The device I’m pseudo-reviewing today is a Raspberry Pi 4b with 4gb of RAM. ![]() All my SBCs, except the RPi4 being worst-reviewed today, are running linux and I manage them headless via SSH. Unfortunately, and once again, IMHO, Pine64 takes a backseat to Raspberry Pi when it comes ease of use, setup and software. Both these devices are from which is also a great SBC maker. Along side that I have a Rock64 (the little brother of the RockPro64) running an ad-block server. This device is also my home data server using Samba that includes 6TB of data storage. Other than Raspberry Pi, I’m also using a RockPro64 SBC running Jellyfin media server. In other words, I’ve replaced ALL old-school tv receivers, radio, stereo, video, etc., with SBCs. My setupĪs far as my experience with single board computing (SBC) goes, I’ve currently got four Raspberry Pi’s in full-time use as media and/or audio players in my little townhouse. But I’ll leave that worst-argument for a different worst-post. Some worst-readers think that the personal computer (Mac or PC) or the smart-phone or tablets or gaming or cloud computing, etc., should be included in any claim of great tech innovations. For those not in the know and at the risk of being a bit redundant, Raspberry Pi is, IMHO, the mostest tech hardware innovation since the #interwebnet itself. I’m reviewing today my trusty Raspberry Pi 4 after having fiddled with it for the past two years as a desktop alternative, among other uses. I’m worst-writing, of course, about nothing other than my favourite computing platform the Raspberry Pi. $5 is less than it would cost me to go there and back home, with a transfer.Today, dear worst-reader, it is time to take another look at worst-writer’s experience with a/the wonder of the tech world. Now, $5 isn't exactly a huge, huge deal to some. Then a little while later, about an hour before I had to leave for my bus (would have taken 2 bus rides to get to the location she would be at.) and she said she wanted me to pay her an extra $5 for the gas and went on how fair it would be to compensate her for having to drive all the way to that location. It was the day I was going to meet up and I asked to confirm the price was still $15, she said yes. She said she had to go to one area in town, anyways, and I could meet her there. Now, I know I live out of the way for a lot of people and I know people know it's risky to meet up at personal addresses, so I offered to meet her somewhere public. There was a game I really wanted someone was selling on FB Marketplace for $15. Minor compared to these, I had a close call with one CB last year. $5 is less than it would cost me to go there and back home, with a transfer. ![]() ![]() Upvotes Follow Unfollow 1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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The program was small and challenging, but surrounded her with other winter athletes in an environment that was accommodating to the unusual demands necessary for high levels of training. After an unhappy year at a “stereotypical” New England prep school, Brooks moved out west to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she attended the Lowell Whiteman School (now Steamboat Mountain School) to find an academic program more commensurate to her academic schedule.īrooks calls herself a “serious” and “elite” skier, but “no superstar.” Still, Lowell Whiteman fit what she needed. While chasing wins, Brooks was “consistently fighting to move up in the racing world without a whole lot of glory.”Ī demanding schedule eventually got her bounced from public high school: “Too many absences even though I had all A’s,” she laughs. She recalls her first ski races around 6 or 7-years old, with training and competitions across New England and then the country. “We were always supposed to figure out something productive to do outside.”īrooks’ time outside wasn’t meant to just be about sports, but that became inevitable when she got very good, very fast. “It wasn’t the lifestyle, it was an expectation,” he adds. The deal is that we spend time outside,’” she recalls.Ĭhase explains the familial understanding with a bit more bluntness and humor: “I don't remember learning how to ski … I came to consciousness and there were skis on my feet.” It doesn’t matter if you ski or snowboard or race or just sit outside and drink hot cocoa. ![]() “My parents always framed it as, ‘As a family, we spend time outside. The only caveat was the siblings had to be outdoors. “The ski programs at Waterville became the daycare for my brother and I so my parents could ski on the weekends.”Īway from the more formal instruction, Brooks and her brother, Chase, were told to use their time however they saw fit while their parents stayed on the slopes. “I started skiing when I could walk,” she says. Getting hurt in these backwoods-with a lack of cell service and roads-make getting help a dangerous (or unlikely) endeavor in case of injury, and grueling New England winters paired with multiple water crossings pose the possibility of hypothermia, too. In hiking the Catamount, the greatest threats are rooted in isolation. It was a level-headed decision, the type that is often seen as detached from people willing to take life-threatening risks in the first place, whether hiking a remote trail, soloing a mountain face, or jumping out of a plane. “If it’s a foot, or a foot and a half, I’m confident I can get through it,” she says, “But the snow was two feet and it wasn’t stopping. ![]() ![]() Risk is a rite of passage that many outdoors enthusiasts and athletes take to logical extremes-and often beyond-but Brooks turned to her decade-plus of accumulated knowledge of nature to know when enough snow was literally enough.
