Dave Garrett

Can't say I've noticed that, although I also can't say I'd spent much time looking at their turntable recommendations before. Assuming this is the guide you were looking at: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-turntable/ a Rega Planar 1 strikes me as a pretty solid upgrade recommendation for people who are relatively new to vinyl and are interested in something significantly better than a crappy Crosley. And they do title their guide "The Best Turntable for Casual LIstening", which is a pretty strong indication their target audience isn't going to be seasoned audiophiles.

I had the same thought. It doesn't exactly give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when a show is cancelled a month in advance due to illness, particularly when it comes to older folks.

This show has been cancelled, with illness cited as the reason. The 18/19 Da Camera jazz series will instead open with Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison. https://www.dacamera.com/programming-change-nea-jazz-master-jack-dejohnette-open-1819-jazz-series/

"Back during the Harlem Renaissance, he swept the lindy hop of [sic] its feet and transformed big-band dance. More than sixty years later, Frankie Manning got a renaissance of his own." Nice piece on Frankie Manning from 1998

The folks at NitrateVille would disagree. Some of them have been discussing silent films online since the heyday of the Usenet group alt.movies.silent some 25 years ago. For years, Coppola refused to allow any screenings that did not use the score written by his father Carmine. This has been problematic as the score was written for Coppola's four-hour 1980 version of the film, and Kevin Brownlow's current version of the film is five and a half hours long. Coppola has even threatened legal action over screenings of the longer version outside of the US, but in recent years the various parties appear to have finally reached a detente of sorts as he has allowed Brownlow's longer version to be screened in the US with Carl Davis' score. The BFI's recent Blu-ray of this version is very nice but is Region B locked. There's a pretty good summary at Wikipedia of the various versions of the film that have been out there since its debut, as well as some of the history related to the Coppola legal disputes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoléon_(1927_film)

Great piece on the Voice from a design/art direction perspective: The Village Voice: An Art Directors’ History

There's a lot unsaid in that article, but given the audience for IEEE Spectrum, there is presumably some assumption of familiarity with the technology among the readership. LTO has been a standard for almost 20 years, and it is widely used for backup data storage in enterprise IT and archival environments. Every two to three years, a new generation of LTO technology is released, and the specification mandates that the current generation be able to read tapes dating back two generations, and write to tapes dating back to the previous generation. The technology roadmap is well-defined, so users know what to expect going forward for the next 3-4 generations. Linear Tape-Open LTO tape is NOT designed to sit on a shelf for 100 years in a static archive environment. Those who are using it typically have a clear migration strategy implemented, so that current tapes are rotated out of storage and migrated to newer-generation tapes every few years. This can obviously be a financial challenge for smaller archives operating on limited budgets. The bigger problem with almost all storage technologies is not necessarily long-term stability of the medium itself, but long-term availability of playback hardware. 2" quadruplex videotape was a broadcast standard for many years, with untold thousands of hours of television programming recorded on it, but at this point anything that has yet to be transferred to a more modern format is at risk of being lost, as there are fewer and fewer working quad machines out there, and the expertise required to operate and maintain them is likewise fading into history. IIRC the last company that was still manufacturing new quad video heads went out of business a year or two ago, so when the existing ones wear out, there aren't any more replacements.

I have rarely paid more than $5 for an ebook, but Amazon's booming business in Kindle books that sell for significantly more than that suggests that you and I are in the minority of ebook buyers. I've seen comments from people that were less than pleased that the PDF book wasn't included with the FLAC/mp3 downloads of the entire box set, which Destination: Out is also selling for $125. I suspect the prices they are charging for both downloads were strongly influenced (if not dictated) by FMP, CT, or a combination of both.

Destination: Out sells a PDF of the book via their Bandcamp webstore, but it's $50. That's probably more than I'd pay, if I didn't already have the book. https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/in-berlin-88-book

Fair enough, but the angles I saw replayed during the game were at best iffy, certainly not definitive enough to overturn the call. I believe MLB has a webpage containing information and/or videos related to all plays that are reviewed, but I wasn't able to find it when I went searching for more info about why the call was overturned. Astros did indeed wind up losing yesterday to slip into a tie with the A's atop the division, but won decisively this afternoon to maintain a one-game lead. The A's are neck and neck with the Red Sox in terms having the best record over the past 55 or so games. The AL West is gonna be a dogfight - right now there are three teams in it that have won 70 games. Only one team in the entire NL (the Cubs) has 70 wins to date.

I think I read somewhere that Altuve is running and taking batting practice, so if that's the case he should be close to either being activated or a rehab assignment. Fortunately we have Correa and Springer back now, and Correa's return has had an immediate impact.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/aretha-franklin-dies-at-76.25247/#post-382808

Bottom of the ninth, tying run for the A's thrown out at home on an incredible highlight-reel defensive play by Correa from the right field foul line. Call challenged by the A's, but the home crowd at Oakland Coliseum is pretty quiet when the play gets shown again on the Jumbotron. Call overturned by the replay officials in New York, game tied, A's go on to win in extra innings on a walkoff, putting them one game behind the Astros in the AL West (and they may well wind up tied for the division lead if their lead in today's afternoon game holds up). "Clear and convincing evidence" to overturn an on-the-field call, my ass.

