Author: DOuG pRATt
Blues Christmas
Technical Trifecta
Can there be any doubt what will happen when artificial intelligence is powered by quantum computers running on limitless fusion energy, and combined with robotics?
Santa’s Magnetic North Pole
With the resurgent popularity of LP’s and the turntables to play them, phono cartridges are perfect stocking stuffers. Observe the dissection of two cartridges from Danish maker Ortofon.
Electricity generated with magnets, and Denmark has a claim to its discovery.
Christmas Caper
It’s time for my annual Christmas viewing of Larceny, Inc.
Super Pre-Pop
Artist Philip Pearlstein has died. Ten years before Pop Art began to take hold, Andy Warhol’s friend and onetime roommate painted Superman.
It’s like a “Picture of Dorian Gray” version of H.J. Ward’s 1940 Superman painting.
For more — much more — background on the Ward painting:
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-1/
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-2/