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Apples UI design has been going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly) for a while now. That dude will NOT be missed.

No e-biking at Laguna Seca? Disappoint.

Firm holiday party is in Monterey. Think I might bring the bike down with me. Don’t let a free hotel room go to waste, right? I’m not quite sure I have the legs for this vertical, but I’ll practice on Zwift this week.

This is an interesting take. Hope you are right but it seems like there is a massive brain drain going on as the game of thrones is happening to see who will be the next Tim Apple. People who are out of the game appear to be starting to jump ship.

Meanwhile, in San Rafael , it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Someone called me out because "Drone" was in my top 5 genres in my Spotify wrapped, so I'm leaning into it and listening to my favourite drone musician of all time, Chris Meloche: https://tidal.com/artist/ARTIST_TOP_TRACKS/view-all?artistId=7876954&moduleId=ARTIST_TOP_TRACKS&moduleIndex=0&type=TRACK_LIST

Barber: Adagio for Strings & Violin Concerto - Schuman: In Praise of Shahn & To Thee Old Cause by Leonard Bernstein · New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1971) https://open.qobuz.com/album/oq1lj3jsx8huc Example:

Too far down the road of downgrading? loading second stage down with resistors, loop gain went from 65dB to 25dB, thd will increase by more than an order of magnitude. No idea how much would be the sweet spot subjectively but can possibly be further tweaked. FET output, linearity not as good as triple BJT, just bc still try to cut corner on size... A quick search suggest lateral FET pretty much went extinct, for vertical ones should probably change vbe multiplier to something TO-126 and also put on heatsink?

RIP Martin Parr, photographer of British life https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/07/landmark-british-photographer-martin-parr-dies-aged-73 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/07/martin-parr-photographer-career-in-pictures

Happy Belated Birthday Todd - take care - cheers -

Happy belated Birthday Todd! Sorry you weren't feeling better, and understood regarding the circumstances.

Thanks all! Wasn't the celebratory day Karen would have recommended.... Fighting a cold, and did some work starting at 4:30am! But after all that, was able to chill for much of the day. Realized I hadn't done that for a long, long time - a few hours here or there but not for basically a whole day - and it felt damn good! Needed to recoup some but also just shut things off. And having Andrew's cat June purr in my lap was good medicine, too. Andrew ended up bringing in Thai for us for dinner; our planned excursion out will be a rain check.

I was curious, so I Googled it...nice!

Happy belated birthday, Todd! I do very much hope you had the best of days yesterday! (party favour noise)

(perhaps a human) Happy Birthday

Have a truly superb day - Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Todd!

(a human sourced) Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Todd!!!

Happy Birthday, Todd!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!