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vehicle idled miserably (5)
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Drone ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, I made it! I started to seriously try solving these in 2018, solving maybe 3 or 4 a year. Then this year something clicked (or broke) and I started solving them more regularly - a couple times a week maybe. So I set a goal to solve one in time to be the setter. I finally made it, and I set the clue for Monday the 28th of March - my birthday!
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10/10 for persistence
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Blut Aus Nord - That Cannot Be Dreamed[^]
A new single by Blut Aus Nord, released just last week, from their upcoming album.
Blut Aus Nord plays a noisy, atmospheric and psychedelic brand of black metal (they call it avant-garde).
Although Blut Aus Nord calls the black metal scene a bunch of "childish satanic clowns", so maybe I shouldn't call it black metal.
I've known them for years, but especially liked their previous album, Hallucinogen.
Not that I listen to them a lot, it's pretty... uneasy listening.
This new single really convinced me though, it's awesome and really has me looking forward to their new album!
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Although I have plenty of examples about church burnings, suicides and murders from that scene, those are the trve and kvlt (and mostly dead or incarcerated) metalheads 🤘
And then there's the people who remain and continue to make music, those are a bunch of posers 
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Bill nails it almost every time.
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Beautiful, can certainly appreciate Simon & Garfunkel 
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Reminded me of a 1950s film score. But those were actually played by orchestras. Vangelis[^]
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I didn't hear any resemblance between Vangelis' orchestral work and Blut Aus Nord, so not sure what reminded you of this, but nice piece nonetheless
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I didn't hear any resemblance either.
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Heavy indeed, especially these recurrent riffs, quite depressing, at least for a while
Lately I found again something nice from Peter Goundry, a full album this time
Goëtia - Dark Magic Music | Album - YouTube
the initial track from this album is quite amazing as for my ears ...
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That one was shared in the SOTW some years ago
It's not in my daily playlist anymore, but it's still somewhere in my liked albums 
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When Ihe came out it was Daylight savings time...
I had to break the news to him... times have changed...
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Was it that unexpected after these years?
Daylight saving time needs to go away.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well... you're not wrong...
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Daylight saving time needs to go away
Actually, isn't there a push to change to DST permanently?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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The sensible thing would be to change to UTC all over the world.
Even tiny little Norway, essentially running north-to-south, 'midday' varies by two hours from east to west; yet we manage it as a single time zone. If we (at UTC+0100) call a GB contact (at UTC+0000), he won't be available until 10:00 - those Brits don't like getting out of bed early, and don't arrive at work until 09:00 local time. Here, standard office hours are from 08:00. Craftsmen and manual workers start at 07:00, at the latest - some at 06:00.
So you can't expect midday to be at 12 sharp local time. You can't expect working hours to start at 8 local time - or 9 local time. Or that bedtime is at 22:00 - the last week, my bedtime has been around 04:00 local time . You have to attach some numeric clock value to such terms anyway, since the interpretation varies greatly even within single time zone.
Cooperation and communication across the world would be so much easier if we had one single time reference. China spans five time zones, but uses UTC+0800 all over (with no DST), for a great simplification all matters relating to time, such as schedules, meetings, communication.
Current time is nothing more than a label. What does it matter if the start of standard Norwegian office hours are relabeled from 08:00 to 07:00? It would be at the same time, just a different label!
If an Adelaide, Australia, contact today says that I can call him between eleven and twelve, I have to think: Is Adelaide in UTC+0900 or UTC+1000? No, it is UTC+0930! And they have DST at the opposite part of the year that we have. Are they still on UTC+1030? Parts of the year, they are nine an a half hours ahead of us, parts eight and a half, parts seven and a half. It would be so much simpler if he would say 'Call med between 20:30 and 21:30' - that is, in UTC time. I wouldn't have to worry about his time zone, my DST, his DST. There would be no source of misunderstanding of time indications.
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Easier said than done. Time like temperature as it is more than just a number it's the body's sense of a measurement. That has been the resistance at least in US to the change from F to C. Our brain and body has been synced to a number that we feel or see, temperature or light.
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