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Life goal: Have equivalent garage consisting of rally car for actual racing and something ridiculous for during the week.

Bone In Prime Ribeye, Rack of Lamb and horseradish mashed at Morton’s. I was hungry. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A mate of mine is a golf pro and a solid plus handicap and tested himself on a radar launch monitor hitting a dozen or so drives with and without his Submariner on. Wearing the watch cost him an average of just over 1 mph of club head speed, which translated to about 3.5 yards of carry. So there's that, too. Have my eye on a Lange chrono at the moment. More it it actually transpires.

yeah the only Stagg Jr I’ve personally bought was batch 1 and it was straight jet fuel. i’ve tried later batches and it’s much better now. Reddit bourbon (/r/bourbon) has a google doc archive of thousands of user reviews - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X1HTxkI6SqsdpNSkSSivMzpxNT-oeTbjFFDdEkXD30o/edit#gid=695409533&fvid=484110565

No idea which is which between those.

Stagg Jr is actually pretty good now. First batch was horrible but I think they got it worked out.

Bacon blue cheese mahi mahi w/ fries and jasmine rice. Chocolate lava cake

HomePod just plonked on the marble kitchen counter with a hard tile backsplash behind it sounds miles better than the in ceiling Sonos system. Sonos CONNECT amps are $500 per room. I think they have a problem.

When I get one I'll be doing a full comparison.

I bought one before I heard someone who have gone to the 300ltd audition in Japan. He said there are noticeable differences between 700 and the ltd. Maybe its just electrode changes, not the diaphragm. I somehow regreted but anyway its just a collector's item, sound quality doesn't matter that much. What a silly idea to have electrostatics portable.

I guess I know where I'll be April 17th. Thanks!

I have actually never had Stagg Jr. but I do remember Bryan commenting that it was not exceptional, especially compared to Stagg Sr. Whiskey Advocate has ratings and reviews. They also put on WhiskeyFest and new this year is a D.C. WhiskeyFest.

New CHVRCHES.

I had a gyro platter with greek fries (oregano and garlic, I think) that was tasty as. Not some hole in the wall place, this was a fancy shmancy place. The couple next to me were having lobster and crab, I think. They were making NSFW noises.

Sazerac Rye for me is a must-buy when I see it. I have a couple of Compass box that are not peaty. I would check them out but they are currently stored in a less than easily accessible location.

Just noticed last night that the first four episodes of the Amazon Prime series Grand Prix Driver are out...They follow McLaren-Honda's operations...

The "I registered to shill this" update, probably. (Looks like heavier mesh on the outside, and painted black? Now they look a touch more Abyss/S&M and a bit less like SR-007s)

Had a chance to play with HomePod yesterday. Some random impressions: It is really small. I knew it was going to be small from reading reviews, but it is even smaller that I thought. It is about the size of a cantaloupe. It feels like a bit of a beta product. We had a bunch of Airplay drop outs when we navigated away from the music play apps on our phones. Neither of us had Apple Music, but the iOS Tidal and Spotify apps worked fine over Airplay except for the occasional dropouts. I imagine a lot of this will get fixed with updates. This isn't replacing anyone's two-channel system. As a smart speaker, it is impressive and possibly the best sounding smart speaker I've heard. That being said, we tested it in a larger room and I thought it struggled. It is solid for what it is, but there is only so much it can do in a decent sized room. Apple really needed to have stereo functionality with two HomePods at launch. A bunch of reviewers mentioned that Apple demoed the stereo functionality for them and that it sounded great. I believe them and I think having a second HomePod in a stereo configuration might help a lot. One HomePod sounds big for a mono speaker, but it still sounds like a mono speaker. Overall, I'd say I'm lukewarm about HomePod. It is impressive for what it is, but don't go expecting a $350 smart speaker to work miracles. There is only so much it can do sonically in a moderate/large room, even with whatever DSP tricks Apple has worked into it. I get the impression that a lot of the reviewers who gushed about the sound quality don't know what a proper stereo rig can sound like. EDIT: Looks like Apple's staged tests for the media that the HomePod easily won against the other smart speakers might not stand up: http://pogueman.tumblr.com/post/170722337727/head-to-head-does-the-apple-homepod-really-sound

Story of my life, and probably most DIYers... casework is the worst which 3d printer do you have? Here is version 1 of the hamster cage, needs a few more improvements before I'm willing to try to machine everything

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