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http://elusivedisc.com/content/pdfs/UHQCD-explained.pdf

ordered the japanese edition, which arrived today. UHQCD. not expecting it to sound different, but curious to try … for some reason. stamper is made from different material for (supposedly) better accuracy and sound. says ‘not for sale outside japan’ on obi strip. packaging is slip card sleeve not book like UK one. booklet in japanese as extra, too. and little key ring puzzle with squares that push around to make black logo on white background. https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Squarepusher/dp/B0937LB91K/

encourage purchase of their domestic products over grey imports, which often appear earlier. market structure is very different in japan, with more people involved, big rental market, low production numbers, no ‘sale or return’ element and so on. probably lots of explanation out there.

exclusive japanese t-shirt’s are better … https://diskunion.net/clubt/ct/list/0/4807

first listen tonight. very impressed with it for the most part. suspect i would get a better sense of it if i could identify what’s sampled and what’s not. the bits that sound weaker within the tracks might mostly be drum break bits with limitations on quality? on the whole, much meatier and cleaner than originally sounded. something of a revelation in listening to it 25 years down the line from first hearing it. one of the best remasters i’ve heard over the years. i hope it doesn’t get reviewed badly, because feels spot on to me right now.

… a friend of mine is in this film.

he could buy himself a nice watch, formerly owned by ... steve 'interesting' davis > https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/05a556a4c718368e428909edad2082f7/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/two-day-sale-including-the-watch-auction-and-fine-clock-lot-161/

i've seen a doctor (dr sarah jarvis) on TV here in the UK talk about this issue when someone suggested / posited the approval for covid vaccines was rushed, and she said that many / most of the drugs on the market that people are very happy to take (and do in huge quantities) wouldn't be passed for use now as standards for approval have tightened / improved dramatically over the decades. the reason they're still sold for use relies upon how rare the negative possible side effects are over the astonishing levels of use across billions of people that don't think twice about being a rare case of something going wrong, how the good done is outweighing the bad by a long way.

i think you're pretty spot on there. there's a level of education (...low) which i would say gives people an odd confidence that their common-sense sees perfectly through the perceived flaws and complications of what are immensely-difficult fields of specialist knowledge and education that are ongoing collaborative fields. see the 'dunning kruger' effect. in this case, the brevity and drama of social media can turn the parts of information that float around into different 'whole' conspiracies. as sites like YT and FB or twitter tend to create echo chambers and suggest to people that because they keep digging in their predetermined direction that they're actually researching, learning, improving, or worse ... confirming their preconceived ideas, they are reassured their stupid or oddball start point was right all along. it's an over-simplification of what research is, what it involves (criticism, cross-referencing ... suspicion. all kinds of things) and how easy / difficult it is to do. with vaccines, the one(s) using MRNA were developed quickly. now ... MRNA is a system that's been under development for decades, and allows a base to be adjusted quickly for rapid creation of a version of an existing vaccine for a previously-unknown / new virus. people think the vaccine is rushed. it's flawed. it's prepared (plandemic!). and we have ... conspiracies.

same place for a split in both of the boots, one side slightly worse than the other. solovair said leather can show natural flaws with age. given boots are (were) NOS when i bought them, and looking at the steel toe in them (very firm, causing bunching or creasing) i'd say design flaw from the time. i'd still not risk another of there's at 50% right now. i have two pairs of sanders boots, which is another step up for me. not yet found £400 (circa, typical price) on offer i want.

i've watched the rose anvil (+ other) videos comparing DM with solovair. DM were originally labelled 'made by solovair', and they have the same look. solovair are all made by hand in england, to a higher spec. i'd have recommended them, but despite them having better calf support (so they don't wear the sole as quickly as DM) the only pair i was willing to buy split (both boots, same place) and i didn't notice until they'd returned from resoling where solovair recommended to send them. best they offered me was a 50% off code, with no expiry, which i still have. in general, there are loads of great boot makers across the world, but you'd be looking at at very least £200 (with resoling cost £60 mark; can be done a couple of times) and more typically £400+ for something goodyear / storm welted with a hefty dainite / vibram / commando sole on them. i like trickers, cheaney - eye out for deals until i buy some.

remastering seems a catch-all term for reissuing an old recording with a different sound. it's not necessarily an improvement, because of various factors which seem to include ... a different ear on the person doing the new master, lost sources or recording limitations. last round of led zeppelin remasters included vinyl pressed from digital files, which seemed to slip-out of jimmy page's mouth after the release date. widely known that many new LP pressings are derived from masters for CDs, i think. try the metallica remasters also - thin as hell, and include caviat in the liner notes that the recording's are shocking. it's just too widely assumed it will always be an improvement. it's not - it's certainly likely to be different, though.

