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I got a red hat that I can wear with pride. I’m a really more of an Ubuntu person, though.
Sun Feb 25 14:21:41 2024
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Do you want more or less questions from Facebook about whether you want more or less of a particular group?
Less, please.
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Sun Feb 25 13:21:27 2024
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NGL, I really liked the German Peter Gabriel albums. Do they scan the same? nope. This guy is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpJfO_L7b1k
Alle Zungenbrecher 4.0. hintereinander! Dies ist das Sammel-Video zur Zungenbrecher-EP (Staffel 4), die wir bei Spotify & Co. bereits veröffentlicht haben.
Übrigens rappt Bodo nicht nur Zungenbrecher, er ist auch mit seinen Klavierkabarettprogrammen unterwegs.
Termine und Tickets: https://www.bodowartke.de/tour
Alles auf einen Blick zu den Zungenbrechern 4.0: https://www.bodowartke.de/zungenbrecher
Tongue Twister English information and translated lyrics of “The fat roofer”: https://www.bodowartke.de/zungenbrecher#tonguetwisters
Die Zungenbrecher in diesem Video: 00:01 Jetzt redet der Dachdecker! 01:00 Barbaras Rhabarberbar (mit @martifischer ) 02:30 Handstand am Sandstrand 03:07 Elektrikereklektik (mit Julius Fischer) 04:17 Die Katze tritt die Treppe krumm 04:57 Lang schwang der Klang 05:26 Wachsmasken-Max 06:41 Der Cottbuser Podcaster 07:16 Outtakes
Marti Fischer: https://www.marti-fischer.com/
Julius Fischer: https://juliusfischer.de/
Staffel 4 bei bei Spotify & Co.: https://bodowartke.lnk.to/Zungenbrecher-4.0-Staffel-4
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Sat Feb 24 23:09:19 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2AG-L0VIs
“WTF is a tartar farter?” @[689076382:2048:Julia] & @[656467068:2048:Amy]
I didn’t make the original video; I just added the subtitles. The original video is from youtube user Gregoropolis.
Ich habe nicht das original Video gemacht: nur habe ich die Untertitel gestellt. Das original Video ist des Youtubebenutzer Gregoropolis.
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Sat Feb 24 22:59:54 2024
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no, really. Please don’t.
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Sat Feb 24 15:09:30 2024
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Colorado should be in the tan section.
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Sat Feb 24 13:26:36 2024
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The first drumcircle I ever played in…. It was at the Hash Bash. For reasons lost to history, I decided the thing to do was to take acid and go down to the Diag at UofM with a friend who was not dosed. Somebody had to drive. (thanks, @[100063481720652:2048:John]) It was 1989.
So the Hash Bash was a thing that harkened back to the early 1970s in Ann Arbor. In those days, the fine for simple possession was $5. They had to have a law, so they made it dirt simple. For years, April 1 found kids outside their dorms, frat houses, etc. doing the thing. By 1989, it had been hemmed into just one place, the Diag. When we got there, there was a crowd of people, a cloud of smoke arising from the crowd of a few hundred people. The cops were around the edges, giving out citations for people drinking. I think a couple years later they changed the fine, to $25. Still, not much, a misdemeanor, GTFO. Be more careful next time. They weren’t bothering the people smoking, just the open alcohol. Something righteous about that, but I digress.
In the middle, sitting on the steps, was Jack Herer. He had a lunch tray on his lap and as fast as he could roll, light and pass, that’s what he was doing, while telling stories from his book, “The Emperor has no Clothes”, things like the Constitution was printed on hemp, and that the Navy in WWII lived on canvas made from hemp grown in the heartlands of Kansas, where people were ordered to grow hemp for the war effort. This was less than 10 years after Reefer Madness, somehow nobody figured out the connection. light puff, pass…
That was fun, but over in the corner, outside the thong of people, on the grass, there was a small group of people, two congas, some shakers and a few rattles. People were playing the congas two or maybe even three to a head, facing each other. One of the only times I’ve ever seen people do this. Someone stopped playing the congas, and sat down, started to roll a joint. I decided that I wanted in on that joint, and there was an opening. I saw people just walk up and start playing so I did…
At one point, i remember looking down at my hands. They were bruised, a blister had broken and I was bleeding. Without stopping, I looked up and said “someone here has a bandaid. I need it” and a band aid landed next to me. I put it on and continued. 4 hours passed. When I finally looked up, the rest of the diag was clearing. My hands had a conga shaped bruise on them, i hadn’t learned skin on skin, not bone on rim yet. We left and went to a grocery store. I picked up a bag of frozen peas and it was the best thing ever. i walked around with those peas for a while.