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![]() Expect a bit worse from the SVR.Īll Range Rover Sports except the SVR can tow up to 7,716 pounds the latter drops to a still-respectable 6,600 pounds. The Range Rover Sport's standard V8 is rated at 16 mpg combined (14 city/19 highway), a predictably inefficient result for a 510-hp truck that tipped our scales at 5,470 pounds in Supercharged trim. As for the V6, it needs 6.9 seconds to do the deed: an indifferent time by segment standards.ĮPA fuel economy estimates for the V6 version are 19 mpg combined (17 city/23 highway), which is somewhat disappointing given that Porsche's 420-hp Cayenne S gets 20 mpg combined. The standard Terrain Response system features driver-selectable modes that optimize the vehicle's powertrain, suspension and electronics for increased traction on various surfaces, while the available Terrain Response 2 variant (bundled with the two-speed transfer case) includes an additional adaptive mode that automatically optimizes settings while you drive.Īt the Edmunds test track, a Range Rover Sport Supercharged sprinted from zero to 60 in a blistering 4.6 seconds, so the stronger SVR will likely beat Land Rover's 4.5-second estimate. The SE and HSE come standard with a light-duty, single-speed 4WD system, while the Supercharged model is equipped with a two-speed transfer case (optional on SE and HSE) that provides high- and low-range gearing for more serious off-roading. All three engines utilize the same eight-speed automatic transmission, though the SVR is treated to sportier programming.Īll Range Rover Sport models are also equipped with full-time four-wheel drive, hill descent control and hill start assist. The SVR gets a tweaked version of that V8 that's good for 550 hp and 502 lb-ft. ![]() The Supercharged and Autobiography come with a 5.0-liter V8 that pumps out 510 hp and 461 lb-ft of torque. Standard on the SE and HSE is a 3.0-liter V6 rated at 340 hp and 332 pound-feet of torque. The 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport is available with one of three supercharged engines. So what if it's heavy and thirsty? The 2015 Range Rover Sport is still one of the most rewarding crossovers on the road. High-end Land Rovers have a panache that's hard to match, and the new trim levels only add to the Sport's appeal. If you don't truly desire racetrack-worthy handling, the 2015 Mercedes-Benz M-Class is a masterful, if somewhat staid, alternative. (Fuel economy will likely be better for the 2016 Range Rover Sport, though, with the introduction of an optional V6 diesel powertrain to choose from as well.) The 2015 BMW X5 is nearly as well stocked in the powertrain department, and it matches the Range Rover Sport with an available third-row seat. The Cayenne also offers fuel-efficient diesel and plug-in hybrid variants that easily surpass the base Range Rover Sport V6's fuel economy. There's another luxury crossover out there called the 2015 Porsche Cayenne that only weighs about 4,500-4,800 pounds, and subjectively, at least, it handles even better than the Land Rover. Of course, what makes it so amazing is that the Range Rover Sport is such a heavy vehicle in the first place. You've got to tip your cap to the Land Rover engineers it's a monumental achievement. Incredibly, that's quicker than a lot of performance cars, including the old BMW 1 Series M. "Eh, they all say that," you're thinking, but now hear this - the SVR clocked a lap time of 8 minutes and 14 seconds at the Nürburgring. It's not just about straight-line speed, either seemingly every suspension and driveline component is sport-tuned in some way, from the suspension to the transmission and even the steering. If you're drawn to the versatility and luxury of a Land Rover but prefer the dynamics of a sport sedan, the Range Rover Sport occupies a very intriguing middle ground.įor 2015, the Sport gets even more enticing thanks to the new SVR trim, which flaunts a pumped-up version of the standard supercharged V8 engine that's good for 550 horsepower. But the Edmunds "A" rated Range Rover Sport is a game-changer among heavyweight SUVs with its confident handling and blazing V8-powered acceleration. Can a nearly 5,500-pound crossover double as a legitimate performance car? If we weren't familiar with the 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport, we'd answer with a chuckle. ![]() It's an amazing image painted by his drama teacher, Donald. Tupac related to how those lyrics recognized the pain of Vincent Van Gogh, and Hughes wants that to ensure we always have that association, with the song playing over footage of young and old Tupac. For an assignment, Tupac embraced the lyrics of Donovan’s wistful ballad “Vincent” and talked about it for ten minutes. ![]() Hughes’ timeline takes us back to Tupac’s history as a high school drama student, the origin of someone who would become a Method Actor and use performance to express his voluminous emotions. This can be frustrating as the amount of information here does not do a disservice itself.