coroner. i like crime series, and this is an easy watch. if you removed the slightly explicit (mostly gory) elements, which are there in the first series more than the others, it's very much like a daytime tv movie. a lot of the interesting threads and character traits or relationships are being slowly whittled out of the picture. the paranoia about childhood trauma is now downplayed, along with lots of other interesting stuff, too. what keeps me watching is serinda swan - she has a look i can only say makes far more sense with short hair than long.

no extra tracks, as predicted when rephlex handed the rights back.

i used an electric as a teen. very harsh on the skin. very gadgety appeal to them. i switched to safety razor because of cartridge prices. the expense of other shaving stuff adds up if you go deep on the various aspects. oddly, gillette probably make the best blades for safety razors - they seem to have more than get recommended than any other company. general rule often seems to be russian-made blades are great vfm. recommending is a minefield because everyones skin and hair has it's own qualities and you need to have a balance between good preparation and suitable razor, blade (both can be too aggressive) and good soap. as soon as you start looking, you'll easily be eyeing up very expensive brushes and putting up shelves to hold dozens of them ... if you're not careful.

post shave treatments are a possibility; good vfm + quality would be proraso's 'pre shave', which many shavers rate very highly as a post-shave as it's a soothing cream. maybe also look at cremo cooling (not easy to get in UK) or lucky tiger's stuff. https://www.notino.co.uk/proraso/green-pre-shaving-cream/p-617841/ https://cremocompany.com/post-shave-balm-cooling https://luckytiger-europe.com avoid anything with alcohol, of course (dries skin), and remember it's a rabbit hole (i could list 100+ post-shave treatments) like most subjects, especially shaving. other than this, the key to a good shave is clean skin. if you're using a cartridge razor, consider a cheap safety razor and buy blades by the 100. gillette do a good cheap one, and muhle make some very good ones that are widely-rated. also, glycerine / tallow / lanolin soaps or creams (preferably) help a great deal if you use stuff in a can / aerosol. i can shave with pears soap, but also use good british brands like trumper (creams are great, soaps are poor by them), taylor of old bond street, truefitt and hill ... most average 4 Ounces for £20 but some of these can be more for less money if you look around at offers. cheap brushes can be had by people like omega, yaqi (see ebay) - many are now synthetic as the trend has shifted slightly away from badger hair as they're improved quality. good average size knot on a brush is 24mm wide.

i'm interested to see what happens with new vaccine research, as i can remember a mention of trying to design one that can adapt to appearances of future variants despite not knowing exactly what the characteristics would be, of course, once administered to people. in a sense, no need to chase your tail each year with boosters as you do with less infectious / dangerous things like the flu. i am pretty sure people aren't quite wrapping their heads around vaccines being bust by mutations, variants. still plenty who think when they themselves are vaccinated it's safer for them forever, and once everyone is vaccinated it's all over forever. i would expect everywhere to have a very good chance of being back to 'square one' multiple times before there's a winding down of track / trace, testing, monitoring variants and everything else that's now everyday. too many people, too many governments to be quick and easy.

i often try to pinpoint the moment i lost most of my definite excitement for new rdj work, and i think it’s between icbyd + rdj album original releases ... the slight return to form is this run of ep’s + chosen lords. odd thing to do, but it’s caused by a mix of having spoken to a member of staff at sister ray when HAB released + he said he was done with his work as it was using a style found in some form elsewhere, and an ongoing career and appearance of new fans over the years who haven’t necessarily been able to hear it all as it first appeared, their different perspectives + appreciation. i don’t actually like (but understand, appreciate) the sense of humour of most of the work since the mid 90s. i like miserable richard better.

the evaluation of ages and infections will be continuous, of course. age is still considered the major factor, and i guess age was settled on as a way to manage administering injections some time ago. it will also have been known that variants will try to mutate to find new / better ways to succeed. i believe you might see acceleration in transmission rates and generation of new variants within age groups typical of those likely to socialise in pubs and clubs, perhaps more so than those in other places reopening in the UK as of yesterday, now that things are moving on here, as they’re busier with crowds relaxing. people do think they’re safe if they’re young, and there’s clearly a misconception you’re simply safe outdoors, or in having certain behaviours on occasion but not consistently. lots of odd ideas around all this last year, and we’ve not escaped it with time or with vaccination rates either. another wave likely incoming in the UK now.

