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Delicious filet mignon pho. Only way to make it through the cold.

work's interesting today

Are you stoned?

Immigrants! Real Californians sleep right through such a little earthquake.

Yup, snapped awake in the middle of the night and didn't know why. A few seconds later, the shaking started. Believe the effect is due to the p-waves preceding the quake? Anyway, weird, and please notice that Brent had cleverly flown out beforehand to maintain plausible deniability.

Um ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week/? Could make some crack about it being 60 degrees in CA today, but we catch on fire far too easily to start throwing regional shade.

Have an incredible day Renato!

Nauseous you say ? ... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165951/

Think I'm going to go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.

Black Sabbath

I am doing important country lawyer type legal work. Your emoji is getting me a little dizzy and nauseous.

See, Trump was right! All this whinging about "global warming" while Florida is freezing. Stupid science.

Started snowing in earnest here around 8am this morning. I'm planning to work a half-day and then head home. Should be an interesting commute.

I’m somewhat disappointed in my stamina, I made it to 3.52 and threw in the towel.

Well wink is right, how to waste 13.5 minutes of your precious time, and I just did.

Happy Birthday Renato!

Happy Birthday!

It is!

here is the version with the to220 sic diodes, someone really needs to check this goldenreference6drflipto220.zip

Happy Birthday!

I bought a 55 inch 4K Sony XBR tv on a black friday deal and I'm still pretty stoked every time I watch a good looking show. I paid about $760 for it and it looks like it's still just under $800 on Amazon. It was a little more than I wanted to pay but I'm glad I did. I still haven't watched any 4k content (can't say why since I have a free 4k movie coming). It comes with Android TV so I was able to use my Roku for my old tv which is in the master bedroom. The remote is pretty clunky but I keep meaning to learn on of the free ios remotes available. I agree with what Nate said about the prices on 4k tv's. They are the norm these days and I'm kind of amazed that I could get such a big, cool tv on my budget. https://www.amazon.com/Sony-XBR55X800E-55-Inch-Ultra-Smart/dp/B01MSD6HHV/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1515003472&sr=8-2&keywords=sony+xbr55x800e

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday!

Or month? Or year?

Happy Birthday!

`Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!!!

because soren is running the grlv supply at 4.5 amperes, here is a new version with the feedback resistor locations flipped so that the sense is not one inch away from the output connector. sense is now tied directly to the inner power supply connector. So the 20mv change in voltage due to current should be completely canceled out. for higher currents, best if the board is made with 3 oz copper. goldenreference6drflip.zip

Happy birthday Renato! Cheers!

Zola Jesus - Okovi i think this chick was at lollapalooza somewhat recently but i've no memory of seeing her. probably was riding a secondary high off a group of tweeners nearby...

Happy Birthday, Renato!

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Guess what I will be working on this week...

So, the A-Maze-N was a bit of a fail. I left the pellets outside not really thinking about it and I think they absorbed water. They just wouldn’t stay smoking. Things turned out well enough despite no smoke flavor. Today, I did three different quick pickle variants and just got them in the fridge:

I did too. Then I got divorced and the buzzing sound went away.

That thing is seriously sweet, Jeff.

12 year old white boys from Marin be street.

Hello everyone, it's been years... (for anyone that remembers me anyway) I am researching what amp best suits my somewhat bespoke needs, and thought there might be some useful opinions here, especially since I've been rather out of it for ages. To cut a long story short, about one year ago I suffered an accident that damaged my ears, the result being that I have severely reduced dynamic range in my hearing. Though my sensitivity is normal and frequency response is good (i.e. little to no hearing loss), my pain and distortion threshold has been lowered to around 80dB. This means that for real music listening (classical in my case), I can manage with a level that sets absolute peaks at around 85dB. In order to maximise what I can get out of my remaining dynamic range, I find myself using IEM's (Ety 4XR currently) to cut background noise to a minimum. So I'm currently looking for an amp that would have vanishingly low distortion and noise into this kind of setup. Maximising transparency (of the 'straight wire with gain' kind, not 'extra detail' or anything described with a fancy sounding adjective), through minimum distortion, noise etc. are top priorities, whereas output power is relatively irrelevant for such low listening levels even with much more demanding headphones. In fact, with those kinds of levels I don't even need a gain stage per se, as a gain of 1x is usually too much to get into most volume pots' optimal range. In a way, I guess I'm looking for a maximally transparent headphone buffer, if such a design exists out there on the market. I don't care about the power scheme either - battery only, rechargeable, A/C only, it's all the same to me. I just want to get the absolute maximum from the music that what's left of my ears will allow... Any ideas?

Just cleared 8" or so of snow off the driveway and helped the neighbor clear theirs (his blower broke) and in the hour and half it took to do that we got another 2"+. It's now right at 32F and what's coming down is heavy and wet, which doesn't bode well for the overnight. Tomorrow's high is 12, with a low of -5.

I am bracing for this one now.....

It's been over two weeks since we saw temps above 0C.