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Was offered a dream one year research position with my absolute favorite professor in all of med school. The man is close to retirement as a practicing neurologist so this is one of the last year's he is taking on students. He can tell you which page any neurological disorder is on in the neurology bible and can act it out on cue but more importantly is one of the most humble and down to earth people I have ever met. It's a research position on paper but I basically would be an apprenticed to him and shadow him during any patient interactions in his office and in hospitals. Instead of MAYBE (he is so popular, his office does a lottery for students every month) doing a one month rotation with him in my third year, I get to take a year off after taking my first boards and spend an entire year with him. The fellowship comes with a tuition waiver for the last two years of med school so that's a huge help but most important of all, he wears scrubs every day and has no dress code for students rotating through his office! Says he can't think unless he is comfortable. He asked me to think about it over the next week and get back to him. I told him I was taking the spot immediately. There was nothing to think about to which he replied, "you kids get more impatient every year. Im not giving you the answers to the licensing exam, you know." Hooray!

Fuck me there is a carbon fiber snow shovel: http://www.snowbigdeal.com/arva-snow-pure-light-shovel.html

Fried chicken and biscuits and gravy with stumptown coffee

I got to meet Joe Biden again, right before he took his wife to the Grand Bazaar. He always puts on a good show, and is just about the most affable guy you could hope to meet. Scheduling his visit, on the other hand, is a cascading bureaucratic nightmare of timing and frustration.

Got about 24inches started Sat morning about 2am ended early sunday am. My back was out so one of my sons was using a plow where he works and made a pass to the front of the driveway,His brother who is a volunteer firefighter came home this morning after spending the night at the firehouse going on calls & shoveled the stoop & used the snowblower on the rest of the driveway then dragged it onto my second story deck which had 3 feet of snow on it & cleared that off. Good to have Kids!

Hey, Steve! Hope you've been well. It's fun to talk about Stax, but I miss my K1000 often.

Happy birthday from Texas!!!

My plastic shovel has worked very well. Taking a shoveling break now but I think I probably have about 9 hours in today. The lady across the street is due any minute so we are trying to clean out enough so at least someone can get out.

That's to cool. So are the pictures of your storm from the international space station.

I did about 4 hours of shoveling today. If course after I finished the real blizzard whiteout conditions started. Going to be buying a bunch of better quality shovels.

As I've been promising to do for months I'm finally working on some dynamic amps. Here is something new, a Susy Dynalo with switchers... Running at +/-18V there.

sausage with sriracha mustard and Sambal Oelek (my ketchup)

Lunch will be better this week. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pretty sure my neighbor is part of the snow road crew. He got back and fired up a gigantic snow blower and did my entire sidewalk and driveway in front of my car I had not gotten to yet. /confused boner

That VC is quite nice. Reminds me a bit of Grand Seiko, which isn't a bad thing in my book.

Welcome to Canada Kind of meaty

Just another datapoint. I picked up a Metcal PS-800 about a year ago when they were selling refurbished units at a discount, and haven't enjoyed using it as much as the Hakko 936. I find the build quality of the pen to be a step down from Hakko, and, more importantly, the tips keep slipping out since they don't seem to have a locking mechanism. I also miss the Hakko's temperature control, as the default setting is a bit too cool to solder the joint on things like RCA jacks without heating up the entire jack. For day-to-day stuff it's perfectly fine.

Justin!

Phew, but more on the way:

Rice cooker slow cooked steel cut oats with craisins

I am thinking I might have some kinks to work out of my emergency plan to use the grills for cooking in a power outage.

Oxtail shoyu ramen

I like this word. It could be used to designate a humungous homo. If only we had one of those!

Dragged my son out for Japanese food last night:

Done

Did the trick. Fuck I'm hungover. My tolerance has gone to shit. Moar macchiato please.

Yeah I'm not sure if I want to become any more famous. My friends googled me once and saw me pop up in strange languages all over the world. Still we need to spread the gospel a bit further as a 727/009 isn't top of the line as some might think. Part of that plan is the rebuild the Unofficial Stax Page with info about all the Stax headphones plus other electrostatics.

I'm honestly not sure. I found the image during a GIS for "top shelf." I briefly considered shopping out the numbers because they irritated me, but right after that concluded I couldn't be arsed to do so.

Agreed that HFM is charging too much for the sound and build quality of their products. I liked the HE1000 while I had it but it's probably twice as expensive as it should be selling for. The build quality for a $3k product was a joke...fake wood, fake chrome, fake leather, etc. HFM has serious issues with quality control regarding variability from unit to unit - I've heard huge differences between different pairs of HE1000s. These companies (mainly HFM/Audeze) will keep getting away with this price gouging as long as there are fools around to stuff their pockets for sub par products.

Here is a link to a SRD 7 MK II schematic which has a Pro bias circuit: http://cdn.head-fi.org/5/5d/5d5004f8_srd7mk2diagram.jpeg A couple of modifications are needed( thanks to Birgir! ) which was discussed earlier on this thread and includes information on obsolete parts replacement. I converted my SRD 7 MK I to a MK II based on these information. It worked very well but I have not used it since I built my KGSSHV. Good luck!