Rane // The Wounds (1998)

I’ve added my Technics gear to my Players subsection of the Gadgets page.

• SU-A600 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
• RS-TR575 Stereo Cassette Deck
• SL-PG490 Compact Disc Player
• SJ-MD100 Minidisc Deck
• ST-GT550 Stereo Synthesizer Tuner
• RS-AZ7 Stereo Cassette Deck

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A te che sei l’unica al mondo
L’unica ragione per arrivare fino in fondo
Ad ogni mio respiro
Quando ti guardo
Dopo un giorno pieno di parole
Senza che tu mi dica niente
Tutto si fa chiaro
A te che mi hai trovato

Michael Jordan playing ping pong. Larry Bird lying on the ground, drunk, with beer bottles and children’s toys around him.

This photo was taken during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the year of the legendary “Dream Team.”

It seems that this photo dates back to the night before the USA-Germany game, the third match of the group stage. Michael Jordan was challenging Charles Barkley to a ping pong match, with several dollars at stake. They played for over an hour until Barkley, exhausted and frustrated from losing too much money, gave up. Larry Bird, on the other hand, had been drinking with Patrick Ewing. Ewing later revealed that throughout his career he had disliked Bird, but they became great friends during that Olympics. Bird, who had essentially retired due to his back issues, treated the Olympics as “a vacation with 18-year-old friends,” spending every evening drinking together.

The next day, the USA-Germany game took place: final score, 111-68. Larry Bird scored 19 points in 21 minutes with 70% shooting (the other 19 minutes spent lying face down on the bench, as it was the only position that didn’t hurt his back). Jordan finished with 15 points and 12 assists, shooting 70%, without breaking a sweat. Barkley scored 14 points in just a few minutes. Ewing managed 4 points on 2/7 shooting.

Regarding this, Larry Bird said, “Well, Pat couldn’t keep up with my pace. And I’m not talking about basketball.”

The best music show is starting this evening and will last until the 15th. Enjoy! Watch here live.

I have laid my hands on some Chinese Chuwi HiBook CWI514 tablet and somehow I cannot install the drivers for the touchscreen under Windows, after trying about 15 variants. I eventually found a driver that installs, but the touches are way off. The funny part is that the touchscreen works just fine in the bootloader. And while we’re at it, fuck Windows as well, Win10 is such a fucking bloated over engineered underoptimized piece of shit.

I didn’t care too much about this, but I was more curious to have it as a low powered and handy tool for Windows-related tasks or debugging, but it seems it’s just junk, no matter how much paid articles try to make it look good.

For the sake of what’s saint, please stop buying shit just because it’s cheap.

These Serbians are really funny. This is the NORAD surveillance interface from “Munje! // Dudes!”.

As I said before, I really like making bootlegs, either on Minidisc, or on cassette tapes,or even both. I’ve even bootlegged some Black Mirror Soundtracks. So when Luna Amară posted a fun photo on Instagram, a collage of their ID photos where they tagged the Romanian Police, I thought the image could be a really nice cover for a “Best Of” bootleg tape. However, there’s a small issue, as the “best of” would contain at least 65 tracks, the number of “Loved” songs from them I have favorited in my music player, so I really had to tone down the “Best Of” idea to “Some really nice songs”. So without further ado, here’s some photos below.

Diggnation is back! After a 73-year break, the guys are returning with all new episodes. Diggnation covers the top stories from around the internet. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht give you their unique, sometimes awkward, and always hilarious take on the edges of the internet. Just a couple of geeks sitting on a couch.

Probably the first podcast I’ve ever watched, back before podcasts were actually a thing and when video production was way way more complex. There are already 9 episodes released and I love to see that the same vibe is present in the videos and they are a bit older, but just as fun. This is not a nostalgia trip, this is a blast from the past and I love to see them back, I got goosebumps hearing and seeing the intro once again, I’ve linked it below in one of its earlier variants.

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Many thanks to Vlad for telling me they’re back, as he’s the one that shown me this in the first place, almost 20 years ago.

See them on youtube, or on their website. They also offer an audio podcast RSS feed if you’re old school.

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RIP David Lynch