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Not on Qobuz... Released September 1969, a good example of the transition period from Psychedelia to what would become heavy metal. Their third and final album.

Second big metric century is done and dusted! It is so hard to pace these things. Also, fueling remains a work in progress. It seems like however much your gut can tolerate in terms of food and drink is the amount you should be eating. Crushing gels gets old pretty quick. I skipped eating the last 10 miles or so and really felt it at the finish. We merged courses with the people doing the 30 mile ride in the last 1/4 of this and that meant it was time to put the power down and show the flat-bar riders the error of their ways! It is amazing how much of a confidence boost it is to overtake people. Kudos to all them for being out there though. Any ride is better than no ride (ahem, Brent). I do want more climbing than this going forward. There was really only one climb/descent (Chalk Hill). West Dry Creek Road is the stuff of riding dreams. Smooth country road, not wide enough for two cars to pass so the cars have to go ultra slow, curvy and lots of rollers. Can’t ask for better than that. Even on 32s I got so sick of road buzz on some of the Sonoma County cheese-grater roads that I threw the 40s back on after. The 40s are for sure slower, but my god do they smooth out the road and they are a joy to descend on. I’ll ride them for a bit until I feel ready to start doing group rides where the speed will matter. For training rides I’ll take comfort over speed any day and twice on Sunday.

[Warning: way too many photos] It's what I call "lowrider season", so hit the ever growing show in downtown San Jose yesterday (alway's good light when not behind skyscraper and tree shadows). For those going to be in San Francisco next weekend there's one there. As opposed to the photos above, went all color. The graffiti shots are with the ever reliable combo of Canon 6D Classic and Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM pancake. The main show are with the Leica SL2 and very unpancake 16 elements, 3lbs Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4. And when you have a fast wide angle everything is a nail.

Lily wanted to come home for lunch today so I asked her if she was up for trying new tacos. She said yes so I tried my hand at Birria Tacos. I blended a couple recipes to come up with something. The day started with browning beef. Then cooking the veggies and rehydrating the peppers. Then everything was set to braise for 3 hours or so until it was time for assembly. They were tasty and will be made again.

How about amp box porn?

That's a good move. I might see if I can find a broken set somewhere and make my own version that I might actually want to use, as I did with the 009's.

Already bought the x9000 at e-earphone with a 5 years warranty. The price increase left me no time to hesitate😅

The "ACK!"rooms.

Burning Man, Livestream, man. The burning of the man starts at about 9:45 Pacific. Impressive Fireworks

With all the Coltrane at 100 celebrations going on Atlantic has remastered a six CD mono (1960-1964) album set (earlier versions also on streaming) . So Olé currently. Full (non-mono aka stereo ;) version) or if you want a highlights 100 station (from a new separate LP set)

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Patio Breakfast

Definitely watching that -- Oscar Peterson is so great. I am partial to any trio that Hiromi is a part of, curious if she's even mentioned.

Today is a Led Zeppelin kind of day. Was: Houses of the Holy deluxe edition In through the Out Door deluxe edition Is: Presence deluxe edition Will be: Physical Graffiti deluxe edition Also Seefeel's Sol.Hz earlier, because I'm still me

For @MexicanDragon - Allied is now ready to roll as it should have been from the factory.

Just wanted to post a last note of thanks here. Never expected, always appreciated support led to me exceeding my fundraising goal. I've got the two bikes prepped and mostly ready. I just need to do a shakedown ride or two on the Allied which I picked up from the mechanic yesterday. Thanks again, d-_-b, #NFLO.

A little rambling, but short discussion of piano trios

I have like six AAPL posts in the works, but right now I'm going to focus on this: Someone on island is selling The. Worst. Mac. ever made. A good friend of mine bought one of these when it was new. His was over $3K (jn 2013 dollars) and it was an utter piece of shit. Nevermind the lack of upgrade path an other limitations due to the form factor. He knew all about that going into it. The damn machine hard locked at least once a day. Not when he was working, but if he left it on and came back later, it'd be completely unresponsive. No amount of OS reinstalls, calls to AppleCare, and even having the unit sent in to be serviced ever fixed it. The techs "could not replicate the issue." Conversely, the "cheese grater" G5 tower and Mac Pro he owned on either side of it continue to work to this day. He maintained that the little trash can was the worst Apple product he ever owned. TBH, if the seller was asking ...$150 and not $350, I might buy it just for the lulz. At the price he's asking, I could pick up a used low end Apple Silicon Mini and get far more performance at much less power consumption.

1959, The Year That Changed Jazz

As it turns out, Moondrop are finally releasing the MoonZero soon: https://www.hifihub.com.br/en/product-launches/moondrop-moonzero-445-electrostatic-headphone-takes-on-the-stax-sr-x1 This image courtesy of Fujiya Avic: Looks cool and if they can bring them in for under 500$... that is mighty tempting.

You're better than I. With apologies to Dolly (and all of you) this is the song I've been thinking about this week.

Béla Fleck, banjo; Sam Bush, mandolin; Jerry Douglas, dobro; Stuart Duncan, fiddle; Edgar Meyer, bass; Bryan Sutton, guitar

Music on TIDALThe Dark Third "Supercut"Playlist - The Dark Third "Supercut" - 12 itemsI recently found out Pure Reason Revolution played the entirety of a version of The Dark Third live and will be doing it some more, in honour of its 20th anniversary, so I was reminded how I tried to burn all the tracks from both versions onto a single CD-R and failed because it wouldn't fit. So I made a playlist. I could've done it the other way, and probably will at some point, but this sequencing was decided on first, so that's what I'm in the middle of listening to.