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  1. Actually yesterday, but visited the DeYoung Museum for the last day of the Tamara de Lempicka exhibit. Amazing work. These are just a few of the paintings exhibited...
    14 points
  2. going to look at it in a few minutes. should be ground i think. nope, thats the feedback on the output. and the gerber file is correct. not sure where you got that picture, probably here, and likely not done. 3 of the other versions had the same error, all are updated on the google shares. no idea how that happened. someone needs to go thru all 9 versions (or more) to see if there are any more errors. i'm kind of busy waxing my brand new 2025 corvette Z06 3lz htc.
    13 points
  3. Finally able to venture outside to repair some minor storm damage. Rain and cooler weather brought a nice change. During fires After the rain
    10 points
  4. It was yesterday, but niece Dorothy and I walked the dogs in the newly renovated redwood grove nearby. Nate actually walked through this park before the additions of new paths and boardwalks and such. Anyway, there was a storm recently when a fair number of trees came down. This one is not particularly large but it was big enough. Remarkably shallow the roots for such a sizeable thing. These are not the greatest pics, but I'm wondering if anyone has the ability to count the rings...
    9 points
  5. ^ Ugh, no more! Here: drove home from the hospital with my happy family. After a couple trips to urgent care, it was decided Esmé had some undiagnosed virus. A "stomach bug". A week into and third visit, diagnosis found - the appendix that ruptured sometime in the last week. 😵‍💫 High pain threshold is sometimes a disadvantage. Rushed to Stanford Packard hospital and then (similar to Knucks above) with viral infections filling all pediatric beds transferred in the night to San Francisco Van Ness. After another week, lots of antibiotics, a drain installed, some morphine, and several visits to the hospital's Teen Lounge, we were given the okay to come home. Lesson learned: Trust the fever. No matter the other symptoms and/or how patient is feeling, keep an eye on that temp. There may be something behind the thing. Thus ends my medical advice. E's proud portrait of parents on the day before leaving "the penthouse". The dad looks like a dick.
    9 points
  6. I've been thinking about teaching myself to carve wood. Yesterday I decided to give it a go on an old cabinet. I do tend to get over ambitious. Did I go overboard?
    8 points
  7. Flickr turned 21 and did post on Instagram about it because Zucc won't rest until he consumes us all that's the age we live in. Apparently a shot I took in 2006 is featured in it. Instagram ruins the shot, as it does to all things including the mental health of anyone who uses it. The original isn't bad, if I do say so myself.
    8 points
  8. Once again Willie says Fuck You to the Country Music Establishment. To be one of the biggest Country icons on the planet, and do a duet with Orville Peck would be considered career suicide for most. But Willie does what Willie wants to do! I never thought that I could gain even more respect for this man, but I just did. I can only imagine how many young gay men and boys this video will positively impact.
    8 points
  9. This shitpost is dedicated to Hopstretch and any nerd that codes.
    8 points
  10. It's been approximately eleventybillion years since I actually built something and I'm not sure that this qualifies but at a minimum, i finally assembled and wired something that I've been procrastinating/avoiding for like two years. I present, the IcePower 1200AS2 in a Ghent Audio case. I'll post a completed picture at some point but it looks like a black box. Not entirely sure what I'll do with it. Maybe I'll build a set of bookshelf speakers to overpower?
    8 points
  11. My friend and former secretary has asked me -- and now Steve -- to build some cabinets for a pantry area next to the kitchen at her new house. That project will take a while to percolate but I decided to build here a kitchen island in the meantime to replace a table she has been using to expand her counter space. Her cabinets have a dark cherry stain so at first I was going to go paint grade to avoid clashing. Rooting around the shop, however, I found enough figured maple boards for the main pieces and thought that would fit well so I went for it. I had to buy the prefab butcher block top and maple 1x3s for the slats below, but all the other maple and one plywood for the drawers and cabinet bottom were in the shop. It's hard to tell from the photos but the figuring on the cabinet and drawer fronts is really pretty. She wanted a knife drawer and another for large cooking utensils, so that's what she got. The knife blocks are maple with non tarnishing felt. Very happy with the results, except that I don't love the coloring of the butcher block. Terri loves it but may not be able to use it fully until she can get over the idea of marring it. 😂
    8 points
  12. Thanks everyone. Have not been here in a while. Seems everyone is still drinking, complaining about politics and buying stuff so pretty much the same. 🙂
    7 points
  13. It's funny, Al, I was actually thinking of that trip the other day and as a result, am making Detroit style pizza today. Before reading your post, and while making the pizza, I was also pondering memories and how there are some that I'm unlikely to forget despite the passage of time. Driving up and back to SF from Monterey is one of them, the overnight with you and Steve, and the walk in the woods, being something that I think I'll always look back upon fondly.
    7 points
  14. I have been playing at a chamber music camp this week. I am not sure how I will make it two more days - as easily the youngest person here I am not sure where they get the stamina
    7 points
  15. Friday we saw the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Choir perform Beethoven's 9th. So far the only live music event I have been to that made my heart race. When the choir and soloists all stood up in unison to perform the fourth moment, I was shook.
    7 points
  16. Last Night, Went to the Napa "Lighted Arts Festival" https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/napa-lighted-art-festival-downtown/ Where we walked around downtown Napa in the cold and dark and light drizzle, seeing art that looked best in the dark, but don't left me put you off. Here are some of my pictures to give you an idea - the Press Democrat photographer arguably did a better job. But I did manage to capture the projection art (arguably the highlight) so you can see it of you don't make it tonight ( the last night of the projection art) It certainly manage to a attract people to downtown Napa, both the local families, the Napa Lifestyle Destination Dining crowd, and us. Afterwards we enoyed a Lamburger, fries, beet salad, local beer and usual (not shown). The new Costco was closed by the time we arrived. so another time. No opening bargains for us.
