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  • I was today years old when I accidentally found out that you could select multiple files in the macOS Finder, right-click, and then have the option to create a ‘New Folder with Selection’.

    6 February 2021
  • Here is my best of 2020 on Plexamp. Not a bad list! I should have tracked my vinyl listening.

    10 January 2021
  • Works from 1925 that are now in the public domain:

    web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publ…

    3 January 2021
  • My son just said “It feels like the end of Footloose. The town can dance again!”.

    7 November 2020
  • Hangin’ on my stoop, jammin’ to the new Ron Miles CD. #mbnov

    5 November 2020
  • My daughter was sitting near someone who tested positive for COVID-19, so now has to quarantine for 2 weeks. #mbnov

    5 November 2020
  • Astonish us, Detroit!! #mbnov

    4 November 2020
  • Saw this inflatable Trump with thumbs up while driving in rural Tennessee this afternoon. The sign leaning against it said “Say No To Creepy Joe”. O-kaaaaaay.

    3 November 2020
  • Whenever skies look gray to me And trouble begins to brew, Whenever the Winter winds become too strong, I concentrate on you. #mbnov

    2 November 2020
  • Microblogvember day 1 (better late than never). I had to move most of our plants into the garage overnight to keep them from freezing. Some may find this weather dreary, but to me it’s invigorating! #mbnov

    2 November 2020
  • Get the hell out of my hometown, you licentious cur.

    27 October 2020
  • Miles Davis - Double Image. I’ve been excited about this one for a while. Even though I’ve had the 1998 Complete Bitches Brew CD box set since it was released, it’s interesting to hear these sides as a stand alone record. Plus red vinyl!!

    25 October 2020
  • Apple’s Music app on macOS Big Sur is an absolute shit show. It keeps wanting to sync and turn on iCloud Music Library, which I tried long ago and hated. You can’t quit the app. You try to force quit, but it still keeps syncing in the background. THERE IS NOTHING TO SYNC.

    1 October 2020
  • Thelonious Monk - Palo Alto

    This new release of a 1968 concert at Palo Alto High School is a delight. The vinyl release includes reproductions of the concert flyer and poster. Well done.

    19 September 2020
  • Material - The Western Lands feat. William S. Burroughs. Seven Souls (1989)

    17 September 2020
  • Now Playing - Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse

    This fantastic 3-CD set could really use a limited edition 5-LP 50th anniversary Record Store Day release produced by Joe Harley and mastered by Kevin Gray.

    15 September 2020
  • I snagged a couple of nice records on Record Store Day #1 (8/29/20). But I am really looking forward to this in October…

    31 August 2020
  • I’ve been posting my favorite ‘Perfect’ albums on Instagram as part of Mike Montiero’s August challenge. Here is what I posted today.

    perfect31 Day 24 of the @mikemonteiro perfect record challenge. Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars. This is a winter record. This is a curl up with a blanket and don’t leave the house for weeks record. It seems strange listening to this in August. This was recorded in New Brunswick in late December early January 1998-1999, deep in the middle of a grey, cold Canadian winter, with many more months of cold and snow to come. Doiron’s beautiful voice and Michael Feuerstack’s guitar lines just melt together in a melancholic, melodic and warm way. Perfect.

    24 August 2020
  • I got a 2017 Subaru Outback a couple of weeks back. It’s really great. I haven’t had a car with current technology maybe ever, so I get giddy whenever it beeps at me for drifting in my lane, or neglecting to pull away at a light in a timely manner. No car play, but the Bluetooth integration is solid.

    24 August 2020
  • I bought this beat-up, but playable copy on Saturday for 8 bucks. RIP, Jimmy Cobb.

    25 May 2020
  • New Vinyl Friday

    15 May 2020
  • Not something you get to see from your backyard every day!

    14 May 2020
  • Now playing with the new Plexamp app. I went for a walk and it looks like it was downsampling while on cellular. I didn’t notice, but I didn’t have noise canceling enabled on my AirPods Pro.

    19 April 2020
  • A new version of Plexamp is out for MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Linux! Shown here running on my new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu. Also, RIP Lee Konitz.

    16 April 2020
  • Installing Focal Fossa daily build.

    14 March 2020

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