This isn't the first time it has been available on CD - Hannibal previously released it in 1991. I've had a copy of that one since at least the mid-90s. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Amarcord-Nino-Rota/release/1608571

25 years ago today.

Tremendous game between the Astros and Dodgers last night, in a WS rematch with the teams seeing each other for the first time since last fall. Verlander was absolutely dominant, giving up only one solo HR and tying a career-high 14 strikeouts before Rondon came on in the eighth inning and completed a four-out save. This one could easily have gone the other way - Pederson was the last batter Verlander faced, and after having homered off him earlier got ahead in the count 3-0. What would have been a second homer went foul, and Verlander recovered to strike him out on a filthy curveball. Final score 2-1 Astros, coming one night after the Dodgers hung an eye-popping *21* runs on the Brewers.

Local media reaction, as well as social media reaction, has been very negative so far, and when Verlander was asked about the trade in an interview yesterday, he said all the things you'd expect a team player to say, but he was clearly pissed off. He and McCullers have been very outspoken in having zero tolerance for domestic violence. The Astros' front office isn't stupid, and they had to have known this would not be well-received by many people, but they claim that an "unprecedented" amount of due diligence was done prior to making the decision to pull the trigger on the deal. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until proven wrong, but team chemistry being as important as it is, you have to wonder how Osuna's presence will affect the atmosphere in what has been a pretty loose and close-knit clubhouse. My understanding is that Osuna was charged with simple assault, which in Canada means no weapon was involved and the other party was not physically injured, but I also haven't read enough about the case to consider myself especially well-informed. Unfortunately, domestic abuse is one of those things like pedophilia in that just being accused of it, regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the accusation, usually results in significant negative consequences for those accused. I saw plenty of tweets yesterday from Blue Jays fans who were just as glad to see Osuna gone as many Astros fans were to see Giles gone (obviously for different reasons).

There was a huge online stink about this when Photobucket implemented the policy change that required users to pay an exorbitant fee to maintain third-party linking. Apparently they reversed this policy a couple of months ago, drastically cutting the fees they had previously tried to implement: The Pain and Potential of Making a 180-Degree Policy Shift I used to use them for casual photo hosting, but when they started trying to extort users I switched to Imgur, which isn't well-suited for heavy-duty web hosting of numerous photos but works fine if you just need to post a photo on a forum occasionally.

Volkswagen's LD. R electric racer won the Pikes Peak hillclimb yesterday, not only breaking the record for electric cars but beating the overall record by 16 seconds: Competition proven: Why Volkswagen’s record-shattering electric Pikes Peak run matters

It would've been great if we could've gotten Herrera, but as it stands the Astros bullpen is (so far) a hell of a lot better than they were last year. Collin McHugh has transitioned to the pen very effectively from his role as a starter last year, and Tony Sipp has been very good, as opposed to last year when the 'Stros fan base would collectively cringe whenever he came into a game (cynics will note that this year is a contract year for Sipp, who in recent years has pitched well in contract years only to revert to not-so-good form after inking a new deal). And Ken Giles gets crapped on a lot by those who haven't yet accepted that he will probably never be the elite closer we hoped we were getting when we traded for him, but if you actually look at his numbers he's been quite respectable for most of his outings this year - of course, when you're a closer, elite or otherwise, it's the blown saves everyone remembers. The current speculation is that the Astros will try to get Brad Hand from the Padres, but even if they're unable to bolster the pen any further, I'll be much less concerned about our relief pitching going into the postseason than I was last year.

Gibson went 22-9 in 1968, and his 1.12 ERA is still the record in the live-ball era. He also pitched 13 complete-game shutouts and had a streak of 47 consecutive scoreless innings (Don Drysdale set a record that same year with 58 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, which stood until Orel Hershiser bested it with 59 in 1988). Out of 34 starts, he had 28 complete games. And he set the World Series record for strikeouts in a game with 17 in Game 1. Denny McLain went 31-6, the last pitcher to win 30 games and the first to do so since 1938, and his Tigers beat GIbson's Cardinals in the Series even though he lost twice in head-to-head matchups with Gibson. Just otherworldly numbers that are hard to fathom through today's lenses, and you can understand why MLB subsequently felt compelled to tweak things a bit by lowering the mound. They also reduced the height of the strike zone after having expanded it several seasons earlier.

Saw an article this morning that claimed the Rockets may pursue Paul George. But there's another piece out there speculating that LBJ and George may team up with the Lakers. The rumor mill is clearly cranking up with the imminent availability of several high-profile free agents.

There's an article here which indicates they were making their content available for free in order to promote their new app, but the free period was supposedly only for the last two weeks in May.