25 47

What, you think that’s a reference to the 25th Amendment being invoked to remove the 47th president? No, I’m referring to the only passage in the Bible that is chapter 25, verse 47. 

Leviticus 25:47

47 “‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, 48 they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

As relevant today as it was in Old Testament times!

A Distorted View

How good am I at detecting audible distortion? I’ll go to Germany to find out.

https://www.klippel.de/listeningtest/

To ensure a valid test, I wore a pair of IEMs with vanishing low measured distortion. (The 7Hz x Crinacle Zero:2) This was the result from my first pass.

You reached an audibility threshold of -39 dB. This value is near the mean value of the audibility threshold of all listeners participated in the test. However, there were some other participants that were more sensitive in detecting those distortions. It is very likely that those participants had more experience in careful listening. Listeners who have repeated the test see that a little bit of training will improve their sensitivity for those distortions and reduce their audibility threshold.

Some listeners went all the way down to -69 dB! Now that I’m familiar with the test, and there are other parameters that can be selected, including music, I’ll give it another try later.

Hardware for Software

Back in January, I asked this question and expressed my doubt, regarding Amazon’s use of fiber optic cable.

Light Speed

I was correct in assuming that Amazon is hooking up with Corning for its expansion plans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/amazon-taps-corning-for-op.html

With all of the talk and concern about where processors are made, what about the circuit boards designed to hold those chips?

25 47

That’s the “sane-washed” summary of the interview. Here’s the complete recording, with Trump unraveling as it progresses.

Fact-checked:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-interview-meet-press-june-2026-rcna348518

In other news, I’m greatly relieved that Spencer Pratt is out of the running for Los Angeles mayor. I’m pleased to say I’d never even heard of that Pratt until this recent notoriety.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nithya-raman-overtakes-spencer-pratt-021439778.html

Tanks Again

I continue to play with test the new Epson ET-2985. I’m less pleased with the scanner than I am with the printer. I’m much pickier with the former than I am the latter.

On eBay I bought a color transparency of my childhood crush Allene Roberts. (Hey, how was I supposed to know she was old enough to be my mother!) This is an image the seller made with a professional transparency scanner.

The results when printing on regular copier paper and matte card stock were as expected, with the latter being better. I used the default quality setting for both.

Likewise when printing on glossy photo paper. When seeing the color banding I wondered if I should have used the photo quality setting. Instead, I ran a nozzle check.

Sure enough, a minor clog was revealed in the black test pattern. Two cleaning cycles were needed to clear it. That was the second clog I’ve encountered, but wasting ink is much less of a concern with the tanks than it would be with cartridges.