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Tim Bray 🇨🇦

@timbray@cosocial.ca View on cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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Location
Vancouver 🍁
Blog
tbray.org/ongoing/
Favorite sushi
Negitoro
GitHub
github.com/timbray
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray@cosocial.ca

So, check out this useful “Compare Mac Models” page (h/t @gruber). Scroll down to the “Compute” and compare the stats. Go on, do it, I’ll wait. See anything that makes you go WTF?!? I did.

apple.com/macbook-pro/liquid-r

#macOS #apple

Apple Compare MacBook Pro Models Compare the MacBook Pro models with other Mac laptops and desktops. And find the one that’s perfect for your life, your work, and your budget.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray@cosocial.ca

Here’s an enthusiastic recommendation (h/t Qobuz) for “This Will Be Us”, symphonic music from Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. Just ravishingly beautiful stuff, fabulous performance by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Was listening to it in the car while running errands and I was probably a hazard to the other drivers.

#music #iceland

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Cover of a DG album from Hildur Guðnadóttir entitled "This Will Be Us". Black background, concentric circles I pastel colors, from inside to out: Violet, Orange, Green.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray@cosocial.ca

I like the “My9Albums” concept but my brain exploded when I tried to pick ’em because I’ve been a music fiend longer than most of you have lived, so I needed to add criteria. I noticed that the “most selected” list included exactly zero entries featuring women, so all of mine do.

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Cesária Évora is probably the only person you’ve ever heard of from Cabo Verde, which is an island group 570km west of Africa’s westernmost point. She was a really great singer and recorded lots of fine collections of music. Ferron came out of the “Women’s Music” ecosystem, if these songs don’t squeeze your heart then nothing I can say will help you. Cheap Thrills is Janis Joplin's masterpiece. I have heard sober-minded people argue that Elgar’s Cello Concerto played by Jacqueline du Pré is the single greatest instrumental performance of any piece of music, any genre, any instrument, ever. Patricia Barber is from Chicago and her music is almost unbearably intense. She has lots of albums that are almost as good as this one. Court and Spark is canonical. The Hildegard von Bingen music is almost a thousand years old and Emma Kirkby has one of the most beautiful voices ever recorded, plus the music its good. I attended the tour that went with Mister Heartbreak and it was easily in the top 3 musical performance I've ever witnessed. Blondie's Greatest Hits: "Oh… Your hair is beautiful"

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