    7 points
  17. Thanks everybody. though there were some bumps in the road this past year, i'm still breathing and that's what counts. You folks are great. Cheers!
    7 points
  18. I've listened to a few frankly pretty lame mystery novels set in Ohio Amish country and they often include references to Amish white bread. While listening to the audio books I often think that I should bake some sometime, and whenever I think about it I hear "Amish white bread" in my head like the chorus to Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy." 🤘🏻 With that background, here's my first attempt which turned out pretty good and made the house smell wonderful. Small pieces with butter, with homemade tart cherry jam and with homemade apple butter all were tssty. I'll try a sandwich at some point soon.
    7 points
  19. Inspired by Nate, I made Detroit pizza tonight for Dorothy and Steve.
    6 points
  20. Awesome work, Al! I’ve been pretty busy tearing apart a building, but I did manage to get these non-woodworking signs built for a local company.
    6 points
  21. weird cover I know but the music is fire. Van Gelder stamp in runouts!
    6 points
  22. Record show pick ups! the cures and portishead are originals! The 4 on bottom were $5 dollar bin specials
    6 points
  23. Grahame and Joanne went all in and all out for a lovely evening at Chloe the Cat's house. And the banana actually did work well with the curries, especially when doused with lime pickle. Thanks again!
    6 points
  24. "If you want to feel older, just try giving an uncooperative cat a series of antibiotic pills." The mighty Hercules trying to give the cat a pill
    6 points
  25. Nope, just guy. This was a solo effort by Voltron alone. I just helped deliver it. The pebble is no longer in my hand.
    6 points
  26. Having personally dealt with the fragility of the Cicada drivers I can say at this point i wouldn't bother tracking one down. Back 10 years ago when I built and then had to deal with i think three out of 4 drivers failing, you're better off sourcing matched replacements that work in the existing circuit. They'll never look as cool but they will probably last longer. I can probably dig up what I did for the desktop versions I built long ago. I worked with Craig on that.
    5 points
  27. I had my appendix explode about four year ago when I ignored a bunch of symptoms. I like to pretend it was my stubbornness, but it was probably my willful ignorance. She must be tough, cuz, I felt it explode and it wasn't subtle. I think it's safe to say, better to have it happen at her age than 50. FYI: My total bill was $500k~ish. I paid my yearly insurance max of $10k. It wasn't comfortable waiting for the insurance to pay at all. I kept getting bill after bill saying I owed it all for months until the insurance finally paid up. Just giving you a heads up. Oh yeah, the stomach drain SUCKS. And that picture 😂 ... makes me want to say, "blink 3 times if you need help"
    5 points
  28. 5 points
  29. Breakfast sandwiches. Sorry Brent. I used my new biscuit cutters to cut the biscuits, cut the cheese round and even to fry the eggs in.
    5 points
  30. for reasons Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Soundtrack (1992) https://album.link/i/46734067 Example: I was not up for watching this movie, but I was up for the amazing soundtrack by Badalamenti.
    5 points
  31. As usual, I can never tell if it is me or Artificial Intelligence. In this case, I think Grahame's post could go either way...
    4 points
  32. Sweet Rain by Stan Getz (1967) Only Apple for Link - so here is Qobuz Example: Very Pretty Album.
    4 points
  33. Not sure if this is what you need: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/blast-from-the-past-moth-cicada-speakers.2011/ Matches the specs on the internet archive of the moth audio website.
    4 points
  34. Finally found out where that snippet is from at the start & end of this Pelageya song. It's Rachmaninoff.
    4 points
  35. Honestly, I bought the LP because of the cover.
    4 points
  36. Distraction Rock 'n' Roll Animal (Live) by Lou Reed (1974) https://album.link/i/976827224 Example: I had a much different idea of Lou Reed from other works (mainly the Transformer album), but this was a killer set.
    4 points
  37. ES-2a (Stax cable) Early bird pricing: 15,390 HKD - 1,977 USD (today’s conversion rate) Regular pricing: 17,100 HKD - 2,197 USD (today’s conversion rate) EX-1a (Stax sable) Early bird pricing: 7,520 HKD - 966 USD (today’s conversion rate) Regular pricing: 9,400 HKD - 1,208 USD (today’s conversion rate) The Stax cable option is the more expensive of the cable options.
    4 points
  38. After the Curries come Brit Nibbles. Chloe remains above it all.
    4 points
  39. See Just a few things. For some special guests.
    4 points
  40. Guess where I'm having a curry...
    4 points
  41. Maybe he finally is in the front row ... RIP Bob
    4 points
  42. I could quit any time I wanted, honest. https://pmamagazine.org/golden-ears-anonymous-a-12-step-program-for-recovering-audiophiles/
    4 points
  43. Thanks for all the meme-y, AI, and plain old fashioned birthday wishes. Sufficient, albeit, non commemorative, Usuals. Curiously Bacon free, but that will be remedied before too long. And a pro tip if you want to feel younger. Surround yourself (inadvertently) with significantly older people. Why I feel younger already. An I.M Pei designed building helps. If you want to feel older, just try giving an uncooperative cat a series of antibiotic pills.
    4 points
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