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I ve been suffering from foot pain in my right foot lately. Among various diagnoses and treatments, one of my doctors ordered an MRI scan of my foot. I received a page-and-a-half report from the MRI imaging specialist. After reading this post on Antoine Finkelstein s blog, I decided to see if Claude Opus 4.8 (via Claude [ ]
Hey there! Check out the first four Spotify playlists in the LeeCo Radio Collection. They’ve got a cool mix of new and classic tracks that you’ll love if you’re into guitar pop, rock, dream pop, jangle pop, alternative rock, post punk, or anything in between. Each playlist has a rotating selection of songs that I’m [ ]
Here, in no particular order, are some of my Christmas playlists, suitable for a variety of holiday moods and events. I assume most of you reading this already have your own customized Christmas playlists, but in case you don t, here are several you might enjoy.
Here are the artificial intelligence tools I m currently using, and what I use them for. Before We Dive In To the best of my knowledge, all the tools below provide both FREE and paid versions. The only tool for which I pay a subscription fee is ChatGPT, because I use it so much and because [ ]
LeeCo Radio is a set of over 25 Spotify playlists, updated weekly, covering a wide array of genres and time periods. Each playlist is updated via automated tools, based on a curated set of source playlists. Over the past several years, I have fine-tuned the playlist sources, the selection criteria (filters), and the sorting criteria [ ]
Here are ten Spotify playlists full of (mostly) alternative music from the 1980s, all hand-curated by me for your listening pleasure. Each playlist contains songs released in that year (or, in some cases, very late the year before) in genres like New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Goth Rock, Synthpop, New Romantic, Power Pop, Jangle Pop, and [ ]
I m always eager to find fresh new music that I like, so I created a process to generate several playlists of new music in different genres every Monday. This process uses a python program I wrote to pull in the latest releases from a bunch of new music playlists maintained by radio stations and other [ ]
There are people my age (born in the late 1960s) who continually bemoan the death of good music. It turns out they re spectacularly wrong. The 2020s are shaping up to be a great decade for music, particularly in the fertile and exciting realm of indie rock, pop, and other alternative genres. This is a golden [ ]
Thanks to Spotify s year-end Top Songs of XXXX playlists, and Paul Lamere s Smarter Playlists tool, it s possible to automatically generate a playlist of songs you listened to a couple of years ago but (probably) haven t listened to recently. This can be a fun way to hear songs you like but may not have heard in [ ]
The Midnight Special (1972-1981) The Midnight Special was a 90-minute late-night musical variety series that ran on American TV from 1972 to 1981. It featured some great live performances by tons of big-name musical acts. It was special because many musical performances on TV back in the 1970s and 1980s were just lip-synched miming to [ ]