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Dan beans! medium-dark roast, no visible residual oils (a good thing). on the v60 it bloomed like a motherfucker, biggest i've ever seen with exception of fresh bali blue krishna. aroma is absolutely fantastic, i can't really ask for a better roasted note. i think i slightly over extracted because the taste wasn't dialed in, too fine a grind. i've done multiple aeropress after this initial brew and it's better balanced. gonna go back to pour over at least once more for science i would be a buyer @grawk 😁

I've dusted my SG.... for a moment I've felt like Tommy Iommi.

Made a new small board. All components moved to one side and a sot-223 1200V npn added to form a Darlington pair with the big npn in the battery. It’s possible to use it with Kevin’s original DIY T2 board. Remove battery components from main board and solder in the daughter board (three pins, fits right in) if you dare. Myself I’m a bit shaky after last failure.

I made my first demi-baguette in many years. It turned out okay. I made roasted garlic vegan "butter" as a topper. Tofu is delicious. I freeze it, then press it, then brine it, then batter and fry it.

Yeah, y’all keep yucking it up until you fall into the Pacific.

Or as Joanne once said in relation to tofu, "What's that thing that's not food?"

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I didn't even know some of the songs were Fleetwood Mac. For example, Say You Love Me – I didn't know the name of the singer (I kind of thought she was a man, baby – sorry, Christine McVie! – it was the 70s) or the name of the song (it's not called "Falling, Falling, Falling"?), and it came on infrequently so radio stations didn't always identify the song right away. Obviously, everyone else knew, because everyone had listened to those albums. A great example of mainstream success where everyone can agree on a brilliant album. Also, unlike modern pop music, Fleetwood Mac's music had a soul.

I loved listening to so many of the songs of those two albums before I even knew the albums existed. And when I tried years later to avoid the nostalgia of my childhood music, Fleetwood Mac always got an exception. I'm not sure if pop music can become timeless, but if Pet Sounds, Blue, etc. does, these aren't far behind in my book.

It turns out those globes hanging from Mick Fleetwood's belt were toilet chain balls. What a weird dude! 🧔

Fleetwood Mac (1975) Rumours deservedly gets the most attention, but I really love this album. This is one of those rare incidences where an album measures up even after decades of anticipation (I remember looking at this album cover on the old Columbia House booklets... cassette version, of course!). This CD also came with the singles versions of Say You Love Me, Rhiannon, Over My Head, and Blue Letter, which turned out to be a nice addition as I was most familiar with the radio versions, of course. I'm not sure why my Rumours CD doesn't have the singles. "The White Album" is a bit softer, sweeter, and more introspective while Rumours has a harder edge. I was relieved the remasters hadn't messed up the sound in a way I could hear. I'm going to dive into their earlier albums as well. Specifically, Then Play On, Future Games, Bare Trees, and Tusk again, to start. Also, I love Herbert Worthington's photo covers for Fleetwood Mac and Rumours. A great combination of photography, fashion, typography, and magic. Again, one of those rare times where the music is as great as the album art. The subjects must have felt silly posing for the covers, but the results are timeless.

84 degrees here today, I feel your pain.

worthy of a very good listen...

I settled on this case: width 320, height 70, depth 248, plenty of space for a single ended cfa and I might even be able to fit a coilcraft COMOCO choke filter (comon and differential filter in the same choke.) Transformer will be a 100VA from toroidy.pl, used them in other projects and quality is top notch. Now on to find a suitable 10K volume control. Would like something a little better than a RK27. stepped attenuator or a relay based one. Any ideas that don't break the bank?

Last of my Mac lovefest. The songs are so good even mediocre bands and cheesy videos can't get in their way.

I’m with you on that. Way back when I was a lad, I didn’t listen to much pop music, but I did listen to these two albums (and a handful of others). I taped them on a single 90 minute cassette to listen in the car, and have thought of them together ever since.

