The evolution of the Ethernet standard and related products was very significant in my working life. The switch from coaxial cable to twisted-pair wiring with hubs and switches made local area networking easier to install and much more reliable.
On LinkedIn some time ago I told the tale of the strangest 10BaseT problem I worked on.
Last week I caught a comment on a news item about the drone sightings over New Jersey that made me wonder if it was for real or just a troll’s idea of a joke. Some guy ranted the government is lying to us about everything, including the space program. His proof? All of those fake space photos that don’t have stars.
Replying to something like that can go one of two ways, depending on the assumption about the comment being genuine or a joke. If the person making the comment isn’t joking, do they simply not know, or do they have a political axe to grind?
As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. The quote has been attributed to Patrick Moynihan, but it dates back much further than that.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/17/own-facts/
So, what are the facts explaining why some space photos don’t have any stars?
Why did my Windows 11 laptop start chiming? I don’t know, but through the process of elimination I figured out they were notifications coming from Chrome.
Notifications about what? Don’t know, don’t care. Checking the settings in Chrome, I stopped site notifications.
The chimes stopped, but this morning they’re back. The setting had been reset.
Grrr…
Brent Butterworth, whose audio reviews I first read probably 35 years ago, answers a question I submitted to Audio Unleashed, his podcast with Dennis Burger.
Brent is wearing Audio-Technica ATH-M20x headphones. The same ones worn by Jon Stewart on his podcast, as I have pointed out.
For $50 the ATH-M20x has excellent sound quality, but the earpads are the most uncomfortable of any headphones I’ve ever owned. Brent must agree, because he did what I did and replaced the pads.
Dennis is wearing AKG K371 headphones. I also have a pair of those. (Uh… what did I say in the previous post? Something about wanting to have fewer physical possessions?)
Bismo and I were rhapsodizing last week about recording Star Trek as kids, by holding tape recorder mics up to TV speakers. My tape recorder was an Aiwa TP-32, a Christmas gift from my parents when I was ten years old. I soon leveraged my mastery of the prized possession into an audio-visual aide gig at school.
The TP-32 in that video is slightly different from the one I had, which looked like this.
Every so often I check eBay to see if there’s a TP-32 worth buying. Sometimes I see one, but in keeping with my goal of having fewer physical possessions, I never bid.
On my TiVo is Soundbreaking, a documentary about recorded music that was shown on PBS in 2016. The producers of the series put out this nice tribute to George Martin upon his passing that year.
