It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating
around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
Just a reminder: In the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, Rick Scott was Chief Executive of a for-profit operator of health care facilities, which committed what was then the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
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Last month, I bought the Yamaha DJX pictured below from someone in Valrico who’d put it up for sale on Facebook Marketplace…
It’s similar to the electronic “band in a box” keyboards you can buy at Costco or your preferred “big box” store, but with one very important difference: it was made specifically for hip-hop and electronic dance music. Even though it was released in 1998, it still sounds fresh and fun.
I wrote about the DJX in this article, which I ended with:
Aside from making music with the DJX, I’m also keeping an eye out for its even more rare little brother, the DJX 2…
I enjoyed the DJX so much that I decided to try to find its successor, the DJX II, which was released in 2000. Rare and precious as the DJX is, the DJX II is even more so. If you enter the term DJX into a Google Shopping search, you’ll see a couple of DJX keyboards, and a few more DJX IIB devices, which were DJX IIs with the keyboard replaced by a CD scratch wheel…
…but you’re not likely to see any results for the DJX II keyboard with its distinctive alternating dark grey/light grey “white keys.”
After a couple of days’ of typing in search terms on Google, I did what I always end up doing: I wrote a Python script to automate the process for me. In addition to checking Google, it also scoured a number of Craigslist sites, and that’s how I found this listing:
I contacted the seller, who’s a really nice guy, but didn’t want to deal with shipping and electronic payments. He wanted to sell to someone who could pick it up in person and confirm for themselves that it was in perfect working order, and pay in cash. Personally, I can’t blame him.
I thought about hiring someone from Taskrabbit to pick it up and ship it to me, but I decided to go on my social media accounts and ask…
Fortunately, like Cassian Andor…
My friend Meghan, who moved to Phoenix not too long ago, stepped up. I sent money for the keyboard, shipping, and her time, and on Friday, it arrived in a very big, very well-padded box.
I’m now the proud owner of a Yamaha DJX and DJX II:
…and my office is looking increasingly like Fatboy Slim’s supervillain lair:
For the curiousIf you’re wondering why I’m so excited to own a 25-year-old keyboard, here’s a couple of looks at its features. This one’s from four years ago…
…while this one was posted just last month:
When the DJX II was released, Yamaha made the then-unusual move of creating a promotional video:
Here’s yet another reminder to double-check your work before putting it out into the world.
I posted my regular “picdump” a day early to support No Kings, but I collected so many images that I can post a bonus edition today, the regular day for the “picdump!”
So here it is — the bonus Sunday picdump, featuring the memes, pictures, and comics floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant on Saturday.
And if you want to see the previous set, which was also largely about No Kings, here it is!
Normally, I’d post the “picdump” on Sunday, but to coincide with No Kings Day, I’m posting it a day early.
So here it is — the Sunday picdump, but on a Saturday, Here they are: the memes, pictures, and comics floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
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Tomorrow is going to feature a self-congratulatory military parade doubling as Trump’s birthday present we’re all chipping in for.
Because of this, the administration is likely to paint the No Kings events happening at the same time as riots organized by seditionists and criminals.
But remember this: they regularly tell self-serving lies.
My neighborhood, Seminole Heights, has at least a half-dozen Little Free Libraries that I’m aware of. I always check to see if there’s something interesting or amusing in them, and I’m rarely disappointed.
Case in point: Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind, an airport novel written by Karen Kelley, which I found at the Little Free Library in Whatever Pops.
I get the feeling that many of this sort of book will be largely be written by AIs soon, if it hasn’t already happened.
Don’t ever change, Little Free Library…