īut the docuseries can also work because of the invested time, as with a moment in episode four. The story of Tupac is titanic and challenging enough skipping back and forth between decades while giving his mother’s story almost as much screen-time can sometimes take away from the momentum of the project. ![]() Hughes is fascinated with narrative connections, overlapping images, and revealing coincidental details that can be made with these life stories (Tupac and Afeni had life-changing court cases in the same courthouse, decades apart). Co-writing with Lasse Jarvi, Hughes' ambition here is about big lunges, even if they are not graceful in how it goes back and forth in time between its parallel stories. It becomes evident in the series' more jostling narrative shifts why most filmmakers haven’t attempted to make a high-concept duo-biopic documentary like this, but Hughes blows past any warning signs. But they remained close, and he expressed this in songs like “Dear Mama” (for which Hughes also co-directed the video). As Tupac ascended to rap royalty sharing his trauma and societal angst, while blurring the line between what was just an image and what was truly Tupac, Afeni was by his side. ![]() She suffered from addiction, which impacted how her son grew up the two moved around a lot, coloring Tupac with a bit of New York, Baltimore, and Hollywood, and traumatic experiences with poverty, place brutality, and loss. Afeni was a central part of New York City’s Black Panther 21 group, who was once accused of plotting against the government, and was the target of infiltration by undercover, manipulative police efforts like COINTELPRO. Meanwhile, veterans of the Black Panther Party, like Jamal and Shaba, talk about the force of nature that Afeni was. Hughes shares this experience with an understanding heavier than any other feeling. Hughes’ interview subjects are often credited by first name only, like his aunt Glo (brutally honest and admiring of her nephew and sister), or his former Death Row Records collaborator “Snoop.” At one point, Hughes gets in front of the camera to share his own supporting role in this saga, which includes co-directing the rapper's "Brenda's Got a Baby" music video with brother Albert Hughes and getting beat up by the rapper’s posse. Dre and Mike Tyson in passages about Tupac's later days. We hear from Tupac’s peers, his cousins, and his friends. The documentary has a lingering personal nature, with Hughes shown hugging many of his subjects as everything wraps up. 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It is November, somewhere near the day that will come to be known as Guy Fawke’s Night, when, to this day, effigies are burned on bonfires while children watch. The shagfoal are here, huge black dogs that run in dreams and darkness, and the hair severed from the dead head of the woman beneath the bridge, and the foot of the boy’s mother protruding from her grave, and the final, heartbreaking bonfire. It is not the easiest of starting points, although it is a tour de force, and it sets up all the elements that will recur through the book. He will also tell his story in the most idiosyncratic narrative since Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (or, perhaps, Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing story “Pog”), using a tiny vocabulary, the present tense, and an inability to tell dreams from reality. When the book was published, in 1996, it made less impression on the world than it should have: it was a paperback original, which began, with no explanation, with the personal narrative of a half-witted man-child, at the end of the stone age – his mother has died, his nomadic tribe has abandoned him, he will face the evil and trickery of those smarter than he is (everyone is smarter than he is), and he will also discover love, and learn what a lie is, and the fate of the pig in the Hob-man’s hoghouse. It’s a carousel ride, not a race, a magical history tour, no more evolutionary than it is revolutionary, in which the only prizes are patterns and people and voices, severed heads and lamed feet, black dogs and crackling November flames which repeat like the suits of a deranged tarot deck. But the narrative, like the town, is only linear if you want it to be, and if you expect to get a prize for getting to the end you’ve already lost. If this were a linear narrative we would follow Northampton, voice by voice, head to head and heart to heart, from a stopping place in a pig pen for a half-witted youth, through Ham Town to a bustling medieval town to now. The best introduction is the final chapter of the book, written in a smoky room in November 1995 by Alan Moore in the voice of Alan Moore, dry and funny and much, much too smart for our own good, written in a room piled with the books he has used as research, written as a final act of magic and faith. It is not the best introduction to this book, of course. I am sitting in a room in the Netherlands, in an anachronistic Victorian castle, writing an introduction to a book called Voice of the Fire, by Alan Moore. It is a circle that will take you several miles and six thousand years. It is a circle made of black dogs and November fires, of dead feet and severed heads, of longing and loss and lust. The circle here is temporal, and the circle is geographical. One measures a circle starting anywhere, said Alan Moore, quoting Charles Fort, at the beginning of his exploration of Victorian society, From Hell. |
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