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music: Love (and $$$) Will Keep Us Together, Paul Gilbert

Posted on 2026-02-11 by skierpage

Paul Gilbert is an entertaining voluble guitar whiz. I’ve watched a few videos of him, so YouTube recommended “Paul Gilbert – The Process of Translation | AMS Interview”. Lot of talk, but at 6:20 he casually unleashes a fantastic cover … Continue reading →

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money: fElon Musk’s paper wealth is real

Posted on 2026-02-10 by skierpage

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world thanks to the shares of Tesla, Xitter, xAI, and SpaceX that he owns. He’s forced xAI to acquire Xitter and now SpaceX to acquire xAI in order to hide their losses … Continue reading →

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art: Santa brings Jhane Barnes beauty

Posted on 2026-01-03 by skierpage

Santa figured out there is an endlessly updating treasure trove of Jhane Barnes shirts on eBay. Here are two stellar designs I received. From a distance the check shirt looks straightforward, but the fibers in each square and of each … Continue reading →

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music: the secondhand joy of mashups and AI

Posted on 2025-10-20 by skierpage

YouTube finally got around to recommending Bill McClintock’s mashups to me. A lot of the enjoyment comes from bringing out the strong melodies underlying bombastic metal performances by pairing them with disco/pop/R&B songs; unfortunately, I’m not familiar with most of … Continue reading →

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web: awful online shopping part NN

Posted on 2025-05-01 by skierpage

Why is shopping at Amazon so awful? It presents dozens of brands you’ve never heard of, and appallingly bad filtering options. And since 8% of the 1-star reviews are “It broke after X weeks”, let me filter for products by … Continue reading →

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art: Sturgeon’s law at the art fair

Posted on 2025-04-19 by skierpage

For some reason San Francisco Art Fair thinks we’re high roller art buyers (even though we’ve never brought a painting home for more than $500) and offers us “VIP” tickets. (Though this reminds me of the “Las Vegas” episode of … Continue reading →

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cars: they all step up then falter in EVs

Posted on 2025-03-28 by skierpage

The Nissan Leaf was the first mass market BEV in 2010. Nissan built battery factories and assembly lines on three continents to make it. 16 years later, Nissan has one new model in the USA, the Ariya. Meanwhile upstart Tesla … Continue reading →

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cars: SPAC collapse facts

Posted on 2025-03-23 by skierpage

The electrification of land transportation is inevitable and A Good Thing, but there’s a lot of carnage along the way! I read an article about the problem with SPACs; the article is not specific to EVs, but so many EV … Continue reading →

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design: dimmer light switch de-evolution

Posted on 2025-03-20 by skierpage

The electrical industry came up with the perfect light switch over 60 years ago: a plastic thing you flick up to turn on and down to turn off. You can see by looking at it which lights are on and … Continue reading →

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web: how sites like Facebook track clicks

Posted on 2025-03-14 by skierpage

tl;dr: don’t click on links to web sites, because they track your web activity and build profiles of you on multiple sites. Instead open a new private/incognito tab and either go to the web site yourself or use the more-privacy-respecting … Continue reading →

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