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A Long-Awaited Center Dedicated to Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Collection Is Finally Opening in Riverside, California The space will house more than 500 works of art...

Songs with the devil in the title or lyrics or about the devil. Must be hundreds of 'em.

Been selling off my vintage collection; the Marantz, McIntosh and Empire stuff sold no problem. Finding local buyers for the QUAD 405-2 and ESL-63s is a bit more difficult, as they aren't nearly as well known around these parts. Dug out the 405-2 to test and clean. I had painted the top years...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648604/apple-acquires-primephonic-classical-music-streaming-service You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile...

A Squeezebox Touch clone with a 4" touchscreen. 1. Download piCorePlayer, Standard (32-bit) version, write to a micro-SD card. 2. Set up wpa_supplicant.conf per instructions, save to the SD card, so that the pi will connect to your WiFi. 3. Put the micro SD card into a Raspberry Pi Zero WH. 4...

Man's best friend. Best ever dog song:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295273/spotify-hifi-announced-lossless-streaming-hd-quality

The planes and their pilots are amazing!

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway...

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-looney-tunes-shorts-cartoons.html

Looking for alternatives to Sonos, as most of my Sonos devices, which I've had (and loved) for years, will be put into maintenance mode in a few months. Technology moves so fast; the Sonos devices have had a great run for 15 years, but I don't want to continue using expensive devices that will...

I'm thinking about desk calendars with my photos of birds and cats as stocking stuffers this year. Anyone used a service that does a great job, inexpensively? I'm looking at Walgreens, with their 50% off coupons, at about $5/calendar, but not sure about quality...

Anyone using one? SWMBO wants to switch from the old ceramic cooktop to gas. Would cost a small fortune to get gas line to the kitchen. We went shopping at a couple of places, both recommended induction cooktop instead. Consumer Reports rates them at an amazing 99/100, pretty much perfect...

Take that, Europe! Lol. We’ve made great wines for years, now we are making great cheese. Most of us grew up on Velveeta. https://www.foodandwine.com/news/world-cheese-awards-2019-winner-oregon-rogue-river-blue

Pretty nice. Tested this morning, moving the local NPR station's Tunein stream from bedroom to bathroom to kitchen to office, all using a simple voice command. Works on my Google and Insignia devices.

Been doing the protein smoothie thing for a while, great breakfast before I do my 5-10 mile daily walks. Working, weight has melted away, healthy as a horse. Anyway, I'm currently using an immersion blender in a pitcher. Gets the job done, but have been researching blenders. Vitamix and...

Gonna cost you... Not sure I even like toast this much. https://www.amazon.com/Mitsubishi-Electric-ST1-T-Toaster-ultimate/dp/B07PHLN9DD/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_79_t_0?_encoding=UTF8

New app from Spotify for building "stations" from a seed artist, then it suggests related artists to also seed from. Pretty slick for quickly building playlists without much effort. Supports Spotify Connect, so can cast to any of my Sonos devices or to my Amazon Fire Stick.

Was reading this morning about Salesforce buying Tableau (I used Salesforce's Einstein Analytics extensively, and Tableau a good bit before retiring from MegaCorp). Got me to remembering Google Data Studio, a freebie, uber simple, data visualization product. MegaCorp had shifted thousands of...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/26/amazon-is-prepping-a-high-fidelity-tidal-competitor/?yptr=yahoo

Indian Railways 151,000 km of laid track, 1 billion people, and an infinite source of memories Google Arts & Culture. Cool stuff. https://artsandculture.google.com/project/indian-railways

Worth installing, if you use the Chrome browser (which most folks do). https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18211766/google-password-checkup-chrome-extension-data-breach-login-credentials

Apple Music on Echos, Airplay on Sonos... What's becoming of Apple's walled garden? Lol. It's all for the good. https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/04/airplay-is-finally-catching-up-to-chromecast.aspx

Not sure how it compares to the PL-630 I once had, but a quick search shows this to be a great price. Looks to be in good condition. https://sacramento.craigslist.org/ele/d/pioneer-turntable/6761864282.html