxury of having a pipe organ in your house, and write down what a daguerreotype is to prove that we’d been paying attention. At the end of the tour—in a second-story sitting room full of personal artifacts—we were presented, matter-of-factly, with a copy of Eastman’s suicide letter, dated March 14, 1932: “My work is done. Why wait?” Eastman shot himself in the heart with a Luger pistol at the age of 77. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/kodak-rochester-new-york/619009/

Good article on the shows target of the schlubby husband-hot wife formula of King of Queens, Flintstones, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/arts/television/kevin-can-f-himself.html?referringSource=articleShare

Not sure we’re thinking of the same thing, but do those rednecks include Chuck Norris?

Same here. Had a couple ATRAC players, both shown in the video. Loved the size, sound, and physicality of it. Strangely rejected someone giving me their MD player about a decade ago. That was a mistake. Still miss my MZ-R70. Moved to the 6GB Creative NOMAD Jukebox. Then seemingly downgraded to a shiny 5GB Apple iPod. I've never wanted anything as quickly as I did that 1G iPod. Even switched my operating system to support it. Nothing seemed as... is beautiful the right word?...until the 1G iPhone. But the Sony MDs were no doubt beautiful too. I won't comment on the Nomad. Anyway, Sony and portable audio always reminds of the article The Civil War Inside Sony https://www.wired.com/2003/02/sony-4/

Sony MiniDisc: The (Not) Forgotten Audio Format That (Never) Failed. I learned a few things.

Decade bump. Anyone else excited about the Duet 3? https://apogeedigital.com/blog/introducing-apogee-duet-3

Hania Rani - Esja

Hand-painted 29,000 frames on glass

Looking great Al. Plenty of spots for the Robotron 2084 machine.

If by some chance this hasn’t been posted in the last seven years…

Speaking of anniversaries…

If you haven't heard... https://megaphone.link/PPY3726922599 / https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/all#/episode-7-tom-petty-and-the-creation-of-wildflowers/

Just watched the first episode of Mildred Pierce (HBO) and it's really good. if you didn't see the mini-series when it was originally released and liked Mare and want more Winslet (and Pearce) check it out.