Sometimes it seems like the self-checkout machines at the grocery store are trying to shame me when I buy cheap produce. “Place your ICEBERG LETTUCE! In the bag.”
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Sometimes it seems like the self-checkout machines at the grocery store are trying to shame me when I buy cheap produce. “Place your ICEBERG LETTUCE! In the bag.”
It wasn't difficult to lower the processing involved, but if the point is to "master faster" than there is not much reason to do it this way instead of in other plugins with a cleaner workflow.
I gave the demo of "Faster Master" a go this weekend. Uh, yeah, my job as a mastering engineer is still pretty safe. It's got some interesting features but by default it WAY overprocesses things. It also did a middling job of suggesting presets, tho I did throw it some genre curveballs.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
It’s been Hell trying to get these vocals right
Dammit he can’t die until I finish and release our protest single.
I’m predicting a “Weekend At Bernie‘s“ situation that lasts until 2028
“It’s not a party until the cornhole comes out” is a sentence that is totally innocuous in the Midwest, but probably sounds very sketchy elsewhere.
What bothers me way more are people who order their steak burnt but then complain that it’s too tough and doesn’t taste right. Or conversely who order it rare and then complain it’s undercooked and mushy. I have relatives who _routinely_ do both.
Because CLEARLY Carlin was so well-known for wanting comedy to be more respectful and non-confrontational.
I just saw someone on the street whose sartorial style I can only describe as “Bader-Ginsburgcore.”
He had some hot take that TV comedy needs to be less political. I suggested that a guy who hasn’t been relevant since the 90’s might not be the guy to ask. Some boomer actually suggested that George Carlin would have agreed with Leno. WHAT?!?
Sure fire way to rile up the old folks on social media: suggest Jay Leno isn’t that funny
And Threads is all “How come Liberals can’t understand how great a wrestler he was?”
He was out, uh, “spending their advance”
A nifty little slice of music business history sonicstate.com/news/2025/07...
Make no mistake, the next IP on the Paramount chopping block is gonna be Trek, though.
CBS is really looking to cement their reputation as "the network your grandparents watch", aren't they.
They were both in his film "Garden State." One of those insufferably twee movies from the early 00's.
Someone left their tank out in the raaaaaaain...
ICE in MacArthur Park? The jokes practically write themselves!
There’s a trumpet busker at the local farmers market who inevitably launches into Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island.” Me, being a devotee of 90’s electronica, must perpetually fight the urge to jump in with the adlibs from Us3’s “Cantaloop.” @wmblathers.bsky.social is painfully aware of this.
I didn’t say it was going to work, just that it was just the expectation.
Yeah there’s no winning situation
We got used to the a republican senate minority completely gridlocking Congress for the Obama years that we just assume that the D’s are going to somehow do the same.
And those damned ceramic Dalmatians.
Variations on “it’s more comfortable than a county jail” are arguments I frequently see deployed. By all accounts, Manzanar, Tule Lake and Gila River were more comfortable than a jail. But they were still concentration camps, and remain a stain on American history.
The Nazis didn’t sell Dachau souvenir t-shirts either. We’re very much in uncharted territory here.
People arguing “it’s not as bad as Auschwitz” are basically arguing “it’s not as hot as the surface of Mercury.” It doesn’t have to be the worst thing ever to be pretty fucking bad.
(*a bigger crime against humanity)
“Alligator Alcatraz” is one broken air conditioner away from being a crime against humanity.
It’s grim that people are shrugging off the death of children with “it’s what you voted for.” It’s grimmer still that this is all the exact outcome desired by those who got elected. Deaths of the vulnerable isn’t a side effect of the policies, it’s the core of the policies.
Threads is just like Twitter, but except instead of being dominated by angry racist techbros, it’s dominated by idiotic racist boomers.
It’s largely a US/UK thing as far as I can tell. I first encountered it during the early 00’s .com boom, when everyone was promising to revolutionize some industry before the next shareholders meeting.
The crowd leaving the Morgan Wallen show is the whitest group of people I have ever seen. And I’ve been to Utah!
They got ratio’d SO hard
“Oh no NYC might have a lefty DS mayor! The city is doomed!” say many people (most of whom have never been to NYC). Bitches please, Milwaukee has had THREE full-on socialist mayors. They named a big bridge after one of them.
But don't think the heroics are going to get you much in the end. It'll just set expectations for you to do that all the time.
Is it worth your health? Is it worth your happiness? Is the bonus you *might* get worth the stress? Largely, no. Use your time off. Don't let work rule your life, if you can help it. Sometimes, you have to, I get it, it's the nature of the business, and of a paycheck.
If you absolutely love your work, sure, okay, fine. But I've rarely met anyone in corporate IT who is so in love with making sure that SQL query runs or that VM gets spun up that they're excited to regularly give up their weekends for it.
And speaking from experience, when the layoffs/mergers/buyouts come, all the long weeks and sacrificed weekends won't save you, at least not for long.
And if you HAVE to put in the long hours to get the project done, ask yourself - who's planning the projects? Why aren't there resources to get it done with reasonable amounts of effort? Why wasn't sufficient time allocated? Are they *expecting* you to work unpaid overtime?
IT "Hero Culture" is largely bullshit. Sure, there are those times when you have to put in the long hours, but routinely sacrificing your personal life to Write The Code or Make The Production Push or whatever is not worth it. It will not get you the raise, promotion, or security you seek.
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I can imagine maintaining this sucker is expensive too; where do you even source parts for a nearly 70 year old custom console? And how much power does something like that consume?