Very nice, Aura! Enjoy... I've now had the opportunity to enjoy each of the four Levercraft offerings several times. Very cool to have a TX roaster on the menu. Overall, I appreciate that they do not over roast their beans. The coffees I prefer (I'm a french press and pour over/Chemex type...Chemex new the last few months) are lighter to medium roasts...that's where the beans find the sweet spot. It's the roasters that get this that I'm inclined to prefer and buy from. My favorite by far is the Yemeni. It is pricey, but it really is special. Only beans I have enjoyed more are those select Ethiopians with all heavy blueberry notes. Then I'm split between the Kenyan and Ethiopian beans. Both very nice and approachable. The notes they suggest I mostly pickup which I find satisfying for some reason. Finally, the Burundi. It's a good coffee. It's just not one of my favorites due to the earthiness...what they refer to as cinnamon I believe. Overall, great find. Thanks, @grawk HS

The feature I enjoy most is “track radio” as a way of discovering similar new music. It doesn’t work as well for classic rock, as they tend to lump all classic rock together, and if the music is too new, it tends not to exist, but it’s almost always worth it to me to check.

Using Tidal to visit old favorites is fun. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining

I'm glad you're enjoying it! That's a fantastic compliment.

Needed this today. In light of the new music ...

Yup. It's finally starting to cool off here. Down to 82.

I quite like tofu, but this dish could easily substitute chicken or pork to make it at least more Stretch Worthy.

Love you Al, but I am not upvoting tofu.

I used the Serious Eats recipe as a start and used their method, and looked at others for ideas. It can be flavored many ways to your preference and with things on hand, so I had to make various substitutions, including the following: I used dried arbol chiles, some dried small chiles I grew, and some dried peppers from my cousin's house in France. I didn't have Sichuan peppercorns so I used a peppercorn blend. I don't have MSG or dried mushroom powder so I skipped those and added some good soy sauce for umami. I subbed a cinnamon stick for star anise and cashews for peanuts. Cardamom pods are green, but the seeds are black--this confused me especially in a tiny quantity so I opted to get out the seeds from three pods and crush them. Lastly, they don't expressly say it but I chopped up the fried shallots and garlic before adding them, and tossed the cinnamon stick of course. Came out pretty tasty. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2018/04/homemade-spicy-chili-crisp.html https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/chili-crisp/ Tofu and Green Beans With Chile Crisp https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020993-tofu-and-green-beans-with-chile-crisp?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

pertinent. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Off call so I had to go out and do something before we are slammed in the coming weeks. Road a creak for about 100 yards before my motivation reached its limit. After than I moved on to some easy flowing single track.

There’s more.

Goddamn, that was good. New Fiona Apple album! First one in 8 years! More Tom Waits influenced! I’m a happy boy.

Accuphase E-303.

Social distancing. My favorite kind of person to person interaction. Stay at least 1 mile away from me, preferably on the other side of a mountain. Found out just how shit my conditioning is right now too..

Amazing. And the kitchen looks great as well. Chicken provencale, cauliflower gratin, and rice tonight.

Lily still loves cooking shows and recently has been bugging me to have a cake-off with her. It was my turn this weekend to make my cake for judging. She helped me in preparation for making her cake next weekend. It's a chocolate cake with dark chocolate frost and chocolate ganache and raspberry filling between each of the three layers of cake, topped with more frost and ganache. It was fun to make, I'll report back with how. it tastes later. Maybe not professional grade, but at least the flour that I buy at the grocery store is going to good use. I rode 30 miles to prepare for the fact that this cake is allegedly nearly 1000cal/slice. EDIT - not sure I ever posted a "complete" picture of the kitchen, if not, this gives you a good idea of what it looks like now.

Phillips 8417 Tube. Click for slightly larger.

I could not sleep last night, it must be because I looked at that photo last night with those behemoth amps stacked on those weaselly wood shelves. I looked at it again closely now and it appears that there may be some additional support in those two shelves below. But still... How did one get those amps in that space in the first place?

They have arrived;

Awoke to more bullshit this morning. Unbelievable.

Gotta disagree with you. You’re not upvoting tofu, you’re upvoting tofu as an ingredient. Pad Thai isn’t really complete without those little bits of tofu, just as an obvious example.