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music: more Cory Wong live greatness, Mark Lettieri!

Posted on 2023-11-05 by skierpage

The Fearless Flyers Live in Europe joins the triumvirate, the Holy Trinity of low-volume mostly instrumental handheld-camera concert videos: CORY WONG // LIVE IN MPLS // 9 FEB 2019, Vulfpeck Live at Madison Square Garden, and now this. Hmm, what … Continue reading →

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music: 10cc of near greatness

Posted on 2023-09-29 by skierpage

Someone said something that reminded me of a lyric, turns out it was from a 10cc song. They’re still famous for “I’m Not in Love,” a song so immaculately crafted that I unwillingly succumbed to its overwraught bathos (pathos? mythos?). … Continue reading →

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web: how to read blocked web articles

Posted on 2023-09-29 by skierpage

It’s an arms race to read articles that fade out under a “Please subscribe” overlay. In Firefox, try: I feel bad doing this, and a little less bad for running uBlock Origin to disable ads. I subscribe to the Guardian, … Continue reading →

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Nuala, 2007-2023

Posted on 2023-08-17 by skierpage

The original title… For years in my mind this obituary was titled “Angry lesbian bitch.” Shortly after we adopted Nuala, a group of teenage boys stayed with us and learned that if you lightly poked her, she would make a … Continue reading →

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YouTube jokes

Posted on 2023-07-08 by skierpage

Concrete science A science YouTuber made an entertaining informative video “Explaining concrete while getting buried in it,” and found that he would rise out of the concrete slurry. Which prompted this carefully-researched anecdote: skierpage9:39 “I did not expect to be … Continue reading →

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software: fixing scanned photos in GIMP

Posted on 2023-07-04 by skierpage

I received boxes full of old family pictures that were cropped with the old selection tool of “Physical scissors”. Here are my notes on how I scanned them and neatened them up. Scanning Arrange multiple pictures on all-in-one printer’s scanner … Continue reading →

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music: more “Slave to the Rhythm” with Stephen Lipson

Posted on 2023-06-11 by skierpage

Continuing on from Trevor Horn gigantism… I watched “Songs That Changed Music: Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm – with Stephen Lipson” from the article by Produce Like a Pro. He’s credited as co-writer and performer on lead guitar, … Continue reading →

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music: female backup singer makes the song

Posted on 2023-05-29 by skierpage

Musicians bring in the backup singer who’s often technically more gifted than the lead singer in the band, and she never gets enough credit. The canonical example is “The Great Gig in the Sky” on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of … Continue reading →

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audio: casually serious KEF speakers

Posted on 2023-05-21 by skierpage

I’ve been looking for something better than my little Jambox desktop speaker for years (here and here). After reading a glowing review of the KEF LS60 floor-standing active wireless speakers, I realized its baby siblings have the same do-everything connectivity … Continue reading →

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art: love and ancient mastery at the Legion of Honour

Posted on 2023-05-13 by skierpage

John Singer Sargent in Spain is pretty good. Paintings of fishermen and male artists looking at the viewer with smouldering eyes… it’s puzzling that a San Francisco museum didn’t mention the “lifelong bachelor”‘s likely love affair with Albert de Belleroche, … Continue reading →

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