When I got home, I contemplated what had just happened. Drums.
So I put on my stereo, as it turned out, the first CD to play was Patrick O’Hearn, who I found out later played percussion in Zappa’s band, I’d heard of him because of “Music from the Hearts of Space”. In those days, I would remember names like Michael Stearns, etc and just look for their CDs when I went to the used bins. Patrick O’Hearn was basically rhythm and synths. Next CD was Peter Gabriel “Security”, Rhythm of the Heat came on. Drums. I started looking through my music collection. all my favorite music was drums. Paul Simon “graceland” and that one that came afterwards, the one with all the Brazilian drums… How had I missed this my whole life?
This morning I was listening to a new Patrick O’Hearn CD from my haul last Tuesday. Vinnie, Warren and Patrick making little drum things. I remembered this story, decided to share it with y’all. Hope it wasn’t too boring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1McDhcMMGg
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Sat Feb 24 12:36:14 2024
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OMG this was one of my favorite bad movies when i was a kid. Never knew the name. Still not sure… but that thing in the lower right….
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Sat Feb 24 00:17:19 2024
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Flipper Zero has some competition. This is still in Kickstarter for another week or so and costs less. The intro video makes it seem they have similar functionality.
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Sat Feb 24 00:04:06 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvFY2Stxlzc
Music video by Portishead performing All Mine. © 1998 Go Beat Ltd.
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Fri Feb 23 22:45:01 2024
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Interesting new thing, kickstarter still running for a bit over a week to go. Looks like a domestically produced clone of a Flipper Zero for about $50 less. I’m getting one because I’m curious to see what the differences are.
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Fri Feb 23 12:16:27 2024
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Veronica is the bomb
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Fri Feb 23 10:45:26 2024
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#WhatAboutBob and yeah, this is real. Wooden spoons are a little bit triggering for me.
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Thu Feb 22 20:12:13 2024
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Oh boy.
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Thu Feb 22 14:49:18 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug
You’ve got to get mad!
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
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Wed Feb 21 11:49:28 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe1seBFJFkliGc1p0h-ZwyRem7rw2bTWZ
Sometimes when you go thrifting, particularly if you look for shoes, you may find yourself one day where there are a WHOLE BUNCH of shoes that fit you perfectly (never gonna happen with my brick feet, but…) you may think to yourself how lucky you are today. There is another piece to this, though. Why is that happening? One day I realized that someone brought in all the shoes from the bottom of Mom’s closet, or Gramma’s closet, maybe in a big black plastic bag, because she won’t need them any more. RIP.
I am looking specifically for some things. I liked Wyndham Hill a lot, before “new age” became a cliche. Yesterday I got several Wyndham Hill annual samplers and a few other albums from their catalog, and I had that thought again. Someone liked music like I do, and what do you do with that huge pile of CDs anyway? you bring them to the ARC. A moment for my comrade in musical tastes. Thank you.
1981 Windham Hill Records
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Wed Feb 21 11:37:13 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lL79Mvyn1GqIG60Wlz-jblqCZqrJSe7Hk
Let’s try this again…. I guess #4 for gaia is the name of the first track.
Another find from yesterday. This came out just about the same time I discovered drumming and drumcircles. It was really nice to hear this as I fell asleep, i’d forgotten how much I liked its quiet rhythm. Mickey followed this up with another CD called Planet Drum that was a bit more energetic.
