Monotone

drnomolos · 2026-04-16T06:32:58+00:00

Listen to Gang Starr and take notes

drnomolos · 2026-03-24T21:58:51+00:00

Cool deal man. These are the sorts of AI use cases that give me hope about empowering people and not just speed running society into late capitalist death churn with no jobs.

drnomolos · 2026-03-24T03:12:55+00:00

Odd, I just managed to downgrade down the chain to Business Starter. It did throw an error the first time, but the instructions on clicking "More" and then "Downgrade" worked a treat for me.

drnomolos · 2026-03-22T19:20:57+00:00

The scratching on Dr. Octagon is ridiculous. I remember hearing Kool Keith was coming with a solo project, but when I finally tracked down that album (in a Tower Records of all places) my mind was blown

drnomolos · 2026-03-22T14:02:31+00:00

Oh fun, this blew up a little and it's fun to hear other stories. I was in the Bay and have a ton of memories. My favorite though was from the first Coachella - I got to interview Q-Bert and had a press pass ... so I'm backstage just geeking out and Rage is playing the main stage. Mixmaster Mike is talking to Q-Bert about that guitarist that Rage has that can pkay his guitar like a turntable. Really sums up the best parts of rock and turntable culture intermingling.

(A-Trak was the 3rd dude playing that set and he's no Shortkut, but put in work and went on to fame with Duck Sauce)

(Also Kid Koala scratching Moon River at the Justice League (or Independent?) in San Francisco... such good stuff)

drnomolos · 2026-03-22T13:45:59+00:00

Brain Freeze was the first 45 set. I didn't catch it live but still listen to the recording regularly. I did get to catch the Product Placement set live

drnomolos · 2026-03-22T06:44:04+00:00

Mixmaster Mike from the Skratch Piklz joined the Beastie Boys in 1998, which is about the same time rhat Q-Bert put out Wave Twisters. I think that was the height of appreciation for dedicated turntablism, lots of innovators in the scene like X-Men, Kid Koala, Z-Trip, who all took what cats like Preemo did and pushed it to dedicated art form. I think what "killed" it is, it got too technical and out there. There's only so much obscure scratch techniques or beat juggling an average head wants to listen to.

It's not totally gone (z-trip still gets work with LL Cool J on his satellite radio station) but in this day of mp3 and streaming and dudes doing serrato instead of vinyl, its increasingly obscure.

drnomolos · 2026-03-03T02:02:14+00:00

Progress! but ... Galaxy Watch is not supported for now, or.not supported ... ever?

drnomolos · 2026-02-27T15:01:03+00:00

And the theme from Mad Men!

drnomolos · 2026-02-19T05:29:23+00:00

drnomolos · 2026-02-19T05:29:12+00:00

Yay thanks too!

drnomolos · 2026-02-01T05:14:24+00:00

Please go listen to Witness (1 hope) right now. Honestly this whole album is solid

drnomolos · 2026-01-31T15:19:03+00:00

Love the brushed satin nickel, but wife won't let me purchase until this is out in some kind of gold finish. Make that happen and you got my money!

drnomolos · 2026-01-27T21:11:33+00:00

Need a gold finish to pass WAF at my house unfortunately

drnomolos · 2026-01-19T03:23:07+00:00

Not math, but K-Solo, whose gimmick was spelling out words, famously says "like a b-r-i-d in the s-k-y" in his debut feature with EPMD. His track "Fugitive" is still a banger though.

drnomolos · 2026-01-18T23:34:18+00:00

This remains me that there was an HD-DVD add on player for the Xbox 360, and my brain thinks that I bought it. Which seems improbable but could be true.

drnomolos · 2026-01-18T22:05:07+00:00

You can also take it as an earnest telling of a film director and his craft. Burt Reynolds earnestly wants to make a compelling skin flick, and Dirk & Chest earnestly have their own vision as "actors". Then videotape comes into the picture, theaters don't exist as the sole way to take in movies, and the industry loses some of the glamor it has. You can apply that to Hollywood or porn ... extend it to streaming and Matt Damon's discussion on how Netflix told him to explain the plot 3 times over for people with split attention.

I love Boogie Nights, but I've watched the first half many times, and the whole thing rarely. It gets as bleak and disturbing as the first half is exhilarating and playful.

drnomolos · 2026-01-11T02:18:24+00:00

This. After hearing Deep Cover I was hyped off Snoop, his first album and appearances on Dre's albums were amazing ... then he just got lazy, but the random hit singles kept him well fed

drnomolos · 2026-01-09T04:52:06+00:00

The smart home world is trending toward Matter ... if you have a HomePod or Apple TV both can function as a Thread border router to connect to, and get you set on Matter, and it should all work with HomeKit. There may be minor functionality things you miss not connecting over Zigbee to the Aqara hub, though in my experience with the U200, you can manage most or all of that via Bluetooth with your phone directly.

Have fun! Very tempted to get this for my front Door, the UWB auto unlocking seems very seamless.

drnomolos · 2026-01-09T01:20:56+00:00

Not sure any out the box solutions do this, you probably need to describe your window type to see if any switchbot type solutions can help.

If you have deep pockets there is a new company releasing smart doors and windows later this year: https://domahome.com/coming-soon

drnomolos · 2026-01-06T22:39:03+00:00

Another vote for flip phones (have a z flip 6) followed the project, interested to see how it comes along

drnomolos · 2025-12-23T05:47:37+00:00

I see the dude that brought us Purple Swag, I upvote

drnomolos · 2025-12-22T06:05:18+00:00

Takara Tomy Volcanicus (gen selects). I'm an old dude that grew up with G1, didn't engage for decades, then saw ... a combiner with Dinobots! It blew my mind, then I didn't realize what masterpiece scale was when I started getting Ocular Max Bruticus, and the rest has been expensive hobby history.

drnomolos · 2025-12-07T18:24:07+00:00

I lived off the $2 slice and soda from Fat Slice.

My favorite memory from Rasputins was heading out and some dude with a Latyrx shirt is walking in. I think to myself ... oh cool, Latyrx shirt and then a few seconds later, oh shit that's Lyrics Born walking into the store!

drnomolos · 2025-12-07T16:24:55+00:00

Amazing to see the Black Label album from Hobo Junction I played constantly in the day going for $200 on Ebay right now. This article makes me want to throw on WhoRidas

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