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Jim Austin

@_JimAustin

Editor of Stereophile. 'bama native. Former physicist. Professional dilettante. Views are my own. Retweet not endorsement.

 New York, NY
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Joined February 2010
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Where's my service @MLBTV ?
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Dear @MLBtv, If you force me to watch that StatCast commercial once more, I will not renew my subscription. That's at least once every inning change for this entire season--too much! OK, maybe you can't change that fast--you've got a week. This is not a bluff.
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Ted Gioia@tedgioia2 Aug 2019
Today's new music recommendation: Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia from the ensemble PARTCH. The album includes this piece, originally composed for jazz artists Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan (who never got the chance to play it). youtube.com/watch?v=nbwYG_1i…
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I met Rip Torn once, in 1990, on a movie location in NC. "You write science fiction?" he said, teeth in a scary grin. "I was in BEASTMASTER." Then he shook my hand and I ceased to exist for him. That was the start of Mr Wednesday in American Gods. RIP Rip. hollywoodreporter.com/news/r…
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What's with the retro-audio imagery in the All-Star game broadcast? Cassette tapes, vinyl records? What's it got to do with anything? Maybe remembering an era when the ball wasn't juiced?
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I am not a Biden supporter. But I'm disturbed by all the non-Biden Dems and progressives fomenting outrage toward Biden and the Biden campaign. More of the same of what got Trump elected. He could be the nominee. Need to stop it now.
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Wife flying to Warsaw via Amsterdam, on @Delta . After four hours on the tarmac, they announced that they were deplaning, which I understand is mandatory. (After 3, passengers must be given the option to deplane.) Instead of deplaning, they are 1/2
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... taking off with a bad cabin-pressure valve. They are going to control cabin pressure manually and fly the plane a little lower than usual. Who is reassured? @Delta . 2/2
Nickname for the current @Mets reliever: Quarter-Pounders-with-Cheese.
Credit where credit is due. @mlbtv solved the problem! Wasn't expecting that.
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What's up @MLBTV ? Why can't I watch @Braves vs Nationals? Your schedule indicates it's on Fox, so I can't watch through @mlbtv. But it's not on Fox--not here. I pay for access and it's allowed under your terms of service.
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What's up @MLBTV ? Why can't I watch @Braves vs Nationals? Your schedule indicates it's on Fox, so I can't watch through @mlbtv. But it's not on Fox--not here. I pay for access and it's allowed under your terms of service.
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Kevin Cate
@KevinCate24 Apr 2019
Tampa just elected @JaneCastor with 73+ percent of the vote. She was outspent by about $3 MILLION by a billionaire who voted for @realDonaldTrump. She's a former beat cop, police chief, & now the first LGBTQ+ Mayor of a major city in the Southeast. This is a big, big deal.
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These @espn baseball announcers are cringe-worthy. I'm embarrassed for them. Is this how they think baseball should be presented?
Apparently all MLB announcers have decided that a slider thrown at (or beyond) the inside corner that end up way inside and gets swung at by inept batters is "dirty." They call it "back-foot slider." I call it batter malpractice. #mlb #MLBxESPN
UCF was robbed, several times. Duke is illegitimate now.
Rethinking my Auburn loyalty. I do not like this Auburn coach. (I do not like Bill Self either.)
As defensive play gets better, charge/block calls seem more and more arbitrary.
I'm cheering for Auburn tonight. Not sure I've ever done that before. #RollTide
It's true that no indictments of inner-circle people is worrying. It's hard to believe though that JD policy is 1. no president indictments, and 2. no fingers pointed (at presidents) without indictment. That's saying, quite explicitly, that presidents are above federal law.
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