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Reports of gunfire near Venezuela’s presidential palace. File under: Rorge; Ruh-roh.

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Fat squirrels and fat(?) cats to follow. Possibly some dupes. Xreffing is a PITA. Squirrel tongue! These shots were taken only a month ago. When there's sufficient snow on the ground, squirrels will eat the berries. I spent new year's eve with 3 octogenarians (one of whom will be turning 90 this year) and 2 cats. Wisely(?) I brought my 85L and iPhone. Gidget vigorously investigating what's going on with Peter's trouser leg. Gidget is a gray card with legs. I've mentioned in the past that I really like the Moment app for iOS. It has great manual white balance. I need to xref what kelvin value I use it in and start using the same on the DSLR. Shot with tungsten white balance and then adjusted in Photoshop. To be fair, Gidget does have a lot of brown in her coat. Molly displaying her usual aggrievement at the presence of humans. Gidget absolutely savaging my knee with all four paws. She didn't draw blood, but it sure felt like it.

Was so last week... Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group Last year, before capturing President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/trump-venezuela-drug-cartel-de-los-soles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.zRgG.g6wk2FuZKAY4&smid=url-share (gift article)

I think that is the way to go after the joys of my approach...LOL HS

Watching on Amazon requires selecting German as the language and English for the subtitles, which is a huge improvement over the trailer of dubbed crap. 👍🏻

So, funny thing...

So, funny thing. I checked the "DJ edits" folder on my server. First of all, the last edit I did was July of 2021. Sadge, as the kids say. Second of all, in there is "Hooverphonic - Mad About You (Live at Koningin Elisabethzaal 2012) (no applause).flac" which I did sometime in late 2014 apparently.

I thought it was released in English...

I want to watch this but can't stand dubbing and asynchronous visuals. Isn't there a properly subtitled version? ☹️

Paul Motian - Paul Motian box set (from the Decca digging). First CD purchase in awhile. Ex.

Death by Lightning Highly entertaining for history nerds (raises hand). I absolutely recommend this. Only four one hour episodes so commitment is low.

Tank. German movie that's been dubbed over and where the captions don't match the voice over....dizzying. Interesting movie overall. HS

2 current sources now. 1 between unreg caps and passfet. other current source between regulated caps and output. kgsshv600vpowerv2 - CADCAM.ZIP circlotronpsupdated2cs.pdf

I'll take Things that never happened for $500 Alex...

Red Eye (UK) - season 2 brings Detective Sargeant Hana Li (Jing Lusi) back, this time substituting the confines of the US Embassy in London as the locale. Lots of twists & turns, and of course you don't know who is really who. Easy watch, especially if you liked series 1:

The Copenhagen Test (Peacock) - A government operative-turned-analyst discovers his eyes & ears have been hacked to transmit what he experiences to an unknown destination. The government agency he works for tries to make his weakness a strength by putting him back in the field. A "Quantum Leap" sort-of feel (to me anyway), and likeable actors make it an easy watch. Bring along a big hunk of your suspension of disbelief & have fun.

Jenny Lewis @Austin City Limits on PBS

Sorry. I didn’t read your post carefully enough the first time. Glad you’ve got a working solution. My current thinking is: instead of keeping Q12 at the very end of the PSU, I’m considering moving it right after the rectifier and bulk filtering, and ahead of the C2M device. For the SMD version, I’m also thinking about adding a STR1550 locally next to the C2M to provide a second layer of current limiting. That said, as mentioned before, similar to something like a 2N3094, but who knows if it works or not. The main goal of the SMD redesign right now is to merge the two circlotron PSU boards into a single board and reduce the overall size by roughly half. If space allows, I’d also like to see whether the 15 V golden reference and the CPC1117 delay / soft-start can be integrated onto the same board. I have some ideas sketched out, but I haven’t started any actual layout work yet.🤐

I realise I was a bit unclear above. The Q12 IXTH6N100 is indeed a current limiter and as I read the schematic, it's there to protect the whole psu should the amp board develop a short of some type. So what I did above was "steal" my Q12 by re-wiring it for start-up duties instead (placing it between pre-reg caps and Q8). However, that also means that my boards no longer have the Q12-based psu protection in place. So in the future, I will probably put a second IXTH6N100 on the board (in the Q12 position) to restore that protection. Also, you don't specifically need the out of production C2M parts for the psu. The next generation of those SicFets, specifically the current production C3M0900170D that also replaces the old C2Ms on the amp boards, work just fine.

Ha ha. Baron Trump-konnen. Similar fatness, similar colonial intents with force, taking possession of areas for natural resources, similar survival of assassination attempt(s).

Shot at Lexington Pride on a Rollei 35 using Kodak 200.

Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares 192kHz on Qobuz Ex.