…i use optical PCM for all my stereo sources; unfortunately with multichannel audio its bandwidth is sufficient only for lossy compression…

…hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to…

…TOSLINK can’t handle atmos bandwidth; you need eARC for uncompressed multichannel digital audio…

…fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn’t quite what it was twenty years ago…

…fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge…

…when it absolutely, positively, has to measure fuel economy in gallons per mile…


…international XT: accept no substitute…

^{( i saw one parked at the taco cabana off brook hollow about ten years ago: they’re formidable in-the-metal! )}

…music teaches you to be a good person; financial literacy teaches you to be a tool…

…israel’s long-term strategic campaign of zionist lobbying and mossad kompromat are why USA political support remains unwavering…if the epstein records are ever fully released, israel stands to lose mighty leverage across the political spectrum in so many governments…

…sounds like he’s campaigning for even more folks to vote for mamdani…

…it’s a bit more than just that: it included the performative ambience of an assembled orchestra - conductor and musicians - managing their bodies, instruments, and staging equipment as they turn through sheet music of their respective parts, as well as that of the venue and audience…

…there’s quite a bit going on in a proper performance which we’ve been trained to otherwise ignore…

…christians are so overwhelmingly evil that i constantly have to stop and remind myself that some tiny minority of all the crosses and flags i see brandished about may actually be fostered in good faith, lest i judge too soon…

…well ted’s one of their own: a regressive immigrant from out-of-state…

…i don’t buy soft drinks but i feel like two-liter bottles were supplanted by three-liter bottles in the 2000s as the new standard size…

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triple-head. thirty-inch. cinema displays.

…wait, hang on, so we’ve got the phantom menace, andor, rogue one, star wars, the holiday special, the empire strikes back, return of the jedi, the ewok adventure, and that other one: i count sixteen hours of movies plus twenty-four hours of series, that’s like totally doable in two-and-half days, or a full work week if you’re feeling lazy…

“Wait a minute, Doc: are you telling me you built a time machine - out of a Cybertruck?!”

…i shopped a saab 9000 back in '99: ventilated seats, man, pure luxury…

…could it be because they’re only affordable to first-time US homebuyers with generational wealth?..

…that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…

…speaking for most of us, just the one…