The updated Washington Post application adds a nifty feature to its comics page. You can swipe back to see the previous six days of strips, as I demonstrate on my Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet.
With the end of my Boston Globe home delivery subscription — along with digital access — just two days away, I will be relying more on the tablet for news. In addition to the Post, I have started subscribing to the Kindle edition of The New York Times. For $20/month there are no ads and, thankfully, no comments. I can read it on the HD 10, but I’m finding the format easier to navigate with the Kindle Paperwhite.
Ever see The Big Bang Theory S9:E19? That’s the episode with Sheldon’s Fortress of Shame.
https://youtu.be/uGAuGzvv6xM?t=98
There are three items in there that I have and still use.
The Canon Pixma isn’t needed for much printing anymore, but it continues to be very active as my scanner. The Panasonic DVD player does duty as my single-disc CD player in the living room, to complement my Sony 300-disc CD changer.
Even the Compaq Presario PC, purchased on 10/25/2001, the day Windows XP was released, has an occasional use. Someone recently handed me a 3.5″ diskette and said they need the files on it transferred to a USB stick.
Did I ever point out the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) LA120 dot-matrix keyboard printers in Superman: The Movie? No? Well, they’re in there. If it was a sponsored product placement, the target market was quite narrow.
I don’t have Apple TV+, so I’m not watching Severance. On Thursday, Colbert had praise for the series.
Colbert thinks so highly of Severance that he has made this parody video. I may not be familiar with the series, but I recognize the non-Apple hardware in it.
That sure looks like John Turturro is sitting at a Data General (DG) Dasher D2 terminal. It’s same vintage as the DEC LA-120.
The headphones are Sennheiser HD 414’s from 50 years ago. They were very light and had clear sound, but you had to hold them tightly against your ears to hear any bass.
The turntable that Colbert plays in the video is a recent model. The Pro-Ject Classic EVO.
Speaking of DEC and DG, they were given something of a nod in the December, 1983 issue of Playboy. I was classmates with the Playmate of the Month’s big sister Susan, who was exquisitely beautiful.
Also making an appearance in that issue were Massachusetts-made Allison Three and Nine loudspeakers. By the end of ’83 I had owned my Three’s for four years. The Pioneer LD-1100 LaserDisc player was the model up from my LD-660.
Trump says he had declassified the documents retrieved from his Florida residence by the FBI under a valid search warrant. Why in the world would he declassify them, let alone take them home after he left office?
We shouldn’t have to take Trump’s word on this. It’s safe to assume he is declassifying the documents post facto, which he doesn’t have the authority to do. Again it must be asked, why did he take secret documents to his private residence? There is no acceptable answer to that question.
The potential consequences of arresting Trump and, with luck, sending him to prison, are far preferable to the risks of him possibly holding public office again. His crazed followers threatening civil war would only feel all the more empowered by Trump being back in the White House. Lock him up.
His story keeps changing. Of course it does. Does anyone believe that Trump took work home?
Another musician from the solid gold years of Los Angeles recording studio greatness has died. Guitarist Bill Pitman was — wow! — 102.
Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the ’70s, and who for decades was heard on the soundtracks of countless Hollywood films and television shows, has died at 102. https://t.co/HpfzSNobHn
Thanks to those damn bureaucrats at the American Federation of Musicians, with their blasted rules and forms, we can see where and when Pitman worked on “Good Vibrations”.
The Beach Boys were under contract to Capitol Records, which is listed as their employer, and yet the sessions were held at Gold Star, Western Recorders and Sunset Sound. Like the Beatles by that time, it seems that what Brian wanted Brian got, although the Beatles almost always recorded at EMI’s Abbey Road studios. One of the “Good Vibrations” sessions ran between 11:30 PM and 3:00 AM, which was also typical of the hours kept by the Beatles.
At the start of the record, right after “… the colorful clothes she wears…” going into “… and the way the sunlight…” there’s a noticeable shift in the sound. Brian must have spliced two different takes together. Were they recorded on the same day, or even in the same studio?
Something else today that has me waiting for an update.
The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately and set the deadline for a possible objection to 3 p.m. on Friday.
Trump must be playing his stable genius chess game, staying five moves ahead of everybody else. He had someone act as an informant to falsely claim there were top secret nuclear weapon documents at his Florida residence.
Trump knew that would force Attorney General Garland to seek a search warrant, setting up a new Witch Hunt victim card for him to play when he announces his presidential candidacy. The same sort of brilliant strategy that had him pleading the Fifth Amendment this week.
