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Well... for me "New Music" is anything I haven't heard before... there is a lot of amazing stuff recorded over the past 150 years. and so much of it is still "New!"

Mark Twain had a lot to say about copyright. One of his arguments was that if he worked hard and built a business it would help support his children & descendants for, perhaps, generations. But he was an author and creator and felt that all of his hard labor should be able to support his family after his death. iuf Copyright was only 5 or 10 years then when it expires any publisher could print a artists books or recordings or whatnot... suddenly creators lose access to all royalty income and some dirtbag publisher is collecting all of the coin. Copyright might be inconvenient for some but for many others it is essential to making even a modest income.

I have noticed this for years... my recordings from vinyl (separated into tracks) would be replaced with someone else's needle-drop but theirs had a skip in it... then the skip would disappear. sheesh.

I have wondered, when I find an obscure recording that is clearly a needle drop... and I have no problem with that, how many miles of master tapes have been trashed, lost or destroyed ... I wonder if the original artists are collecting their tiny bits of royalty. Where do those fractions of a penny goand are those destinations legitimate?

It's not just about the Lumen numbers. During the day/working a higher white-point 5000°k - 7000°k (i.e. "cooler") lights brighten your brain... Those are the daylight colors. In the evening you want lower white points, 2700°k - 3500°k (the so-called "warmer" colors). However, your mileage will vary. I know of one retail outlet that shifted from 5000°k lights to 3500° because the "warmer" light color made the inventory more pleasing and the whole store feel more homey.

You want a quality light as well. Color Rendering Index (CRI) points you to how well the light fits in with the spectrum output of the sun with 100 being like outdoor light. Higher is better. You probably want to avoid anything under 90... That said CRI can be hacked. I have seen lights with a CRI of 96 that add a greenish cast to the world. Your brain adjusts your perception so you might not notice, but take a picture and you will see the difference... particularly rake a picture of the same thing under two lights that you eye sees as the same and the difference can be surprising.

Having caught the light geek bug in the late 80s when I had a print shop and had to mix ink to fairly critical color matching. I have learned to pay attention. particularly with the development of LED technologies. Those early LED lights were horrible. Nowadays the technology is superb. My absolute favorite LED manufacturer is Yuji LEDs (https://store.yujiintl.com). They are my preferred LEDs for human and photographic lighting needs. I can walk from a sunlit day into my shop and not really feel much of a transition of the light quality. They sell bulbs & fixtures as well as raw cobs, rolls & strip modules. They are a small company so their inventory fluctuates and changes. Right now they even have a 1500w COB that outputs 120,000 lumen... That will brighten your day... You just need to figure out how to power it and cool it.

One of my pseudonyms is "Gort Braggern" "Singularity" is a song I wrote a few years ago the folks here might appreciate... All of the vocals are synthetic. https://chickenhouserecords.com/pages/Post.php?id=mq0ph8ne

Here are the lyrics for your amusement:

The future's here at last | upload your mind. | Neurons are the past. | Singularity

Welcome to the world | of the techno-revolution. | Now we take the next step | of human evolution.

Silicone / wetware interface, | plug me in, begin the trace. | All my brain waves will be captured, | I'm gonna be part of the digital rapture.

Let the world rejoice. | Machines will have a voice. | Put an end to suffering, | simplify the choice.

Our processes run faster, | our circuits never sleep. | Come be a robot hero | and bring the world our peace. |

I used to have problems with "Hi, how are you?" too.

I found that it can be useful to consider "Hi, how are you?" as a friendly game of catch. At the basic level you can reply "'Sall right, how _you_ doin'?" You've caught the ball and tossed it back. Even if you are walking in different directions down the hall this will work... or even looking up and saying "hey" is acknowledging the ball in the air. In an "office" this probably would work fine, but I have always been either self-employed or worked in small businesses. So I don't know if this would work on the 24th floor.

In day to day life... I imagine the person at the check out counter has a repetitive job that can be quite dreary if all they are doing is punching buttons all day without any engagement... asking the same questions: "Did you find everything?" "Do you have any coupons?" "How are you doing today?" So when I can I try to catch the ball, paint it a different color and toss it back. It's a two part process How are you doing? #1 catch the ball: "I made it this far, I'm gonna keep going." #2 toss it back: "How are you keeping up?"

You can have dozens of responses for for each part... mix & match... Silliness can get you bonus points. It's just a game. You will discover ways in which a few words can make it so that you're having a bit more fun, the checkout person (or server, or phone support person, or...) can also get a few giggles while grinding through their, perhaps miserable, job... hey, everybody wins.

Long ago, when I was eradicating casual swearing from my speech, I began by swapping the swear words for innocent words like "yowza", "geepers" and non sequitur foreign phrases like "un deux trois!" or "Cinco de Mayo!" (try it, said forcefully they work). This has evolved to non-existent words... "Jinkers" being my casual favorite as it has no sound-alike swear words the way "fudge" does. However, when something unexpected and shocking happens, such as mashing a thumb with a hammer or such, a string of implosive nonsense erupts from my mouth that would make Yosemite Sam proud. Normally this happens in private or only around folks who know me. But once it happened when I was buying some car tires & thwacked one of my fingers. Out it came. When I realized what I was doing and stopped, I looked over at the sales person. They had this shocked and confused expression. They had no idea what I had said, but I had clearly conveyed something. Perhaps this is how language began?

Exactly. The zero-pont of scent perception is not fixed. One never smells one's own halitosis... If one is lucky they have a good friend that will alert them. I would guess that every perception of how the "past" smells is biased by by zero-point of ones own ... biochemical cloak ... ]?]

35 years ago I saw bumper stickers reading "Don't Californicate Oregon". Some things never change.. I suppose if bumper stickers were a thing at the time (1960s, early 70s ) & the locals were more aware of the consequences of selling their orchards to the developers there might have been bumper stickers reading "get your East-coast butts out of our valley"... but it seems lucre lessens many insults.

I have problems with time travel.

#1 How do I manage my space/time emergence point vs. my starting point... What about the vector my kinetic presence is upon ... If I manage to emerge upon the correct side of the planet, not inside a wall... am I moving in the appropriate direction, considering revolutionary, planetary, solar, galactic, etc.vectors..? OK a computer can figure that out... even if it is possible to pass the kinetic vector forward? (OK that kills a lot of old SF films...)

#2 isn't the universe expanding? If I take matter from now & shove it into the past/future, will it react at all with atoms from the other age? If that matter is me & my heart is beating, will the size of the oxygen atoms of that time be recognized by my red corpuscles... Wow 2-5 minutes viewing the future/past before my conscious brain melts... That's an E-ticket for sure. I think figuring out a way to extend/strengthen telomeres might be a safer way of traveling into the future.

Yes, keeping these thoughts in mind can really mess with the enjoyment of some SF movies. Ohm how I suffer