Gemini Links 21/01/2025: London Library, Kobo Sage, and Beyerdynamic DT 48 E
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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A New Hike š„¾
I love going places I've never been, even if they're in my own back yard, and, at first glance, relatively nondescript.
Maybe part of familiarity breeding contempt, or something like that. I have to sometimes remember that the trail I've been on hundreds of times is still amazing.
But the new ones are full of surprises if you look closely enough.
Today Theo the intrepid puppy and I took off cross-country through light snow cover in the forest. See, I'd noticed that public land extended all the way from the road to the creek, though the dirt tracks heading back that way were far from direct for the most part.
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Want
I want... but not really I want to want maybe
I don't really care it's more of an itch
But it's there in my mind in my life
Bugging me just do it
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The London Library
London has a member's library that is almost two hundred years old. I'm not sure I have the time or cash to be able to make much use of it but it does look like an amazing location.
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Imprisoned by my own body
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Politics and World Events
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Now what?
Here we go again. āUnprecedentedā and āuncertainā times are ahead, and these adjectives are sure to soon become cliches.
For the last two and a half months, I have felt drained, anxious, depressed, and tuned out. I do not have the kind of white, middle-class privilege I can fall back on. Iāve lived through tough times through most of my adult years, and during those days, surviving another day or a week was the best I could focus my mind on. And nearly a quarter century has flown by. Yet, even during those days, I kept my sanity by being creative and making my own opportunities where none existed. In retrospect, some of that seemed almost delusional. But given the alternatives (such as succumbing to substance abuse or living a life of crime) I think I did quite well.
The other day, I wrote a message for Boundless Expeditions, the newsletter of Infinitus Ministries.
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Technology and Free Software
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Kobo Sage
I recently (by phlog standards) got myself an e-boot reader - specifically a Kobo Sage. I am quite enamored with it as a device. It has an eink display, meaning there is no need for a backlight, but you can instead rely on ambient light. This makes it much more like reading a piece of paper. The interface is very simple, comprising three buttons and some touch capacity.
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beyerdynamic dt48e
a rather recent addition to my collection, and has grown to be one of my favorite closed-back headphones, is the beyerdynamic dt48. the dt48 model name has been around since 1937 and were the first ever headphones to feature dynamic drivers. there have been several improvements since then, but retains the same style driver-- an inverted aluminum dome that has almost no excursion. afaik, the main acoustical improvement over the decades have been the earpads, rather than the driver tuning itself. the dt48 series were discontinued in the early 2010s, 2011 or 2012 to be more precise. i have the most recent version of the dt48, but the internet tells me that putting the most recent iteration of the earpads on a pair of dt48 from the 70s or 80s will yield me a very similar sound, if not the same.
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