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  1. Had lunch with a very tall dude today. Just now waking up from the resultant food coma. Started with the steak tartare and empanadas And a bit of tasty wine, because wine Then moved on to the steaks and sides Argentine beef corona of sirloin Argentine beef ribeye tira a la pimienta Sweet potatoes Broccoli And something I didn't catch Washed down with a bit more wine which was even awesomer than the first, for the same reason as the first Thus ends the saga of lunch with stretch
    6 points
  2. Awoken at 2:00 am by a commotion in the garden. It was the fucking foxes, fucking
    6 points
  3. That looks amazing. Glad you guys got together. A little grilled veg and dry aged New York loin strip. Nom Nom Nom
    4 points
  4. Claire baked and built, but I frosted and toasted-coconuted this coconut layer cake with rum syrup, vanilla bean pastry creme filling and butter cream frosting. Pretty, if I do say so myself (even though it needs to set in the fridge and get cleaned up a bit).
    3 points
  5. Going with the JH 13 Pro's. Plugged them into my Stello DP200 and now they are really singing. Tight controlled bass with the clarity I was hoping for. Glad I took them home to demo.
    3 points
  6. Some recently posted shots from my January trip to the Grand Canyon:
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  7. It wasn't too bad and my repair guy, who I've been using for 10 years cut me a break on the weekend service call cost. So I overpaid him and did it in cash. No more drippy boiler.
    2 points
  8. Replaced the driver's side mirror on my car, was a victim of the winter and slippery road conditions. Inexpensive (cheaper plastic housing, but Nissan's wasn't much better) after-market via Amazon, $43 shipped. Everything works fine. Happy boy.
    2 points
  9. Lamb shank, mashed sweet potatoes, token green things
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  10. Debbie and I went for a drive today and ran into these two.
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  11. Handed over a check for $5000 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and for a little over $7500 to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. Both organizations work with children with cancer and do some amazing work to make their lives better. The lab manual I had made for the Neuroanatomy Lab ended up being used as an optional supplement for the course. It will be used as the manual next year with a few more additions that I need to make this summer. It was well received enough that we decided to turn it into a fundraiser for the Photography Club. The students were allowed to donate whatever amount they wanted in exchange for the manual and we ended up getting donations from 322 of the 350 students that got the book which was absolutely unbelievable. That $5000 collected was donated to the LLS. As part of the Pediatric Club, we encouraged people to either shave their head or donated some of their hair to Locks of Love. One 9th grader (who attends an advanced high school attached to my university) surprised us all by raising $4100 alone. She agreed to shave her head if everyone in her class donated anything over $5. The message spread like wildfire and other classes and teachers contributed to the cause as well. We are very lucky to have had her present today. Even though she singlehandedly raised more than half the amount we donated, she was exceptionally humble and a pleasure to talk to. Going to be somewhat easy to fall asleep tonight. Hopefully they can find a way to fuck cancer up the ass. Here are some pictures I took at the event today if you wish to see - http://photographyinmedicine.blogspot.com/2014/11/our-community-efforts_4.html
    2 points
  12. It was enough before this.
    1 point
  13. I went to the maui swap meet, then drove up to Makawao and then along the Hana highway back to Paia.
    1 point
  14. In light of my recent Calfee acquisition, I have a blurple and red size 58 caad8 frameset with fsa triple crank and cannondale c3 stem, seat post, and bars I'd sell cheap.
    1 point
  15. If going with stock CCS values, it's around 10mA per tube or 40mA total per rail.
    1 point
  16. I fully expect Stretch's next post to be this.
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  17. I can now, in an extremely limited fashion, contribute to this thread. For the last few weeks the pens that work supplies have been driving me nuts. They're fat, write like shit and are just plain frustrating. But I wasn't about to use a fountain pen. So I did a bit of research and yesterday a Retro 1951 Tornado in stainless steel finish arrived. It both looks and writes excellently.
    1 point
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  19. Forgot to photograph, but wonderful.
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  20. Picked up some nice info about using a Metric Halo unit for a phono preamp. There was a discussion of this on the MIO mailing list and this email came from BJ (Metric Halo's designer). So, the ULN-2 has 3 ways to get audio in analog: 1) Mic Input on XLR of the combo jack. This is 1.65k from each leg to ground (3.3k between the balanced legs) 2) Line Input on TRS of the combo jack. This is 100k from each leg to ground (200k between the balanced legs) with a DC path to ground. 3) Send Return. This is 100k from each leg to ground (200k between the balanced legs) AC coupled from the connector (no DC path to ground on the connector side). 1 + 2 have selectable gain. 3 does not. The gain on path 2 is less than the gain on path 1 for the same gain setting. For large gains the difference is about -9.5 dB. For small gains, it is less. What this means is that you can have a max gain of about 72-9.5 = 62.5 on the line input, with a 100k bridging impedance when you are running single ended. This allows you to adjust the bridging impedance with a resistor between hot and ground. Adding an additional 100k in parallel will give you about 50k bridging impedance (which is probably fine, if you want exactly 47k then the parallel resistance needs to be 88.679k [or as close as you can get]). Putting resistance in series with the input is not really what you want to do because you are adding a noise source to the high gain path. So on the ULN-2 the best approach is to use the Line In with a bridging impedance to match what your cartridge wants to see, plus appropriate gain, plus the RIAA filter in the EQ. You can use the RCA to TS adapters for this purpose, or you can put TS connectors in place of the RCAs on the turntable leads. You definitely need to short the turntable grounding lug to the chassis ground of the ULN-2. For the ULN-8 and LIO-8 we have a factory mod available for the DI board that sets the input impedance and gain properly to use as a turntable input. You can, of course just use an external phono stage and come in line level as well. That being said, we do have a bunch of feedback to the effect that using the ULN/DI input + the EQ as the phono stage is one of the best sounding configurations around; it is certainly substantially less expensive than any external phono stage that is in the same range of performance (if you already have the MIO, that is -- and maybe even if you don't)! Hope this helps. B.J. Buchalter Metric Halo
    1 point
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    1 point
  22. All caught up with Justified now, starting to watch Bosch on Amazon Prime
    1 point
  23. I am really not sure if the file size of DSD is worth the hassle. I would definitely not buy DSD versions of things I already have in HiRes, though I am not sure anymore I would buy HiRes of things I already have on CD.
    1 point
  24. I dont think I would even want to hike that.
    1 point
  25. Most excellent lunch with Colin. Think he took pictures. Afterwards retreated to my spiritual home ...
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  27. That setup is wee bit more than I want to spend on a snowblower.
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  28. But it's newegg so you might get something entirely different, like a TV stand or potted plant or knitting needles.
    1 point
  29. Wish I had my camera with me for this cloud. From Phone cam. Phone Cam by drjlo1, on Flickr
    1 point
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