…i use optical PCM for all my stereo sources; unfortunately with multichannel audio its bandwidth is sufficient only for lossy compression…

…hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to…

…TOSLINK can’t handle atmos bandwidth; you need eARC for uncompressed multichannel digital audio…

…fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn’t quite what it was twenty years ago…

…fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge…

…i shopped a saab 9000 back in '99: ventilated seats, man, pure luxury…

…that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…

…speaking for most of us, just the one…

…either united 93 was shot down or the USAF was incompetent; i put odds on competence…

can != will

…the current regime will continue doing whatever the f*ck they want as long as nobody stops them…

…i prefer wall-eyed stereograms because cross-eyed orientation makes the picture look tiny…

…anchor baby, too: brought along his uncle, his cousins, his dog, his monkey, his robot…

…oh, now i get it…

…one o’clock and three o’clock taste pretty similar and eight o’clock and ten o’clock are close-enough for most uses…

…likewise; i sang it in my mind while scanning the thumbnail and was suitably impressed…

…i totally thought that was wheat and lentil penne sautéed with crumbled sausage…

…our local grocer stocks vegan gummies; sadly they’re not very good…

…i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

…that’s really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday…

…that’s just a shatner filter…