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music: Pino Palladino’s epic bass fill

Posted on 2023-05-02 by skierpage

Imma let you finish, but 6:35 into “Badman’s Song” Pino Palladino unleashes the epic bass fill OF ALL TIME 🤯🔥. I’ve listened to Tears for Fears’ The Seeds of Love dozens of times and somehow missed it amongst the piano … Continue reading →

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skiing: mellow Kirkwood

Posted on 2023-04-30 by skierpage

I got a notice from the Department of Internet Money that I risk losing the skierpage domain if I only ski once a season, so despite a poorly elderly dog we drove the (relative) backroads to Kirkwood, a return after … Continue reading →

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art: excellent VR experience of the ISS

Posted on 2023-03-30 by skierpage

THE INFINITE is one of the best VR exhibitions I’ve experienced (and I’m lucky to have strapped into Char Davies’ unbelievably great Osmose and the PHI Centre’s Horizons VR greatest hits exhibition, and even the early 1991 Dactyl Nightmare VR … Continue reading →

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skiing: my interview script with the great Mikaela Shiffrin

Posted on 2023-03-17 by skierpage

Jimmy Fallon: Welcome welcome to the Tonight Show. Tonight we’re so honored. This season she surpassed the great Lindsey Vonn and the legendary Ingemar Stenmark with EIGHTY-SEVEN World Cup wins to stand alone as the G.O.A.T., the greatest alpine skier … Continue reading →

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buying music in high-resolution audio formats

Posted on 2023-03-05 by skierpage

Joni Mitchell’s Blue on vinyl has a distortion at times behind her voice and piano. Time to buy a digital track and see if it’s still there. What the heck, go big and get the 192 kHZ 24-bit FLAC high-res … Continue reading →

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screwing squinting customers instead of helping them

Posted on 2023-02-13 by skierpage

Companies treat government-mandated disclosures as a bureaucratic cost to be minimized rather than a chance to help their customers. So I get illegible tax form verbiage on Umpqua Bank’s 1099-SA form, printed on the envelope of my form to save … Continue reading →

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music: Crosby not Stills, Nash, and Young

Posted on 2023-01-28 by skierpage

Jeff Beck died, now David Crosby. So I listened to If Only I Could Remember My Name, his solo album. It’s beyond star-studded, Wikipedia: “Guest musicians on the album include Graham Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and members of Jefferson … Continue reading →

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music: Tuesday Heartbreak attempts

Posted on 2023-01-26 by skierpage

One of the pure joys of going through Stevie Wonder’s incredible 6 album run was rediscovering the perfect rainy-day funk of “Tuesday Breakup.” I was in a store and heard the song, but wait! it’s Macy Gray. It turns out … Continue reading →

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eco: nuclear and decarbonizing electricity

Posted on 2023-01-24 by skierpage

If every country had followed France after the 1970 oil crisis, the world would be generating a majority of its electricity from low-carbon nuclear, and nuclear plants would have probably got cheaper and quicker to build so replacing the aging … Continue reading →

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audio: still looking for a replacement speaker

Posted on 2023-01-09 by skierpage

Five years later, I’m still listening to audio through a Chromecast Audio dongle plugged into my aging Jambox! I could get a soundbar, but they tend to be over 36 inches wide, too long to easily flip from facing my … Continue reading →

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