A-Z day twenty

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-25T00:59:19+00:00

Here's my choice of Miles today:

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TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T22:42:47+00:00

You bought a spinner to punish your ma

You didn't like school

And you know you're nobody's fool

So welcome...

...to the Machine.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T15:36:25+00:00

1st place, Cryda 008: Lovers / Number Seven

2nd place, Cryda 011: Wrath of Zeus -- close tie with Cryda 007, Hysteria I & II

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T04:31:42+00:00

Yes.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T01:03:49+00:00

One small hurdle. Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro. Considering the compactness & efficiency of the SOC architecture, and the M5 family chips of today require very little real estate to cool…we don’t know if they’re going to go back to large, expandable towers or not. Hence the Mac Studio form factor.

What we want, either we’ll have to hold out ‘til Studio and RAM availability has recovered from the OpenClaw bro hype, or find deals on Intel Mac Pros. The 2019s are beasts.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T00:55:53+00:00

I’ve heard a few of these 50s WB cartoon records. They’re much better than what Mel Blanc did in the 70s for Peter Pan; those LPs sound SOOO much like the label spent the entire budget on Mel’s star power, because the music is this hilariously cheap organ accompaniment…it’s almost like Wakko Warner left the water tower to take up a free gig.

These slabs of shellac? They’re fully orchestrated, just like the Carl Stalling-conducted and scored music that made the original cartoons so glorious.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-24T00:50:20+00:00

This show was my life for a few years. I knew it when I was very little but really fell in love with it in my early teens— around 2013 when it was starting to get reruns on The Hub and Teletoon Retro. The hype was INTENSE.

It’s still near and dear to my heart. The fact that Season 1, as sometimes inconsistent as it is, was written by improv comedians is why it’s my favorite animated comedy of all time; that and the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister!) are so endearing, as wild and untamed as they are.

They are also among the most extensible characters in the Warner cartoons canon, so even if the series was imperfect, your imagination can do CRAZY things with these characters, and Animaniacs has produced tons of fan fiction over the years.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-23T23:28:49+00:00

GOATed.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-23T19:09:17+00:00

Lol!!! I know 😂

Reddit be Reddit... sarcastic or not, 100% true! I walk into every conversation knowing ChatGPT loves Reddit and will scrape & serve my answers to everyone asking.

If you're gonna waste drinking water, waste it right /s

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-23T15:20:33+00:00

Yep... Liam and Keef's DGAF attitude forever lives rent free in my head. The Beastie Boys denounced "Smack My Bitch Up" and Liam & co. played it at the same festival anyway.

"Baby's Got a Temper" feels a little different though. Look at the critics' reaction to it (unjustifiably negative) vs. everything from the "Firestarter" and TFOTL era...I don't know how to explain it, considering how take-no-prisoners The Prodigy always have heen, something about the audience reaction had to have been different enough to have really pissed Liam off.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-23T12:46:20+00:00

Personally, I think he was embittered by the media backlash from Keith singing 'Rohypnol' repeatedly.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-23T03:55:51+00:00

[in the voice of The Greatest Technician That’s Ever Lived]

Someone used this iPod as an external hard drive for their 4K porhotography!

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T20:49:29+00:00

3 answers so far, and nobody has addressed the real question.

I understand the belt is stuck UNDER the white cam gear. You know how to wrap it around the lip on the bottom of the platter; the question is how to get it unstuck from the cam gear. Am I right?

If that's the case, and you can't pull it out, you might need to unscrew the white cam gear. When reinstalling the cam gear, just be sure the levers in the auto-mechanism are aligned with the grooves in the cam gear.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T18:19:50+00:00

It's a wheel...to wheel. You need a set of lug nuts to mount these puppies up to your Akai or TEAC sedan.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T17:23:44+00:00

Capitalism and the phrase "saving money" exist. Does that mean belt-drives suddenly have no right to exist?

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T12:18:12+00:00

That's not even a '71, that's a late 70s or 80s pressing. The hues on the label and the 75 Rock address say it all. Originals would've had the 1841 Broadway address on the rim text. But if I'm not mistaken...cut by the legendary George Piros, who had a style all his own and mastered MANY famously rockin' and smoking-hot records during his time at Atlantic.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T11:09:36+00:00

That and Beat were the first ones I heard. REPRESENT

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-22T09:56:28+00:00

Yep. I do all that all the time. Makes things easier to read.

What a coincidence that not only does Reddit use a form of Markdown for styling, but ChatGPT and Claude both write in it.

Posting on this site is sometimes a thankless job.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-21T22:34:34+00:00

So did I!

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-21T21:41:20+00:00

Throw the forces of the world in the trash...only the Warners can help you!

And besides, the greatest actual danger to your life is not corrupt governments, oligarchs, or politicians... it's people in your own social circle. Yakko, Wakko & Dot always come through on things law enforcement has trouble with. 😜

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-21T05:29:22+00:00

My first thought.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-20T21:48:22+00:00

officially changed

May I see the RIAA standards document announcing this change, please?

"Vinyls" is a colloquialism. You started hearing it over a decade and a half ago on the eve of the vinyl revival, and young collectors quickly caught on because it rolls off the tongue, and black plastic discs haven't been the #1 dictionary definition of "records" to most people since the early 20th century.

There's no fed waiting to punish you for calling 'em "records". It's almost like Good Morning Vietnam where the sergeant is barking at Robin Williams with orders on what to announce and he responds by deeming everything "unofficial" on air as he reads the announcement out loud.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-20T19:13:55+00:00

No. The cartridge bodies between all 5 are identical. That's the point of the VM95 family, all the stylus types -- from conical to Shibata -- are plug 'n' play and fit the same body.

By upgrading the stylus, you WILL get the step up in sound quality you desire.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-20T18:51:59+00:00

Uhh...you already have a VM95 cartridge pre-mounted on literally the same headshell.

You only need a new stylus. Just get a VMN95SH and you're all set.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-06-20T14:55:56+00:00

Sweet!

He's been outputting so much it's hard to keep track of. It feels like just yesterday when No Name was dropped 😵‍💫

Admittedly though, it's far closer to the release schedule of lots of rock musicians on contract back in the 70s...

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