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My wife certainly manages. Have to say, those were the best olives I ever ate, anywhere.

24 hr sous vide ribs

Marinated Castelvetrano olives with raisin crumblies and flaked garlic. Puget Sound oysters with spruce IPA mignonette.

Thanks Mr. Tyler. I have some cooking skills. I fry rice in butter (real butter, not market one) for a short while, that makes rice so delicious. I can cook some traditional Turkish dishes but, I'm better at all kinds of meat, fish and kebabs (everything goes well with raki) And of course living in a small, rural town has it's own benefits. Meat, chicken, dairy producs, vegetables are all fresh and natural here. I'm going to miss that part of living here. And Mr. Tyler, I forgot to add, If you'll be avaliable, we can cook/bbq, eat and drink rakı together.

A Turkish classic: Pilav Üstü Kuru.

My old MTB... A friend of mine has lent me his cheap dropper seatpost (a Tmars but I don´t know the model) and I´m triying this now that I'm resting. It seems to me that taking technique is a great success as walking down very broken paths... Because you can move your ass around the bike and change your gravity point.

Have a fantastic day young man!

^^^ This....losing lives sucks....losing childrens' lives sucks BAD

That probably works, though it might not be my first choice in transformers (not knowing what is inside). Lundahl makes things that will work, as does Jensen. http://www.lundahl.se/din-unit/ http://www.jensen-transformers.com/pro-audio/ Here's an explanation of how to do the wiring: http://www.rane.com/note110.html

Happy Birthday, Gene Don't be a stranger.

Fun fact, part of the reason Turkish rice is so delicious is that, before boiling, it's lightly fried in fat. Same way you start risotto. Your rice and beans looks great, Ozgur.

I have a metrum Octave, their first DAC product. It reviewed pretty well (in fact excellent). And it does sound pretty good. But it is single-ended, and I've actually now gone balanced and use the DAC in my Logitech Transporter streamer. I feed the optical input from TV, and a network connection to the router (to NAS drive and Tidal HiFi). But you know the thing that irritates me most about Metrum? They grind the part numbers off every bit of silicon in there. I'm pretty much certain they do the same in the Adagio, along with the branded modules. That shows a certain paranoia about potential plagiarisation that simply grinds my gears. The only other company that I know of that does this is Audio Research, and they replace the ground off discrete part number with a three colour dot code. In a sense I can understand that, particularly with FET's which might be coded to be band matched for Idss and Vp.

The owner of Holo audio is now developing a new flagship above spring. The estimated release time was going to be next year. Another discrete R2R single board like dam1021 was called "hibiki" was also sold on Taobao. There are also a manufacturer called denafrips also making discrete R2R DACs. If people are interested I could post some more information. The main problem of those I think is those solutions couldn't achieve the noise level as low as single chip solution because of the accuracy and temp drift of the resistors. Correct me if I was wrong.

Is it possible to hate you and like you all in the same breath? That sounds very fecking delicious. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You should get the T-Shirt for $12.00.

but is possibly the most transparent amplifier on earth. And my Subaru is possibly the best car on earth...

If you turn the volume pot all the way up wouldn't that serve the same purpose as bypassing the pot?

Took Emily to the airport this morning for her flight to Philadelphia where she starts her nine month government program contract to work with inner city kids helping them to get into college. The program manager was excited to have a Notre Dame graduate on board and so it seems all of the students in her group. The best part so far is that these kids really want to be there and really want to go to college but they lack the resources that other kids have available to them. The challenge for Emily will be to help these under resourced kids make it to the big time. We are hoping for a major win if she is successful in getting one of her students admitted to Notre Dame (biased?). Fingers crossed, asking for HC positive energy to be sent to Philly.

RIP Mr. Glass. Heavy diet of Barney Miller was high on my agenda as a kid. Castro was a POS. Plain and simple. The US's policy towards Cuba is right up there with what it used to be towards Vietnam...ignorant. We'd have changed Cuba much more quickly having normalized relations, but that is an aside. He was a POS, plain and simple. I still have family there. Visited them and despite being bright, lovely people, they had very little. The military eats very well. HS

Amazing day on the trails. Xavier, two friends, a dad, and a friend's sister. The Garmin watch paused and didn't auto-start so I don't have the distance, but 6-8 miles of single-track at least. Some of the kids were getting tired so I took them to the parking lot via road whike the dad who was sticking with his little girl for miles got to cut loose and chase down the fast kid. One of my favorite mountain bike rides of all time. **BRENT**

Back in the day, we got involved in building high field resistive magnets. The idea was that you would discharge a very large number of capacitors through a thyristor bank into a magnet. This was shrink fit into a thick stainless steel tyre to stop it from exploding as a result of hoop stress. Now that was a beast you did not want to share a room with; testing them was a bit of a game so as not to incinerate the test engineer 600V? Chicken feed. Here's a shot in a concrete bunker that this kit was installed. The blue things heading off into the distance were the capacitors.

New Oppo dac coming as well: https://www.oppodigital.com/sonica-dac/