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Wed Feb 21 10:41:05 2024
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I had to look this up because I had it on my work computer. If you like dark mode everywhere, this can help you with the sites that don’t have it as an option.
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Wed Feb 21 08:16:38 2024
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Puppies and kittens are nice. (I’m guessing that if i make a change to the top post, it might reset it to your feed. It’s 1839 MST)
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Tue Feb 20 23:26:06 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1Qj6zK3do
Another Tuesday, another batch of $1 and $2 CDs from the ARC. Today’s standout find is this cd which was one of a class of disks which were produced around the time that compact disc players hit the market. Of values mostly to stereo store sales people, they had material that highlighted the difference between CDs, tapes and records. This contains content like silence followed by a jet flyby, and some weird tones toward the end.
No matter how good of a record player you had, there was a certain amount of high frequency hiss that resulted from the tape equipment used in the studio and subsequent mixing and pressing. Silence was not possible, nor were certain kinds of dynamic range because of how the grooves had to be made on the record, to quick jumps between loud and soft.
For a few years, records had a three letter code like AAD, ADD, DAD or DDD depending on how it was recorded (analog or digital), mixed or mastered. DDD was the gold standard for things which were recorded digitally, mixed digitally and mastered digitally (CD). By this nomenclature, a record produced before 1981 would have been AAA since the whole process was done in the analog domain. Many early CDs were AAD, where they just took the analog master and slapped it onto a CD. The tape hiss was clearly heard in these and over time, the industry remixed some (ADD) and new recordings were done all digital (DDD). I’m now looking at some of the early classical CDs and finding these codes on the label.
ETA: as i was closing my eyes last night, it occurred to me that the records used by EDM DJs could be denoted as DDA but I’ll bet that nobody expected that use for this system.
I think that a certain amount of sound compression has been done to many musical sources in use today like MP3 and I assume streaming, so while you can hear the content of this disk on the YouTube link attached, it’s going to be a bit different playing an actual CD on a stereo.
The perfect album to kickstart this channel. Hot on the heels of the first CD players becoming available worldwide in 1983 (they were first released six months earlier in Japan only), this CD of experimental digital audio was released to show off the capabilities of the new format. It is both a demonstration record (in the vein of the old stereo demonstrations from the 50s and 60s) as well as a hi-fi test record. A great listening experience on large speakers, it features early synth sounds from Peter Samson’s “Systems Concept Digital Synthesizer” as well as studio soundstage arranging of various sources. It doesn’t have a SPARS code (as those came to be the next year) but it purports to be recorded and mastered in digital through and through, which would make it a “DDD”. The extensive liner notes are worth hunting for the CD if you’re into audio technology. It’s hard to overstate what a revolution the CD was when it came out, and the digitization of audio (and video) its development brought about created the digital media-rich world we live in today through internet streaming and downloading. For more information on the development of the CD, see this video and others from Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_mhBf_FJA
Tracklist –Loren Rush, James A. Moorer, Elliot Mazer, Janis Mattox The Digital Domain 0:00 –Loren Rush Study For Reverie 7:24 –James A. Moorer Lions Are Growing 09:35 –Margaret Fabrizio Hologram 9 12:08 –Bill Schottstaedt Colony V (Excerpt) 16:03 –Elliot Mazer Specific Racquetball 18:39
Selections From “Shaman” (7 Through 9) –Janis Mattox Call To The Spirits (Excerpt) 19:42 –Janis Mattox Song From The Center Of The Earth (Excerpt) 21:57 –Janis Mattox Passage (Excerpt) 24:55
–W. Andrew Schloss Towers Of Hanoi (Excerpt) 27:49 –Elliot Mazer Generic Racquetball 32:42 –Michael McNabb Love In The Asylum (Excerpt) 33:41 –Janis Mattox Venice Beach 37:01 –David Jaffe Silicon Valley Breakdown (Excerpt) 40:55 –Phil Gossett, Elliot Mazer And Loren Rush Foothill Park 46:24 –Mickey Hart And John Meyer Helicopter 47:13
Test Section (17 Through 29) 51:08 Speaker Identification Test Test Section Announcement 1002.273 Hz Square Wave @ -6 dB From Maximum Pink Noise, Left Channel Only Pink Noise, Right Channel Only Pink Noise @ -26 dB With Emphasis Pink Noise @ -26 dB No Emphasis Pink Noise @ -46 dB With Emphasis Pink Noise @ -46 dB With No Emphasis 1 kHz Sine Wave @ -20 dB 1 kHz Sine Wave @ -40 dB 1 kHz Sine Wave @ -60 dB Noise Floor Test, All Bits At “0”
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Tue Feb 20 22:10:26 2024
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It’s been on my mind, especially the face thing has been recommending other groups a lot. For most of my life, it was understood I was part of the Baby Boom by virtue of the year in which I was born, yet I have come to the conclusion that I identify more as a Gen X person than a Boomer.
