This is why you don’t let bears rent skis.

As some wise fellows once said,

Hot potato, hot potato

Hot potato, hot potato

Hot potato, hot potato, potato

Potato, potato, potato

Update, no strobe is needed. Full disclosure, I had viewed the kind of melty swirl that was created viewing the record as a whole as the zoetrope effect, and thought it was just a cute detail that it was made up of individual tiny images. Even though I separately know exactly what a zoetrope is and how it works. I just mentally whooshed on it. So thank you for prompting me to knock the mental cobwebs out.

Anyway, the best way to see the effect is just to hold a smart phone video camera over it zoomed in pretty far - with the flash on. The bright light is key. Even if you aren’t recording, maybe because of the rolling shutter? Not sure, but it’s really satisfying to watch. I’ll post video if I can.

Now I need to re-listen to/re-watch The Soft Bulletin with this new info.

Strobe light, you say. Y’know, I had a nagging suspicion that there was something fundamental to this whole “zoetrope” idea that I was overlooking.

Let me get back to you on that.

A classic.

Correct on both points. I’m not sure that the fees for PreCheck fully cover it, but I would struggle to imagine how it couldn’t given the way it works. It’s probably a cash cow, it’s almost put Clear out of business too.

This is punitive. It’s manufacturing pain.

100% agree. Downward Is Heavenward is probably in my top 20 overall favorites actually.

It’s a great way to get into a weekend state of mind, I find.

Downward Is Heavenward is my personal favorite of theirs. I used to fall asleep to it when I was a teen. Now I achieve other states while listening. It’s also one of the first big dominoes to fall in what has become a mild vinyl obsession. My first post in this comm, in fact. It just sounds so huge.

It’s great, probably the most chill of their albums. Sophtware slump and Sumday are still my favs but it’s just great hearing new music from these guys after their bass player passing away.

Also got to see these guys live recently and it was a great experience.

I can think of at least one comm that I, a filthy American (for my sins), frequent, and which has remained completely devoid of political discussion.

I can’t think of more than one at this precise moment, but I’m sure if I wracked my brain for a bit…

Which is why I will never buy a car made after 2015 if I can possibly avoid it. If I were writing the rules,

• My car should not be capable of pay-walling any features

• Just like my phone, I should have fine grained control over what data my car shares and with whom

• No vehicle controls that may need to be accessed while driving should require more than one click on a touchscreen to access

• Any touchscreen UI should be easily controllable from a steering wheel type d-pad

• No non-entertainment vehicle controls should be primarily accessible from a touchscreen

• Any controls that affect the speed, position, size, or access of the car should only have secondary touchscreen controls that are upstream of any failures modes in the primary physical control; in other words, a UI control should only be a backup method for important functions of the vehicle, and they shouldn’t be able to break the main method if they break

When I had to reluctantly buy a used car, I made it a point to buy a used car no newer than 2015 and this is why. Well this and touchscreen mania.

We’ve all heard Wonderful Christmastime. The signs have been there.

cucks

Very nice setup. I hadn’t heard of these guys but based on the first 5 minutes of their Wikipedia article, I am definitely checking them out.

Given all of the feuding going on right now, I would hold out for more sources and be extra skeptical. From my brief searching this doesn’t seem to be well substantiated.

It isn’t like we need this to be true to know that she is an absolute ghoul anyway.

If he hit a nerve it was by platforming actual antisemitism, which only serves to further muddy the waters amid all the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism towards anyone who thinks a genocidal government regime is, like, not a good thing.

I really don’t think there is any common cause to be found with a fellow like this, and the most likely outcome of this detention is that he will probably abruptly change his tune on Israel. And he may have some light internal bleeding.

While this is often true, I work for a company with some very aged computer systems and there are at least a few people I can think of; masters of the old ways, who are known to be essentially 1 of 1. The CEO may not know their name and expertise but the CIO on down definitely does.

Mon the Biff!

Love these guys.