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Die Antwoord show last night. Yo-Landi is as adorable as you'd imagine on stage. Very short show, but very good. There was a song off the new album I wanted to hear but they did most of their good stuff. **BRENT**

Can't you get your gentleman's gentleman to adjust your volume? "As you wish, sir" #firstworldsolutions.

Finally got Tidal setup on the SB Touch via ickstream. It's working pretty well so far.

I went to the maui swap meet, then drove up to Makawao and then along the Hana highway back to Paia.

Managed to get some time on my layout... It will be sans volume pot, using Conrad heatsinks, overall dimensions are 337mmW x 260mmD X 151.5mm H. The transformer will sit under the psu, taking avantage of the 151.5mm height. I plain to get the brackets fabed somewhere, I’ve seen a few online shops, it should be fairly straightforward. If anyone knows a good place I’d love to know!

drove the road to hana

Excellent Brent. I really want to see them.

Wow. Amazing loaves of gluten awesome.

WHAT!!?? Isn't overkill the motto of the Stax Mafia? Here's spritzer on 4/16/14 on the KGSSHV design: "The whole goal of the KGSSHV was never the high voltage, that was just a side product of the parts available. The main focus was the new PSU design and indeed the CCS for the third stage..." So if the PSU for the KGSSHV is an improvement over the KGSS PS (which is basically the same as the KGST mini PS), shouldn't using a modded KGSSHV PS (with decreased output voltage) be an improvement for the KGST, assuming you have the space to do it?

I guess you fixed the problem with the big holes Mikey! Looks great.

This is probably going to be minority interest, but the precursor to American Football is Rugby. Elliptical ball and two teams of enormous brutal guys (and now women too). Rules of play are more cryptic (much) than American Football, and there is no defensive gear at all - no padding, no helmets (other than a soft one to protect cauliflower ears). Lots of injuries - it is not uncommon for a player to go off bleeding profusely from a cut, have it stitched, and go back on again. The odd broken bone, the odd concussion. Everyone has had a broken nose at some point. There are two variants of Rugby - Union and League. The rules are different. League has more in common with American football, but only the 6 plays element - after which the ball goes to the opposing team. That is not the case in Union, where you retain possession of the ball until you lose it to the opposing team through interception, being turned over in a tackle, a scrum, a penalty or a lineout. There is a ten minute sin-bin for dangerous play, or being sent off entirely for the duration of the game. It is a big sport in the UK and Europe (mainly France and Italy), and worldwide. This year the Rugby World Cup is held in the UK http://hospitality.rugbyworldcup.com/hospitality_matches.aspxand should be brutal. Reason for posting this is yesterday was the culmination of the 6 nations championship. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. It runs in the early spring. The three final matches were yesterday, and many records were broken. Started with Italy/Wales. At half time the score was a lacklustre 13 points to14. Yawn. But then Wales went on a rampage of epic proportions in the second half and the final score line was 20 points to 61. That monster score meant that in order to win the tournament, in the next match Ireland had to beat Scotland by at least 27 points and England had to beat France by at least 23 points - a really tough challenge. However another epic battle by Ireland saw them demolish Scotland by 40 points to 10. That raised the bar for England, who now had to beat France by at least 27 points. In a phenomenal match, England beat France by 55 points to 35 points - a margin of 20, and falling short by one converted try (7 points) of taking the champoinship, which went to Ireland. This is a day of Rugby which will go down in history. It is the first time in the final three matches that the total number of points scored has been as high as 221, by a large margin. It is the first time ever that a team has scored over 30 points (France) - and then lost. Since the competition (initially the five nations, minus Italy) started in 1910.

I have no interest in rugby but it reminded me of the beginning here for some reason... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKbxuE07Xlo

I'd happily eat either, yum. And for whatever reason that first loaf made me think of the Nightmare Before Christmas - in a good way.

At the moment they are both "Bring out your dead", so not so different

Today, the remains of Richard III will be reburied in Leicester Cathedral. His skeleton was found under a car park (!) a couple of years ago, along with evidence of his curved spine from scoliosis. The car park was on the site of the Greyfriars monastery five hundred years ago. Immortalised by Shakespeare in his play of that name: "Now is the winter of our disconent, made glorious summer by this Son of York..." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11488151/The-burial-of-Richard-III-viewers-guide.html

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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.

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.

“Fuck Neil Young,” he snapped, “and fuck his records." http://m.fastcompany.com/3043685/this-is-what-happened-when-neil-young-tried-to-make-peace-with-steve-jobs

Awoken at 2:00 am by a commotion in the garden. It was the fucking foxes, fucking