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Those of you who have been to our place in Monee are familiar with our downstairs "airplane" bathroom. Well, we felt it needed something. So today we hung this: You are now all invited to come take a dump with Dick. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My wife actually suggested it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

New battery arrived this evening and it's been replaced already. iFixit tools are really good, it never took me this little to open the MBP. The new battery seems absolutely legit, came half charged at 54% and is lasting a lot. OSX isn't showing the "fix battery" warning anymore. Now the trackpad click is soft, I think it's never been this soft, not even when the computer was brand new. That or my fingers have got so strong by clicking on the old battery for months that now I can drill on wood with my sole finger.

9 hour slow cooked barbacoa beef tacos on tacos that my classmate's mom made from scratch. I think I ate too much

That's not the biggest dick to use that room.

Duck pastrami Sammich

Thanks to this video And these inexpensive parts I was able to implement this http://www.driveaccord.net/forums/15-7th-generation/42915-diy-power-steering-pump-o-ring-tsb.html And it works as described (No more noise from the steering pump at startup on cold mornings) (No air in system due to loose seal, so no cavitation in pump, I'm guessing) Thanks Internet

Going to LA to see this in a couple of days. You guys got any suggestions of what questions to ask?

I just love Debbie.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k

Happy Birthday Mikey, enjoy your cake Enjoy your Drifting, Chris

This! We will toast you both from New Hampshire tonight! And I will have many gifts in cans and growlers for Mikey and you too Chris if you come to California anytime soon! Cheers!

I like Tony Kuphaldt's Lessons in Electric Circuits series: https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ — he has not finished all the chapters, but the basic stuff is solid and easy to read. After reading his coverage of a topic, it pays to go over the same topic in AoE. The different presentation made a few things sink in for me that did not make sense from just one book. iCircuit is a pretty nice little circuit simulator to see what happens without going through the work of building it.

Two DMM's are a good idea just to check if one is functioning ok. They don't have to be expensive but stay away from the no name stuff. I like B&K a lot for the cheap stuff but there is also Brymen, Extech etc. A used Fluke 189 and you are set for life though. The Morgan Jones books are excellent and have a lot of practical stuff in them. All of my books are in storage due to the impending move but there was one which was quite good, Practical Electronics for designers or something like that.

Only thing I got a picture of from the work dinner tonight, but so much food and sake. I'm stuffed!

I remember this being pretty good, and free! http://www.designinganalogchips.com Not sure how basic you are looking for.

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Stop playing.. Start drinking.

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That's just fucking awesome! I wish my wife would let me do something like that.....

Yep. This is a great blog post sharing similar disillusionment. http://redwhiteandbourbon.com/2015/11/01/producers-distributors-markup-and-you/

**BRENT**

This was pretty extraordinary. Sat in the kitchen and none of the chefs looked more than half my age. [emoji53]

Should I say that I am working on the L3 which combines aspects of both?

There is certainly a theme of fried globs of unrecognizable animal in your pictures Colin.

I pulled the drivers out of the cups and swapped them to see if the issue was in the cable. Unfortunately the imbalance followed the drivers, but I did notice something strange about the quiet driver. Where the loud driver is shiny the quiet one has a kind of haze on the rear stator. It almost looks like a fungus of some sort. Here are some pictures of what I'm talking about. EDIT: I pulled the driver apart and found NO ARCING! The diaphragm was glued to the rear stator and has some hazy residue on it. I suspect this driver may have been exposed to some moisture or something explaining it's problems. Here's a picture of the diaphragm. I flipped the diaphragm over and reassembled the driver and now I'm getting full output from both drivers! Bass is present too. I think the perceived lack of bass was due to the channel imbalance. The good driver was working properly the whole time. Should I do anything to try and clean the diaphragm and stators, or should I just leave well enough alone and enjoy them now that they are working?

Saluting Marilyn, one of our more annoying cows who did not survive this morning's visit from the mobile butcher. Currently googling beef heart recipes.

I need a Merlin. Badly.

This Chicken tikka masala at the appropriately named ...

^^^ This, with the one caveat that I'm not sure I'd recommend a project this complex (from a cost standpoint) for someone who truly doesn't know how to solder. Soldering isn't really difficult, but you definitely get better with some practice. To that end, just buy a piece of perfboard from RadioShack and practice on that for a few hours prior to starting the project and then you should be good to go.

It is a pretty easy and straightforward build. The hardest part about assembling an amp is generally the casework, and that is already done.

Went to try the London version of Les 110 de Taillevent today. Just opened and still shaking out, but 110 wines by the glass and this is the somm. Greg, you would like it!