David Fox
@davidfox2116.bsky.social
Classical Music, Classic Film, Philly Sports, Fedora Linux, Lyrion Music Server, Wharton PhD, Juilliard, Kings College London
Agoura Hills, CA
Agoura Hills, CA
Gambling aside, tanking is bad for the NBA’s product. It’s bad for team morale and player development. It’s also bad for the soul. So IMHO what you gain by this far exceeds what you lose.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Gambling aside, tanking is bad for the NBA’s product. It’s bad for team morale and player development. It’s also bad for the soul. So IMHO what you gain by this far exceeds what you lose.
Smart GM’s can’t contextually out-think stupid GM’s, at least with future picks. It doesn’t matter if a team is good or horrible in two years if you get their pick. Large market / small market doesn’t either. Ping pong balls don’t care how much your team is worth.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Smart GM’s can’t contextually out-think stupid GM’s, at least with future picks. It doesn’t matter if a team is good or horrible in two years if you get their pick. Large market / small market doesn’t either. Ping pong balls don’t care how much your team is worth.
The bad teams tend to remain horrible no matter which picks they get. How many promising careers have been destroyed by poorly-run teams? Picks suddenly become more valuable for good teams and less valuable for horrible teams. Or put another way, pick values become uniform and team-independent.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The bad teams tend to remain horrible no matter which picks they get. How many promising careers have been destroyed by poorly-run teams? Picks suddenly become more valuable for good teams and less valuable for horrible teams. Or put another way, pick values become uniform and team-independent.
I guess she didn’t get the memo about the boss’s priorities. Or maybe it was Wine o’clock when she got it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I guess she didn’t get the memo about the boss’s priorities. Or maybe it was Wine o’clock when she got it.
I’ve been having a hard time with Milton for <fill in my years since high school>. And I earned a college Engiish degree too. It’s not him I guess, it’s me.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I’ve been having a hard time with Milton for <fill in my years since high school>. And I earned a college Engiish degree too. It’s not him I guess, it’s me.
I will move to NYC and then I will leave.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I will move to NYC and then I will leave.
P.S. A friend of mine worked on a straight-to-video movie using Dolby Surround. He put in a foley effect of a passing car panning left to right across the rear speakers just because he could. I never saw him so happy.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
P.S. A friend of mine worked on a straight-to-video movie using Dolby Surround. He put in a foley effect of a passing car panning left to right across the rear speakers just because he could. I never saw him so happy.
The Criterion Channel and other streamers may stream them too, unless they they run the sound through digital filtering - compression, etc - that inadvertently munges the Dolby process.
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Criterion Channel and other streamers may stream them too, unless they they run the sound through digital filtering - compression, etc - that inadvertently munges the Dolby process.
The point is it was easy to encode the 2.0 with Dolby Surround and put it out on everything, so why bother with a non-matrixed 2.0 soundtrack? All folm prints were likely matrixed so why wouldn’t they be?
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The point is it was easy to encode the 2.0 with Dolby Surround and put it out on everything, so why bother with a non-matrixed 2.0 soundtrack? All folm prints were likely matrixed so why wouldn’t they be?
Each to check. The matrixing is at the analog level and is (to my ears) transparent so it can only be detected if you run it through a home theater receiver and try. I did this back when I had such a receiver and was amazed at how much stealth Dolby Surround there was - on certain CDs as well.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Each to check. The matrixing is at the analog level and is (to my ears) transparent so it can only be detected if you run it through a home theater receiver and try. I did this back when I had such a receiver and was amazed at how much stealth Dolby Surround there was - on certain CDs as well.
If they lined up Senators in descending order of intelligence, Tommy would be in the corner eating paste.
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If they lined up Senators in descending order of intelligence, Tommy would be in the corner eating paste.
P.S. I grew up in Philadelphia and lived in NYC for 12 years. Philadelphians are if anything worse about being bossed around. It must be a Northeast thing.
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
P.S. I grew up in Philadelphia and lived in NYC for 12 years. Philadelphians are if anything worse about being bossed around. It must be a Northeast thing.
There’s nothing New Yorkers hate more than being told what to do. That’s why I knew he’d win as soon as I became aware of the race. The only chance the Establishment had of beating him was to do the exact opposite of what they’ve been doing - opposing him seriously and respectfully.
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There’s nothing New Yorkers hate more than being told what to do. That’s why I knew he’d win as soon as I became aware of the race. The only chance the Establishment had of beating him was to do the exact opposite of what they’ve been doing - opposing him seriously and respectfully.
By sheer coincidence I listened to another live Callas Aida this a week - 1953 London with Barbirolli conducting. No high E-flat. None either on her 1955 EMI studio recording or on any of the other 8 or so non-Callas Aida’s in my collection.
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
By sheer coincidence I listened to another live Callas Aida this a week - 1953 London with Barbirolli conducting. No high E-flat. None either on her 1955 EMI studio recording or on any of the other 8 or so non-Callas Aida’s in my collection.
The Reagan broadcast at the heart of Trump's free trade spat
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October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That’s why there are a primaries. Let the people who elect decide who’s electable - not the media, the party leaders, the “experts” on social media, etc. Want to see who people will actually vote for? Hold a primary rather than argue and pontificate about it.
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
That’s why there are a primaries. Let the people who elect decide who’s electable - not the media, the party leaders, the “experts” on social media, etc. Want to see who people will actually vote for? Hold a primary rather than argue and pontificate about it.
It’s not fair and yet totally right at the same time for the most beautiful woman in the world to also be the best-smelling. She is to date the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in person - 1983 BFI tribute. An indescribable experience.
October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s not fair and yet totally right at the same time for the most beautiful woman in the world to also be the best-smelling. She is to date the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in person - 1983 BFI tribute. An indescribable experience.
There aren’t many media career paths at this point for McCain-minded Republicans.
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There aren’t many media career paths at this point for McCain-minded Republicans.
Good. The Fox News personality just lost his audience. What else does he have going for him? Media events were the only part of the job he understood.
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Good. The Fox News personality just lost his audience. What else does he have going for him? Media events were the only part of the job he understood.
It actually may be her greatest work. In all seriousness I respected that.
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It actually may be her greatest work. In all seriousness I respected that.
I have nothing against wholesome per se - Shirley Temple, Garland and Rooney, etc. - but June Allyson is like that candy you put in your mouth and then immediately spit out.
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have nothing against wholesome per se - Shirley Temple, Garland and Rooney, etc. - but June Allyson is like that candy you put in your mouth and then immediately spit out.
All true, but acting wasn’t exactly MGM’s calling card in their heyday.
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
All true, but acting wasn’t exactly MGM’s calling card in their heyday.
Angela Lansbury had a great career and the career she was meant to have. Who knows if that would have been the case if MGM gave her the starlet treatment.
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Angela Lansbury had a great career and the career she was meant to have. Who knows if that would have been the case if MGM gave her the starlet treatment.