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Fixed a very expensive window that was installed slightly out of square. The sash would not close all the way at the bottom, letting water in when it rained. Put a shim under the middle of the bottom of the window, forcing the bottom of the window to narrow just enough to line up. Old school carpenter tricks FTW! Impressed a few. Sometimes just being around longer can make the difference, as I'm by far the oldest guy on the crew.

Pork belly grilled cheese

Apple thanks you for the mined Bitcoins

Revisited an old favorite tonight - baked enchiladas w/ homemade verde sauce.

damn this shit is tough to listen to but tight as hell.

O love this episode. But mu favourite scene is:

Apple cinnamon roll cake

Peppermint Oreo & Streusel w/ Caramel Drizzle

Stay safe Ken, and out of harm's way! Received great news this afternoon. Our fencing coach had his interview at the embassy in Italy and will be receiving his working visa shortly. So he and his wife will be our house guests for a few weeks until they locate a suitable rental. We anticipate much wine and private lessons will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead and just in time for some major national tournaments scheduled in the first half of 2018. Woohoo!

The Lite mk2 should sound like the GSX MK2 in single end but with less refinement due to the lesser power supply. With a dedicated DPS, the Gilmore Lite MK2 should sound identical to the GS-X MK2 in single end operation.

RIP Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens. Way too young at 62. Always liked their stuff, might have to hunt some of it down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Foo foo = audiophool Semi in this case because Elma Silmics are good caps (Nelson Pass seems to like them), std parts places like Mouser carry them, etc. They are only 85C rated, unlike the Panas and Nichicon which are 105C. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, I figured out the problem with the Bulova. I haven't owned many quartz watches, and I initially didn't realize that there was a spacer under the crown to keep the watch from running. The Movado Museum 70th anniversary I bought for my wife didn't have this spacer, so I didn't expect it, and I couldn’t see it until I turned the watch over. Apparently this high-amplitude movement burns through batteries, so it makes sense that Bulova adds the spacer. Anyway, if you activate the chrono while the crown is extended, the chrono seconds hand will move a tick, and if you hit the chromo-reset, the split-seconds counter will as well. So, if you try to use the chrono function with the crown pulled out, you end up with a watch that doesn't reset to noon. I had done that a few times before I turned the watch over and noticed the spacer. Resetting the movement just required pulling the crown out and pushing the chrono start pusher 250 or so times, to reset the main chrono seconds hand, and the chrono-reset pusher a couple dozen, to reset the running split-seconds dial. Not the end of the world, once I realized what had happened, and it's kind of nice that there is a way to adjust the hands, as I can certainly foresee an imbalance happening, over time, with a 262khz movement. I haven't read the manual yet, maybe this is even mentioned as a feature. The hour counter, fortunately, syncs straight to 0 upon chrono reset: that would be a real pain in the ass, if it didn't, as it would take pressing a button that would take approximately 16,000 times, otherwise. The seconds sub-dial ticks (though at about three times the rate of a standard quartz), but the split-seconds and the chrono-seconds sweep more smoothly than any mechanical watch I've owned. When reset, the split-seconds and the chrono-seconds sweep through, instead of just going right back to noon, which is kinda cool. Dial legibility is very good. The lume is excellent, picking up a charge very quickly, and glows quite brightly. The lume is slightly tan, which avoids the overly dark brown "aged" luminova that is popular with reissue watches. I'm sure the lume will retain charge for a reasonable amount of time. The dial is very well printed, and the hands are uniformly painted and reach their respective chapter-rings, as they should. Anyway, on the wrist, I really rather like it. It's very different from my other watches, but in a good way. It feels quite substantial, but comfortable. It's larger than my Speedy, but about the same thickness. The strap is very supple and comfortable, but isn't really a NATO strap. My guess is that I'll stick this on a real NATO, at some point. I have a knock-off Omega-style black with two-gray stripes, and black furniture, which would look quite nice. The case finishing is very uniform, and the curves are nicely radiused, which helps make the watch wear smaller than it is. The lugs being short, the tachymeter ( which is under the sapphire) being about the same diameter as a Speedy's and the fairly tight fit of the strap to the body also helps it wear smaller. I think the finish will look good with some "brassing." All-in-all, now that I have it resetting correctly, I'm quite happy, especially since I was able to get it for essentially free. My only real complaint, other than the NATO not being a real NATO, is the edge on the sapphire.

Cavalli's eXsTaTa had vertical resistors.....

Happy Belated Birthday Todd!

We need more SS amps with output caps. Who doesn't like the sound of electrolytic caps in the signal path?

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To me, the most amazing thing is this kid thinks he's hot shit, like getting YouTube clicks is the best thing. Real life awaits, you fuckwit......

What a complete and total shithead. Even his fatuous analysis of how much tax went into paying for the emergency services misses the point that while they were dealing with the microwave fuckwit they were not available to deal with a real emergency. Like a house fire, or major road traffic accident. What an asshole. I apologise profusely for him being British.

Tried. Am trying.

It's not something that I've quite done yet, as the official offer won't be until next week, but I have accepted a position at Miami University. It's a pretty perfect fit for my background and education, I'll be visible to the whole campus and, unlike so many academic staff positions, it has a built-in growth path. It's nice being the first choice, instead of the second, for once. It will be a bit of a commute to get from Cincinnati to Oxford, but I imagine that we'll move there fairly soon (Oxford is a beautiful semi-rural town, and Miami's campus and the city of Oxford itself are regularly rated as some of the best places to work and best places to live, in the entire USA, with Forbes having rated Oxford as the very best college-town on more than one occasion). I'm pretty excited.

This is actually about a week old news, but last Wednesday night I was up in the UK Dark Peak district doing night navigation practice. The temperature was -5C with a strong wind, so about -15C with wind chill. This was with a trainer called Chris from Beyond the Edge http://www.beyondtheedge.co.uk/ . I drove up in the late morning, and we started the exercise actually in the light, at about 3pm. But by 5pm it was dark, and we continued on until after 9pm. This is all to do with navigation strategy and accuracy with a map and compass between places set by Chris basically in the middle of nowhere. Chris, is ex Army and climbs big stuff - he summitted a 6000m peak in the Himalayas earlier this year http://www.beyondtheedge.co.uk/chris-summits-kyajo-ri/ , he's a mountain rescue leader and trainer, and is an all-round crazy fitness guy. Anyway, this is sunset. Four layers of thermals and a jacket, and lots of layers protecting the crown jewels.