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Mushroom medley and leek pizza

Haters will saw it Photomeowshopped.

No worries at all! I had found your original comment funny too, but this is even better! BTW, forgot to mention that I even put "John" as my....nickname? And no one asked me about that as well! (For those that haven't seen the movie, the aliens, both good and evil/male and female) are all named John or some variant)

Congrats!

No work on the turbo encabulator, or the Rockwell retro encabulator? Dissapoint.

And that person was not me. I am so ashamed. I did change my answer though, hope that wasn't too spoiler of me.

This. Thanks for the rec. Yum indeed.

Those look like Renesas parts, which have very faint and hard to see printing.

I decided that it was time for a proper camera to capture the kids. My iPhone appears to have over-processed the shit out of this photo of the photo-taking tool.

Here's a pic of what the guy on diyaudio has. This looks like the one on the bottom of your pic. The only way to know for sure would be to pull them and test them, but I'm not sure how to best do that. Here is a link to the fs thread, and this guy is trustworthy. In Europe, but shipping hasn't been too bad not has delivery time.

Continuing the theme…

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it is a shame that Nikon no longer has that in production. I think I counted about 23 times today that they said D5. ...earth...

Alec's International Relations professor dug this up as the last time they had any good musical protests at SMU (not exactly UC Berkeley being in Texas and all) over a stupid war. Pity we have one.

Thanks for your reply, Pars. The photo angle isn’t ideal. In real, at a certain angle under light, I can barely make out the 2SK216 / 2SJ79 markings, but they are extremely faint. I’ve seen genuine Hitachi versions before and they look quite different. I’m not sure if Renesas production ever looked like this, but I personally haven’t seen any sands with markings this faint. Below is a comparison. On one side is what I believe to be a normal 2SK216, and next to it is the suspicious 2SJ79. This T2 actually has a mix of both types of markings installed.

Last night Andrew made me dinner to celebrate my retirement. Also got to see his condo just about fully done with renovations. This kid did amazing design work for it! Even the Designer he worked with - who also did our bathroom remodels in 2024 - said he had an great sense of taste and style, doing some things even she didn't think about..... Dinner was awesome, roast seasoned chicken (amazingly tender), dan dan noodles with a decent kick/spice, and sauteed and seasoned spinach. Watched Buckaroo Banzai (*) and listened to a bunch of music and just chatted. A really wonderful night! (*) I updated my LinkedIn profile to list my "new" job as Laser Engineer, Oscillation Overthruster Division at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems. That is the fictitious company in the movie. Only one person got it so I had to update my "About" section to tell people to Google it, and that I was retired.

I don't see any marking at all on the center 2 devices, and that is zooming in a bunch. I would find them suspicious. I do know of a user on diyaudio selling genuine at reasonable prices. I bought some 2SJ77/2SK214 from him and will try to post pics of those.

"Fly me to the moon..." https://www.twitch.tv/nasa Direct on Twitch. getting pretty big.

Sorry, one more…

Clafoutis, Katharine Hepburn's Brownies, Ice Cream, Nice Cup Of Tea, and Scrabble!

hot pot soup with tofu, daikon radish, regular(?) radish, bok choy, bell pepper guts...and a wee bit of chicken

I’m currently helping repair a DIY T2, and while inspecting the amplifier section, I came across something a bit suspicious. The 2SJ79 / 2SK216 devices look like this (see attached photos). The marking on them appears very faint and somewhat unusual: not what I would normally expect from these parts. This makes me suspect that they might be counterfeit or at least not from a reliable source. Has anyone here seen this kind of marking before on genuine 2SJ79 / 2SK216? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Merry White Easter from my cousin in MN...

Easter Brunch, Al Fresco

The Carpenters