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After buying a cheap MP3 player to listen to the TNL podcasts, I came to realize that I had the world of podcasts to now listen to if I desired; and given the alternative to it being at the mercy of either NPR or five minutes of music followed by fifteen minutes of commercials, the choice to dive in was rather easy. I found a place to get the first 300 episodes of This American Live and have started to listen to them from the beginning, which means that the shows which I've been hearing were recorded in the mid 1990s. I'm glad that the stage play segments didn't stay around for long. Otherwise, it's quite striking how innocent and dated the content is. A contributor is stated as having a column published "on the world wide web", and a website is given with the spoken "h tee tee pee colon backslash backslash" spelling. A segment about those inflicted with OCD mentions Prozac as being an experimental drug. A segment about the Jordan era Bulls repeatedly features the Gary Glitter song which was the defacto anthem for the team at the time. 1990 was 20 years ago, and content like this drives that reality home.

Extra Mode. The usual.

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			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+ 	date
no crime @		38.52 D		1339.F	468.403.432.182.573	0141				2012-06-08T23:38:23:913Z	
					0194-				0021-

soliton beam @		49.82 C		1733.F	616.501.378.82.326	0179				2012-06-08T23:41:24:910Z
					0097-				0044-

嘆きの樹 @		38.92 D		1795.F	621.553.524.219.886	0092				2012-06-08T23:44:47:513Z
					0087-				0001-

sigsig @		56.57 B		1737.F	636.465.269.38.252	0117				2012-06-08T23:47:52:273Z
					0128-				0015+

there is no telling @	53.21 C		2054.F	770.514.353.61.402	0037				2012-06-08T23:51:30:038Z
					0157-				0021-

make a difference @	51.31 C		1519.F	553.413.316.46.237	0094				2012-06-08T23:56:47:838Z
					0122-				0037-

3y3s @			26.99 E		1500.F	486.528.902.308.1141	0036				2012-06-08T23:59:42:134Z
					0342-				0024-

玉の緒よ @		57.72 B		1913.F	692.529.282.28.200	0125				2012-06-09T00:05:16:591Z
					0090-				0097-

fake time @		55.25 C		1429.F	518.393.254.36.180	0099				2012-06-09T00:08:05:649Z
					0118-				0137-

2 tribe 4k @		51.84 C		1688.F	625.438.342.58.299	0063				2012-06-09T00:11:13:316Z
					0170-				0174-

agnus dei @		50.51 C		1481.F	537.407.292.62.304	0064				2012-06-09T00:14:07:551Z
					0118-				0013+

black rain @		49.54 C		1301.F	472.357.252.29.298	0068				2012-06-09T00:16:53:792Z
					0020-				0001-

the deep striker @	41.78 D		1521.F	502.517.516.57.411	0093				2012-06-09T00:20:33:660Z
					0082-				0015+

smooooch @		51.29 C		1703.F	615.473.327.59.411	0113				2012-06-09T00:25:18:923Z
					0178-				0048-

beatchic☆仮面 @		58.04 B		1703.F	640.423.223.41.267	0085				2012-06-09T00:29:29:947Z
					0151-				0039-

regulus @		59.65 B		1310.F	474.362.196.13.91	0146				2012-06-09T00:32:37:191Z
					0079-				0019-

I didn't talk about retail work earlier because nothing about it was new, but it was relatively warm and I had little coworker assistance, so I think I might have been worn out. Otherwise maybe it's another case of the pendulum swinging and for every good day like yesterday there's a bad day like today; but that is over dramatization regardless, because outside of 3y3s (which is a mess with its normal chart, so Random will just make it worse) I didn't have terrifically terrible scores. No plusses, yes, but there wasn't a repeated stretch of completely worthless play. Solros would have been the last song recorded but I think I now see the issue that happens when songs with long notes get hung by the program. I noticed that some of the extra notes from the mode found their way in the middle of the hold note columns.