The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson https://world.hey.com/jimdye/record-store-wisdom-1-aa8e3064

I was excited to pick up the new Charles Lloyd & the Marvels album yesterday from Grimeys. It was recorded by Joe Harley, famous for the Tone Poet series on Blue Note and sounds fantastic. I can't get enough of Bill Frisell lately, who has been on several of these sessions with Charles Lloyd. He's also on the latest record by Ron Miles...

In the late 80s, I worked at a record store in East Lansing, Michigan. My manager used to place index cards with different proverbs or sayings on a display that lived on the checkout counter. They were updated roughly every week. I was going through some old boxes last week and was thrilled to find a stack of these old cards. My intent...

I am upgrading my Synology from a 5-bay 1517+ to a new 8-bay 1821+. I decided to go with Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB drives since they are so cheap now. I have a little over 20 terabytes of space on each, but I was able to configure the new one with SHR-2 so there can be two drive failures without data loss. I also set up the SSD Cache wi...

I've tried setting up a blog many times, but I never found anything that stuck. This new service from Hey.com looks very intriguing though. I think that many folks will blog more often now that it's as simple as sending an email. I really like Hey so far, but I haven't fully put all of my personal mail into it yet. Once they add custom...