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I don't know what a Leesa mattress is, but it makes me envision a blow-up doll.

dat's it!

Yeah I noticed that when I posted it. Went and picked up the tags shortly thereafter and some stupidly overpriced Subaru LP holders. Fucktards at the dealership drilled out the front mounting points crooked, I am thinking about burning down the dealership now. Got to use the horn twice on the way back. People in this area are aching to crash into each other. And of course it happened at the entrance to the fucking H Mart as people decide to cut across three lanes to get their vegetables or whatever that place sells. The horn stopped the first lady in her tracks and she just stayed there until I was well past, then the horn was needed 200 yards later as people here are too stupid to read signs that the left lane is entrance to Express Lanes only and always just swerve over at the last second without checking if someone is there.

Put on the STi rear sway bar with Kartboy end links. I cannot believe how sloppy the stock end links are, I think they might be a big cause of the poor handling and lack of straight-line stability. Also threw on some Hella Sharptones, not sure why I bothered, but I know people will now notice if I am angry at them.

That does sound terrible.

Sounds like European Socialism. Why not add single payer Healthcare, free at the point of use, for all, while you are dreaming

Al Di Meola https://vimeo.com/143699031 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You, sir, are seriously lucky you already have a custom title.

Waiting to see Al Di Meola electric at City Wine in Chicago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Current top recommended playlist for me is: The Musical Dialogue of Gilmore Girls. Probably need to listen to more metal.

Spend the afternoon with the reunited FL crew: Mike, John, Gene, Raffy, Carl, Bonnie, me, plus three doggies. Just wonderful!

^ Your temporary plate expires today Very cool on the mods. I'm playing an inordinate amount of Dirt Rally and I reach for the gear shift on my stupid minivan at least once a drive before I realize what I'm driving....

Doug, when did you move to San Francisco?

I vote denser cities with more trains connecting them, and a tax on personal cars to pay for their externalities.

Probably significantly harder to steal a fuel cell than the batteries. I vote fuel cell. The tesla has an incredible 0-60, and I would be dead inside of a week.

It doesn't really matter what the range is on your fuel cell vehicle Dusty, because as long as the infrastructure is there, you simply re-fuel. Not much different than a gasoline vehicle in that regard. On the other hand, the Tesla Model S electric vehicle claims nearly 300 miles on a charge. That's vastly superior to other all electric cars. And they claim an 80% charge in 25 minutes. There are free charging stations popping up all over the U.S.

Ordered Leesa mattress yesterday - will report back on results.

No kit, if you want to get a PCB you'll have to get the board files from Dr. Gilmore's site, send them to a board maker and have them made yourself, unless you get in on a group buy.

So, I got a chance to check out the L-700 last week end while at the local audio festival in Tokyo. I did not expect much really (I almost missed the show altogether but made the effort to go even if just to say to various friends). I was proved so wrong... Driven from Stax amp, the SR009 was almost put to shame by the new lambda. Their really listened, the voicing is much improved, full bodied yet very open and extended, bass is clean but present in the right amount. At 1/3 the price of the SR009 and cheaper than SR007, being apparently very easy to drive (it's still a lamdba after all), it's a no brainer. I predict Stax is going to make some noise with this one (haven't tried the L-500). Otherwise, I confirmed with Stax the driver is angled, just a bit (a few degrees) but enough to bring the soundstage a bit in front. I did not spend enough time to be able to even trust my own impressions, but it was enough to get me seriously interested in a proper evaluation / possibly starting to save up. My BHSE is dead atm anyhow so something that sounds better than the 009 through stax amps is a welcome news to me, especially if it's also relatively affordable! Cheers, Arnaud

Found out from our neighbors in India that Mr. Sundaram, my math tutor, passed away earlier this week of old age. He was 99. He was a retired Indian Air Force pilot and a retired professor at IIT (India's MIT). Up until 6th grade, I used to get A's in every class except for math and it turned into a problem in 6th grade when my teacher refused to let me slide by with less than mediocre grades. My parents found a tutor and I was told I needed to seek help. Going to a tutor in India was considered in a very negative light. I still remember walking up to him tiny home and being left at the door. He welcomed me in, taught me the first chapter and asked me to do the problems. I made my first of two mistakes with him by asking him which ones. He replied, "what do you mean which ones? All of them." Then he went back to tapping his fingers on the side of his chair while 3 other students and I started doing the problems. A few minutes later, I made the second mistake by asking him to help me with a problem I couldn't solve. He looked at me and said that he had already taught me the lesson and there were no tricks. I protested saying I didn't know how to solve it. He asked me how many times I had read the question. Irritated, I replied with some stupid number. He calmly said give it a few more readings. After 5 minutes of grinding my teeth and not really reading the question, I asked him again. He replied with the same response as earlier - read it a few more times, you will get it. The other 3 kids laughed at me under their breaths. I went home pissed thinking my parents were paying this guy to help me with math and he just sat there playing with his fingers and I was to go to him for an hour every freaking day and for two hours on weekends. I remember waking up in the middle of the night that night, scribbling down the answer to the question and proudly took it to him the following evening. Expecting praise, I walked in with a smug look and proclaimed that I had solved the question. He looked at it and said, "good. Now finish the other 119 problems in this chapter so you can go on to the next chapter. You have a lot to make up before you get to where the others' are." In the three and a half years I worked with him before leaving India, I asked him 3 questions after that first day (he answered only 2 of them). He taught me a lot of math but more importantly he taught how to think on my own and not give up if I couldn't find the solution in the first few attempts. He showed me how math could be incredibly beautiful and elegant. He taught me how to be patient not just with others but with myself. After working with him, I went from barely passing math in 6th grade to the 5th highest scorer in the 10th grade national board exam for math in all of India. It remains one of my proudest accomplishments to date. RIP Mr. SS. Thank you for all that you taught me and for being the most wonderful teacher I ever had.

Fuckin' hippies!

Check this place out if you're interested: http://www.lakesidebuddha.org I'm having some steel cut oatmeal with craisins for breakfast. Woo, exciting

and it has 4G LTE

short version: went on a buddhist retreat last weekend. Haven't had meat since. I'm sure I will again, just not right now?

Time to send out the KGSSHV front panel for re-anodizing.