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Steve earned his sainthood long ago.

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Family is still together, waiting for roasted meat.

It's been a busy week for sure. My second Cousin has a lawn care business in Rockport, TX. He has lots of equipment and He, his Dad and I have been clearing trees, brush and trash all through his neighborhood, as well as temporarily tarping roofs. There are many elderly residents that just can't do it themselves. So we're filling a need and helping them get some piece of mind. It feels great to see the relief on their faces and the shock when they try to pay you and you tell them it's part of the massive volunteer effort underway. It also keeps my mind off of things I have no control over. Being a carpenter and letting people know what is reasonable and what is an obvious scam is also very rewarding. This place is already seeing those that travel to prey on others in dark times, and I'm determined to thwart as many of those as is possible. I'm safe and sound, eating well and generally in good spirits. Not yet sure about my next home options, but I'll figure that out in the near future. I have offers from past customers to stay as long as needed, so no need for any kind of panic. I am considering this event as motivation to get my ass out of Texas, and back to California, where I belong, but that won't happen overnight. Just so glad that my Mother is in Alaska and not having to witness the devastation first hand. She went through it in hurricane Celia in 1970, and that's why we went back to Alaska. Not sure she'd handle it well today. I miss all of you and will be back on a regular schedule before too long.

Stephen would probably just purchase them pre-cooked from 5 Guys.

and twice- over thrice- cooked ribs.

Maybe go with thrice baked potatoes, next time.

Bal - kaymak (honey and buffalo clotted cream) with traditional bread

^ yup, and the resistors for the current sources still should be changed to 300 ohms from 250 given the 2V LEDs which run at ~1.9 in circuit. Everywhere in the circuit you see a current source like this, replace with 300 ohms: Really it's more for the diamond buffer boards than anything else as IIRC I measured about 52 C on the PCB (also using 2V LEDs and 300 ohm resistors) and this was after I added heatsinks

If I understand the comment from @mypasswordis correctly, I believe he was saying that the 2V LED would be 1.9V in circuit. Not that you should change the LED from 2V to 1.9V.

try this, there should be over 300 files, had to remove a couple of confidential ones see updated links on page 5

1210, see above Good app note to read about ceramic caps: https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527

Was: Epica, The Solace System Is: Amaranthe, Massive Addictive -- seems like a cross between Epica, KMFDM and Miley Cyrus To be: Telr Swiff, Sneks (aka "...Ready for It?")

At least you had Hidden Valley Ranch...

If they let Gays be Saints, Steve, I'm nominating you! Awesome stuff, so heartening to read/hear!

going to miss Walter in the band so much. Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm. We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues. Walter had a very rough childhood - I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter. His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band. I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band. Donald Fagen September 3 2017

I love the part where you lend your expertise to thwart the scammers. It angers me to no end when I catch people or companies preying on the weak or uninformed.

Anyone about to build this, Megatron, etc and don't want to use a dropping resistor, I might have some spare power supply boards for tube front ends soon. Works up to 250V no problem, 300V is possible if you find caps that fit and heatsink appropriate parts properly.

Wow - he also did Poltergeist. RIP Tobe Hooper. I remember that when Chainsaw Massacre came out, when you came out of the cinema badges were handed out that said "I survived the Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Dunno what happened to mine.

RIP to Tobe Hooper, director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When I was in college, I took a film course taught by a funky lady who just loved cinema. I let her borrow my tape of that movie and she loved it! Well, at least many of the techniques....

I note that Stretch liked your comment, but I will point out, as his attorney, that he said wine drinking "in his house" will occur henceforth only after a body weight of <210 is recorded. He is on vacation in Hawaii, not at home. This rule shall not be in effect for some days. I will further note, that I am disappoint, unless he's going to drink with me outside his home, even if he is still "Fat."

Brent gets away with a lot by not always informing us of his biscuit consumption. For all we know, he may be directly responsible for the likes of Cheeto Jesus (thanks, Mike) sitting in the oval office, North Korea's missile success, hell even Brad and Angelina's break-up. I'm suggesting to the BHCM Committee (Betterment of Head Case Members) that we install a permanent Biscuit Monitor. Think of him as a Secret Dis-service officer to patrol Brent's every move. All in agreement press the 'like this' tab.

I guess I already told you about Duman. Our kitty. He is 2,5 months old now. Healthy and energetic as hell. Here are some pictures of him: 2 days old: 1 month old: 2,5 months old now: And the whole family (Yumak, Şirin and Duman): And about the project we started about street cats... It's getting bigger now.

One day last year, while planning my Carbon build, I thought it would be neat to have a dynamic headphone amplifier in a matching case. The Dynahi suggested itself, though I wanted something a little less overkill. Then it occured to me that I might be able to stuff a Dynahi and a Dynalo into one case, and so make an amplifier capable of driving any headphone. So I made this, which I called the DDCA (Dynalo-Dynahi Combination Amplifier): one set of inputs feeding two amps, with separate output protection circuits, separate volume pots, three GRLV power supplies, and one transformer. It was a 3D puzzle to fit everything in (if I were to make another one, I'd position the Dynahi boards right-side up, turned out there is enough clearance that way and it would have simplified assembly) and the wiring took forever (plus keeping it perfectly tidy is beyond my skill). I lowered the gain on both the Dynalo and the Dynahi, since on most amps, I have the volume at 10 o'clock or less, and I wanted to use more of the volume control. Have to admit: the RK50 on the Carbon spoiled me, and the TKD 601 pots here don't live up to it. Not bad, though. Like I posted a couple of days ago, I couldn't bias the Dynahi section as high as I wanted, but even at 0.40V across the 20ohm output device resistors it runs fairly warm, so I decided to leave it alone for now. I also need to get the top anodized black. Maybe add some speaker binding posts... wonder how much of a speaker load I can drive from the Dynahi? Both sections sound great to me, though I don't have an HE-6 or K1000 to really put the Dynahi through its paces. As usual — many thanks to @kevin gilmore and @spritzer for all the designs and boards. This wouldn't exist without you guys. Thanks to @vilts for making matching titanium knobs, thanks to @Zashoomin for getting extra sand with me so we could make matched sets, and thanks to everyone here for group buys and all the help and support.

RIP Walter Becker, the guitar half of Steely Dan.

My usual stunt is to replace a tyre that has a puncture, just to get the new one punctured in less than a week. (reply to Grahame's post...)