Another way to think about it is who were your parents. The big thing that defined the Boomer generation was all the (mostly) men who came back from WWII wanting to start a family. This alludes to the idea that the definitions of the generations is more than just what year you were born, but who were your parents? My parents were born during the war. They were kind of an in-between generation. My grandfather was pushing 40 when my dad was born. My mom was the second youngest of a big Catholic family, so her parents were kind of older as well.
So also like my getting an official ADHD diagnosis, having some clarity of where I fit better in the conversation about named generations has helped me understand my place and who my people actually are.
I asked ChatGPT about it, and it spit this out:
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Generation X, often abbreviated as Gen X, refers to the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding the Millennials. Researchers and popular media typically use birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s to the late 1970s to early 1980s to define this group. The exact birth years can vary depending on the source.
The term “Generation X” was popularized by Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture,” which captured the attitudes and experiences of this age group at that time. Gen Xers are known for their independence, resourcefulness, and skepticism of traditional authority figures and institutions, partly shaped by the economic and social conditions of their formative years.
The early boundary for Generation X, starting around 1960, is sometimes used in broader definitions, although more commonly, the starting point is placed in the mid-1960s. For example, the Pew Research Center, a prominent American research institution, defines Generation X as those born from 1965 to 1980. However, some analyses and discussions extend that range to include those born in the early 1960s, acknowledging the transition period from the Baby Boomer generation.
The characteristics attributed to Generation X reflect the cultural, economic, and technological changes of their time. They were the first generation to grow up with computers and video games in a significant way, witnessed the rise of cable television and the MTV generation, and came of age during significant economic changes, including the shift towards a more globalized economy.
Despite the variations in defining the exact years, the consensus recognizes Generation X as a distinct group with unique experiences and contributions to society, bridging the gap between the Baby Boomers and the Millennials.
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Tue Feb 20 21:38:07 2024
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It’s been reported in various quarters that Facebook is making an editorial decision about current events. Maybe puppies and kittens but not the contentious topics of the day. It’s hard to even say without thinking that this post might get squelched. So you know how the word decibel is used to describe sound? and you could take the last four letters of that word and the first two letters of the word truck.. and add a dot com at the end. I’m there.
shh! the algorithms might hear you.
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Tue Feb 20 20:17:27 2024
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I like this lady’s reels. I could easily hear this in George Carlin’s voice without too much trouble.
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Tue Feb 20 08:36:23 2024
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the goofiest shit makes me cry sometimes…
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Tue Feb 20 08:21:11 2024
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i had a conversation very similar to this with cousins in about 1985. I said that if it was true that God had a problem with gay people, then that’s between God and them, and that the Big Book said to be nice to people.
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Tue Feb 20 02:51:37 2024
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I dropped off my Colorado primary ballot. Seems like a farce, almost all of the names on both side have dropped out.
I voted for Marianne Williamson, even though I kind of rolled my eyes a bit first time I saw her running 4 years ago. Ive seen her interviews on TYT and she seema to be for something I like: getting corporate money out of the govt.
I know the result is basically a foregone conclusion, but I wanted to vote for something before I have to do the “lesser bla bla” thing most likely in November.
Vote for something if you can, and don’t act like a robot. But understand what kind of game you’re trapped in.
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