Trump obviously wants Putin to claim all of Ukraine for Russia. To that end, he refuses to give Zelensky any assistance. But now Trump is harming his own war effort in Iran by refusing assistance from Zelensky.
Author: DOuG pRATt
From Denmark With Sound
https://hifihalloffame.com/equipment/dynaco-a25-loudspeaker/
The A-25 was just the right size — smaller than the Large Advent speaker, and larger than the Small Advent. It was a rarity for its time in being praised by both Consumer Reports and Stereophile.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaco-25-loudspeaker
For anyone who thinks $1600 would be a lot of money to spend on a pair of speakers today, adjusted for inflation that’s what a pair of Dynaco A-25’s cost when they were introduced in 1969.
Goolsbee!
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank president Austan Goolsbee is always good for explanations and observations of what’s going on with the economy.
Tracy Kidder (1945-2026)
Massachusetts-based author Tracy Kidder’s name has appeared here a few times. Like Jon Krakauer and Michael Lewis, Kidder was a non-fiction writer.
I first read Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine and last read Rough Sleepers. I didn’t read everything in between, but I have fond memories of reading House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. The NYTimes has a good overview of Kidder’s life and writings.
Dear Verizon
Verizon Fios has been my ISP for exactly twenty years. I dropped Fios TV a year ago, after the forced switch from QAM to IP. The soft picture quality, that compared unfavorably to even DVD, was unacceptable to me.
Verizon is now about to disable Bismo’s DVR. He has a 4K TV, and perhaps Fios IP TV will look better on that than it did on my 2K setup.
Regarding my Internet service, I am once again trying to get the attention of an actual person to address this serious security issue within the Verizon Fios router.
At home, when I disable Wi-Fi on my Pixel 8a phone, leaving 5G/LTE network access, I am able to use Verizon Home remote administration. This is with Normal Security set on the G3100 router and without Remote Administration enabled. Which means that I, or potentially anyone else, can access my Fios home network from anywhere on the Internet. Clearly, the Verizon Home utility has backdoor access into the G3100 router. This is a serious security hole.
Away With Words
A man who speaks constantly, and yet he’s a man of few words.
“They gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.”