might be oddly to your advantage they’re a little slow. the UK giving younger people a choice due to AZ link to clots in those with certain blood conditions / behaviours / characteristics might knock on to global adjustment in its use. as for canada’s 4 months between doses - the UK uses 12 weeks as the gap. i suspect this allows for steadier administering pace, but certainly initially looked like a way to spin the figures to look more positive. oddly, deaths and hospitalisations have come down; but we’ve been in lockdown during these months of reaching 50%+ of population with first, and about 5m fully vaccinated. im still expecting variants to scupper vaccines before too long; boosters and revisions in the works here, so it’s accepted as just the beginning by some - even if the public are convinced things are more resolved than it’s ultimately going to be possible to achieve easily. i’m 47, had my first AZ dose two weeks ago. minor side effects, like a cold coming on for 48-72 hours. arm pains for a week.

odd use of the phrase ‘final stretch’. i’d say ‘end of the beginning’, and even then, denial is rife within leaders of some countries, so not even close to wrapping their heads around there being a problem, let alone solving it. variants will generate, vaccines will require revisions, problems will persist. likely for decades.

cocteau twins best is generally seen as ‘treasure’. not that like mbv. as for tape ... cassette tape is nothing like studio tape.

i’m usually very similar in my behaviour in online discussions. i’ve noticed a lot of relative difficulty in formulating ideas and theories, explanations, coming from people meeting here that are from across the globe. interesting to see a worldwide issue play out in different ways, and limit or alter views on what is happening, in what’s expressed in contributions. it’s a huge exercise in revealing people’s ability to logically think through the effects and consequences of behaviours and actions, and an ongoing one in ever-evolving ways. i suspect countries that resist acknowledging the pandemic (from their leadership down) will be increasingly problematic, and vaccine nationalism will worsen, stresses will rise and conflicts risked. some kind of passport system, probably digital in most places, will likely be one solution to need to get people (safely?!) moving across borders despite movement being lethal too. at every stage were still lacking in understanding, and new stages, facets and aspects come to light as the bigger picture is gradually picked over. each country has both their individual, unpredictable and repeated (familiar) ones to spot and deal with, as well as their part in a global one that’s against usual levels of cooperation, too.

variants are not fear-mongering. the fear is from a variety of fronts - the risk of one that spreads more quickly, and kills more people. you can't predict where and when those more deadly variants appear. vaccination is an attempt to lower opportunities to generate variants; until you get through most of the world's population with vaccines, you're at least risking being back at square one all the time. remember, many countries won't even begin vaccination until next year, and some the year after that. every pocket of unvaccinated population across the world is generating new variants, and the lowered chances of vaccinated populations generating variants still also runs the risk too as people travel and drop their guard. when you realise there are billions of people on the planet, the number of variants now and in the future is huge; i think we're into many thousands identified already. even once vaccinated, you are (of course) at risk of it failing to deal with what you can catch. watch fauci make this pretty clear this week to rand paul - you don't catch it or vaccinate against it and solve it one individual at a time but collectively and in an ongoing battle rather than one that ends. you are facing something evolving to deal with being battled against and avoided, not passed around. for those that receive a flu vaccine each year, you might realise the relevant issues a little more clearly : it's an adjusted vaccine that's issued periodically, to deal with a selection of current prevalent / dominant / most dangerous variants that's described as being one condition under an umbrella term. i've already seen elderly folk here in england doing what i read usually happens with vaccinations that are required for large populations : they relax and think they don't need to be worried any more. problem is, variant appear without you or anyone necessarily knowing they're there and you can still carry a virus (and spread it) even when your chances of becoming seriously ill from them might be dramatically reduced by the current version of the vaccine you've received.

far too many people assuming that if their country is vaccinated, the issue is solved. unfortunately, it's global ... every pocket of significant population size generates variants. every variant has the potential to break any existing vaccine. any vaccination done can be undone by this process. covid is endemic now. it will take years (if ever entirely possible) to eradicate it. more likely we'll always be dealing with it. annual boosters or new versions of a vaccine that has to keep dealing with the tracked variants of most concern or prevalence. i've noticed a lot of USA folk having trouble wrapping their head around viruses, transmission, protection over the last year. not blaming, just pointing it out - i think it's both trump, the population size, and the effects of social media, poor news outlets and so on. for those that don't think it's real, i assume it's a shock to their system and they can't quantify or accept the hugely varying intersecting issues. i lost a family member to it around a year ago. i've seen friends lose their taste and smell. one colleague of my brothers had a friend who fell ill and tested positive before christmas; two days from positive results to death. it can happy very quickly. and will keep happening for years to come.