Blackmoor Vituperative

Registered the Mustang yesterday and sold the Tiburon today. The end of an era — and the beginning of a new one.

I have a 2023 Mustang GT with the 9-speaker setup but no subwoofer. My intention is to replace the speaker, add an amp, and wire it into the back speakers using the same method as shown in this YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/XxNDhOutHzw?si=LwDcEGA_EOq7Vyls

My current parts list includes:

• Rockford Fosgate R500X1D Prime 1-Channel Class D Amplifier
• Pioneer TS-A250D4 10″ Dual 4 ohms Voice Coil Subwoofer, Black
• Skar Audio 4 Gauge Amplifier Wiring Kit – Blue, Copper Clad Aluminum, SKAR4ANL-CCA

l think these are these good choices for this purpose, but I am still doing research. My intention is to keep it under $400, not including the enclosure (which was $175 delivered).

I have never installed a sub in a system without a dedicated output for the sub. I might need some kind of audio high-pass/low-pass splitter between the rear deck speaker wires and everything else. An amateur-friendly one, I hope.

See also: 2023 Mustang GT Projects

This evening’s project was a quick one: installing a Steeda strut tower brace in my 2023 Mustang GT. A strut brace makes a significant difference in how much a car flexes. For the cost and how easy it is to install, it’s a bargain for the benefit. I don’t know anything about Steeda (or modern Mustangs, really — this thing is the Tardis compared to my 1967 Mustang), but this strut bar has good reviews.

From reading over the 2023 packages …

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America/US/product/2023/mustang/2023-mustang-order-guide.pdf

… I appear to have a 2023 Mustang GT Premium (with some options), but not a California Special. The only California Special specific trim I see on my car is the front grille. And maybe the wheels? It definitely does not have the red interior stitching, the GT/CS strut bar, or the rear badge.

I am actually okay with this. The rear badge would be nice to have, but just because I think it’s prettier than the big silver GT. Other than that, I prefer the GT Premium styling.

Removing the “GT/CS” was easy, fortunately.

I had tried to find OEM “California Special” floor mats, but couldn’t find any, so I got these from 3D Mats instead. A good thing, as it turns out. I also picked up a cheap trunk mat from Amazon.

On Monday, Jose from DetailMeNow came out and removed the stripes from my 2023 Mustang GT. I had already replaced the white aerial with a grey one.

A little over a month ago, I bought a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium. It was listed as a California Special. It turned out not to be one, which is actually better. I didn’t know it at the time, but the 2023 California Special has details like decorative (non-functional) side scoops, a big spoiler, and so on. Which is not to my taste, so it worked out for the best. 🙂

Here are some photos of the car as it was when it arrived.

A pity that it ended with books. Most of the art and literature created in the past century will be lost forever within the next century. Not because it was written with vibrations in the air or painted with light, but because we have ceded our cultural heritage to a handful of sociopathic billionaires (Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Brothers), who would — and have, and will — destroy works of art rather than fail to make a profit from them.

It’s a shame, and it was avoidable.

Ah, well.

I wish Americans were a little less fixated on 18th century concepts of political science, civic engagement, and natural philosophy.

I celebrate Epicurus’ Birthday on the third Monday of February, in honor of the philosopher Epicurus, the ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. His school was the first of the ancient Greek philosophical schools to admit women as a rule rather than an exception.

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia — “peace and freedom from fear” — and aponia — “the absence of pain” — and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil; death is the end of both body and soul and should therefore not be feared; the gods do not reward or punish humans; the universe is infinite and eternal; and events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space.

(From Epicurus, Wikipedia)

I have created a color scheme for Minimal Theme for Obsidian. I mainly use Obsidian on my Boox Tab Ultra tablet, which is an e-ink device. My intention is to create a very high contrast theme that is easily legible on an e-ink device like the Boox, while also being attractive enough for desktop or color tablet use.

The theme is nowhere near as colorful as most themes. If you like everything to be a different color, this theme is probably not your cup of tea.

This is written as a CSS snippet, but my hope is that the author of Minimal will eventually allow this theme to be added to the core Minimal color schemes. Obsidian really needs a clear, readable color scheme for e-ink devices. That’s what I want, in any case.

I have posted the CSS file to my github page. If pasted into the theme.css file in Minimal (between gruvbox and macos), the code looks like this…

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