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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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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

A perfect debut album, with nary a misstep.

VMP pressing mastered by Barry Grint, spread over 2LPs, gives everything space to breathe.

video/mp4

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Katy J Pearson - Sound of the Morning

Came upon this kind of sideways - Katy sang on one of the new Yard Act songs, so I checked out her most recent LP streaming… and liked it enough to buy it.

This is relatively eclectic, with lots of melodic content. Some quite poppy, some a big folky. Sometimes she uses her voice and vibrato (and minor melodies) in a way that strongly recalls Stevie Nicks.

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Yes - Fragile (Steven Wilson Remix)

Fragile - IMO Yes' best album. Or at least my favorite.

No need to rehash my previous comments, but the remix here is quite interesting. On Roundabout, for example, Bruford's bass drum is nearly as prominent as his snare. And there's certainly no lack of Squire's bass playing, which is (as always) quite forceful.

Again from the Rhino box set, and another stellar pressing.

dnanian, to random
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Tips that, I think, we can all use.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-to-say-when-your-family-opens-your-uncles-casket-during-his-wake-and-finds-it-empty

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XTC - Go2

XTC slumped on their 2nd album. Whether because they were on the road and needed material, or because it was hard to have two Dick-tators in one band (Partridge and Andrews), it’s not clear.

This has some good songs (Moulding is learning how to write, “Are You Receiving Me?” Is great Partridge), but the two Andrews songs aren’t…and “My Weapon”, well, geez.

A shake-up was due, and happened…

This is the new remaster, including the dub Go+.

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Beck - Sea Change

Beck Hansen has a sad.

(This may be my favorite Beck album, and it's a really great recording, too.)

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You have to ask, sometimes, whether battery life claims are even remotely realistic. This is an Apple silicon Mac, on which I was doing email.

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I had no idea Snack Mate (renamed “Easy Cheese” in 1984, because normal cheese is SO HARD, guys) started in 1966.

I regret that I do not have a Snack Mate Idea Book, because these ideas are killer.

You'll be sad when the apocalypse arrives and you don't have a can of needs-no-refrigeration spray cheese.

Also, gotta assume that cheese whippets are a thing.

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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.

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Olivia Rodrigo - Guts

No one-hit wonder, that's for damn sure.

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Well, it was kind of inevitable, given the way Lymphoma works, but we found an enlarged lymph node on Haku today, so his remission seems to be coming to an end.

We'll find out tomorrow whether it's type B (Bad) or type T (Terrible) tomorrow.

Fingers/paws crossed. Think happy thoughts for the big guy.

dnanian, to random
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Time Machine builds itself on top of fsevents, and snapshots deltas, and other increasingly complicated aspects of the file system.

SuperDuper purposefully doesn’t do that. We rely on the basics, because if something's wrong in the complex stuff, the basics are much more likely to work.

A diversity of approaches ensures your data remains safe. And there's not a big speed penalty - as you can see.

Tthis is, yes, a fast TB4 SSD, but it's only $250 (sometimes less)…what's your data worth?

dnanian, to random
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What could be more comfortable than a Lego hat?

https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/02/26/lego-version-of-harry-potters-talking-sorting-hat-with-a-sound-box-is-for-eager-builders/

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TFW you have over 2500 toots to read and you’re never going to catch up…

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XTC - English Settlement

It's possible this is the album I've listened to more than any other, as I played it incessantly back when it was released, having bought the import before the (butchered) US release came out.

Colin Moulding absolutely kills it with the two opening tracks, and his fretless work is fantastic all the way through. Partridge’s songs are mostly great, but he occasionally sabotages himself, as is his wont.

The band’s in top form: a beautiful record.

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There’s something bizarrely amusing about the iPad keyboard weighing much more than the iPad itself.

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So weird. I have a shortcut that works fine on macOS, but on iOS now it doesn't even put up an alert that's very early in the process. No error. No nothing.

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Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Relisten.

https://mas.to/@dnanian/109864647151875036

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Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

Back in the day, I gave a friend a Wire record, and he gave me this…the hardcore album for people who don't like hardcore.

And for people who do, too. It's kind of the definitive statement of what hardcore could be when put in the hands of guys who play anything, in any genre, but chose to do this. They're not referencing Ornette Coleman for nothing.

No better hardcore, in my opinion.

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@tankgrrl

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When I think "Bernard Hill”, I immediately think of his great performance as Madgett in Peter Greenaway's rather delightful Drowning by Numbers.

RIP.

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I still can't believe the Josie and the Pussycats movie flopped. Not only are Rachel Leigh Cook,Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson totally winning as the band, but they're surrounded by comedy gold and great songs.

What the heck, 2001.

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?”

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And the uninteresting Saga of the Shortcut conculdes with no changes but multiple reboots, and suddenly it works.

Previously it was actually hanging in the ZIP archive extraction, which is the first step. Then, when an alert was added before that, it hung...before the alert.

Maybe it was trying to prompt for something invisibly? Whatever it was, I had to reboot once to get the alert to show, and then a second time to get the extract to work.

Sometimes, I'd rather be programming in assembler.

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..

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