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dnanian

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Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.

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Haku pupdate.

Haku’s lymphoma was intially diagnosed in November of 2022. His initial remission ended this past January, and his restarted CHOP protocol failed shortly thereafter. His third, different treatment was ineffective, and, as of yesterday, we’re trying a fourth: Tanovea. It has a 40-50% chance of helping in stage IIIa, and we hope it’ll give him more happy days.

It’s clear, though, as we approach the end of this journey, that every additional good day is a gift, for him and us.

A Bernese Mountain Dog looking through a tree crotch, shortly after drinking water out of its natural bowl.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Khruangbin - A la Sala

Yes, yes, Khruangbin vibes, etc. Interesting interstitials that gives this an all-in-one-night throughline.

Continued groove and Malian-influenced guitar (along with many others) make this, well, what you'd expect. But also what'd you'd want.

(Still don't get why some call them psychedelic, though.)

Love the (hard to protect well) day-to-night package. Pressing pretty bit a bit noisy...

dnanian,
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@scottearle I'm sure they've explained in an interview at some point. Sometimes people just like the sound of something… :-)

Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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Well it's been a long long day or so. Haven't slept after camping out queuing at @waxandbeans for Record Store Day. I got all I wanted

It was really cold but at least no rain. Going to sleep like a log tonight.

Alot of Limited stuff this year.

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega @waxandbeans Still can't believe that Wicker Man EP is UK-only for RSD. Arrgh. :-)

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega @waxandbeans Maybe there's a chance there'll be some leftover. Do you remember if it was RSD "First" or “Exclusive”?

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@Whiskeyomega @waxandbeans Bummer. >sigh<

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@Whiskeyomega Yea - it's about $60 USD shipped...

dnanian, to vinyl
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Cocteau Twins - Treasure

This might be my favorite Cocteau Twins album.

It's flawless from stasrt to finish, starting with the one-two punch of Ivo and Lorelei... and it never lets up.

I have to assume that the presence of new member Simon Raymonde is what kicked things up a notch.

Superb. No better place to start, if you're new to the Cocteau Twins...

dnanian, to vinyl
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ozean - s/t

I, too, enjoy the Cocteau Twins.

dnanian,
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@hotdogsladies I hear your shouting it from the flagstones.

dnanian,
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@hotdogsladies (Clearly we need to do a blog of just misheard Cocteau Twins lyrics, which would basically be all of them.)

dnanian, to animals
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“We have a PT appointment in about 10 minutes? Well, sure - but how about if I lie down in this swamp first?”

dnanian, to random
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A post-chemo afternoon in three photos.

Haku, a Bernese Mountain Dog, looking back at the camera, swimming in the water.
Haku, a Bernese Mountain Dog, rolling on the grass after swimming..

dnanian, to vinyl
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Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary

As you may recall, Rockpile put out a bunch of records during their brief lifespan mostly not under the Rockpile name. Here's one of Edmunds' two.

This starts out with the one-two punch of Girls Talk (Elvis Costello) and Crawling from the Wreckage (Graham Parker) - Edmunds wasn't much of a songwriter, but he was an great interpreter & player.

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@hotdogsladies Parker was definitely the definition of an angry young man, with a very sharp pen.

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@hotdogsladies Love that song. I’ve never seen the video…!

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@hotdogsladies That whole bridge section is so interestingly constructed…

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@hotdogsladies I think I've actually heard that episode, but I need to listen to it again... Chris Molanphy is definitely someone you want on your Music Trivia team.

Gargron, to random
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The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

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@mjgardner Huh? That's not what I mean.

I'm saying Threads could set up a server and then "misuse" the incoming content and metadata, train against it, whatever, and no one would necessarily ever know.

Preëmptively blocking before ill intent is shown seems more than a bit reactionary. Although then people would say that Meta has shown ill intent on other platforms, so… 🤷‍♂️

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@mjgardner @eatyourglory It's more that I probably still don't understand the "Federated" timeline (which is what I meant by the 'stream’).

And people wonder why Mastodon can be confusing... :-)

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@mjgardner @eatyourglory So it's really "local +”, basically. It's not really "federated", because it's not a stream of the toots from the servers you federate with...only those followed by users.

Of course! ;-)

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@mjgardner @eatyourglory I get that it's what Federated has been defined to mean. I'm saying it's not what a normal person would think it was doing...that's all.

dnanian,
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@mjgardner When you need a long post explaining why things don't appear when searching (etc), you must recognize a "normal person" doesn't have to be someone who has used anything else at all. It's unexpected behavior.

When we all use a term like the “fediverse”, it implies an aggregation of separate servers coöperating and acting like a “universe” of content...and that search would find things in that universe.

Saying “that's not how it works" doesn't mean that's not how it should work.

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@mjgardner Learning something doesn't make it "good behavior" - it means you just have to deal with it.

There's a difference between “intuitive" and "that doesn't make sense to a normal person”.

Again - I get it, this is how it works. But that doesn't mean it's good. It just means it's how it works right now.

dnanian,
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@mjgardner Well, no; the current server design forces local storage, but that doesn't actually have to be the case.

Anyway - this is unproductive, I know. It is how it is…everything has its frustrations.

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