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Happy Belated Birthday Tom!

Didn't want to embarrass those kids.

I knew about street hockey but never knew there was street curling! Did you throw any stones?

Happy Belated Birthday birthday Todd.

Thanks every one pretty much a uneventful day ,turning 74 which was okay.

Have missed a few of our normal holiday events this year, so happy to see Mountain View went all out for last night’s tree lighting ceremony.

So, friends, anyone built this portable with success ?

Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time by Jacob Garchik

Happy Belated Birthday Tom!

Happy Belated Birthday Buddy!

We always play the SNZ Christmas album during the holidays.

I won an album today. Sharon Mansur's Trigger -- which is jazz fusion and unholy carp, this might break me -- it's right up there with Hiromi and Fox Capture Plan! Just listen to this shit:

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.