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Not sure where to put this, so it is going here. My wife is the CEO of the charity Brendoncare Foundation, which owns and runs residential care homes throughout the South of England. One of people in their care, Bob Weightman, is now the world's oldest man. He will be 112 on 29th March. He lives in his own flat, and carers pop in twice a day just to check he is OK. He has absolutely all his marbles intact. The video here is on his 111th birthday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-51656545 Worth playing the interview. And this is a guy who was born 6 years before the start of WWI in 1908.

A pair of Carbon boards complete other than JFETs. I used Soren's pre-adjustment method on the CCS's. They all came up at 15mA initially; adjusted them to 17mA for a start. I still need to clean the boards more. These are the .6G boards and appear to have a ground plane (haven't looked at the gerbers), so all resistors, etc. are up off the board. If any of you Stax mafia dudes see anything amiss, please let me know. I was careful building these... Also, I got some pluggable connectors, Hirose DF5A (DF5A-5P-5DSA(35), DF5A-5S-5C) which are 500Vdc rated, and would fit just fine. They have one small nub or pin on the bottom, but it looks like you could either cut it off, or drill a small hole in the PCB for it.

Thanks everyone! Had a day that involved a walk with Carole over what passes for paths in the UK at the moment (miles of extreme mud and standing water). Then we went out for a curry, which was exceptionally good, then to an excellent play adaption of Dickens' Bleak House https://www.creationtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/bleak-house/ .

Love This Giant Great album... turned the volume up a bit and I'm loving it. I do think David Byrne added a lot of warmth and humanity to Annie Clark's signature cold, brilliant style of music. I hope they do another album together soon.

First: Always great, Simon & Garfunkel "Wednesday Morning 3 a.m" Then (About "the Sound of Silence) Disturbed "Immortalized" IMO I prefer the original Simon & Garfunkel... Edit: I don't know why but I love listening to Simon & Garfunkel in my old Lambda Pro. Their voices sound wonderful

Thanks, it was a really good opportunity for me to get one with very low miles, only 10k. All vipers are stick, an auto of any type has never been offered. I wanted to get into a car like this now. I just dont see how something like it can ever be made again. Because of emission standards, fuel economy requirements and safety requirements (vipers went out of production due to not being able to meet safety in the USA). A normally aspirated 8.4L engine mated to a 3 petal 6 speed with giant rubber at all four corners. It's a dinosaur, in the driver's seat you will never be lulled into thinking you are driving something rationale or refined. That's what makes it special.

Great straight line car. Not so much for turning....LOL. The suspension was like an old brass bed. I was getting ready to modify it when it occurred to me that it is a perfectly well engineered vehicle to do exactly what it is supposed to do...run 1320 ft in a straight line. They are not that common....why mess with it so I sold mine. Wasn’t difficult, especially with the black and Demonic red leather interior. I’m now modifying a perfectly fine Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk (hellcat based motor). Why not mess with one’s DD...LOL HS

Here’s the board mounted in the probe.

This discussion of drivers that get hurt by their cars reminds be of my trip home from a basket ball game this weekend. We were on the interstate, in heavy traffic, going along at maybe 30mph. I saw a guy in a Shelby GT500 a few cars up and a lane over. A gap opened in front of me and I flashed him to let him know he could move over if he wanted. He spiked it a little and the back end stepped out 6" or so before he backed off with a noticeable shimmy that we'd call a tank slapper in the motorcycle world. He still moved over and I'd wager he was looking for a clean pair of shorts but there was no more shenanigans from him for the 10 miles or so that I followed him.

Yes the low production numbers is why a redesign is not worth it. Some types of cars attract stupid people, the viper seems to be one. It's the drivers not the cars. Part of the reason they have their reputation is that they didn't get airbags, abs or traction control until the features were mandated by the government. Combine that with cars that aren't driven much which causes the tire compound to expire. Even if there is good tread on low miles cars or bikes always check tire date codes. So combine a subsect of people who buy vipers with no or little aids and rock hard tire compound.. Shit happens Mine being a 2014 has everything but even with the electronics on "full wet" I spun the wheels a bit going up the incline of my drive way. 355 summer tires plus cold and wet equals no grip and 600lbs of torque is what it is.. But if you drive the car mindfully and pick your times it's great. I grew up driving sports cars as a kid and I did things away from other cars and pedestrians to have fun with friends. I don't have anything to prove on the street. If people want to race me, let's go carting. That's not to say I'm amune from being unlucky but I try my best to limit that.

Last year the carers called in and could not find him. They looked up and down the street, and found him skip diving for a nice piece of timber in the bottom of the skip (he makes little windmills for charity). A real character.

I got to see a demon at a dealer a while back. Love the look of that car, it's especially mean with the skinnies mounted.

not trying to hide his age at all... sing in your pocket and play like you can.. thanks willie...

Meanwhile, in France, someone backs up the sewer.

Al is home safely and with crockpot chicken pot pie on the menu I decided that some risk to global calamity was acceptable.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm enjoying it.

^ I guess they are catering to the bi-measurement-system-curious. This is Marin, after all. What do you think gave you "Freedom Units"? The Imperial System, that's what. Do you think the UK went to all the trouble of Brexit, just to use the metric system, thanks to that little upstart Napoleon. I think not!

They also were not selling. Very low takers in the end. Interestingly they are number 1 or way up there in cars that get people hurt. I think it’s the typical middle aged but a fast car and assume that you can drive it. Vipers and Vettes...seen too much crazy crap with guys leaving Cars & Coffee and darn near putting them into the crowd. You need a lot of seat time. What year? I understand cabin temps were a bit rough in the early models and they got better with time. Great looking ride...mean! Congrats! HS

Working on build a water cooling Uberamp. Snatched a cold plate off ebay. I'm looking for advice to mount the transistors. I dont think I should drill and tap into the cold plate. So I have 2 option: 1: 1/8 by 1 copper plates drilled to mount on the cold plate and sandwich the transistors in between. -----copper plate------- -----transistors---------- -----cold plate----------- 2: mount copper plates directly on the cold plate, drill mounting holes on the copper plates, counterbore the back side (the face contacting the cold plate). -----transistors---------- -----copper plate------- -----cold plate----------- Any suggestions? Here's a planned layout:

Thanks y’all. Survived Vegas, back in Arkansas living my best trailer park life.

RIP Clive....! I've also gone through a lot of his series, from Dirk Pitt to Kurt Austin to Oregon to Fargo....still some to read.

RIP James Lipton: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-lipton-dead-actors-studio-909382 93 is a pretty damn good run.