Everything is connected
If 2024 was a blurry smudge, then 2025 was a stubborn stain that just wouldn't go away. The shitshow began punctually after New Year's Eve when I noticed some cunt had ripped off my car's Mercedes emblem. No, this obviously dare not compare to the untold damage caused by the California wildfires that started on the 1st of January and were exacerbated by drought conditions, mismanagement, and…
While benign and belligerent robots and machines have existed since the dawn of science fiction, it was about ten years ago that I had some sort of epiphany and gradually began saving and/or bookmarking various online articles about artificial intelligence following recent worrisome developments in that field: chatbots were showing signs of coherent speech, Boston Dynamics’ robots had started…
Like presumably many people, I have amassed a trove of bookmarks, downloaded data, and documents on numerous subjects of interest across the various devices I use to be processed “for later reading”. Continue reading The post The branches that bore no fruit appeared first on Basement Archaeology .
When I first started writing this essay it was intended as a personal dig into the home entertainment industry that, through technological progress, rendered my humble DVD collection worthless and made consumers either re-purchase or abandon their home movie collection. As it turns out, that’s not quite the case. Consumers are overwhelmed with options. It’s not a battle between streaming vs.…
2024 is over, and that’s a good thing. It was not a good year. 2024 was, for all intents and purposes, a long blurry smudge of monotony mired in many minor personal disasters and distractions. Playing about with AI-tools and participating in numerous webinars on the topic ate into so much of my time that most projects I had planned for the year remain handwritten bullet points on a piece of paper.…
I've been a member of discogs.com for two decades. Today, Discogs sees mention in publications like Forbes, the Financial Times, the Guardian or the New York Times -- although mostly in connection with its marketplace and the items that sell for ludicrous amounts -- but not necessarily always in a good light. A higher profile comes at the cost of attracting scammers, spammers, fraudsters and…
Every startup's moonshot dream is to be the one that disrupts the status quo. The latest disruption snuck in via Netflix and my wife. This got me thinking about my own movie collection and general viewing habits again. Continue reading The post On death, disruption and discs appeared first on Basement Archaeology .
Last Saturday I closed a loop that had started 40 years ago: I watched the movie Footloose. Some of you may remember that the movie as well its soundtrack were huge hits in 1984; the catchy title song, in particular, was all over the radio and TV. It was almost as big as previous year's Flashdance. Kenny may have been dubbed the "King of Movie Soundtracks" in the eighties but it was ultimately…