You’ve just aged yourself David. I first experienced “air-tube” headphones on my first transatlantic flight, which was on a TWA Boeing 747 in 1985. I thought they were a super dorky “Heath Robinson” design. The music heard at the end of those long PVC tubes was just poor and distorted.

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Some of my fellow Britains who moved to the US in the eighties brought their English electric kettles with them. They then added a UK, 3-pin square pronged outlet in their kitchen, wiring it up to the same circuit as their electric dryer, stove and AC. I.E. Across the home’s two incoming phases.

Definitely the piano version.

Most definitely! It’s the next best thing to riding naked. The other factor is that after getting completely soaked in a rain storm, you’re dry again in about 20 minutes.

‪Ana Popovic is such a talented and honest musician. She’s one of the best female guitarists I’ve seen perform live. You will not be disappointed.‬ There’s a public playlist of my favorite selections by her on Apple Music.

It’s Thursday! And I’m now confused with the TACO theme.

This is a rinse and repeat of 2021. Following supply-chain constraints and two rounds of stimulus, MMT advocates were celebrating the absence of inflation. Then when we saw the first signs of it, the Federal Reserve kept rates low, claiming that inflation was ‘transitory’.