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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • I’m a staunch atheist who likes a holiday.

    Jesus was most likely born in the spring or fall a few years earlier than we recognize, if he was even a single person or existed at all. The Church, as it did every time, took existing holidays and co-opted them.

    The end of the Roman calendar year is an amalgam of pagan holidays that celebrate the shortest day/longest night. A lot of the traditions we associate with Xmas are celebrating the beginning of the lengthening of the day and the return to life/springtime.

    Xmas has always been a meta holiday. Most are. Enjoy the company of friends and family just as people have for millenia, no matter what banner is hanging over the mantle.




  • “Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” Art Carter, chief executive officer of the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, a private database for real estate brokers and agents, told the Times.

    Yea, no shit. That’s the point of including climate risk when it comes to choosing a property.

    Flood prone areas don’t pop up overnight. The people in Swannanoa NC were living in a known floodplain that had a massive flood about 100 years ago. Same with the Guadalupe River that averages a major flood every decade. Climate change is making these events larger and more frequent, but excluding data from a real estate listing to supposedly increase home value is nonsense at best and fraud at worst.






























  • Thank you, that was an interesting breakdown. I really appreciate his methodology. I’m going to deep dive into anything he has posted. Though he doesn’t come to the same conclusion I do, the takeaway is:

    1. Yes, there is noticeable sound loss when converting a 24 bit sample to 16 bit.

    2. You can really screw with a 24 bit sample and still have a listenable file, presumably because of the bit depth.

    3. Recording and mastering in 24 bit benefits classical music reproduction, and I would argue, any acoustic music reproduction. So, anything with a vocal, drum kit, acoustic guitar, etc.

    Since the video is about dither specifically, he does conclude that mastering to 16 bit gives the technician a sturdier product when played back on the myriad of modern equipment we have. It’s arguable, sure, but since this an audiophile sub…

    Really though, thanks for posting the video. Deep dive in 3, 2…


  • I went back and watched the Star Trek DS9 season 2 opener, 3 parter. Then I listened to the Delta Flyers podcast to hear some insider info and context.

    I’ve seen the series multiple times, so I can picture just about every scene when the Flyers are going through their synopsis, but I thought I’d try to rewatch the episodes first and then listen. I enjoyed it, but the practice also enforced the fact that I really have seen TNG, DS9 and Voyager a ton and I wasn’t missing much in my internal teleplay.