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Speaking of over there... just finished Normal People. Pretty good.

Successfully solved a ceiling fan long wobble (rubber octopus!) and extracted a broken light bulb from its socket. Why am I feeling this triumphant? #2020

Turning into our regular mellow Coronavirus Saturday morning kickoff...

Always loved our conversations. IEMs forever.

Ass Ponys' Lohio

Bill Frisell - Valentine - Vinyl Live Stream

Combining a couple loves... https://petapixel.com/2020/08/18/wes-anderson-pens-foreward-of-photo-book-inspired-by-his-style/

Pavement's Quarantine The Past, also for obvious reasons.

Replaced the six year old $11.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter with a modern $14.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter. Improved SQ and 2010 Kia Optima now slightly less embarrassing.

... and is step up the right position?

Camera humor

Matt Herron, Civil Rights Photographer, Dies at 89 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/matt-herron-documentary-photographer-and-adventurer-dies-while-hang-gliding From earlier in the year...

Trini Lopez, singer, guitar designer, and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies from Coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I hear that they're tuned specifically for Rammstein

Indian Matchmaking marathon

Mountain Man - Look at Me Don't Look at Me

This again. I almost wish I was going through a breakup to ride along with this album.

I don’t have any advice, but please let us know when you drive through Milestii Mici.

The film versions of those two were released the same year and the wrong one became famous. After Dark is still unknown and so good. Was in a different spot in my life when I read Thompson, but maaan did it resonate then. Like Bukowski/Fante-levels at the same time, but again I was in a different space (semi-emotionally trapped on a Great Lakes 1x1.5 mile island for several months). Just look at your image. The Killer Inside Me was probably his first great... and a pretty bad movie. From Wikipedia: The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor Horace McCoy ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the foregoing: He let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."

You eventually getting to Thompson?

Helen Jones Woods, member of the multiracial International Sweethearts of Rhythm, dies of the coronavirus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/obituaries/Helen-Woods-dead-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/05/899477501/helen-jones-woods-groundbreaking-female-trombonist-has-died-from-covid-19

As a couple of you know, while the pandemic continues I'm switching remote video events/meetings from my house. My desk has four MacBooks running endpoints, videos and slides, an ATEM switcher, a multi-view monitor and a do-everything-else fifth control MacBook. I'm out of space (so adding normal sized extra monitors is out) and need more from that control MacBook (usually running 4-5 apps during events that I need to instantly view, often without hands to jump between). Which lead me to this. By chance anyone have experience with it or suggestions for similar? I wonder how the recent MacBook's top/screen would handle the weight?