“Lovingly cared for by Lenny Kravitz” isn’t a sentence I expected to read today.
The custom EMI console from Abbey Road is up for sale. For a cool 2.75M. vintageking.com/emi-abbey-ro...
You’re not too far off. I seem to get a lot of regional sea salts as gifts, so I’ve got various oceans and other saltwater bodies pretty well covered.
I have to; I can’t afford the Bullet Barn. Those artisanal bullets are out of my price range. And Trader Immortan Joe’s parking lot is ridiculous; it’s always just _packed_ and the stalls aren’t big enough for all the doof wagons.
Also, having just reorganized my spice rack, I note that I DO have an inordinate amount of sea salt.
And it’s still impossible to find an affordable apartment. Especially anything walkable to The Bullet Farm.
Oh shit I think I’ve got new funeral plans.
But the Mad Max wasteland is the best part of Seattle! The restaurant scene is amazing.
It’s like if twitter was run by your boomer aunt who posts racist minion memes
Went on Threads for the first time in a while and immediately regretted it.
I feel like Uncle Owen really undercut his message by telling Luke “that wizard’s just a crazy old man.” Cuz like…you just admitted he IS a Wizard, right?
Uh, happy slightly belated birthday tho!
1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America
Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
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Olive has one white whisker and I can’t even
I was just in a weekly Teams meeting, in which a manager chimed in for the very first time in months. We all see the mute icon disappear, and wait for the profound words to follow... "That's right, I'd like to order a large bucket of original recipe with cole slaw and mashed potatoes." ...huh.
Memorandum To: The Cats who were in the bedroom at 3am From: The Large Food Beast Re: the use of my face as a trampoline Please don’t.
Winston would like the cat sitters to know that he is starving.
It’s also freaking beautiful.
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
Ha, well the joke is on Qatar if they think he’s even going to remember their largesse and grant them favors. He’s not even going to expend the effort to remember how to pronounce their name correctly. In two months he’ll be taking credit for building the plane.
Well, not so much “zooming” as “moving very slowly on 94 for two hours”
Mostly sort of zooming past on the way back from a gig in Detroit
We had a two and a half hour traffic jam somewhere outside of Ann Arbor yesterday
If our intelligence services and defense dept were run by competent people they would be losing their shit about it being used as AF1, even temporarily.
I think all of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois was under construction this weekend. Expect delays.
who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI
“Ill Excommunication”
Besides, it’s much easier to make jokes about him being from Chicago.
“Decretum Papale de Applicatione Condimentorum Lycopersicorum ad Farcimina”
New pope, who dis?
My favorite part of the Pandemic was attending virtual DJ sets and band performances, grooving out to it all, while still getting to sit on my own couch with snacks.
Same, although when I DO decide to go out I am unreasonably excited about it. Like in the 90’s I was going out clubbing 3x a week, now it’s like 5x a year, but I enjoy it even more - or at least until I inevitably throw my back out dancing to HEALTH or something.
Dunlop’s book on Hunan cuisine has an “American” recipe based on Peng’a IIRC, and then she attempts to recreate the “source” dish using traditional hunan flavors. Might not be _exactly_ what you’re looking for but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes this morning:
That one I knew. I have that record somewhere.
I admit I didn’t do any research on the guy, I just made a glib joke about goth band.
He might also just have been a fan of the late 80’s/early 90’s cowboy-goth-metal band.
Her stuff is fantastic. And always makes me hungry!
That would track. It’s the sort of lame “be a power business guy” advice they’d give, and the only way he’d read an actual magazine would be if he was in it. Although it conceivably could also have been “Playboy”, “Hustler”, or “Juggs.”
Try Costco instead. We used to buy my mother in law like 40oz bottles of the sauce there. Anything can be Tsoified.
The esteemed food author Fuchsia Dunlop has written about it extensively as well. TLDR it very much is a melting pot dish. Chinese immigrant chefs adapting hunanese flavors to 1970’s American palates.
Have you seen the documentary about it? “The Search For General Tso?” It’s got a fascinating history!
*a former prison that was too expensive to run even in the early 60’s and could only hold 300 inmates, that has since thrived as a revenue-generating tourist attraction. It’s more like putting water into a stadium that was built on top of an old reservoir. Might be able to work, but not well.
Oh, man, you haven’t experienced Wallace Shawn until you’ve seen him in 3D.
Isn’t that just “dilbert” now?
I doubt he actually wants to renovate it. He just wants to ship people there and leave them to fight and starve on a cold windy rock.
“Spaghetti westerns, named after my favorite noodle, because in the west they ate spaghetti oh they loved it Chef Boyardee was a friend of mine, a strong man, big man, he used to say Donald, make westerns great again, with spaghetti…”
His whole shtick is basically “a 1981 men’s magazine said this projects power” taken to absurd levels and he’s never kept up to date with it. The extra long tie, the handshake style, the fixation on IQ, the boasting…it’s all of a type.
He wants to render Nicholas Cage’s finest work utterly meaningless! MEANINGLESS!
A few decades ago my dad said to me “I rented that ‘American Beauty’ movie and I didn’t see what all the hype was about. It was just a raunchy teen sex comedy.” I blinked. “Dad, I strongly suspect you didn’t rent ‘American Beauty.’ You rented ‘American Pie.’”
I met Patrick Codenys from Front242, and he couldn’t have been nicer. He even complimented my musical production abilities.
Asperas Bompar 
