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Bub & Pop's Beef Brisket w/ fried egg and a side of pickled watermelon, dragon fruit, jalapeños and radish.

Returned to work after little over a week off. 200+ emails and almost none of what I asked/thought to be done when I was out is done. Yay.

Speed Queens are only available in West Hollywood so I wouldn't know.

Brisket is awesome. I had some last night, 72 hour sous vide at 130F, waygu beef.

So Steve, maybe you're a dryer-sexual.

Damn! Not only does that sound like a great dryer, it also sounds like the perfect boyfriend!

Ah maybe take the McRoskey off the list. I agree on the sale wait recommendations, but I'll also add that spending crazy money on a mattress/box springs probably makes much more long term sense than almost everything else we discuss buying on this site, no? Restful sleep, a third of your life, and all that. Not as sexy as audio gear or a car, but c'mon it's a bed... [Marilyn Monroe not included]

The Many Battles of Nina Simone http://feedly.com/k/1qX5o7s

I've been playing around with the Pentax Q system. One of it's interesting features is the 5x crop factor. I've added a Pentax Q - K adapter, and picked up a cheap K mount 55-300 zoom lens. The result is a telephoto lens with an equivalent focus length of something like 1500 mm. I'm still learning to use the set up, but this is a moon shot with no cropping or enlarging whatsoever: You could pick up this kit for less than $600.

Mikhail... All singlepower extremes burned up their transformers. Once you put a real transformer on it, sounds great. ES1 and ES2, output tubes deliberately biased at -160 volts causing maximum VPSS voltage swing to be 800v. Very grim. all high voltage versions of the dynamic amps. major stupidity. singlepower squarewave. no heatsinks, burns up. But the fixed version is kickass for cheap. Rudistor silver plated copper wire reinforcement of hand etched circuit boards. major clusterfuck boxes of boxes of boxes. one of which is a resistor (current source) in a box with a fan headroom all the early stuff was built well and sounded like crap. very poor performance. (sorry tyll) sennheiser hev60 what a horrible design and their new $2k thing is a poor sounding piece of crap cavalli liquid fire, take a standard circuit, replace front end with tubes, output stage with mosfets. Then deliberately limit the available output current. Major clusterfuck liquid gold take a standard circuit and shrink both power supply voltages and number of output devices. and claim that it is true balanced. but to make sure, add real piece of crap buf634 driving drv134 to make unbalanced into balanced to drive it.

I don't like lists or care at all about dynamic stuff but here are a few: Woo WES, took a good circuit and utterly fucked it up. Basically a quad single ended amp with no option for adjusting anything so everything drifts like mad Any of the Rudistor SS amps. All based on the same circuit and again, a quad of single ended amps that drift all over the place. All of the Rudistor electrostatic amps, all based on the Egmont circuit. Fine 500$ amp but 5K€? Terrible build quality and a bias supply that will destroy your headphones as a bonus. Alo Studio Six. Joke of a circuit and they think using a TKD volume control and 20cent Koa SPR2 resistors (aka Kiwame) makes up for the crappy transformers. Rule one for tube amps, budget everything for the transformers. Anything RSA though the A-10 and the Darkstar are the standout performers. The A-10 has to be witnessed by anybody looking for the ultimate "how is this crap possible!!??" EC Electra is utterly fucked but then again everybody knew that. Zane Deux also gets an honorable mention. Stock it is nothing special but then he did a "low impedance" version which simply takes the cake. Probably missed a few as I've been up for way too long... The Zana Deux