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Spatchcock chicken with smoked chili rub (other than the legs for Alden). Smoked and finished on high

When millennials make political signs. Bonus lol, widescreen: Also, it's imgur's 7th anniversay. As of this post, I have uploaded 19,628 images to my imgur account.

The VC.

So we spent too much time trying to get Xavier's bike set up this weekend, plus rain and busy-ness kept us from riding. Well, he was really wanting to ride so we loaded up and went out to play in the rain. It was a blast! We wound up on a busy road to start but we went exploring and found a large parking lot that was mostly empty. He seems to have the shifting in the rear down now, and he LOVES riding in the drops, after I told him it was an option. While we were drenched and a little cold, we had a fantastic time. It was also the first time my bike had been off the trainer all year. It is bloody amazing the difference I feel riding after having most over 30 pounds. I'm really excited to get out a lot more this year. **BRENT**

What if the wife WAS the twenty year old Swedish au pair? Well, most of that. Well, the wife part.

I prefer the twenty year old Swedish au pair route though the wife disagrees.

Still have some adjusting to do on the shifters, but yeah, I think he's pretty happy. We also got our Tour de Cure jerseys in today, so he is SUPER excited. Our first real ride is tomorrrow, and really looking forward to it. **BRENT**

If you wanted to be in first place, you shouldn't have invited me to be part of the challenge.

What are these JH13s of which you speak? They sound magical!

I haven't looked at USB in detail, but this piqued my interest. Turns out that the characteristic impedance of USB cable, and termination resistance at send and receive end is surprisingly loosely defined, but nominally 90 ohms differential or 45 ohms single ended for USB2. Depending on what web document you are looking at these can be +/- 15%. The isolators provide galvanic isolation (using a pulse transformer), which is a good thing. SPDIF links usually have galvanic isolation at both send and receive ends - usually poorly implemented, but that is another discussion. Generally galvanic isolation reduces jitter through reducing common mode noise. There are some interesting measurements of this here http://www.scientificonversion.com/ The regenerators try to compensate for poorly implemented send impedance by providing proper termination and send impedances, nicely implemented, and using a high(er) quality local clock. That these make a difference (and I believe that they do) is really down to poor implementation (impedances and noise) at the send end - the computer - and potentially poorly implemented receive end at the audio system. And poorly implemented cables. There is another problem - usually manufacturers put inductors on both send and receive end in order to meet EMC requirements. These really screw up the impedances - you can see the effect very clearly using Time Domain Reflectometry, see for example here http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=45330.0 .

Thanks Kevin. I experimented with the opto server tonight (this time with the OP27 in place) and here are my observations: Without the servo jumpers in, I first adjusted the offset of both boards to be about +18 VDC at cold start, measured between the + output and ground (this applies to all subsequent measurement). I then inserted the jumpers and powered on the Carbon with opto servo now engaged. The offset on one board measured -2.5 VDC right from the start, it dropped to about -1 VDC after 5 - 6 minutes, from there it hovers around -0.9 VDC, drifting about 0.5 VDC or so up and down. I measured again at 20 minutes and then at one hour marks with same results. At the one hour mark, I adjusted the balance from around 2 VDC to within 0.5 VDC (absolute value). This brought the offset to hover around -0.1 VDC. The other board exhibited similar behaviors but started with and ended at lower offset voltage. (Without servo, this board has always had lower offset and balance compares to the other one.) It appears to me that the opto servo is working and it's effective from the very start although it does take about 5 minutes or longer to reach the lowest possible offset voltage. As I have mentioned in the past, the Carbon, without the servo, is very stable to start with. It seems to me the main advantage of the opto servo is to keep the offset at a low voltage from the start and settle it down faster. Without the servo, my Carbon typically takes between 15 - 20 minutes for the offset to settle.

Finally started doing our taxes. It was utterly disgusting to see how much we spent on childcare last year.

Happy birthday Dan! Cheers!

Just caught this on NPR today. RIP Renato Bialetti, inventor of the Moka Espresso maker. Here is an article about him in the NY Times.

Happy birthday!!!!!

Bought this one back last week, so I'm still the original owner. i prefer it on the NATO to the Omega 1171 bracelet, but the Omega shark mesh is my second favorite.

I can confirm

Isn't that the HC platonic ideal?

What's the best day of the year? New bike day! Some assembly required. Have to go finish the assembly when the LBS opens tomorrow, but the excitement level was the highest I have seen in years! We'll be taking a ride tomorrow, when it warms up a little. This is going to be an awesome year of riding. **BRENT**

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

Looking at the prices in Japan, I don't think we should be so quick to blame the hipsters. I think the Japanese are re-importing the stuff Grabbed some low brow stuff