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Despite Grahame's relentless negativity, I hooked up the 4K Apple TV tonight and now my screensavers look way better.

Half a broasted chicken, with some awesome potato wedges and fried okra. They had free skee ball for while you wait.

Stay safe NorCalers.

Porcupine tree "in absentia" with my F5ha and HD600

Flat stage with final Sprint [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] :

We stayed in SF and both woke up with a strong smell of smoke. Checked online if the park was burning but found out about the first Napa fire. The kitchen surfaces were all covered with ash because the wind was blowing so hard it was coming in through a vent over the stove. Creepy and devastating for so many.

Very sad indeed and a lot more wineries are at risk even if they dodge the fires no telling how next years crop may be affected. Stay safe my Bay Area friends, I am worrying about you all day long. If you have not already done so please formulate an exit plan just in case.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Weather_West/status/917420404611751936 https://mobile.twitter.com/Weather_West/status/917420404611751936/photo/1 You can make out the south end of the sf bay , and Monterey bay on the coast. North Bay , SF peninsula covered in smoke. elevation map, for comparison

The volume pots are likely to be linear instead of log because one pot spins the other direction due to the gears 2 active bandpass filters per channel and 3 compand/expand per channel. Lots and lots of signal thru those electrolytics. So maybe an attempt at a near field equalizer? $4k euros for this. very sad

Awoke to a pervasive smell of smoke, and sky’s that were clear blue yesterday, now a hazy grey. Marin County Fire, Marin County AGENCY Marin County is experiencing heavy drift smoke from several large fires from Sonoma and Napa. Residents and visitors will smell smoke. Red Flag fire conditions are in effect for Marin County. High Fire Danger is expected throughout this weekend. Call 911 only if you see a fire or a visible building column of smoke. Live updates ... https://mobile.twitter.com/nwsbayarea The horror for stretch (and others)

This is very true. People who wants the best would do GRLV later Is there advantage and disadvantages from using BH PSU ?

Yes People have different opinion in this regard. No problem in replacing with a GR later. You might consider using the BH PSU rather - it's simpler and a lot cheaper in comparison to the GRHV.

I just loved to see the inside pics of the "best electrostatic amp in the world" over on HF, the QA Jecklin Transdyn. So it's a badly built EQ board with a B&O IcePower 125ASX2 power amplifier module and a couple of cheap looking transformers. Also locating those two transformers side to side... yeah there will be some crosstalk.

You're going soft on us?

We had Vietnamese food for my next oldest brother's 60th birthday tonight. Thanh Long / Crustaceans ftmfw!!!1!

Huevos Jeffero with last nights over the top hot (4 Habaneros, 6 cayenne, 6 Jalapeños from the garden) chili. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tomales Bay mussels with smoked bacon, tomato, chickpeas and, uh, bread. Standards are not being maintained ...

It's not what I did, but what others are doing for me. I just found out that Al is at my new apartment, setting it all up for my arrival. That is so touching and so very cool! I seem to be alternating between grinning like an idiot and tearing up like a little kid. It's been like that since it all became real a few weeks back. I hope that I'm able to express how in awe I am at what everyone has done for me! You people have my heart always! This is the best group of people I've ever known! Head-Case Strong, Head-Case Proud!

Happy Birthday Steve! The gang sez 'yo!

work in progress hangs off the side with thin angle bracket, no drilling of holes

Ugliest build.... Aluminum sheets from e-bay.

There are many full neighborhoods with only chimneys left standing. K-Mart, Trader Joe's, Arby's, gun shops, all toast. 50,000 acres burned since last night at 9-10pm. Crazy fast and spread by wild winds.

My Company (keysight) is on Fountaingrove in Santa Rosa - no power or back-up power at this point - some damage reported - but no real reports yet. But here are a couple pics from the parking lot...

Fire has already destroyed a bunch of great wineries — Darioush, Chimney Rock, James Cole, Reynolds, William Hill and Signorello have all gone up in flames. Absolute tragedy for the region and the industry. [emoji853]

It's so odd... now finding out that Bill died last night at about 10:30pm, maybe an hour or so after I last saw him. The bands quit playing at 10pm, per the agreement with the Abbott at the school. He drove home, less than 10 minutes from the school, with his wife. He walked into his house and dropped to the floor and was dead in less than 30 seconds. I wasn't close with him, though we did have a nice connection and mutual respect. Just someone I knew and always enjoyed chatting with. I'm simply dumbfounded by it and the randomness of life sometimes.

Kind of a long story, and a sad one at that. I'm at home in Illinois this weekend, and attended the homecoming football game and after game tailgating party last night, including our first ever BruinsJam, which I helped to organize. Big stage, lots of great talent, and nearly everyone who performed was a graduate of the school, from the classes of '64 straight through to '15. It's not my reunion year (I was in the Class of '80), but I've been going every year of late, and really enjoying the opportunity to catch up with people from the surrounding classes. It's a small Catholic high school (about 100 students per class) on a 1,000 acre campus with a monastery, apple orchard, an amazing art barn, lots of farm land, and deep woods leading down to a river. I'm on the steering committee for a $20 million capital campaign project, and we use the homecoming weekend as an opportunity to connect with some of our key donor targets on a social level. One such highly successful person was Bill Prokup, from the Class of '82 (see pic of him and I from last night), who was a great guy and someone who (oddly enough) always seemed to look up to me. He went to Illinois State as an accounting major, and overlapped with my time there just long enough to enroll in the intermediate accounting course that I was teaching. I had done my bachelor's in 3 years and my master's in a year and a half, and then joined the faculty on a full time basis for just one semester. So it would have been my 5th year out of high school and Bill's junior year in college. So we've always had that connection, in kind of a big brother, little brother type of way. He was an A student at ISU, and went on to become a CPA and eventually left public accounting and started his own company in a totally unrelated business, which he was always quite humble about... but somehow, out of thousands of graduates, managed to land himself on the list of our top 75 most capable donors. While I wasn't, last night, directly talking with him about the capital campaign, he did bring it up to let me know that he was very much supportive and that we could count on him to be a part of it. Then I opened Facebook this afternoon and learned that he died of a massive heart attack at around midnight. Attached is a pic of he and I taken at about 9pm, and he seemed perfectly fine. He was a great guy. A humble man with a gentle spirit. I'm shocked, and will really miss him, and feel gutted for his wife and kids. As Warren Zevon would say, "enjoy every sandwich."