monofuzz
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RIP Joe Ely. Such an **incredible** songwriter.
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American history is America doing a series of things American media deems "UnAmerican".
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There's a new (2025) documentary about MAD magazine out. Perfect entertainment for this snowy Sunday.
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And to think ~30 years ago, CFOs would ask for justification for buying color monitors and mice and MS Office.
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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Japanese Monk Racks Brain For Haiku That Will Knock Them On Their Asses https://t.co/OeCn9kFVjI
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"Anthology 4" offers more than just giggles and studio banter. The strings-only track of "I am the Walrus", the rough drafts of harmonies on the pre-'65 songs - and the GLORIOUSLY jangly backing track of "Nowhere Man". Yeah, still the greatest rock n' roll band ever.
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Like my piano teacher often admonishes me, "playing the right notes isn't the same as playing music".
Fun fact: Jean-Paul Sartre knew how to play the piano and enjoyed doing so
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There's something deeply pleasurable in browsing a friend's record collection (or their bookshelves) even when our tastes intersect only marginally. This used to be an effective MO for striking up friendships. "Check this thing out that I am currently obsessing over."
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Kudos to the web designers who worked on the newly-launched Nehru Archives website. It's a most excellent resource.
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If public infrastructure were to be built like commercial cloud, life would be terrifying.
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To hell with soup. All soup. Except the Primordial Soup.
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An autumn leaf just drifted by my window. Can't wait for the live re-enactment of the next jazz standard.
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How dare you sully the noble field of UFOlogy by comparing it to software engineering
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From Shyam Benegal's 1986 adaptation of Gogol's "The Overcoat". While it's a somewhat prosaic adaptation, it was shot in Kashmir in '86 - just a year before that pivotal moment that changed everything for the region and the country.
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It is a must-read account of a forgotten tragedy ("a relatively small-scale affair") in Northern India. The present incarnation of Indian media is incapable of telling such stories and I hope Joe Sacco's fans in India have access to this title. (cc: @SanSip - you read this yet?)
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