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Happy Birthday Stretch! Hope it's not too hot in hotlanta!

Too much? Oh well, hope your birthday is awesome anyway! Cheers!

It's back ^ with commentary v Don't Bloomgerg out...

+1 es lab user here

Installed IPad OS 26 yesterday. I was expecting more and better. There are some improvements that I like, but things that are keeping my iPad Pro to behave as an OsX Mac aren’t there yet.

The Ars Technica review of macOS 26 Tahoe - Liquid Glass looks redundant and obtrusive, nothing else seems to be a must-have yet, probably the last version to support Intel Macs: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-technica-review/

RIP to the legend. I loved The Sting as a 10 year old moviegoer, although it was eclipsed by Paper Moon which came out that year too because I kinda crushed on Tatum O'Neal who who was also 10 at the time.

RIP Robert Redford https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU8.U8U2.n5tnEXrpAu5P&smid=url-share (gift article)

I can second this

Took a walk. Found falling water.

I hear Lush and Slowdive, myself. But...yeah...(gets all dreamy eyed)...love that melodic harmonic wall of noise. Pure bliss. ...or did you mean the movie? LOL. I didn't watch the video until just now, just listened to the music.

I'm glad you survived. I hope you never disappear completely in my lifetime.

The Hifiman plug has to be treated with the same number of fucks they usually give any of the products... fuck all. They are still using that fucking spacer as the pins are too long even on the Shagri-la mini... it would probably completely bankrupt Hifiman if they had to pay for a single new mold and find some new pins... The real measurement might be on the original SR1, SR2 and SR3 plugs as I believe they are the originals off the shelf part from Sato Parts that Stax simply bought in.

if you take one of the cooper male and stick it into a real stax manufactured socket, you will find the fit extremely tight and you cant stick the plug all the way in. eventually the stax socket cracks. (queue steve) my document was created with a real stax plug (actually a few of them) and a very high resolution optical comparator. but 11.05 seems an odd number. Likely the original spec somewhere inside stax is 11.00 mm. makes the most sense. the optical comparator read everything out as X and Y which is why the conversion that should be perfect (to at least 4 digits) maybe not so perfect.

Nothing wrong with LCSC, I use them all the time for some hard to find parts.

I was recommended LCSC by someone on diyaudio so used them for some LDOs which were on extended backorder everywhere else. I received what I believe to be genuine parts (they work like they should).

I can contribute two data points. Out of the two X9000 era Stax plugs I measured, the pin diameter is within 2.36+/-0.004mm, and the pin circle diameter is about 10.95mm. The pins are not perfectly parallel to each other, and the pin circle diameter is slightly larger at the tips.

Short version: Got the shit kicked out of me. Long version: There were two birthdays this weekend. My friend Kate turned 37 on Sept 11 (her 14th was the worst.) My (sainted, octogenarian) mother advanced one year the day after. I ate a number of things that I don't normally, to be sociable. I paid a steep price. I felt kind of ill on the 12th, but still drove my mother to the alpaca farm here on MV. We had done so previously all the way back in 2009. I took photos, more on that (much) later. I slept terribly that evening and woke up on the 13th praying for death. I felt weak, nauseous, and worst of all I had an icepick-through-the-temple headache. When I have these issues, I clench my teeth while I'm sleeping so hard it gives me a headache that lasts most of the day. The is enough of a problem that it's damaging my jaw. If I ever disappear completely, it will probably be due to some related catastrophic event. Yesterday I was only moderately ill. I managed to get a few things done ...including like a 3 hour nap in the middle of the day (which is very unlike me.) Today, I am not in pain (this is a miracle) but I'm fantastically weak. I had to move a picnic table bench that belonged to my grandparents from the front of the property to the back and I needed to sit down afterward. I cannot eat highly processed food anymore, especially store made desserts. They kill me. It's so bad I have to straight up say "no" when I'm offered.

I miss watching them.

I bought some DC bricks from LCSC Electronics. Seems to be an all-right supplier. https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C2999063.html

Perhaps a little early, compiled a BOM: https://www.mouser.de/api/CrossDomain/GetContext?syncDomains=www&returnUrl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mouser.com%2fTools%2fProject%2fShare%3fAccessID%3dd8cfd9e908&async=False&setPrefSub=False&clearPrefSub=False

Hmmmm....it may be a far out opinion, but I THINK they may be fans of MBV..... 🤣

still looking for a reputable source of that lovely DC bricks.... Taobao doesn't work (or I am not able to) for me...

Tonight I watched northern lights dancing over the lake