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Sometimes living at the base of a volcano is a bummer. Seems that Verizon has deprecated band 13 (lower Hz - but had connectivity) for band 2 (higher Hz - but I get no bits). I use to be able to get some bits from band 5 and 66 - but those are pretty much gone now as well.

Beth Gibbons, Lives Outgrown Melentini, Explosions Around, The Desert Inside

Bedouine - s/t Nice easy pop folk, nice sound without becoming too boring. Love her voice! This one is in my Roon library, her other stuff seems good as well.

Strawberry Oat Squares

I'm a little confused too. Here's where I got the 2024 release date: "Rob Stone, indicated that the library had whole negatives but had agreed not to release them until 2024." I Want to see it but can't find anything other than 30 minutes of leaked footage? https://archive.org/details/project-55 They claim to have ~90 minutes.

Open faced omelet with bacon, caramelized onion, parmigiano and heirloom tomatoes.

Shrinking (AppleTV) - season 1 Season 2 coming in October '24

Wait, I thought it was stipulated until after his death? And it's been seen by select people.

A Jerry Lewis movie filmed in 1972 was so bad (in a dark way) that it was never released. He donated the unfinished movie to the Library of Congress with the stipulation that it would not be released until 2024. “This movie is so drastically wrong its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.” ‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost

bit of both. working distance is ok for either a hot air handle or a soldering iron. It takes some getting used to since you have a fixed defined viewing circle, you can't move your head and have to organise everything around that. I personally found that exact head positioning was very critical to get a good 3d perspective view and this meant I wanted to minimise the number of times I looked up away from the microscope.

Do you use it for inspection or for assembly?

Demure...Mindful...

I purchased a cheap rebranded scope from amazon one a few years back for smd and pcb inspection It looks identical to this one: https://amscope.com/collections/student-microscopes-low-power-stereo/products/se420xyz-2l it works. My only complaints are 1. it does not have a zoom 2. its not trinocular so you can't add a camera look through it at the same time 3. there is no real X and Y adjustment. instead it pivots around which makes moving around a pcb a bit of a pain. 4. because the objective lenses are housed in a rectangular box you cant fit a ring light easily. 5. the objective lenses are not a "standard" mount and that limits you options for different lenses

Here’s Steve Simon‘s take on the other side… https://petapixel.com/2024/08/26/photographing-the-2024-democratic-national-convention/

You know. I think I kind of forgot how big this stuff was. And how much I liked the music. I bought the soundtrack at the time. Especially liked tracks like: Same video, but queued to - Caoineadh Cú Chulainn - Davy Spillane. Now my recommendations are going to be filled with this stuff. Oh well - worth it.

Saw another posted today you can use ChatGPT to write Fuji film recipes, Canon picture profiles, etc. poor examples below, but just tried. Anyway, worth experimenting to get unusual looks or possible better color match different models. Winter Night Recipe for Fujifilm X-Pro 2 • Film Simulation: Classic Chrome • Dynamic Range: DR200 • Highlight Tone: -1 • Shadow Tone: +2 • Color: -2 • Sharpness: +1 • Noise Reduction: -4 • Grain Effect: Strong • White Balance: 4500K, +2 Red, -5 Blue • ISO: Auto (max 3200) • Exposure Compensation: -1/3 to -1 (depending on the lighting) Winter Night Picture Style for Canon 6D - **Picture Style:** Neutral (as a base) - **Sharpness:** 3 - **Contrast:** +1 - **Saturation:** -2 - **Color Tone:** -1 (this shifts colors towards cooler tones) **Custom White Balance:** - **White Balance:** Set around 3200K-4000K (adjust based on your scene for cooler tones) - **WB Shift/Bkt:** Move towards the blue and magenta (e.g., B1, M2) to create a cold, wintery feel.

And Dessert

Another Deck Thai Curry

New The The single/EP

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I seem to remember some guy laughing at me trying to read resistors when I built Colin's F5 amp. 🙂 Now I have one bionic eye, and can read them fine.

Yeah that’s my top choice so far.