Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pickering vs Grado: Chapter two — Penny Lane
This time we're looking at a Beatles classic for our cartridge comparison. Penny Lane from the Canadian pressing of 1967 - 1970. Which will sound better?
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Pickering vs Grado: Chapter one — introduction, review, and listening to an old favourite
Two cartridges. One vintage, the other new. Which sounds 'better'? What is better? I get to play with charts and audio stuff, and play cool tunes to YouTube! What's not to like. And maybe we find out a bit more about these two cartridges.
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Akai AP-Q41 won’t quite fit the Pickering XV-15 625E cartridge with brush
Five minutes with a wire and some creative bending...
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The Frankenstein Cartridge is Alive!
Just a quick post to capture the first playback of the Frankenstein Cartridge.
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PLEX Privacy Problem.
At the beginning of November 2023, PLEX enabled some new features that have turned out to be a bit of a PR and Privacy nightmare. Basically, they’ve started emailing all members of a PLEX server with the recent viewing habits of other members of that server. Even if the members don’t know each other, PLEX…
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Poirot discusses the movie Knives Out with his friends.
A dinner party and a movie review. The famous Belgian detective and friends discuss Knives Out.
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Making progress
Updating my slowly-evolving analog audio project wherein I undertake to rebuild/recover my enjoyment of observing the phenomonon created when a tiny diamond rides merrily through a vinyl groove, delightedly vibrating, producing a minuscule electrical current that eventually (through amplification magic) becomes the sweet sound that we call analog music. The project makes progress and it's…
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This pile of gear is starting to come to life… and a list of vinyl test albums
An old turntable, a new cartridge, and a list of awesome albums to pick up. What's not to like!
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Using ChatGPT to create a flight simulator flight plan in Little NavMap format
Short post to just document the prompt I use with ChatGPT. It works ok, for short flights. For some reason, ChatGPT seems to stall out if the flightplan has more than five or six user waypoints, in addition to the departure and destination waypoints. I should probably look at optimizing this prompt, it’s a bit long 🙂
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Aziz! Light!
An AI chatbot leads me on a coding adventure that ultimately ends up ignoring all the work the AI did in the first place.
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Note to self — use the reboxing service
Shipping something a fair distance? Pack it well or use a packing service. I learned a lesson the hard way.
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Bob tries out a new plane.
Bob tries out a new plane on a short cross-country mid-winter flight into the Rockies. Things go wrong, but Bob prevails.
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