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Intel hits back

Also a recording artist for a time

Have watched a few videos (including a rambling Quincy Jones one and another preoccupied that it didn’t have a USB-C port when developed in 2015) and its seems like it’s hit this price point before. Not surprising the reviews at $1500 and $300 are different. Some are more critical of the analog input than Tyll (though he also addresses). Seems you may need to limit output settings to it (saw a AKG response to a OS X question recommending 16/44.1 at one point). Still so tempting.

Antkind. Kaufman is just as fun in print.

Thanks. Good suggestion.

I'm having second thoughts on the HD8XX, not because of the above, but because I went to order replacement pads for the deteriorating cups and headband pads and can't find the latter anywhere. There's hardly a listing on search and Senn is out of stock. I was eventually browsing Croatian resellers, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I don't think Senn is in that much trouble, but anyone have a known source in the US? And yes, there are low-rated third party alternatives I'm unlikely to order.

Plowed through the seven fun episodes

There’s a story behind this. Sadly I can’t remember and Google isn’t helping.

Henri Cartier Bresson - The Decisive Moment

The couple that changed photography - the invention of Robert Capa. https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/dream-teams?vpid=p0973v2z

Second LP in over a year. From “silver” to “gold” with Mr. Zimmerman

Happy accidents in ordering: clear or white? Compromised clear on white mat this time. Also first vinyl played since COVID showed.

Aaron Rose, Photographer In Isolation, Dies at 84 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare Mr. Rose made his own cameras and other devices, and Rebecca Hackemann, who was his assistant and archivist from 1999 to 2005, said his studio was a sight to behold. “It was littered with glass and silver globes, optical devices and cameras he had built himself that replaced lenses with pinholes,” she said by email. “It was like walking into a different century.” In his darkroom, he spurned the ready-made chemicals available from Kodak and other manufacturers; its walls were lined with bottles and cans full of mysterious substances.

Hope it's a great, sugary one.

Lou Ottens, Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Has Died https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-ottens-inventor-audio-cassette-tape-dead-obit-1139657/ https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975598869/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-has-died

What about this? That, some Monk LPs, cheap wine, and my old Eagle One, and I'd probably be happy.

You have another possibility... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dynavox-Record-Model-132-Phonograph-High-Fidelity-Needs-Needle/114427000117

Fun read today. Offering up for sports fans... "Fleming Field was the appropriately abysmal home of possibly the worst team in the history of paid play. They were called the Yonkers Hoot Owls, and their story is a lot like the movie “Major League” … albeit without the uplifting arc or happy ending. In amenities, in attendance and in the independent Northeast League’s standings, the Hoot Owls were dead last, then dead altogether. They lived for just a single, financially ruinous summer." https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-worst-baseball-team-ever

Speaking of lists, in case anyone else wants to follow along with Waits’ faves. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tom-waits-favourite-albums-list-dylan-rolling-stones-beefheart/ Tom Waits’ 20 favourite albums of all time: In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra Solo Monk by Thelonious Monk Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryers The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan Lounge Lizards by Lounge Lizards Rum Sodomy and the Lash by The Pogues I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen The Specialty Sessions by Little Richard Startime by James Brown Bohemian-Moravian Bands by Texas-Czech The Yellow Shark by Frank Zappa Passion for Opera Aria Rant in E Minor by Bill Hicks Prison Songs: Murderous Home Alan Lomax Collection Cubanos Postizos by Marc Ribot Houndog by Houndog Purple Onion by Les Claypool The Delivery Man by Elvis Costello

Thanks much! Also it’s a reminder to watch Cabin Boy again.

Watching Chris Elliott impersonate people a long time ago

The polymath John Herschel, nephew of the trailblazing astronomer Caroline Herschel, coined the word photography in 1839 in his correspondence with Henry Fox Talbot — a onetime aspiring artist turned amateur inventor. (The invention of photography and how the new technology revolutionized both art and science occupies Chapter 14 of Figuring, titled “Shadowing the Light of Immortality,” from which this essay is adapted.) For several years, Talbot had been experimenting with techniques for transmuting the impermanence of light and shadow into permanent prints on paper coated with receptive chemicals. But his images failed to last — exposed to natural light, the prints faded over time. Just as he finally perfected the process with help from Herschel, who had proposed using a sodium thiosulfate coating to make the images more permanent, Talbot got word that a French rival by the name of Louis Daguerre had devised an image-making process, which he had named after himself and was planning on presenting at a joint meeting of the Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris on January 7. Talbot realized that the revolution he had spent years planning was already afoot and might have another leader. He wrote to Herschel frantically in the last week of January that he must present his own findings before the Royal Society, for “no time ought to be lost, the Parisian invention having got the start of 3 weeks.” He scrambled to rally excitement for his “art of photogenic drawing.” In a letter of February 28, 1839, Herschel objected to the term “photogeny” to describe Talbot’s new image-making process, noting that it “recalls Van Mons’s exploded theories of thermogen & photogen.” This associative defect, Herschel argued, is amplified by the word’s poetic deficiencies: “It also lends itself to no inflexions & is not analogous with Litho & Chalcography.” Instead, Herschel proposed “photography.” On March 12, he read before the Royal Society a paper titled “Note on the Art of Photography or the Application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the Purposes of Pictorial Representation” — the first public utterance of the word photography. https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/03/virginia-woolf-julia-margaret-cameron-photography/

I’ll pop this over here too